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we have one course that we really wanted to run at both campuses AP music theory which is of course where enrollment has kind of ebbed and flowed a little bit and we were really struggling to run that course with the lower number that it had at each campus so we are going to do something for the first time or we're hoping to do something for the first time next year in terms of offering that course to students in both buildings with one teacher who teaches it sort of in a blended fashion so maybe in person in one building one day in person another day at the other campus and offering those students the opportunity online as well so combining those classes similar to the way we combine television years back when we didn't offer itself high school but different in the sense that the students will match will not be traveling so I did want to point that out for the bottom portion where it talks about courses that are combined any questions about that before I turn it over to George and Keith who will talk through more specifics are we going to so the previous slide are we about to talk about the previous slide or that do you want comments on that now yes so I there were two things that's that stood out to me one is the the huge drop off in interest in AP French and then also uh at South there was a computer computer programming um should is do we have some sort of a is it just a coincidence that there's all of a sudden there's that fewer students interested I know we're looking at different cohorts and but that seems pretty especially the one with the French seems like a huge huge drop off we have been facing a decline in our number well we're facing declining World in general but we have been basically reclining enrollment in French um also we have to consider that students can come in typically into Spanish to get a significant number that do we only have one of our Center districts that offers French so to make it to that level not all students have that opportunity as most of our freshmen are coming in in French one if they take it as a freshman so we have been seeing a decline in all of our upper levels of French is that a trend we think will continue or is that something we want to try to do something about it's French it was also done articulation although many of those students from Avery equally we do get a handful that do come into French three that is something that we are watching and we are definitely looking at because we want students to make it to those those Capstone courses in terms of computer programming there there's many there's a significant number of reasons for that that we could go through but I think we're also seeing some of that changes we've offered other courses okay as well um too so yeah and overall we've seen a decline in World languages over the years as there's been increased interest in a variety of electives but especially in CTE is where a lot of students move from those electives in World Language over to election electives and CTE so the decline in in French and other world languages is across the board I just it was it's such a it's such a large drop from one year to the next and it makes me wonder if there was something else going on there um that would make that would prompt students not to have as much interest in it um so um okay let me back up to this one for reference in the background I will kick it out start oh and I might actually end up my touching on a couple things I think that you were talking about um all three uh elective areas but specifically the visual arts um Career and Technical education and World languages at South have steady enrollment for next year which is a good thing um in CTE we will be offering keyboarding technology for the first time as a dual credit course next year and we have a completely full section in fact we had a de-enroll just a few kids out of there so that's pretty exciting we have kept some of our lunchtime keyboarding programming over the years but never run in the regular school day this way in many years but now with the Dual credit um a lot more students chose to take it so that's exciting for the first time in the years that I've been in this position we will be running four sections of AP Computer Science we usually run three so that's nice bump in this course all right um and thinking about that that computer programming piece the other thing is we're up another section in our Project Lead the Way engineering courses for next year so we're for the first time we'll be running two sections of the engineering design and development which is the Capstone in that sequence so we have two of the the intro kind of course then two of our principles of engineering two of the engineering design and development and a combined section with the civil engineering and architecture course so we'll be technically having seven classes in that engineering Project Lead the Way strand which is awesome and in addition we still have our four sections of our pre-engineering class which is not the Project Lead the Way class just the kind of intro to engineering class and then at South for the first time in a while um French and German are stable we've been kind of losing kids there and the board has been great to support German the AP German course with low enrollment we're going to run a little bit different comment it still has a very low enrollment but we're running a different kind of combination there um so that we didn't have to have it under 20 it'll be a larger course and we actually added a course of Spanish for next year which we haven't gone up there in a little while so that's all good news in the elective uh areas um kind of talking about some of the newer pieces that you guys will be familiar with um under Gina and Ryan's guidance we continue to expand dual credit offerings as mentioned we'll have that dual credit keyboarding technology class and we'll also be running a section of our new dual credit speech communication class so that's really exciting that runs out of our English Department you in December heard about the new science offerings they can continue in the same sequence or they can choose a different sequence and the Earth and space science course is extremely popular we have 15 sections of regular Earth and space science and three sections of honors Earth and space science for next year so the enrollment and the excitement about that class is huge the science department has done a great job of promoting that at the same time our enrollment in AP environmental science is higher than it's ever been we'll have a fifth section of that and our enrollment in in the new environmental sustainability courses up so we'll have another section of that our Project Lead the Way principles of biomedical science continues to be really popular we're adding a sixth section of that that enrollment has steadily increased over the years that we've been offering that course and then in order to serve our English Learners better we will be running a section of el biology and a section of our new Civics economics and Society course in social studies for the English learners um a couple other just points of interest in social studies our AP economics courses both macro and micro are also dual credit courses so students can elect either or both technically and the enrollment is growing in those courses which is really exciting and um finally I wanted to mention that we will be adding in our special services department a sixth multi-needs classroom next year so that can that program continues to grow which makes sense because t99 continues to grow um too so those are kind of the cell highlights for this go around any questions from Georgia before for Georgia before we move to Key I did it's it's kind of off base just it is it's if you know you know but it's not I'm just curious for like our stem all of our stem programs like the biomedical do we have a sense of how many people who do go on to the university go into like their medical Sciences do we you know I don't know honestly I wish I did um we do a lot of senior exit surveys I don't know if we have specifically asked anything about that or if the science department has ever um just with all the engineers yeah it would be really interesting to know yeah because the Project Lead the Way courses in both areas have been really popular it's great thank you Joy sure all right Keys your turn Albert North hi okay so um one one thing I want to I'll start with some core classes and then move into the Fine Arts and the electives so in math I'm really excited to share that specifically in the math 3 area we're seeing a shift in our sections so we're seeing a shift that's moving from the um s courses into the more general math and also the honors and up and towards the AP so we've seen an increase in our math soon um I was looking at the cohorts um actually moving from moving up um so we're seeing an increase next year we're going to be adding another cohort for a group of we're up by 28 students in just math that are moving from us into math and then 26 that are moving up into honor so it's a shift there which is really neat we're also adding one more section of calc BC of AP so that's a really nice shift to see for our math department and their conversations with the students and pushing them ahead um Earthen space science just uh and just like at South as is very popular we're going to be running eight sections with two honors sections there as well so um very very good uh for our students um I'm also very proud of the social studies department just like at South adding the Civics economics and Society El course brings that total Department up to three courses that are really focused on our El students that have those Standalone offerings for them so that's that's really special for those students our special services of course continues to grow at North as well we grew by 92 course placements over the last year so that's a big jump in our co-taught sections also specifically around our Rising 11th graders that's a a very large group of students being served by that group and um I believe is the same as South we're offering support in the third math our third science class excuse me with that edition of the Earth and space science so we'll be supporting in there as well for um in Fine Arts and CTE some really fun stuff to share there I was thinking about this today as I Was preparing so we have one ceramic Studio that is now booked Non-Stop all year both semesters to the point where we're having conversations with our department chair Breyer Teague about the possibility of offering a zero period course in there for next year for students who are really doing there so I do credit our teachers in there for really drawing the kids in and engaging them it's really pretty cool so that ceramic studio is packed um the other thing I would mention is in our culinary offerings are really up and I went back and I was there I was talking to people because I'm new and I was thinking about when the construction was completed and how much the enrollment in those courses has bumped so um the year that construction was completed and started there were 15 sections of in all of our culinary classes in the three offerings there are now 24.
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one will be a staff forum and one will be a parent in community form so anyone who wasn't uh who did not participate in those nine focus groups have many opportunities to also voice their thoughts Within These two open forums on April 12th and then everyone and then we also have a community Forum which will take place from April 10th through the 17th it's an it's a virtual process so you can use your phone or any of your electronic devices that you prefer to complete a survey we will also take this opportunity to designate a certain amount of time within the classroom for our our high school students and their staffs and their teachers to also take the survey as well as the staff so there's going to be plenty of opportunities for input and um that in all this information can be found on our website starting when Theresa will that be tomorrow yeah so there we go thank you the other did you also share that we have been receiving candidates for this so yes so um as of right now we have 17 applicants and six of those applicants are out of state and we're continuing to receive applications and our search firm indicates that we are in a very good position at this point and they don't see it stopping even after we get the profile that you all have will have input into will probably be receiving even more applications thank you okay yes anything else you guys want to add to that okay thank you all right so we'll move on to 7.1 7.1 consent agenda are there any questions on the consent agenda can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda I wonder if it's my notebook I make a motion to approve all items under consent including minutes from the Board of Education meeting on February 27 2023 open and closed session minutes from the Board of Education public forum on March 6 2023 to acknowledge the foia requests received by the district to approve the inter-fund transfers and to approve the Illinois High School Association membership renewal for the 2023-2024 a year for Oswego and Oswego East High School second I have a point of clarification uh for the four years when I was going through those I saw that some things were is this the right time I guess to ask you a question yeah so there were certain things that were redacted on some at the top it was not redacted further down so is that something that we should wait until it was properly redacted before we released it if I would um I'd have to take a look at uh which ones are you referring to um I don't think we need to call any more attention to that but can we please talk about the redacting process who does that and um what that process looks like so there's a little bit more Fidelity in it yeah absolutely um I'm sorry no no you're fine I'm just I'm bringing this up too no I'm just trying to figure out now how to proceed with this one given that they are we do send those to our attorneys so we do have our attorneys review for redaction so we have a we have a staff member who takes the foia requests they gather the information and they take an initial run and redact based on the the rules that we have for today I'm not questioning the rules at all when I'm when I'm but it sounds like there's some inconsistencies between one and their email and yes as I'm going down them I saw so think of a chain email so part of the chain email was redacted because I don't know for what reason or why but the chain email further down that information within that same chain was not redacted and so I just want to make sure that if it was proper cost to redact it up top I don't want it to be released further down in the email so I'm calling the question to to that so that we can remove it so that I don't approve that portion of it until we get it properly redacted and then we can just release it especially when it comes to students um this has happened more this year where again it is redacted at the top after the bottom so that needs to have not just um legal review but some sort of internal review as well before it goes out yeah I would say this is the appropriate time to hold those out then and let's review that if there's personal identifiable information you know people's home phone numbers or student information then that definitely should not be made public so so which are you going to hold all of it out so I just need to make a motion to yeah I would say let's have a final review on those then before that's released I would like to make a motion to amend to remove 7.2 from the consent agenda to to review it to be approved at a later date I made a motion sorry Miss Hamilton aye Mr pluger I abstain Mrs Johnson abstain Mr Cerrone Mr Gatewood aye um all right item 8.1 as regards to financial statements does the board have any questions I do oh I'm sorry I still have to we got to vote on the rest of them yeah sorry as amended or you can read it and not read seven got it got it thank you I make a motion to approve all items under consent including minutes from the Board of Education meeting on February 27 2023 open and closed session minutes from the Board of Education public forum on March 6 2023 to approve the inner fund transfers and to approve the Illinois High School Association membership renewal for 23 2024 for Oswego High School and Oswego East High School second Mr wrong Gatewood aye Ms Johnson aye Mr ploger aye all right item 8.1 is regards to financial statements does the board have any questions on what has been provided this evening the action items and information items that are in the in-board docs this particular meeting are kind of one of the reasons that I've been asking for a variance report and also why we have been trying to put together a list of contracts that could and could not be renewed one of the reasons is I feel like when we don't review vendors we often have to kind of deal with the complacency that comes with a long-term contract and I'm just you know I've talked to a lot of community members a lot of students over the years about the food program and we continue to renew it and I don't know that there's anything out there but we do have to address the fact that there are some quality issues with school lunch and I um I just would like to understand if we continue to renew what are the opportunities for us to go to a vendor and say these we continue to have the same type of issues the quality issues 8.1 or 8.7 am I in a totally wrong place yeah you know what that's 8.7 so you remember all that for 8.7 yeah [Laughter] my apologies that's quite all right any other questions regarding 8.1 all right uh item 8.2 is in regards to Harvey and Wolf's Crossing intersection contribution Dr pesky all right good evening um today I brought with us um all right um so today for 8.2 we're discussing uh uh intersection contribution at Harvey and Wolf's Crossing um today I brought Stu Witt our attorney from whitlaw he was actually at the table when the annexation agreement was drafted in 2003 um and uh has some background information that I think would be pertinent for the board as well so to begin um on February 21st uh the village of Oswego sent Dr sparlin a letter seeking Financial contributions in the amount of 932 thousand dollars and if you look at the memo that was sent to us the first part of the memo from the village addresses the 2003 annexation agreement where it talks about um building or adding a traffic signal to the intersections of Harvey and Wolf's Crossing uh and the next paragraph of that letter then talks about the uh The Village's decision to put a roundabout in that area um and they reference a cost uh they on January 20th of 2023 they opened bids for that at about 8.5 million dollar cost and uh then they talk about the annexation agreement again that we signed in 2003 so at that time the annexation agreement the district agreed to contributing 25 of a traffic signal which is how they're getting the 161 932 thousand dollars uh the last part of their memo um talks about there is a portion of that annexation agreement which talks about the district being able to recapture a portion of that contribution from the property owners in the area and then uh it it says that after a payment is agreed upon by the village and the uh the Board of Education that the village would draft a recapture agreement um and then the letter just says you know talks about the traffic in that area So based on that we had that sent uh since whitlaw uh was involved with drafting that annexation agreement we figured we would have him take a look at that memo and uh give any any uh answer any questions that the board might have as we look at moving forward with this or to uh to clarify anything that we might have as well in the letter a contribution could be uh could be cash or it could also be through impact fees is what the village recommended as well so there's multiple ways for us to do that so at this time I'd like to open up for discussion or any questions that the board might have I I have two questions question one is um and if you don't know this that's fine because I know I didn't give you this ahead so sorry but as you're talking I thought of this question one is um there's no chance for them to come back and try and capture more later that's question one and question two I know tomorrow they're talking about another Development A Long Wolf which there are impact fees that are earmarked coming towards us so in theory um what are the probabilities of this just being applied to those impact fees that were slated to come in does that make sense what I'm asking both questions yeah okay um and just to clarify and then I'll let Stu answer too but just to clarify the annexation agreement in 2003 is specifically about the intersection of Will's Crossing and Harvey Road so the money uh in 2003 we signed a 20-year agreement to say that if there was a traffic signal put there that the district would contribute to that cost so it's about it's just a few months away from that agreement from expiring and that's when we got this letter from the village asking about that contribution now as far as them coming back for more later there are no other agreements that say with other developments we would be contributing to any development in that area or taking this money and putting these dollars towards crediting other developments I guess what I mean is you had said something about there was more than one way to pay and I guess what I'm saying is so let's say I don't know the exact figure but let's say the impact fees from this new development were 1 1.2 million I don't know what it is but let's say that's what the impact fees were is there a way for them to just say fine here's 1.05 and instead of the 1.2 we'll we'll talk we'll take the rest off and that is your 160 000.
