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pres Dr Mario here Mr present M present present and present please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I PL Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with li justice for all so there is no public comment we will move to 5.1 well I want to welcome this evening we are thrilled we are starting a new initiative where we are inviting um groups within our district led by students and Educators to present and tonight we are welcoming the bionic believe it or not I care and I want to thank you all for preparing and uh being prepared to share your reflections with the board um you may come on up so do we have a microphone there so it would help us if you would if you would if you want to hold it and uh you could take it off the yeah take it off the stand and then share the mic um it's just all right okay we're just going to start by introducing ourselves so my name is Nina I'm Natalie I'm Griffin and I'm also Natalie and we are four of your nine bionic board members so firstly I'd like to thank you all for taking time out of your day to meet us here today uh it means a lot to all of us uh and so just a big thank you not only from the nine of us on the bionic board but all 450 of our OS bionic club members as well as our three teacher sponsors that we have over there wonderful teacher sponsors uh who is the clicker can you introduce their names as well I think it would be Wonder yes sorry so that's uh that is Miss man over there Miss Wendy man that is Miss Rachel Zer and Mrs Colleen prle we also have wonderful Miss early back there as well all right so this is a question that we throw around a lot in our all of our bionic programs uh specifically our hike and talk programs which we will get into later and that is the question what is your why now I'm willing to bet that all nine of us on the board could probably talk your ears off about our individual wise and why that we are so invested in the bionic Club CL but our why as a board as a whole is to make the OS bionic Club as accepting kind and positive as we can make it not only for students at our school but students in surrounding districts and just overall members in our community so a few of you already know who we are and what we're about but for those of you who don't allow me to explain so bionic is an acronym and it stands for believe it or not I care and what we're about is spreading kindness and positivity and just showing people that there's it's easy to be nice right uh and so we're all about improving our community and we do that not only through physical health but also emotional health so we have multiple programs where we work with food drives as well as uh we do a Giving Tree program that gives back and helps people in need and we also do emotional health Focus things uh specifically we make sure that us nine on the board as well as our three teacher sponsors people know that they can go to us with absolutely anything that they need to uh last thing I'd want to add is that we are the absolute largest Club at OS with 450 members and Counting uh and we've been around since around the 1990s in bionic we have two community outreach programs and the first one that I'm going to talk about is teens activating the language of kindness also known as talk which is our high school program through this program our talk mentors lead groups of high school students through activities and discussions that spread awareness raise pos positive ity and ultimately strengthen our school Community this is our 22nd year running this program as it was founded in 2001 the second program I'd like to talk about is Heroes invested in kindness every day or hike which is our elementary school program this year we are running hike in 12 of the 13 elementary schools in our school district and through this program hike mentors will work with groups of elementary school students to teach them that their words have an impact on their peers and teach them how to spread kindness in their school Community after spending a whole day in these elementary schools our hike mentors have the opportunity to join the hike after school program where they will go to these elementary schools on a weekly basis for the rest of the school year to volunteer last year I participated in this when we piloted it at Four elementary schools and I volunteered at Southbury Elementary School twice a week reading to kindergarten students on top of these Outreach programs we also offer Vol offer volunteer opportunities for the members of bionic in our local community Through organizations like the food pantry okay so now that you've heard a little bit about what we run and how we run those programs I want to talk to you about the goals of not only us board members but the entire Club in general so our main focus is to create a community obviously within our individual high school but also through the other schools in our district such as the elementary schools and also outside of the community we often do programs throughout downtown like the kindness rocks and stuff to show all community members that there is kindness and positivity in the world and through the food drive and Giving Tree programs to help anybody who might need it um but some of the board goals specifically are to make the group budget friendly as high schoolers we often try to be involved in a lot of activities and the budget tends to kind of go out the window because everything is pretty expensive so we want to make sure that bionic is as accessible and as open and as easy to join for any of our um board members which also helps with making it a very open environment but the main reason we're here today is to talk to you about chords um not only to recognize our seniors but to recognize all the hard work and community service that our members go into so this is an example of our current Point tracking system every event that we run has a corresponding point value so for example the talk and Hike programs are the biggest events we run so they have the biggest amount of points associated with them and every year of membership has a certain number of points you have to meet so for example if you only join bionic your senior year you would need 50 points in order to get your cord but this is the part where we need your help so this is a continued example of our C current point system these are our current seniors so I'm just going to go in depth about how we track these and what these kind of look like so as you can see we have the names listed in addition to their ID numbers and then we have each event that we run as we run them and then if they attended that event they earn those points and then we have their total number of points off to the far end so as you can see on this slide we have obtained all of the um things that we need in order to finalize these chords however we faced some contradicting information on who we need to go to so that is our next step our next step is understanding who we need to go to to finalize these chords so that we can recognize all of our bionic members and especially our seniors so again we would just like to thank you as board members and everyone else um for letting us come and speak before you today in addition to your ongoing support to our club um we would also like to thank all of our bionic members and their families who have come out to support us today so thank you all um so if any of you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to any of the board members um or Mrs M Zer or prle and again a big thank you to all of you [Applause] thank you board comments yeah do you want go ahead go ahead any questions having to answer go ahead well they had a question they ended with the question who do they need to go to I don't they're all nodding we do we know that answer yeah yeah we will follow up with you okay yeah we will follow up with you and and and I would say given the research and not only given the research but the the depth of thoroughness thoroughness in community service and impact in our community um I for when will vote to make sure we get we get we get a court for you all so we got to figure it out One Way Or Another We're going to get a call I agree I think we can figure out a and I I see lots of people in the audience can I just see a raise of hands of those who are hike and talk people here tonight wow awesome thank you so [Applause] much thank thank you you guys did a beautiful job you Wendy and Colleen and who else is back Rachel's back there um I've seen this talk program in many iterations over the years it's been a long time but it's always been an opportunity for students and I've only heard great things about this program I've seen this program up close and personal and I'm just so proud of you all um there there was a time where this program was just um in one school and it is now in both schools but more importantly it is a district sanction Club where it has not been in the past and so I want to congratulate you all for showing um the district the importance of this program and the effect that this program has on students and so I want to thank you all and your sponsors for all their hard work and dedication over the years you guys have been hanging in there for a long time and so we really appreciate everything that you've done so thank you and I'm I'm actually I'm actually going to a hike program next week I believe it is so uh looking forward to that but thank you I had seen your presentation well maybe a month ago maybe I've lost track of time and as I said then these kids just blow me away these kids are pretty awesome so thank you thank you well I um am not unfamiliar with many of these faces I am a very loud and um obnoxious advocate of bionic I've also had the opportunity to see some of these kids grow up when they were very little I'm not going to cry um and um Charlie congratulations on Amia I saw that today very proud of you um and I could not be more proud of you but what I don't know that many people know is how many lives you've saved um when you had your first talk training and we had all the other schools in I got I was able as a board member to talk to the other schools and I got a text message at the end of the day that you guys recognized a student in crisis and saved their life it's it's amazing wow the power and impact of this program and what you've taken on as students with all the other things that I know you're running to is so incredibly important because you're going to know what your your students are what what your your classmates are going to do um before but they also have a safe place to go um to Rachel and Wendy and Colleen I'm pretty sure that you have a ticket to whatever is beyond heaven or whatever you want to call it um I thank you for continuing to be a safe space for our students you are all the reason that I do what I do you and I will forever be a um bionic talk hike path supporter and um will continue to fight for you and I too I will pay for the cords if I have to you deserve them and I'm I'm super super proud of all of you thank you thank you I'll I'll make I'll make can I just say one more thing oh one more thing Aurora Catholic joined us this year because of Mrs M there she is she went to aora Catholic where her mom teaches and went and said your school needs this program wow it's because of student a one of our students that are where a Catholic today has this program and I am just I'm just so grateful so keep spreading keep spread no I'm sorry I just wanted to follow up on what uh Miss Johnson said uh I don't know if it was a year ago or about um where you all came and gave a presentation and I was in the middle of telling you all thank you and I became emotional and I couldn't talk anymore and the reason why oh no it's happening again take your time I can do it the reason why and I did not I was not able to finish and the reason why is that I personally my household has personally benefited from the work that you do and my son was in personal crisis and one day he came home and he said dad I'm going to this program called Talk and at the time you know if you if as parents there's a twinkle in your kid's eye and you know that twinkle but it was gone but when he came back from talk it was back and so from the bottom of my heart personally I know the work and the impact of these programs and so I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart [Applause] okay so we want to thank you again for joining us this evening um and really we look forward to uh your continued success um every day and we know that the lives you've impacted and your own will be forever remembered so thank you [Applause] all okay all right we're going to move on to 6.1 the superintendence report um Dr kelot if you would please give us your superintendence report wonderful uh this evening uh well we want to thank you all again um oh no today we thank and we celebrate the dedicated drivers and monitors of the of our on this bus driver appreciation day um this is really uh I had the opportunity to join um uh members of our leadership team over there and to thank our drivers personally and the transportation department for all their hard work um these special staff members are often um some of the first at work each day they're the district Representatives that engage with our students at the start and end of each day of the school year of each day while collectively driving thousands of students thousands of miles each day they safely transport our most precious cargo we sincerely thank each and every staff member of our transportation family today and always we are nearing the end of principal appreciation month and this past month we've celebrated each of these special leaders over the last week in many different ways um we appreciated the community we invited community members from each school to join us in thinking out of extending words and phrases and with that we created um an art piece essentially that they were able that was framed and provided to each principle um so it was really a gift that went beyond just a mere physical item but really A word of gratitude words that were captured for all of our principles um and with the same Spirit of Celebration I want to share that this evening comes to the board a a resignation notice from one of our members of our principls who has shared the news that he plans to entire early uh retire at the end of this year from formal Service as a principal we know that these days retirement means the end of one career maybe the start of a new one so I won't say you know so he's retiring and moving on to the next Adventures of his life um Mr Larry pek has served as a principal of Churchill Elementary School for six years uh following many years of school leadership and Educational Service his focus on instructional leadership and POS positively supporting a school Community can be seen in all that he does each day I can attest to that um when I visited his school but also when I met with members of his community um really spoke to that Larry is a model of the Mantra that he proclaims which is to be positive productive and professional we are grateful to Larry and for him Jo the community um in which he lives for the final years of his professional career as a principal um we're trying a number of new initiatives uh so to recruit for specific roles within the district this is a championship team that I'm grateful to be on and we want to bring more to this so coming soon we have our par palooza on October 26 and language Cafe led by our human resources department so language Cafe on October 2 8 and per paloa on October 26 last Friday I want to thank our HR team at the cross down game which was riveting uh providing information on joining our team we are committed to connecting with our community in meaningful ways to help find the best fit for those interested in joining our scho District 308 team um tonight I'm also introducing a new practice where we're going to invite board members to join me in celebrating and bringing notice to different things across the community so in addition to board comments I want to start over here with oh to my right with Miss similon thank you and that concludes my official comments thank you so much so we're acknowledging um Ascend which is a student program here in our district it's acronyms stand for activating students compassion through essential notable discoveries and and they held um a an event on Friday and it was hosted by wabansi Community College this incredible event brought together students from six area districts for a full day to engage in learning and sharing their experiences opening their minds to the experiences of others our own superintendent Dr katti was the keynote speaker sharing his own story his why he is where he is today a special thanks to our own Dr Waller for her commitment and vision that brought this amazing concept to life in such an amazing collaborative way thank you um just asking in community to please mark your calendars from Monday November the 6 for a public form hosted by the Board of Education two times each year this where the board we come together uh with our community to engage in open conversation and collaboration this is also an opportunity where we can Envision what's possible instead of just admiring what's before us and so there will be additional information coming out about this evening um very soon so please uh look for that communication um all right our food drive uh concluded last week with a total collection of 26683 KN items and cash equivalents collected for the kenel County Community Food Pantry uh this incredible effort provides food security for thousands of neighbors each week at each level we honored the schools with the highest percentage of items donated per student during the cross town football game Friday night uh congratulations to ASO High School trer junior high school and Southbury Elementary School Southbury was the overall winner as well uh new this year we re recognize the schools who surpass their previous year's collection total our level up winners are Long Beach Elementary School South b elementary school big nark Junior High and trer Junior High uh the energy was high and positive at the cross down game we appreciate the great sportsmanship and student Behavior at the game and the chairing so uh Red Red Ribbon Week uh takes place uh every year from October 23rd through the 31st and today is October 23rd so it's the nation's largest and longest um run drug uh drug use prevention campaign uh the week is set aside uh to highlight important the importance of living a drug-free life and many of our schools will be engaging in different activities uh as we celebrate uh the important commitment to living a healthy lifestyle and finally last but not least uh congratulations to the OS Panther marching band on making finals and placing seventh overall at the Illinois state championship this past Saturday this is the first time in school history this has happened and in addition they also play they also Place third out of the out of all the 6A bands in prelims first place in the visual Ensemble caption out of all 42 bands in the prelims was a little awkward but take my word for it uh and second place overall in the music caption at finals so good job OS marching band thank you so we'll move on to 6.2 board committee reports we have a report from the equity and teaching and learning committee anyone like to speak out on that we all documents Finance oh it is finance and Facilities okay anyone want to speak on that want to add anything we have some action items uh some information and action items coming up this evening um related to um some savings but also forecasting additional costs I would agree um and I think it is um showing the precedent that we would like to set in making forward progress in the district uh both from a cost saving standpoint and also kind of setting the goal as being uh the district to look up to in this particular area we'll start with that then we'll move on to the entire State okay okay thank you um no I mean it's yeah I mean we had a a presentation on we're going to do with um you know the rpn contract process moving forward um kind of uh U solidifying that um so it was it was a good meeting yeah we went a good I don't know a half hour 45 minutes late and uh I had a feeling that would happen at the the finance committee so okay thank you and then will we uh will we get information on the recommendation that was made for the steuart Farms lead I'm assuming oh yeah um the recommendation was to continue the partnership um and you know I don't know if it's if it's going to be completely necessary but maybe think about putting you know something like a 90day you know out just in case we decide to sell it or something along those lines but um I that that might complicate things so we'll see and increasing the cost make no sense we we um decided to kind of leave the we were talking about 300 bucks or something it was like $800 a year or something like that so just to in good faith um we decided to leave it the way it was or it made sense to leave it the way it was yeah and I mean it makes sense but um you know it was interesting because when I first got on this board there were discussions about do we really need this land we're not going to get a third High School yeah so forth and so on but with the amount of building that's occurring and it's you know it's going to end up creeping South um and if you look at a map of the district all the schools are up North so that land I think becomes um pretty um uh important when we look into the future especially if the district grows out um there's not a lot of schools in the southern part of the district and if you go down to uh Na Township they would tell you there are no schools in the southern part of the district so uh but yeah we've also looked into uh selling that land in the past and we talked about what that would um look like and frankly we just wouldn't make any money off of it so um the recommendation was again like Mary Joe said to extend the Stuart Farms Le they've been a good partner with us and it just made sense yeah yeah we're taking care of the land so we're not it's not an added cost to us which a lot of times additional land is um often times land is liability when it comes to government so um but in this instance it's it's being used to produce food and you know so it's a it's a good partner it's a good relationship it's great sounds good since we are um introducing um information and action on the same night I will share that we did speak a lot about the Gallagher employee benefits Cooperative I um probably am the outlier here uh the overall the committee wanted a recommendation to be made for this I have a lot of hesitations about it I know that it looks like the savings are great I think that that is a roundabout number and I don't know that we're actually going to get to that number and secondly there's a lot of things that our current plan has and I'm just going to use the rush Copley um partnership right now that we don't have answers for and so um and there was quite a few of them on the the list and I just feel as though we've rolled out so many new things this year and we haven't had um some plans that um this doesn't have a lot of plan around it and I'm just concerned about that so I just wanted to bring that forward um so that when you see that a recommendation is made you know that we did actually talk about a lot of positives and negatives about this um and I have a feel feeling that Ken Miller is here we'll have a full present have a full and maybe maybe maybe because they I think that they said they were going to have that discussion literally the next day so maybe they had that discussion we we do have updates from the questions in terms of the reservations and we're grateful for all the questions that came up it is really important that we do our due diligence with any initiative um and um so I I would say that and then I I'm not sure if we've rolled out anything in terms of cost benefits or anything this related this year so this would be the first item related to this particular subject that we brought forward so I do appreciate that and I do know that we took the feedback of the board members that evening and and came back with information tonight so it'll be embedded in the presentation yes okay um are we we're is okay we're moving on right okay 6.3 board member comments any board member comments that were not outlined in our um shoutouts um during superintendent comments um my head M go ahead you know just uh uh today myself and many uh at this table are participated in the homestead Stars Mack trick- or treat event um helped this help to ensure these great students were able to practice the many skills needed to be successful on Halloween uh it was an amazing experience and I could tell the students had a great time um after the fact we were told uh the students had the biggest Smiles as they were going through their goodies you know their goodie bags that they got you know for trick- retreating um I also want to thank teachers teachers assistants and the homestead team who put this together and then uh finally I went uh I wanted to say that we it's funny not not funny coincidence that I spoke about the kennel County food pantry and the amount of items that we donated this year um I volunteered a couple weeks back at the Mobile Food Pantry over at Long Beach and um that only is you know great to to give back to the community and to support but the people that run that um they were like oh my God this is so much easier when we have volunteers um and they were able to help everybody quicker it was much um so they very appreciative um so if you get a chance um I volunteer for anything but a food pantry is is one that you know we've got ongo and it's uh there's a lot of opportunity so thank you thank you just want to say thank you to um the Will County Board um you know there was a um uh mental health resolution that was passed by the Will County Board the voters uh overwhelmingly were in support um unfortunately it became contentious for some reason but um but in the end they ended up following the wishes of the board and uh for all our students that are in Will County and could certainly benefit from um any kind of Mental Health Services I just want to say thanks to the Will County board for stepping up in um listenting the voters and doing the right thing in the end um even if it did take um uh for some reason some contention it's it's sad that everything has to be political this day and age or too many things I should say but uh thank you will County Board okay yeah okay so I just have a couple things um first of all there have been there have been two events that I've been to in the past week both of them have to do with the um with the hate crime in planfield um one was uh in plane field itself I and I just want to say it was we were at a Fieldhouse and the Fieldhouse held 1600 people at least that's what the that's what the police officer told me um and there was overflow outside the building I mean there was there was tremendous attendance so um it was it was sad but it was great to see uh a whole bunch of people different you know different sizes shapes colors just kind of coming together um to um um to stand up against hate uh there was also another event yesterday that yesterday that I went to that was a little bit more formal that was um at Benedict University uh the one that the one thing that they brought up is that you know ultimately the way these problems get solved is by the by the children um by the young people and that just really emphasizes how important it is as as Educators and as Schoolboard members um to make sure that the children are taken care of so I just kind of wanted to bring that point up as well just to emphasize um moving on to a different different subject really quick uh the holidays are coming um whether we like it or not uh so Community cares uh you may be familiar with puts together their um holiday project in which um for Christmas we collect food and um we collect uh sponsors who will basically um buy gifts for certain families anyway all of that starts in a couple weeks I just wanted to make you aware and also if anyone is we support basically a hundred families at the holidays so if anyone feels the need that they would qualify for that I would direct you back direct you back to your school and to the school social worker but again it's a it's a great program there'll be more information coming out but just wanted to make you aware of that um and Dominic stole my thunder on food pantry so that's all from me thank you oh oh uh Library board meeting is Wednesday the 25th thank you um it's uh it's important the the library board is having a really tough time these days so um I think the more people that show up even if you don't speak just to show your support um I think it's I think it's great if you can make it to be there what time when um it starts at 5 o'clock what day Wednesday the 25th oh uh it's at the Montgomery campus this time okay thank you hello Isabelle and Luke hello how are you doing good how are you good good to see you guys um so we'll ask for your um student ambassador report at this point all right so uh at our last ssac meeting we were able to create next steps for our work this school year one goal for the future is to build better relationships between High School staff and students our first step in achieving this goal is to identify what the disconnect may be between our staff and students since we already have the students input in this area we are now focusing on the