I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for
which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Deanna Rokal, please.
Angie Schreiber.
Here.
Joe Madison.
Here.
Kristin Matt Miller.
Here.
Daniel Nicholson.
Here.
Jean Adams.
Here.
Randy Beyers.
Here.
Here.
Melissa Cornelius.
Here.
Danny Piot.
Here.
Letter D. District Mission.
I'm going to ask Mike for Isaac if he would read the distribution.
Our mission is driven by purpose, guided by integrity, and divine by success.
Our vision is build a proud, and equal community, and our motto is don't talk about it, be
about it.
Thank you, Mike.
And we are moving into item two, citizens and delegations.
We have a few people signed up for public comment.
Policy 0167.3, public comment, board meetings, the presiding officer shall be guided by
the following rules.
Public comment shall be permitted before the board takes official action on any issue of
substance.
Attendees must register their intention to comment in the public portion of the meeting
upon their arrival at the meeting.
Comments made by the public shall be civil in content and tone, affirming the decor and
establish for a school board meeting by the school board, disparaging comments, remarks
about school board members, employees, students, positions, or position titles, and or district
citizens shall not be made permitted.
Comments by the public shall be in reference to a specific agenda item.
Participants must be recognized by the presiding officer, and will be requested to preface
their comments by an announcement of their name and group affiliation, if and when appropriate.
Each statement made by a participant shall be limited to five minutes duration, which
the time is on the screen.
No participant may speak more than once on the same topic unless all others who wish
to speak on the topic have been heard.
Participants shall direct all comments to the board and not to staff or other participants.
Participants shall address only topics within legitimate jurisdiction of the board.
All statements shall be directed to the presiding officer.
No person may address or question board members individually.
Presided officer may interrupt, warn, or terminate a participant's statement when the statement
is too lengthy, personally directed, abusive, obscene, or irrelevant.
Request any individual to leave the meeting when the person does not observe reasonable
decorum.
Request the assistance of law enforcement officers in the removal of a disorderly person when
that person's conduct interferes with the early progress of the meeting.
Call for a recess or an adjournment to another time when the lack of public decorum so interferes
with the orderly conduct of the meeting as to warrant such action.
Portion this meeting during which the comment of the public is invited shall be limited
to sixty minutes unless extended by a vote of the board.
Reminder to the board members and to the speakers, this is not a conversation between the board
and the person speaking at the microphone.
The person at the microphone will be allotted there five minutes to speak and we will move
to the next person that's signed up to speak.
That's the rules that govern our public participation and those who signed up.
First of all is, and please forgive me if I mispronounce somebody's name, Bob Heave
for trucks and flag poles.
Bob, come on up please sir.
I'm Bob and I'm here up and you need me and a whole bunch of other ones which you will
find out at the end.
Five meetings ago I left you guys with a question about what do trucks and flag poles
have come.
You may not remember that, I've waited.
Could you guys have important business to do?
Well the truck, the reason it's on the agenda because we just did the pledge of allegiance.
The truck is the ball on top of the flag pole.
Okay, as long as you won't understand half of this I understand.
And KONAS which is continental United States, every division has a huge flag with a division
flag.
In Europe it has USRA, U.S. Army of Europe, every division has a huge flag, a huge piece
of a TV.
Top of the flag pole is a truck.
Inside that truck is a bullet and a magazine with a personal weapon that is present in
whatever day time it is like right now, it would probably be the 9 million.
However, when this started, even though it may be lower, the deal is if somebody, the
last person that to live on that pole is supposed to tear that flag pole down, bust the truck
pole down, get the weapon, put the magazine in the bullet and the last thing he does before
he dies is everyone is visible.
Okay, now that's the law, it goes a long ways, however, whether you believe it or not, it's
an example of believing in something that you can't see, all right.
Now I've been a handful of these meetings and I've waited and I think they're good, I've
learned a lot and I'm not done coming.
Okay, however, there's something I have not seen in this room.
I have yet to see a kindergartner in this room.
Now they believe in us and they believe in things that we can't see, all right.
And we all believe in something we can't see too.
So I'm here, how many kindergartners you got?
I don't know, let's just say two, all right.
Now one has been in here, so I'll be here for them.
So, see, the federal world's record, thanks for listening, thank you Bob.
Our next person signed up is Corey Smith and he will be speaking on the football facility.
Thank you, Corey.
Thank you.
First of all, I want to express that I am in support of an updated football facility
and express my thankfulness and gratitude for any work that's been put into this point
to present an idea for that football facility and acknowledge the hard work that goes into
that stuff.
What I want to do, what I do want to express to you today and encourage you to do is to
continue exploring other options in addition to what's being presented tonight.
Maybe I feel that any facility over there should also include a track facility, not
only because you have track and field participants at the school as well as football, soccer
and many other students that could benefit from a nice updated facility, but a facility
that would incorporate a track would also allow the track team to host postseason events
such as regional sectionals.
I could also include seating for fans to watch track and as a parent of a track athlete
for the last couple of years, I can ensure you that seating would be very much appreciated.
Next, I would also like to point out that in the presentation that's being presented
tonight, you're going to see many examples of beautiful facilities around our conference
and neighboring schools and neighboring communities, and every one of the examples
in the presentation includes a track around the football facility.
So I'm again just asking that you explore that option a little bit further.
I know personally speaking on behalf of my family and my athlete, we would be happy to
participate in any required fundraising to make that happen so that we can get the support
of the track athletes as well, but I can only speak for my family.
So again, I encourage you to look a little further into other options with this facility
and keep moving forward and come up with some different ideas that can help and benefit
more students.
Thank you, Corey.
Our next speaker to sign up is Carol Bardot and she is requesting a FOIA request.
Thank you.
A FOIA request for the Clara R. McKenna Aquatics Center.
My computer crashed.
This is a Jenskin School Board.
This letter contains a freedom of information request.
I would like a hard copy and roll call vote.
He sells for any vote that deals with Clara R. McKenna Aquatics Center for Fund 80 after
the following meetings, the regularly scheduled monthly school board meetings in August,
September, October, the October budget hearing meeting for 26th, 27th school year, and any
other meetings during that three month period.
May I come forward?
Thank you so much.
You can bring that up, please.
All right.
Thank you.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
Our next participant to sign up is Sarah Rep and she's actually signed up twice, but the
first time she is speaking on the football facility.
Thank you, Sarah.
Thank you.
And I'm going to mirror what Corey said.
Really appreciate all the work that has gone into planning the new facility.
New facilities are great.
But I just wanted to go over some different thoughts that I had when I saw this proposal
come out.
So I'm here as a district resident that wants to see our community and students succeed.
I'm asking you the board to consider taking a pause on any motion to move an $8 million
athletic facility project forward.
And it has been identified at numerous board meetings that we are in such a financial crisis
that we can no longer keep the Aquatic Center open.
A facility that serves our entire population and it is a selling point recruiting new residents
and industry.
Why are we considering funding a facility that impacts a small percentage of the population
and why are we not working to find a solution to keep the Aquatic Center open?
Many of you board members are new and you are being asked to make decisions regarding
district members tax dollars without complete information.
I have placed multiple open records request to the district for information regarding
the Aquatic Center budget, the final engineering report and analysis of school field stadium
bleachers and correspondence with DPI regarding use of fund $80.
I have yet to receive any documentation.
I strongly feel a pause on decisions to construct a new multi-million dollar facility or close
existing facilities needs to be paused until these items can be produced and reviewed
by you as the board.
It would also be a good faith effort of transparency to share this information with the community.
Strong athletic programs are not the result of flashy new expensive infrastructure.
They are the result of solid consistent strong programs created by a strong coaching staff
with strong administrative and community support.
It has been expounded at numerous meetings that the Aquatic Center does not meet the primary
focus of the district, which is education of our students.
It does an $8 million athletic facility give our students a better education.
Does it provide something new that our students aren't currently getting from existing facilities?
Are you truly going to choose to sacrifice an existing community facility that serves
all ages and an entire population for one that serves a select population?
You have a responsibility as a board to hold your administration accountable.
You're not simply on a board to say yes.
I am personally sick of the gas lighting and lack of accountability.
You as the board need to ask for the documentation that we have been requesting to be provided
so an informed decision regarding these facilities can be made.
Community success isn't created because of one singular event, individual or facility.
Community strength and success are the product of partnerships, positive relationships and
efforts of the whole.
Again, I ask you to review your mission, request relevant information and hold your administration
accountable.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Sarah.
Our next participant signed up to speak is Tom Koss.
Tom will be speaking on the Aquatic Center.
Thank you all for spending this beautiful evening in this room with us.
We actually do appreciate the school board a lot.
I want to give, cover some observations.
I usually come to you with financial numbers and I have some of those, but I learned something
in the past week as I've reached out to and talked to superintendents from other Wisconsin
districts.
I asked them questions about athletic facilities, community facilities, Fontaine, Fund 80, Fund
46.
I learned a lot.
Some of us in the gallery on March 18 were just confused.
Why doesn't the board, why doesn't somebody just ask other districts how they're handling
these problems?
Sadly, I found out the reason is that they would have heard that the way we were doing
things was just right.
I talked to superintendents from districts across Wisconsin, not just our neighbors.
I am really slow, so it took me a long time to realize that that was what was going on.
I talked with leadership teams.
One official said it appeared pretty clear that Anego has made closing the pool their
priority.
One of the ways that is evidenced is by this, and that person was just guessing at this,
but he said, watch for this.
We will expense things in the worst possible way so the pool fails as an entity and is
effectively off our books.
And that was unsolicited by me, so apparently people in the school, districts, understand
what's going on.
A superintendent from a different district, I asked them direct questions, do your general
maintenance staff take care of all buildings, even those that house some Fund 80 activities?
Yes, some of their time could be partially allocated to Fund 80 if we want to.
However, all electrical plumbing, HVAC, mechanical works of all types is done by our regular
maintenance crew, paid out of Fund 10, hired by our district.
Even for the building that is almost 100% community, we have seniors from the community
using it for exercise that is paid for and maintained by our regular maintenance staff.
All administrative functions paid out of our general Fund, Fund 10, record keeping, paying
bills, supervising employees, et cetera.
So another question, do you use your capital improvement fund, Fund 46 for all your buildings?
Yes, maintenance, repairs, capital improvements, even the lawnmores and vacuum cleaners we
bought with Fund 80.
When they were such a big expense and our regular budget was a little light, we had
our Fund 80 as a backup and we used it.
All we have to do is manage, amend, monitor the fund, the tenure plan and use it properly.
So I do have some recommendations for the Board to consider and the first recommendation
is to stop paying expenses from Fund 80 were prohibited by Wisconsin Statute 120.1319.
It forbids using any Fund 80 funds for costs that are not the actual additional costs incurred
to operate the community program.
Number two, do not use Fund 80 to pay costs that would be incurred by the school district
if the community programs and services were not even provided by the district.
In other words, if the aquatic center is just giving old people a place to exercise
and you're using Fund 80 to maintain that building, you are in violation of that section
of Wisconsin Statute.
One thing section two, I'm making another recommendation quickly, get your district back
in compliance with the contract, you executed with the Y, that the district is currently
in breach of that contract.
I have the sections here, the maintenance, the temperature, the fact that this virus
had to cancel a therapy session, are proof that you are in breach of contract.
Make sure that any motion that you pass to take Fund 46 funds for a new stadium includes
taking funds from that fund to improve and maintain your building which houses the aquatic
center.
Do not miss that opportunity.
Finally, I'll talk more at the committee tomorrow about specific things to that but
I just wanted to share and I have to say honestly, I was embarrassed when I told them
what district I was from.
They kind of knew before I even brought up my questions.
Thank you.
Our final person to sign up again is Sarah Rep and she will be speaking on the aquatic
center at this time.
Thank you and again to follow time, just some recommendations for the board so that we can
move forward and find a solution and that you can have all the information to review.
So it has become increasingly clear that the district administration may be receiving an
incomplete or overly narrow legal interpretation regarding Fund 80 and the aquatic center.
DPI's guidance asks whether an expense would continue to exist if the districts fund the
80 program were eliminated.
In this case, many of the expenses in question including basic facility maintenance, cleaning,
sanitation and operational upkeep would still exist.
These are fundamental responsibilities associated with owning and operating a school district
facility regardless of whether community programming is offered there.
And there's state statutes that Tom had mentioned earlier.
So as a board member, I would like my recommendation as to the board is to make a motion directing
the district to obtain independent or additional legal advice regarding the appropriate use
of Fund 80, Fund 10 and other available funding sources for the operation and maintenance
of the aquatic center.
In December, the board approved the purchase of the aquatic center timing system despite
that approval superintendent declined to sign the installation agreement and stated that
it would need to be returned to the committee.
The timing system will serve as district-owned equipment used by the school district and
its athletic programs.
It would therefore appear to fully qualify as a Fund 10 expense.
Even under the administration's current interpretation of Fund 80, there does not appear to be a
clear reason why this agreement was not executed and carried out based on the board's approved
action.
Again, recommendation, the board should determine why its direction was not carried out and
identify the steps necessary to complete the approved purchase and installation without
further unnecessary delay.
The district and the why signed an agreement explicitly stating that the district would
assume responsibility for pool maintenance beginning July 1.
The district has not consistently fulfilled those responsibilities.
Examples include when cleaning supplies were needed, the district was contacted, but
the why was told it was their responsibility for purchasing them.
The district has not consistently backwash the pool or completed the routine maintenance
necessary to keep it operational.
So the why is stepped in when necessary to protect the facility and keep the pool open.
That temporary intervention should not be interpreted as the why accepting the district's
contractual responsibilities.
Again, as the board, I am asking that you should require administration to provide an
immediate written plan explaining how the district will fulfill its responsibilities
under the agreement.
The plan should identify who is responsible for each maintenance function, establish
a schedule for completing those duties, and designate a clear point of contact.
Basically, I am asking you to ask questions, and I want you to be able to know that the
decisions that you are making are being made with all of the information that you can
possibly get, and I think we're missing a lot of that.
So I am asking you to do your due diligence and find that information so you can make
a decision that you know is correct.
Thank you.
Thank you, Sarah.
Let her be, Gridiron Club presentation and update on Scofield Stadium, Mrs. Oginski.
So with us tonight, we have Mr. Jerry Gillespie, and virtually we have Mr. Ray Diven, and they
will present a nice presentation that Mr. Diven shared with a couple of our committees last
week, and give us some more information regarding all things Scofield Stadium and
the athletic facility that they are hopeful to gather funds for.
Mr. Gillespie, turn it over to you.
Thank you, Glenda.
Nathan, you ready to go?
We're going to first look at a few slides, and Ray's going to be part of the presentation.
Ready to go, Ray?
Nathan?
Nathan.
Nathan?
Nathan, do you have Ray on, so let's move on, hang out.
Yeah, Ray, are you there?
Hey, can you hear me?
We can really hear you.
Clearly.
Go ahead, Ray.
Okay.
All right.
So thank you guys for having me.
I apologize.
I cannot be there in person.
I am actually out of state and Utah right now, so thank you for having me virtually.
You know, I couldn't be there in person.
Do you all have the slide show up?
Yes.
Yes.
Perfect.
So this is a presentation we put together to demonstrate a few things.
Obviously, this is to go over what we are proposing.
First, I wanted to review the current state of Scofield Stadium.
So if we move to page two, you'll see an overview of Scofield Stadium.
This was taken just at the beginning of last season, so our 2025 season.
On page three, you'll see a closer look at a few items.
On the top left, you will see our grandstands.
These were deemed unsafe and unable to be used to spectators.
So this shows just kind of a closer example of the condition of the structure.
We are not able to go inside of the structure.
We do have team rooms and locker rooms underneath on the back side.
We're unable to enter that structure, but there is sections of the ceiling that have fallen to the ground.
It is obviously just a very bad repair.
And in this picture shows some external damage that has been done to the structure itself crumbling down on a stairway.
Just next to that, on the right, you will see a picture of the bleachers that we brought in to accommodate spectators for games.
So obviously a lot less seating than what we are able to use in the grandstands.
One of those sections are from the school district.
They were being used at the baseball field by the high school.
These are typically where our students watch games.
And if you have been to a game, you know, this structure is somewhat scary.
It is definitely older.
There's large gaps in between the seating.
So in my opinion, it is definitely nerve-wracking, watching students standing on the structure,
jumping up and down, being teenagers, supporting their football team.
The two next to that are smaller, but newer structure is much more safe.
These were purchased by the Gridiron Club a few years apart.
This expense to the Gridiron Club total about $37,000 to bring in these bleachers to help support spectators viewing.
The district also rents additional bleachers that go next to that as well.
On the bottom left is a picture of at the time when we took these images, there was a game just about to begin.