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no no that was Aldrin that's the mayor percent every year since 1979 okay we have found that since 19790 now we're still growing at about on average three percent every year so it's been a very long talk that we've been seeing in central 301 so and do you know of any other districts what their typical growth is where the largest right so what part of Luda okay and we fall only behind Springfield uh which is growing in a larger rate Champaign champagne sorry um otherwise we are the only one growing at this rate so Luda is just so I know what it is just for everybody in the area school district so we belong to what other schools or other districts are in that 50 54 school districts in the state of Illinois so the state of Illinois has like I think around 847 school districts total okay um 54 school districts educate over 50 of the students in Illinois so that's not incredible that's correct pardon that doesn't include CPS so the Chicago Public Schools so it's everything but then no CPS is now part of Luda oh since when a couple years ago okay gotcha okay cool we're consistently if you would look back from it was interesting a superintendent reached out from um East St Louis area and he was doing demographic studies because of their growth and found that um actually were were like one of the fastest growing Unit School District in the state between 2018 and today okay for international buttons and seats as well and then the data you use as well to project that is what is like from what I remember I'm just doing this for the audience projections conservatively we we use 0.8 for household so every new household that we receive we found that a 0.8 student per household it's a pretty good indicator and it's been uh has worked really well for us for the last 20 years so that's for new projects for new new um houses that does not include anybody who transferring in we really don't have account in that that's what you're seeing here some shifts from individuals moving into the district as well as new houses so that is just for our new enrollment new enrollment three percent has been what we've seen um overall I just got the quote from Mr roadwalk so we've been growing that better than three percent for each year for the past 20 years that was to buy at stocks superintendent of schools back then so January 27 1979 so it's been a consistent pattern we've seen we consider it like last last year as you can see we were at almost eight percent uh but on average we are at three percent I think that was due to covet and some of those so that's the tool you use for New Homes Construction new homes for increasing uh student population is live birth then right I think basic live birth is what we use for kindergarten so we monitor live birth data that's happening in the county by a zip code we also have data that we can monitor by ZIP code but we don't really we know our average has been three percent for new houses just to kind of project forward with new houses that we know will be built or are on their Horizon yeah okay and so years ago when when Naperville bloomed in the Plainfield area boomed and their statistics when they were looking at their growth they were averaging about 1.2 okay children per household so back in the early 2000s when our district started to grow the assumption would be made that it would be similar to that and it actually has come in lower okay and it's been consistently point eight okay so you're not just spitball and stuff no you've got actually data you're looking at yeah originally they originally previous superintendent they were thinking well it's going to follow that same pattern as Naperville playing field and it was even though we're seeing a lot of Home growth number of students coming out of those homes was really 0.8 instead of 1.2 okay so you're relatively conservative in comparison but you are forecasted in terms of where we've been at um I think our growth came in much quicker here since the 2016 referendum that we had where we are today but when you look at the housing patterns it takes about 20 years for a subdivision it looks like for our district to fill to come to fruition so you do have some time to plan and make some adjustments along the way but usually when you have a subdivision opening up it's about a 20-year role correct to be able to get that to fall um you know be sold out completely okay so the gestation period essential is that and we look at that as well as we're kind of projecting out and so then the kindergarten so about to put you on the spot again so the kindergarten numbers is the live birth and then you know they typically are going to stay here you know a percentage of you know kindergarten classes that are here now are going to be seniors you know graduating in 20 years and all every class you're over here is about okay so whatever that starts at it's going to be three percent so we know that information and it's going to be three percent which is which is faster than anywhere around us yes cool thank you all right next we'll move on to Mechanical Electrical Plumbing engineer contract so I'm actually going to have Mr Polly come up there as well I'll talk a little bit about that process we went through we went through a little bit more of a detailed process here for the mechanical and we'll talk about why so um kind of like we we did with the civil engineering um having mechanical electrical and plumbing Engineering Services typically came through Larson and Darby they had their own in-house staff that took care of those Engineering Services for us they since no longer have that anymore so we've been Outsourcing that for the last couple projects not that we've had a lot of problems but there's been issues that I think we can forego and and things moving forward that would be better off if we had that partnership um directly with us again so we underwent the same RFQ process and we had four firms submit um and did final interview with with two of those um so we will have we will have a recommendation coming forward for an engineering service but I I think it's in our best interest moving forward to have those direct Partnerships like we have a construction manager like we have an architect to have those Engineering Services they're so important to what we're trying to do and moving forward and even going back even to have those resources to review our buildings make sure all the mechanical systems electrical systems roofs all that stuff is up to par so we're not for go you know see missing any issues doing anything as we're going through our capital projects that capital projects book that I I brought to the board when I first started that's our Bible I mean I'm going through Crossing those things off and making sure we're staying on task with those and these Engineering Services can just support that so I think it's in our best interest to have a direct part partnership with them too in lieu of subbing those out through the architect so when you head forward You released two from the process we went three first the first we did a first round with three of the four vendors and of those three two of them piqued our interest not just for mechanical but also from an educational standpoint we recognized that the mechanical individuals Engineers could do a lot for us in terms of the educational realm and we could part with partner with them in some of the elements that we feel we can bring to our students to actually improve some of the academic elements of could be solar energy it could be Alternative Energy it could be some of the ways that we're seeing us shifting and so as we looked at two of them we found them to talk a great deal about how they could bring that to us we brought them back for a second interview and so we're currently still talking through those processes but two of them had a lot of potential in terms of really helping us increase our knowledge base bringing it to our students to make sure that it's relevant to them as well for their life and how you can incorporate that into some of the things without a great deal of costs incorporate into some of the pieces of any building to help kind of students learn about energy in a very kind of open uh realistic experience great thank you any other questions all right thanks Dan thanks Dan we're moving on the committee reports so first CCC I was out here today so we'll actually have Shane berkmeyer stuff forward and Stephen uh Stephen here I don't know yep move forward CCC good evening so we started out actually I'll let you go ahead and start off with that what you talked about first so we uh letter we talked about the name change that's happening with our physical education department we're having co-ed 11th and 12th grade occur uh opens up an opportunity where our students are trying to get more classes not locking in certain hours where that limits their ability to take an elective of their choice or some option that really is restricted because we can only offer so many sections of each by doing this if you think about your 11th and 12th grade you're able to offer possibly one every single hour providing a lot more flexibility within the building we also then listen to a proposal about our fine arts department being able to make a recommendation to adjust some of the lengths of their classes from uh entirely year-long course options to semesterizing some of the courses providing options for students that don't have as much room in their space given the nature of freshman sophomore years restrictive on all the requirements that you need to meet to meet that graduation requirement this will open the door for some of those students to have an option that they didn't have previously curriculum wise it is not a really a major shift we're taking classes that may have the exact same intro class so for example you might have an intro and Ceramics class that is a year-long you might have an intro and then photo class that is year-long well the intro class is the same so providing that option where kids can have an intro class and they don't have to repeat it if they then choose to go into Ceramics provides them opportunity to explore those different areas in the art media sector without repetition which we don't want our students to be forced down the same exact thing stopping them from having a experience before they leave our doors better preparing them to make life decisions here versus delaying them which is a financial burden on our our stakeholders in the community so that was the uh kind of kind of how and why lastly it allows our students to reach that AP level our courses in a capacity that we can offer that course sometimes we struggle having the ability to have a singular course right so that could be like our 3D AP course or our 2D or now we're going to have a a combination where those classes can come together it's it's an Open Class where it is very student driven but specific as they're building their portfolios these are our students who are really have a a passion to go down that and go into the curricular area of some type of professional career in the art industry therefore this will allow them to continue down that achieve at a higher level offer them not only intro classes but all the way through to reach that higher level capacity and that way they are better suited to have what a portfolio is what they use actually for entering higher education it's not just the same process and this will support them on acquiring those skills and the physical portfolio needed to kind of meet what other schools offer which we need to be able to do here um we're also so we're opening the door to our Eighth Grade Center so our intro class that normally would be ninth grade only is going to be moved and have an option in our eighth grade year so that students will have the capacity to maybe uh dip their finger into that intra art class and it won't need to be repeated at a high school level of like oh you're now interested in it now you need to repeat it no it's going to be the same course uh provide that option so that kind of that exploratory that starts in that eighth grade year seventh grade you know as you're going down to that eighth grade year we'll be able to dovetail that in so that then again you're not actually having to start there which will also provide a different on-ramp for access in the kind of Fine Arts area of media and we'll be be provided them High School Credit at the eighth grade level and new course and of course the new the new course is a digital art class so we have uh some of the classes like we're combining the art the uh AP courses but also there's multiple digital classes in photography as we ramp that up and change things and kind of stay up to date with current careers and Pathways and education and software and all that kind of stuff we're having one of the photo two classes actually uh will be replaced by a digital art class uh being able to support a wider variety of media instead of it being singular on Photo this will open the door so that our students can cross over you think about our you know not to go off Ted's speech earlier but you know we have kids being successful in Mr Billings video production courses this artistic area can also be supported through our art giving those kids another step up and leg and that skill set so we can go down different uh areas you know business has marketing there's there's lots of different ways that we're able to navigate instead of creating that strict pathway of you're only going to stay in one Silo and really get those students to understand as it could cross in the future great more opportunity and then our last component that we talked about was continuing the conversation on grading practices that we had started out a few months ago in this um in this realm uh we focused on seven different questions really only got through one or two with the biggest component being on the impact that our grades have and so our consensus from the committee was really to um survey our staff and the stakeholders at the table to whether or not what direction we want to go on is it an opportunity for us as a district to land in what do we feel like ours our consensus or grading practices we'll gather that feedback from our committee members bring that bank when we meet again in May so that we can figure out what is our next step in that process but there's been a lot of conversation in the last couple months and wearing the crossroads really what direction do we want to go in so we'll gather that from our feet from our stakeholders bring it back and figure out what direction we're going to go in at that point any questions for us I guess when that decision comes down is that a decision that you will bring it to you following our conversation with the state plan or roll out where we think we should go we'll bring it to you as a recommendation and then you can take action if it's a change in the way we go about grading it comes to the board for a board decision okay [Music] so we have Dei and the culture blasts and King County culture blast I want to hear more about that it was so talked about outstanding I can't wait come on in come on up here so Kane County was on the third and we really was a group effort from from the direction that the students that we got brought in and Dei committees on Wednesday mornings that came to fruition then we kind of tackled it on our end for Kane County lens and it was a phenomenal day yeah off we did four different rotations uh Dr Bolton Dr Nolan was there Angela McDonald was there and then had our student panel did a phenomenal job of rotating our staff through a variety of different activities lots of great learning yes I'm sorry I was coming so uh Dr paulus and then Mike Doyle two of our instructional coaches also led a session for our staff so very interactive there was food from all different locations that was great feedback regarding the food people had an opportunity to try something they hadn't tried before so it was a really really great day we're still digging in from the curriculum lens and student services uh what is the feedback we just received that again from staff so we're digging in we'll take some additional time to spend and dig out what's our next Lane and where we go next for that um I don't know anything else to add on that from what feedback did you get from that teachers and staff and faculty that would attended overall this is a broad stroke but it was the best best Institute that they've had to date um in fact we opened it up for all staff including our paraprofessionals and various staff members and so they were all there so it was really very positive feedback I think the next Lane that we will want to approach is what's the next step so here we learned about it we got to engage in some of those conversations but what do we do tomorrow and what can we continue to do what are some resources and tools that we would want to expand upon would we do tomorrow in our classrooms what do we do tomorrow when they're in the lunchroom what do we do tomorrow when they're sitting on the bus so those will be the next steps that we'll kind of dig into and what will be our plan of emption into next year you know I thought the um the panel that you had of the students like there were two parts and um uh being able to listen to the kids speak to the issues that they've experienced