Meeting agenda

The meeting on June 12, 2024 was the kickoff for the Wausau School District Citizen Elementary Facility Plan Task Force.  Incoming Interim Superintendent Mr. Cale Bushman welcomed the task force members and thanked them for volunteering to be part of this process.  He also gave a brief overview about how the district got to this point.  Following that, he introduced Mark Roffers and Nick Johnson from MDRoffers Consulting, LLC.  They explained the charge of the task force and how the meetings will play out.  

June 12, 2024 Task Force Presentation

Task Force Purpose Charge 

Project Timeline

After getting to an opportunity to get to know each other, members were tasked with answering 3 questions at their tables to end the meeting: 

1.  Do you have any 'norm and commitment' refinements?

2.  What are your suggestions and prioritization for criteria used to prepare, evaluate, and recommend different facility options? 

EXAMPLE:  Criteria that COULD be used 

3.  What information do you feel you and the task force will need to assist in fulfilling its charge? 

The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 10.  It'll be held at the Longfellow Administration Center beginning at 5:30 p.m. 

Meeting Notes

Meeting Q & A

Meeting Agenda

The meeting on July 10, 2024 was the second meeting of the Wausau School District  Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force.  Interim Superintendent Mr. Cale Bushman welcomed the task force members.  From there, members heard presentations from Mark Roffers and Nick Johnson of MDRoffers Consulting, Wausau School District Buildings and Grounds Director Ryan Urmanski, and Wausau School District 4K and Early Childhood Principal Kara Rakowski.  Click the 3 titles below to view their presentations and supplemental materials: 

1. Community Change and Projections Report 
   • Supplement:  Enrollment Projections by School
2. Conditions of the Wausau School District's 13 elementary schools
3. Overview of the Wausau School District's 4K and Early Childhood programs
   • Supplement:  4K Approaches

After the presentations, members were given an opportunity to ask questions.  Then, they met in groups to talk about their learnings, observations and questions.  The meeting ended around 8:00 p.m.

The next meeting of the Task Force will be on August 21, 2024 at 5:30 p.m.  The meeting will happen in the Nicholson Boardroom of the Longfellow Administration Center. 

Click here for an updated Projected Timeline. 

Click here for the full Community Change and Projections Report from MDRoffers Consulting.

Click here for meeting notes

Latest Questions and Responses Document (Last updated:  August 12, 2024)

Meeting Agenda 

The meeting on August 21, 2024, was the third meeting of the Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force.  Interim Superintendent Cale Bushman welcomed the group.  From there, Mark Roffers and his team explained how the night would work.  Then,  the task force heard a serious of presentations from Jon Euting, Assistant Superintendent of Academics, and Julie Schell, Director of Elementary Education, about Elementary Policy and Programming.  They also heard a presentation on Wausau School District Transportation from Assistant Superintendent of Operations, Josh Viegut, with support from Melody Sodke, Wausau School District Transportation Liaison, and Scott Anderson, Location Manager for First Student. Click the links below to review the presentations: 

1.  Educational Policy and Programming Overview

2.  Wausau School District Transportation

3.  Wausau School District Finances 

After the conclusion of the presentations, Mark and his team went over the Facility Option Evaluation Criteria that the Wausau School Board approved at their last meeting on August 12, 2024.  He also explained and how the criteria will be used going forward.  Then, to wrap up the meeting, the task force participated in a brief self-guided activity, before leaving for the night,  that gave each member an opportunity to start thinking about the future of Wausau's elementary schools.

Click here for meeting notes.

Click here for the latest Question and Responses document.  

 

Meeting Agenda

This is the fourth meeting of the Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force.   Interim Superintendent Cale Bushman welcomed the group.  From there, Mark Roffers and Nick Johnson of MDRoffers Consulting, LLC. gave a meeting overview and orientation.  Then, they spent about an hour presenting some new tools to the Task Force, as well as broad facility options - answering questions along the way.  Here are the materials reviewed:

Presentation from Mark Roffers and Nick Johnson

Overview of Current Elementary Schools

Elementary School Enrollment Compared to Other Districts in Similar Size

Evaluation of Broad Elementary School Closure Scenarios

Other handouts made available for reference: 

Wausau School District 4K-5 Dot Map

Zoomed in:  4K-5 Dot Map

Following the conclusion of Mark and Nick's presentation of new tools and broad facility options, task force members worked in small groups for the remainder of the meeting.  They reviewed the broad facility options presented (referencing the Evaluation of Broad Elementary School Closure Scenarios document above).  From there, they participated in a preliminary ranking exercise in each group and then were tasked with sharing their results out with the full task force.  