And our visitors' teams do not have a team room at this facility.
So this picture shows the visitors' team getting prepared for the game right next to the parking lot by West Elementary out in the open.
Obviously no privacy at all.
They're simply getting dressed out in the open.
And then to the right of that, you'll also see our bleachers once again.
What I want to discuss though is the press box.
So we were able to build this press box in pretty short order.
It gives our announcers and our scorekeepers some shelter.
It also houses a coach from the home team and away team to be able to communicate with coaches on the sidelines.
So that little tiny looks like a deer stand houses about four people typically on a game night.
So it's very cramped.
Obviously no privacy between teams as they're trying to communicate with their coaches on the sidelines either.
And if we move to the next slide, we just point out a few of the things of the current state.
Again, we have the unusable and unsafe grandstands and the press box, which is included in that structure.
As far as the technology goes, once when the slide was prepared, we had our sound system, our scoreboard and our lights that were not operational.
We had 13 lights out out of the total lights on the system.
Ten of those lights have been repaired.
So the lighting system is for now resolved.
But I do want to point out that system is very out of date and ultimately obsolete.
Finding parts to repair this lighting system, we seem to have to add repairs on an annual basis.
It gets harder and harder to do every year.
The scoreboard has taken resources financially, as well as labor to repair from year to year.
But this is about the third year in a row now.
We have had issues with that scoreboard not being operational.
Speaking with Jake Leverman this morning, that was still being worked on.
I have not had confirmation that that is yet repaired with games right around the corner.
Our sound system, again, talking to Jake this morning, we were told that is operational as of now.
That was not operational in early July when we went to go check the system.
And that is, again, two years consecutively now that that system did not work at the beginning of the season.
It is an off-campus location, meaning it is not on the campus of our high school.
So what this means, we actually have to bust our home team to home games.
Visitors do not have a locker room on site.
So our visiting teams actually are bust to the high school.
They are in bust from the high school to Schofield Stadium.
After games, they are bust from Schofield Stadium back to the high school to use the locker room facilities for showering and getting undressed and ready for the trip home.
And then again, they bust home from there.
So logistically, there are some struggles being off site.
And then limited parking.
If you've ever been to a game, you understand parking is pretty limited.
We use the West Elementary parking lot.
That is a smaller parking lot.
So that would build up rather quickly.
The additional parking is basically on the streets, whether it be Fifth Ave or any of the other streets along that line in the field.
The next few slides will show off some of the other districts in our conference and their facilities.
These are all newer facilities with a synthetic turf surface.
Newer updated bleachers, press box, plaza areas, confessions and restrooms.
So first we have Merrill.
Next, you'll see Lakeland.
After that, we have Medford.
And then Tomahawk.
And lastly, we have Ryan Lander with the dome in there as well.
And lastly, I just want to revisit the overview picture of Schofield Stadium in current state.
Just again, to get the comparison between ourselves and our competitive districts.
So to move on to what we're proposing of our project committee.
We are, we have established a red robin vision.
We would like to propose a safe, modern on campus athletic complex, bringing events home, building leaders and uniting our community.
After that, you'll see a rendering of the project scope.
This is an overview of what we have worked with point of beginnings,
which is an engineering architectural firm who has a very large portfolio of these types of projects under their belt.
Actually two of which are both my alma models from college and high school that were recently just done by point of beginnings as well.
So the work that they do, they are very well versed and have a lot of experience and are very knowledgeable about this kind of work.
So they helped us lay this out and came up with this rendering of that overview.
So here we have our entranceway.
We have a multi-use building, which will house our concessions, restrooms, team rooms for both home and visitors, as well as a separate room for our officials.
Just to the east of that, we have a private parking lot for visitors, vehicles, bus bills, as well as EMS.
So EMS would have quick access to our field as well in any of the events that they need to visit and take care of any of our athletes on the field.
We also have a nice open plaza area.
As we know, there's a lot of spectators that like standing, watching games, they like having room to move around to get to concessions, bathrooms and whatnot.
So it's a really generous plaza area to be able to move around freely.
We also have picnic tables, bistro tables available as well.
And that would lead us to our bleachers, which would house 1500 spectators.
These bleachers are ADA compliant, which we are not currently compliant with now at Schofield Stadium.
This would be a synthetic turf field.
This would be lined for multiple sports.
We also have a multi-sports scoreboard that would be utilized for the facility as well.
And then obviously modern lighting that would be LED as well as modern sound system and press box.
And then next we can get a closer view of what these renderings look like up close, as if we were touring the proposed facility.
So first we have our entranceway.
One of the very unique things about the Centuryway and a very cool thing that really honors our history of Schofield Stadium and our football program specifically.
Is the entrance walls that you see in this rendering.
Those are actually field stone pieces that would be from our iconic wall at Schofield Stadium currently.
So we propose actually deconstructing that and having that built back up in the new location really to honor Schofield Stadium and the history of that program.
Next is a nice view over Plaza and concessions in Restroom area.
We have a very nice unique red robin statue that is being donated by an alumni group.
This is a really neat, very tall, metal three-dimensional red robin statue.
Really cool way to differentiate ourselves from other facilities and our way for spectators to really have a nice warm welcome to our facility.
Next is another view of that Plaza.
You can see how nice and wide open that space is.
Plenty of room to move around whether you want to stand and watch the game from that area, access the concessions or restrooms.
The next image, you'll start to see the field itself.
This has a really nice angle to see all of the different athletic groups and organizations that can take advantage of this facility.
This represents it is being lined for soccer, as you see the soccer goals as well.
It's also lined for softball and literally dimensions of 4660 for base size, so it's 46 to my own 60 to the bases.
This would accommodate any kind of WIA rule for hosting a varsity softball game, if need be.
Not to say they would have to, but it is an option for them if the weather does not cooperate.
We historically do have a lot of challenges accessing fields in early season for softball, as well as little weeks since all of our facilities are not turf.
Sometimes mother nature likes to hang on a little longer than we would like, so getting out to practice or even host games kind of becomes a struggle in the spring.
So this allows us a lot of flexibility to get out early once the weather allows us to get on a turf surface, begin practicing and even host a game if need be.
And then, of course, for our football program as well.
Next is a nice view of our grandstands. Again, this would house 1500 spectators. It is ADA compliant.
And it also does have a new press box area with plenty of space for coach privacy and comfort for our announcer in our scoreboard operators and the other personnel that would need to be in that structure.
One of the things I do want to point out about this structure is we did keep in mind since we are not having the track or this is not replacing listal field.
We do have this as a dual sided press box. So this can be utilized actually looking the other way towards listal field to the west.
And the sound system could be utilized for that as well or any kind of needs for a press box for those games or events on that field as well.
Next, we have our scoreboard. Obviously, this wouldn't be the scoreboard that would be in place. The scoreboard would have would accommodate all of the athletic events that would or possibly could take place at this facility, whether it be softball, baseball, soccer or football.
And last is just another really nice look looking towards the north. You can also see the high school in the background to kind of get an idea of where this would be positioned if constructed.
We did keep this as a mindful placement of the facility to really accommodate growth in this area and this space.
We truly want this to be an antigo athletic complex area, not just for football.
This allows us room to grow towards the tennis courts. There's green space there to accommodate a full 100 yard football field there on the grass.
There's also space to the south of this towards the baseball field back that way.
Again, to accommodate any kind of growth as we grow as a community and as a district, we can add on in that area.
So we really want to focus on this proposed facility is truly for the teams is for the town and is for the future.
So Jerry at this point, I'll hand it over to you.
Thanks, Ray. Very nicely done. I'm sure everybody appreciates three dimension and what it could look like.
Before I start, I would like to ask or like to have a little bit of a football trivia just in case some of you are as old as I am.
Significance of November 1, 1935.
First, anigo Rhynander Bell game.
Community significance event in 1938, 88 years ago.
Anigo Athletic Park, built by the WPA during the Depression.
1976, 78, excuse me, and 82.
Three of anigo's WIA State football champions.
2018.
Last time, anigo was conference champs.
Anigo 55 Rhynander 30.
Anigo 55 Rhynander 30.
Total Bell games wins with two ties.
114.
A number of football players that are practicing this fall.
I thought you thought that it's getting in a good mood anyway.
My name is Jerry Gillespie and I'm speaking on the group from the Gridiron Club.
The first question is, who in the world is this guy?
By the way, my wife made me wear a suit.
I'm a former student athlete from Anigo, class of 1965.
Dale Peterson and Gordy Schofield were my coaches in football.
And Elon Case and Jim Maham were my coaches in basketball.
And Peter March and Ralph Ellison were my coaches in tennis.
So historically, those people are pretty significant in Anigo's world.
In March of 25, Scott and Dale Peterson drove down to Green Bay where I live
and asked me if I would help with this project.
Why?
Well, I had previously worked with Point of the Beginning, which is the firm the district is using.
And pretty much on my own, but we raised $800,000 to rebuild the tennis courts at Depere.
And I haven't taught at Depere for 30 years, but I did coach there and my kids went there
and they all played tennis, my son played in college, my granddaughters, my lessons now.
Basically, courts, pavilion, concessions, team room, fencing, lights, the whole shebang.
And I will tell you that even if you never want me to come back, Point of the Beginning is a very talented group.
So you picked a good choice.
So in, I think it was April of that year, the previous board gave us permission to go see what we could do.
Could we find the funds?
Could we get a design that was acceptable, et cetera?
And I said, excuse me, yes to this project for three reasons.
Number one, I truly believe as a former coach and athlete myself that athletics makes a difference.
And I don't just mean on the field.
There's probably more lifetime things gained than there is in the four years in high school.
And I'm going to read something to you later.
Two, the upgrade for Scofield Stadium is way overdue.
And number three is I wanted to help do the right thing.
Our objective tonight is to give you an update and include financials, how we're doing with fundraising.
And I will tell you right now, it's a big ticket item.
Point of the Beginning's anticipated and estimated construction costs are 8.2 million, all in.
But let me also caution you and say those are not proposals, those are not bids.
Those are an architectural estimates that does not include any in-kind work.
It does not include any increases if we wait.
It's a number in the sand right now.
So I wanted to make sure that was nice and clear.
First we did, our approach was we wanted to approach some people from Annigal who had to wear with all to help.
And of the first four people we asked, three said yes automatically.
One is a little undecided, but he's still in the picture.
We've applied for grants and have approached local statewide and NFL foundations.
We have discussed it with other local business owners in Annigal who are waiting to see what happens tonight.
After tonight, depending, we'll finalize all verbal pledges.
We'll expand the commitments that some people have made from one year to two years.
And I would like to tell you today that I got the second $50,000 commitment from a former Annigal player.
How much have we raised?
Well, it comes in different forms, so I'm just going to read to you what we have.
Cash at co-vantage, $77,000 in change.
Two legally binding pledges of $250,000.
We're discussing the two-year commitment with those people.
A million dollar corporate donation that's been paused for the last 90 days.
A grant of $100,000 if we reach 3.9.
Four verbal pledges totaling half a million if the project is a go.
And it's been paused.
In-kind donations for earthwork and site preparation have been discussed and even given a start date.
It has been paused.
We're seeking other in-kind things for electrical, materials, concrete, plumbing, concession, press box, and storage building construction.
All paused waiting for the board to make a decision whether this is a go or not.
After that, we're going to restart naming rights with some of the companies.
But we recognize that naming rights is a board decision.
We can't promise anybody anything, but they can certainly ask.
All right?
We've been working to build both community and private support to get this done.
And we believe this project has reached a point where neither the community nor the school district can realistically accomplish it alone.
It has to be a partnership.
The timeline is perfect.
With board approval, fundraising commitments that were on pause, we'll knock on those doors and we'll find out what's real.
Field and site work we were verbally told could start in October of this year.
Request for proposals and bids would come over the winter.
Primary construction would be basically spring and summer.
And believe it or not, grand opening could be a home game in 27.
But we have to all get on the same page.
Concept quizzes, if this fails, continue use of the worst facility in the conference.
Maybe the state, I just don't know.
It's not that good, even though I played on it.
Potential Saturday games or even no home games.
Current maintenance expenses will only get higher.
Fruit or construction costs will only increase if we wait.
More than likely, it's now or never for the community's financial help and the athletic complex itself.
Recognizing that the district has multiple priorities, some of which you heard tonight.
Both now and in the future, we are respectfully asking the school board to consider 50% financial commitment from its capital fund 46.
I'll say that again.
We are asking the board to consider respectfully, to consider a 50% financial commitment from its capital fund 46,
to be used for this community facility, which added to our current pledged in future efforts will allow construction to begin this fall.
May I also tell you that in that number, that big number, is a contingency to replace the turf somewhere 10, 12, 14 years down the road,
depending on usage and how it's taken care of, et cetera.
So I think 20 years worth of turf field.
We are also asking the board members to make in second emotion, so our request can be discussed and questions answered,
and even hopefully brought to a vote if you're comfortable.
In closing, I would like to offer a quote from somebody I just golfed with.
Participating in athletics teaches lessons that extend far beyond any season's record.
Student athletes continue to distinguish themselves in the classroom, in their careers, as well as in their future competition.
Mark Murphy, retired president and CEO of Green Bay Packers, 208 to 225.
So with that, I'd like to see if it could be, if you're comfortable in the audience, if you would raise your hand,
if you're in favor of the football field, please raise your hand.
Thank you very much, and board, thank you.
Any questions?
I don't know if we can ask questions.
Thank you, Jerry.
At this time, it's a presentation, and later on, whatever we are under board action, I'm sure the questions will be asked,
and we'll ask you to come back to the podium at that time.
Okay.
Can I ask a clarifying question?
Make sure you press something correctly.
Sure.
I don't care.
Okay.
Just the, with the resurfacing of the turf, so that's essentially within that budget maintenance or your planning for maintenance in the future of the turf.
Because I don't know how much things cost, but our conversations were, we would ask the board and the administration to kind of make the proposal and put in writing what you expect of the grid iron club.
That should be, you tell us what you need in order for it to work.
Can I use another couple seconds?
Sure.
Yes.
Okay.
Last week, late last weekend today, I got quite a few emails, and I'm not going to read them all, but I'd like to read a couple of things.
I'd like to encourage the Annigal School Board to approve the construction of a new stadium.
I am a former product of the football tradition at Annigal in the 60s.
Our coach Gordy Schofield taught us so many important lessons while we played football.
These life lessons had carried many of us to be the best we could be in this world.
A new football stadium will enable a new generation of young men to experience the same lessons.
Ed Huffman played here in 65 with me, played at Wisconsin.
Next one.
I'm writing to express my strong support for the development of a new stadium.
A modern stadium will provide a safe, high quality facility for student athletes while creating a welcome gathering place for families.
And there's some other nice things.
Eric Schrader, Schrader Brother Farms.
My husband and I support the Annigal Facility Project.
The facility will benefit students and families in Annigal, and in addition to supporting the project we'll be giving a donation, Greg and Sue Schofield.
To whom it concerns, as a former educator and coach, having new facilities was always a positive for getting student athletes to join the program.
The cost is always a problem, but athletics is a key part in student growth along with other non-athletic entities such as band, choir, show choir, and all the clubs in the learning process.
Sorry, Robert Wagner.
I'm sending this note to express my support for the proposed new football facilities.
As a native of Annigal, I have long-time special interest in Annigal District programs, especially athletics.
I graduated from Annigal.
My six children graduated from Annigal.
One currently as a staff member and four of my grandchildren have Annigal School System experience.
I support the stadium and the new facilities with support in multiple sporting events.
The project study committee has worked hard.
I encourage the Board of Education, the Board of Education, and to give it your blessing of support.
There's one more on the back.
I just want to get it.
Sorry.
I'm writing this as a parent of the young children and as someone who is incredibly proud of my husband and his business,
who is a fourth-generation owner of Saluski Wood Products, to express my strong support for the stadium.
Our family has deep roots.
Our children are young, but they often think about the future we are building.
I hope they grow up loving this community, and if they choose to leave for college, I hope they come back.
And the last one.
Do you remember that the Annigal School Board?
As someone who cares deeply about Annigal and his future, I believe a modern, well-planned athletic facility
would provide meaningful benefits for students, families, programs, and the broader community for years to come.
One of the most important reasons to support the project is the impact it would have on students.
The facility would create more opportunities for young people to participate, compete, train, and develop lifelong habits.
Athletics and extracurricular teach discipline, teamwork, leadership, accountability, and resilience.
Providing students with access to improve facility sends a clear message that Annigal values their growth, safety, and future.
I support the project because of the impact it would have on families and the community.
Mike Hunter.
Thank you very much.
Jerry, those emails that you've read, if you will pass those over to Deanna,
so they can be part of the record for this meeting since they were named individuals.