and then answer questions from the teachers and the staff was so insightful it was so eye-opening and the juxtaposition of that panel with the culture blast the next day it it just really resonated it was an aha moment of yeah this is this is a great first step to building this even bigger and better in the future so I thought it was fantastic and really the day um for those of you that were there to be a part of it the the building was transformed so not just what it looked so there was Flags throughout the the various locations that staff were interacting and that set the whole tone for the day including our breakfast and our lunch and our snacks were very very wide stroked um and we're very purposeful in what the intention was to start this movement and start these opportunities so we will continue to expand upon it as we're digging in and side by side with the curriculum student services and it's also the Dei committee will continue to expand and plan those components moving forward and a big thanks really needs to go to our student population who they created displays to really get an understanding from other perspectives and Views that really is driving from them which started in the DI but then they they were able to identify our cultural makeup that's in our district and what needs to be like you can't do every single country that's represented but they were able to highlight some of the major areas which really got them to to kind of feel that sense of that Central 301 is not a district that does a one and done talk but they're invested and actually what's their culture because they aren't members of our population these are not you know one-off students and so I just I got to give credit to the fact of for those people that came and saw the hallways and some of the spaces and honestly the booths and all the things that that that's really students that put in time and effort uh researching uh backgrounds and creating those displays and and some of those very significant things that that had an impact and we were able to benefit that both on our Institute day on the third with our faculty across the board but then also on the fourth when it was open to the community and the community members were able to come in um we do have to give a lot of credit to the students because they're talking about themselves as members of our community and that's them that they're they're not talking about others they're they're they're taken to Heart what is really deep to them and so it was really nice to see their passion and hear some of their stories um that was open to all students right yeah any student in the high school could have done that so the what was displayed was the students that were interested in that yeah and some students even tackled areas that they didn't know but they wanted to know more and just see that passion of somebody who's at a high school level still exploring and looking to go you know what I want to know more I want to be a better person in the world in society and have them dive in for as deep as they did with not just table displays but like actual presentation type material and that type of stuff it was just a very impressive thing to see our students really stepping up at that level oh I agree I apologize but I was able to attend the Friday meeting and then also the cultural blast and it was amazing I mean I would have Nev you know lunch on Friday I would have never imagined myself trying a lot of that food from different nations and it was good I mean we plan to go to a couple of those restaurants for sure and you know it just opened it was an opportunity to open everybody's eyes on that and the same with the cultural blast I mean the food was great there and just a great opportunity to just open your eyes onto what else is out there and you know not always go to you know Burgers and Fries type of thing and being able to understand you know it's authentic foods not just Chinese Food and Pizza you know there's all kinds of other opportunities for it so I thank you very much for that I appreciate that and I think not only staff are excited to see what's next but the kids are too you know going to the meeting last week and the week before what what's going to happen next in the building so what can they types of displays or artwork or murals or anything to help kind of liven up the high school a little bit more so I know they're excited to see what the next steps are as well and perfect information for culture blast number well it's estimated at around a thousand people showing up we know for sure that uh just by the ticket numbers there was a ticket process that anybody that came a lot of donations came in to create these raffle uh baskets and stuff um not trying to raise money but really just still cultural awareness we were able to track 840 40 tickets for sure of individuals but we also are aware of a lot of the students and and staff that were there they didn't all go and get a ticket to put in a lot of volunteers came in to make this actually happen it wasn't a easy task and so um by just doing a quick estimate we were able to figure out we're roughly around a thousand people for the first time happening awesome it was a very powerful event a very powerful event the culture blast brought my family up to it I want them to experience it um I can speak from my experience with our students that our faculty our community our students we're proud Americans but we're not indigenous I'm not an indigenous American my family came from Germany and came from Czechoslovakia it was Bohemia at the time and came from Sweden and I'm proud of that Heritage I'm proud of the students there that were celebrating those Heritage as well but I was also very impressed as I went around and I talked to our students I talked to the family and I shared this with a cabinet Maine last week about the journey about the Journey of how did you get here you know out of all the places in the world and just listening to different things and different things these families overcame to come to America and to live the American dream very very powerful and it's a I think it's a great thing that you can Embrace being an American but you don't give up I mean I value my family traditions and my family history and they value theirs and I just found it I found it very powerful and very meaningful spending time talking to them and listening to their story and and their family's Journey so it was great I'd recommend it to everyone um just uh it's very just insightful and I hope our district does it again yeah yeah very very validatory that was the theme from the Third on into the fourth in the afternoon and um we will continue to conversations dig into feedback and continue to collaborate with the Dei committee as to next steps and things that we can continue to expand upon excellent thank you I do I think I'm going to take advantage of the opportunity here and share a little bit about the feedback so I was very fortunate honored to have been able to speak to all of our staff and faculty from our school secretaries by the way to our parents and our teachers and our principals so as I for those of you that saw me I think we had a couple board members that Esther and Todd were in there um you know the idea of having the ability to be in front of an entire school districts uh staff employees teachers is something that Angela and I have been doing this for seven years so we've never been able to do this specifically to talk about creating safe and supportive classrooms for LGBT plus students and faculty and so I think what was interesting that each group we had different people communicate with us and since I have so many administrators right now take advantage of having you all here and saying that for those of you that might not have heard people feel comfortable talking out loud what was consistent and we provided this feedback to Sarah so I'm hoping that people were honest about this that to distill a lot of this into pretty simple language there felt like a lot of language that was coded language stay in your lane Don't Rock the Boat tone it down was one person a quote from somebody about that tone it down just for having a a gender I use she her pronouns like it was just a like being told that implicitly or explicitly by the way and then I think from our teachers feeling is it the building administrators who are unsure and that's coming do they feel like it's coming from do that's something for you all to figure out that is not for me to figure out for me to bring it out and for everybody to sort out how can we fix the communications that there is Clarity how do we know how to support these students I have four Librarians come up to me and talk about concerns about one of them getting stalked on LinkedIn by a family who wrote an email that was not so nice to her who then found that the parents who had written this email were following her online there is real concern on the part of some people in this in our buildings about their own safety real or perceived about whether it's books or about what if I use these pronouns or the parent and I really want to support the child but I'm not sure how somebody's going to respond we need to make sure that our teachers feel supported there was a lot of anger too after some of these um and I was very clear with Todd in the room with our high schoolers about the fact that again we are still the only High School in the area that does not have a specific Saga sexuality and gender Alliance Group of sexual age or whatever you want to call it specific to that Organization for those of you who are not on the board here we're not in we're not able to join us on Friday there is a very clear protective Factor so the presence of an SGA in a school even if a student is not ever attended is a protective Factor against suicide for sexuality and gender minority it's significant and it is real so I'm gonna stop there so thank you very much for allowing me to be a part of that and asking me to do that so I appreciate that thank you any other questions for us no just thanks thank you thank you awesome we received one foil for any and all communication continuing to work backpack backpack rules including not limited to all staff Board of Education emails from d301.org and we just assumed that meant um Central 301.net from August 1st 2022 to 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2021 so that that was a good uh 15 months ago we have to budget 18 months ahead of time and and we're you know a lot lots change we've we've had uh we we have had a lot of turnover uh you've heard about that but um it was a long time ago we put the the people into the budget so we you know we've had some labor contracts since uh that have settled um it could be a I'm thinking it's a number of different factors rather than just one but like to report back when I take a closer look please I I'd appreciate that thank you okay okay um let me if I could um any word about the auditors um uh yes okay so where do I start um I I think I I believe I told you described last month that um the city had not hired Auditors for the year that ended June of 2022 right I did I report that I think yes yes okay and so what was happening was what that when the Auditors are hired um they're hired to do uh several things in their contract uh the the main thing in most of their work uh the Lion's Share is to produce the the city's uh annual report their annual financial statements uh sometimes that's called a kafir uh that's abbreviation Consolidated annual financial report if you looked on the city's website in the finance department um I think there's a link to annual reports and you would find that it's a book it's it's looks to be you know 300 pages that the city puts it together and then the Auditors come in and check it and it's all the different funds the revenues the taxes all of that that's one of the three things uh they do in order to do that they test check and they sample and they might come up with recommendations for procedures and controls and but that's all one still one part of that usually they Auditors would come in in April and May do all their sampling testing and once they're satisfied that the systems are working that the numbers that they're looking at are reliable they leave they come back in November you know a year closes in June they come back in November but by then the city finance department has put their reports together and they uh they check them all out and they they have to have their work done uh by the end of December the the city part one part two is they um there's they audit a report that we all Boards of Education have to do by the end of August if it's called the EFS and other e acronym but what the state education department wants to know is how much did we spend um on what and from all sources so they want to know how much did we spend from our budget plus how much did we spend from Grants Plus how many how much was spent by the city on our behalf we add those all up and report them in things a city might do for you they um here they plow our driveways and the winter time or they um we have SRO officers in our middle schools and there's other things every town and City might do it a little differently uh maybe next door they're plowing their own uh parking lots so they they put all of the the schools on an equal pairing and then um uh that goes into Hartford so they the Auditors come in and check that out too they say you know they have a checklist of I don't know a couple hundred questions to answer like did you test check Transportation online and five and did you sample teacher contracts online 56 and stuff like that um that's the EFS report and that's also due at the end of December and then the third thing is called for whatever reason a single audit and what that is is they compile both from the city and the school uh a list of every grant that they got and how much was it it doesn't tell you anything else we probably the city gets an awful lot of Grants too so do we in a separated in a book with the state grants minus you know monies that originate at the state level like Alliance and then the federal grants are things you've heard Title One idea uh things like that so so three tasks that are part of their contract well in uh early December the auditor wrote to us and said we haven't been hired yet for the year that ended June uh just want you to know well uh the state Ed Department gets our report that middle report was expecting it in December uh they didn't get it they asked us why we said well you know the Auditors aren't working yet and uh one thing led to another they um asked us and we talked about having our own uh Hiring Our Own Auditors to do that work so I the middle one so I checked with uh Dan Garrick the the City Finance director uh he talked with the auditor's partner Scott Bassett they both thought it was a good idea it kind of surprised me what they did so we hired a CPA who had done School audits uh or done City audits across Connecticut including the school piece and he finished the work I think maybe two weeks ago now sent it uh up to Hartford to the state Ed department they acknowledged getting it they thanked us they also asked for a letter explaining why it was late but the letter from the superintendent and answered well you know our Auditors didn't work so we haven't seen them either for the year that ended June of 22 we haven't heard anything from them what normally happens to start is they send you a list that says uh here are the things we want you to get ready uh in either scan to us or sent or we'll come look at it things like bank reconciliation salary agreements all kinds of stuff we haven't heard a word for 21 22 so at least the the state has what they needed to get from from us I know it's a long story long-winded explanation sorry thank you okay uh Branch a little bit a couple things going on there um Ken do you want to go to the uh first grant page it's the last page in our report and I'm sorry this is so small again I I was doing it this month and I was um trying to get things um into a the way we used to you were used to seeing them but it it just it went all on one page and got too small so I'll do better next time uh there's two grants in particular I'd like to point out because we're going to hear a lot about them as we go through the budget the first one is about a third of the way down it's called sr3 number 37.
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Uh we are happy to answer any questions that you may have. Uh thank you for the opportunity to testify. Nathan Morata, College of Dean, College of Dean Dean, College of Education. Afternoon chair, vice chair, members of committee. Nathan Morata, Dean, College of Education, uh Mano. Uh we stand in support with intent of House Bill 1204 HD1 and we've offered comments. I'll be around for questions if needed. Thank you. Sure. We have questions. Thank you. Uh Ivon Lao testifying for Hawaii State Public Charter School Commission. Good afternoon, Chair Makim, Chair Kanani, members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to testify. Ivon Lao on behalf of Charter School Commission. We stand on our written support of bill House Bill 1204, House. Thank you. Thank you. Leverne Moore for HSTA. Aloha chairs, vice president, vice chair, and members of the committee. Leverne Moore speaking on behalf of Osatoui Jr.