Click here for meeting notes - which will go into more detail about the preliminary ranking exercise mentioned above. (These meeting notes were updated on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 to reflect some more feedback received).

The meeting concluded just before 8 p.m.  

Coming Soon!  Updated Questions & Responses Document

 

 

 

Meeting Agenda

This was the fifth meeting of the Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force.   Assistant Superintendent of Operations, Josh Viegut, welcomed the group.  From there, Mark Roffers and Nick Johnson of MDRoffers Consulting, LLC. gave an overview of the meeting ahead.  

Click here to review the presentation Mark and Nick used during the meeting

After talking about how the night will work, they introduced the Wausau School District's 4K and Early Childhood Principal, Kara Rakowski.  She talked about wrap-around childcare -- something that had been brought up often by some members of the task force as something they wanted to explore further.  It was also identified as another component worth considering. 

Click here to view Mrs. Rakowski's presentation

From there, Mark and Nick asked the members of the task force to engage in a broad facility scenario ranking exercise.  Their charge was to rank the broad elementary school closure options, that they reviewed at their last meeting on September 11th,  in their order of preference, given the evaluation criteria.  In addition, they had to rank the other components, they identified, as worth considering.  Those components are: 

• Building a new school building to house students from closed schools
• Phase the closure/consolidation of elementary schools over a period of years
• Consider closure/consolidation of other Wausau School District facilities that are not schools (e.g. Longfellow)
• Provide 4K school facilities that would also allow for wrap-around care

As they ranked the broad elementary school closure options, they also ranked the other components as well: 

Click here to review the evaluation criteria

 

Click here to see the results of the broad facility scenario ranking exercise

 

Click here to see the results of the ranking of the other components

Then, task force members began working in small groups -- doing a school-by-school evaluation and sharing ideas for detailed facility options.  They were asked to consider and identify which schools, at this point in time, are "candidates," "question marks," or "unlikelies."  

Here are the results of that exercise:  (IMPORTANT NOTE:  The Task Force is not anywhere near a recommendation for the Wausau School Board.  They are only in the beginning of their discussions and this is the first exercise they participated in with specific schools named.)

 

Click here to review meeting notes (which goes into greater detail) 

Next meeting:  Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. in the Library of Wausau East High School.  During that meeting, the plan is to:

• Learn about deferred maintenance costs at each school building
• Begin to review and evaluate specific facility options. 

The Task Force will be meeting through December 4, 2024.  At that time, they will prepare and present a report summarizing their findings and advisory recommendations to the Wausau School Board.  Any final decisions will come from the Wausau School Board as the Task Force is advisory only.

 

 

 

 

 

Meeting Agenda

This was the sixth meeting of the Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force.   Interim Superintendent Cale Bushman welcomed the group.  From there, Mark Roffers and Nick Johnson of MDRoffers Consulting, LLC. gave an overview of the meeting ahead.  

Click here to view their presentation

After giving an overview of the meeting, Mark and Nick turned things over to representatives of CESA 10, who are completing a facilities assessment of the Wausau School District's 13 elementary schools.  

Click here to view the CESA 10 presentation 

CESA 10 presented, from a high level, about the work (deferred maintenance) needed at all of our elementary buildings.   For a summary, by school, please click the link immediately below:

Click here to view the Wausau School District Facilities Improvement Budget (1-10 year summary) handout provided to the task force

After answering questions from members of the task force, members of CESA 10 turned things back over to Mark Roffers and Nick Johnson.  The remainder of the meeting focused on the presentation and evaluation of the first detailed elementary facility consolidation options.   (IMPORTANT NOTE:  The Task Force is not anywhere near a recommendation for the Wausau School Board.  They are only in the beginning of their discussions and this is the second exercise they participated in with specific schools named.)