That would be great.
Annigal, I'm sure we'll have more discussion on that question when we get to that item on the agenda.
Let her see.
Education elevator.
Mrs. Oginski?
So, up next we have Ms. Tanya McKenna will present to us about the newly formed educator elevator.
She and Mr. Zenayad came and met with me sometime earlier last year about efforts that they would like to put in place
to help lift up and support all of the wonderful educators that we have in Annigal, so we will turn it over to Ms. McKenna.
Hello.
So, I'm taller than I thought.
Yeah, I'm over the mic.
So, I'm Tanya McKenna Trabant, and we have started a 501c3 organization called Educator Elevator, which we hope is self-explanatory.
There are three words I'd really like you to know about it.
I'll tell you them in a second, but I want to tell you I'm not here with a request.
I'm not here with really just here to share what we're doing.
So, it's announcement and you have a brochure there with you as well.
So, three words.
It is a positive, community-driven, non-partisan organization.
The idea is for us to do things in partnership with the district and business and industry and everybody to show educators that this is a place worth staying in.
That this is a place that cares about education and cares about educators.
Okay, so that is in essence the idea.
How do we elevate educators' social status in our community so that people feel the support of the community in the way that we do that?
Okay, so that doesn't mean that some of us involved don't have opinions about other things, right?
It means that we're trying to work in partnership as a community to build things together.
And so, when we're operating as educator, elevator, the idea is to be in partnership and to work together and figure out how do we help educators feel valued in our organization.
So, this is, we're an independent 501c3 and so we have a board of directors, we have bylaws, I'm glad to share them with you.
Any of you bylaw junkies, I'm a huge bylaw junkie.
So, I got to invite two different ones this year, so that was pretty fun.
So, if you want to know any more about the infrastructure and how we're putting it together, I'm really glad to share that.
We started three initiatives this fall, so one of them was last week.
We created Welcome Baskets for the 28 new educators that joined the district.
They were about this big, they included gift certificates, food, coupons and information from, I'm thinking we had a list of 15 or 20 local businesses and organizations, probably worth at least $150 in there.
So, every new educator got this basket with fresh flowers in it.
They also got the packet from the Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development, so they have information as well.
We really wanted them to walk in and go, oh, like somebody noticed we're here and so we did that and five of us representing Educator Elevator were there and explained a little bit like I'm explaining to you guys.
Tomorrow, we are hosting the first annual Community Welcome Picnic, which is happening at Heinz and Pavilion.
Board members, you're welcome to join us.
We are having every educator in the district on their first professional development day, we're feeding them lunch and saying welcome and welcome back.
And it's a community welcome, so it's paid for by community donations and in partnership with the district administration.
So, we're really just trying to make the point that the community is here and that we're trying to find ways to work together.
The third thing that we're doing is a community connector program.
You might think of it as an old school mentor program, but some of our new teachers don't want on ones.
They like to do things in groups and clumps.
So, we're going to have people connected so that they can find roots in our community.
So, somebody might really be in a mountain biking and not meet somebody until next May that does mountain biking where we're going to connect people so that they have somebody that they can find out about things.
So, some people will be going to Garski, some people will be going bowling, some people will be going to the various restaurants in town.
And so, that will be announcing again tomorrow and we'll be connecting people that way.
So, we have big dreams. One of them is to raise enough money that we could actually help paraprofessionals get trained as certified teachers, people that are already grounded and rooted here in the community and so that they could go and continue their work here.
Many of them can't afford to go ahead and like get the degree while they're also working and so is there a way that we could support them in doing that?
That's one of the programs we have dreams about.
The vision is that 30 years from now, some kid is in Tomahawk and somebody says, oh blah blah blah, new teacher, I didn't know what's going on, they're like, what?
You don't have an educator elevator in Anago, we have an educator elevator.
That's the idea.
The vision is it's something that pulls up our whole community and can offer a model for other places ways to be into honor educators.
So, I'm glad to take any questions. If you guys have questions, all I know it's not question time.
So, I will be here until my bedtime, which probably is before you guys leave.
So, one last thing I want to add is that I'm deeply committed to the nonpartisan aspect of this and this is something that is interesting because there are a lot of tricky things ahead of you guys and what you're working with.
I'm your varsity girl swim coach. I have an investment in the pool, right?
And I can operate in this nonpartisan way where we're building up educators.
So, all of these things can be true at the same time, right?
I'm not expressing an opinion.
I just want you to know that we all are wearing multiple hats and community development takes all of us doing these things.
So, thanks.
Let's look, Tonya, take two questions. Two questions.
We'll make them good. I love questions.
Two good questions. Who has the first one?
I'm looking around.
I don't have a question.
I just want to say this is an absolute fantastic idea and I love that you are doing this and I'm so grateful that you're doing this for us.
So, I'm here representing. It's not just me, just to be super clear. Not everybody loves public speaking.
But we have a whole board and it's in there and there are a lot of volunteers involved.
But thank you. We wanted to do something positive that could actually have an impact.
Great. Thanks, Angie.
And if somebody wanted to donate, how would they do that?
You have a website?
That's a great question.
Well, you'll see on the brochure it says, more information at our website soon.
We own the domain.
It is not up yet. We are less than a year old.
We are feeling our way forward as a group of volunteers. We do have an account.
So, you can make a donation. We are not yet at the active raising funds phase.
So, I would say that if you have questions, contact that email that's on there or contact.
I mean, you all can find me on a district email pretty quickly.
If you want to find out more information that way.
And where's your account? If somebody would like to donate to your account?
Yep. It's that co-image.
Okay.
Awesome.
You didn't ask me to do this, but your email address is info at educatorelevator.org.
That's info at educatorelevator.org.
Your soon to come email our website address is www.educatorelevator.org.
So, be watching for that and we'll be sure that gets in the newspaper so all the community can get that information.
As well as we will list the board members in the newspaper also.
So, the community can know who these people are that are making this wonderful opportunity for our new teachers.
Awesome.
Thank you so much.
Thanks, you guys.
Let's give Tonya this group a hand.
Thank you.
Okay.
Letter D is the Clara R. McKenna Aquatic Center subcommittee last month.
We just got back from vacation and I was behind at work and I could not make the meeting last month.
And Kristen did a great job leading that meeting last month.
And it was voted upon to appoint a subcommittee for the Clara R. McKenna Aquatic Center that this committee would operate under the building grounds committee.
And their first meeting will be tomorrow.
And I would like to say the first email that I received from the board member was Mike Pareza.
Mike emailed me and let me know that he would like to be considered to be part of that subcommittee.
So, Mike, you are on that subcommittee.
And he has contacted three people and they have graciously said yes and tonight is the official announcement.
So, Mike Pareza is on the subcommittee.
Gene Adams is on the subcommittee and Angie Schreiber is on the subcommittee as Angie had reached out also to be part of this group and Angie will serve as the chair of this committee.
Tomorrow night Angie is the meeting in here at what time?
Six p.m.
Six p.m.
This committee will meet Brian from the Y will be here at the meeting.
Tom Koss will be here at the meeting and we will get some direction and clarification as to where we go forward with the newly formed subcommittee for the Clara R. McKenna Aquatic Center.
Item number three consent agenda.
Letter A approval of agenda minutes financial reports reported district new hires and reported resignations and retirements.
I will be looking for a motion please.
I'm on board for the agenda of July 2026 board of education meeting and it's August 10th 26th.
And it's reported district new hires reported resignations and retirements financial reports for July 26th and August 26th.
Consideration of current bills checks number 9895 through 993 and the amount of $449,635.65.
ACHS number 26270053 through 26270099 and the amount of $401,213.84.
And why are transfers for a total of $850,849?
Sorry, $850,849.49.
Motion has been made by Kristin.
Would you like to speak to your motion?
Are there any questions or discussion of the motion on the floor?
Danny?
Yeah, can I ask a question regarding the new hires?
You may ask your question.
So I've heard that we have a plan for the high school.
Can administration just provide an update as to who that principal or whoever's going to be just in the community as aware?
Sure, absolutely.
So we will be our interim principal for the 2627 school year.
Any other questions or discussion?
Glenda, can you also outline who will be supporting him in that role?
So currently we have Mr. Sigmund who will be supporting some student services.
He will not be acting as an associate principal because he also is our Alt-Ed coordinator, but he will be providing some support as well.
Mr. Chair, I have a question.
Could you help me to understand the process for getting items on the agenda?
The process for items on the agenda will come through an email or phone conversation with me and also with administration.
It would have to be prior to Tuesday of setting the agenda because Tuesdays is the day that the agenda is set prior to the meeting to in order to be within our policy of posting the meeting agenda.
So Monday or earlier?
Monday or earlier?
Basically a week before.
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you.
Any other questions or comments related to the motion that's on the floor?
Hearing none, the voting device is now open.
Please make sure you have your voting device.
Your name is on the back.
Would anyone like to change their vote?
The vote is now closed.
And the motion carries.
Thank you.
Item number four, board action.
Letter A, discussion and possible action regarding continued operations of the Clara R. McKenna Aquatic Center.
And for this board action item, we have the attorney, Davis Rundi, who is connected by telephone.
And I will turn it over to him as well as Mrs. Oginski.
Okay.
Nathan, do you have Mr. Rundi on?
He just said he's waiting in a waiting room.
Okay.
I'm moving on.
Davis, are you with us?
Okay.
Okay.
I'm moving on.
Davis, are you with us?
Okay.
I'm moving on.
Davis, are you with us?
Okay.
Yes, I am, Danny.
Sorry.
Okay.
Thank you.
We are at item four A, the discussion and possible action regarding continued operations of the Clara R. McKenna Aquatic Center.
Are you looking for me to lead this discussion, Danny?
Yes, sir.
Okay.
All right.
So, and all of the board members has the handout that of the memorandum dated July 20 in front of them as well.
Great.
So, yeah, as, so that memorandum was given to you guys ahead of your last board meeting.
It outlines, frankly, what has been the status quo since March.
The pool is the fund 80.
I mean, it'd be more specific is in dire financial circumstances.
Even after the donation that was received by the foundation leading up to that donation, the board had previously met and passed a resolution in the draft resolution.
It was proposed that the, that $250,000 should be received for continuing operations.
The board had amended that resolution to read a hundred thousand.
That hundred thousand has been insufficient to cover long, long term operations until additional significant revenues are received.
So, I don't know the specific number as of today.
But I believe, again, the reason I don't know that is because the number changes with incoming revenues and outgoing expenses.
But I believe the, the number that is currently within fund 80 is mid $20,000 that is just not sustainable to continue operations with the pool.
There are bills that are coming in that need to be paid most significantly would be bills from the YMCA, which are now going to be invoiced on a monthly basis.
So, administration needs some guidance from the board as to how it would like to continue operations.
I am here tonight to advise on the feasibility of any ideas the board has to facilitate those operations.
So, David, if we were, if we were going to seek out that additional $150,000 from the initial resolution, would you have to write a new resolution or how, how would we go forward with that?
I don't think it's necessary to have a stated resolution or a written resolution.
But we could get, I could advise on certain language that might be beneficial, such as a deadline to receive such funds.
So, potential liabilities don't continue to amass because every bill that comes in is just that. It's going to be a liability.
Davis, in order for us to make informed decisions, I think it's very important for us to have detailed budget reports, seeing what's going on with all these accounts.
I've been asking for those. I haven't been receiving those. How can we just keep asking people for money and have no idea where it's going, what it's being used for?
We need to have some transparency with that stuff.
Okay.
I do not have that information.
I think that is an important question to be asked, though it doesn't necessarily change the question in front of the board tonight.
So, why are we short on the funds now? So, we had $175,000 June 30th on July 1.
And that with rough math should have carried us through October.
And now we're out of money again. So, could you explain that to me?
My understanding is that the anticipated deficit for 2526 was larger than anticipated.
So, some of the funds that were received following the $75,000 donation pursuant to DPI's guidance on how to handle a fiscal year deficit.
Those funds needed to be applied to 2526 to make it zero.
So, that was the initial intent to that 75,000. So, we did only receive 100,000 for the upcoming year, and they had to use more than the 75 for last year.
Correct.
But if I can touch on that amount from last year, from last fiscal year, the board was provided with some handouts on kind of the new apportionment to fund 80 for community service related items.
We were provided with that information. It was a change of about a net $300,000 from what was the approved budget in October of 2025.
However, the board never approved that $300,000 net change.
So, we are living with the ramifications, but we never approved that change to the budget.
Yes, Randy, go ahead.
We also haven't had an opportunity to discuss that budget at all. That has been requested that this group or the finance committee or someone should be able to discuss those budgetary changes in an open forum.
I also, I just wonder, have you reached out to the foundation? Does anybody approach Mr. Koss? One of the reasons that I made that amendment was we were asking them to come up with, you know, $325,000 in a week?
Okay, now we've had two months. Have we approached anybody from the foundation with the fact?
No, that's what Mr. Randy told us to do a month ago in this letter from July 20th.
Has anybody reached out to the foundation? I know there was this $130,000 that was offered to make repairs to the pool.
As far as I'm aware, no one's ever reached out to get access for those things.
I agree, I don't think they're going to just keep giving us money for legal fees or electronic communications or things like that, but I think they are very willing to do things for the pool.
I'd also just like to ask a question about currently how the school is meeting the immediate maintenance needs of the pool.
Apparently this contract that was signed with the Y was we were going to apply, we were going to be responsible for the daily maintenance and talking to Brian Bailey and talking to pool employees.
They feel there's no one that they can contact to help with pool water quality or pool temperature.
They had to close it for therapy as has been mentioned.
They've been advised that they cannot use a washer and dryer in the high school, so they've been taking laundry home and doing it themselves.
They need a contact person for maintenance.
There was somebody who was doing that up until July, and my question for the administration, I don't know if Jake's here or not, but who are they to contact?
Or day-to-day maintenance that has not been available for the last two months?
That is the reason for the situation that we need to agree to hire.
But you've left them hanging dry for the last two months.
No one will respond to them for their immediate needs.
Who can they call when they have an immediate problem?
They can't call the why. They can't call our maintenance department. Who are they supposed to contact?
So, I think it'd be important to have administration chime in on this, but I am not aware of any correspondence that has gone unanswered.
So, when they reached out, the YMCA regarding the pool temperatures, I responded that Mr. Lighterman would be sending someone over to check the pool.
So, we also are short staffed in the district, and we have our high school torn apart, and it's a very busy time of the year, not that I'm making excuses.
But we also are in the middle of preparing to welcome back our staff and our students, and we have to get that taken care of.
So, he did contact reach out to a company that specializes in pool services, but I did reach out and I let Abby know that Mr. Lighterman would be sending someone to check the pool.
So, they should contact Mr. Lighterman if they have immediate needs?
I did not say that. I don't have that answer, but when they've reached out to me, I've responded.
So, I would just like to voice my opinion on this. I think we're at a point where the community doesn't believe that this current interpretation of this standard is accurate.
I interpret things differently than other people. I was looking at that DPI standard. I could interpret that maintenance incurred regularly because it's a district owned building that we should be able to provide the maintenance on that building, not incurred by the community program running.
So, how I interpret that is, is that our maintenance staff should be able to go over there and take care of the facility's basic needs so that it does not continue to degrade and get worse.
That's my interpretation of it. So, I think that we are at a point where we need to get someone from DPI in front of us to go over what can you do, what can't you do.
Someone who, to be fair, we can say no board member has reached out to them, the administration hasn't reached out to them, a complete non-biased opinion from DPI in here to go over that.
Because I worry that we're at a point where we've wasted a lot of time and now we're in this stalemate between the Y and we're just hemorrhaging funds.
I mean, there's a part of me that wants to say, okay, well, if that's the way that we're interpreting that now,
then without confirmation from DPI in front of us in writing, someone saying that we should almost revert all the funds that were taken out of Fund 80 to offset Fund 10,
because of, and I'm using airports, miss billing, to go back into Fund 80 until we have a definitive answer that that's how that should go, so that Fund 80 is not in the deficit.
That's where I met with this.
I just think that we're not going to get past this hurdle unless someone else comes in and point blank just tells us that's your interpretation,
but you could also interpret it this way and you could do it this way lately.
That's my fear and my fear is that if we neglect this and then we jump to another huge improvement,
which I do support both, I feel that we are doing a disservice to the people in this community by letting one huge asset go just to build another.
So I'm struggling with that.
I just want to, oh, sorry, I thought you were done.
No, I'm done.
I just want to point out that, and it's fair what you just shared, but for all of us to make sure we're really clear in the community too,
that one building is a Fund 80 operated facility.
Another I would anticipate would be a Fund 46.
Fund 10 facility property.
So there's huge distinctions there, which you have mentioned.