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so just the opening of that space with the glass that you can see in and see what's going on we now have overflow in another class room that we have to use for all the students that are interested in that also very exciting and as at South our El population is continuing to grow as well we had a great English language professional development last week with our teachers our El Department put that on it was just really quick things that teachers can do and skills and strategies they can use in their class they celebrated what was going on already in the school and to see how we can spread that goodness so that's really great we're going to be running of course I mentioned the social studies El courses as well um and we're hopeful to find an El science teacher to help because we we could fill an entire El section of the Earth and space science because it is that that popular so a lot of great things happening any questions for Keith that was great that the facilities are being used in the kitchens too that's great it's really neat it's really neat to see those numbers and to see that jump yeah because of that yeah you know I was uh last week I was on a panel in a couple of U.S government classes at South High talking to students we were invited in and one of the questions I got was you know do we you know do we listen to what students have to say and of course they're thinking about a lot of different things and I started thinking about all the ways and this is a huge way this you know we have a an abundance of class offerings and then we make decisions about how many of those to offer and what we don't offer based on student interest and and this is their way of voting for what they want to have happen and so I just I just thought I'd share that um and Mike we're we're somewhat unique in the way that we schedule here around student course requests is the primary thing that we're working around we don't walk in with a predetermined like we're going to run this many sections of this and that and whatever we build around student choice and what they're interested and then we work as hard as we can to get get it to all fit together as a puzzle piece so that students really get what they're looking to have as their their experience doesn't work out you know sometimes things don't break right you know perfectly and sometimes we have to offer up second choices to students but the great majority of students get what they're asking for here in District 99 and then we work from there so good segue so we start with those information that information we take these are all of the positions that are outside of those requests which we brought those changes to the board at our last meeting so those two pieces together come together in what Rob opened with about total FTE across the district so full-time equivalent positions is FTE so 417.1 is a reduction of two we do have a slight drop in enrollment so that reflects that declining enrollment however we are increasing support in special education at t99 and within the path program so at this point I turn it over I believe Scott's the next person because that's what we're talking about are those increases in Special Services yeah thank you so the top two are the um what George and Keith were talking about in terms of North Dakota and the director program which is for supporting students with emotional disabilities and then at South um we have obviously the MN program the sixth classroom that we're excited about to offer support to students and you know obviously that's in our projection of t99 in the future as it keeps increasing those are where the increases are coming from as we keep building our programs at North and South and then I have the special services coordinator which is the new position to help support our department chairs and it's the point for it at North and 0.6 head south we have the special services outplace coordinator that will be working at t99 with Lisa Barlow who is moving over there as our director of special services but supporting transition actually physically being there and then we're also having our special services outplacement coordinator help out with subbing which has always been we've been kind of having North support t99 this will be a great opportunity to have someone just kind of fill in as needed to help that and that alleviates some of the pressure when we're taking you know a staff member away from uh from North High you know to help sell that North so to be at t99 so and then um obviously Robin mentioned at the beginning I think all of this the t99 teacher which is the increase from this school year to next school year we will be increasing even more so the next school year with students so just be on the lookout for another teacher at t99 we always appreciate your support I mean our our district does support our special services in an amazing way so we appreciate that and then we do because of the increase of the speech therapist increase that's going to be a little bit at North and a little bit at t99 um and then we talked about this before the path coordinator increase which is the 0.6 head south to make that person a 1.0 and a 0.4 I'm sorry flip that around 0.6 North to make that person uh Patrick a full-time uh in a in the path program and then at South Michelle will be full time with the 0.4 increase so we appreciate that support too that's working with our students in our in the in school intervention room in our path program so go back just when I was trying to remember this but remind me how it works I get it where you spelled out the 0.4 versus the 0.6 um like for the special services coordinator but for North High up top with the special services and structural that's the teaching FTE so 1.6 at the same how does that work like at the same school yeah yeah so we we go through and look at what um just like in the process of student selecting courses but this is really driven from the IEP meetings of what supports that are needed and then those students are placed into the different classes and things like that so for example for north um like Keith had mentioned there's one North is increasing in in students that are enrolled in special services and getting support um but also the directive program is something that used to be at North the enrollment when uh really low and so we actually South has been supporting some of the students at North but they have enough students to run their own programs so that's kind of where that increase is coming in in play for North High so we need 1.6 FTE to cover that increase in those services but some of those will go back to back to no it's actually increasing North so that they can run the program um and then itself increases from the I mean the 0.4 is the overall kind of structure of special services but we do have an increase in this multi-needs program that's driving a lot of of what we need at South does that answer your question or I don't know if I was it so it's a full-time person and then this yeah so it's like so at North it's a full-time person would be the 1.0 and then it's three additional class birds for the whole year so every 0.2 is like one class there we go yeah so that one point one is one semester of a class okay so most classes are paired together across the year so that's point two okay so a point six would be a teacher with 0.6 is teaching three sections a day all year long somebody 0.5 would be like three one semester to another right because each of those semester Stacks together is a point one so a 1.0 teacher has five classes a day both semesters plus plan plus supervision plus launch is it Scott remind me how what's our total FTE allocation right now for um t99s well tonight so we have um so we currently have six teachers a vocational coordinator um and for so far teaching staff there's six teachers The Vocational coordinator is a certified staff member um and then Carolina who's our t99 coordinator is a full-time staff member and then we have our speech therapist as that's a certified staff member that will increase the full-time she's currently a 0.8 at t99 so she'll go up to the being full at t99 and that supporting North but then North has an increase to help with this speech support as well and we put that together with at North and South What's the total for special services so I'd have to go back and look at the number I could get you that I or just curious I mean because I mean 5.4 is a is a it's a pretty it's an investment that's needed so but just to help people understand the magnitude of of what we're doing we're currently at South I believe if my numbers are right we have like 46 special ed teachers and Stat like certified staff at South and like 36 at North so to put that in perspective of an additional and then t-99 has the you know like eight FTE of like teacher um you know kind of positions um to give a little perspective with that but it definitely is and I mean a lot of that is like t99 you know growing and it'll continue to grow you know like South is continues to grow in our in our multi-needs which is uh it's it's awesome I mean it's great people call and they're just like we hear you got good programming and you know we want to you know even when students are in you know third fourth grade they're calling and asking about our programming um so I mean it's a wonderful service that we offer but and special ed is very different in the fact that it actually comes down to students IEP plans right so right number of minutes of social work and the different variety of supports and needs like each student's needs it can be very different from one student in another a student might be in mostly General Ed programming and then have a course or two supported in special education to being totally inside like in the MN program where you're almost in a school inside of the school so you know we're seeing an increase in the number of students in special education right now but it's not like when you see a general education student go up we know they're going to take like seven courses you can kind of it's a pretty predictable formula as to what's going to happen Scott and the special whole student services team and Special Education team it's really student by student looking at what their needs are and where they're going to be placed in their courses so one student in special education could have a very large impact on the overall programming and Staffing or it could have a very small impact but it's uh it's a much more difficult puzzle to put together what I would say too to add to that like north um you know in the past couple years actually has been really not asking for a lot so this is kind of like where we're seeing the director program and the growth of a number of students that are going to be supported by co-taught and things like that so it does kind of you know it kind of does a little roller coaster I think from my experience obviously this continual like multi-needs growth you know obviously that's why teenagers being you know we're building on there to accommodate the students I mean we're going to be up in the you know in a few years we're going to be in the 90s which I mean we started that program and we were at like 20s yeah it's been amazing and it's all coming from our multi-needs within the high schools you know at North and South yeah um so well in addition to meeting those unique needs um you know it benefits the entire program as well you know just being able to do what we're currently doing better better coordination and and bringing in additional expertise as well more kids stay Within 99 boundaries rather than going out and and costumes we worked really hard on the you know right trying to follow the least restrictive environment of trying to have students come back from our outplacements to um which is a great difference so that's a great that's a great Point Terry because I mean there is a there is a cost to not doing this right we have an obligation to take care of our students in the way that they need to be taken care of bring it this way if we can't do it in-house we've got to do it out of house and that costs us even more this is a long term it's a great Point here cost benefit to keeping it in-house and not only that it's a benefit to our community of keeping our own kids in our own Community yeah and they can stay home you know and be with their families that makes a big difference just like our regular well in transportation costs for outplay students is very expensive on top of the the placement costs so in the long run it's the right thing for the kids that's why we do it but it's also the right thing for the district's budget and for taxpayers to try to keep these services within our community this is a small price to pay well it's actually a big price it's a big price today but but it compared to the alternative it could be worse it could be worse yeah I mean you know what I meant I know what you mean all right uh who do we have Jeff good evening everybody hello hi Dad and I am just going to kind of walk you through uh the last portion of our uh presentation and Staffing for next year focusing on my memo uh first portion of that uh notes for you staff members who are being honorably dismissed for next year uh those are staff members who we do not have equivalent FTE for next year so because we've heard some of the reduction in our enrollment so we have overall that have ripple effect excuse me and so some staff are thus not able to have the same FTE they have this year so those are the folks are being honorably Smith there's seven of those for next year uh also on the memo our couple staff who are just being dismissed um some people say why not honorably that is because those are staff are being dismissed for other reasons honorables for the reduction in FTE uh these other two staff members who are listed there are being dismissed because they were filling leave positions which have now expired so they would not have been coming back in either situation because of that so that's the difference there in those two things um then beyond that you see the list of names of all the staff members who are up for renewal for next year and that's the large packet of contracts that Julie's brought with to be signed and later this week uh lending your approval and strange of those I'll be meeting with staff members who will be very excitedly I'm sure as always looking forward to seeing those so they know they'll be able to continue their employment here in District 99.
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does that make sense you've got a number of different developments out here that have gotten impact fees right continue to have additional developments within fact fees so what you really want to be careful to do to stay within the spirit of the agreement is to limit your exposure in terms of credits against impact fees or cash yes to 25 of the traffic which they've Quantified in a recent bid of 161 932 right so what you satisfy that either through cash that you would give to them or through Capital facilities developmental impact fees which I would suggest would come from a specific development which is why I which is why I talked about the one a Long Wolf which is you know a which is the way that I would handled I would tie it specifically to a development so that they get their credits there the developer is going to pay the impact fees to the Village correct which is not going to pay them to you if you choose if the parties negotiate that that Avenue that make sense I think so in other words what I'm saying is take the 160 whatever it is out of impact fees that were going to come out of a development that's coming from because to me that may yes because to me that makes sense so it wouldn't be something along Orchard because that doesn't make sense to me sure does that make sense I don't see how Orchard I mean granted you can make an argument but I really don't see how Orchard this whole traffic signalization thing that started all dealt with the unique circumstances that occurred along wolves Crossing Road in 2003 with that on Ryan BLX it was a huge to improve uh Wolf's crossing road from Route 71 all the way to Route 30 with a four-lane cross section and that was just at the time that we were so the compromise was as the need arises will contribute our share and that's what basically happened here Mr Witter are you uh are you stating that 20 years ago in 2003 they were talking about four-lane roads on uh for of wolf crossing being a four-lane road from 71 to 30.
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we did respond uh rejecting the request not that I mean we could provide it but it was just so large that we're asking them either to limit the search or to limit the time frame uh just because of the you can imagine number of Correspondence they have a word backpack in it so yeah they're welcome to resubmit all right second concludes the Open Session um
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all the grants as you can see are numbered at the end yep right there um that was um originally a 35 million dollar Grant um it when we started the year we had uh two years remaining we had spent about 13 million and um I'm sorry 25 million dollar Grant I take that back uh we had only spent a few million um but you can see we've been using it remember when we had to cut the budget uh in June uh you know we had an 11 million dollar cut from the city uh most of that cut was transferred and and uh instead of uh cutting jobs and services and all that we we had this grant that uh was pretty large so we moved our our plans into the grant now you can see um there that uh as we come to the end of the second year the three-year Grant there's 12 million dollars uh there was unencumbered as to February 28th when I looked at it uh today uh that number is down to 11 million six and our our predictions are and as we look at how we're going to manage ourselves uh next year we're predicting that that figure on June 30th or July 1 will be 11 million dollars um so we'll we'll talk about that I'm sure as as we begin to get into budget deliberations with the with the city and all but that that Grant is is very important to us to watch and and see what happens there um that will be the only covid Grant left when we start uh in July remember the first one was called the cares act it's about two million dollars uh the second one if you look up the page uh is Grant number 29.