Members of the task force were provided with 3 facility option evaluation dashboards.  The three scenarios are based on the schools the Task Force identified as "Candidates" at its September 25, 2024 meeting.  These dashboards:

• Compare the options against the 5 school board-endorsed evaluation criteria.  Click here to view the criteria.
• Uses quantitative metrics where practical, but parts of the evaluation have subjective elements
• Provides spaces for notes and assessment of whether and how will the options meet each criterion.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  The dashboards [and maps] are NOT proposals for attendance area adjustments or consolidations.  Instead, they are intended to aid the task force in evaluating one of several potential options for how elementary schools and attendance areas could potentially be adjusted to satisfy the five option evaluation criteria.  If ultimately recommended, options could be combined with others.

 

The 3 dashboards the task force received from Mark and Nick, and corresponding maps, are below: 

1.  Hewitt-Texas to Riverview Dashboard & Hewitt-Texas to Riverview Map

2.  Grant to Lincoln & Thomas Jefferson Dashboard & Grant to Lincoln & Thomas Jefferson Map

3.  Rib Mountain to South Mountain & G.D. Jones Dashboard & Rib Mountain to South Mountain & G.D. Jones Map

To review the outcomes of that exercise, and the rest of the October 9, 2024 meeting, please click here.

At their next meeting on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, the task force will review and evaluate 3 additional facility options, if not more.  The meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in the Library of Wausau East High School.

Meeting agenda

This was the seventh meeting of the Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force.   Interim Superintendent Cale Bushman welcomed the group.  From there, Mark Roffers and Nick Johnson of MDRoffers Consulting, LLC. gave an overview of the meeting ahead.  

Click here to view their presentation.  The presentation, which we encourage you to review, includes a lot of helpful information and context. 

The remainder of the meeting focused on the presentation and evaluation of four more detailed elementary facility consolidation options.   (IMPORTANT NOTE:  The Task Force is still not anywhere near a recommendation for the Wausau School Board.  Discussions are continuing.)

The scenarios the Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force is considering stem from a September ranking exercise members did to identify which schools they thought are candidates for consolidation, which are questionable, and which are unlikely.  At their last meeting on October 9, 2024, the task force received and evaluated the first 3 consolidation scenarios involving Grant, Hewitt-Texas, and Rib Mountain elementary schools.   Then, on October 30, 2024, they reviewed and evaluated these 4 additional consolidation scenarios by utilizing dashboards and maps, as well as this Elementary School Facility Matrix, among other previously shared information: 

• Franklin Elementary closes, shifting students to Riverview and Hawthorn Hills elementary schools.
• John Marshall Elementary closes, shifting students to Hawthorn Hills Elementary.
• Hawthorn Hills Elementary closes, shifting students to John Marshall, Franklin, and Lincoln elementary schools.
• Lincoln Elementary closes, shifting students to Grant and Hawthorn Hills elementary schools. 

As a reminder, the dashboards:

• Compare the options against the 5 school board-endorsed evaluation criteria.  Click here to view the criteria.
• Uses quantitative metrics where practical, but parts of the evaluation have subjective elements
• Provides spaces for notes and assessment of whether and how will the options meet each criterion

To view the dashboards and corresponding maps for each of the 4 consolidation scenarios reviewed on October 30, 2024, click the attachments below:

• Franklin to Riverview and Hawthorn Hills Dashboard & Franklin to Riverview and Hawthorn Hills Map
• John Marshall to Hawthorn Hills Dashboard & John Marshall to Hawthorn Hills Map
• Hawthorn Hills to John Marshall, Franklin, and Lincoln Dashboard & Hawthorn Hills to John Marshall, Franklin, and Lincoln Map
• Lincoln to Grant and Hawthorn Hills Dashboard & Lincoln to Grant and Hawthorn Hills map

After reviewing and evaluating each of the consolidation scenarios in small groups, a representative reported out their findings.  

Click here to review meeting notes and outcomes.

At the conclusion of the meeting, Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force members also had an opportunity to identify possible consolidation scenarios that have not been talked about or any variations of the scenarios previously discussed.  The list of additional options are available within the meeting notes document above.

The next meeting of the Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force is scheduled for Wednesday, November 13, at 5:30 p.m. in the Library of Wausau East High School.  The focus of that meeting will be the consideration of potential variations and hybrids, as well as prioritizing, narrowing, and accumulating options.  