So I don't think it is fair for any one of us to take the mindset of this discussion to say we are going to pick this or this.
Like that can't happen because there are two separate things that if we say yes to this, that means no to that.
That is 100% inaccurate.
We don't have this or that or we have the both option, but you got to figure out the funding for both, but it's not a dis or that.
There are two very separate funds that cannot be overlapped in use.
I think part of the issue, if I was understanding Danny correctly because it's how I feel as well, is that we don't all believe from our own interpretations that it is too separate.
I think more of Fund 10 personally, from my interpretation, more of Fund 10 can be used for the pool than we're being led to leave.
And I also think if you look at the sports complex, there has to be a fund 80 aspect to that as well as because we were talking about little league and we were talking about city soccer leagues.
Those are community based.
So I don't think any of us understand, I'm sure there's probably a percentage of use or something like that, but I don't think we have at least me as a new board member.
Like I have enough information that I believe is accurate to my, you know, I have not had anyone tell me anything that makes me believe that I'm wrong yet.
And that's what I need. I need, like Danny said, someone new to all of us to be in front of us and give us information so I can make an informed decision because I don't feel like I have enough information to make an informed decision at this point.
I think that it would be awesome if I could actually send up some representatives and have sit down and have a conversation with all of us in person so that all of us can hear it straight from the arts as well on what we can and cannot do with these funds.
That way there's no, you know, we can ask our questions.
We can get our thoughts out and we were not going to either school districts.
We're not hearing it from, you know, this was doing it this way, this way or that way.
We're hearing it straight from DPI. We're hearing it straight from the legal teams at the state level.
What can we do? What can we not do?
That way we're making sure that we are in compliance and the public funds the correct way.
I agree with that. And I would like to speak.
So Jill, I see what you're saying. However, from a community standpoint, they're not going to interpret it that way.
They are going to see that we are now being faced with choosing two separate things.
And I heard what you said, but also a point to this from how I'm understanding this is that the district owns the building,
the program that is accessible to the community is the community, but the heating equipment is owned by the district.
Those types of facilities are owned by our district, which my interpretation of reading that is that maintenance staff,
if they are already employed by the district and they would have been employed by the district,
regardless of that building being there, they could provide maintenance services to a district owned building,
not incurred by the community program running.
So how I interpret that is that because we own that building, we may not own or fund the community aspect of that,
is that we should be able to provide them with maintenance. That's mine.
And I'm hearing that entirely, but it is also our responsibility as elected board members to ensure that we are being open and clear that it is not a this or that.
It is our role right now to ensure that all nine of us are administration and our community is very clear that nobody is picking sides.
Nobody is picking this team over this group.
That is not happening and that any presentation to make it sound that way,
it would be wildly misleading and highly unfair to the community.
So it is two very separate things. Nobody is picking a side.
What we are talking about right now is operational funding, right?
So it's still like you could in theory, say, keep it running, then your question is,
what's your, what's the dollar amount this board would like to take from educational funds to fund the pool?
Or tax increase the levy and tax the community to operate the pool or something different?
I mean, I guess my question is we still don't, we don't right now, I'm hearing we don't have money.
We can certainly argue about the dollars we can get a neutral person because an attorney and representatives from DPI and our administration are clearly unqualified for that.
And I think it's fair to bring somebody else in. Sure.
At the end of the day, who's going to pay for that?
So my question is also to this.
If until we have a third party come in, then technically couldn't we go back to operating the pool as it was with the previous interpretation of that statute until DPI comes in.
And if DPI comes in and says, no, this is wrong, then unfortunately we have to go back to the how we're currently interpreting it.
And then we have to make a decision on that.
Who said that?
But I haven't seen that from DPI.
I haven't seen anything like that and I just outlined how I interpreted that statute and that clause on DPI site.
And that is not how I interpret it. So until someone from DPI comes in, I can't make, I can't vote in a certain way on something that I haven't seen from DPI.
I have yet to see that. Unfortunately, I'm just being very honest.
I hear what you're saying and I'm also one to question.
So I hear you.
You have long stance, you know, numerous long standing board members.
All telling you the same thing, you have the administration telling you the same thing.
You have our legal piece telling you the same thing.
And so we're not trying to be judiciary.
I'm saying, like, I can never, I'm not going to vote for the committee of the public funds.
I'm not going to do that.
Yeah, neither am I.
No, I'm not going to either.
That's why I want to hear from DPI.
Correct. That's why it's an appropriate use of fund 80 if we're not following the way that.
And that's my fear.
That is my fear. I've heard the analogy of and I don't want to take funds from from our kids.
I don't want to take funds from kids to support something if we can't.
But I also don't want to take funds from a facility in a program.
If we are within our legal right, depending on that person from DPI's interpretation,
to utilize specific funds from fund 10 to cover it.
So I just feel like I don't have enough information to even be able to say, no, we shouldn't or yes, we should.
I just have my interpretation in my opinion on it.
But I really strongly think we need to get someone from DPI in here.
Yeah, I weigh in here, please.
So I hear what everybody is saying.
And if you disagree with my advice, in my opinion, that is fine.
On the maintenance, let's just back up on the DPI comment.
So DPI, we can certainly reach out and see if they're willing.
We met with them on Wednesday, I believe, of last week.
In anticipation of this discussion, we outline again everything that had been or had occurred.
And, and how we, how the district was doing things and how the district is now doing things.
Deep on that call with EPI was also who of the district's auditors.
Everybody on that call agreed that administration presently.
Is treating fund 80 and fund 10 and the pools operations appropriately.
Sorry, can you just repeat who was all involved in that phone conference?
Sure, it was Mike Brendel from DPI.
Who is the team lead of school finances.
Leah Lassacki, I believe from a thin large thin Allen.
And I do not recall the other women's home, but she was also one of the district's auditors from CLA.
And then you were a part of that conversation along with district administration.
Correct.
Thank you.
And we talked specifically about the concept of maintenance.
And it is important to know that, or to remind yourself that what is the sum.
There are no kids in the building.
There is no educational program going on.
The operation of the pool is exclusively for community programming in the summer.
Okay, we will have no comments from the gallery, please. Thank you.
There are some folks in the audience pointing out Davis that there is some use of the pool.
By academic, whatever students.
During the summer.
By swim teams.
Swim teams.
By the unified school district of Annago swim team.
Yes.
That's what they're saying.
Okay.
So there is limited use of the pool by students.
Then the days that they are used by the pool.
What you do.
And what the district has been doing is you determine how much.
Time.
For maintenance, utilities, insurance, and you pro rate those costs.
For that specific period of time.
Students.
And that is appropriately charged to front end.
Just because it's a district building.
Doesn't mean you get to use all of the funds.
Available.
To go towards the operation of that building.
This is why fund 46 is unable to be used.
For many of the maintenance projects, which is what started this entire discussion.
Back in.
I think October of 2025.
Oh, go ahead.
So, so.
As I've explained previously, you can develop a community program or service.
That is predominantly.
Well, sorry.
That is.
That uses a limited portion of fund 80.
And you then basically convert the.
Aquatic center.
To be in fully funded both one 10.
You could do that.
But.
You will have to.
Lay off.
A significant members and a number of staff members.
Because you cannot operate the pool.
Out of fund 10 and have enough money.
Or paying question.
Yes.
Staff members.
Like.
Teachers or staff members in the aquatic center.
You don't have any staff members in the aquatic center.
Make sure that you would have to.
It doesn't necessarily need to be teachers, but you're going to have to.
And it doesn't necessarily need to be staff cuts, but those are the most readily available.
Because you need to would need to come up with significant amount of money.
You would do it the same way that you, if you ever rent out your basketball court.
To the community to be used, let's say for.
A basketball camp.
The, you would rent it out.
The money that would be.
Received.
In rent.
Go back into fund 10.
If the district ever decided, hey, we want to put on.
A community program, which would be.
A family swim night.
And the district wants to hire.
Staff members like lifeguards.
Or teachers to come in and do a family swim night.
That would be a community program under fund 80.
And the cost that the district would incur for that.
Could be paid out of fund 80.
But this is different.
It's all deep.
I was going to tell you this to their blue in the face.
It depends on how you have set up your program.
And the district's program is set up to virtually be open to the public.
Every day, very business hours.
And that means.
Proportionally.
The cost of operating it need to come out of fund 80.
Because it's not for.
The students, it's for the community.
I'm unsure how I can explain this.
More clear.
So, but.
It doesn't.
For purposes of.
Tonight.
And the for purposes of the last.
Several months.
The program design does not matter.
What matters is.
What is in the account.
Because let's say you did it.
You were going to do all these things and you were going to change your program.
You still need money in your account.
Even if you're going to do that limited fund 80 program of.
Of doing a.
Swim lesson.
For the community open to the public.
You're going to hire staff.
You're going to hire lifeguards.
You're going to hire a teacher.
To be present.
To make sure everyone's safe.
You're probably going to get out on a special event insurance.
Those costs.
You.
You barely have enough money.
To pay for those.
So you need to then start looking at how are we going to fund this.
In any event, no matter what we do.
How are we going to come up with the money for this.
Because right now you do not have sufficient funds.
It doesn't matter what the design is.
You need to figure that out.
So again, I'm very confused on what's going on.
I have asked numerous time for detailed budget reports.
I've asked for the documentation from DPI that says we are doing things.
We are doing things wrong or illegally and we need to see what we are doing.
And I have received nothing.
I have talked to several people in 2014.
DPI come to Annie go school district.
They sat down at central office building.
And they developed a fund 80 flow chart.
DPI to utilize these funds.
The district had clean audits of fund 80.
Of all funds.
So I do not understand why this is now a problem.
What has changed in the 20 some years that this has been in existence.
Fund 46 is a long term facilities project fund that can be used for the aquatic center.
For any district building it can be amended throughout the year if things come up that need to be addressed.
The board has the authority to do that.
But we keep being advised we cannot use fund 46 for this.
So I need the facts.
We can sit here for another three weeks and talk and tell our purple in the face.
But I have seen nothing that says we cannot do these things.
We are being advised to do things without any documentation or proof to support it.
We are being advised to do things without any information.
We are being advised to do things without any information or proof to support it.
We are being advised to do things without any information or proof to support it.
This is my community.
I live here.
I graduated from here.
And I think we need to figure this out.
We need to have conversations.
That is why this subcommittee was put together.
So are we going to do that or are we going to just talk about this same thing over and over again.
We don't get anywhere.
Where are the budget reports?
Why cannot we not get those?
Were you in attendance to the previous task force?
You were a correct.
Task force.
What task force?
So it is fair to say that there was significant argument specifically over the budget.
Okay.
I want to make sure we are clear because there is no discussion about the budget but that
task force was unsuccessful in large part because it was a back and forth over whose budget
was correct.
It is not fair to say that the budget wasn't provided.
It is fair to say that there was not a mutual agreement on the budget.
I am not looking for the proposed budget.
What we are going to do, I am looking for the audited budget report.
What have we spent the money on?
That is what I want to see.
I don't really care.
We can put together any sort of numbers moving forward but I need to know what we have actually
used to date.
It is not that hard.
It is all in Skyward.
All the records from everything that is done here is in Skyward.
Davis, tonight what is happening is we are discussing the continued operations.
Can you clarify exactly what the sport needs to do tonight?
Do we need to give direction to the foundation?
Do we need to give direction to the administration?
What is it exactly that we need to clarify in this meeting tonight?
I think the board needs to clarify whether it intends to continue to operate the pool.
And how so?
Because there are these conversations that are coming up such as the one with the why recently about
how the why is going to communicate.
Who is going to be the point of contact?
Most recently without board involvement there was a discussion of basically letting the
why know we are unsure how we are going to continue to pay invoices coming in.
Because those funds we can debate whether there is allowance to use fund 10 to pull for maintenance.
We can debate whether there is allowance to use fund 10 or fund 46 to do massive renovations.
But the payment of the YMCA's invoices I think we can all agree are properly paid out of fund 80.
I haven't heard any argument about that from the board.
At a minimum it needs to be figured out how the YMCA will be paid.
So I agree that I don't want this to go another three weeks of discussion.
I don't think administration wants that either.
I think administration needs guidance as to how it is going to move forward with the pool.
What's the monthly YMCA cost approximately?
Brian can you answer that please sir?
So beginning in October is whenever we begin to pay you on a monthly basis.
Can you come to the microphone please?
Thank you sir.
So our contract or agreement was set up that we have three installment payments.
So we cover the costs July, August, September.
Then we bill you.
That's when you need to have the funds.
When our books end we get them in the middle of the month.
We would bill you sometime in the end of October.
And we have it set up then it's I think it's a four month and then a five month.
So it meets up with your operating budget fiscal year also on that.
So that's the way it's been designed.
We were asked to a few weeks back to bill on a monthly basis now.
Which we hadn't been but so we just put that together on a monthly basis.
The month of July was a little over $32,000 for operations.
That's what is owed to you currently.
That's what would be owed for the month of July.
Just for the YMCA.
Just the YMCA.
Correct.
Question.
So can I ask him a question?
Wait just one second.
Jean I want to make sure that you're finished with Brian before.
Yes sir.
Okay.
So is that a pretty average so we need about $96,000?
To get us through July, August, September, due in October?
Probably probably even a hundred.
It may be less.
We have more hours in the summer than we do in the fall.
Okay.
But based off of what took place in July with all the months with more operations is probably a little bit more.
Okay.
I would say I'm guessing 20 high twenties to low thirties.
And again.
Although we will need to be paid.
We don't have to be paid until October.
Right.
Can we ask the foundation a question?
Tom cost.
Tom is the chair.
Or the chair.
Can I ask him a question?
Yes.
If that's the rough number that we need to satisfy the why is that something that the foundation is prepared to support until we can get someone from DPI in front of us to go through this so we can put this to done.
Right now we're kind of on board with you and Mike.
We've seen nothing when you apply for a grant when we apply for a grant.
I'm sorry.
That was me.
We have to provide detailed budget numbers.
Where was the money spent?
Where will it be spent and what do we need?
When we see those numbers.
Yes.
We have donors.
We have money.
But it could be that the request to fill on a monthly basis to make all this do when the fund 80 money comes in later in the year would be to get us in a room.
We do get us in a real budget bind instead of our normal bill and get paid in October.
So this tightness that Davis is telling you about is new this year with upcoming next three months because they wouldn't have been paid in a typical year.
They're being asked to be paid this July, August, September.
For the first transparency purposes to ensure that we can see the amounts because that's been a focal point of this discussion of the cost.
So I think that's fair to also add for transparency purposes.
I appreciate your feedback, Brian.
It's very helpful and breaking it down as to the current or the monthly.
So thank you for that.
Yeah, I agree.
That was good to break it down.
It's just that the contract didn't need to be changed to have it all do now.
It can be paid in October.
Fund 80 money typically comes in toward the end of the year.
This budget would look a lot different, but none of us, I have not seen it.
You have not seen it, so we really can't address it.
Okay.
But yes, the money to answer your question.
Yes.
Sorry.
Get my hands off of that.
There is also something to be said for, you know, a completely business in good faith and not entering contracts, and you don't have the money to pay.
So that's also something to get their work through October, knowing that we don't have any dollars to give them.
So why did the contract change if they were going to be billed that way as the agreement that was signed in June.
I don't think the contract changed.
I think there was this act asked to be just broken down for transparency and so that we could see the money bill.
That is correct.
The contract was not changed.
Since we're talking about the contract, why hasn't some of the district's obligations been met in the contract that was signed in June?
Such as what?
The maintenance pieces because there isn't a fund 80 position.
And there isn't a fund 80 funded maintenance person.
Or there is not a split job description.
Dedicating a maintenance person partially to the pool.
It's my understanding that doesn't have to be.
That's a clerical thing that happens in the office.
If you want to build something to fund 46 fund 80 fund 10.
That happens there.
It doesn't necessarily need a separate contract and all of these other things.
You might find it interesting to refer to the handout that was provided by your finance director.
I don't know how many meetings ago with a list of fund 80 expenses.
Because social expenses for community events.
Part of a salary for scheduling non district events.
Some custodial costs like they're in here.
So there's something that you could explore and look into further.
But it appears that that is reasonable, realistic, expense attached to fund 80.
Sharing it because this is not the only table saying that a personnel issue or not a personnel position with dollars attached from fund 80.
Other district are doing it.
And I think that was something that the subcommittee was going to.
One of the things that we were going to start addressing the meetings was the funding of the position.
Yeah, I would like to comment to the next.
I do think what you did say Angie is.
That is somewhat how I interpreted that to is that the whole point of that committee when I remember talking about it back in June.
Is that this committee was supposed to be the inner person until a fund 80 person was established.
Who would then take over that middle person.
The Y comes to that committee and says, hey, we need to order this.
