Glenwood City school board approves roof repairs
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GLENWOOD CITY — Under the only action item on its November 27 meeting agenda, the Glenwood City school board accepted a work proposal to replace a portion of the roof located at the main entrance to the high school.
The board voted unanimously to accept a bid of $49,440 by C&A Custom Contractors of Bloomer to replace the roof that covers the high school office, the main entrance and lobby areas with work slated to begin in the Spring of next year.
This portion of the school buildings’ roof, labeled Area G on a map recently presented to the board members by district administrator Patrick Olson, was one of several roof sections that were identified as in dire need of repair and replacement following a comprehensive survey that followed the July 19 storm which caused extensive damage to the district’s buildings and grounds.
Olson pointed out to the board that the district has already accrued over $500,000 in costs, all of which the school district will receive 100 percent reimbursement through insurance coverage, due to the storm damage. Replacement of the elementary gym roof along with the repair and/or replacement of the baseball and softball outfield fences, press box and football scoreboard are a few of the storm-damaged items that have been repaired or replaced to date.
Damage to the gym floors in both the high school and elementary are expected to be repaired next summer.
In addition, Olson has compiled an ever-growing list of updates, maintenance and repair issues that are needed throughout the district’s buildings which currently totals just over $300,000.
The district has also been assessing storage areas in its buildings and has already filled seven, 30-yard dumpster with material cleaned out of those areas according to Olson with a equal amount left to be removed.
Olson told members at Monday evening’s meeting that approximately 13,000 square feet of space is not being utilized efficiently. Cleaning and reorganizing these storages areas, it is hoped, will allow for a dedicated area for community education.
The Wisconsin Department of Instruction recently released the 2022-23 Educational Accountability Report Cards for all school districts in the state. Districts as a whole along with each school (high school, middle school and elementary) are given an overall composite score as well as scores in the four priority areas of achievement and growth, which look at English Language Arts and mathematics, Target Group Outcomes, which measures achievement, growth, chronic absenteeism and graduation; and On-Track to Graduation, which looks at chronic absenteeism, graduation, 3rd grade English Language Arts and 8th grade mathematics.
The scores in all areas then fall into one of five Accountability Rating Categories: Significantly Exceeds Expectations (5 stars), scores of 83 to 100; Exceeds Expectations (4 stars), scores between 70 to 82.9; Meets Expectations (3 stars), for scores that range from 58 to 69.9; Meets Few Expectations (2 stars), scores of 48 to 57.9 ; and Fails to Meet Expectations (1 star), for scores falling between zero and 47.9.
As a district, Glenwood City received an overall score of 63.8 (Meets Expectations), with a 61.7 for Achievement, 62.2 in Growth, 51.2 in Target Growth Outcomes and a 80.1 for On-Track to Graduation.
The Glenwood City Elementary received a composite score of 55.8 which fell into the Meets Few Expectations category. In Achievement, the elementary scored 56.2, it had a 48.0 in the Growth category, a 37.7 in Target Group Outcomes and an 82.2 for On-Track to Graduation.
The middle school scored near the top of the “Meets Expectations” category with an overall score of 68.7. It had a 60.4 in Achievement, a 68.9 for Growth, a 63.5 in Target Group Outcomes, and a 83.2 for On-Track to Graduation.
The high school received an overall score of 64.6 which was in the “Meets Expectations” category. In Achievement, the high school finished with a 68.1, it scored a 65.1 for Growth, a 47.1 for Target Group Outcomes and an 80.8 in the priority area of On-Track to Graduation.
The report did state that caution should be used when trying to interpret scores and ratings and that carefully review of the detailed data on all pages is encouraged. One should also take into consideration that multiple years of data impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic are used throughout the report in most priority area scores.
Olson did inform the board that the administrative team had already meet and discussed the state report card and will continue to meet and dissect the scores.
“It’s just a piece of the puzzle,” stated Olson. “They (report cards) are not end-all, be-all because I think there is a lot more that goes into the success of a school district. But, it is a piece of the puzzle and we do have things that we need to work on.”
In other business, the board:
• Approved an annual scholarship from the Glenwood Forest Barnstormers ATV Club to give to one graduate.
•Accepted a $460 donation from West Cap for the district’s food service fund for students that may need financial assistance to purchase meals.
•Approved Molly Blaser and Elizabeth Wood as co-advisors for next Spring’s Junior Prom.
•Approved a donation of $2,686.30 to the Class of 2025. The funds were raised through a Bowl-A-Thon that was hosted by parents of the class members.
•Approved the hirings of Craig Kittel as a volunteer coach and Michael Garrison as the C-Team coach for boys basketball.
•Approved the renaming of the History Club funds as Fund 60.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the board went into a closed-door executive session but no action was reported to the Tribune Press Reporter prior to the paper’s Tuesday noon printing deadline.