 

Meeting agenda 

This was the eighth meeting of the Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force.   Interim Superintendent Cale Bushman welcomed the group.  From there, Mark Roffers and Nick Johnson of MDRoffers Consulting, LLC. gave an overview of the meeting ahead.  

Click here to view their presentation.  The presentation, which we encourage you to review, includes a lot of helpful information and context. 

From there, the task force spent about the next hour evaluating 3 additional facility consolidation options.   These 3 options were suggested, by task force members, at the end of their last meeting on October 30, 2024.  They reviewed and evaluated these 3 additional consolidation scenarios by utilizing dashboards and maps, as well as this Elementary School Facility Matrix, among other previously shared information: 

• Hawthorn Hills Elementary closes, shifting students to John Marshall/Franklin elementaries
• Lincoln Elementary closes, shifting students to G.D. Jones
• Grant Elementary closes, shifting students to Thomas Jefferson

As a reminder, the dashboards:

• Compare the options against the 5 school board-endorsed evaluation criteria.  Click here to view the criteria.
• Uses quantitative metrics where practical, but parts of the evaluation have subjective elements
• Provides spaces for notes and assessment of whether and how will the options meet each criterion

To view the dashboards and corresponding maps for each of the 4 consolidation scenarios reviewed on November 13, 2024, click the attachments below:

• Hawthorn Hills to John Marshall/Franklin Dashboard & Hawthorn Hills to John Marshall/Franklin Map
• Lincoln to G.D. Jones Dashboard & Lincoln to G.D. Jones Map
• Grant to Thomas Jefferson Dashboard & Grant to Thomas Jefferson Map

After reviewing and evaluating each of the consolidation scenarios in small groups, a representative reported out their findings.   The findings are located within the meeting notes document, available by clicking here.

To date, the task force has seen and evaluated 10 different individual school facility consolidation options.  Near the end of the meeting, the task force was given instructions to use the dashboards and maps from each option to rank all 10 options in order of preference (1=most preferred option and 10=least preferred option). 

Click here to review the 'Facility Option Review' booklet.

The results of that ranking exercise are available within the meeting notes, which you can access by clicking here.

The next and final meeting of the Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force is scheduled for Wednesday, December 4 at 5:30 p.m. in the Library of Wausau East High School.  Anyone is welcome to attend to watch this meeting! 

Latest Question and Responses Document

Meeting Agenda

This was the ninth, and final, meeting of the Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force.   Interim Superintendent Cale Bushman welcomed the group.  From there, Mark Roffers and Nick Johnson of MDRoffers Consulting, LLC. gave an overview of the meeting ahead.  

Click here to view their presentation.  

From there, Mark and Nick reviewed the Task Force's charge from the Wausau School Board.  That charge includes developing, evaluating, and recommending one or two preferred elementary school facility options by the end of this year, as well as advising whether the number of elementary schools in the district should be reduced, and if so, then how, where, and when.  They also reviewed the Board-endorsed Evaluation Criteria, which is available by clicking here. 

From there, the focus shifted to determining their recommendation for the Wausau School Board.  They started by reviewing the results from a ranking exercise they participated in during the November 13, 2024 Meeting: 

 

The four most preferred options in that ranking exercise were as follows:

• Hewitt-Texas to Riverview
• Grant to Thomas Jefferson (and 4K Academy from Thomas Jefferson to Lincoln)
• Lincoln to G.D. Jones (and 4K Academy from G.D. Jones to Lincoln)
• Hawthorn Hills to John Marshall and Franklin (and 4K Academy to Riverview)

Other suggested options brought forward at the November 13, 2024 Meeting were:

• Rib Mountain to South Mountain/Stettin?
  • NOTE: Not without sending Stettin over its functional capacity in the next few years and exceeding maximum capacity in the 2030s
• Rib Mountain to South Mountain/G.D. Jones, if G.D. Jones also received Lincoln elementary students and Lincoln was repurposed as a 4K Academy? 
  • NOTE: Not without sending G.D. Jones' enrollment over its functional capacity

After reviewing the results, Mark and Nick shared 2 potential option "bundles" and 3 potential "variations" to those bundles:

 

Then, in small groups, task force members reviewed the bundles and variations handout, available by clicking here.  As they discussed, a reporter wrote down the pros and cons of each bundle and variation.  Then, they reported out and there was group discussion.  