teachers perspective we have since started the beginning stages of our teacher survey which will allow us to receive teacher input in perspective of student teacher relationships and its impact on success in the classroom we have identified six main categories to create our CR to create our questions around when we assess classroom commonalities we can better identify where how and why student teacher relationships are impacted the categories we have established are one classroom environments this category includes everything from the clarity of classroom expectations to the rigor of the course to the safety in the classroom two classroom structure um what is the class use for instructional in uh Learning Classroom time uh are there Bell ringers small groups uh are there lectures is there lots of independent work time and Etc uh number three respect and Rapport how much respect does the teacher receive and how is that respect returned what is the relationship type and is the class majority student l or teacher l number four is homework amount is the homework in said class nightly are there accessible resources for homework help uh is the homework busy work or necessary for student growth uh five instructional strategies what different ways do teachers instruct students during class time if something is taught in a way that is not clear to the student do they express their concerns and is there a possibility for instructional flexibility and finally number six is mental health support this category identifies the path to receiving mental health support in the classroom uh are there clear resources that teachers can provide for students and is there a clear Avenue of communication for teachers and students to go to uh the ssac is looking forward to further engaging in this work all right so at the last SSA meeting I joined a separate group from Luke and we worked on the beginning stages of planning our next in school Ascend event we began by going over some successes and shortcomings from our previous Ascend event a couple weeks ago that included the positive interactions we saw when students were able to discuss topics with each other you know turning and talking one-on-one conversation and how we could maybe expand that for our next event um we talked about the timing and Clarity of communication needed to make students and teachers feel they understand what's going on and they can engage properly and lastly how we can of course make our programming more engaging and increase relatable connections to the student body from there we were able to discuss our goals for the next asem program on January 26 we decided to work on a plan similar to the human Library events of past years these allow students to interact with people of many walks of life and experiences our first goal is to get a diverse group of adults willing to share their story the main topics we would really like to cover with our speakers are succeeding without a college degree overcoming adversity in a field of work and finding success and joy throughout that experience and most importantly we would really like to hear from people who struggled throughout school you know they weren't straight a 4.0 but they were still able to find success and happiness um so if you believe you or anyone you know would be a good fit for any of these topics or if you have a different story to share please visit the sd308 website and fill out our Google go Form application uh we would really like to give our student body an interesting and moving experience lastly I wanted to discuss the Ascend conference this Friday for those who are unaware District 308 hosted the first of its kind a diversity equity and inclusion conference at wanzi Community College last Friday the 20th I was able to attend along with a large group of both students from ASO East and ASO high school we were also joined by students from many neighboring districts it was such a great experience that real allowed me to educate myself on many issues faced in our community I personally attended two trainings one on implicit bias and the other on the opioid epidemic and there were many other trainings offered along with those that gave students the opportunity to learn about intersectionality celebrating identities diversity in the workplace and so much more students are now now able to go back to their districts equipped with the knowledge needed to educate their peers whether you know that's more intellectual or in my opioid epidemic when we learned how to administer can which is a good skill to have especially you know as kids are going off to college overall everyone had a great time and we were able to walk away with valuable information to share with others thank you Dr Waller for working to create such a great event and thank you to the amazing people within our district who supported presented and volunteered to chapon for this event thank you yeah I had uh two students who wanted to say say thank you so two of my students in my district so definitely District uh Valley View 365 view so uh definitely had an impact on districts outside our own so that was uh was an awesome little uh um what do you call it um proud moment I guess for us as three I just want to um to touch upon something Isabelle said so on January 26th we are they are holding a human library and a little bit about what a human library is is you will have different um adults sitting in a room and basically they are a book and then people go in students will go into that room and they will get to quote unquote read the book um and so this is something that was developed um in out of the out of New York and uh We've participated in it as a district before but we are going to run it ourselves this year and I know that uh Eugene and I are are really proud of the students for taking this on um what we hope is that students will have the opportunity to go hear different stories and um it will help them understand people um better like someone with a disability for instance they can go in you hear the story and then you have an opportunity to ask questions and so they uh the student advisory committee is currently looking for any adult that would be willing to take that on it is a very um it is definitely something that you have to be willing and open to do and be comfortable with students asking you questions but the impact is is pretty phenomenal so um Isabelle could you tell one more time where they can send that information um so there should be a Google form on the 308 website um and there's also been a flyer created I don't know if that's posted or not but that will also have a QR code to the Google form which will probably just ask I haven't read through I'll be honest I haven't read through all of it but I think I know the person who did it and I believe there's just a couple questions background and all of that but you don't have to fit you know every story I mentioned it could just be something you feel is important to share with students and what's the date of it January 26 thank you Isabelle do you know where on the website um probably if you don't it's not it's not it's fine I just saw the form today so I'm not sure if it's live yet but okay I it's coming yeah okay moving on to 7.1 the consent agenda can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda please make motion to approve all items under consent including 7.1 minutes from the Board of Education meeting on October 10th 2023 open and close session and 7.2 to acknowledge the foyer requests received by the district are there any questions on the consent agenda second oh somebody second it right did you say second I somebody said I second it but are there any question do you have questions anyone have questions on the consent agenda okay I I M Johnson hi Mr Cerone I miss s hi Mr hi Miss hi motion passes 70 so this evening I'm proud to bring to uh our discussion and for uh review Dr zmy um Glenn compos and Ken Miller are going to discuss some work that they've also worked with the finance department um in cooperation with Mr obafemi to talk about transition to a new health care assistant provider one of the the core issues that the board has brought to our attention mentioned is there really a need for uh increasing our financial viability and I'm pleased with the work this team has done and I'm sure you'll have lots of important questions and I appreciate those questions because we want to ensure that the community and um are everything is done and with viability so good evening board um with me tonight is Ken Miller and Glenn campost um who are really lead our benefits team within our human resources department we have three goals in our human resources department to recruit retain and reward our staff um we have provided with you a memo and a slide presentation tonight uh to answer any questions uh we did have a meeting with the finance committee we met last week also with each um president of the unions to discuss feedback and then we have amended our presentation and our memo based on that feedback so Ken and Glenn um would I like to call the law office of Ken and Glenn couldn't pass it up I need a logo they do U if you guys would like to uh start our presentation for our recommendation for our employee benefit Cooperative you have the clicker right there thank you right thank you Dr zumy um and thank you to the board of education for the opportunity for the two of us to uh come here and uh talk about a subject that's near and dear to our hearts employee benefits so well you can and uh thank you board um before we take a deep dive into our medical insurance it's going to be helpful to provide an overview of our medical offerings On Any Given month we have approximately 2,800 or more employees enrolled and additional 2,800 dependants enrolled in our medical insurance these employees and the dependants are enrolling one of three different plans there is our traditional po there's also a high deductible po which comes with a healthcare account that helps our employees offset that high deductible plan and we also have finally a HMO plan all told the costs to cover these members on our insurance runs approximately $27 million per year oh I'm sorry no it's all good thank you Glenn I'm better off holding the mic than I am with the mic in the mic stand um so for the past 15 years or longer um and again 15 years is about as far back as I'm able to find records our district has been self-insured for employee medical coverage this means that the district contracts with the third party claims ad administrator in our case Blue Cross Blue Shield to uh negotiate rates for payment with providers to determine what the provider networks are and ultimately to pay claims on the district's behalf so to determine premium rates the district relies on the services of our broker currently locked in corporation um to be able to perform an Actuarial analysis and review and recommend the premiums that the district will ultimately charge and over the past six years this approach has served the district very well I'm pleased to say that we've been able to maintain our insurance rates unchanged since January 1st of 2017 um and unlike the Bulls who needed a couple of years in between to get a 6 ft we've been able to run the table uh to provide some con to provide a little bit of context for this number Ken's got jokes okay we got to make benefits fun yes come on and right and to provide some contacts for that number when I last had the privilege of talking to the Board of Education about benefits back in April 36% let me say that again 36% of employees who have our medical coverage have never had their rates increased in January due to increased plan costs that's more than one in three which is complete which is unheard of in this industry and while there are many benefits like I've gone over as far as maintaining the self-insured approach there are some risks associated with going in alone loan ultimately at the end of the day claims Drive premiums and if claims Drive premiums our risk pool is then ultimately vulnerable to increases in claims costs or claims activity that ultimately need to be factored into those costs and while the district does have stoploss reinsurance to be able to protect against catastrophic claims we're responsible for the first $120,000 in claim costs for um those on our HMO plan and $230,000 for those that are on our po plans so as a result of increased claims activity and inflationary pressures that are driving up the cost of claims unfortunately we will not be able to continue the sixth year winning streak into a seventh and remaining self-funded with the status quo all else being equal uh was uh projected to result in the need for an average increase of approximately 88.8% for medical thanks so the task is now how do we find ways to be able to mitigate the impact of rate increases and also hedge against future rate increases um from a position of strength that the past 6 years have afforded us so to accomplish this the administration is recommending that we move away from our self-funded approach and instead join uh the employee benefits Cooperative that is led by Gallagher this Cooperative has been in existence since 1984 it consists of 125 school districts across the state of Illinois governed by a board of directors where every District gets a seat and a seven member executive board that handles some of the broader policy and administrative decisions gallago then serves as the broker of record for all of the plan design offerings and in looking at the employee benefit cooperatives track record they their average increase per year over the course of 5 years for those that um have um HMO insurance is 4.4% per year for those that have poo plan designs it was approximately 5.3% on average for a 5-year average for their cost increases which is uh pretty good compared to to the industry average we're right now seeing 7 and 1 12 10 even in some cases 14 to 15% is not unheard of so by moving to the employee benefits Cooperative um not only do we get the chance to um have strengthen numbers we will also be able to retain our current plan designs reduce our liability for high cost claimants secure stable rates for the next 18 months align our benefit renewals to coincide with our fiscal calendar and also like I had said hedge against future premium increases by broadening the risk pool and with that I'm going to turn it over to Glenn to go to take a little bit deeper of a dive so one of the primary reasons or factors I should say for making this recommendation here tonight was to retain the ability to retain our current plan designs in fact there will be no change to our co-pays deductibles or plan network with this change in fact the coverage will may be improved because we're going to add CVS Pharmacy back into our Network for employees who rely on our supplemental plan such as hinge leago Rush reimbursement um as well as first stop essentially joining the EBC will not be a barrier to renewing those plans moving forward gager would act as the broker record in negotiating a renewals for these services on the district's behalf and ultimately here our goal is to make sure that we meet the needs of our employees and their dependents so they can in turn meet the needs of our students so just to be clear this will not change our ability to join to continue our our annual contract with Rush Copley correct at this it would not at this time we would have I'm sorry because that's an annual contract my understanding is that that was an annual negotiated every year for the last however many years we've had that that is something that we annually negotiate and as of now that would not change any of that that is correct sir okay thanks I'm sorry does it so you have a question does it does it potentially impact future years any any in a relevant uh relative terms you know compared to what we currently are doing yeah well uh Gallagher much like Lockton Corporation Gallagher is one of the big players in this industry they have built a track record and built a Consulting practice from the ground up that is now a Fortune 500 company when it comes to having the expertise on hand to be able to negotiate intricate agreements such as the one that we have with Rush um Lockton has done an absolutely amazing job but but I do believe that we would be able to continue that momentum with Gallagher and I don't see that it would necessarily preclude or prevent or be a be an impediment to those negotiations by switching over okay I concur to that um reducing our liability for high cost claimants um in looking at our liability for these high cost claims that we've been having uh as kench mentioned earlier previously we are are responsible for the first $120,000 in HMO claims in addition we are responsible for the getting the first $230,000 in claims for po plan participants um the cost of a safe net for these cast a plans is approximately $2.5 million per year and the cost of coverage for these this type of uh planning fluctuates from year to year by moving to the EBC program we would be covered under their stop loss policy and claims above $70,000 I'm sorry claims cost above $75,000 regardless of the plan wouldn't factor into underwriting into the future so an added benefit also of moving to the EBC is that our benefit renewal will align with our fiscal calendar and when we join we would actually be guaranteed stable rates for the next 18 months and in looking at the overall impact of this recommendation if we were to move to the employee benefits Cooperative instead of the 88.8% increase on average that was forecast under the uh do nothing scenario or the status quo scenario we would only need to see on average an increase of 5.2% uh this means that our employees would save approximately $375,000 in increased premiums over the course of the next 18 months while the district would avoid cost increases to the tune of $ 1.125 million over the next 18 months additionally it will free up the district to be able to budget for benefits with certainty because right now um in in our budget there are two renewal cycles that occur for every single fiscal year because our benefits are on a January to December basis as opposed to the July to June basis that our fiscal year needs to run on under the school code so this will provide us the ability for the first time in a very long time to be able to better budget for benefits with certainty there we go we got a tongue tire there better budget for benefits with certainty uh addition the district will be able to hedge against future increases by spreading our risk over the other 125 districts that are in the cooperative and be able to retain our plan design changes without any barriers or impediments to continuing to negotiate those annual contracts for Standalone services that many of our employees have come to rely upon and that have given us a comparative advantage in keeping costs low so we currently negotiate just to be clear we currently negotiate our rates individually with a firm correct correct versus now we would be negotiating as part of a conglom Cooperative of 127 other districts correct so instead of having 1725 employees uh on average we would have the purchasing power of 28,000 employees on average thank you and they strengthened numbers um so if the board were to approve this recommendation u in looking at what our next steps are in our timeline for implementation we would be looking to hold our open enrollment um between November 6th and November 17th and this would cover the first 6 months of that 18mon um transition so between November 6th and November 17th employees would have the ability to elect their plans for the January 1st to June 30th benefit period then come May before we pack up our classrooms and we look to we look forward to the nice long summer um we would be looking to select our benefit offerings for the second open enrollment period which would run between July 1st 2024 and June 30th 2025 now with the two open enrollment periods the dollars that are going to be charged for premiums will not change between the two but let's say that you tried the HMO and you'd like to switch to the PO or if youve got the PO and you'd like to switch to the higher deductible plan having that second open enrollment window to be able to do so is a benefit and a rare opportunity for somebody to be able to make midyear plan design changes so I know that we've covered a lot of ground and I appreciate the the humor with the uh with the jokes there but um what questions does the board have first I just want to say Ken thank you and I miss you thank you for the jokes I appreciate that um what I the one question is um what will employees lose as we switch to this plan and I may have a second question based on how you answer that so again setting aside there are some of our Standalone offerings that are negoti it on an annual basis and again joining the employee benefits Cooperative is not a barrier or impediment to our ability to continue to negotiate those the most consequential plan design the most consequential change to the overwhelming majority of our employees would be needing to Remember come January 1st to take your old Blue Cross Blue Shield card out of your wallet and put a different one in your if you are on our HMO plan and you've got referrals that are already in place for Specialist Care those referrals will remain intact again the they will be cloning our plan designs identically there will be no impediment or impact where our employees would be losing out and in fact by adding CVS Pharmacies back into the mix they would actually stand to gain okay you cancel my second question Dr zmy can you add to that just to based on your assessment of what you've heard yeah I think the the the uh the key piece that we're looking for here is um the more opportunities that we can to negotiate with a large group it would be the better um one of the things that when we talked with the the union groups they had those very similar questions what am I going to lose how can things be different for us good different and then bad different and I think we were able to meet with them and speak with them and to be able to talk through what those concerns are I think they're very excited about the addition of CVS Pharmacy um things related to rush Copley um Glennon can you speak to maybe um um the teleah health um as well too they were excited about right so we have a tele Health PL program that provides employee assistance Behavioral Health as well as um urgent cure um the program has been effect since January first it is it's been extremely successful we actually have uh we meet on somewhat of a regular basis to go over this information with our current broker as well as uh first stop Health in terms of the program assess um I just speak to that we are saving additional monies from the use of first stop Health that is our employees um using first stop health for things such as um urgent care and again Behavioral Health um the program again is expected to again not change moving forward but if you have specific questions I'm not exactly sure what those might be I certainly would be happy to answer them and just a couple other things same same plans with uh diabetes and hypertension absolutely so there so to our um we have three plans that go uh but they are actually paid through brw hosper Shield one is wonder which is for um weight loss one is Vago which is for diabetes and then there's hinge which is for hypertension and those three plans will continue under interrupted I've been told that there will not be any disruption to those plants if I can so something I wanted to point out a lot of times when you talk about joining the co-op a lot of people assume that what you're doing is you're taking out other people's risk but what I want to point out is our loss history is what it's going to be used against the determination of our premium just to stay up again our loss history is what it's going to be used to determine the price increase so we would not be taking on other districts loss history it's going to be our m lost dist stre where the advantage comes in is the uh the ability to be able to to use the uh the power of a larer group to negotiate bettered pricing which you currently don't have so you go from negotiating with 1,700 lives if you will to negotiate with 28,000 lives that gives you more half in the marketplace to be able to get pricing that Jordan Al would not get with uh fuel lives thank you is there going to be any um Interruption to payroll the deduction from the payroll system no there will not be um this will be just like any open enrollment we upload that information effective January 1 and then we obviously look back at that information so it's actually a work in progress starting January 1 and we make sure that or I should say make sure that um any sort of lagering sort of um enrollments um any any sort of issues that pertain to coverage I send out several letters or email Communications reminding employees to look at their deductions to verify the coverage and the contact me if any disruptions um so to your question that shouldn't be an issue it's been it's the same it it's not going to be any different than previous years thank you can can you speak to how many different organizations you spoke to in doing your research and what potential savings there might be it was what six thank you yeah I believe we had met with six different um firms um of which there were two that offered a Cooperative option but uh in looking at the track record of the cooperatives and the length of time that they've been in the game and also the the track record of success Gallagher the employee benefits Cooperative that is managed by Gallagher uh St stood alone um in meeting with their um Executive Vice President in meeting with their their team that would be assigned on a dedicated basis to District 308 again we uh we saw the quality and we saw people who are who think a lot alike when it comes to how our approach to benefits about being Progressive about being proactive about looking upstream and finding ways to be able to deliver care in the lowest cost earliest stages possible the other thing I would like to add is is an executive board that actually makes decision for the co-op I goal is we will work very hard to get one of our employees to be on that executive board so our voice is not lost uh among those 125 School District so that's the plan here we will work very hard to get more likely than I can on that executive board so voice is not lost so that ties into my questions um so before we decide whether last year was the last dance um well played thank you right pun intended he was waiting for that anyways um I had three specific questions I'll throw them all out at once CU they absolutely relate to that how many Luda districts are in here who's going to represent us on the out of the 125 districts and is it one vote one District or is it proportional so just to so answer the question there's a board of directors if you will right that governs the uh the co-op and there is an election held for that and what we will try to do is we'll be one of the larger members of the co-op so we will do everything we can to work to make sure that one of our people gets on that executive board that governs the co-op so I guess I guess my question is I'm not trying to be break difficult here but are there other Luda districts on there because I'm sure they have the same philosophy and if so which ones and then who's going to represent like who goes into to who's casting like that vote who's who's showing up when the 125 get together and say this is who we want what uh we can find out for you okay uh the other District in our area who are in that that Co-op I know the governing uh uh system for that Co-op is there executive members who are elected by the member district and those executive like you to in in most co-ops they make decision representative of the members in the co-op but what we will do we will use our influence because we'll be one of the larger members of the co-op to make sure that that executive board we have one of our staff member serving that executive board hey and and I appreciate it it's just you know uh and I'm not saying this is necessarily a barrier but um you know I've watched organizations like iasb and um let's be honest and blunt um usually the people holding the key the key there of ended up being non-unified affluent districts um and so I'm just curious if that's what we're entering in here or if we're entering in with other Luda districts just curious what the makeup is and so we'll be we'll be happy to share the makeup of all the districts uh with a board did we talk to any other districts that are in this and ask how they felt about it yes okay I've talked to a number of districts who are on the who are part of the uh EBC and a number of them have been in the uh EBC for a long time and based on conversation that I've had with them they've been they've been satisfied a lot of them started out using Brokers individual Brokers what happened is a lot of time individual Brokers are there to make money if you will the core uh there's no profit to be made so when you do well the uh the increase is distributed back to members of the co and the determination is made instead of increasing rates what happen is the the profit if you will is used to buy down the rate increase to make sure the increases doesn't happen so are you invited as a member or has have there ever been members who've been declined we have to be voted in yes we have to be voted in and based on the criteria of I would imagine like your loss ratio or yes okay the executive board are to