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Board approves consent agenda, CISA 4 contracts, budget and staffing changes; moves to closed session
Summary
The West Salem School Board approved its consent agenda, accepted CISA 4 contracts (updated to $213,186), approved scholarship distributions, passed budget adjustments recognizing $43,106 in common school fund revenue, approved staffing proposals for 2025–26 and then entered closed session for a superintendent evaluation under state law.
The West Salem School Board approved several routine and substantive items during its meeting before moving into closed session to discuss the superintendent's evaluation.
The board carried the consent agenda, which included the regular meeting minutes of March 24, 2025; invoices to be paid; co‑curricular recommendations including the hiring of a full‑time third‑grade teacher; resignations and retirements; and donations (examples: $1,500 from the American Red Cross student scholarship award; $1,000 anonymous donor to the athletic scholarship).
On contracts, district staff explained a late addition to the CISA 4 2025–26 contract packet: a $3,094 line for a new IEP software system. That change brought the district's CISA 4 contract figure discussed in the meeting to $213,186, down from the previous year's $300,111. The board approved the CISA 4 contracts as presented.
The board also approved distribution of $2,000 to four winners of the district's College, Career and Life Ready scholarships as recommended by a subcommittee.
Business and finance discussion included a recommended budget change recognizing an additional $43,106 in common school fund revenue and reclassification of some federal Title I funding among function codes; the board approved the recommended adjustments.
On staffing, the business operations committee recommended evaluating whether to hire occupational therapy (OT) services directly or to continue contracting through CISA. The packet compared a contracting cost of about $102,000 to an estimated in‑district salary and benefits cost of about $67,000. The board moved and approved the staffing recommendation to pursue district hiring as presented by the committee.
Finally, the board approved 35 NEOLA legal and recommended policy updates for first reading and then voted to move into a closed session under Wisconsin Statute 90.851(c) to discuss superintendent employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data; a roll call vote approved entering the closed session.
Where the transcript records individual motions and seconds, votes were recorded by voice as "Aye" with no roll‑call vote tally printed in the public portion of the livestream for each routine item.