We need to pay for this.
And then that committee would send it to the board the next.
Whatever it would be for the board to initiate payment of that.
I think that that still.
I just I think that needs to be the vehicle until someone from GPI comes in or until fund 80 is established.
So I mean, if that is something that the foundation is willing to do now that we have it scheduled for tomorrow.
Is the foundation willing Tom to do anything to get us through.
That October bill.
So that we can get on a monthly subcommittee meeting.
And start having regular budgets talked about.
Can I ask for clarification.
Are you when you are asking this of Mr. Coss?
Are you asking only for the portion that is owed to the YMCA because that's only one bill?
Yes, I was asking that.
I was.
And
you had mentioned the other in the subcommittee would be the point of contact with the Y.
The admin team is also going to be in that conversation.
So that nothing is lost in emails or anything like that.
Some of those are not checking out emails on the basis.
We're working for time and stuff.
That way nothing is missed.
My major concern remains with the day to day operation of the pool.
And they really haven't solved that issue as far as I can tell.
And I understand that that's going to happen for right now.
So what they really need is somebody from either our maintenance department or some other pool group that provides pool maintenance that they can contact somebody to help them.
Now they're just having no direction at all.
There's nobody who set foot in that facility in the last two months.
I would like to also just add I am fully hearing what Davis is saying.
I'm hearing what other board members are saying.
I am seeing what everybody's aspects are.
I again just.
I would have loved if there was someone from your guys's meeting last week that maybe a board member could have been to or or that debrief could have been put into paperwork that was brought to us to review something just to give me a little bit more information on that.
I'm hearing everybody on what they're saying, but I just.
So Angie has been a part of those calls before. Correct, Angie.
Yes, I have been part of.
And it was not present when Angie was having that.
So I let Angie report.
What it is she learned from that call with the.
Yeah, and it's just.
It's what we keep saying over and over nothing is changing.
We're not trying to pull the wall in your eyes.
We're not trying to pull it back.
It is what it is.
And I wish that they were in clear of their language on the website.
And I wish that they would come up and get these meetings and I wish that they would provide clarity to not only our school district, but all of those districts in the entire state.
So everybody could be on the same page because like why do you have to do so.
I mean, it's not.
This is public funds and that's why we're in this particular.
I just feel like they need to get their act together on their own.
But they need to come up.
Because I would be just like you.
I'd be like, I want to hear.
I want to ask my questions.
And if I want to be able to wrap my head around it, I don't blame you at all.
I do the same exactly.
And I appreciate that.
And I just want to say my questions and my need to hear things does not mean.
I don't mean it to minimize at all what you guys have put into this.
I understand that you've been dealing with this long before I sat my butt at this table.
I just, but I need before I can make.
I have to feel comfortable with what I'm hearing, what I'm knowing and how I'm understanding it and that I have.
Because I'm no offense.
But what if I have a question that none of you have ever thought to ask this person, this official person?
And I'm not saying that is or isn't true, but what if and I need that for myself to feel like I'm making an informed decision?
Well, I'm saying is that I cannot vote to see the public funds.
And I hope all of us at this table would not give it.
Absolutely.
And we would err on the side of caution if anything else to not do that.
We can wait to get the information.
You know, yes, we need the information.
Let's get them up here.
Let's talk to them.
However, that needs to happen.
But let's, let's not.
Let's not use public funds.
That is not right.
That's, when we go and that's not right, we should not be doing that.
I also think in reference to for action A that we're talking right now, I do think this discussion is necessary in essential.
But I think with possible action, at my opinion, we're putting the card before the horse.
I think tomorrow's subcommittee meeting has to happen before I am comfortable taking any action.
I don't think that's my hearing.
Any proposed action?
No, I'm just saying.
I'm just putting that.
No, I don't disagree with you.
I just, I guess there's.
I'm just putting my opinion.
I'm just going to share that our, our own policy fund 80 states, the community services program is accounted for in fund 80.
And the board may fund the program by a combination of local tax levy and user, user slash rental fees.
Fund 80 expenses shall not be paid from the fund 10 general fund.
I'm sharing that simply in preparation for tomorrow and in all the discussions about interpretations of the law.
That we should also not forget about our own policy.
And we shouldn't forget about Wisconsin statute, which outlines ineligible costs for fund 80.
Costs that are not the actual additional cost to operate the community programs and services.
Those are ineligible costs to be charged to fund 80.
Costs that would be incurred by the school district that the community programs and services were not provided.
Those are also ineligible costs to be charged to fund 80.
And I would add, Jean from Wisconsin statute.
120.13 sub 19.
It says costs associated with programs and services shall not be included in the school district shared costs.
Under section 121.07 sub six, which is the general fund.
Fun 10.
Agreed. Can you say that last part?
And the last, the last stop.
Costs associated with such programs and services, i.e. a community program or service.
Shall not be included in the school district shared costs.
Under Wisconsin statute 121.07 sub six.
I, I understand people have a different opinion clearly.
I have an ethical duty to this institution.
To advise.
And to keep the district out of legal form.
This is what I'm attempting to do.
I'm not trying to mislead anybody.
I'm not trying to lead someone to a decision because that's the decision I like.
I can't do that.
What I'm saying to you all is it does not matter what program or service you implement.
Today.
You could make a motion tonight to change the entire community service program.
And tomorrow your issue will remain the same.
You have no money.
Not in any real sense.
That is the issue that needs to be addressed tonight.
And has been the issue that needs to be addressed since March.
I think we need to move this to tomorrow's subcommittee to discuss that.
It is my understanding that fund 80 kin fluctuate into the negative moving forward as long as at the end of the next end of the school year coming up here next year that it is in the positive.
And I think we just we need to have some more conversations and see what we can do to figure this out.
Sir any objections to moving this to the subcommittee for further discussion tomorrow evening for Angie and Mike and Jean to discuss and bring a recommendation back to buildings and grounds.
I know we're not answering the question tonight as to what.
The direction that we need to give to the administration.
Yes, you may.
So what that I feel like we're going to be looking at.
So the foundation knows.
Time cost.
Notice that we will be looking to the foundation for some funding.
Help.
Keep us afloat.
Right.
And then also we will be looking at DPI to get in touch with them to get them up here to speak to the full board.
Not just a couple of us, but I'm just a subcommittee.
I feel like they need to speak to the full board to get everybody's questions answered.
And hopefully we can get them up here sooner than later.
So we can actually make some decisions and put this.
You know, all of our questions to rest on that.
Wait, is there a potential to give a timeframe for this?
But when we get DPI here, I understand we can't help.
Okay, because I mean, let's.
I have never once not supported the aquatic center.
What I have not supported is the inaction of us collectively to create a fiscally responsible sustainable plan.
And the fact that this is my stack of papers for the aquatic center since March.
And my stack of papers for academic achievement is this big.
The fact that we have this agenda item come on committee after committee and month after month with the same outcomes.
Nothing.
We still don't have money.
We still don't know how we're going to fund it.
We're still having the same conversations.
I don't know what we so now we are in agreement, bring DPI in.
When I had checked on this in the past, that could take quite some time before we get DPI in.
So perhaps tomorrow night.
The subcommittee may want to consider how much fun $10.
They would be willing to allocate.
So fun, 10 educational dollars with what the account is to allocate to pay expenses.
Should it be needed?
I'm hearing the request for donations right now, though.
We don't have money.
So what's the amount?
The subcommittee is comfortable bringing to the finance committee to recommend.
X amount of educational dollars be set aside because how long do we wait for DPI?
How long do we have the same discussion and say you're wrong, you're wrong.
I don't believe you.
Like how long are we going to do that for?
Because I don't think that's fair to the swim club.
I don't think that's fair to the YNC.
I don't think that's fair to any single one of us.
I'm kind of an event right now.
But we aren't giving ourselves a timetable.
We're saying we're going to push it off.
So tomorrow night, we're not going to have DPI here.
So we're going to push it off until next month and hope that we get DPI here.
And then we're going to push it off.
How long are we going to do that?
I guess this is my immediate question before we move on.
We want to have a timeframe of the amount of potential debt we want to collect.
To have to expense out of Fund 10 should the DPI representatives, the two district auditors,
our attorney and district administration who all sat in a meeting last week with DPI,
stand to be correct.
So a dollar amount for tomorrow night.
And then does this board want to collectively agree to a timeframe that we'd like DPI to get in or we make a decision?
Unfortunately, I don't think we control DPI's timeframe.
And that's an essential part for, I don't disagree with you.
As is to me anyway, the accounting of past expenses.
I mean, I would really much like to see where all projected, how the projected $73,000 turned into $152,000.
I need to see where that is.
I entirely get that.
But I don't feel like I can tell we at least talk to DPI.
I am not comfortable setting a timeframe.
I mean, to see what their timeframe is.
It's good waiting like six months for DPI to come in and knowing.
I would like to at least make that call the DPI and see what their response to our request is.
And then I would be more comfortable considering a timeframe.
Fair enough.
Jill, just to correct one thing you said.
You indicated that if there's a continuing deficit.
And.
Fund 80 is depleted how that would be paid for you.
We'd use one 10 money.
So what you would have to do in such a situation is you would actually have to continue to let.
Even if your program is one.
Okay.
So let's say you have $100,000 in deficit and your clothes, whatever program you're operating.
You then need to levy $100,000.
So if we're in a deficit for this and what the administration and you yourself as our attorney are telling us is correct.
Then the taxpayers would need to pay back the debt through the local tax levy.
Correct.
Correct.
Correct.
Or through the generosity of the community that has chimed in again and again.
Yeah.
Correct.
Or any other revenues that are slated to come in.
I'm glad you're corrected.
Yes.
Thank you for that correction because I was going to let you know that that is not going to be put on the finance committee to then misappropriate fund 10 funds to continue 80s deficit.
So I'm just glad that Davis corrected you on that because I was going to object to your statement of that going to the finance committee.
Well, I mean, it would have to be paid, right?
Yeah.
It was my point.
At the end of the day, there's outstanding bills because we don't have money has to be paid.
So I'm glad we collectively have that answer.
I hope we don't have to go to taxpayers to ask for money because we didn't pay bills.
Absolutely.
I agree.
I'm sorry, Carol.
I can't entertain any questions from the audience.
I hear everybody talking.
I hear going to get in there.
What they say.
I'm going to go back to.
I've not been part of any of the DPI discussions in the rooms on the phone calls.
I trust my administrative team that they're going to be asking all those hard questions and they're going to be bringing all those answers to us.
I personally do not need DPI to sit in front of me and ask any questions to because we have an administrative team that we have put in place.
That we have, they've proven their success over many years of student achievement.
And Jill, I have to agree with you.
Student achievement is not even been discussed tonight as much as we're discussing a pool.
Is the pool important?
Yes.
But what's more important than a pool is student achievement.
I believe that we can move forward on something.
I just don't know what that something is tonight.
Is it stopping all activity at the pool until this is resolved?
I don't know.
That was discussed at one point.
That is an option on the table is to lock the door at the pool and close it up until a decision is made.
I don't know if that's the right decision or the wrong decision.
However, for me, I don't need DPI to sit here and answer any of my questions.
My questions can be answered with the lady setting to my left and those administrators that are sitting around that table.
Because that's what we pay them for is to lead us and direct us.
That's what we pay Davis our attorney for is to lead and give advice to us.
And the attorney has said over and over and over the school cannot pay for the pool.
Fund 10, fund 46 cannot pay for the for the pool.
It has to rely upon fund 80.
We don't know what the board is going to vote in October for fund 80.
We're assuming and we all know what that means.
We are assuming that we're going to continue fund 80.
But we may not continue fund 80.
It just depends on what happens at the budget hearing coming up this fall.
So I think kicking the can down the road more and more like Jill has mentioned is doing a disservice to our administration.
They're still in a quandary.
Jake doesn't know what to do.
He doesn't want to let the building deteriorate any more than what it is.
Because yes, Mike, it is a school building.
It belongs to us.
But we are limited in what we can do.
Per.
DPI and many times I don't know how many times DPI has met with our admin team and our attorney.
And we're hearing the same thing from DPI every time that they have a meeting.
To our administration team.
So kicking the can further down the road.
I think it's not doing a justice to.
It's an injustice to our administrative team.
I think the decision can be made can be reached tonight as to what we need to do.
At one point I heard Tom cost say that there was two million dollars that he has for in the foundation.
Where's it at?
Because we said in the very beginning when this came out in March that if the money is not available for fund 80.
Then the foundation was to have to pay for whatever dollars was left over.
All right.
So there's no money in fund 80.
So the foundation.
Or lack of a better word the foundation needs to pony up or we just cease.
The operation of the pool.
I can tell you I've had many business leaders who begged me not to say their name in this community that have approached me over the last few weeks and said close it up.
Repurpose that building for something else for the school.
That's business leaders and I asked them can I say your name no do not do that because of fear of retaliation.
And that's a shame that there's that in our community.
But there is.
And we've created that not we but people have created that in our community.
Thank you social media.
Where do we go from here?
I don't know.
I've heard what Kristen said in the very beginning was do we make a motion to receive the remainder of the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars that the administrative team asked for in the beginning.
Because apparently our admin team went through the work to see that we needed the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars plus that seventy five thousand that brought the budget up to zero.
Then the two hundred and fifty was going to carry the pool until fund eighty money potentially was coming in.
And then that two hundred and fifty thousand dollars was reduced to a hundred thousand.
So do we make a motion tonight to give the foundation one week two weeks to pay the hundred and fifty thousand dollars that should have been paid back in June whenever the admin team brought that recommendation to the board.
I mean I heard you say that in the very beginning.
Is that where we are?
I think I think that's where we are.
We need we can operate.
I mean we owe electric bill.
How much is the electric bill a month?
I know you don't like giving numbers because everybody holds you to those numbers exactly.
Seven thousand dollars a month.
Has the electric bill been paid for June?
The electric bill is unpaid in June.
June is paid.
July has not been paid.
Here we are in August.
So we owe WPS our district seven thousand plus dollars for an electric bill.
How does that look for our school district?
So I would like to make the make a motion.
We can we can talk about a date a length.
You know just like we did with with the resolution.
The motion that the foundation comes up with a hundred and fifty thousand dollars by a certain date that we decide or the pool gets closed.
I don't know.
Kristen you want to I want to piggyback on what you were saying but I think that's where we are.
I don't disagree.
When we talked about changing the number with the resolution it was because we were going to buy the foundation time.
The whole discussion was that that's not enough time for them to come up with that amount of money.
So they've known what the amount of money has been now since June and so I don't think it is.
Out of line to ask for that additional hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
We've been asking for money since March.
Not just from the foundation from the community, the county, the city.
Everyone has known that we've needed this money.
So I don't think it's out of line to ask for an additional hundred and fifty thousand dollars by August 24th to keep the pool open and functioning.
Would you like to form that into a motion.
I'd like to make a motion.
To be a hundred and fifty and all that can't do that.
To receive a hundred and fifty thousand dollars by August 24th twenty twenty six or cease operations of the Clara McKenna Aquatic Center.
That August twenty four.
I'll just twenty four.
require fund eighty balance to receive.
Fun eighty to receive a hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Or.
Or cease operations of the Clara McKenna Aquatic Center.
That would fulfill the initial amount asked for.
Davis, did you hear that motion?
I did.
Is that motion, motion sufficient to cover.
Our administrative team.
In terms of a direction for tonight, I believe so. Yes.
Okay, so the motion on the floor is fund eighty to receive one hundred and fifty thousand dollars by August the twenty four twenty twenty six or cease operations of the Clara are McKenna Aquatic Center.
Kristen, was that your motion.
Would you like to speak more to your motion.
Are there any questions to the motion that's on the floor remind reminding the members of the board that you must speak to the motion on the floor.
And that is to receive one hundred and fifty thousand dollars by August twenty four twenty twenty six or cease operations of the Clara are McKenna Aquatic Center.
Any questions or discussion.
I have some discussion. I guess I don't understand why you insist on making these last minute requests that they come up with this money.
Why didn't you make this request two months ago.
This request was made two months ago whenever we met and you made the motion to reduce from two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to one hundred thousand dollars which the board then voted in the hundred thousand dollars.
Which now we are at the passing point where there's a deficit where we need to pay the bills.
Would you let me finish Danny.
Would you let me finish.
No, not yet.
Apparently our admin team has gone through the numbers and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars would be sufficient to cover the bills up until the fund eighty if this board votes for fund eighty at the budget hearing meeting in October two hundred fifty thousand dollars would cover that.
Now you can finish.
You've known about this and you could have had discussions with the foundation over the last several months but you have not chosen to do that even though that was one of the recommendation that Mr.
Rundi made back on July 20th but no one from the board or the administration has approached the foundation.