V Us in and based on conversation with the folks at Gallagher who managed to co-op they have been School District that have applied that they declined not to take up because of their uh loss profile okay okay any other questions any other questions okay uh thank you team for your due diligence and your efforts to bring this information in the presentation tonight thank you all right it was so nice to see Glen yes Glenn it's good to see you um we uh we invite uh Mr obafemi to you know part of early on in my tenure here in the district the board had asked for regular updates and opportunity to think about evidence-based funding um both for our own learning but also really for the community at large and so um Community when you are listening if you hear things that you think would be helpful in these presentations please follow up with an email and uh we will be doing this regularly as part of our board meetings okay this is the second part in the series of information that we're going to share about the evidence-based uh funding model now the uh the first presentation that was given last month was more of an introduction and the second installment is more uh a way to kind of share how much we've received since the implementation of ebf as a district I would benefited from that so I think this is a recap of when ebf was sent up back in 2017 became law and the fact that is the best practice as far as uh funding of uh schools from the state as opposed to the old method of everyone gets the same amount of money regardless of uh the need the unique need of every District so uh the uh the key metrics that is used in ebf is that the state is committed to allocating minimally $350 million a year of the 300 million that is allocated uh the allocation is going to be based on uh on the tier and the unique need of each district so tier one being districts with the uh with the furthest from adequacy all the way to uh tier four who are the local funding to be able to fund the educational need of their students and I think it's important to point out there's a a second part to their funding levage 300 million goes to uh State funding the other part of that is $50 million and that $50 million is used to uh to form property tax relief Grant where districts with a relatively High property taxes can actually apply for Relief except the tricky part about that that is the district would then have to Abate an equal amount from property taxes that a will to Levy but the also the funky part about that too is there's no guarantee that you will get that money year to year so you Abate your taxes and which means you lose the ability to get that Revenue your Levy and you're not guaranteed to get the money back from the state so you kind of putting your fate in the state thinking that they'll do right by you and there's no guarantee that they will do right by you that's an important part that I want to point out with the 300 million the basis is just going to be on your tier so if you are farthest from adequacy you get a set amount based on the number of variables so from where I'm sitting I think the the property tax relief Grant is a tricky way uh of going I think just going with the uh the allocation from the 300 million makes more sense now I just this is a recap of what I just said that uh since uh ebf started the uh legislation was passed in 2017 and the allocation started being made in fy8 and it's been 300 million for the uh for the adequacy Target and the then the 50 million as has been for the property tax uh Grant read it now since uh ebf was implemented the state has been very good the first three years in FY uh 18 19 and 20 of actually raising the allocation that were that were made to school district however in 2021 as a result of uh coid 19 the they actually did not step up and increase that so the allocation in 2012 21 was flat and it was mainly because of coid 19 as we all could remember when coid 19 when it happened back in uh 2020 no one knew what the impact of it was going to be on our F on the states finances and I dare say on school district finances and we know a lot of uh business is shut down and we know a big chunk of uh Revenue that the state gets comes from income that is generated from state income tax from sales taxes and so that impacted State negatively and what you will see in the next uh slide is that the allocation I'm going to show you that the history of the allocation went lower in 2020 21 compared to the three the prior three years but in 2020 uh 2022 and onward the state is pretty much caught up so there was a dip in 2021 and it was made up in 22 23 and in the current year 2024 the state has been spot on they kept to the commitment that it made of increase in allocation every year so what I just mentioned and I thought it would be it would be nice to see a picture so if you look at 2018 when uh ebf actually took took effect there were steady increases each year then if you look at uh 2021 it was pretty much flat and that was the impact of coid 19 on state revenue but then from that BP on then things took off again and it's been steadily increasing from fy18 to 2024 this is another way of showing that I know sometimes it always is always helpful to look at pictures and you will see the the steady increase except for fy21 which was pretty much flat compared to fy20 and I wanted to uh to show a table that lays out on much the district has received since the implementation of uh ebf so 2018 which is the first year in 2019 there was an increase of 6% as you see and that went up again to almost 7% in 20 uh 2020 but then in 21 as I mentioned because of the impact of coid 19 that was essentially flat but then it picked back up in 22 back to about 7% and the last year and I think to a large extent because of allocation from the federal government to States as a result of Co the state like a lot of other states got a lot of money from Esser and all the appropriation that were distributed by the uh the Congress so what the state did is passed that money around and then the uh the pent up demand from businesses there was an increase in uh business activity in the state of still annoy so the state made up that difference so in 22 it went up back to 7% and 23 it went up even significantly to almost 11% and if you look at the allocation this year 97.7 million so he almost 10 10% so except for the blit in 21 the state has actually been committed and the Appropriations have been there the allocation has been there for us and to help uh a bottom line that's it any questions I have a question what do you me perfect thank you so the the allocations in this in this column allocations to 308 yes yes this is us all right then I have another question District appropriation yes earlier on I thought you said that the total Appropriations were 300 million for the district wide Statewide I'm sorry state why for ebf so what the state committed to when ebf was passed is that every year 350 million will be appropriated by by the state appropriated and the distribution of that 350 million 50 million will be set aside for the property tax Grant 300 million will be allocated based on the tier of the individual school district and that will be driven to large extent by the distance from uh the distance of the the funds required the the mean uh the medium fund required to educate a child appropriately so districts with the local resources to be able to provide an adequate education to their to their students were HED here got old Harless amount essentially they got what they were appropriated in 2017 and they would not lose ground I there there's just I get all that there's just one piece I'm missing um it it I some I'm missing somewhere how there's three call it 300 million yes I I can I I no I think I I can answer this okay I know 97 of 300 is not coming to 308 correct 8 million so it's 300 million of incremental so let's say that they were spending $20 billion a year they're going to another 300 million incremental incr we got we got eight we got eight and a half of it understand 300 million okay yeah I thought gosh we're getting no am we better be like the entire state right you know we're getting a third of the money but okay no I'm sorry I if I didn't explain it right that's okay that was the increase that was available they gave us the they gave us uh the increase the difference to to to build on the prior year okay so yeah now I get it thank you so just for the the the population the community um so we were getting 6% of that 300 incremental we were then we were getting seven then we were getting seven again and 11 and 10 um why did we suddenly get a bigger piece of that $300 million pie because when you look at it uh adequacy hasn't gone up adequacy has been pretty much much steady right so what is what is used to determine is school districts would tear so the lower you are in AR the more money you get from the par so which means the further you are from from ad so the variables that I put in there in my next presentation we're going to talk about the calculations or file they reach that adequacy okay it's a it's a combination of the equalized assessment value the value of local property taxes right and the amount of money that the district can safely generate from local funds without putting undue burden on on local taxpayers So based on all those variabl we at 69 the lowest you could pretty much be 60 so as you see we're pretty close to the lower of aacy so that's that's another thing is that even though we've getting incremental dollars from the state yeah relative to the year prior um we're still one of the worst funded districts in the state because we're still tier one it doesn't it's not that we for adequacy for adequacy yeah and I think for what we for what a district like ours is supposed to need I think saying we're the worst funded may be a misnumber right so the way ebf was set up is the state they looked at how much it will cost the average cost of educating a child in state of filad regardless of where the child is located and let's say that amount is 7500 and looking at the property wealth and in the percentage of property taxes that residents of a community are pay and the ability to raise additional taxes locally then the state used that to create tears so if you look at our tax we're pretty high so the state looked at us and we also you also look at the the variety the mixture of the property taxes so we are mostly residential we don't we don't have that much in the way of industrial and we also are farmland and farmland taxes is based on what the firms produce right so in looking at that we fall on our ability to raise additional Revenue locally is pretty limited without hitting up uh uh taxpayer for even a higher tax rate so the state looked at us and say you need more help to get your adequacy and that's why we keep getting the increases in allocation and unless the the makeup of our property taxes changes significantly or ability to generate local wealth changes significantly a level of uh contribution from the state will probably stay very similar as long as we get the appropriation from the state because we're still going to be tier one I I appreciate the series I was I wanted to hear more about it and I'm looking forward to the next one so I don't know if anybody else has anything yeah any other questions um so one thing that I just want to point out because it's the week that it is um since it's uh the um veto session in Springfield one one of the aspects of um when the evidence-based formula was passed there was a provision right and in that provision um there it's uh known if you will as invest in kids and what that provision was was basically a voucher system uh for people who um wanted to perhaps circumvent the public education system and uh be reimbursed if you will for what they were paying to to the private system one thing to that a couple things I want to point out about that is that's come up um certainly from some of the people that I've discussed with uh in the community I I'll give a couple of pieces here one is that when quote unquote inves in kids was put in as a provision for evidence-based formula these were the following leaders of the Senate and the House Bill Bradley a republican Mike Madigan the Democrat Jim Durkin a Republican John Colton a Democrat those those were the leader that was the leadership of the Senate and the house at the time Bill bra Brady is a um graduate of the Central Catholic private school in in Bloomington Michael Madigan was a graduate of St Ignatius private school in Chicago Jim Durkin was a graduate of Fenwick High School also a private school and John Culler and went to Loyola Academy also a private school um the provision was supposed to um help students who were in underperforming districts so if you lived in a district that was underperforming you were supposed to be the target uh student of this provision approximately 28% of those funds have actually gone towards students in underperforming school districts the M vast majority have gone to students who are already in districts that are overperforming or at least performing um adequately so um one of the things that I always ask continuously I give the example of Hinsdale so Hinsdale High School District if you live in um Hinsdale itself you can go to Hinsdale South it's not a problem however there is um real life redlining um if you look at Burridge Middle School Burridge Middle School is the only District that it um that it touches that is a majority africanamerican and if you go to burdge Middle School you feed into Hinsdale South you do not have the choice to go to Hinsdale Central if you go to Hinsdale South Hinsdale High School District will let you go to Hinsdale South if you are in the Hinsdale Central boundaries will not let you go to Hinsdale Central if you're from Hinsdale South the representative of that uh one of the representatives in that District uh big proponent of investing kids will never tell you does investing kids give you a choice when it comes to this High School the answer is no you're not going to have that change so I I've heard this say oh you're against uh choice or or whatever the the bill was set up by bipartisan to try and help students who were in underperforming ing districts that's not happening and if it was really choice I would challenge that Republican representative from Hinsdale I'll talk to her anytime um are you going to uh guarantee Choice within the own in the High School District you represent I know the answer and I know I won't get a call so um I just wanted to make sure that that piece was because it was attached to the evidence-based formula when this was passed and I just wanted to make sure that um um that piece was covered as well since since the session is this week and there's been a lot of talk about it yeah there was uh there's legisl um there's an attempt being made to actually pass that during this fall session uh yeah and uh just based on the composition of the legislator now I'm not sure how likely that is to to pass but I I may be wrong but I I'm just not sure how likely it is because of the composition yeah what what I've what I've heard because I've had conversations with with representatives from both sides right um I'm going to be blunt to the point we have a representative that our borders uh touch that um sits on a a private school board of education um he's very much a proponent of this um and uh uh small school rivalry right he's he's from Newark and I'm from Sak so uh um anytime he wants to play basketball if we want to go back to basketball analogies I'm in uh but anyways the um there's also uh others on uh who have looked at this they see that how this was passed and everything else and um they are interested in how constituents feel so um you know I for those um who have a um opinion on this uh if it's you know I'm not going to tell people what to believe but I would highly recommend that you reach out uh to your state reps and senators thank you any other questions please thank you thanks okay next we have uh for information this evening uh Bill Queen joining us to discuss the plank rooftop unit bid results and she's uh joined by Charlie CL uh johnel from clubber so I want to welcome you and my uh Barry White voice is uh sounds a lot worse it really is so I'm I'm okay still a couple away I'm still I'm still okay there we go Bill Queen please come up yes please oh you yeah you can work from there if you but Charlie if You' like to come up to the like good evening board Madame President Dr katti colleagues bill so I I feel it's important to give a little background on the plank project before we talk about the recommendation so as a part of the envisions 308 plan for Capital Improvements the rooftop units at plank Junior High were identified as a priority project to replace critical HVAC systems necessary to maintain School indoor air quality and ensure the health and safety of students and staff in the building plank was established and opened up in 2006 making these units about 17 years old um they're they're reaching their life expectancy and and it shows my maintenance text are there a lot we're spending a lot of time and it's been quite difficult finding parts and replacement parts moving forward um recommendation on September 28th at 10:00 a.m.

good evening it's 6:30 we will go ahead and get started for those that are able if you wouldn't mind standing for the pledge of Allegiance please Al to flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice for all we are a full board tonight so I will call Quorum meeting will start Dr Robert thank you Mrs Wen so at the beginning of each meeting we just want to reaffirm our mission vision and core values so a reminder the vision of the school corporation is to be the choice to learn work and play our mission is to develop expert Learners by partnering with our community to invest in people in terms of core beliefs we all can rise to the challenge of high expectations learning is most effective when we have Choice flexibility ility and see relevance we Thrive when our physical social and psychological needs are met our community and School District are stronger when we partner with one another we flourish because of the diversity and variability in our community and our democracy and Democratic institutions are strengthened by civic-minded citizens and that would take us straight to recognitions and I think my name's on that one too so I'll take it all right mayor L if you wouldn't uh mind coming to the podium we've been blessed over the last uh several years actually the fall of 2016 was the first offer that we made to the city and through the Redevelopment commission and the city council to perhaps gift us some dollars from the the Tiff districts that that uh are a part of the city of Columbus and we were able to receive some dollars at that time and have continued to do that has benefited our our kids in in so many ways uh through that time so we recently made that pitch again I guess this was number eight and we were fortunate to have that granted to us and mayor Len we greatly thank you and the members of of the Redevelopment Commission in granting those dollars to US well you're very welcome uh Dr Roberts and and to the rest of the school board and and the those people here this evening you know again we started about eight years ago which is when I started and the notion was that uh uh it is important for us to do a couple of different things one is to share you know the Tiff districts that we have here in Columbus have been very successful and as those have allowed us to invest significant amounts of dollars in infrastructure throughout our community in general Tiff dollars can only be spent on infrastructure uh hard things we can't pay for people but we can pay for projects with one exception and that is that we can provide money to the local school corporation to uh invest in VAR ious programs and so we selected eight years ago igrad stem and transitional learning I think those are the right phrases still is yes and and it was a way for us as a city and a way for us as a Redevelopment commission to invest in our community and to invest in the education of the of the kids who live here and so we're pleased to be able to do that we believe that it makes Columbus a better place to live and it makes us more attractive not just to the the industry that we're trying to recruit but also to the individuals who will work there because as we're all sort of becoming you familiar with we don't not not so much interested in Industry I mean excuse me we always will be but we're becoming more interested in the individual and I like to tell I told the governor the other day that the state of Indiana has done a good job of recruiting companies companies move to Indiana but people move to Columbus and so it's important for us to understand the effect that we have with respect to how we invest our dollars and make sure that there's a portion of those that are directed towards attracting people to Columbus and so we believe that this is money we spent money well invested in the education of our next generation and we're happy to be able to present what looks a lot like a check the the folks downtown don't don't trust [Music] me no that's not true we uh we we we didn't get it submitted in time to get it printed is really what the what the uh the true explanation is but nonetheless we're happy to be able to make this gift so congratulations you're welcome so much app all right would you mind indicating how much this check is I'm sorry the accountant forgot the numbers um $1 million we started off eight and uh as I said our Tiff district has proven to be pretty U pretty successful and I can't recall exactly but we went to a million bucks two three years ago four years ago it's our third time I believe third time and once again pleased to be able to do so take care yeah thank you so much mayor since 2016 with those dollars as the mayor is is exting um the those dollars have touched basically every child in our school corporation when you look at the way that stem has impacted us from K through 12 I grad various students who are were working to push and graduate students in special that have special needs who are transitioning into the workplace and into our postsecondary institutions it's benefit of our C4 program uh so really basically every child that's been in our school system since 201617 those dollars in one way or another another of touch so thank you again mayor appreciate it okay the next one is we have a [Music] presentation Katie we'll turn it over to you and you can introduce your team and take it from there good evening yes I'm not sure I can follow mayor linup I have no money to give um but but we are so excited um to join you this evening to talk about some really great things that are happening at Schmidt Elementary so I'm Katie day I'm the principal I've been there for 10 years now first half of those were with Dr Boseman and now Mr Jake shaffner is joining us as assistant principal we have Jill bless our Title One instructional coach she doesn't like when I say this but a lot of this reading stuff is due to her hard work and her passion for literacy and Kate edgren our udl facilitator that we share with busy bees so I think Jak Jake would probably agree we have the best coaches in the land or two of the very best coaches in the land this slide is about a little bit about who we are we're actually as of today 702 students rck Creek pre to sixth grade um we are eager to learn and grow Innovative and hardworking both are students and our staff um the screen on the left is our ethnicity is broken down and just shows just really how diverse um our student population is um and we are 11% multilingual Learners 19% students with disabilities and 4% exceptional Learners so just a little snapshot of of who we are I am probably preaching to the choir just a little bit um the impacts of early literacy uh so so very important to nurture for a number of different reasons so um the amount of texts we can get into the hands of our kids even before they walk into our elementary schools is so very important specifically for language development and as they grow then vocabulary um we think it's super important atent to have a very wide variety of books that our kids can access so that they can um see themselves in texts they can empathize during text um and so also they can learn some more social emotional awareness as kids definitely strengthens memory and problem solving and a lot of studies uh and you you may have heard but a lot of studies share even the impact of literacy and third grade proficiency and how that can sometimes predict success in graduation rates or success Beyond high school so we know we have an important job to do as Educators for our prek to6 kiddos you may have heard science of reading um the science of reading covers all of the things that are listed on the screen phc awareness phonics fluent text reading vocabulary and comprehension but it is a study of reading so all of the parts of our day all of the parts of our day can fit in and and and fits with one of these um subtopics so that's a lot of talking I have a lot of words the rest of our slideshow um my presenters here are going to talk about it's it's a lot of pictures we kind of wanted to create a scrapbook of some of just the the amazing things that our kids and families are are working on um involving reading and writing am I doing this right all right so I'm gonna start by sharing um a little bit about our curriculum and instruction piece of our literacy um starting with our our district adopted hmh curriculum um there are so many components that teachers are able to use with this series um it's very accessible for our students a lot of different um pieces that all align with the science of reading so we feel very fortunate that we've adopted this series that we're in our third year of using hmh um and again just so many resources for our teachers and accessibility wise and then um we use a program called epic along with other programs like Raz kids different um platforms that have books and options for students to record themselves to listen to books um to take quizzes so all kinds of different ways that we can interact with text um on our screen sometimes and then we wanted to share about IAD 3 we were able to be one of the five schools to Pilot this in second grade this year and we were really happy to get a chance to do that we were able to use the data right right away um off you know right when we started in August for our students that are now in third grade we have S students that passed in second grade so we are already moving the needle with those students up with some more challenging work those that did not pass we know those um we have already started implementing some practices with some remediation to help them get where they need to be some of them are right on track they just need the extra time to get there and so we're aware of that and the practices that we need to follow through with those to make sure that those students are successful and next I'm going to talk about our writing Series so again hmh we've had for three years and it has a writing component with it that is organized to match right along with our reading so teachers have enjoyed having that resource um and using those units we also use a program called smackin and we've done a lot of work around the district with smackin teachers have jumped right on board before we had hmh writing was a bit of a struggle with the last series and so we implemented um some of the strategies and smackin and teachers um have worked together as teams to create many units very engaging things that students are doing um I know our fourth graders have an Invention Convention and they work on persuasive writing with that our sixth graders recently went to exhibit Columbus and then they did some writing about which um exhibit they felt like was the most impactful and why and so we've just found a way to make our students excited about writing using the curriculum that we have and some other additional things that we'll share with you in a minute but um we're very grateful to have these two pieces um that teachers are using to get students really excited about writing in August we spent a lot of time working with our students just on um sharing who they are their passions and interests um we have um done a lot of this with Kate's Kate's help um she brought some Regio practices to us um and so we did some site visits and really learned a lot of great ideas of how to use literacy um in those in that that identity piece that we do in August so lots of book reading different varieties of books and then some extension writing so here's an example of a book that a lot of our teachers love is called the the best part of me and then students get a chance to think about themselves and what is the best part of them and then do a writing activity with it so we love getting giving students a chance um just to express themselves again with this identity piece in August a few of our interv ions that we have uh book buddies and title we um offer 30 minute sessions four times a week with our book buddies and our students love this is for our second and third graders they love this opportunity to interact one-on-one with an adult play games work on site wordss read books together um there's Larry one of our favorite volunteers he actually brought his cookies to us today he's constantly um really just the kindest man and our staff loves him and he's always giving us little treats to keep us going um and then for our title intervention we have daily um intensive groups