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Superintendent outlines summer-program revenue gains and transportation update after video concern
Summary
Superintendent Tina reported a $76,000 revenue gain from last year’s summer program changes, explained class caps and attendance thresholds, and said the district responded to a transportation-related video concern by contacting the contractor, meeting with impacted families, and working with the district attorney; the district will survey families before proposing route changes.
Superintendent Tina (S1) told the Hartland-Lakeside J3 School District board that changes to the district’s summer offering schedule produced roughly $76,000 in additional revenue last year and outlined operational rules for this year’s program.
"For the first time this year, our third through seventh grade class offerings there are 67 class offerings," Tina said, noting the district will cap classes and will not run sessions with fewer than 10 enrolled students to ensure cost-effectiveness. "If you're gonna sign up, please ensure that your students can be there at all sessions... we are going to cap the classes. We also are going to not run classes if there aren't at least 10 students in each class." (Tina, S1)
Tina also gave a transportation update after drivers reported seeing a video tied to a recent arraignment hearing. She said the district "immediately contacted Dousman" (the transcript uses multiple spellings for the contractor name) and that Dousman "adequately said we have not shared that." Tina called it "absolutely categorically untrue that anybody else outside of the people that sat in that room that day from the district perspective or the police have seen that video." She said the district convened a meeting with directly impacted families and that the district attorney pulled families into a conference to outline next steps; Tina said the defendant waived a pre-hearing and that the district can "expect a trial probably 9 to 12 months out." (Tina, S1)
On routes and contractor practices, Tina said the consortium that contracts transportation has historically done routing by hand but is testing a digital authorization system that would allow the district to provide student addresses and get optimized routes back; the district is exploring whether that tool can improve safety and reliability.
Administrators said a community survey on transportation will be released in the next week or two to collect family preferences; the survey results will be synthesized and followed by a public forum where the board will review outcomes and next steps.
The board also approved a shared-service 66.03 agreement for the 2025 summer band camp, which administrators said counts toward summer-school credit and is part of the summer programming that contributed to the revenue increase.
What happens next: administrators will finalize the transportation survey, report results to the board and hold a public forum to discuss implementation options; criminal legal proceedings mentioned by the superintendent are ongoing and no further district action on those proceedings was stated in the meeting.