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President of the Hawaii State Teachers Association. We tr strongly support this resolution. We truly need teachers in in our schools and this is one way of doing it to to get more teachers into the school because we have such a shortage and it's not fair to have substitutes who really don't know what they're doing. So we this bill is really important. So please pass it. Thank you. Thank you. Christian Fern. Good afternoon, chairs, members of the committee. Sarah Beamer for Christian Fern at UHPA. We stand on a written testimony. Thank you. That's all the testimony that was signed up for person or in Zoom. Is anyone here in this room that would like to testify on this measure? If not, um members questions. I do have questions. Sure. [Music] uh you talked in your testimony that the COE offers a suggestion whereby a ratio or years of service for each year be the foundation.
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uh also in the pack of information for my section are the resolutions that effect for all of these actions as well as the exhibits which are the list of names again and then the copies of the letters perform letters that will be used in terms of informing these individuals of what's going on after the board ends to that portion any questions for Jeff just a comment that this is just this is really tough having to you know the honorable dismissals um you know I have to mention Belford Hernandez here because he's you know he's such a he's so great and I'm sure the others are wonderful as well and uh but uh student population goes down and the need goes down and and it's also student interest as we said as we start with what the students are requesting everything's a ripple effect after that moving through by no means is an honorable dismissal that anybody was a bad teacher or poor teacher it's it's honorable we didn't have work we don't have work for you yeah so then then we have to move forward you just hate to move you hate to lose any good any good people because good people are so hard to find so education that's helpful too I think right yeah and we will definitely help all of them land on their feet but uh you know it starts with what our needs are and that's kind of the end result in some ways and it's uh it's never it's never a good thing to let good people go but in the end you know we also can't keep uh staff that we don't have sections for all right any other questions all right thank you Keith and Georgia for joining us this evening thank you thank you thank you I just want to say thank you Georgia this is your last last week thank you [Applause] you're welcome to come back for this evening next year if you'd like yeah [Laughter] I'm sure she'll have the uh the Youtube plugged in oh I'm sure yes yeah yeah maybe two Nancy you just made I think a comment about the amount of work that just went into everything that we it sounds so so cut and dry but yes is not it's hours and that wasn't it's literally of the team you saw today it's literally three straight full days of just that team in the room let alone all the work of Department chairs and counselors and teachers and everybody else behind it you know this is what drives the engine here so an appropriate amount of work goes into that and making those decisions so all right so turn it over to Rob now for a couple of textbook recommendations for next year all right thanks everybody uh yeah we have three recommendations for textbooks the first one is for our biology course the second one is for the new Earth and space science course they need a book to for their course and then the third one is for our personal trainer certification and as I said in the memo goes through a very rigorous vetting process with the teachers Department chairs the apis in Gina and so these are the ones that they have settled on as their recommendation for years for next year talked about that at one point and we didn't have the enrollment so no no we've been we've been pretty much able to or offer a section we also it's dual credit yeah of course and this is actually an update a newer Edition that aligns very very closely to the exam that they have to take so yeah no that was early on when we first started talking about yes oh we've had not recently right yep but it's great to see yeah it's a good it's a good class I took it there you go that's what's up oh I just I just have one quick question for the Earth and space science was there a newer Edition we all I think we were all thinking that yeah so it's interesting because I we raised the same question and I actually just spoke with our representative on Friday Friday afternoon in fact and they do not have a schedule to update that book in the near future really they can't even give a tentative or estimated date remember Earth and space science doesn't change at the same rate as biology does right it's I don't know I think we've come across some new things well you Pluto's a planet it's not I mean I mean you know what that's messed up man yeah not the same planets that you and I probably went to school with stick around my daughter's laptop have you heard about Pluto that's messed up you know so yeah that's a good point okay there we go all right great so I I mean I just asked yeah that's a great question those are still posted for if somebody would like to review them they just need to reach out to to Rob I think they're at the library aren't they no no they already didn't no most of the textbooks now especially the ones that are more virtual the only way to see them is to sit down with somebody and go through them so it's not like with many of the digital resources it's not like something you can put on a shelf oh okay so so because of that we've transitioned to anybody who wants to see it they just need to reach out to Rob and he'll create an opportunity for somebody to review the resource all right Transportation contracts uh these uh came to the board a month ago nothing has changed since then it's the same details uh you saw then but tonight they're back for Action um first student is a recommended increase of six and a half six and a half and then uh sunrise for special education is six so they're both in the same kind of ballpark any follow-up questions for from board members for junior Mark since the last time all right that's up for Action this evening uh also uh back is the sale of bonds for the galvanized pipe project at North where as part of this project we're required to publicly notify the board of the sale of bonds so that's what this serves as in the public meeting um you've been informed thank you uh Jewel litigation partial settlement this is something we've talked about with the board enclosed as it was a pending legal matter it's now out in open now because we are reaching the point of a partial settlement as part of a class class action lawsuit that District 99 is a part of as part of this we provided evidence of all of the staff resources that went in both supporting the response to vaping but also then the discipline that goes along with that as a result of this this is the first of what will likely be four settlements related to this lawsuit there's a gross offer for District 99 of 114 thousand dollars 130 or 114 137 dollars and eleven cents out of that uh portions go to a variety of different law firms we believe that the net that the district will receive will be somewhere around seventy eight thousand seven hundred and fifty four dollars for very little staff time invested in this process so to receive over we'll receive over a three year paid out in portions over a three-year period so it is uh the board's attorney's recommendation that the board accept this offer this evening any questions I don't have any more all right uh next one is that the Board needs to establish an organizational meeting the administration's recommendation is May 15th which is actually when our meeting was scheduled and it is the last possible day to do a board organizational meeting under the new laws that were passed um so we are establishing that date for this meeting and then the final one is an amendment to assat to the sasset agreement this has been shared with the board multiple times Joanna's been part of these meetings as they've discussed it but it's really creating two different boards one that's a board of control that's made up of superintendents or assistant superintendents like Scott that are in the room that are have the background knowledge of how special education works and the mechanics of it doing more of the day-to-day business and then splitting off a governing board that's looking more like Mission Vision evaluation strategic planning and those kinds of things to reflect more of kind of how the the war the board works within a regular school district sacid would work very similarly in that way everybody that's a mem every District that's a member of sacid would have represent representative on the board of control so it's an action item this evening to approve this amendment to this asset agreement for that structure this was something you thought was a great idea right Joanna so yeah yes I know it's something that you kind of evaluation right yep so thank you for that all right the last one for this evening is Freedom of Information requests we have received them and responded to them they can be found if you search our website for foia you'll see a little green bar that says recently fulfilled foia requests that brings you to the long list of foia requests that have been responded to that's all for superintendent's reports this season anything else from any of the board members okay hearing none we'll move on to the public hearing the next agenda item is a public hearing on the proposed reduction in force of teachers this hearing is held in line with section 24-12 of the Illinois school code which provides for the hearing when the number of teachers to be reduced due to economic necessity is greater than 5 or 150 percent of the average number of teachers honorably dis dismissed in the preceding three years whichever is more while the reductions contemplated later in this evening's agenda are not based on an economic necessity we are holding the hearing with the intent of giving both the teaching staff and the public notice of layoffs and the opportunity to express their views to be clear the reduction in force is excuse me the reductions in force contemplated later in this evening's agenda will not impact educational programming and are not based on economic necessity rather these reductions are based on course selections for the upcoming school year so with that do we have anybody this is opportunity for public comment if anybody would like to address the board this is your opportunity you'd have three minutes and it would follow all other rules of public comment hearing none none then we will don't we have to close that or can we just need an emotional move we close the public hearing second Mike and Cheryl thank you very much Mike Davenport aye shirelle Fuller aye Jenny hagstrom aye Terry pavasich aye Joanna Vazquez Drexler aye Christopher Espinoza aye and Nancy kapka aye the public hearing is closed we'll next move to the consent agenda and before doing so I just like to pull mention three things that are in the consensus area and of course see if anybody else wants to bring anything else but we've had three donations yes first we had a donation from Gary Nick crystalline Christine of some lovely musical instruments we had a donation from the Downers Grove Road Runners of over I believe is over twelve thousand dollars some of the money going to the north to the South into the t99 programs and uh we had another lovely donation from g g pediatric dentistry and Orthodontics so thank you to all of our donors greatly appreciated for the community support did anybody else have anything they want to bring out of the consent agenda no I just want to say I love the title 0.58 no we we ended up with a good title thank you okay so I need a motion for the board of ordination to approve the consent agenda as presented which includes a the Personnel reports 2020 excuse me 2023 to 2024 full-time renewals 2023-2024 non-tenured part-time renewals the appointment certified and appointment classified be the Personnel report resignations classified see the financial Pages d student trips e-waving a first reading and Adoption of board policy 3.58 20 24 to 25 proposed calendar G the Illinois High School Association ihsa membership from July 1st 2023 to June 30th 2024 age the acceptable donation Gary Nick and Brett Christine uh the acceptance of donation for the Downers Grove Road Runners Inc and Jay the acceptance of the donation from G G and G pediatric dentistry and Orthodontics so moved I think I heard um Joanna and Terry thank you Joanna Vasquez Drexler aye Terry pavasich aye Mike Davenport aye Christopher Espinoza aye shirelle Fuller aye Jenny hagstrom aye and Nancy cupka aye the consent agenda carries I will move on to action items the first action item is we need a motion for the Board of Education to adopt the resolution authorizing notice of honorable dismissal of non-tenured teachers other than final year probationary teachers and that the president and secretary be authorized to sign saying so moved second Terry and Chris um Terry pavisich aye Christian Espinoza hi Cheryl Fuller aye Jenny hagstrom aye Mike Davenport no Drexler aye aye Nancy krupka aye the motion carries next we need a motion for the Board of Education to adopt the resolution authorizing notice of non-report of non-renewal to non-tenured teachers other than final year probationary teachers and the president and secretary be authorized to sign same so moved second Terry and Chris I know it's hard who's the second Chris Chris Davenport aye and Nancy cupcock hi the motion carries next we need a motion for the Board of Education to approve the recommended textbooks for 2023-2024 is presented so moved shirelle and Joanna Cheryl Fuller hi to one of us because Drexler aye Mike Davenport aye Professor Espinoza hi Jenny hagstrom aye Terry pavasich aye Nancy krupka aye the motion carries next we need a motion for the Board of Education to approve the amendment to special education student transportation services and transportation contract with Sunrise Southwest LLC for the 2023-2024 fiscal year and authorize the administration to execute all necessary documents to continue this contract so moved second Mike and I think Christopher again thank you Mike Davenport aye Mr Espinoza aye shirelle Fuller aye Jenny hagstrom aye Terry pavisich aye Joanna Vasquez Drexler aye I'm Nancy kopka aye and the motion curies next we need a motion for the Board of Education to approve the amendment to the extension of people Services agreement with first student Incorporated for the 2023-2024 fiscal year and authorize the administration to execute all necessary documents to continue this contract so moved Terry and Joanna thank you Terry pavesich aye to one of us construction aye Mike Davenport aye Christian Espinoza aye Cheryl Fuller aye Jenny hagstrom aye Nancy kupka aye the motion curies next we need a motion for the Board of Education to adopt the resolution authorizing partial settlement of vaping litigation so moved second Chris and Mike is it my first story no Chris was first thank you we must sound a lot alike Christopher Spinoza hi Mike Davenport aye Cheryl Fuller hi Jenny hagstrom aye Terry pavisich aye Joanna Vazquez Drexler aye and Nancy cupka aye the motion carries and finally we need a motion for the Board of Education to adopt the resolution of Board of Education of Community High School District 99 ratifying proposed amendments to the school Association for special education in DuPage articles of joint agreement second Joanna and Terry oh thank you very much Joanna by Chris Drexler aye aye Terry pavisich aye Mike Davenport aye Mr Espinoza aye Cheryl Fuller aye Jenny hagstrom aye and Nancy kupka aye the motion curious we'll move on to Old business uh we need a motion for the Board of Education to approve the policies as presented did anybody from the policy committee have anything to say okay nope I've brought them with just in case let's make a motion that we can have discussions so moved Mike uh I've received no follow-up from any board members with concerns about these we have made a couple of changes in administrative regulations that are associated with these policies which is how we carry them out that will release tomorrow or we'll put in our our files tomorrow and share with staff as well as we said last time most of these are really clean up type changes there's not a lot of substance and in the changes that are presented here it's either clean up or responses to change in state law or federal law there's one that's Federal right that's it okay can you call the book Mike Davenport hi Cheryl Fuller aye Jenny hagstrom aye Terry pavisich aye Joanna Vasquez Drexler aye Christopher Espinoza aye Jerome Fuller hi I'm sorry yeah hi emotion care is interesting I thank you again that was a lot of work from the policy committees it's a stack it's a lot okay uh we're gonna move into our second reception of visitors have we had any slips no slips so we're going to move into our Communications and announcements um Lund Jenny anything to update yeah we had a meeting on Friday March 17th and then we'll have one more at the end of April and I think that'll be the last one for this school year um there is a lot going on