that work in that are small groups using again the science of reading as their background with the level literacy and then they also have hdw kits where they work on building words and um practicing you know what we would consider encoding or spelling but working through those words and then learning how to apply that to Tech so we're very grateful for these intervention pieces our interventionists do a wonderful job communicating with our teachers and staff about student progress and we're constantly evaluating where students are and if they need to move in or out or we get new students and do they need to get into title and our um staff is does a great job of getting students in that need to be in and finding a creative way to get time with them and then we we have um an amazing Library um this this quote this District statistic here says children with access to a 500 book Library over the course of their childhoods gained an additional 3.2 years of education just as much as those in homes with college educated parents so in we love our library our librarian great we have wonderful um reading incentives and great displays and students go to the library weekly to get books but we also know that there's a lot of power in the classroom library and our teachers making recommendations to kids and even purchasing books because they know their students would be interested in them so we've done um a lot of work around even just inventory in the classroom Library do we have a lot of a balance of fiction and non-fiction do we have a lot of different genres represented a lot of different types of characters um so we've done a lot of work with that and then we're very grateful for our PTO they've helped to support our teachers providing them with money for their classroom Library um we've used some we've partnered with Viewpoint and then we also utilize first book which is an amazing resource where we can get books at a discounted rate with since we are a title school um and so that helps our teach teachers build that classroom Library that's engaging for the students because we know if they don't have an interest in a book they probably won't pick it up to read it so I love you know we'll see teachers put a sticky note on a book for a kid and put on their desk and say I thought of you and ordered this book and that child's going to pick that book up and want to read it so um our teachers work really hard with this and we're really proud of our classroom libraries all right okay you'll see on this slide that any chance we can we celebrate by giving books so on the left you will see that some kids are um earning a or they are getting a birthday book so when they have their birthday they come down they get a pencil and then they pick out a book from our book tree and then we've also started implementing um giving a board book when a student atmi has a new sibling come into their family and you can just see their beaming and sometimes older siblings don't always handle that transition very well when a new member of the family comes into the world and so this is just just a way that we can celebrate them and their role as a big sister or brother and and a reader um and we just really want to share reading with the entire family um like Jill said we partner with Cummins and utilize that first book resource in order to get really great high quality books into the hands of our kids that they are interested in and actually first book they give out codes every once in a while for like $25 off and we have an ongoing text thread like there's a code go order um so several of us at SCH are just constantly trying to get more books for our our kiddos um you'll he hear Jill's name mention a lot because she just really truly does have such a passion for literacy and um I am happy to help support her in any way that I can to put on some of these really amazing events that we have brought to Schmid Elementary one of them is World read alloud day and lots of authors are very generous with their time on this day and so you'll see a couple of um pictures where they kids are gathered in order to do a zoom with an author and get to actually talk with them and ask some questions we also connect a lot of our older classrooms with younger classrooms for Buddy reading you can see some pictures of that um and then finally uh in the spring or early um in second semester our fifth grade students do what's called a mock cicott so our uh teachers are scouring for the top 20 up and cominging picture books we order them usually through donor's choose and then the students in fifth grade do some work to analyze and read and vote on which book is their favorite and they get a special Schmid cicott award but then they culminate that event with watching the actual cicott Awards to see if their selection made it in the cicott Runnings another really fun thing that happens at Schmidt as we do do a lot of book clubs some of these are teacher-led like the Harry Potter um if you can tell in the middle that was a teacher-led book club she just had a lot of students that were interested in Harry Potter so they met once a week after school to talk all things Harry Potter um that happens to me my daughter and I'm very grateful for this book club because I just have not yet read Harry Potter so somebody else was able to geek out about Harry Potter with her um we also do family book clubs where we select a book for our younger kiddos and then our older students and invite families to read them with us at home and we actually are in the middle of coordinating our fall book club we have 64 families already signed up which has cleared out our stock of books and I just ordered 20 more so that's just really exciting to see families interacting with books with their students um we don't only focus on reading we also emphasize writing writing and so um one thing we have worked to do and again really Jill has worked to do is Implement writing clubs this started preco and there is a lot of interest in getting a chance to write with friends and um focus on creative writing and then coid came so we made these portable writing kits that we sent home and thankfully we've been able to start up a real person writing Club again these are fourth through sixth graders who are self- selecting to write during their uh lunch period with with Jill um The Hope is that they're writing a novel that we will then publish for them and then finally anything we can do um to get kids excited about reading we're going to do it and so we Implement some challenges give a little incentive um giving kiddos a chance to track their reading and and do that at home with their families um try to implement the cool water bottle stickers that are all the rage when they meet the challenge and then in the middle it kind of looks like a restaurant and that is an example of a book tasting um a fifth grade teacher just did this this morning um but it gives a chance for students to taste different genres of books that they might not normally gravitate to and you can tell we um kind of go all out to make it really fun and engaging so that kids are learning about books they may not normally gravitate to so a couple other opportunities that we have at Schmidt um we have a book swap which is really neat to see our kids um get really excited and really engaged when they get to pick out their own book and sometimes maybe it's one that was swapped out so it's going through a couple different hands which is really NE to to think through as well um the photo here and the and the right my right am I right uh was actually an from an event that we had earlier this this year and families actually came to um this choir event and we had um the van here that actually gave out um books so it was really neat to see families come together and actually pick a book together to be able to go home and share that um share that experience together as well and we actually are looking to do something similar for our next family night our trunker treat which is later this week where we'll be working to get kid U books in kids hands um once again and so looking at some of the data um from um our experiences of working um with our programs um so 100% of our third grade students in our book buddies program um did pass I read um we are extremely extremely blessed to have a great volunteer base at um with our book buddies um and our coordinator Nicole wiltrout is phenomenal um just a wonderful ful person who loves kids and has a passion to help them um grow in their learning um so we're really proud of the hard work that she has put in and really proud of our kids for making that um progress as well and then I would be a Miss as well without sharing that we have two wonderful title teachers U Michelle puit Michelle denim as well as a great group of Tas that really push our kids um within our title programming as well um where 70% of our our kiddos there showed over years's worth of growth um by being with um their um their title teacher specifically so we're really proud of the our work with u both with our book buddies and with our um title programming as well and then just a plug here as well I I mentioned book buddies we have a wonderful group of volunteers it's amazing to see former Schmidt parents come in and volunteer and kind of give back um to the current um student body um we also have wonderful Community Partners that come in to Schmid as well as um you know current current parents as well so just a plug as well um for book buddies we always would love to have more volunteers and then also our imagination uh Library as well um which is an opportunity for a lot of our families and um for a lot of our families I should say um for kiddos um between birth up to five um that can um apply and and a part of the Imagination Library as well I believe I think we should start working for Imagination Library if you've not looked it up you should free books monthly for kids up to the age five so that's an awesome new program that we are pushing for our families too so I might have some help but we did put together some student recommendation of books for you and some staff picks as well as some student created bookmarks um oh I shouldn't move away from the podium Mr Williams uh but we did not mention we have staff book clubs both over professional development books and books that we love so you'll see both there um five star weekend is not professional development but hacking School discipline is so we hope you can enjoy and we appreciate you letting us come to share About Schmidt thank you okay team more questions do we have are you ready for questions so oh sorry ahead Katie I I am just overwhelmed with how many ways you've figured out how to get books into the hands of kids and families and and the fact that there're I mean libraries are great but the fact that those are their books I think is is huge so I appreciate that thank you it's amazing um I do have one question um that Mrs bless I think said that the the under the previous adoption the writing wasn't as good so you started using the smackin and with the smackin and hmh I guess my question is what was lacking and what's different about the writing that you switched to either smackin or hmh um in the O in the previous series um there just wasn't that writing component um in the kind of the organized fashion that we needed it and so the smackin really provided a lot of even direct instruction many lessons for for teachers to teach the writing skills and so we created a lot of things with um under that kind of guidance and then when we had the new series adoption we realized there is the writing Workshop piece to that so we've been kind of able to integrate the two together utilizing some of those mini lessons that the teachers became very proficient with and inserting those in where they kind of fit into the hmh plan so we've kind of made a blended approach with both of them thank you I've got just a quick comment and then I guess also an observation SL slash question but just to um piggyback off what Mr Nan said just to applaud all your efforts at looking for all the chances and reasons you can find to get actual books um in the hands of kids all while uh including families as as much as possible too so very good and then I guess my question I I and there's no way for you guys to know this but I think it was last meeting I maybe put in a plug for book buddies volunteers across the district and I noticed that you said 100% of your third graders that participated past the I learn and I guess my curiosity is just what the success rate might be across all bcsc elementaries with their I read I'm not sure that exactly but I I feel like it's probably pretty similar um it is such an engaging one-on-one program program that's ran by Gretchen and and she just does a fantastic job so I bet I'm not sure if it's 100% um but it's probably pretty pretty close and how many third graders do you have at Schmid about 18 that are in the program thank you and uh of those 18 what would that be as a representative of what you would say that at risk population for the ier is that um I mean is probably close to all okay could you talk a little bit about professional development as uh science of reading was rolled out and um I told Jill I was going to answer all the questions but she's just I'm sure Jill can't the new curriculum material so Jill we're really lucky she because we're a title one building we have a full-time literacy coach so Jill is that Dr hack does a great job um along with Megan shaft to pull those coaches together and really get them on the same field of of development so I think if you don't mind chatting about that you can't tell me no so um through the district we've done some book studies um on the science of reading and really book studies that are very applicable with Hands-On things you can do um we've presented some professional development staff meetings and even teachers are just super eager on their own I know our our two title ladies have just recently watched three webinars and are sharing with some things they're learning so there's just kind of a buzz around learning um about the science of reading I know teachers will share podcasts with each other so I think there's a a big interest in that and I think we're able to you know work together to kind of talk about the issues and um get the resources um so mostly staff meetings um some professional reading that we're sharing is where we're at with the professional development on that and then um real quickly the uh we've talked a lot uh about it being a title school what are the demographics uh free and reduced lunge or any other measures um so we're about 70% of our students receive free or reduced lunch status so both below the poverty line 70% of 700 thank you so I was gonna note Mr Grimes had already brought it up about the book buddies so that's great that is a great program um I did have a question I think I heard it right but I just want to get clarification the preest in second grade that helps you for this year that was you were one of five Pilots right so there are five there were last year five um schools who took I three as second grade it was a pilot from the state and so now all schools will be taking I 3 in second and in third um and it was it's very helpful it kind of takes away the test anxiety of I read 3 as a third grader so all of my now third graders have already seen the test test and again having data that we can use that about a third of our grade passed a third of our grade is on track and then a third of our grade really needs some some strategic work was very helpful information to have right away in August actually before August we rostered using that data you you answered everything I wanted to know about which was are we going to be able to do this more places because it allows you to identify the gaps and help those kids that need it the most get the help first so a little sooner M good job I have a question on the writing what type of stories do you all get what kind of stories do we and third what kind of stories do you all get Oh you mean that we're going to publish yeah well I don't know Mr Bryant I'm not sure I can answer that sometimes they're very flavorful but Jill's Lunch Bunch is fun yes have always exciting um one sixth grade student who ends up in his video game like the game breaks and he becomes part of the video game another sixth grader is writing a historical fiction novel so they're kind of all over the board my daughter's in the club and is writing about the sinking of the Titanic so I know every fact don't ask me right now because I'm a little nervous but it's it's just super fun it's it's fun to see kids choose to spend time reading and writing and we're trying to to keep that spark going thank you okay your all's energy and creativity is awesome they are very lucky kids there thank you all for the presentation awesome because of my team yes thank you I will take a real quick advantage of the question about um professional development and the science of reading our next uh professional development day that's all day is November 27th and I think we have uh science of reading as a part of that morning uh so trying to take advantage of those opportunities we have as a staff when students aren't here to also learn as much as we can very good hey real quick real quick just um one suggestion just was just thinking about this as I looked up I think I see Mr hacking back um it might be cool to have those kids that are going to get the books published to work with C4 graphic R students to conceptualize the cover and maybe some of the inside and have you know C4 gain something out of it too especially you know if you've got some Schmid kids that are there that might think it's come back and help Dr Hackle we just partnered with C4 they built our robotics table for us so we'll I'll send you an email great thank you all appreciate it okay okay Dr Phillips in Miss London and they're smiling and everything it's good good evening thank you for having us this evening this is the second time that Amy and I have gotten an opportunity to co-present the tenative agreement I believe two years ago we stood here and did the same thing and so we're we're very excited about this agreement um and the potential for it to continue to make us very competitive um to attract the the best teachers and staff for our students um I just want to open up by saying that I'm very excited that we have reached a tentative agreement and um this work most of this work is behind us now so we I'm glad that we're here this evening and able to do this so so just a quick review of the timeline I know you saw you all have this in your packet so I won't read it to you but we started back in May with an informal meeting just to set the stage and then uh many of you were there in September when we held the the statutorily required um hearing to allow anyone to come and speak prior to the beginning of uh collective bargaining and then we reached the ATT tenative agreement on um October the 4th then went into fall break and then you see the rest of the timeline there um the ca is voting today and tomorrow so we'll have the results of those tomorrow evening or the the following morning and then uh because of the timing we're required by law to have 72 hours between this presentation of the tenative agreement this Public Presentation and the vote since we were getting together next Monday on the 30th for strategic planning anyway um we just put that in there as an approval item so we'll have an official board meeting on the 30th and request approval of the Ten of agreement at that time so we had uh two great bargaining teams um and we had lots of familiar faces there um myself Dakota huddleson M Keel and Scott rurn are all part of our executive board for CA and then we were fortunate to have some folks from ISTA Chris Campbell and Nancy Gatt who were helpful I I would say to both sides of the team just with their knowledge of bargaining and the the um rules that herb puts out there for us and then of course arer Roberts Mr Manuel was new to our bargaining table this year we were happy to have him and then Chad and and Gina and Nicole was new to our our table this year too so we were happy to have her as well and several years ago we started putting this slide together not only to present here but for ourselves as we start bargaining we review this each time and update it um every time that we sit down together just to remind ourselves of kind of where we've come in the last uh this is least covers the six years between 2017 and 2023 you know several victories there large increases particularly in the starting salary uh as well as the average um salary for teachers in our district that's from that 6289 is from last school year um and then we've been very successful with uh an Amy and her team doing great education uh to get large amounts of support overwhelming support from teachers in the vote then you can see the last two years on the the average average increases there after several years of lingering somewhere between 1 and 3% for about 15 years on an average increase you can see that last uh the last contract we were averaged six and 6.1% um a new one what we added this year hadn't been on here before is uh we have 547 out of our 768 teachers that qualify for the referendum experience uh payments um and that try to get these numbers right I actually put it down here 44 if they stay with us this year 44 more teachers will qualify next fall and another 41 The Following fall after that again providing that those teachers um stay with us so here's the everybody wanted to know the money um so in the 23 24 school year each um each person is going to add $4,500 to each line on the schedule um our salary starting increases from 446 to 491 which makes us um very competitive with our neighbors the top scale increases from 836 to 881 which again makes this very comp competive with our neighbors and then with our maximum with the referendum increases we went from 990,000 to 94,500 which was a 5% increase and then teachers are going to stay on the current step this school year um and the steps are not based on experience which has always been something that we have to remember we say over and over again because it's easy to look at that and then count and say well I've been here 10 years I should be at this at the 10th step but steps are not based on experience um so the average increase this this school year is going to be 88.3 increase um that's a big increase for a percentage I've been here over 20 years and I've don't know that we've ever had that in one year so that's a huge increase um it'll be retroactive to the start of the contract year and we had an agreement with um our timing for that and I believe the day when you work out the 19 days it's November 24th I think is the day before Thanksgiving so everybody can get in there um Friday shopping um and then for the 20425 school year because that Cal or because that year the state gives us less money than they do in the year prior to that so our amount that we're giving our teachers in 2425 is less than 2324 and again like I said it's simply because the state gives us less money that year um so we're going to add 350 to each line on the schedule and then after we add the 350 each teacher gets to take a step now to take a step they have to meet the experience and the evaluation criteria so they must be effective or highly effective to do that um then we're going to remove the first salary line and we'll show you a chart in a little bit here that helps explain that and then we add a line to the top of the salary schedule so for 2425 our salary increases from 491 to 5950 so a new teacher can start out by making $50,900 in bcsc which is a 3.8 increase uh the top of the scale increases from 881 to 89950 which is a 2.1% increase and then our maximum with our referendum goes from 945 to 996350 and that makes it for an average of a 3% raise in the 2425 school year so here's that table that I was talking about you can see and and um Chad can maybe he's much better with spreadsheets and tables than I am so we um you can see from there that a teacher is going to go in 22 23 they're just going to move straight over so wherever they were if they were at um let's say 476 then they'll move over to 521 and then uh when they go from 23 to 24 when they're at 521 they'll go to 53950 because they move over and then they go down one so there's an example of that exactly of what I just said so teacher a made 476 in 2223 and they are going to make 521 which is their $4,500 uh increase and in 2425 they're going to make 53950 which is their increase of1 1850 after a step and then you can see we gave an example here of a teacher more the top of the scale that um 8821 plus their $7,900 in referendum pay gives them the maximum of 90,000 is where they start so then this school year they're going to make 866 plus the 79 um they don't we don't do the step like we said in 23 24 so then their Max becomes 945 and then in 2425 they're going to make 88450 plus the 7900 they get for the referendum which gives them the 96 350 the important thing about this scale too is that everybody got the same $4,500 everybody got everybody got to um take a step so there wasn't anybody that was different on any of that which I thought was very important it was something important that our members told us when we surveyed all of our members that was very important to them as well and then the referendum pay structure remains unchanged since we've had that in place now for this will be the uh third full year I believe and so um increases of 5,000 10,000 and 15,000 based on years of experience up to that maximum salary as you saw in that last example so we have some other ways that teachers get compensated through our appendix BNC whether this be extra days in their for their teaching contract or this an athletic IC um position and so in 23 24 because we had an average of an 8% increase they are going to get an 8% increase on appendix B and C and then in 2425 it's going to be a 3% increase we are going to pay our folks who work a ticketed extracurricular event $30 an event that went up I believe from $10 and then our new teacher orientation uh we added to the list so outside of school hours an event that will be paid at $30 an hour to those new teachers so we're guaranteeing them their pay when they attend the new teacher orientation um with Dr pleek usually at the beginning of the year about a day long and then our retro pay as I said before is 19 business days after the ratification by you find folks which looks like to be November 24th and then we've always had mileage reimbursement it's been in our uh handbook but we went ahead and put it in our contract this time and I I think mileage reimbursement right now is at like 65 or 66 cents per mile so and then on to uh Health which is always a major part after money that comes that comes next in bargaining um and this gets a little bit more complicated because we have some unusual circumstances we haven't we haven't visited in a long time um uh first for the 2024 so the the health year runs on a calendar year basis as opposed to the school year basis so for 2024 the current employer employee percentage contributions that were in the prior contract remain in place but essentially uh that is uh insignificant because of the next bullet point there there's a a 0% increase in health and dental premiums proposed we have that on your agenda for approval and discussion this evening um the Health Trust unanimously um recommended moving forward with uh no increase in health based on some plan design changes that you'll also see here later um the 2025 plan year any increase above the current premiums would be split 50% employer and 50% employee just the increase portion not the whole premium just anything that increases over 2024 but in that same plan year we put some guard rails in place there just to guard against if there was a unexpected crazy claims year and we have to increase uh the premiums by double digits um there are some guard rails to prevent the employee portion of that going up beyond the percentages that are on the bottom of the screen in those last two bullet points and then here is uh this is very much a new proposal that we have not we have not done before so um you might remember that in our budget presentation um we had uh budgeted for I believe a 3% increase in premiums when we put together the budget starting back in the in the uh late summer um but that that money will not be used now because um we having zero% increase for 2024 so um as a way to encourage uh this this proposal here serves two purposes number one it it puts some more guard rails around having an unexpected large increase in 20 2025 but it also re rewards individual employees who are part of the plan if we have a good plan year so in this scenario right here that's in the tenative agreement uh the teachers and the district agreed that we would set aside $200,000 for uh the health plan year 2024 and mainly those those dollars are there just in case we have a bad claims year and the the reserves in the Health Trust decline during 202 24 so when 2024 ends at the beginning of 2025 we'll look back and say do we need to put that $200,000 into reserves to help uh prevent any large increase in premiums in 2025 and if we don't need to do that because we had a good claims year and we broke even or even uh ended up in the black then that money would be uh would go into the health savings account for the approximately 900 employees um who have a high High deductible plan and have an HSA and that would happen in the spring of um