Now you're asking them once again to come up with a very large amount of cash at a very short period of time.
That's not very business like in my opinion.
It's been my understanding that this has been a partnership with the foundation.
The foundation has had a representative at minimum one representative please and the audience listen and tell me if I'm wrong on this because the way I've understood things to be is the dedication to show up to committee and board meetings since March.
Religiously and listen and hear and know the deficit and the goals the same we're relying on them as much as they're relying on us right.
So I guess if the board needs to clarify that we can it's as one board member my interpretation and impression is the foundation is aware in seeing a prize of the financial situation of what we're needing.
We may have different ideas on numbers but nonetheless like that money comes to them.
They would donate it to us we the foundation does not need us to come directly and ask do you have the money today would you be willing to donate it correct like if you.
So what is the foundation need from us I guess.
Let me put it this way we wouldn't be able to know when the foundation if or when the foundation.
Receives X amount of dollars no different than we would be able to know about a hospital foundation having X amount of dollars being willing to give.
I'm anticipating the foundation would come to us to share that they have a donation that they would like to pursue and that would start the formal process.
Correct.
So to say we aren't going forward I think the subcommittee would also be the vehicle for that kind of communication.
So now that we have that in place I think it's going to be a little bit more clear.
Can we ask Tom if tomorrow at the meet subcommittee meeting the foundation was asked for this money how long would he need to if they approve it how long would he need to get it to the school district.
Is that a reasonable question for him.
Well I think we'd almost need to know now I mean if this motion's on the floor.
If he was asked tomorrow how long would he need if he was officially asked tomorrow at the meeting.
How long would he need to provide it.
The only thing with that goal is that they have to meet.
I realize that we haven't been the formal class.
Right.
But the thing that the money will ask me.
Absolutely.
But there's still a process that they have to go through.
I get the process but they know if they can do it or not.
We know that they are aware.
I just want to know time wise for the seven day window is that enough time to hit everyone that they have to hit and write a check.
But I don't know what their process is.
I think you can go back to your motion Kristen and speak on it.
The number and Danny that this was discussed.
The number was identified based on the recommendation from when.
From June.
So it's not a surprise amount.
No.
Is what I think we're saying.
And I have no problem whatsoever with asking for that amount.
I just don't know if I don't know the foundation well enough to know if it's a realistic time frame.
Well I would like to speak.
I think I agree with that.
That that figure has been in place.
But I also think we have to recognize our fault in the sense that that committee should have met in July.
We should have met in July and we didn't.
That the whole bringing up of that committee in June when I brought it up was that it was going to be an immediate solution until fund 80 was established.
That did not happen until.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Committee level meetings last week to now have the subcommittee meeting tomorrow.
So we are just as I just I'm trying to be super fair in the sense that we also have not.
If they know that dollar amount but then we haven't come through on our obligation of having this subcommittee in July.
Tomorrow is literally the sentence we could have had it.
No I know.
It's been announced and had to have been appointed by an executive board which was tonight.
Right but we talked about this in June and we all talked about how urgent it was to have this committee start meeting immediately to discuss the financial what we needed going forward on a monthly basis and it never got talked about July.
It was passed to create the committee but then the committee members had to be appointed.
I know.
I wish things didn't take as long as they do but they do.
It's a process.
I know.
Yeah I mean I'm just trying to be super I'm given trying to give the board credit for that okay guess those numbers were out there.
But I also have to give the foundation credit that I know it's where a month behind.
I move to amend the motion.
Okay Jean can you state your amendment to the motion.
Yeah I would make two changes.
I would change the August 24 date to August 31.
And I would change the last bit where it said something like cease operations of the pool.
I would change that to cease operations of the community.
Services part of the pool.
Okay let me drop that down.
Okay so I want to state your amendment correctly.
Fund 80 is to receive $150,000 by August 31, 2026 or cease operations of the community services portion of the pool.
Is that what you want your amendment to say.
Yes please.
Would you like to speak to your amendment.
Sure so I'm just giving one more week because I am a little concerned about that time turnaround.
And I changed the closing of the entire pool to the community services part since this is a particular fund 80 challenge that we're facing.
And I'm just hopeful that if it does end up turning out that way that we'd still be able to have the swim team and our kids in the students school.
Okay any discussion of the amendment to the motion that's on the floor.
All right I was saying that yes that would be functional because you would just turn it into a fun 10 expense.
And so there would be no community portion so you wouldn't be out open during business hours.
It would be there for five classes in the swim team.
The school swim team.
Yeah so like the high school team.
So no physical therapy.
Correct.
Birthday parties physical therapy.
All of that would have to.
The budget component that would come next.
That would be educational dollars.
Jill I was just thinking about that in my mind if that gets converted to a fun 10 building then we have to look at.
Lay offs.
Correct.
In the district.
And when we looked at that option it was we would be laying off I think it was 10 or 11 teachers.
And basically would be all of our electives.
Every single elected.
And that's not fair to our community.
It's not fair to our families.
It's not fair to our families.
It's not fair to our students.
Yeah.
Kristen.
I agree but we also have to keep it a functional building.
You can't just do nothing with it and then it crumbles and then you're not.
You at least have to take care of it enough to sell it or modify it into something usable.
You can't just walk the door and turn off the light.
I guess I have a question about why we would have to lay off and fund teachers.
Randy that would have to be a discussion that does not support the amendment to the motion.
That would be a discussion when we're talking budget at a later time.
Does that make sense?
Thank you.
Keeping our questions to the amendment to the motion.
Our discussion.
I just can say I appreciate the amendment.
I don't know where I'm voting in this yet simply because I don't think the board and district is in a position to fund a pool for fun.
But it's a very creative solution.
And also option and also going to Kristen's point keeps the building functionable too.
So being responsible with the building component of it.
I don't think we are currently in a position to fund a pool.
I don't think that's been in any.
Danny I'm going to look at you finance committee discussions.
That has not been a discussion at the finance committee.
I don't know what state we are in financially to support that.
I haven't seen anything like that.
Which is fair that again creative.
So I respect that entirely.
I did not anticipate that that has been a discussion point.
I just wanted to make sure.
I want to say I appreciate the.
But I can't I'm going to vote no because I I can't support it going towards a fun time because I I'm for us having electives and not putting the staff like that.
My daughter just graduated and we already have a very slim picking of electives and I can't imagine our students not having.
I would have to be a budget discussion as the chair just said.
Yeah.
I'm going to vote no because of that.
Any other discussion of the amendment on the floor and the amendment is to receive $150,000 by August 31, 2026.
Or cease operations of the community services portion of the pool.
Nathan, are we ready for a vote on the amendment?
Okay.
Your voting advice is the vote is now open.
Brandy, you want to try one more time, please?
Would anyone like to change their vote?
And the vote is now closed.
We have six in favor of the amendment and three opposed to the amendment.
The amendment passes.
Now the amendment becomes the main motion.
The motion on the floor is to receive $150,000 by August 31, 2026 or cease operations of the community services portion of the pool.
Any further discussion of the motion that's on the floor?
Does everybody understand the motion that you're voting for on the floor?
I'm just going to be very transparent to say I'm voting against this motion simply because of the whole premise of the six months discussion and the Clara American Aquatic Center is that it is a community asset.
Therefore, I'm voting against it simply because the community, that's the asset.
So it would drop the community component and become 110.
So I just want to make sure that I'm sharing my feedback to my reason for my vote.
Danny, can you repeat what we're voting on right now?
The motion that you will be voting on is fund 80 to receive $150,000 by August 31, 2026 or cease operations of the community services portion of the pool.
Any other discussion or questions?
If this, if this by chance fails, we can make another motion regarding us and then have that same case.
Or if this motion, you can make another amendment.
Yes.
But if this motion fails, we move to item B.
Once again, you are voting for fund 80 to receive $150,000 by August 31, 2026 or cease operations of the community service portions of the pool.
You can.
Absolutely.
You can, you can amend this.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I'll make the amendment to the motion for $150,000 to be received by August 31, 2026 or the pool.
Or cease operations.
Okay.
So we have a second and final amendment on the floor fund 80 to receive $150,000 by August 31, 2026 or cease operations of the Clara are McKenna aquatic center. Is that your amendment?
Correct.
Would you like to speak to your amendment?
I just want to say I have confidence that the foundation is going to come through with this.
It's a pretty tough thing.
Was that gave the knowing that they're going to come through?
Is it too ready to talk about something like that?
Any other questions or discussion?
If this passes then and if the money is not received, the aquatic center would be the operations are ceased entirely, not just the community portion entirely entirely entirely.
Now, if this passes, we have to vote a second time on that motion because then it becomes the main motion.
What you're voting on right now is the second and final amendment to this motion on the floor.
And I will read it again, fund 80 to receive $150,000 by August 31, 2026 or cease operations of the Clara are McKenna aquatic center.
Okay, Nathan, are you ready?
The voting device is now open.
I'm going to try it one more time.
Would anyone like to change their vote?
The vote is now closed.
We have four in favor of the amendment and five opposed the amendment.
The amendment fails.
So we go back to the main motion on the floor, which is fund 80 to receive $150,000 by August 31, 2026 or cease operations of the community services portion of the pool.
That is now the main motion that you are voting on.
Let me read that one more time.
Fund 80 to receive $150,000 by August 31, 2026 or cease operations of the community services portions of the pool.
Any other questions or discussion?
Hearing no questions or discussion, Nathan, are you ready?
The vote is now open.
Would anyone like to change their vote?
The vote is now closed.
And the motion carries with five in favor and four against.
Fiona, I'll come to you afterwards and we'll make sure we have the notes correct.
Okay.
And you have your notes.
Let it be consideration to approve the athletic trainer agreement.
I will be looking for a motion.
I move to approve the agreement between the Langley Hospital.
St. Joseph Vanigal in the Unified School District to Vanigal for Athletic Training Services.
Motion has been made by Mike.
Mike, would you like to speak to your motion?
No.
Any discussion or questions of the motion on the floor?
I just think it's remarkable that these services are provided at no cost to the district.
So I'm very thankful for that.
Dionne, I'll let the record reflect that Randy member stepped away from the table.
Any other questions or comments of the motion on the floor?
All right.
Your voting advice is now open.
Would anyone like to change their vote?
The vote is now closed.
And the motion carries with seven in favor, one abstaining, and the motion carries.
Let us see consideration to approve the seclusion and restraint report.
I will be looking for a motion.
I move to approve the seclusion and restraint report as presented for the 25-26 school year.
Motion has been made by Kristin.
Would you like to speak to your motion?
This is an annual report we do every year and our numbers continue to move in the right
direction.
Any other questions or comments of the motion on the floor?
I have a question.
I mean, obviously, I'd like to think that the declines are because of improved behavior
in the classroom.
But I'm wondering if there's other possibilities like have there been changes in, you know,
guidance as for when teachers or staff should be using these methods or anything like that?
Sure.
I think that's a fair question.
One of the things that we've really focused on the last couple of years is making sure
that we're implementing student study teams, which involve the families, staff.
And then we check in routinely to make sure that the strategies being put in place to
support the students are working or if it needs to change.
Thank you.
Any other questions or discussion of the motion on the floor?
Okay.
Your devoting devices now open.
Would anyone like to change their vote?
The vote is now closed.
And the motion carries.
The consideration to approve the 2627 academic standards.
I will be looking for a motion, please.
I move to approve the academic standards for the 2026-2027 school year.
Motion has been made by Danny.
Would you like to speak to your motion?
No, thank you.
Are there any questions or discussion of the motion on the floor?
This was brought to committee.
Given everything that we do is centered around standards.
I would like to give the system an opportunity to share some highlights.
I really would prefer to have a director share feedback so we can dedicate some prioritize
time to the standards of the work of what we are doing with our students.
While Mrs. Sestry was coming, the record reflect 902 member Randy came back to the table.
So under Wisconsin law statutes on there, it's 118.30.
Local school boards must annually adopt academic standards in math, science, ELA, social studies
and financial literacy.
Our financial literacy is roped into our social studies standards.
We're looking at pulling those out now that personal finance is separate than economics.
Usually you could do either or.
We've elected in an a couple years ago to do personal finance instead of doing the economics route.
For graduation based on that statute.
So we're still working on that and we're looking to the personal finance like specific standards.
We work a lot with standards, especially with our middle school and high school around
solution tree.
What we do is we dive deep into not only the amount of rigor or the depth of knowledge
that our students need to attain assessments, but also be able to be lifelong citizens and
be able to understand what's happening after they get out of high school, whether they're
college bound or career ready.
We break down those standards to see the depth of knowledge, but also at what progression
of those standards we need.
So starting from 4K that teachers really understand the progression of standards and the mastery
of those standards in each grade level to make sure we know exactly what is the emphasis.
Because when you look through the standards, it's pages and pages and pages.
So what we really want to make sure is we know our priority standards.
So when I get out of 4K even, what is an absolutely essential standard that will affect how well
they're kindergarten.
There's many other standards that are important and great, but we have really prioritized those
essential standards and the teachers have worked really hard to make sure that they are well
equipped to not only know them and unpack them themselves, but able to express that to students.
We use those in our learning targets, so our students always know what they're working on
in the classroom.
You'll see the learning targets on the board so that it's not just adults and we know the
most important is that our students know what they're learning and the why behind it.
We work really hard at that in every grade.
When I get out of 3rd grade, I should know my multiplication skills because when I get into 4th grade,
one of my essential standards is math is fractions.
And I'm going to need to use those within my fraction work.
Then it's going to be really important in 5th grade through the progression of math to make sure
I understand my fractions, my unit fractions, because I'm going to start getting into multiplication
of fractions or using them within equations.
So we really understand that progression and then we can also identify if a student has a
deficit, they're missing a standard or skill gaps, we can go back and specifically
focus upon that skill, intervene on that skill, and that's where some of our interventions come in
so that student doesn't get left behind on that standard.
So we've worked really hard in the past couple of years.
It's very hard work.
I mean, it looks easy and kind of sounds easy, but when you dive into it as a team and they use that in their
PLTs or PLCs, those professional learning communities, to really make sure that we're online.
And it also helps our community to get an equitable education because it's not just the luck of the
draw of which teacher I get, right?
Oh, you were lucky enough to have this so-and-so or Mr. so-and-so.
Every teacher in fourth grade is hitting the same standards, making sure we're teaching to the level of
rigor so that fifth grade is equitable for our students.
It's not the luck of the draw of the teacher anymore.
All of our teachers are teaching to that high level of standards and we can really modify and assess those
standards and make sure we're providing that to our families and our community so that they know what their
students are learning and what they can help with at home if they see the need to rise.
Does anyone have questions for Ms. Dustry?
Of course I have a question.
Yes, ma'am.
It looks like all of the standards you recommend are from DPI with one exception, the science.
I asked Glenda this and she basically told me, but I'm just checking with the professional here at Glenda.
She told me that the next generation thing was actually like a higher standard than the DPI one.
Yeah, it's based on the framework for national standards around science so when you look at the DPI model,
there's a lot of similarities but with the DPI model for science standards,
it's a lot of knowing the information and with the NGSS standards, it's a lot of applying the information,
which is at that higher level.
So it's not just being able to regurgitate science facts, but I can apply it and critically think.
So it's kind of doing both.
And modifying, I have a handle that I'm just going to hand to Mr. Brieza.
If you have some questions around the next gen science standards, this was approved by the board
prior to me becoming the curriculum director.
I would have done the same, honestly, so kudos to that curriculum director.
But it just, it provides that strong framework for science instruction.
It remains closely aligned and it provides that coherence of professional of standards.
That DPI, if you look at the standards, they're very broad.
They can be between six and eighth grade and then you're trying to figure out what do we teach in sixth grade?
What do we teach in eighth grade?
This has it more aligned so that we are matching kind of those national frameworks.
For science and that it's meeting or exceeding most of the Wisconsin expectations in the major areas of science.
And the only other part is that we also supplement those different science like wildlife.
There's some other pieces that we put in because we know that it doesn't align.
We want to make sure we're hitting all those Wisconsin standards as well.
So wildlife engineering, some other ones that we actually, intentionally, we have a wildlife class at our high school.
We infuse some of those pieces in.
So to answer your question in the long, in a long sentence, it is the same except that it takes it to a higher level and it encompasses that critical thinking and that application,
which we see on the pre-ACT, ACT.
That's more on the forward assessment.
It's no longer just I can regurgitate facts, but I can use my critical thinking skills and apply those facts and apply it to different world problem solving.
That's excellent.
Thank you.
Yes, ma'am.
Any other questions from Ms. Sussry?
I don't have a question.
I just would like to say that I really appreciate how detailed you have things and how well you can articulate them because it really showcases how amazing our students are and how great of a job you're doing as a curriculum instruction director.