right now I I'm in Springfield and there are land representatives were kind of wanting to point out that you know there's a there's new leadership and a lot of new representatives and so there's a lot you know it seems like going on maybe even more than usual they were looking at they did have the Lend executive committee committee met with uh Senator Emma scrope his name villa villa volume [Laughter] from Skokie he was the the senator that tried to push through a sex education mandate Bill during the veto session it did stall at that time and there is no bill currently filed or in the works but the Lend committee wanted to have kind of a preemptive conversation with him about it and see where he's coming from there are a couple of concerns both in you know whether he's whether the survey results that were sent out by the Illinois State Board of Education or isbe sorry whether they're an accurate representation of what districts actually want there's also concerns because at any time parents can opt out and if a large percentage of parents were to opt out that creates some operational issues for schools because they need to continue to educate kids during that time and it would just be like you know kind of splitting everybody up and what kind of instruction is going to happen for the kids that are opting out um so that is styled they wanted to they wanted to make sure reiterate that there isn't anything currently being reviewed on that um and then the couple others that they are monitoring are a minimum salary for support staff they feel like that needs a little bit more discussion because if they need more information on the funding source there's a kosher food bill which also is getting quite a bit of opposition right now mostly because they need to address some liability language in the bill and they also need a state agency that would kind of oversee the the bill and they don't have one presently and they don't think that any state agency is going to step up to that responsibility um there's a literal literacy and dyslexia bill that's being worked on but the way that it's written right now they they don't like it and they are hoping for more review and discussion another bill on discipline that again was given an extension for more review there are some bullying policy bills that relate to cyber bullying predominantly those also need review and then they're still watching a 10-year Bill to shift from four years to three there has been some movement on this bill but they're still in discussions as to a couple of items we are trying to move forward with the graduations rate bill or the bill that kind of recalculation recalculates yeah the students that are in the transitions type program so that they aren't altering and then graduation statistics and then there was kind of a confusing bill at the end about cash on hand and how districts need to disclose when they have over a certain amount and that seems like that's pretty preliminary at this time also yeah overall in that meeting as Jenny mentioned the big change is in the past the list of bills was thinned out before it went to First reading and it seems as though under the new leadership any bill went to First reading and it we're still waiting to figure out where the thinning of bills and combining of bills and all of that that traditionally happened before we got to this point will occur there's literally thousands of bills out there right now so and we understand that the legislature would like to adjourn early this year so we're wondering where all of this work will get done in the next month and actually I think there was a deadline of um the third reading deadline of March 24th for the house and March 31st for the Senate and they're looking at a May 19th adjournment so it's a very um yeah compressed schedule so it'll be something that will be closely monitoring with lend over the next next couple of weeks I hope we get some success on the graduation rate calculation I know there's going to talk in the communities yes and they're probably the two that are most looking like they're moving forward and what they're addressing so and they get they get paid to do their jobs and they get to compress their I mean we maybe we should vote uh yeah yeah you try to do yeah the schedule's already been made all right incredible okay Joanna did everything on sale I haven't had a meeting since my last report and so it's on Wednesday here uh yeah we're um we're hashing out our uh our mission statement and our goals so um that's pretty much what our meeting entailed this last time so we're we're working on it is any updates from Association School boards not the report our upcoming board meetings will be April 10th we'll have a workshop meeting here at 6 30 and then on April 17th we'll have our regular business meeting at 6 30 here at the ASC we are going to be going into closed session I'll be asking for a motion in a moment but when we we will not be voting on anything when we come out of closed session so you're welcome to hang around other than tour other than to a journey yes we're going to vote yeah yeah so I do need a motion for the uh to go into closed session for the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in the park recreational or educational setting or specific volunteers of the district or legal counsel for the district including hearing testimony on the complaint lodged against an employee a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreational or educational setting or a volunteer of the district or against legal counsel for the district to determine its validity and for the collective negotiating matters between the district and its employees or the representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees so moved everybody moves everybody moves gotta pick two I'm gonna say uh Jenny and Mike okay thank you Jenny haggs Mike Davenport aye Christopher Espinoza aye shirelle Fuller aye Terry pavasich aye Joanna Vazquez Drexler aye and Nancy cupka aye motion carries we will be going into closed session uh so thank you for all of our attendees and we'll take just a few minutes break we'll be in this room so yeah
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um okay okay that's my number yeah that's good that's good that's a good memory I I seem to recall that too is your memory functional if it is then I trust that memory I I remember that also and I think we have documentation of that yeah I'm sure as I sat in traffic last week for 43 minutes on wolves Crossing 20 years later I I just have one question why is traffic signalization versus how is that it might be me as um subjective as I feel like we are having this discussion about to me a traffic signal is a traffic signal around about um I'm just really struggling with why there is so much ambiguity regarding that because there's not a clear-cut definition of whether roundabout constitutes traffic signalization but if you look at the definition of a traffic signal and you look at the definition of a roundabout they are not the same thing exactly they're not the same thing so so to to to to to live to the letter the annexation agreement The Village will what a traffic signal at Wolf's Crossing Harbor Road that's not necessarily the best traffic controlled device given the standard classifications you know we never used to have we used to have roundabouts years and then we never then we got rid of them and I'm not debating that neither here nor there for me right now regarding this we made an agreement to pay for whatever percentage for a traffic signal whatever the village has to do in their planning and safety is whatever the village has to do for their planning and safety I realize that it impacts students and to understand what this document what our actual liability is period well and that's that's kind of where and one of the reasons why I wanted whitlaw to take a look at this memo because I questioned that too and it was just what is our what is Our obligation it's 25 that we had if uh if a traffic signal was in there and one of the things I'd like to ask the board to do is actually go to the village and find out a little bit more about the financial plan what what is the village investing what types of Grants are going in that 25 percent represents what percentage of the total uh investment in that project right that's what I was asking that all of that here it's point I yeah I don't know why we're I'm just trying to understand why we're having a discussion to be honest with you traffic signals a traffic signals so um I agree Dr Patrick and that's why in the letter we had them clarify that's why um in the letter the first paragraph in The Villages letter kind of misstate what it really says in the annexation agreement they say intersection Improvement when really that it's not an intersection Improvement right traffic signalization so there was some Liberty with the words there and we just wanted to make that clear to the board that we did agree but in the spirit of that letter we realized that with the school here and the intersection there that a lot of traffic students coming to school dropping off picking up there is a lot of activity there just as there is all along wolves Crossing so I guess the the question is what what um what do we deem as a fair value to contribute towards that traffic signal well in the other reality is traffic mitigation right we have a budget a very finite budget we have a list of things that we have to address that go extend Way Beyond that budget and so it is our Judiciary responsibility as a board to make sure that whatever money is going out is financially prudent for us so this is incredibly important because this is in lieu of another project that we could like be taking me again I'm not here to debate safety because we want to put the safety we I as a taxpayer of this community you know I want it to be a safe that's not what I'm debating or having a discussion about I I understand your point and like I I don't necessarily disagree but I will say this right at the end of the day the agreement was made in 2003.
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uh that's uh they call it s or two and this month we don't have the grant numbers on on the on your sheet just it should be right on the screen there you see it's at the uh I don't have the number that you you usually attached to it it's right there after the description zero two nine oh all right I stand corrected yeah we had a way of resorting these I just I didn't know how they were doing it so I I put it up this way um so there you see uh 3.8 million unencumbered and this grant ends on um actually it's September 30th but you know school ends in June so for all intensive purposes it it ends uh this school year and what we've done this month is we asked the state to amend our applications the first time we've asked the state to consider a new plan for any of our covid pandemic Grant any of the three this was the first time and what we've asked them to do is approve our K-5 reading program [Music] you've heard about a couple times I I think at your meetings the need for a new reading program and that cost will be a little more than 3.8 billion dollars if the state approves it and we have every reason to think they will it's an allowable expense uh or eligible expense I should say uh we will then encumber this uh for the reading program and and that will bring an end to uh the second of the three Esser grants so we're watching this one carefully but I I wanted to point out as you look at all the all the grants those are the two that are the the most important to us those are the you know part of that financial cliff you hear about and some of the other presentations we've made so um we'll be in our meetings the next couple months we'll be looking carefully at these for sure yeah I think Teresa has a question is that reading program a recurring cost um well there will be uh you know like any uh text any program with textbooks there's um you know you have to replace textbooks um you know every so often they wear out or you you know enrollment changes uh like a subscription cost is there a subscription on top of the books well I'm gonna I'm gonna look to um Carrick casimiro maybe to answer that um all of these um everything today um has some uh online uh parts to it uh that teachers use uh there's some online training um there's a digital part of this I'll say that much and um I know there's a recurring part but it's it's nothing like uh 3.8 million um this is really for all five grades to get a new new curriculum in in a new program uh okay so so those are the grants um and we talked about the budget and I I did a little differently uh this month but it's a lot going on and that that's what I had out you're okay all right sir that is Teresa go ahead when are you getting your new assistant so yeah we've had we've been advertising for a couple weeks Eddie is now in his new job in in Middletown and uh we just uh yesterday we had 13 applicants there was a 14th came in today it really wasn't didn't have the background um we've done a paper screen uh and there be either five or six people uh we're gonna invite in for interviews there'll be a panel of people to interview them and and score them there are no internal candidates uh that apply they're all uh external um what what I took an extra week because I advertised it um in the New York um School business officials web page thinking there might be some Westchester people or Putnam County people uh and we didn't get much from that so we're either going to do the first round of interviews on on the 28th I think that's next Tuesday or the 31st next Friday uh depending when the panel uh can get together and then depending you know if they're two candidates who bubble up maybe another round uh if there's one uh probably bring them in or her in uh to uh be interviewed by some of the other administrators here um and then um hope and then you know they're all working somewhere so um they would probably have to give notice you have a couple weeks so um best case I think would be the middle of April uh third week in April so thank you yeah any other questions Mr Russo there are a couple questions in the chat all right sorry let me look at those first uh Teresa do you want to go first you want me to do the chat oh go do the chat okay um what is the percentage drop on unencumber from 8.8 today um well I would I maybe I could answer it this way um you know our expenditures went up 18 million dollars um in you know where our budget's 141 million um not much goes on in July and August so it's pretty much a 10-month uh event uh which with most of our expenditures coming in June when we have our our teacher we call it a balloon payroll they can um take less money during the year and more at the end so they have some money for the summer um so the the percentage drop from uh 12 million to 10 million uh you know probably uh 18 I would think and it looks normal to me for March um it's just a lot happening okay uh next question though the cave webinar uh the reading State Grant is only 20 million for all participating districts um the uh where the reading statement it I'm not familiar there's about a state Grant just for reading um yeah if there is uh well uh that could be a budget Offset you know uh on I think we'll take a look at that uh because uh right now we're paying for it with the Esser Grant if we could use this grant um that would free the SR money up for something else so that's um that's I think we'll look at that first thing in the morning um thank you uh of course remember the um the budget is not yet final um as I started out with um the general assembly might change some of it so before we we jump let's make sure it's uh it's in the law oh the right to read act okay that's that's good to know um what else is here John can I ask a quick question and maybe you're not the person to answer it but I think um Dr casimiro brought up the quad the cost for that the implementation of that um reading program as somewhere in the neighborhood if I want to say between three and four million dollars everything's gonna be done in segments is that right um well so what um what we're seeing now is something just under right around 4 million there's only 3.8 million left in the answer to and our plans are to look at the um unencumbered balances in June and hopefully uh earmark some of that for the rest of the reading program there's a I have to say there's going to be some uh competing interests for end-of-year money for example you know we our budget for next year has portioned for savings and efficiencies those are things we might want to do this year instead of next year there's also a brand new security Grant around that requires a local share the state would pay two-thirds which is a lot of money if we could pay a third so so some things like that um I'd love to be able to do all of those if we can so that's um thank you thank you okay I think that's it for the chat box okay and then Teresa did you have a question yeah yes um the trip to Tennessee I understand was paid for Grants which one paid for that trip because I'm hoping we have more money so we could go down yeah it's called uh it's called the bar Grant a very uh parrot does it Aura better than I would um the uh it's it's they're very much um encouraging our Academy model uh they've given us a lot of leeway if you look on there it's at the bottom of the grant page there are two of them right Grant number 139 and 145.