From there, each task force member voted on the bundles and variations individually.  Here are the results:

Here is the recommendation from the task force to the Wausau School Board: 

• Hewitt-Texas Elementary closes and shifts to Riverview Elementary
• Hawthorn Hills Elementary closes and shifts to John Marshall and Franklin Elementaries (Hawthorn Hills' 4K Academy shifts to Riverview Elementary)
• Grant Elementary closes and shifts to Thomas Jefferson Elementary (Thomas Jefferson's 4K Academy shifts to Lincoln Elementary)
• Lincoln Elementary closes and is repurposed into a 4K Academy.  Grades K-5 at Lincoln will shift to G.D. Jones Elementary (Jones' 4K Academy shifts to Lincoln)

Aside from receiving the most support of the task force members, here are the other reasons they chose Bundle #1:

• A comprehensive solution to fill most of the 1,300 empty elementary seats
• Closes or repurposes 2 east side and 2 west side schools
• Remaining schools are regularly spaced out in the community
• Receiver schools have large populations of walking zone students
• All schools that would be closed do not have separate gym and cafeterias; all receiver schools do have such spaces
• All receiver schools have at least the "more suitable" learning spaces

They also had an opportunity to finalize any additional recommendations related to:

• Does the task force wish to advise the school board to address as many of the 10-year deferred maintenance items in the CESA 10 Elementary Facilities Assessment as possible, both at recommended "receiver" schools and at other elementary schools that will remain following consolidation?  (During this meeting, this recommendation received majority support)
• Does the task force wish to advise that each "receiver" school in the selected bundle be improved with air conditioning if not already present?  (During this meeting, this recommendation received majority support)
• Does the task force wish to advise the school board to undertake a separate process to finalize new elementary school attendance areas, once the board selects an elementary facility bundle? (During this meeting, this recommendation received majority support)
• Does the task force wish to ask the school board to consider relocating its administrative functions currently at the Longfellow Administrative Center to one of its other remaining facilities, such as a high or middle school with excess capacity? (During this meeting, this recommendation received majority support)
• Does the task force wish to advise the school board to work with the city and others to maintain a park/playground at the Grant site to serve the surrounding neighborhood, even if the building is otherwise sold and repurposed? (During this meeting, this recommendation received majority support)
• Does the task force wish to advise the school board to consider repurposing Hawthorn Hills for other school district or related needs serving children, including before and after school care? (During this meeting, this recommendation did NOT receive majority support)
• Does the task force wish to advise the school board on phasing of facility consolidation options within the recommended bundle(s)? (During this meeting, this recommendation did NOT receive majority support)
• Does the task force wish to advise the school board on possible future actions/trigger points beyond the actions advised under the recommended bundle? (During this meeting, this recommendation did receive majority support from task force members.  Specifically, keeping an eye on Rib Mountain and South Mountain enrollment, with a potential consolidation of these two schools at some point in the future).

Click here to view meeting notes/outcomes.  We encourage you to read through this document as there is a lot more information and context available there.  

The Questions & Responses Document has also been updated.  Click here to review it.

On Monday, December 9, the recommendation will go before the Wausau School Board for discussion, but no action will be taken.  If you'd like to attend that meeting, it will be held at 5 p.m. at the Longfellow Administration Center.  A livestream will also be available.  You can access that by clicking here. 

 

Meeting agenda

This is the additional Elementary Facility Plan Citizen Task Force meeting to review refined information around school capacities and AGR (Achievement Gap Reduction) funding received after the December 4, 2024 task force meeting.  The purpose of the meeting was to present that information to the task force and to see whether or not it influenced their recommendations.  As a reminder their recommendation as of 12/4 was Bundle #1: 

• Hewitt-Texas Elementary closes and shifts to Riverview Elementary
• Hawthorn Hills Elementary closes and shifts to John Marshall and Franklin Elementaries (Hawthorn Hills' 4K Academy shifts to Riverview Elementary)
• Grant Elementary closes and shifts to Thomas Jefferson Elementary (Thomas Jefferson's 4K Academy shifts to Lincoln Elementary)
• Lincoln Elementary closes and is repurposed into a 4K Academy.  Grades K-5 at Lincoln will shift to G.D. Jones Elementary (Jones' 4K Academy shifts to Lincoln)