and then the last part of the health down there is that we removed the vision exam requirement to earn the wellness incentive some folks were having to pay a little bit out of pocket for that and so we' removed that requirement keeping the others still in place just reminder Mr Philip Dr Phillips the wellness incentive is reduction in premium right that's correct reduction in premium $250 for a single and $500 for a employee and a spouse these are the plan design changes uh that again the the Health Trust unanimously recommends and they're in your packet for approval this evening recommending for approval um one of the things that we were um Adam about keeping in place is our tier one providers are the providers that have been negotiated with our thirdparty administrator and our our broker to have the most advantageous pricing and so highquality providers CR and schneck being local ones and community hospital system and Indianapolis being the the regional one that mainly make up our tier one so if you're an employee if you're a teacher or any other employee that's part of our health plan in 2024 not only are you not going to see an increase in your premiums but as long as you use a tier one provider you also will see no increase in your out-of-pocket cost for your Healthcare and so you can see that tier one in 2024 is ESS essentially exactly the same as it is in 2023 so again there are if you choose to to use a tier 2 or an out of network essentially tier Three is out of network if you choose to use one of those providers you will pay a little bit more um but the the trust also wants to encourage folks to make those decisions about get high quality care but use one of those tier one providers that have the lowest cost as well um before I talk about the non-compensation items I just want to make a quick note about insurance Chad and I talked a lot about educating our our employees not just teachers but all of our employees on what does our health plan design look like understanding that we're self-insured understanding that if you choose this tier or you choose this location how does that impact you not only um with your health insurance but with your salary because we have to spend more money on that so we're going to dedicate a lot of time and educating folks and I've already spent um quite a bit of time just in the last week talking to folks about well if I move from this to this because I have this medicine how can I save money and showing folks where those things are so we're going to spend a lot of time doing that or at least I can I'm volunteering Chad to say that we're gonna do that but um definitely think I think will be a great thing for bcsc um non-compensation items that we had that were added to our contract we've included our payroll dates and clarification to list of the pay and the list the payroll deductions we've never really had that in our contract we usually get a sheet at the beginning of the year and you know by the third week of school somebody's lost it or it's on the floor or they've put their old piece of gum in it who knows what's happened to it um but now it's going to be in the contract so folks can go back and look and know what what the schedule is we removed the perfect attendance stien it was $300 for perfect attendance um I believe Chad told me we saved around $6,000 to to to budget for that um there weren't a lot of folks who did get that and honestly it was um mostly Men Who uh their wives were taking care of the kids when they were sick or they didn't have children that were younger that they needed to take care of and it was the same folks so what we would like to do um is in the future look at one that we can have that makes more of an incentive to our employees that we can get in there so we took it out for now and we want to work on something that's going to be um more productive we've got lots of folks who um have become a power of attorney and executive of State or the sole survivor of a relative and so their bereavement and their time they need off looks a little different than if it were just somebody that lived in their household so we um included those uh I am happy to say this impacts me quite a bit we've increased the association days and the association leave days are for CA um we used to have I don't know five seven seven we had seven we now have 15 um and then we agreed that no more than seven would be used in a day and if we were to use that many in a a day it might be because we were sending folks to the state house and wanted them to advocate for teachers um frankly though an association of our size a local of our size like columbuses most of those School corporations have either a full-time or a halftime release president and I am a full-time special ed teacher at North High School and then I do this as well so um it takes a village and so I need to be able to have some of those days in my calendar that I can say I need to take a CA day to get this done because I got to get a membership report to Gina or I need to work with our membership chair or something so um I was very happy to see that we got those this year and then now we have new placement guidelines um that allow for placement no higher than the highest salary of a current bcsc teachers with the same experience we had a uh new higher salary schedule I think is what it was called in our previous contract and it was very confusing folks would look at it and say is this me is that me so now we have this language in here that tells us where to go and if we go outside of that then Dr PL will give me a call and and uh she and I will talk about it and we'll work things out a handful of other changes to appendix B and C appendix B are those uh co-curricular programs like band choir theater uh appendix C or extracurricular Athletics primarily um and so we made some changes to some of the stiens you can see there on the screen um Chang Deans to the high school cohort academic coaches to catch up with the changes we made last spring um and then made some adjustments to days for several positions that both sides agreed upon and then uh you may know that we added Elementary cross country to the um to the uh sports that are elementary kids participate in and so adding that to make sure those coaches get a stien as well so just an overview of what we've shared with you um it is a two-year agree agreement um the starting salary for this school year is 491 and the next school year would be 59.50 teacher raises this year of 4500 and then next year 18850 uh it's an average of an 8.3% this year and 3% for next year our referendum pay has stayed uh it structure has stayed unchanged we have no increases to health or dental premiums yayay and we are will require additional Appropriations in both 23 and 24 uh results and deficit financing in 2024 now when I look at that the only thing I know how to say about that and Chad can say it differently is that we had to look in different buckets for money is that probably the easiest way to say that yeah so and then the last slide here is just some of the bullet points from the first one updated for you I I think it was interesting earlier today we had some questions and so I started digging into some of our really old contracts um and so that first raised starting salary from 36720 to 5950 that's between 2017 and 2025 I went and looked this morning and in 2001 the starting salary was just a hair above $30,000 so it took about 16 years for us to get from 30 to 36720 and then in the um eight years since then we moved from 36720 to almost $51,000 so big change in the amount of money that the state has helped provide to make sure that we can at least be as competitive possible the top of the scale there you can see just in that eight years an increase of 26% for those teachers that are at the top in 2001 that number was $559,000 so again it took us about 16 years to get from uh from 59,000 to 76 175 and then 20,000 six since then in the eight years afterwards um and then the the last note there just CA uh still has one day left of voting and so we'll we'll know tomorrow on that I will note that um Dr pleek and a whole team of folks are reviewing the actual text of the contract itself and it's in final review we'll get a copy in your hands before uh next Monday's meeting so you can review the the actual contract itself what questions can Amy and I answer for you is there a pondering question questions Dr Phillips and am I would like to thank Mrs wien and Mr major with what has been placed up here there was active involvement from the school board with having somebody in the negotiations team and of course Mr major the board's appointment to the Health Trust and that was a really big piece of this being able to get a z or 0% increase for 2024 um since you brought up Health uh can can you just share in 2025 we talk about a maximum employee contribution and those caps those guard rails of 20 and 30% what is the average increase that we've seen or can you give an idea of maybe what a maximum in Prior years has been just to know how reasonable that is um Health trend is usually about 7% um we've had years where we've only gone gone two or 3% and then we had a horrible year in 2019 where we had to raise premiums twice in the same calendar year um because we were we were literally had run out of money um and so in that year it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 177% um okay in that time frame so wide ranges um claims Drive everything when it comes to to health but um based on what we've seen we don't expect you know again we can't predict what claims are going to be but we don't expect 2024 to be an unusual year and it would have to be about a 10% increase I believe when we ran the numbers to to start budding up against those those somewhere between 20 10 and 12 when it triggered uh those we got to that 20 and 30% guard rails that we put on and that actually doesn't include the $200,000 contribution that could offset that Amy I know you've talked to your your teams how what kind of questions are you are you getting from teachers sure so um couple of things one prior to bargaining we surveyed people in May and then we surveyed them again then when school started again this contract hits what the majority of our members told us they wanted to see there are still some things out there that we we did not hit that were small groups of folks that you know Pockets here and there things like a scale for master's degree you know we looked at that and how do we figure out to do that and then give everybody this amount of money this you know 11% over two years couldn't happen we was going to have to give people less money and so we get questions about that um um we've also gotten questions about the middle of the pace scale where we have a group of folks that it feels to them like maybe I haven't taken a step or maybe I'm not making as much as I should or I've been here 11 years but I'm only this far away from somebody who just started um and and honestly there's a lot of things that have come from the state that have impacted our ability to fix that um there have been a lot of things that um we have to make sure everybody gets equal that H how do you that how do you do that and so as we go and talk to the folks at the state about here's what we need for teachers here's how we need we need we need your help those are the things and those are the people that we're talking about because it impacts them quite a bit um even though saying that I feel I can say to you CA supports this contract we've had over 60% of our members vote as of today CA supports this contract um I can't count on one hand how many T how many people who don't so um the other question that we're getting is like I talked about earlier about the insurance folks are then going oh this is how this worked when we've get done some education and explained the different tiers oh I didn't realize that they don't pull teachers aside and you don't do that in most professions and say here this is how you understand your health insurance and when you're trying to understand it it's usually in an emergency and who has time to go through and read all of that so those are the biggest questions we're getting right now okay thank you what else can we answer for you Dale you you gave the first looky look I well first of all I am amazed at I mean from our from my seat it looks like it was done very efficiently and and quickly I know it was a lot of hours but um but it seems to be done very well I have a couple questions one is more of a statistical analysis question but I'm curious the 8 3% and the 3% are they when you calculate those are you giving equal weight to each step or is it based on the number of teachers at each step it's actually a cumulative the cumulative salary for all 769 teachers 768 teachers um currently compared to the prior and then div you're taking into account how many teachers are at each step to get that particular correct every every okay yeah there's it's not weighted and then my other was two different ways of waiting them I think but go back I think it's two screens yeah the new teacher placement guidelines so I'm curious because I have heard in the past bcsc teachers say if I had left and taught somewhere else and came back I would be making more money is that does that address that okay thank you very much other question so I have a question I think it's on the other slide uh the 800,000 in deficit is that account for the transferred is that an excessive already the transfer to operations out of the education fund or is that before that like keeping that the same we're 800,000 above what the plan is keeping that the same there's already so there's already Revenue line that includes the 250 into the education fund and there's an expenditure line that includes 250 going out to spend on the curricular materials so that's all baked into there so we expect again unless ADM comes in higher than what we've estimated both in the spring and the fall of 2024 then I would expect us to dip into the cash balance in the education fund by about 7 or sorry $800,000 by the end of 2024 gotcha and then for the referendum it's still not applicable to those within the first few steps correct it's or first five years of experience unless they bring experience from out of the district where they get we give them one year for every three years of out of District experience so somebody coming in with 15 years of experience from out of District would qualify for that $5,000 increase and is that applied because one of the concerns I got from teachers was and what I heard at least in the public forum was is that is that going to be applied equitably regardless of the experience or is a one to three is that like kind of the written in stone at least to place them on that schedule that's correct K through 12 teaching experience okay and then I guess you mentioned very competitive I'd like to understand like is this at the top of the range for our Market to from an attraction standpoint for the starting salary I can tell you that based on what other contracts are today this would be the highest that we have in the region now everyone else in the state for the most part is bargaining right now as well um but I I you know I'll point out Amy mentioned that um the 8.3 and the 3% and new state money the the new money in this current school year for 23 24 was 6.1% from the state and next year was 1% from the state and so this is actually the fourth calendar year in a row sorry fourth contract year in a row that we've been able to allocate a greater raise than what the state has given us in new money great I appreciate it okay okay thank you thank you thank you look forward to hearing tomorrow evening yes good so a reminder yeah given given that we we find out the results from the Teachers Association and U hoping believing they're going to be positive then you will vote on this agreement next Monday night at six o'clock or a little after before our strategic planning session okay School Board member reports um Mr Stenner start in the middle thank you the uh business advisory committee met uh Friday morning last week I was not able to attend but I've gotten an update the focus of the meeting was to gather business corporate Community input into our stem and Robotics program and efforts within the district Mr Edwards told me it was a productive meeting so we always thank the business and corporate volunteers that support us by attending those meetings thank you Mr major yeah Redevelopment commission uh there's really not a whole lot new to share it's been pretty stable I did get to go through the uh Nexus park today and that building is enormous um the Health Trust uh we did meet and thank you Dr Roberts for thinking me but I'll tell you my job was easy in there um the consultant did a ton of work to support uh Dr Phillips did a really good job finding them they've they've been very helpful and uh I'm pretty much going to agree with everybody if if you can keep um the teachers and staff and they're happy that's what's important to me and walking through those meetings I I think every time I'd walk out I think we all learned something whether we learned what people wanted or we weren't learned what people could deliver and I think it was just a good collaboration of a lot of people so I'll take maybe 3% credit there and give the rest to everybody else so thank you Mr Brian anything to report today no I I actually don't have any updates Mr gmes no nothing on this end okay move on to Cabinet reports so we have our first reading we do so um yeah I wanted to get the this these policies in front of you and and just a a reminder that we spent the last two Public Work sessions digging into some policies that we've a few of them we've put in front of you for approval one of them is tonight the wellness policy that you took a look at at the last Public Work session but the rest of it has been trying to get geared up for January 1st where we have some policies that that need to be in place uh a selection of Library materials and some other things uh the the public complaint process so we need to work on those so in order to uh to to get that process moving I wanted to make sure that we had a first reading of those at least in place tonight knowing that we have some work to do so I'm just going to to at least work through the various uh policies that we were provided with after the legislative session there was kind of a really quick turnaround on some policies uh we didn't I didn't expect for the us to have them this early uh but that's helpful because there were some major changes and so just starting to run through those uh policy 1521 we're asking we're being asked to revise the personal background checks references and mandatory reporting I've highlighted those important things and the legislative Bill uh sea 342 in this case that impacts some criminal history checks offenses that impact employment some mandatory reporting and provision of references so with that bill uh there are some mandatory things that we have to go through as a board uh if somebody has a particular thing show up and either it's just notify you or um have you actually approve a hiring based upon some of those offenses so those would be covered in in those uh revisions of policy uh mandatory curriculum is also being revised policy 2221 to its h608 which prohibits a school an employee or staff member of a school or a thirdparty vendor used by a school provi from providing instruction to a student in Pre kindergarten through grade three on human sexuality so that was um a lot of convers ation on that so no human sexuality instruction in prek through 3 so we have to build that into our policy to make sure that's known uh policy 2414 also includes that because it was a specific policy on reproductive Health and Family Planning and human sexuality so very similar language then put into that policy because of the the uh common um common topic uh 2416 is student privacy and parental access to information this this policy uh interesting in that it took uh two bills uh Provisions from two bills and is trying to just put them into this one policy one was from 16008 that's where uh regarding identification so if a student identifies themselves with a different name or pronoun uh we have a a process for parent notification and so that's haa 1608 so that's built into this policy and also haa1 1447 is one that includes Provisions about uh uh surveys and evaluations and personal analyses and processes and involved with that so those two uh bills are there's some language being taken from them to go into this policy 2416 policy 2510 adoption of curricular materials this is one that we've had some conversation about in those Public Public Work sessions and this would reflect some changes to haa 101 which incorporates legislation prohibiting charges for curricular materials so as a reminder 101 is always the budget bill it it's it has a number one at the end because it's the most important bill coming out of the house and so uh the budget Bill included some things about uh we're going to get some money for curricular materials so we're not allowed to to charge for those curricular materials um policy 2520 we've also had some conversation during our Public Work session that's selection of curricular materials School library materials and equipment and that brings legislation in from haa 1447 legislation regarding School library materials and and they they by definition they use the Indiana code defin defition of obsin and material harmful to miners it also talks about what we have to do in terms of making the library catalog available both on our website as as well as in a hard copy if requested and then that 101 pops up again because there's a Prohibition on fees for curricul materials so if uh if there is something that's considered a curricul material in that policy then we have have to have some language about fees uh policy 3120.4 is a revision for adjunct teachers and this just goes to that same sea 342 about uh criminal history checks and offenses that impact employment mandatory reporting and provision of references as I've indicated before sometimes one piece of legislation will impact a variety of policies uh that's that's an indicator or that's true here same thing here policy 3121 personal background checks references and mandatory reporting and just reminder that when you kind of see a same number popping up maybe the first number is a little bit different it's just a different chapter of our policies because we have chapters for certified staff members um covered under the collective bargaining agreement for example we have administrators and then we have classified staff staff members who uh don't necessarily have to have a license to to do the position that we're asking them to do uh policy 32 20.01 there's a teacher appreciation change this also is an haa 101 which gives uh the ability for us to have policy where we can provide some additional dollars from that Grant to teachers who are serving as mentors to features uh policy 4121 is is an example of what I was just indicating that here's another chapter uh about personal background checks references and mandatory reporting and we're following sea 342 that new legislation there 5710 is student complaints and really the just big change here is to make sure we have a reference to policy 9130 public complaints and concerns because that policy will be revised that's also a policy you have been talking about in your Public Work session not 5710 but 9130 5720 is student activism and this is just to make sure there are some things uh governing regulating student activism where haa 1447 uh will will lead to us needing to revise any student engagement in political activism lobbying or efforts to persuade members of the legislative or executive branch at the federal state or local level as an incentive course of study grade credit reg when you start building in incentives or or grades to things like that then you start to maybe not be as as partisan or yeah you're not as nonpartisan as maybe you would you would hope that we are as a school corporation so it does have some um some buffers in place in that language for student activism uh in in the schools student fees and charges 6152 again gets into that legislation that prohibits charges for curricular materials coming out of the budget bill h811 but it also specifically uh reminds us that the mcken vento act requires corporations to review and revise policies to remove barriers to the education of homeless children and youth including barriers to enrollment and retention due to outstanding fees or fines or absences I'd remind this group that our homeless student population is double that of the state of Indiana our homeless student population by the definition of mcken vento is 4% the state of Indiana is is two so just a piece of information as we have our team of people who take care of this uh trying to remove those barriers to enrollment and retain mention public 91 policy 9130 is the one on public complaints and concerns this is the one that for school library materials that had a very specific section where it talks about a timeline and how you go about um when a when a complaint is filed or concern is expressed about school library materials is what we have to go through so we'll be building that into there and it also brings in those Indiana code definitions of obscenity and material harmful to miners so again that's one you have been all have been talking about 9700 is relations with special interest groups a few years ago there was uh uh legislation that made sure that we were allowing um access to our students if that's the right way to put it but for the Boy Scouts of America and other groups that that might uh just want to at least get some information to our our kids well this one is being revised and this will also include a a policy 2416 reference which is student privacy and parental access to information as well as it has a mandatory curriculum reference to policy 2221 and then also has Provisions that would address the administration of personal analyses evaluations or surveys so three different changes in other policies roll into then needing to revise this policy to reflect those changes too and I think that gets us through all of those uh policies that um have been placed in front of us after the legislative work from last legislative session we thought it might be a legislative session that was a little more quiet on the education front but it it wasn't uh so we have quite a few things for you to look at um to review again wanted to get a first reading in front of you so you can digest all of those completely a lot of options for us still still to complete and fill out but I know we have some Public Work sessions to get into and maybe even one scheduled for next week so five o'clock next uh Monday night before our strategic planning session we'll have another Public Work session on on policies uh these policies that I I put in front of us here this evening so take any questions and try to answer those as I can at this at this point so I think I'm remembering this correctly that we adopted a new policy around policies um and part of that is that that these policy recommendations will be available on the website sometime yeah we'll get those uh placed up tomorrow okay perfect thanks we we we had talked about this before long ago but um what what about uh translation for those yep I don't think we'll work on that we'll see what we can can do Mr major yeah we did not have that for the last one I don't believe but good question and and Dr Roberts of the policies we talked through tonight some of them have a bit of a hard stop they do thank you yes so real quick just a reminder to those in attendance tonight as well as you all the one we've been hitting at the public uh Works session 9130 public complaints and concerns 1447 is the one that they they allowed School corporations to take some time um in in January 1st a lot of times the date for codes or or new legislation to take effect is July 1st so January 1st um get back here to 2520 selection of curriculum materials and 2510 curricular materials so 2510 2520 and 9130 are the three that we'll try to to to be as efficient as we can on um after this first reading if that makes sense Y and as and as we said we'll go over future meetings but those will be the focus in our next public work session which is next Monday as a reminder thank you make sure we get them done yes on time any other questions from the team okay Dr Phillips thank you Mrs Weldon so uh ADM is now complete I think there may be one or two conflicts still out there among school districts floating around um but we do have the an official number for you that should not change this is the spreadsheet that I update every three days during the fall as I obsessively track this number but in total uh from last fall to this fall we're down about 55 students um which was actually kind of overperforming where we thought we would be the demographic study had projected us to be at 116 down and so we just kept adding adding students leading up to that date and the kindergarten class was larger than what it was expected to be based on birth rates um the total enrollment K through six at the elementary level is just down three students and that was expected to drop a little more um important to note these do not include pre- students ADM never includes preas students because there is no State funding associated with them it's the primary purpose of the ADM count um again the uh large kindergarten class was a surprise in that it is actually larger than the average of the