So I just want to let you know that.
Thank you.
It's definitely the team.
I mean, I will say it's, you know, I can say a lot of things and then teachers could say like, oh neat and then continue on.
So they are the ones that put in the hard work of the standards.
I get to just be like the cheerleader on the side and be watching the success of our students and our families.
So I get to be that cheerleader who helps and like throws in certain things here and there, but the work goes to our teachers who do the hard work with the standards.
They're in a memory day and they're putting their learning targets up.
So without them, I mean, I would just be talking a lot.
We do utilize solution tree for this standard work as well, which is something to point out because it's a large purchase.
There are a lot of restrictions of what that money can be used for.
So it's being used intentionally and showing.
Oh, yeah.
And solution tree is coming both to the middle school and high school during our PD days.
So we start out the year with that.
And our PLTs and PLCs are already in the process of being scheduled for PD days and aligning what standard work we're doing.
From all content areas, I just had a conversation with our fabulous Phi Ed teacher from the middle school.
And he's like, okay, so these standards we're going to be working on and how do we get that our 4K through 12th grade, making sure our Phi Ed standards align.
So it's not just like core classes, it's every content area in the district.
Do you have the questions or discussion?
Thank you, Ms. Let's read it.
Okay.
Your voting device is open.
Would anyone like to change their vote?
The vote is now closed.
And the motion carries.
Okay, letter E is discussion and possible action on the future of north and west elementary.
I will be looking for a motion.
I move.
I move to approve the discussion of possible action.
Okay, you have a motion in front of you.
Angie, would you like to speak to your motion?
At the committee level, we talked about the defer to Jean further on this, but we discussed.
We have potential parties interested in purchasing at least one of the buildings already.
However, we're going to probably be looking at selling.
For sure, selling north first and potentially selling west as well.
But not right away because of the school district and stuff like that.
Just so the community knows, we'll be selling them.
Not looking to sell them for a dollar, I would hope that the board is not going to be doing anything like that.
So the committee is recommending that the district considers selling the sale of north elementary.
Yeah, fair market value.
And west would linger right now with the potential.
Yeah.
Due to the need for the stadium facilities or the field.
I don't know that there's much for stadium.
Yes.
And there was a field.
There was discussion that was had regarding that we would not want to just look at local fires as well to also put this out further.
Question.
What about east?
East Elementary.
Oh, is that when I'm taking care of?
Oh, yes, sir.
Well, you answered my question.
Kristin.
I would like to entertain a substitute motion.
I believe is what I'd like to do.
Yeah, I'd like to hear that substitute motion because the motion that's in front of us is a little bit vague.
I would like to defer this discussion to the board retreat.
Nothing.
Speak to my motion.
Is that a good enough motion?
Yes, the motion is to actually.
The replacement motion.
Yeah.
You're actually wanting to refer this to the.
To the board retreat, which is to commit or to refer is a substitutionary motion to commit or to refer is debatable.
And all it requires is a majority vote.
So the commit to refer this to the.
Annual board retreat is on the table so we can wrap all of our discussions around that.
And Kristin, I will let you start the discussion of referring this to the annual board retreat.
So reason being is we need a facility plan.
We keep coming with these little pieces like let's talk about East.
Let's talk about North.
Let's talk about West.
Why don't we instead talk about what the future of our district looks like with all of our facilities and pieces of land that we have throughout.
So we can better guide not just this administration, but future administration as well.
So when they walk in the door, they know where we're headed.
I think it's a bigger piece than just this small discussion of North and West.
Okay.
All of our discussion questions will be wrapped around the referring this item to the board retreat.
Any questions or discussion?
I support what Kristin just said.
I happen to be looking on the GIS property, whatever map because I wanted to see what school field stadium looked like and what West looked like.
And I did a global search for the school district and was shocked to see all these little little parcels here and they're scattered about that I was completely unaware of.
Yeah.
I'd like to look.
I'd like to be shocked whenever I learned of all the different parcels several years ago.
Any other questions or discussion of the referring this to the board retreat?
One thought to consider it's not a discussion.
I'm in support of the motion is to also think about with bus elementary that we do have the stands that are there.
So I just feel like that's something that I somewhat lumped together with school field stadium but could potentially be.
Something further relative to you at the building on that property field and then.
The unsafe old stadium.
So that is all.
It's not for discussion tonight, but it's something to keep in mind of.
How the district also wants to handle that.
Absolutely.
The other discussion of the referring this to.
The board retreat.
Hearing no discussion your.
The voting devices now open.
If you're in favor of referring this to the board retreat.
Would anyone like to change their vote?
The voters now closed.
And the motion carries this is now been referred to the board retreat that will be coming up.
Item number F letter F consideration to approve the resolution for adopting the 2026 Langley County all hazards mitigation plan.
I will be looking for a motion please.
Motion has been made by Jill.
Would you like to speak to your motion?
No, thank you.
Any questions or discussion of the motion that's before you.
I have a question that I'm hoping Jake can answer.
I'm just kind of curious.
What if any progress has been made or is planned for actions.
Three, six and eight, which had to do with communication protocols.
Use of buildings for sheltering.
And generators for shelters.
Yeah, so the communications one really is more of a.
We've kind of been ahead of that curve really in trying to unify.
Not only the county, but.
Kind of our district, which extends to multiple counties as well.
Things such as we did a safety grant years ago that provided us the funding to get an updated two way radio system.
That helps with our.
Communication within the building.
It also allows us to have like an emergency channel that we could.
Talk over all radios and all buildings in the different options that go with that.
Additionally, it provided a booster, if you will.
For law enforcement.
Radio communication because our buildings are very dense.
When they come into our buildings, they often.
Would find dead spots where they just couldn't talk.
Obviously an emergency situation.
Having first responders not be able to be guided by the latest information is a huge concern.
So we also made it.
It's a district wide booster system, if you will, that that improves their communication as well.
And then even things other than like infrastructure communication, just like the protocol and the trainings that we've done and the responses that we've done.
For example, like around Alice and the communication from that end.
We've really been ahead of that curve, but obviously.
It's always one thing that.
You know, you think that you.
There's always room for improvement.
And just trying to stay ahead of the technology, the latest trends and threats, whether it's.
You know, we get a lot of what they call fishing or cyber.
Cyber threats or things of that nature trying to sort through that.
The DOJ has been.
Very helpful in being proactive and providing things for that front as well that help us.
Quickly trace track down and either prove them to be false or prove them to be.
Accurate threats that we can handle appropriately on things that nature so it's always ever changing.
So I think you'll see that kind of remark and all plans of this nature that we always want to try and keep up with the times if you will.
Secondly, I think you're one of those about the community shelters.
So the integral high school really has been the main spot for any emergency response when you look at like Red Cross.
We've had them since my time here, I think two or three times set up in our high school.
And provide some sort of a service to the community, whether it was.
You know, during the winter and you have a warming shelter or during the summer and you needed a cooling shelter.
When storms come through, people, you know, didn't have power, didn't have water, didn't have, you know, things like that just to take a simple shower.
We work with emergency response through Langley County emergency management and Red Cross's obviously in communication with them and they get brought in when it reaches a certain level.
But then we open up our high school and we offer services for things like that.
One of the biggest things that's kind of ties into the next step is that we do have a full-size generator that runs the entire high school property.
That's something that was acquired years ago when the hospital did a remodel.
We were able to get that generator originally.
It wasn't designed that way.
So that allowed us to run the entire building.
So our food service, every bit of that building can operate fully on generator.
That's a unique and a big asset to this community.
Furthermore, when you look at the renovations that were, I'll start with John H. Bradley, the design that we did with that, we put in an alternate bid to provide a standard backup generator that you'll see at most schools that just kind of provide
the bare necessities.
I know that world very well being an electrician.
We structured the whole package for that system, that whole switch gear system for an ad alternate to flip over the whole building.
And it came in a little bit higher, but I think it was like 20 or $25,000 difference to be able to run that entire facility versus just a few backup power sources for technology.
It was a very basic system, much like our middle school has right now.
The capabilities of the generator here are very, very basic, similar to what I was describing with the base bid for John H. Bradley.
And again, when we did that design work, we put that ad alternate in there to bring a generator on that would support the entire building.
It's very important, you know, a lot of our families rely on us to be able to keep kids here, especially when there is a hazard out there.
So that's a piece of mind that our families know that when they send their kids here, we have all the resources necessary to keep them safe.
Even if their home experiences a disaster or it's unsafe to go there, we can provide that to all of our kids.
And we can just keep them here, keep them safe until those hazards are resolved.
So being able to provide that, I think, is a huge thing.
And again, I think we're a little bit ahead of the curve, but if you kind of read through the 470 pages, which I appreciate you taking the time to do and have some questions on.
It really covers a big broad spectrum of every facet of the county.
And I think that at least I know I'm very proud that I can say that from resource side, we are kind of ahead of the curve for most associations or districts or other counties and providing those through our school district.
I think we're very fortunate to have those resources.
Excellent. Thank you.
Any other questions of the motion that's on the floor to adopt the Langley County All Hazard Mitigation Plan?
Hearing no questions, the voting device is now open.
Would anyone like to change their vote?
The vote is now closed.
Motion carries with eight members voting in favor and one abstaining.
Letter?
I move to adjourn.
Just kidding.
Letter G, discussion and possible action on the addition.
Yes, discussion and possible action on the addition of football facility to the capital improvement plan. I will be looking for in motion, please.
I move to approve the addition of the football facility to the capital improvement plan effective August of 2026.
Motion has been made by Kristin. Would you like to speak to your motion?
Yes, so the biggest thing is the current status of Scofield Stadium and the fact that we are hosting games soon.
And if something were to go wrong or some unexpected costs, so more of the lights don't work or whatnot, this gives us the opportunity to cover that cost without delaying games or rescheduling or canceling or having our team have a season of no home
games at all. So it gives our administrative team a little bit more wiggle room in case something were to go on this.
Any discussion or questions of the motion is on the floor.
Is this a bigger dollar amount?
So anything, this is just allowing them to use fund 46. If anything over a specific dollar amount still has to come to the board for approval, no matter.
And nothing can be touched through fund 46.
Correct.
And what's the cut off? Do you know, do you remember Kristin? You said over a specific.
I know that's right.
It varies.
It varies. Most often it's 10,000, anything above 10,000.
So the way that this reads, this is not strictly the new.
This is also if something needs to be taken care of at Schofield to get us through in the interim.
Correct. Absolutely.
Thank you.
And I have a question about the plan itself. I have a couple questions about the plan one. If something goes into the plan, what exactly does that mean?
Are we committed to something?
Yeah.
All of this is just an improvement plan.
So no, it just means that if it's on the capital improvement plan, we are able to use fund 46 dollars to make those repairs.
But if it is not listed, no money can be used for that. And so particular to Schofield stadium, we can't use referendum dollars to do any of that.
So when we get through all of our referendum projects, we will once again update the capital improvement plan.
If it's not on there, we would have to use fund $10 at the Schofield stadium or any of the football facilities, not budgeted for and fund 10.
So they have to pull that money from somewhere else.
So how is it if we still have to approve it because it's going to, whatever it is, is likely going to be more than 10,000.
How does this, how does doing this step here help?
It's not required by DPI for any fund 46 expenses.
It has to be in your capital improvement plan.
So this was, I'll go back a little bit, ties directly to the referendum work.
So we talked about the capital, I laugh, I can't say it was straight base.
We had a capital improvement plan that we would add to and we would talk about that we had $0 to address.
So we could have had endless amounts of money.
And the only things we could use endless amounts of money for would be whatever is approved in your strategic plan.
You have no money?
Okay.
Your strategic plan sits unmet, but that's, should you come upon funding?
That's what you could use it for.
You need to have it approved.
That's the only thing that can be allowed through DPI states.
You have to have an approved, board approved strategic plan in fund 46 to use or stare at the list.
So in other words, Gina has to be, so we're approving the general concept of it.
And then the specific items that is needed will come to us for approval later.
Does that make sense?
So like it's more like a big picture right now.
It kind of makes sense, but I'm still like, you know, we could do both motions in the same day, right?
Like if we didn't pass this or do this today and a month from now, we say we want to do it.
We could go, okay, we'll put it on the plan.
Okay.
So approved 20 million or whatever.
So a perfect example would be the scoreboard that needs to be repaired.
That's $5,000.
And we can't use fund 46 because it's not on the capital plan.
Okay.
So it gives you leeway for those.
Yes.
Smaller.
Well, and it could be larger as well, but we can't use it if it's not on, on our plan.
Okay.
Another question about the plan.
To me, a plan has dates or anticipated years or something in it.
I was surprised at this plan, not saying, not marching that out in some way, even if it's just tentative or hypothetical.
This is just a wish list or whatever.
That's because in the past, we've never had money.
So when we do our budget hearing, Kelly does a really good job.
Each budget goes through what you can use your dollars on.
And all of that is dictated by DPI.
So no difference in fund 82.
Like they dictate how we use it.
Right.
So this is the, you make it make sense questions.
Aren't going to get an answer to this because DPI says you have to have these ends lifted.
And they don't care about a year.
No.
No.
They don't care.
But if you want to touch on, they have to be otherwise.
Okay.
It's like your Amazon wish list.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh.
Yeah.
So this is our shopping cart.
And I, I do want to say thanks to a former board member Dr. Barto, because he's the one who introduced our district.
to fund 46 and we did our due diligence in starting fund 46 and waited the
length of time that we needed to wait in order to pull funds from 46 and now
we're outside of that so we can pull from fund 46 at any point now there's
no there's no time to wait for the future so yeah kudos again to dr.