Aside from receiving the most support of the task force members, here are the other reasons they chose Bundle #1:

• A comprehensive solution to fill most of the 1,300 empty elementary seats
• Closes or repurposes 2 east side and 2 west side schools
• Remaining schools are regularly spaced out in the community
• Receiver schools have large populations of walking zone students
• All schools that would be closed do not have separate gym and cafeterias; all receiver schools do have such spaces
• All receiver schools have at least the "more suitable" learning spaces

As the meeting on December 18 got underway, Superintendent Cale Bushman welcomed the group.  From there, he handed it over to Mark Roffers (who joined virtually) and Nick Johnson (in-person) of MDRoffers Consulting, LLC. 

Click here to review their presentation.

After reviewing the history of task force meetings to date, including the task force's charge and the issues they're trying to resolve, the focus shifted to the refined information.  First, AGR (Achievement Gap Reduction) funding:

As of the meeting on December 4, 2024, the impact of their recommendation on AGR funding was projected to be 'likely low.'  After that meeting, the Wausau School District received information from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), that funding associated with the approximately 55 5K through 3rd grade students that would transition from Hawthorn Hills (AGR school) to John Marshall (non-AGR school) would be reduced.  That estimated yearly AGR funding decrease would be $2,579 per student or about $140,000 per year.  With this new information, Bundle 1's (the task force's recommendation as of December 4, 2024) projected annual operating and staff cost savings would decrease from about $2-$2.3 million to about $1.85-$2.15 million (not including deferred maintenance avoided or bussing impacts).

After some discussion, Nick, Mark, and the task force focused on the refined information related to school capacities.  Over the last week, a school mapping effort was completed by Wausau School District Administrators and principals.  That effort included reviewing floors plans of each of the 'receiver' schools -- including counts of classrooms and other spaces in both Bundle 1 and Bundle 2 ( Bundle 2 was also a consideration leading up to the recommendation:  Hewitt-Texas to Riverview, Hawthorn Hills to John Marshall/Franklin & 4K Academy to Riverview, as well as Grant to Thomas Jefferson and Lincoln).  In addition, they assigned core classrooms to projected students, sections, and grades.  They also assigned classrooms and other appropriate spaces for encore classes, special education, pupil services, etc.  Here's what was learned: 

• There would be enough room to fit all projected students at each 'receiver' school in Bundle 1, with no changes in the district's class size policy.
• The situation would only improve in time as projected enrollment decreases in affected attendance areas.
• All core and encore classes would fit into full-size classroom spaces.
• Some adjustments in building function would be necessary, as many excess spaces have been put to some use over the years.  (e.g., some programs would need to be shifted to small-group spaces, of which there would often remain some potential excess)
• Bundle 1's Lincoln 4K Academy would have more than enough space to accommodate its projected 4K students, and could, in theory, handle all WSD 4K students assuming half-day program.
• Riverview would also have enough space for its projected 4K students using the current Academy model, but without much room to spare.  
• What this might mean?
  • 4K students in the southeastern portion of the district (i.e., closer to Lincoln) could be encouraged or assigned to attend the Lincoln 4K Academy.
  • 4K Academies could continue to evolve - and perhaps be further consolidated - based on experience, 4K funding, and program considerations.
• Bundle 2 has a similar performance to Bundle 1 for east side schools
• Based on school mapping effort results, space would actually be tighter at Thomas Jefferson in Bundle 2, compared to Bundle 1.

After going over the refined information, the task force has an opportunity to ask questions and simply discuss whether or not this information influences their recommendation.  From there, members took a hand vote reaffiring their recommendations from December 4, 2024.  More details and context are available by reviewing the meeting notes/outcomes document available here.

Looking ahead, this update will go before the Wausau School Board during a Special Board Meeting on Wednesday, January 8 at 5:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of Wausau East High School.  The Board could potentially take action on the recommendations at this meeting.  You are more than welcome to attend in-person.  As always, a livestream will be available by clicking here.