first to sixth grade um groups which again we were just surprised at there were 904 outgoing eighth graders um and just 845 incoming seventh graders so both middle schools then collectively are down um 67 students between the two middle schools um and again that's all in one grade as the smaller seventh grade group came in I'll say more normalized seventh grade group because we had about six cohorts in a row that were the largest cohorts that we had we had seen in recent memory and so that the high schools will finally see a relief in that freshman incoming cohort in two years so as that seventh grade group moves into just 9th grade two years from now because they are uh and particularly North is just is just packed um larger larger four larger four classes collectively than what they had seen um again in recent memory um this is just a a chart that I like to show this is the gray line is the cumulative growth in ADM since 2002 each of the bars is just the individual year um and this is fall only there are years in there that they didn't make us collect ADM in February and others that they did so this is just fall toall fall the average across the entire period there for about that 21 years um is 6% and it would just be terrific if it was 6% flat all the way across but anyway everyone in the state in my position would take 6% every year consistently um we've added uh just more than 1300 ADM in that period although I'll point out 440 of them are in this bar right here and that is when they went from Counting kindergarten students as a half a student to a full student so it's not actually um you know we didn't have 594 new students to our district but it's that only accounts for 440 of that so there was a increase of 150 students during that year um other than 200 yeah other than 2009 fall to fall ADM has only in decreased three times um 5 years after the Great Recession began 2019 when cumin had a large reduction in force and then this year so just three years outside of this was actually uh 2009 was the year that the charter school opened um some of you may remember that but uh and then they actually in 2013 in the spring of 2013 they came back to us so that the school closed then and so we saw a bump of that 74 students was actually a return of many of those students students during that time and then this last slide here I haven't shown this one before um I hadn't created it before it was now that we have two demographic studies that kind of overlap one another uh right before Dr Roberts came to the district we had one done um because we had never had one done that I know of and then when we got the new census data in 2021 we had another one done so there are two um two demographic study the orange line is the 2016 study and then the green line is the 2021 study um and then the the dotted lines are the low and high version of that based on how it could could play out depending on birth rates and an actual enrollment um and that's based on the 21 study but con the lesson here is that um the demographic studies so far have been very accurate the assumptions used by demographers um if they vary dramatically when it comes to birth rates or um single family home permits um that could Trend us closer to the Upper Grade line any questions about ADM that I or any of my colleagues can help answer any questions okay I apologize for all the long you have to listen to my voice we'll go right into the next one yes so this one's um interesting because it actually several of these ADM ADM numbers are playing into to where we are from a revenue standpoint in particular so uh education fund revenues this is the quarter 3 2023 financial report um education fund revenues are up about almost $4 million from last year um and that's you know we have to build the budget as you guys heard recently from me we build the budget not knowing what the state is going to provide for us from a funding perspective and what our student count is and so um because ADM count was was higher than what I projected the ADM count for both this spring and this fall you know we're uh were up compared to where you know we would have been otherwise so that's what really essentially allowed us to dip further in on the contract negotiations and and use some of that you know conservative budgeting to our to our benefit because we're going to collect more money this fall than what we would have otherwise um operations fund revenues are up about 6.5% about 1.2 million that's mainly because of increased interest earned and um some indirect costs for federal grants that um put some money into that account from those federal grants and then operating refer referendum revenues are up 8.4% and that's all entirely because of increased uh assessed values from 2022 to 2023 these are education fund expenditures I'll remind you that in 2022 we only had 12 pay rolls through June as opposed to the usual 13 and 13 splitting halfway across the year um this quarter we caught up with that so this is the same number of payrolls in 2023 as we had in 2022 at this same point in time so with that in mind education fund salaries and benefits are up 6.2% uh with the same number of payrolls in that time frame um and that's over 2022 so the the tenative bargain agreement that we just presented to you will result in the need for an additional appropriation of about $1.7 million for this current year and I'll just remind you that's not um we're not asking to spend any cash balance that is the increase in revenues that we're collecting this year because our ADM count was higher and because the state increased during the legislative session that didn't finish till May the state increased the the dollars that were available for starting July one of this year per student and so um next board meeting I'll have an additional appropriation for this current calendar year to accommodate the um tenative agreement Collective baring agreement that we just presented I also remind you while we're talking about education fund expenditures that that non- english- speaking grant that used to be um separate from the education fund was rolled in on July 1 again that was done during the legislative session that wrapped up in May so we didn't know that when we built the budget the current year education fund budget so I'll also O come with uh additional uh appropriation request in the next meeting to accommodate that Dr Phillips yes Mr new agreement with the ca on the retroactive piece uh will all that show up in the fourth quarter then for yes correct what we actually incurred in the third and fourth quarters will all be loaded into the fourth quarter correct okay correct because then we won't we'll pay the Retro on all the way back to the August payrolls but it'll all be paid in the month of November so it'll all appear in Q4 uh next slide operations fund um just point out we are uh salaries and benefits are up 10.7% over 2022 um primarily due to increases in in salary we raised salaries um you know 6% this last July and 6% um the year before um and also the fact that I've told you many times we are just hiring more people we're filling more positions and keeping them filled and so that's a that's a good sign expenditures and salaries outside I'm sorry expenditures for the education fund outside of salaries and benefits you can see are up um they're up about 2.9 Million from last year almost entirely due to timing just timing of purchases timing of completion of uh Capital Improvement projects the only one that that's not the case for is both uh electricity and natural gas are running a little higher than what they were last year which was um frankly expected another additional appropri I've never done this many additional Appropriations but in operations we had um we had ordered some buses that were not supposed to be delivered until 2024 and so we were we built that in the budget to pay for those in 2024 they are delivered and they are in our bus lot Dr bosan has them ready to go uh but we did not appropriate any dollars for them in 2023 and so it's $161,000 that all again in that same additional appropriation request at the next board meeting will also include paying for those buses that were delivered earlier than expected and then uh last on operating referendum expenditures um teacher retention salaries are up and that's a good thing because more people are uh are staying and qualifying for those um and again fourth additional appropriation next board meeting um we think that we will exceed the budget for U particularly teacher salaries and a salary related benefits by about $400,000 in this current budget year and so I'll come with that request um and all of those additional appropri appropriation requests have revenues to support them Andor cash balance to support those and then cash balances are where you would expect based on the increases in revenues that I described to you before um as well as the increases in expenditures across each of those each of those funds the one I didn't speak about was the health and dental trust and you can see the increase from last year to this year is indicative of a good claims Year good solid consistent claims year um which derives our cash balance any questions on the quarter 3 financial report I can help with I don't think so Dr Phillips thank you okay uh so we will move on to public comments just a few um reminders of our process here so um people who would like to speak um can sign up on a blue sheet when you walk in the door so we have three people signed up for for this evening um I'll call you up to the the podium and and you can go ahead and get started you will have a timer here to help you stay on track for three minutes um I I do like to stay close to three minutes so I'll wave my hands and try to get your attention if if we've reached that time um please don't use names of individual students staff members or specific titles it's kind of the same thing um so refrain from doing that and and be more General in your comments um you may pass if your intendent point has already been made with three people that may not be um an issue and and if you are here as a group it is okay to defer to a to a spokesperson the other thing I'd like to ask um for tonight and and going forward sometimes we get cheers or jeers I do like the energy that people bring and the the um passion they have on their topics but that can be a little intimidating um to people as their speaking so I'm going to ask that you just refrain from clapping or or otherwise um if you want to pump somebody up afterwards just feel free to do that after they take their seat um just so to make sure everybody feels comfortable coming here to speak to us tonight okay so with that we'll go ahead and get started um the first name on my list is Carla Craig hello oh I guess it's on yes um so good evening um I am Carla Craig I live in ogilville and I am the library assistant at Mount Healthy elementary school and I have to say I have heard the word guard rails more in this last hour and a half than I have the whole rest of the year but it has been on my mind since our last meeting there was a gentleman who was up here and I believe this is the analogy I got that our libraries were like a winding road without guard rails and there are guard rails I am a guard rail the principal's a guard rail and our procedure is a guard rail so there are guard rails so I just wanted you to know that um the other thing I want to tell you is um at Mount Healthy now we've read seven of our beginning young Hooser books um to this last week we voted on our first seven to see which was their favorite and so I reminded the children that they live in the United States of America where they get to make their own decision their best friend can't tell them how to vote their um parent can't tell them how to vote and I can't tell them how to vote so in our community we have a diverse set of families who should have the choice to be the parent of the student and be the person respons responsible for what they're reading so thank you thank you Miss Craig Mary Mills I know there is a lot of differences of opinions in this community however I want to focus on what's positive and instead of putting more work on our teachers and school librarians let's make it a better place and work environment if you want to get involved donate to this reading program they talked about um earlier donate so they can buy books for that program I think that's an excellent program you know instead of dividing let's bring ourselves together and do for our schools to make them a good place for learning a good learning environment um we have an excellent bookstore in town if you want to make a donation there I know that the owner and the staff there would be willing to pick out appropriate books for the school libraries I um and if that's not your thing I know every classroom could use Kleenex and paper towels and even Sanitary products and whether you think so or not even elementary girls need Sanitary products some of them so make it a positive do positive things for our schools instead of trying to divide based on the opinions and what's being said by people who don't even live in this community whose motives are un unknown so let's do things for our schools and build them better and make that yourself a positive in this community instead of being divisive and dividing that's what I had to say thank you miss m and Kevin Leonard on hi yes uh I'm I'm new to Columbus my wife and I moved here two years ago why moved from Minnesota uh I was a counselor for 30 years coach for 35 years my wife taught English we have two grandchildren here and that's why we're here I want to support teachers I want to support Librarians they know what they're doing and I think that my daughter and son-in-law should decide what and their teacher and my grandchildren should decide which books they want to read along with their teachers I don't want anybody else making that decision thank you thank you Mr Leonard okay I think that's all we have for tonight on public comments I appreciate everyone coming out I think I I probably have a few here miss won so I'll start with the request for approval for old business and I am asking for approval of the minutes from the executive session of September 25th from the public work session of September 25th and the regular Schoolboard meeting of September 25th so we were you were busy that that evening as well as asking for approval of policy 8510 uh the wellness policy a lot of work have been put into that by our Wellness team our Wellness Council and we talked through that at the public work session of the last meeting I thought that was very valuable appreciated the input and conversation I ask for approval now of that too so that's those are my old business uh requests thank you Dr Roberts do D have a motion from the board I move that we approve the old business found in number three letters A and B is presented by Dr Roberts thank you Mr Grimes do have a second second thank you Mr Bryant are there any questions or comments from the board no okay all those in favor of approving item three A and B please say I I all those opposed thank you motion carries thank you for that uh item number four for tonight my next set of requests are of new business and so I am asking for approval for any field trips field trips Andor professional leaves we have provided to you our supplemental contracts list our school fundraisers as well as the claims and payroll numbers claims for September 25th uh totaled uh about $1.8 million our payroll for September 25th was about $7.2 million uh that number did cover two regular payrolls the 22nd and the in October the 6th for the work period listed there of August the 28th through September the 24th just an extra note is the September 26th payroll included classified experience adjustments we do have that as a part of our agreement there and uh also we have pre runs for the month of September that totaled about $4.3 million additionally um asking you to approve a resolution to adopt the 2024 budget a resolution authorizing the 2024 tax anticipation warrants a resolution to transfer dollars from the education fund appropriately to the operations fund a resolution to authorize the 2024 reductions a resolution to adopt the 2024 capital projects fund plan and a resolution to adopt the 2024 bus replacement plan each of those uh listed there um from Dr Phillips are necessary as per state requirements so even though we've kind of given you a big budget to look at all of those resolutions are necessary to approve that budget that has been presented to you uh I also ask for approval of the 2024 health and dental premium rates and the plan changes that were covered during our presentation earlier permission to receive bids for sports lighting and scoreboards on our um uh athletic fields at North and East permission to award bids for Northside Middle School Chiller installation and permission to award a guaranteed maximum price amendment to our educational improvements project this applies to Parkside Middle scho Parkside Elementary School I believe it's our seventh amendment that Dr bosan has provided to you as we've worked through that process so I think those are all the ones that I have so I ask for your permission please or approval please I have a motion from theard prior prior to that can I ask a question around one of them or do we need to do it I think it's after a motion after motion thank right I move that we approve the items under new business found in uh under number four letter C through p is presented by Dr Roberts I second thank you Mr Grimes and Mr nelan now we have any time for questions I think we share the same question to yeah go ahead on line item G is that including the 250,000 transfer that was proposed from the referendum fund to cover the curricular cost or is that a decision that we are making at a later point it does not include a specific transfer from one fund to the other it does have a line in the revenue on the education F side and a line in the expenditure side but no transfer and approval of where it comes from is part of this budget that'll come later and then line I is that for the 2023 budget year for Education operation fund to cover 2024 so would that if that's approved would that inhibit the ability for the operation fund to cover that as a reduction of the transfer which was one of the proposals brought forth um the two options if we wanted to adjust uh downward the transfer from education to operations would be to um do another resolution later in the year or just transfer less approve it as a transfer less because that's a maximum that resolution is a maximum that we would transfer from the education operations and so we would just transfer less if that's what the board decided they wanted to do I have no concerns with that thank you uh Dr bosan I have a question for you uh and it's maybe not any specific item from here but we've talked a lot lot about costs and how they're changing growing Etc regarding construction can you just speak to the latest landscape on are you getting bids where are they coming in at how how do you see that playing out the next year too sure uh things are getting better um the um the addition you have on item p is um not because of Any increased construction cost that's actually because the project was uh when Maxwell bid that as the construction manager it was anticipated to end in March of 24 it's actually ending in July of 24 so that's just added Staffing um but to your question um construction cost and and Workforce um those things are are on the on the increase in the betterment for us since we're post pandemic okay good thank you while you're up there um just a real quick uh there were two or three things that stood out in capital projects there was one uh for replacing the bleachers at Central about $100,000 uh there was another one for a little over a half million for roofs and then there was a million dollars for district wide lighting so just a little background on that so the district wide lighting is you actually have an item to approve also for uh receiving bids um for that it's combination with scoreboards also okay so that's the scoreboard okay correct combine lighting field lighting and scoreboards on the um football fields um at at East and North High School um I'm happy to answer other questions you have about that uh the bleachers at Central Middle School uh that's a gigantically long story that um I'm happy to catch you up with later on we uh they they do not function as they need to function we've tried about everything in the world that we can to get those um in a place to where they're they can be used correctly and and we're at the end of our rope so we're going to we're look to replace those and I'm sorry you asked about one other item uh oh roof roof replacement which which roof yeah that's um that's still to be determined but maybe uh Lincoln is probably one of our candidates that we're looking at next we try to do a roof every year if we can um just a matter of keeping up on on things and not not falling behind and have to spend you know substantial amounts of money on on Roofing and not have enough contractors in one year so that'll work thank you any other questions from the board okay so we have a motion to approve um items four C through p and a second all those in favor please say I I I all those opposed thank you motion passes thank you Dr ple I request approval of the HR recommendations as presented this evening thank you I move that we approve the HR recommendations as presented by Dr ple that good thank you Mr Bank can you summarize those for us Dr ple we as far as the appointments we have one retirement one appointment to replace the retiree and two leave of absence great thank you okay all those in favor of approving human resource recommend recommendations item five please say I I all those opposed motion carries thank you thank you okay board input Mr Grimes go I'll start with um thanks to Mayor linup and the city um in in regards to the uh Tiff dollars that support igrad stem and transition there were three of us that went to the Indiana school boards Association conference oh about a month ago and we went to a session specifically on tiffs which can get pretty messy at times but uh Columbus was a community that was that was brought up in particular um in in regards to how how unique the relationship is here and uh you know a lot of other schools and communities just starting to kind of develop those kinds of relationships and way ahead of the game here so thanks to the mayor and the city um in terms of uh uh lots of successes this fall in the classroom but also just want to say congratulations to all the fall sports teams other extracurriculars as they wrap up or are in the process of wrapping up very successful Seasons um thanks again to the Schmidt staff um and and their U presentation on all their programs and efforts to promote to promote reading and writing uh thanks to the community members that were here with us this evening and and chose to spoke speak excuse me I can't speak and then uh thanks again always to Dr Phillips who at least in my opinion always presents very thorough and well explained financial information thank you and then uh lastly uh hu huge congratulations um to the cea leaders and the administration on a contract that uh I I don't see how it couldn't possibly benefit uh all those individuals that it directly impacts and then you know the the overall health of the corporation and what what you know we're all here for is you know I think uh it will certainly impact kids uh as as as much as anyone in the long run so thank you Mr yeah following Mr grams is always a struggle for me uh because I had a couple things and they all checked off um but yeah thanks a lot to the presenters M Dr Phillips always provides such thorough details I know there's a lot of questions around budgets and so forth and um thanks again to all the presenters the public comments um I find it very intriguing the science of reading because so putting a quantitative approach on a qualitative subject and always appreciate uh the the Ben the benchmarks that we've seen uh I know Parkside was one um and I I know now Schmid and so my my children have benefited a lot from these programs especially a book buddies so I appreciate the volunteers and the presenters that supported that um and then just the continuing investment that this board and Dr Roberts and the staff have at us of you know like Mr Grime said being able to visit the isba conference and learn more um not only around uh the tiffs which I'm not going to lie some of went over some of it I got um but we also talked around Community engagement and how do we get more effective in it I think that's one area where we as a board have taken a lot of feedback and how that we can better represent the views of the public so um appreciate all the time and effort that that took and uh that's all so when I go first and I hear other people think oh I should have mentioned that when you don't go first it's like okay I don't but I feel like I have to say in terms of of the Tiff money coming from the city that that really says something about both our community and the work that our Administration has done to collaborate with the community and and um and and at that isba presentation to put some quantifiers on it most of it went over my head but but it was very clear that Columbus was unique and that many school corporations feel like tiffs are is money stolen from them and and this is the community working with us to benefit kids and it's just tremendous um one other thing and I again was blown away by schmidtz they never mentioned math once but I was okay with that it was so good um Mr Stenner and I did a school visit to um Richards today and one of the things that really many many things impressed me but one that really stood out was the number of ways that they are dealing with um kids with special needs with with language learners um the whole diversity of students that they have and they have so many dedicated people working to keep those kids up to Pace that it was just impressive you Mr Nan Mr Bryant have anything to add I'm just gonna say I did owe Mr Grimes Mr major yeah D Dale's talking about going first and third over there we're we're at the end so pretty much everything pretty much everything's been said but um I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the fact that um my daughter is a senior at East she's a cheerleader and I just wanted to say congratulations uh and thank you to all the seniors I know uh Mr Stenner did this last year so it's a little bit harder for us as some of you have kids entering School some of us have kids that are exiting or have already exited school and a lot of them have grandkids that have and so so um I just wanted to just give a special note to all the seniors out there that participated in their last game match meet or event and I want them to all remember these uh moments because they're very precious um there some of them you'll never get to do again right you might play your last game uh you know who knows some kids go on and play in college very few hardly any going playing the pros so life is not about playing sports it's about learning what you can in school making friends in school and uh just want to make sure that all those kids take something away from it and uh hopefully have enjoyed what they've done uh this year and the last several years and I will try and repeat that again uh after the next season two more times yeah Mr Steiner thank you um a lot of focus tonight appropriately so on the um success of a new contract with the Columbus Educators Association and uh passage of a budget for 2024 what I try to keep in my mind as we're talking about the dollars uh th this is really about our ability to recruit and retain the best teach teachers and staff that we can to serve the kids in the schools and what Mr nen said about the the visit to Richard this morning we do have amazing teachers in all of our buildings only a few of them are going to be teacher of the year for their building and only one of them will be teacher of the year for the corporation uh but they are all doing amazing work day in and day out and our students are the beneficiaries as are all the rest of us so that's what I I think about when we pass a budget thank you Mr St um I just want to thank everyone who participated in the negotiating team um it was my first time at that table I have negotiated contracts before I can tell you that this experience was like nothing I have experienced before um Amy did a fantastic job representing the teachers here her team very well prepared um they had put a lot of thought into what they were going to ask for um I think Chad and the rest of the team on the administ ation side also had had come in prepared um and everybody had the best interest of teachers at heart so it was really good to be part of that and did take a lot of time in preparation and I appreciate you bringing a newbie along with you for that first for that first experience okay next we have upcoming dates so hopefully we will be here on the 30th um approving that contract once we get um a fingers crossed vote in tomorrow um so that will be on the 30th um we will meet at 5:00 for a public work session we will be focusing again on the three policies we had a first reading of tonight which is 2510 2520 and 9130 all of those centering around around books and and how we how we look at those in our school corporation we will have the strategic planning session then immediately following at 6:00 um and then our next regular board meeting will at 6:30 p.m.