Marto for introducing that to our district in order for us to have this
most immediate needs to be met do you have a questions yes Melissa understand
I get that this is our wish list so to speak what but what stuff I mean is there
like a timeframe like okay things have to be on so what stops like Jean said
from last time us knowing next month that the scoreboard has to so we put it
on at that one I mean you know what I mean I just it's an additional timing
thing for us that we have to wait before we can make those repairs that's the
so yeah think yep having it on here means that we have the ability to do
that whenever we need to because we put that way to yep period okay thank you
also allows us to include it in our facilities discussion as a whole for a
board retreat so these very kind gentlemen that are working very hard for
the grid iron club and sat here for the last three and a half hours can be
assured that also should this be voted in favor of it can be a discussion points
as a facilities just discussion for a strategic plan district wide which is
ultimately one of the things I think that you guys are wanting is is a
commitment from the district that that we're not going to ignore the facility
need I would like to also add that I know there's been some confusion
confusion around the fund 46 deposit calling it surplus money it's not surplus
money it's budgeted to be able to have a deposit because it was a goal of the
board to make sure that we were able to make fund 46 deposits for these very
things at the end of the year so that's why we have we're fortunate to have the
dollars that we have in our fund 46 account
everything was on fire and he was like trying to put out whatever was the
biggest fire out was like really similar in light it was like clean miracles out
of nothing and now now he has a budget to work what he is able to do which is
amazing which I don't know how he did it before but now we get the budget now
when people say how do we know that the new elementary isn't going to fund it
the same district this is how we will maintain our property
this is how we will maintain our sports fields this is how we will maintain
an appeal we didn't have that before we have that now thanks to this administrative
team and getting the funds where they need to be in and they have to say that
shout out to our community. Mike I know you've been trying to jump in here go
here I just want to say thanks to all you guys that have been working on this
presentation for that sports complex I'm it takes a great deal of work to do
that I'm a little concerned I'm a little hesitant moving forward because there's
a lot of needs that our district has and I'm not sure that in good faith I can
right now move forward as we heard people talking tonight I heard the word
pause pause take a step back and figure out what we need to do so we can be
successful in all avenues what everybody needs in the district and I'm just
trying to wrap my head around this I understand the capital plan and it's
needed to guide us but I'm not sure it's this motion seems vague because we're
talking about Schofield Stadium and this is football facility I guess I'm I'm
not sure
do I would like to circle back to the ability to ask some questions because we
did have a really great presentation earlier and I know you guys have worked
really hard for 14 months I want to give you that opportunity so one question
I don't want to forget to ask is about the track so if a representative could
respond to the track in terms of the design it came up in committee so it
I think that's a really good question that was asked and I would like some
feedback from somebody who'd like to answer that for me and then number two I
know in committee also in terms of the fundraising efforts for this sports
complex a big component of that in a I think a point of pride for them is that
you're also part of that amount that you need or wanting would go towards
capital improvement so long-term planning for that facility need so just
but I guess if there's any additional things anybody would like to share on
that great answer about the track I'm trying to figure out who should ask
directly raise Jerry if you want to come up or Matt Tom sorry yeah so I know
there's the the question of we're placing it and everything went on when
we were going into the committees and looking at it one of the big things that
we looked at obviously was the history of everything we have here ready at
school field off-campus in that football facility and if we moved it here what
would it look like with naming rights we always talked about that too we have
list of field here we knew that we moved it over here well number one we
obviously we had some people reach out with the committee talking about you
know cuz they're like well they gonna go over list of field we'll be named
Skokob stadium there what's the name and it's like the naming rights issue or the
talk of that the biggest thing is the facility for the kids and one of the big
things that drove us as a committee and talking through having it over on the
other side was to number one be able to have two nice competition fields so if
you have list of field there be able to host all football games lower level
football games lower level soccer games and be able to use the new facility for
all the varsity and JV events you can have much better side-by-side events if
you look at all of the metford Meryl Rylander Lakeland all of them run into
scheduling issues because they have lower levels that need to be playing at the
same time and then they have to kick them off and they don't know where to put
them even you know we don't have a dome to throw them into but this would be
another nice facility to still play the games on the thought process for
bleacher wise for seating as you heard in the presentation the grid iron
produced to two bleachers those nice metal bleachers for the visitors this is
back when you know we had somebody fall through the old visiting bleachers and
had to replace them because of all the wood bleachers we had just went to they
were done so they fundraised a bunch of money almost forty thousand dollars
worth of bleachers and put them over there for our visiting fans or spectators so
the thought process was that they would move those over to listal field which as
we all know right now have just small little wooden bleachers that were just
set over there so they would have two sets of nice bleachers put there for you
know our Dale Peterson track and field meet our two middle school meets that we
host and then when we come around to obviously when we hosted GNC conference
meet there and I know another thought process that some people thought you
know of having you know it on the other side was they also wanted to kind of
keep the stadium bleachers closer to the action so as you can tell in the in the
layout there's a little bump out between the sideline and the bleachers but it's
not a track so you're not like way far off of the field you're a little closer
to the field and also being able to add that softball field on there without the
track around again is just adding to the other sport again it's nothing against
not supporting our track and field athletes we love our track and field
athletes as you heard before the the PA system can work out of both sides we'll
have windows going out of both sides so we can be announcing any events that we
have to on the other side and then have those nice bleachers that were moved
over so that was the kind of the whole thought processing all in a lot of it
like I said before is the scheduling and being able to have two nice
competition fields right next to each other I have a question for you when did
we resurface our track and we started to start track right after cold bed
yeah so that's a whole new track that's been put down that we paid for in 20 I
think it was 2020 it could have been a good condition
so that was also an intentional consideration was the condition of the track
yes correct putting in you know obviously a new field in that that's
field turf would be a lot of going back and over that track that we just resurfaced
not to want to go I just have a question so how this reads just so that I fully
understand if we approve this right now and Glenda you had said that there there's
like thresholds of dollar amounts so if we approve this would we do we have to
vote then anytime something is funded or could could the administration
essentially completely approve and fund this entire nine million dollar
project if we approve this motion okay okay okay I just want to be very clear
over a threshold of ten thousand dollars it has to be brought to the board okay
in order to vote okay got you okay good questions now every item currently on
the ten-year capital improvement plan has a dollar amount associated with it
but there's no dollar amount in the motion
leave on the referendum
not all not all okay no essentially the stuff that's on there is not included in
the referendum that's why that that's why that is a pretty small list right now
and if you go back and think about when you did the RFP for architect services
pre referendum part of that RFP included once the referendum work is done they
will help develop with dates years timeline and budgets any deferred
maintenance and then life expectancy maintenance as well so even though we
built Johnny it's Bradley this year spoilers have a life expectancy of say
20 years we'll have a line item for that saying you know in 20 years you're
gonna have to have money for boilers they're gonna that's part of their
scope to help us develop that after all the referendum work is done but given
the efficiencies that we found through Johnny it's Bradley that's still to be
determined how much we're gonna be able to take off of that potential deferred
maintenance list that will have remaining so once we get all the referendum
dollars spent accounted for that work done then we'll tackle that long-term
plan and that that 10-year capital improvement will drastically change
there's still no dollar amount in the motion I'm assuming with we add it to
the capital improvement plan it has to go with a dollar amount no no no they're
they're you're not required to have a dollar amount oh but it has to be on the
plan for us to spend the $5,000 to repair the scoreboard during the
presentation mr. Gillespie said 50% financial fund from fund 46 what does
that mean like the total amount in fund 46 you want half of that or do you want
half of the 8.2 million or what what 50% are you looking at
being in financial services that I am I kind of figured that you might ask
that question without fully being told exactly what's in fund 46 I heard
numbers so what I did with the group is we said okay our private community
foundation etc fund raising is going to be plus or minus $3 million if this gets
approved it take whatever is in the fund 46 and I'm just going to make up a
number because I don't know for sure so if it's nine million dollars we're
asking for 4.5 and leaving 4.5 behind for the next project okay all right thank
you can I also what before you said don't have you had any barriers with
fundraising with the district not committing a dollar amount to this
project I'm sorry to say that again if you had any barriers in your fund raising
efforts with the district not committing a dollar amount to this project I heard
an objection to the word pause the only reason that they even brought it up in
the presentation is because those people are committed but they didn't want to be
the first one in line yep they wanted the board to say yes this is an important
project we back it and then those individuals and those companies are
gonna say we're in so we've got some already neighborhood of 255,000 but
there's a big gap between that 255 and the two plus 3 million that we can't
raise and that's all part all waiting for a decision okay now could somebody
change the mind absolutely but at the same time we need some yeses there's
some votes so I can go back to mr. so-and-so and say hey you know you were
nice enough to give us 50,000 for 2026 the board's on board we need another
commitment from you for 2027 they're willing I mean I can tell I've been in
sales for the most of my life but they're waiting for some action and I'll just
be honest the pause was result of the all the 90 days and of what you spent
most of the meeting they're talking about tonight so I understand and you
probably be you too is that helpful yeah and that pause was also directly tied to
this exact item concerns about our facilities and maintaining our
facilities and I think we've done a very good job discussing tonight for any
potential donors to the grid iron club in any organization that this district
did not properly budget to maintain our facilities that is that's why we had
referendum and also why we did not appropriately or at all utilize this
fund to maintain our facilities and we are showing our community or taxpayers
our staff students families that we are prioritizing ensuring that our
facilities are not ignored and neglected and that's in a position that they
notably the elementary buildings but right now school field stadium is no
different than those elementary buildings were and it breaks my heart to see to
see that so I guess before I go there this is what our donor I think needed to
see is our capital improvement fund and what we're doing with it and that we're
checking boxes and getting rid of things showing that we're maintaining our
facilities and further that we will be going to a board retreat to create a
strategic plan centered around our facilities so we're prioritizing all of
that and I think that's important for for you guys to know and your donors to
know too secondly I have not been to school field stadium when there is not a
game going on okay mind blowing because these pictures don't even do it justice
and when and I've had conversations with you I'm I'm in support I think a
facility in a football team brings a community together that in a way that no
other sport can by default that is not it's not picking a favorite sport it's
just simply you get homecoming you get ballgame you get a parade going downtown
you get people that are going out for fish fries generating revenue and in
the community that's like a just a Friday night lights thing right you have
your fifth quarter at at local establishment with a local business with
students and parents it like you're generating revenue you're bringing
people together you're creating excitement there's a newspaper there
because they're covering the homecoming court and who you know you have an
assembly like there's a lot that's tied to that's there's a lot that is rich in
the community when you have a football program and what we have to offer
especially their history is really shocking where we were and now that that's
truly really embarrassing in this heartbreaking to see the facilities that
we do not have to see that we have come so accustomed to saying we can make
do it'll be okay like that's not our okay anymore our standards we should
set our standards for ourselves as a district much higher than that we don't
say it's okay is that we're at the bottom of the state academically no we
said it's ridiculous that we are at the bottom of the state academically and we
did something about it we continue to and I challenge this board in our
community to also feel the same way about our facilities we should not we
should not feel okay with how school field stadium looks we should not feel
proud of that we should want more for ourselves in our community because quite
honestly football programs generate revenue all do all I'm not minimizing
but again football programs just bring something that other sports cannot by
by the nature of the East so I hope strongly that our community wraps
around you with donations that our district does and then we shift our
mindset to that we don't have to just make do we don't have to be okay I
wish that was on the screen actually because it was so disheartening we don't
have to be okay with what that was knowing what's possible now we don't
have to have it everybody else has but we can budget like districts similar to
our size half and provide opportunities for our students because at the end of
the day board of education knows that co-curriculars increase academic
achievement outcomes correct so I thank you for all the work that you you all
have put in and really hopeful for your project and I appreciate that there's
also financial planning to to maintain your facility moving forward I'd like to
add two quick things but thank you very much number one is your community
leaders are behind this project I was asked to help these people but these
people your fellow community members they took me on appointments with some
of the business leaders and they're all forward they are all forward they want
what Annie go used to have and when I my second point is when I played the
banks closed early so that the people in the bank would go to the game that's
true statement did you anything do you have a question or something okay
oh thank you I was understand who Ray was yes thank you Ray go ahead you can
speak yeah I'm still here thank you but thank you Jill for actually pointing
that out we were fortunate enough to invite Glenda the current facility Angie
was and Jill were gracious enough to share their time with us looking at the
facility without a crowd being there and actually walk the facility and see it
and it is disheartening because this is something that has brought so much pride
to anago that facility is done so many things talking to an administrative
member that actually went on one of her first dates with her now husband to a
Friday night game because that's what the community did so I want to point
out the fact that this is so much more than just a football field this is
something that creates pride in our students being somebody that played
football for 13 years it drove me and motivated me to be a better student
which in turn drove me to work that much harder in my entire life in my career
as a husband as a dad it just teaches our kids so much more and again it's not
just a football thing this is a soccer thing this is a band thing this is a
physical education thing anything if as far as the high school even in a new
elementary school being in close proximity they can utilize this facility
you have future staff members that may see this facility and take pride in it
and understand our district takes pride in their facilities as a whole you have
future families that may come to our community or be debating coming to our
community between and a right lander or Merrill or other these competing
communities that see holy cow and go takes a lot of pride in what they have
look at their facilities look at the opportunities they have here I mean it's
so much more than what it says on the paper of saying a football field or
moving the football project to the capital improvement plan it's so much
more I just want to emphasize that we really have an opportunity here to
reinstill pride into the anago community and I just want to point out in the
beginning your motto was pointing out to be to not talk about it but to be about
it this is an opportunity to really be about it and move forward and not just
kick something down the road even further we can take care of it now we
have the ability to do so and I just want to do that I think we owe it to our
community we owe it to our students we owe it to our kids so thank you again
for taking the time to go to Scofield and really consider our project it really
does mean a lot to us this is close to my heart I hope it's close to a lot of
community members hearts we had a great turnout from what I hear I can't see the
crowd but we had a great turnout tonight supporting this even students that
showed up to help support this I just want to shout out tonight thank you for
being here thank you for showing your support so thank you thank you Ray for
staying with us all the way in Utah of course I want to say yeah I was really
impressed with the presentation I'm excited about the opportunity as a
board member though this is the first time I've seen this I do not feel prepared
to make this decision tonight I know that's not probably what you're wanting
to hear but I do need a little at least a little bit of time to take it all in
and process it and hear from constituents and and you know just wrap my head
around everything so I can tell you probably guarantee you that I won't be
voting for any motions to put this on the Capitol Improvement Plan tonight I
just need a little more time to get information and wrap my head around at
all you have the questions or discussion of the motion on the floor
and I will vote in favor of adding it to the Capitol Improvement Fund is made
earlier noted by Chris Newman she made the motion and it allows flexibility and it
is simply showing an investment to a discussion on it and in having safeguards
in place for those items that were listed earlier that were not functional
earlier and remain questionable depending on whether and things like that so it's
I won't vote in favor because it allows us the opportunity to spend five thousand
dollars in the scoreboard on Thursday when we have a home game on Friday because
if we know knowing that nothing over 10 grand can get purchased without
far to prove though
Melissa I think I heard I think she kind of answered my question but I'll just
don't ask it again so if we vote yes to this we're just putting it up there
anything I mean nothing is gonna go forward unless we vote on it unless it's
minimal correct middle yes this is just allowing if I vote yes tonight I'm
allowing us to have the opportunity to vote to replace something made or the
lights or whatever at Scofield but then we would still have the opportunity to
vote yes or no one things when we discussed more about yes thank you thank
you okay I'm going to ask for the vote your voting device is now open
with anyone like to change their vote the vote is now closed and the motion
carries with all but three in favor of the motion on the floor moving on to
item H consideration to approve the second reading of Neola Act 89 policies I
will be looking for a motion please I move to approve the second reading of
Neola Act 89 policies as presented motion has been made by Kristin to approve the
second reading of the Neola Act 89 policies which means that should this
pass then this will become part of the policies Kristin would you like to speak
to your motion any questions of the motion on the floor I have Jean go ahead
I have some suggested changes I'm not sure about the best way to communicate it
I mean I could do it verbally it's not crazy but it is a little bit longish so
I suggested would be to bring those to the policy committee for them to change
them for the future and let the policy committee work those changes out and
then bring the recommendation to the board so we could pass this today and
then change absolutely I could make a proposed change they were just these
check boxes that was inconsistent among the different like there was a
volunteers how they communicate with students and check check check and then
then there was school board members and how they can you can check check in the
checks were different and they didn't seem to you know maybe just is it more
formatting no oh there's okay I didn't know if maybe it's like the different
ways that were you were allowed to communicate or topics you were allowed
to communicate
okay so I guess we did discuss that during our meeting and it was based on
what information those different entities should be providing and what
matter so it was intentional choosing yeah but like there's one that said for
board members there was no appropriate content identified even though the check
before it said board members could communicate with students but then there
was no appropriate content so I guess they can send a blank text message
I think the check mark that was done to answer your question Jean was
actually the last X on page six because page six says when board members
communicate with students and when the student is the one that is initiating
that conversation the board members should direct the students to contact the
appropriate school staff member so if a student reaches out to a board member
that board member is to instruct them to reach out to the appropriate staff
member
the ones that aren't checked mark it says communications must remain
professional and so it doesn't instead of limited to that conversation it's
giving you a broad where broad answer it has to be professional
and is within the setting huh okay I was interpreting that differently that
last thing on page six I was seeing that is you know blah blah blah must be
appropriate and then I thought okay now in the next paragraph it says what's
appropriate nothing that's how I was interpreting it again if board members
are reaching out because of the situation to a student they're stepping
out of their lane as a board member should not be doing that it should be
referring that student to a staff member because that is not our lane as board
members to correct discipline or anything of a student unless it comes to the
board as a whole for student discipline such as student expulsions
okay so then on page 49 where it's now it's talking about when students
communicate and it lists off with staff volunteers or board members and then it
ticks off a couple of things that are content related so maybe board members
should be struck from that listing maybe it should say for students
communicating with staff or volunteers and cross out board members on page 49
some of the changes or differences also address that many school districts will
have board members who are also coaches so their engagement with students the
whole premise behind this act update is to help train our staff because the state
has had a big push on a raising awareness around grooming of children
and to make sure that things are put in place so that coaching staff is just
not willing nearly reaching out and texting or snap chatting with students
because it becomes an issue when you try to collect records of communication if
any of the grooming took place over those methods so it's important to have a
method of communication that is approved and that the district has access to to
be able to track that information and just like I'll reiterate what our board
president said about as a board member there would be limited times that you
would be engaging with a student unless the student reached out and said I want
to interview you for such and such you know there are certain situations but
less more than not unless you were volunteering to work as a coach okay I'll
just pass the stuff on to the policy committee and they can they can shred it
yeah thank you Jean you're welcome any other questions or comments our
discussion of the motion on the floor to approve the second reading of the
Niola Act 89 all right your voting device is now open
would anyone like to change their vote the vote is now closed and the motion
carries consideration letter I consideration to approve the report of
donations I will be looking for a motion please and move to approve the August
2026 donations from also McKenna for 160 dollars for the Aquatic Center
Optimus Club of Anago $1,000 for Phillip backpack Phillip backpack program and
Cretz lumber scrap wood for EMS pack ed wood class no value for the scrap wood
motion has been made by Jill would you like to speak to your motion we are
appreciative and thankful to our generous donors and the variety of programs and
organizations that our community supports through their generous donations so thank
you questions or discussion of the motion on the floor carrying no questions or
discussion of the motion on the floor your voting device is now open would
anyone like to change their votes and the voters now closed and the motion
carries our next board of education meeting will be on Monday September hard
to believe I'm saying that September 21 2026 I will entertain a motion for
adjournment so moved by Jill all in favor of adjournment let it be known by saying
I any opposed to the adjournment let it be known by saying I this meeting is now
adjourned at 1008