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So it's for example ratio of 2:1. Yes. So you're saying that instead of seven years it should be eight if it's a four-year degree. Well I I think the uh thank you for that question. The seven years I think would be a good um ceiling. Uh I was were referring to more specifically if a student were to enter not so much as a freshman but sophomore junior senior year then to have a ratio of the amount of years funding to equate to two years of service evolution. I see. So you're assuming that this measure will allow one to enter at any point and not necessarily from as a ninth grader or I mean freshman because the bill is does not say that at all. Yeah. Uh you also talk about the monitoring monitoring system needed to ensure candidates are completing their service obligations. So is that your responsibility uh's responsib?
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and I think that whether we agree or disagree with that agreement is irrelevant um we we are we are the inheritors of of that agreement and we are the inheritors of of that board and so I think we have to honor that and we have to also be cognizant of the following right and and that is that um at the end of the day we have no power over impact fees that are set and so um I I have no problem with saying fine here here's here was the agreement that I think o'grier disagree I think this is what the board at that time envisioned they were that they were saying a future board was going to have to pay and I think that's the piece that we have to honor is what was the intention of that board the intention of that board was they saw a traffic light going up and they said the school district will contribute 25 percent that board did not Envision a roundabout that's fine if the village wants to change and go with a roundabout that's on them and that's their decision I think for us though we have to honor what the intention of that board was back in 2003.
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um that looks like there's a lot of money left but you know I don't know what her plans are for that knowing knowing her she's got a plan so uh well I'm hoping that we will get invited to go to Tennessee um and see for ourselves yeah I I think Kevin still on I mean the the stories we're hearing from that are just remarkable so right right sounds great okay other anyone else anyway uh good evening John and everyone uh I had to go out for a few minutes uh my concern is we have everything all lined up from what I see my question would be to you since the city has not completed their order yep it's any of this how is this affecting our budget as far as finances coming out that's being well probably held over to the the board of air so to it's a good question um we talked a little bit uh I mentioned a little bit about um the audit now um most times uh like a ad hoc committee or or cities and towns that have Finance boards uh instead the folks that are setting the tax rate uh yeah they're they're the ones that are usually pushing the hardest to have a completed audit because what what they're interested in in is the Surplus money the community chess to retained earning how much is there for many different reasons they don't uh want to over tax if they don't have to um if it's not what they thought how much should they set aside but they they're the ones that really want to know um in our it really shouldn't uh impact us and their decision towards us but if you remember at the end of 2021 we had a we turned back money and that money um was set it set up in our reserves uh 2.8 million it it replaced uh the 2.4 million we had used a year earlier to help help with the budget ass so that money went over a check was written deposited so the reserve is set up should we need to go to it this year or the year that ended June of 22 we didn't turn anything back I don't know if you're here I uh Therese asked about we hired a auditor to do the report for this year ourselves and send that up to the state he didn't recommend any adjusting entries it would have changed that zero you know sometimes they might find something that's in the wrong year or quoted wrong there were no changes to what we reported to you last fall so I I it shouldn't impact their decision about us [Music] but I think it it it's got to be on their minds for setting the tax rate sure but it looks like good practice business practice is the city have went ahead and completed their order and then uh you know this way whatever we needed to do as uh the finance director everything would have been in place uh that's what we're only trying to say well yeah and they're actually um they're missing two audits the the 2021 in the 2122 effect I'm sure we'll bring that up during their our ad hoc committee meeting John may ask a quick question about that on balance um that the city is holding on to for the Board of Ed do we have an up-to-date number as to what they are holding for us um we don't I I have to say Dan is uh Garrick is uh great to work with everything I've asked he's he's uh given right away I could ask for that um but I think we need to separate uh two things so what really is more is is earmarked for us are the reserves the balance sheet reserves um and where they are if you if you took the number we last uh handed out I think it was just under 10 million and you took away the 2.4 million that we used last year and then replaced it with 2.8 million we'd be four hundred thousand dollars higher however when we uh when we had the problem with the high school gym we needed an insurance deductible of 250 000 they release 250 from the reserve to pay for that so we're right about where we've been I could put it together if you'd like the city Surplus on the other hand is um the last last time they counted it up was about 40 million dollars undesignated so what do you like to say so you know and that's for unexpected things or whatever it would be great if we could John to get a a you know sort of like a summary of the accounting on the end on that end right the reserve funds um so I just want to be clear because I know we've gone back and forth over this a few times the money that paid for the gym floor actually came out of our Reserve money is that right so it was not the city that paid for that that came out of support event Reserve money yeah the loss was about um I think a little more than three hundred thousand yeah a little more than three hundred thousand and um Karma our City's insurance company paid the amount above 250 000 that's the city deductible so we went back and asked the city to for money for the deductible they said well we'll give you your reserve to use and however you describe that so okay thank you very much all right I any other questions any other questions again you know I have I see that the bottom line in the summaries gives us what 24 million 320 000 unencumbered is that that that's just the grants what says to Grants yep okay and um of which half you know comes from that Esser to um and another quarter maybe comes from the other Esser okay and from our 141 million dollar budget I'm seeing unencumbered of 12 million roughly 4249 exactly okay and that's the one when I updated the reports today the new figure is nine million nine hundred five thousand 9 million nine hundred and five thousand okay 9 million 505 505.
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So I think during the time when the students are at the university, it would be the university's responsibility to monitor to ensure that they're taking courses, their grades are appropriate, adequate, and to continue to monitor and if they're falling behind to do the necessary interventions to get them back up to speed. So you have other programs where this is the case where they get a tuition waiver and they have to abide. Yes. What has been the track record of students completing or students not completing and have Oh, we we we have a very high percentage of completers. We do have a few that um for some uh rhyme reason are unable to complete but I I we're probably in the high 90 percentile for both our general special education all the types of funding that we receive from department from the LED general. So what happens how do what kind of collection rate do you have?
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and I think we have to do this in good faith knowing that there is another board that is another taxing body that whether we like it or not right controls uh the impact fees that affect us and so I think we have to act in good faith here um and yes I understand our budget is tight but I think that's that's the reality of the whole situation and that's the big picture um and I think as clean as we make this is also a good gesture to to um our the trustees and and people over at uh the Oswego Village I have a question um oh the recapture fees so we could possibly recapture this if uh some some of the properties get rezoned so I mean this might end up costing a zero over the long term so way traffic lights were pretty straightforward if you have a traffic light at an intersection quarter cost goes to the northwest in this particular instance three or four Parcels down there on the corner I don't pass their daylight would be the last couple of years but there are three or four Parcels down there that are not annexed to the village and that have not been repurposed to a different use that's when you would get the recapture from if in and uh an AR that would be subject today you would pay for all of the corner the northwest corner you face upon their impact clearly your traffic pattern or your traffic account on a daily basis would Come dancing for the Northwest core so is that going to be a much smaller one would cause a lot of traffic absolutely so is the 25 not to exceed the 160 based on the price of the traffic signal and not the roundabout the traffic signalization which they've represented is the 106 900 dollars that's not been Quantified that's verified they say that they've got a quote show us the quote discrepancy PC there but that would be the limit of your contribution roundabouts we're talking about the cost of the roundabout at the time that we conveyed those the three acreage down the cost of roundabout is going to be upwards of a million dollars that is correct but I just want to make sure that we memorialize in the agreement what you just stated so that we understand what our responsibility is once we agree that it won't exceed that amount that's the main thing that I'm concerned about all right absolutely so Mr Witt has made a recommendation to the board in the memo that has been provided is uh is that where we want to go giving direction to uh to Mr Witt to be directed to provide initial response to the Village regarding the school district's position on this matter and uh and uh and I had to have an opportunity to discuss the statement regarding the option to make the requested payment through impact fees and request a draft recapture agreement provided so that it can be finalized before the payment is made okay yeah all right very good uh Mr Stu thank you so much for being here uh you've got some direction from the Board of Education and we look forward to having you back or having the agreement back for Action at a later point in time thank you thank you thank you thank you all right item 8.3 is in regards to information and custodial Supply bid Dr petsky and Mr Queen all right um actually I'll just stay up here I'll turn this over to Bill and I know he's got a little presentation here as well on custodial supplies and uh he and I have been talking about these bids that are going out and some options that we might want to pursue is going to share that with us today president sampton Dr sparlin Board of Education thank you for your time tonight thank you all right what you're looking at here is our custodial maintenance supplies it's up for bid this is runs in a two-year cycle and we are currently doing put this out for a bit we run this through our typical RFP prod process and and what you're seeing there is an itemized list of everything that we put out the bid during the last um last process that we followed through so typically when this happens what we do is we do an advertisement for for bed and that goes out 10 days before the pre-bit with the pre-bid we'll call them back in and we'll cover the list of products going out to bid then we'll bring them all back in again and we'll do a bid opening where we go over the bids out loud with the vendors and and everything that was priced and who was the low bid during that process um we discovered that apparent a little better than we come to you guys and we talk about who was a little bit and who we would like to go with it's a pretty long and extensive process that that this program could help us with if we dive into it a little bit more once we get into this you want to click it again so benefits of partnering with a co-op Cooperative prop um purchasing is conducted by or on behalf of one or more government units for use by other government units so if you see some of the titles in there where we could benefit and where we move through and follow through with how this works for us on a process can be trusted and to satisfy your bid requirements we can uh we are a government agency that works like like you achievement and excellence and procurement resempted buying power of 50 000 participant agencies contracts or other ceiling based not to exceed or pricing or value in documents so we're making sure everybody's staying in order and doing what they need to do in order to be a fair competitive bidding process more than 400 qualifying suppliers holding competitive award contracts full sweet options of complete Solutions easy no cost partition participation for the public agencies would like to we would like to the opportunity to explore the use of the Cooperative as an alternative to the competitive bidding process and smaller projects of these the contracts are already vetted and approved by the state of Illinois we have an existing partnership with sourceful competitive various suppliers and services like Tyler Technologies Kubota Granger to name a few this is new for me and my team as we are scheduled to meet with Source flow and coordinate on 323 of this week just to get a little bit more of a baseline background for for how they can help us utilize this process summarized a little bit like I've they work as school districts all over the state of Illinois all over the nation are going through that process of turning in rfps getting competitive bids and then uh what the co-ops are doing is they've got access to those rfps and the company are taking that information and rather than going through the bid process and the time it takes to do that we can go through the co-op and we can kind of tie on to an existing RFP that was put out for many of the similar items that you saw on that list there so it's a it's an efficient way to do it it's a cost savings way to do it and if we're not happy with the co-ops and what they're offering then we can by all means we can go out to bid as well is there any liability or obligation for us or even cost for us to be a part of the cooperative that's what they do co-ops um they they do uh public they do non-profit and they do private sector uh competitive uh bidding and so uh public agencies like schools and whatnot we don't have any financial obligation to participate great does the board have any other questions regarding 8.3 I do sorry go ahead oh no no I was I was just if there's if there's no risk then and I think when we say no risk the one thing that bill and I will take a look at is when we've gone out for bid on these projects we'll take a look at the amount of time we put in how much those bids came back for those supplies and materials and we'll we'll compare like the last five bids and and the process we went through and compare that to what is being offered through the co-op and we think we're going to see that there's really not a cost savings but we'll come back to the board with that so my question's a little bit different we do have some Cooperative purchasing with our own local municipalities already um what what will this change about those Cooperative agreements in that Cooperative purchasing I think I think Lori what you're talking about is the shared services is that correct yeah um so this we don't have shared services for these types of custodial supplies that's for larger items like if they want to use our scissor lift and we want to use the uh salt storage and things things of that nature this is really things that we use kind of consumables uh you'll see on that list was like chemicals bleaches waxes scrubbers things of that nature so I'm just going to reiterate to be really abundantly clear this doesn't have any impact on our shared services currently with our local municipalities and wouldn't negatively impact them in any way shape or form you're correct and there's no additional cost to us to participate in this no thank you and we can leave at any time yes only other question was um they're out of Minnesota correct Source well yes I believe so there's no issues with um like sourcing here or getting product here or okay and then the follow-up question to that is where do they stand from a sustainability lens like with regards to I mean obviously it's chemicals so chemicals are not exactly sustainable but what is their philosophy around sustainability around yeah you know the co-ops it's not really what it is is we ask for the chemicals so if we want environmentally green chemicals then we would ask for those chemicals and then we would see if there was another District that bit out for those chemicals and and Co-op would allow us to tag on to that RFP so it's really not we're not using their chemicals they just help us bypass that process no and I and I appreciate that but it's kind of like you know when you're sourcing a company like do they have Dei do they have like the lenses I just wanted to know