welcome everyone to the regular business meeting held here in public in our new ad Administration Building at 150 South Main Street so uh once again um regular business meeting thank you for those attending and thank you for those uh following online with that we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence Mr babjack if anyone could please rise to flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you you may be seated at this time um 2.01 I'd like to suspend a regular meeting and open the public hearing on the 2023 through 2025 Crownpoint school corporation uh agreement motion to suspend I'll move to suspend regular meeting open public hearing 23 2023 2025 second motion by Mr Smith second by Miss Basin all those in favor please signify by saying I I those opposed motion carries 5-0 2.02 terms of the the 2023 2025 cromp Point cromo uh School Corporation agreement with the teachers thank you Mr President uh board members um I'd like to uh uh share in a brief summary some of those terms with you this evening um first like to just thank uh the negotiations team uh on both sides we've had a a really great session this year and we're just excited about this contract and and just appreciate the input provided uh by everybody uh during our entire experience uh speaking directly to um salaries um I can summarize by stating that uh the teachers will receive a base raise this year and next year of $2,000 in each year in addition there will be a $1,500 stien uh that the teachers have decided to uh be delivered $11,000 this school year and $500 next school year uh in addition the new teacher salary for this school year will be $58,000 and the new teacher salary next year will be $59,000 moving into the area of leave days are some very um exciting things to share in this particular area in our leave section of the contract for this uh for this period we've expanded the use uh for individuals to to tap into their leave days particularly in the areas of family illness uh individuals be able to will be able to use their an unlimited number of benefit days that would be personal days sick days or family illness days to be with their family members that might have an extended illness in the past uh our folks were not able to use an unlimited number of days but but of this contract they will be we're also opening up the benef uh the benefit day use for adoption uh child birth and Foster leave we'd also like to share that um our cpea leave days that is members of our uh teachers union uh the officers and their designes will have up to 10 days uh leave days annually to be used uh it's for the officers particularly but with the superintendent's approval they can appoint other individuals to use these days as well um and finally in the area of leave uh we'd like to just congratulate and uh with some excitement announced that for the first time ever uh the teachers have uh organized a sick bank and they will um they've organized and will um administer their own sick Bank uh for their uh all the teachers at Crownpoint Community School Corporation So I myself and others will serve on a committee for that sick bank but they have generated all the language and the forms necessary uh to administer this new benefit uh over the next two years so we're we're really excited about that um in the area of insurance um I know that Mr Reese will be sharing later uh some some details uh regarding uh updated premiums um and and deductibles and whatnot so we'll save uh those comments for for his section later uh this evening um finally uh I'm going to get down to um some areas of stiens for the staff uh for the teachers we've made some adjustments in some of the stiens that teachers may earn throughout the school year uh we do host our own professional development courses at Crownpoint Community School Corporation um we are going to continue allowing individuals to earn $175 per course when they take those courses after school hours they can earn that rate up to uh three courses uh and we've also uh updated our language for our course Builders uh and that uh those sttip and amounts are updated for year-long courses that they build semester courses that they build or quarter long courses that they build and I believe the last thing in that stiped area would be we've raised our summer school rate to $55 an hour and that was $50 an hour for many years so we've up that one here recently as well um I guess a final comment will be made in the area of extracurriculars uh We've updated some of our extracurricular uh accounts and that could be in the areas of Athletics and clubs and whatnot uh some of our clubs that were experimental now have their own line they become permanent clubs with us uh We've eliminated some clubs that we just were not getting much traction um and we've done some analyses in the areas of of our Athletics and clubs to make sure that we're remaining we're remaining competitive in Northwest Indiana for the rates that we're uh we're paying our our coaches and Club sponsors so with that I will stop talking and ask if you have any questions for me any questions thank you Arty for all your help in that and everybody involved in that um 2.03 three any I don't see anybody that's registered for patrons comments on this public clearing item is there anybody that wanted to speak regarding this issue okay uh with that before we close this part portion I will say that we will be the meeting scheduled for Friday morning at 7:30 here on 10:27 is when the board will approve action on this agreement this is just part of the process with the public hearing this evening with that um I will uh look for a motion to close the public hearing and resume our regular meeting second so moved by Mr bastter second Mr B by Mr B ABJ any questions all those in favor please signify by saying I I it was opposed motion carries 5- Z with that item three on tonight's regular business meeting agenda patrons comments we have one this evening uh Mr Brandon Miller regarding safety Mr Miller first I my address uh no you have it on here and we're good you and you are speaking regarding safety yes and for school or in general for the school C school okay sure so first I'm want to say seems like the Year's going smooth so con congrats to you guys um I got a few calls about John Wheeler um I think like four parents called have called me about everyone within a mile is walking which is cool to me but they're concerned about safety of crossing streets I don't know if this has been addressed yet um but a suggestion was like U crossing guards or something just just uh while they're going around the square I guess so I don't know if that's anything you guys could look into I don't know if anybody treda you and then um finally is I think it's h hall or H Wing in the high school um I was told the alarms weren't working over there that I guess a class missed like one of the um one of the practice drills because they couldn't hear it go off so I don't know if you know anything about that but I just want to bring it to your attention so that's all I have thank you thank you Mr Miller thank you and typically at uh public uh comments the board does not make comment um I want to just briefly give you a quick explanation about the crossing guard so we are not responsible for placing the the crossing guards that's with the city um so they're the ones that choose now we have conversations with them and we'll be happy to revisit that with them as far as alarms at the high school um with the construction that's something we're continuing to work through everything there has been approved with the fire marshall or the fire department here in town with their inspections and we're right where we need to be thank you Dr Terell uh item four in tonight's the consent agenda Dr Terell thank you for your consideration this evening we have um 4.01 the minutes of our meetings 4.02 the Personnel agenda as listed and then 4.03 uh the voucher of registered checks as listed as well you've heard the recommendation of the administration for approval of the consent agenda may have a motion so moved second motion by Mr Smith second by Miss Basin question or discussion on any of those three items there being none all those in favor please signify by saying I I those opposed motion carries 5- Z thank you item five the our action items 5.01 approve the 2024 budget forms and resolutions Mr ree thank you Mr President members of the board tonight I bring for you the four resolutions required to adopt the budgets for the 2024 school year 20 sorry 2024 calendar Year resolution 835 is form four this resolution sets forth the Appropriations levies and tax rates uh that you'd be adopting for the calendar year 2024 resolution 836 is a capital projects planed adoption resolution 837 is the 24 School Bus replacement plan plan that covers the next five years resolution 838 is the 2024 transfer from education to operations that amount is the same amount we've done since that started which is 15% uh with that we can tell you that the budget was posted we held the hearing here on October 13th as required by Statute uh tonight is time for the adoption the last step of the process for you all is tonight with the adoption uh within five days once you have adopted we need to submit all of that to the Department of local government Finance uh while the budget is higher this year it's due to one-time expenditures spending down some cash that we have anticipate the Appropriations and budgets for 2025 we're here our year year from now uh to be quite a bit lower than what they are this year this is a plan spend down of cash not something that's out of the extraordinary for uh what we've been planning for the important part about that is what tax rate you're actually adopting currently the active tax rate for 2023 is a$1 12891 the average uh the rate we've advertised and you're adopting tonight in form four is A1 12960 uh what we're anticipating we always adopt a little high anticipating Department of local government Finance is going to reduce that we're anticipating a 12833 tax rate so an actual reduction of about 6/10 of a penny uh so even though we have our budgets and levies Appropriations which you're setting night as our authority to spend a little bit higher uh what we do have is a tax rate that we anticipate to be lower uh than the next year which is what we charge our property owners which I think is the most important part so with that nothing has changed from the public hearing that we held on the 13th so with that we're recommending approval of the 2024 budgets the 24 capital projects plan the 24 School Bus replacement plan and the corresponding forms and resolutions thank you Mr ree you've heard the recommendation of the administration for the approval of the 2024 budgets the 2024 capital projects plan 2024 School Bus replacement plan and the corresponding forms and resolutions may I have a motion second motion by Mr babjack second by Mr basser questions or discussion I just like to I had the opportunity to meet individually with Mr ree last Wednesday and he did a tremendous job of making this simple and thanks for all the work that you put in Matt um you're it was great I I felt like I earned a couple of college credits uh listening to you for that hour we spent together so thank you for for that made a lot of sense happy to do it any other questions uh we're glad Mr ree decided to come back home here and uh back in the position of our Chief Financial Officer so with that I'll take uh uh all those in favor please signify by saying I I those opposed motion carries 5-0 5.02 health and dental insurance changes Mr ree as Mr K mentioned we do have some changes in our health and dental plans that are Incorporated within our teachers contract those health and dental plans also not only impact our our teachers but the rest of employees within our school district who decide to take our health and dental plans everybody's on the same plan everybody's treated the same as far as the deductible aut of pocket maximums are concerned uh some important background information I think the public will be interested to know and I think some of you were quite surprised this is the ninth year uh in 2023 that we've not changed our deductibles or our premiums um we've had a couple of bad plan years coming out of of the pandemic um for whatever reason and with that it's time to make some adjustments on our health insurance and dental plans so I'm going to go through a few of those changes here tonight uh inre increasing deductibles currently are deductibles when I give you two numbers the first one is a single amount the second number is the other three tiers single plus spouse single plus children and the family plans so with that our deductibles are going from 2,000 and 4,000 to 3,000 and 6,000 we're increasing our acket maximums from 2, and 4,000 up to 4,000 8,000 instituting a co-pay between uh the the deductible and the out of pocket maximum at an 8020 uh% we're also inreasing HSA contributions for for support staff from $1,500 to 12250 and 1750 uh making them on par with the Teachers Association teachers contract along with all those changes we're also increasing premiums by 15% uh and obviously changing the board contribution amount for non-administrative benefits um which have' outlined in in your summary essentially we're going from a 80 uh sorry a 90% on the single plan plan contribution by the board and a 79% contribution in other three plans other three tiers uh going to 85% on a single and a 75% on the other three tiers uh with that we're also in a need to increase our dental insurance premiums by S and a half percent for those in the single plan no change for them still only paying paying a dollar but those in the family plan will see a small increase uh on a per pay amount uh moving forward starting in January of so with that we're recommending uh the changes outlined above uh in the uh health and plan the adjusted premiums deductibles autop pocket maximums HSA contributions and board contributions for the health and dental insurance programs thank you Mr ree youve heard the recommendation of the administra administration for the approval of the adjusted premiums deductibles outof pocket maximums HSA contributions and board contributions for health and dental insurance programs may I have a motion second motion by Miss Basin second by Mr Smith question or discussion uh before we for approval Mr ree thank you for all your time and all those involved and all of this work behind the scenes to get to this point where we're at for approval of this and once again everybody's aware of all the uh added cost here in today's with health insurance and things like that so I'm glad we could come to a resolution and decision with our um C Point Education Association uh towards all this to make sure minimal uh effects on those that do Workforce here at the school corporation with that I'll uh all those in favor please signify by saying I I those opposed motion carries 5 Z thank you 5.03 agreement with Garner Health technology Mr Reese uh understanding that there's a uh what I'm going to call a significant increase in built deductibles and out of pocket maximums uh we thought it was important to try to ease the burden on our employees who take our insurance so with that we found a very Innovative partner uh it's a younger company been around for about four or five years they use the Affordable Care Act information uh to come up with how to identify the top 20 doctors in your plan and in your area and by doing that they provide a dollar Ford dooll match if you use those doctors uh with that they have guaranteed us and they incorporate that with a health retirement account or HRA so we'll pair that with our HSA um they are charging us about 61,000 is the amount of contract for them it's going toost cost about 190,000 for us to um fund the HRA accounts uh it's an important part of this anytime uh an employee on the single plan gets above $1,600 in claims or 3,200 on the family plan they're going to match dollar for dooll uh from their HRA back to the employee uh for the claims from that 1,600 on a single plan up to the new $3,000 deductible limit and on 32 $3,200 up to 6,000 the new dedu deductible limit for the other three tiers we think this is a way to ease that burden and the out- of-pocket cost for our employees even given the fact that we're having these large uh deductible and out of-pocket increases so with that our total cost for this to them is about 61 62,000 however they're guaranteeing us $450,000 in savings our expected claims reduction due to using these top tier doctors uh we're anticipating Savings of almost a million dollars for our plan uh so we think this is a a good bet to make it's a one-year agreement if it doesn't work out we will stop it discontinue it for the next year we think this is a good Avenue to go and try to redirect some of the behaviors of our employees into working with some top tier doctors so with that we're recommending the approval of a one-year agreement with Garner Health technology thank you Mr ree you've heard the recommendation of the administration for the approval of the one-year agreement with Gardner Health technology I have a motion motion by Mr Vasser second by Miss basin question or discussion Mr Reese just just to clarify um employees teachers administrators they'll be able to choose a doctor's of choice this just incentivizes them because they get a reimbursement or credit back is that correct correct if they use the Garner app they'll get the dollar for dollar re reimbursement after those minimums they're free to choose their own the doctor who may not be on that list that's up to them uh they can choose to go wherever they want to just if they're not on the list they will not get match that dollar for dooll that'll be additional cost on the just wish to clarify thank you you bet Mr ree I have one quick question is there any benefit for the corporation if uh we have folks who are using those doctors prior to hitting that 1,600 out of pocket no no other than they'll have a relationship already established with those doctors uh that'll be a personal preference if they want to use them prior to that they don't have to um I can tell you that I plan on using it just because if they've identified over going through over three billion claims and have found that they can have doctors are in the top 20% I'm interested in getting care from those doctors who are achieving the best results thank you I just I wanted to make a quick comment on this um because I think it's a a very creative and valuable way to offer additional value to the employees that participate in this plan because we're not we could have gone the route or Matt you could have suggested the route that let's just go with hmos and save some money where we're dictating who people are having to see uh but this gives them additional flexibility to choose like value based Physicians and um and it still gives them all the choice to see somebody outside of this network if if they want to so uh I appreciate the creativity to find a way for people to save some money with the with the increases in the deductibles thanks any else with that all those in favor please signify by saying I I those opposed motion carries 5-0 5.04 agreement with boy systems Mr Ree before we head on to the uh the boy systems item I just want to uh update everybody we'll be doing open enrollment meetings starting tomorrow morning at 6:30 at the high school um those are for obviously employees only uh those who are eligible for our benefits are are welcome to attend we'll be outlining all the changes uh that you've approved this evening laying out all these in a span of about 11 or 12 meetings across the district in the next two weeks uh so we'll get more information out to the employees that way and open enrollment uh with the changes starts November 6th and will last I think through December 8th so about a four-week open and moment period I believe don't quote me on that last date I'm going to double check that one thank you uh 5.04 is uh boy systems uh currently uh we are using a local vendor for financial software um we've identified uh a new vendor the new vendor uh has uh over 200 districts they work with across the state they are by far the largest provider Market shareholder for school Financial software uh recently they've uh come out out with a new cloud-based system that'll be web based no more green screens no more F function keys uh to maneuver around and doing our finances drop- down menus pre-approved menus will be uh more the name of the game hopefully eliminating uh some errors that happen from time to time as we uh do some data entry um the agreement you have in front of you is for uh five years uh with that fiveyear promise we've capped increases at 6% annually um and working with the uh owners of the company I believe hopefully we won't see those 6% increases but they're available to us depending on what the economy does uh current implementation plan for this uh calls for an implementation in either April or July um depending on uh how the history data pullover from the current system into the new system uh goes over the next six months uh we have a full implementation plan in place ready to go based upon your approval tonight uh so with that uh we're excited about the opportunity to upgrade our system I think we've been with the current one uh for quite a while at least I the last 25 or 30 years U ready to to move into the next step we've been through some demos with the staff uh this incorporates both the financial side but also the HR and Personnel side of some different modules uh so we're really encouraged about the um the working between those two systems instead of being modules it's just one system uh that it's all a part of so m ke can speak that if You' like to but in conversations we've had we're very excited about putting our our two departments together on really one system not two separate modules so with that we're recommending a five-year agreement with boy systems thank you Mr ree you've heard the recommendation of the administration for the approval of the fiveyear agreement with boy systems may have a motion second motion by Mr babjack second by Miss Basin any questions from Mr Reese yes Mr ree so the uh the old system was just antiquated is what you're alluding to it it is at this point we're yes we're ready to upgrade thank you all those in favor please signify by saying I I those opposed motion carries 5 Z 5.05 donation for crpo high school best buddies Mr Reese thank you Mr President we're very lucky to receive notification of a wish to donate to the school corporation and specifically to the Crownpoint High School best buddies club for their operating expenses for their club uh so with that we have a donation uh being requested uh to be given and you to accept of 8,441 made by uh Rick and Bridget Mangan for the cmon high school best buddies Club thank you Mr ree you've heard the recommendation of the administration for the approval of a donation or for from Rick and Bridget Mangan in the amount of $844 for the Crownpoint High School best buddies may I have a motion motion by Mr Mr Smith second by Mr Vasser any questions or discussion are is that couple present today there are not okay but again our thanks to them is obviously with a a very subsis donation to continue that program and it's an outstanding program so thank you to you again on that behalf all those in favor please signify by saying I those opposed motion carries 5 Z 5.06 appr approval to apply for and receive Grant funds from the Indiana Department of Education K through 12 robotics Grant Mr Hardman yes Mr Hardman may I interrupt for just one moment members of cabinet as you guys come up just make sure that you speak very closely into that microphone so in the back they can make sure that they're getting what you're saying for the video thank you Mr President members of the board uh this evening I'm bringing to you a new Grant from the state of IND Indiana uh this is per Indiana code uh in the recent legislation and it is called the idoe robotics competition Grant uh which definitely will go a long way to supporting uh those uh Award winners uh in helping their um their schools uh to compete in the robotics competitions I think it's important to note that this grant is not for state or uh International or national competition this is for our local competition uh this grant uh this year uh working with our coaches uh is we're asking for $ 47,4 31.

610 director of communications Mrs Allen thank you good evening um I have a couple of updates about videos um thank you to Mrs coven's class at MacArthur Elementary who hosted a few weeks ago to film our first super things video with superintendent Dr Terell um we were able to sit in on a class where students were using Matchbox cars to experiment with kinetic energy in collision and they used some really impressive vocabulary for fourth graders so that video will be um up on our YouTube channel tomorrow um we also just completed a safety series video um it's five videos and they each walk through a different component of school safety specific to our district terminology that we use different processes we have in place and plans that are there it's not always easy to talk about school safety in a way that is informative and not fearful so we were able to use a program that is an animation so it's more like moving infographic style and hopefully it's a good resource for families as they have questions about school safety and then finally um we have a coffee and conversation coming up on Tuesday next week Tuesday the 31st at 9:00 a.m.