well with our with our board policies and with what we are interested in doing here in the district are can we get what we need so yeah and uh and um you know right now Bill he kind of put up their Source well but we also have there's another Co-op Omnia there's another Co-op by board it depends on what we're looking for yeah and uh there's also an organization that I'm connecting up with they're called compare co-ops it's like a brokerage for multiple co-ops so if I'm looking for a specific product they're going to go to all of the co-ops that they're members of and say well hey here's four different ones from these different co-ops that um that represent the products or what that you're looking for so compare Corey co-ops is a like a brokerage firm from like a Clearinghouse type of yeah so are we that you just brought in the courses are we going are we using Source will are we going to use what you just described we do in other other settings we use uh matter of fact I use I believe it was Source well when I got the uh the driver's ed cars I uh they ended up having a contract with uh Enterprise and so we we got our driver's ed cars through there we get other products through there we also use Omnia to get other products so we're currently using them now but we haven't used them at this scale um scale that Bill's talking about so I appreciate his initiative and wanting to take a look at what the co-ops can do for us and look at costing it out and see okay it does save some time and it's legal and uh it it satisfies that need to go to low bid but is it also beneficial to the district if it's not beneficial then we will go out to bid and we'll put the time energy and effort into that this isn't a question it's just a comment um so this is something that um we've talked about for a long time so I appreciate taking the initiative to make that effort you know the purchase goods and stuff like that we know that there's not huge amounts there but for finding whatever you can so yes thank you appreciate that so very good item 8.4 is in regards to the OE and Ohs tennis court beds all right on February 23rd bids were were publicly open and read aloud for Oswego High School and Oswego East Tennis Court projects two contractors children's mids for this project a low base bid was submitted by Abby Paving from Illinois in the amount of one million 641 775 000 the second lowest bid was submitted by Schroeder Asphalt Services from Huntley Illinois and the amount of one million seventh seven eighty thousand dollars our recommendation is to award the base bid for oehs OHS tennis courts to Abby Paving an amount of 1 million 775 dollars so we're sharing with you some of the pictures of the current state of OHS tennis courts right now as as they sit we currently have 12 courts that are unplayable or six quarts that are unplayable and six quarts that are playable what you're looking at is cracks deterioration a lot of foundation stress and years and years and years of just us patching striping and doing the best we can it's important to understand we've had these up for a couple different times it just never had the money to really fix these these tennis courts in both areas this is this is oehs is it holding us back from having athletic events here it is able to return it is so we're slowly getting to that area OHS is is the worst case scenario right now like that that is in dire need of some repairs to get some job done and honestly to safety and liability is a major concern for us right now at ohs that's what I was going to add bill it's hard to even have a dual meeting yeah with well I mean we have 12 we have a we have a beautiful Bank of 12 there are only six courts are usable um not only is it not usable for the competition piece of the boys and girls tennis team but off of the kinetic Wellness uh that's a teaching station for our physical education classes and then it's also women's the amount of community use that can be you know where we can utilize these these uh tennis courts because right now only half of them you can play and even the half that you can plan you can see what they look like and I think I if I could real quick and I pretty sure I already know the answer to this question but I'll ask him is it fair I've had this uh given to me is it fair to make the assessment of tragically I hate to say it but embarrassing at this point it's it's very embarrassing um coming from the high school I I did my best for five years over there to try to make them look the best I mean from power washing to to anything we could do out there we made every attempt just to try to save Pride with that so yes 100 percent and not just that but Jared I would say uh you know impre first impressions make a big difference and I I think that uh you know if I were a student came to the high school and considered all my different athletic choices I'd look at this and be like Oh tennis or you know what other opportunities do I have so um I think that if we do fix these up I think uh number one I think uh safety liability number two I think that uh we could see some more developments with uh renting them out to other people who want to use the facilities and just students on the athletic teams they would want to participate in something and be proud of the courts that they're playing on well but but really in a more practical way I guess you could tangentially make the argument that it's about pride and first impressions and team size um but the reality is we've had this on our agenda as one of the things ever since we were I mean we were doing budget cuts and and on the one hand and in the same meeting talking about this and the pictures don't look any different really um maybe a little worse obviously but now we've got two schools it's only gotten more expensive and it's only going to continue to get more expensive my only question is I know Dr sparlin at one point we'd been looking at um the possibility of a USTA Grant um has that been able to be captured for this or were we unsuccessful uh Dr pesky where are we at I asked you to look into that the other day yeah so what I'm going to need to do is get with Mr Darren Howard who had brought that to our attention before and ask him if that Grant is still available so I know there was some time before that discussion and it's happened now uh Mr Howard do you have any information at this point in time if the answer is no then I don't want to put you on the spot if the answer is no the answer is no but as Mrs Doyle said when we had previously looked at this during budget cuts we had been in conversation with USTA and I believe it was like about a hundred thousand dollar grant for the construction of new courts mm-hmm can we apply for that even if we and I'm sorry Mr Howard for asking you on the spot like you're just quietly sitting in the back hanging out um but can we approve a bid and get started on it and still approve apply for the grant we don't need to apply for the grant before we get started do we but can I also say that that this is only for the paving correct well that's my question because there's still nuts that need to be upgraded and probably landscaping and it it uh yes and no and it's been 2019 that I last looked at this grant so it was right before covid um but I believe it was for the courts themselves I I don't know I don't even want to speculate but if if we can try to accomplish that and it doesn't really negatively impact our timeline it I mean it's a hundred thousand dollars potentially that's not nothing my question goes excuse me Beyond uh because when I'm looking at the pictures on page three particularly like the the longest one that large crack that goes across the the chain and many of the other cracks they don't look like wear and tear so so my concern is are we surveying the land that the the foundation that the the tennis courts that would sit on because I would hate to put a how much do we say one point six six million dollars on it to do this again for it to the the land to unsettle and then we run into this issue again so I just want to make sure that we are doing the due diligence to the root cause because this is to me this is not wear and tear this looks deeper than that correct so what I brought in Mr Todd Roberts from miracorp he is the engineer and architect on the project for us he can answer any of those questions thank you yeah so for this project uh we did some extensive geotechnical investigation work to find out why the the tennis courts are falling apart basically and what we're doing with this project and why it's a little bit more expensive is that completely rebuilding it we're removing the asphalt we're taking out the stone and starting at the bottom and building it back up with a better quality base so that it won't happen okay that helps me under drains I mean there's a whole lot of things we're including with that geogrid it's it's uh what with that said I know we live in the Midwest and living in the midwest is very difficult on askful tennis courts is there with what you just said with the total rebuild what kind of guarantee is there any kind of guarantee in regards to I I just asked the question yeah there's a structure that's been designed for this it's definitely going to have a better chance of surviving a lot basically created a bathtub and didn't allow the water that was in the soil to get out and so with the new design we've got a great under drain system in there that take it away so you know moisture always in the soil below the asphalt it unstabilizes it right so we'll get that moisture out and then put in a good Stone base and thank you answers my question thank you also that's probably where the water drains to so it's kind of like weather wear and tear so is this the Mr Gatewood the wear and tear you're going to see is the net fourth one at the bottom there at the bottom that that's your wear and tear and there there there's no there's no grit you know you ever been on a tennis tennis court and you feel that gritty yeah your feet can grip on that's that's all gone yeah I'm good with that because you can take that off but if you go to page number uh well even there if you look in right around there it looks like the foundation of the footing is there but the rest of it is sinking and so that's what it that's what caused me to say wait a minute this is not normal or it's hewing up and it's not so these these were built a while ago where we probably got taken advantage of by the contractor you know how when you talk about football fields there's all these you know yeah it's a very good technology they're employing basically what they call a geogrid that they're putting down and the stone goes into the grid and it all interlocks together to help keep things from particularly like with the uh those supports you've seen for the tennis folks they've changed how those are built that was just a cylinder of concrete before now they've changed the shape of them so that it won't push up what's really happening is process and you change the shape of what those footings look like to help keep them from for Stuff you got it so what do we from a maintenance perspective moving forward and once this were to be done what are we looking at um how long will this remain usable and practical course resurf is typically every how many years 10 years that's what I thought resurfaced as in like an asphalt driveway where you're thinking of seal coating yeah okay so that's no that's not it yeah but that may be annual grind it down get a good crack seal on there and then the color code goes on top of it that's that gritty feel this sorry 10 years getting down to have the new crack repairs got it very good very informative we appreciate that board does you have any other questions regarding this information item when when would this come to us for a vote 11th board meeting thank you all right moving on uh item 8.5 is in regards to the OE and Ohs track beds all right on February 23rd bids were publicly open and read aloud for Oswego High School and Oswego East track projects do contractors chose to submit bids for this project a low base bid was submitted by Schroeder Asphalt Services from Huntley Illinois and the amount of 797 thousand dollars the second lowest space bid was submitted by Abbey Paving from Aurora Illinois in the amount of thousand three hundred thirty five thousand dollars in consideration including consideration of allowance the allowance hundred thousand dollar allowance alternates OHS pool depth track amount 61 000 for Abby Paving their bid alternate number two concrete ribbon curve was submitted in the amount of 145 605.
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okay okay all right it again uh um my concerns were those those the negative numbers and it if possible um I see the bottom line and and the bottom line is that 141 million is made up of what we get from the city and we also have expenses of that we're getting paid for out of Grants and I'm trying to work trying to reconcile that in my own Yeah well yeah that it that it balances you can add the two together that's what we do totally you know um we're we're I think when that report I described for the state um we told them we from all sources we spent about 185 Million last year okay all right and is there anything that you need to reconcile or check on coding before tomorrow night's meeting um curious about that that extreme shortage in our custodial account of 900 almost 903 thousand uh and that's just one if it balances it balances I just sudden they work out yep but and that's my yeah I can analyze it um before tomorrow night um you know it's we we have you know sometimes we're paying 1800 people um every two weeks so there's a lot of different people in different lines and um that doesn't mean we we can't have it exactly right um just there's a lot a lot in there but we'll uh we'll have answers all right that's wonderful any other questions any other concerns comments Teresa oh Teresa go um the students were complaining I don't know if you can answer this John or should it be answered tomorrow um uh short on AP teachers and paper towels uh do you know anything about those um discrepancies or the the paper towels that would um go to Rich galbert um he has um you know manages the warehouse he manages those uh purchases and deliveries so I I can check with him I I he hasn't said anything to me about it um and the AP teachers um I I don't I haven't haven't heard that I could ask Dan Donovan tomorrow if you'd like uh yeah it was at the last meeting they were talking about the students who were demonstrating so I asked well what were they asking and they mentioned AP teachers a paper towels so is there a supply chain crisis for the paper towels yeah I was just curious I haven't heard I I think what they were more than AP teachers they were looking for more AP uh course offerings there there are so many today that you can take um I I took that to mean um they wanted more electives right right right yeah because at the middle of the year it's uh uh and and I think it you know it all depends on uh what kids want to take and sign up for I think that probably starting that process now if they haven't already okay all right thank you Jen I appreciate all your answers thank you oh okay no that's why we have these all right any other questions concerns Mr Alston a final final comment from you sir if there are no other questions or concerns I don't see them he was on I think he was yeah he's not on anymore we caught him question Kevin all right everyone we need to make a recommendation that this be I guess it's just going to show up on the meeting tomorrow right we don't have to do any kind of recommending well yeah I was good I wasn't going to go there but um does anyone like to make a motion that we accept this report and we will take a roll call vote if I hear a motion in a second I'll make a motion I'll second all in favor aye aye uh and I have to say nay two to one excuse me Jesse yeah I say nay because if the report is going to be we're going to see an updated report tomorrow correct well I was planning to uh look into uh Al's questions um but I I was not planning to do the report over again two to two we'll leave it up to the board okay final comments anyone Mr Spang you're the head leader here your final word sir oh thank you it um you know if a report that's not recommended um it just it it gives a different feel that's all I I understand I take no pleasure in doing this sir I but and that's why I'd like to reserve until smoother for tomorrow night um you know and I I do realize you're working short-handed um but all right I I feel you say this I could not in good conscience recommend if I have questions and uh and I'm sure it's correct uh but there's you know there's a few holes and maybe some coding and it and if we are overspending above our means and there's a hole in there that you know just I'm not comfortable at this moment I never thought I would say that uh if Kate didn't bring it to bring up it I would have just let it slide and waited for your report for tomorrow I understand so can can you repeat what what motion was to accept the report the financial report February financial report yes and the vote is I take it was two to two so Mr Russo can I just make sure I understand that the concern here is that we might be overspending what our budget is possibly yes because I can't reconcile the numbers in my in my own mind I reconcile the totals there are um there let me see if I can still bring it on and and Mr Spang is I just want to point out too that he the report figure yeah is what we're voting on The up-to-date figures are really for including March just want to point that out all right I thought it's it's the report in in front of you that's the yeah bottom line says we have 12 million four hundred thousand okay I just can't reconcile that and uh maybe I will tomorrow so I was hoping Kevin would have well anyway motion to adjourned motion okay all in favor aye see you tomorrow evening everyone
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