[Music] I [Music] welcome to week three cyber tigers tetrio where this week the game has already started and it looks like Jordan Sam uh and Owen all won their matches and EMT sadly lost his so we're just waiting for the games to actually pick up again looks like there was technical differeny somewhere but while we're waiting let's have a word from a sponsor auction it do you have a favorite nonprofit that could use an awesome Foundation fundraising idea a auction it is an online and inperson auction platform that can help you with your nonprofit host a great charity event find out more at auction.io that's do goodness I can't speak auction it. IO can't speak worth anything right here in town if you're looking for a tasty tree sweet obsessions bake shop has got you covered located on East Main Street across across from Flagstar Bank yeah and check out the merch the link is in the bio well not bio description yeah our merch is really isn't that great it's just a tiger yeah almost like we have everything else is a tiger very very generic isn't there a college that has the mask has a tag the too I'm G to read that one again later in the live stre we're GNA read it halfway through then right before we end yeah whenever feel like it fair point really boring day already this game is very slow it's weird but it's true so love the game yeah GNA have fun [Music] tonight where's Lucas at we should have him check beer like last time that's pretty funny I don't I don't know what you're laughing about that's great great comedy you can't spell technical difficulties without tetrio yeah that's true so what was that brought to you by leas yeah I thought so mhm oh actually everybody just won their first match actually so nobody lost oh yeah I don't know why I thought em lost yeah I don't know why I did either the scoreboards were seeing are very tiny so should just get more boring and more boring but hopefully when they play it's going to get better let's pull up amit's screen to see what the bracket's looking like we got to I guess we do yeah yeah W didn't wi can't quite see so Sam got three Jordan got three um you can't see two of the other can't see two of the other yeah I can't see two of the other players which I'm guessing and those two other players are ours no yeah one you can't see the score and the other one you can't see the ID so you don't know who it is oh wait so how's your day going tiring I went to school you got any good jokes well no not really I guess knock are they appropriate is what I should say yes knock knock who's there boo boohoo oh not mean to make you cry take it I should have seen that coming what do you call a pelan that can sing what aapa I can't I did Sayo Yeah shush I can't say words it's okay oh wait oh Owen Owen has Owen and EMT don't have scores but Jordan and that's cuz they're getting ready to start the whole thing CU they're about to start a whole new match it looks like okay that makes more sense for I don't know why you're laughing it's not that funny I mean you never know it could be funny MH so my neighbor give me a new roof for free a new roof yeah a new roof he said it's on the house what I thought it was a good one had the whole had the whole crowd laughing I should have expected that what you Surfers learn to surf what a boarding school a I I don't know what's so funny to you Jackson did you hear about the teenager who failed his driving test what he thought it was a crash course listen if there's no good gameplay you're going to listen to my bad but I don't want to oh oh here's a good one it's more of a riddle you looking them up yes absolutely okay that's why that you never have that many good jokes like that oh yeah mine's horrible is terrible they terrible or is it how do Vikings communicate with one another how a nowhere's Cod oh my God what is the worst sport to play okay what's the worst sport to play what bad mitt how do ghost stay in shape the exercise got any funny jokes Lucas I'm telling terrible dad jokes oh yeah sorry about that everybody uh my co- commentator is currently bombing harder than anything he could do well listen you actually show us some gameplay and I stopped telling terrible dad jokes all right uh back to the Gameplay at hand here uh we can very clearly see the Chrome tab not much not doing much uh but it is uh seemingly doing enough pulled it up all right everybody sorry about that but it looks like my time has short come as my co as the replacement is back eat F on camera yeah that's all we need to hear is your lip smacking against each other Jackson how did a pirate get a how did I Can't Keep Together how did a pirate get a ship for so cheap it was on sale I swear to everything holy there we go everything's mostly fixed Jackson what do you call a fish with the wi F no what did the T-Rex use the cut her wood what never mind it's stupid it's a dinosur you are really good at saying bad jokes listen you got to be a bad joke teller to tell bad jokes and work I don't know why this one was so funny to me where does a fish keep money a river bank shut up this one's pretty funny to me too why don't scientists trust Adams they make up everything this that one was actually Prett good dang man we got the whole chat laughing I I can't really see anything so exactly don't pop up on our screen what the chat pops up on side ah it's pretty cool but do you see any text there no they're all dying laughing that's why they can't T they can't type want pizza want cheese okay I don't care I only know 25 letters in the alphabet but I don't know why I must T something oh wait this is May is not what are you doing nothing yes what are you doing you better not be looking at bad jokes that's stff what's that remote control OBS we can just do that from here yes your m is by the way open round I want to tell more horrible D jokes no we're not stopping all righty looks like the rounds are just no starting emit isn't his first match and Owen is as well but it looks like Jordan and Sam are waiting for theirs sorry for the yawn it's it tiring oh keeping it slow and steady no looks like Sam is in his match now he's just flying through it I mean you you it doesn't don't worry I feel your pain but looks like it does not take much effort from him so just hard to believe because I could barely play this game I can play other games like uh OverWatch and or over watch isn't that hard to play no it's really not you got to catch people by surprise yeah Super Smash Bros is pretty easy to play too so you just got to be so bad that you're unpredictable yeah butly you're bad predictable at I don't know what's a funny it's true it works sometimes sometimes not always though not always L block line line piece line piece that' be unfortunate if he just got all L box and just line pieces actually that could probably work out in his favor he play it very weird yeah if he plays it if he plays his cards right it looks like just one got his first point got the first got the first point out of three rounds y looks like so did EMT which is great looks like EMT on a second match is slightly trying to struggle a little bit say EMT starting em was starting a struggle but he caught he caught himself Jordan's just keeping it at the bottom he just wants to get his points up fast and quick yeah start climbing speed Speed Demon he's no longer playing tetrio he's now playing life how fast he's running through this that we should call him the engine the new new form of Game of Life just tetrio just just speed through tet that's actually one of the worst birg games I've ever played life it's mainly cuz I only played it when I was very very young and game playing it again yeah I had I for some reason I always land on taxes what the IRS telling you you better get ready they took my home the it's not my fault the crops were horrible this year he just knows where to place these pieces is insane yeah obviously you can see what piece you're going to have next but I want to have time to just see that piece and be like oh I didn't see to do there's no way to be able to just like oh look at that he's back to the bottom jeez how many pieces does he look he was scared to place that big piece there's a black off one other piece put one down every 1.32 second and Jordan just won his second round yeah looks like Owen won his first but lost his second same thing with EMT won his first but lost his second it looks like Sam also W Sam Sam won two and also lost two no Sam only won two and lost zero seen that better weirdly is it oh it is yeah stop spreading misinformation I'm about to report you for communism hey it's no joke Jackson you better watch boy I am watching the game what do you think I'm here for the game of life no I wouldn't be playing that I'd be playing Monopoly or something look like Sam won his match though see I I break pieces when I play Monopoly though who doesn't what do you mean you want to trade Board Walk Plus board Jordan is over here killing it though even though he was all the way up to top in the danger zone he's just getting back down it's insane effortly EMT won his third match Jordan won all three points look like EMT s pretty well hopefully he can pull off this Victory oh come on you're nearly there yeah looks like EMT won his four won his second game fourth fourth game yep but it's it was 3-1 so Owen won his as well alrighty so while waiting for that what do you think more jokes come on they're great they could be always great that's still that's still debatable what has five toes and isn't your foot my foot it wasn't the greatest but I actually liked that it was pretty good it was okay what do you call a Frenchman and sandals Philippine flip-flops that one to make any sense at all I didn't understand that one say it again what what do you call a French man and sandals mhm a Philippine flipflop I don't know why yeah I don't know why it says it it just says Philippine fop that makes no sense but okay yeah I thought it was going to be funny but it didn't come out right yeah no wor the sink tail of the toilet what oh what the sink to you look flushed what happened to the Snowman when he had a meltdown he melted away oh here's a good oldfashioned one when does does a joke become a dad joke what when it becomes a parent when it be I thought was good Y what kind of shoes is a lazy person wear Crocs loafers why did the coach put the frog in the Outfield he was really good at catching flies actually reminds me when I was a little one actually did baseball I caught this insane catch it was once in a lifetime we have to continue with the jokes oh yeah ABS they make my day please listen I have a horrible horrible please I'm already losing brain cells now have Lucas come in here I like Lucas better anyways okay rip boiling water you be you will be missed do you have a question your life no I like it are you sure yep I once wrote a song about tias I'm sorry tus but it's now a rap I used to hate having facial hair but I grew into it keep the dream alive and hit the sneeze button oh yeah there's the comedi corly Lucas oh no he's taking my spot he's going to tell a dad jokes actually I going to do something better oh no you want to sit in here listen to his jokes for a little bit no I'm got hungry so oh no my sh is caught keep bring me a cheese slice thank you for e well I tried e for it's insecure maybe if I do it on my phone click here to load the non-secure version of this page okay I'll try oh it's saying yeah it's got to be WSS hold on is it WS or WSS there you go okay try that I'll just do this andace The Local Host no I'll be shocked at this works by the yeah me too authentication string oh yeah yeah stream caps it's not supposed to be in plain text but what all right so shut the front door all right so uh I mean it's terribly slow but can watch it on there it's one FPS it's it's quite literally one FPS it's not very good okay so if you do this again so uh yeah so well I think okay so we're on program yep you can see all this I think you can end stream from this by the way so uh let's not end stream let's not do that uh you want to it's important for anybody any one person who's watching right now you got cut the shc oh that just changes so it's over here look I hit it so that's preview okay that's preview and uh I can hit a hit a hit a now I am yep okay this is cool so I can just control this from here so we're going to switch to em em that's too much power they shouldn't have that much power they shouldn't but hey we're here now let's see what the other options do maybe we shouldn't unplug should probably take this out like this and see like I think if we hover over we can see what these things to do before I touch him show scene on top edit scenes show scenes as icons talk a replay buffer see I still haven't figured out the replay buffer Studio mode us here we are change all that this probably be disconnect y nice start recording start virtual webcam but I could do this on an iPad Pro could could it it still be one FPS because it's a web uh site that's okay because you're watching this or I'm watching over your shoulder I think yeah that too and you could also probably there's an IOS app or something like that you could probably get better but it's just for cuts and stuff which is nice so so the red thing is what's over here it's being shown stop the stream we can trust no we can't but we can trust them with that hopefully edit scenes what do you mean by edit scen oh boy oh you can just change the icons and names I don't know if it changes it up there but it's the icon you could do image maybe maybe maybe who knows I wonder if I could host this poost it where somewhere T the mics that's Studio mode so that takes you out of Studio mode so we're not that's that's where the real power would be mhm CU now we could just go to multi view yeah back to the bracket would that take you out of multiv in the sorry I burped it's it's almost six I think I might need to that's fine all right well thanks for all this yeah thank you no problem okay that would be awesome drink say goodbye to Lucas my favorite commentary you guys have so much to work on anyway yeah listen we're just going to be telling dad jokes you want Jo in sure D any good ones I don't have any Dad look him up I been oh man my shoelace goe tie anyways see you Lucas be safe okay so the way this works right now is that if you touch any one of those blue buttons it becomes live oh I probably should have show that I saying no don't so that way you guys don't have to but all you have to do is just we give you guys the capability of going okay let's uh go ahead and watch blank you hit the button and then the guy that's running the stream oh yeah we definitely need this tomorrow oh yeah okay okay well you're not going to be here I a going to be here not in here I don't care where I am I'm going to be somewhere I it would have hurt to have three commentators would it to on screen yeah I don't have to be on screen I going be the guy in know all righty time for more dad jokes oh yeah please no don't leave me please Jo yeah Joo look at some more dad jokes come back in here please no I don't get this one I'm just going to say it because it doesn't make I poured root beer in a square glass now I just have beer what I'm trry to repeat that I poured root beer in a glass in a square glass now I just have be here yeah I don't understand it talk as cheap until you talk to a lawyer oh did we lose Lucas oh yeah we lost Lucas a littleit for some I say a pony with a cut off is a little horse e are not funny really oh I get this one all look like the match is starting three two one let's get ready to rumble is not going to there you go like end struggling a little bit looks like Sam's starting his match cut okay there we go oh okay yeah hopefully Jordan loads up in his match pretty soon yeah looks like IM is struggling a little bit bit oh hopefully he can save himself yeah hopefully he can save himself he needs a line piece he's not going to get one until while yeah there goes H he wasn't going to get one till a while back to Sam he's doing say Jordan's loading his match okay looks like Jordan's softly AFK I have no clue what Jordan's doing is it oh we had sticky keys that was the problem stal stalo is our toughest competition right now who oh GE holy crap yeah Jordan got Jordan yeah Jordan got sticky keys right away and he oh yeah it was really unfortunate but there's nothing you can really do about it yeah so hopefully let go to Sam yeah hopefully the second match is a little better yeah hope Sam's still in the same match it looks like Jordan lost his second game see how the third one plays out I was going to say he was the winner last year wasn't he she's holy he's way faster than he was last year see one his jeez Jordan's really struggling to stay in the loot though yeah emit lost his second match match looks like Jordan lost the third one it's the first time i' actually seen Jordan lose in a little bit yeah it's the first game that's let's go to Owen see how he's doing he stole the first game for him yeah he's still in the oh oh looks to and there fortunately you got finished off as soon as we switched yeah see how the second match for Owen goes yeah hopefully it's better yeah it looks like he's off to a very great start yeah it's GNA be tricky for him to recover from that Sam is doing good yeah let's go to him but unfortunately yeah never mind I see missing Grim Reaper was just up there at his again starting to gri Reaper starting to cut it close Grim or Grim Grim that's Grim Reaper no because I just know a lot of people pronounce it two different ways oh yeah do ask oh Jordan's starting to cut it close let's go to him yeah Oh I thought Jordan was done with this match no yeah oh maybe because the run in the back is the sticky keys oh yeah sticky keys stop he is so his opponent oh my goodness his opponent got well he did win he won overall last year oh he did yeah St stalo won overall last year oh that's insane yeah he's even faster than he was last year oh he's just sitting here waiting now holy crap be careful cuz oh goodness okay I was going to say all right and that's I no offense to Jordan I don't think he's going to get this but let's hope so it's room for a miracle let's hope for a miracle I don't see no offense to any people that Ro for Jordan I don't see it happening I I yeah know unless he has Miracles stored in his back pocket I just don't see it yeah I don't really really see it unless he has a miracle looks like Sam won his what is that yeah his third one and he won that game too yep holy crap sto last year it's quite insane yeah always makes me wonder what has to go through a person's mind when they playing this game like that yeah all I can imagine when I say something like that is usually like wi is like a hurricane yeah oh sto was the reason we lost last year wasn't it well almost it yeah no I don't I don't know why I said that but like overall we lost no overall we won we lost fortunately that's what I meant individual yeah stalo was the number one IND individual player who won individually last year yeah but looks like Jordan was holding his own for a little bit for a little bit and then that started to die down yeah yeah looks like Owens let's go to Owen he's still in his match yeah alrighty looks like d keep to himself why are Jordan running it back why are Jordan and St running it back oh they're just oh they're just okay I was so confused okay was just I was confused yeah so was obiously there Ain no reason to be okay so that clears that up yeah 's doing really good yep you don't see his pieces though for some reason you don't see them until a little bit because they're falling down yeah at very SL FR not popping up because he's usually thinking about the next piece and he places it yeah so usually that could be a downfall but couldn't be but then it could also help you too Owen has to get something to save him or it will be game for him yeah I don't know yeah we can't see his pieces and there goes Owen y unfortunately Owen lost his match yeah all right let's go to the bracket and see looks like Jordan okay so minion minion won his his match against toxic Turner toxic turn just Sam Sam won his match do you EMT lost his how do you say Jordan's opponent I don't know his opponent did round two yeah his opponent did very very well that's all I could say oh I was about to say I was about to say okay yeah Jordan lost to sto um Sam one against one against Grim Reaper Owens Owens is still in progress and no Owens lost EMT lost against an Owen also lost they just haven't updated the bracket yet yeah now they're updating it okay and Owen lost his that means two out of our four players have won what yeah no all righty while we're waiting yeah why we waiting more dad jokes how many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh say that again sorry my throat's a little horse so the bunny uh but no how many tickles does it take to make a octopus laugh 10 tickles Joo told you I heard it Joo that's not fair you know that why should dads only tell Dad jokes why I totally didn't hear this one cuz if anyone else does it it's a faux paw yep that was a good one that was a good one can February March what can February March no but April May he's already won the psychological warfare part he's already won that oh my gosh oh here's one what's the best way to watch a fly fishing tournament right a live stream I could tell a joke about pizza but it's a little cheesy my brain if you want to read something go ahead oh that's unfair look like jomo's looking up dad jokes now Sams I won't buy anything velcro it's a total ripoff oh my [Laughter] God I don't see what's so funny how do you make a clean X stance there's no way I'm saying that that's no there's no way I'm saying that here hold on just tell him what was the funny all righty did you hear about the velcro one my D oh absolutely I don't have a real big microphone so you just got to tell it a little bit louder okay so priest a minister walk into the bar the bartender asked the rabbit what are you doing here he replies beats me I'm just here because the auto correct that is pretty good that is really good okay here we go into round four all righty but before that happens put away your dad jokes before that happens no put away no how do you make a Kleenex St oh put a little boogie in it you put he just said it too oh J is always a party poop he's a party pooper if I'm mistaken one of the schools is leaving at 6 so they already left yeah they already left which one was it I can't remember all righty let's just wait match let's go back to Sam real quick him against rock and roll let's see how Sam does going on in the chat right there where do baby cats learn to swim a kitty pool I'm going to keep on going until the match starts please no oh look at that the match started I don't see it what do you mean it's playing right there what's what is going on in the chat Sundays are always a little sad days put the jokes away the day before that's a little Saturday put the jokes away fine you can say that later okay looks like Sam was just going right in taking no hesitation still not as fast as slao though we still have something yet still faster than not I could ever do yeah we still have yet to see somebody faster than sloo slao however you say however you say that slap Salo Salo what does you sound like a Kung Fu PIR scalper he's a scalper oh [ __ ] Roll McDonald's Jordan and emit are playing against each other so let's go to that how did that happen part of the bracket let's see was that really yeah that's funny EMT and Jordan are playing against each other right now see how this goes there's only one way it can go they're going to be both goodw there is no winner or loser for them well obviously is but yeah the only win is the Cyber tiger yeah we're going to lie but yeah okay Jackson is okay he has nothing else better to do he you want the headset I would love the headset if you don't mind I have no clue why I want the headset but I will take the headset all you got to do is just relay the messages I'm doing this though all righty that makes makes no sense but okay all righty looks like rock and roll 4482 is losing to same opponent but can't really tell that right now looks like Sam won that match and Jordan won the match against EMT all righty appears at Rock and rolls from Speedway High School kind of ironic name's pretty fitting so he's just not let s breathe for I don't know why but for some reason the match between Emit and Jordan's a lot more interesting than the rest of them I think it's also because I can hear them but alrighty looks like Owen's one in one right now but all righty we're going back to Sam no Sam sorry Jordan and EMT yeah sorry I can't remember my names too well that's why nicknames are reliable that's why I go with their name or their gamertag I can't remember gamertags either takes doesn't mean I can remember them takes a little bit to get used to listen if I known you for a good solid year or two I probably can't remember your name but my goodness Jordan is just not letting up he's taking Fair sportsmanship out the window hey there's no mercy in tetrao yeah there's no mercy even if they're your friend but it do it does look like Sam won his match as well looks like the only one's playing right now is Owen looks like Owen's kind of struggling right now let hope he could bring it back from the brink of Destruction sadly does not look like it nope one two he still has a chance to come back from Assa so let's hope that he just has to make sure he doesn't lose this one or the next one yeah to make it a comeback all righty seems like soapy ladyes also from I can't pronounce the school's name I'm sorry caramel like the candy s oh flavor who says caramel is a flavor who's it what caramel is not a flavor yeah J just said that caramel is a flavor that is definitely wrong caramel is a I think they're both candy they're both candy well no caramel is a flavor caram it doesn't matter they're both candy in my eyes caramel is candy caramel's flavor we're not having discussion we already are oh oh apparently it's scratch at reverse not caramel's candy and caramel's candy what I don't know listen there ain't no reason to be discussing candy right now I'm hungry I can really go for some caramel barrels I want some root beer barrels oh those are delicious they're amazing excuse me sorry gosh how dare you cough I can cough onto you but I'd just be rude why does Snoop Dog carry an umbrella I don't get it but a drizzle a d j said that I'm guessing oh yeah J definitely said that see I make some I would say them that they had sense I get it I don't get it I get it apparently Jim wasn't happy about the joke come on a unfortunately own l oh let's go back to the bracket all righty back to the bracket looks like because this bat will now take us on the round now we tell more dad jokes oh great who doesn't love a little bit of dad jokes how do how do you row a boat filled with puppies you bring out a doggy paddle oh my gosh okay I can't trust theirs they're always up to something okay bud okay let's have a recap on the bracket okay so Owen lost his by one to how you again caramel caramel or caramel caramel and Minion won his by three against rock and roll M 4482 and then Jordan won his by two against EMT all righty so that is done back to the dad jokes yeah what the tenness see I said that wrong what did Tennessee the same thing Arkansas saw what did Tennessee the same thing Arkansas huh I don't what did Tennessee the same thing as Arkansas the states oh okay um I didn't tell him correctly but listen it's like a joke I was so confused okay that makes sense now why is it better iron your Ford leaf clover because you shouldn't Press Your Luck is he giving you those jokes no I'm saying what rock group has four man who can't sing Mount Rushmore why did the Birds attack the dog he was pure bread right I'm going to go talk to God actual living people cuz you're all simulations I know it huh I said going to talk to actual living people cuz I know you guys are all living simulations look up some dad jokes tell them you we listening okay let's find some dad jokes you want some dad jokes sure I can't even say that jesri made for okay here should be a good one which bear is the most condescending a panda I know what you missed my joke what bear is the most condesending huh what bear is the most condescending a panda you know fun you know fun I didn't you're no fun my girlfriend keeps accusing me of cheating she's starting to she's starting to sound like my wife down here no no no no okay no no no no no okay fine all right we start our match act like that did not just say that you did just say that but we're gonna act like it but was like Owen just started his match let's that means Jackson take it away go to Owen how are they oh so never mind back to the bracket no back to the bracket D it looks like he was in a match but I guess he's just playing for fun so I don't blame him I would too waiting these long cues like this yes we're just gonna act like I not say that joke I figured I didn't even think about that until I said it I'm like I should not have said that no I didn't really care enough but do you know what we shouldn't say on air life is not TR what I'm sorry I got that song stuck in my head now we have one match left until we go into the fifth round that would be the fifth round wouldn't it it's all the fifth round yeah that'd be taking us in that'd be taking us into the fifth round custo and oh I won't okay oh I heard it huh I heard it okay you want to bring up some jokes since I only no I'm definitely not saying any more jokes if we could risk it like that I'm not saying it I didn't think about it's a dangerous I already said it I'm like I should not have said that no but too bad you did I have fun but it's almost like life is like a [Music] hurricane I'm not holding on for you cuz I toss and turn I need cuz I need a hero I'm I probably shouldn't sing Le are copyrighted songs but I like it when you're blind now see you say not now but then when when huh did you lose yeah King Tower yep I was rushing his oh that's an idiot move to do unless you know you can do it I could he just placed a giant skeleton out and ruined it all okay that makes more sense then what did the no say to the finger stop picking on me there's some days I question life now is one of them what do you call a toothless bear what a gummy bear are you yummies we're not going into that song do you want to get copyrighted don't you say it if you're doing that look one it says 12 show that Jo after this there's should not be doing this if that's on there there's no reason we should be doing this jokes if there on there what has four wheels and flop a garbage truck flies like fruit flies and stuff okay here we go to round five all righty oh too let's go to Sam he's gon to be facing Tapo Tapo oh wait what do you sound like a does he sound like a mafia man why is it not why is it going back to the bracket okay bracket okay so next coming up is round five first game will be Sam versus too and then Jordan versus it's oh what's that puls and then EMT versus MHS PLU and Owen versus oh what is that I can't see I mean what is that because not what is that I can't I can't no not that Owens game I can't can't un see it TT built t-u TT bu H yeah oh here we go to the game all right to Sam's game Sam they've already started yep Sam is oh and there goes Sam Sam loses the first point we could still have faith in him oh yeah most definitely I don't lose faith in my players who doesn't oh I would if I saw Sam but that's a different story why that just go but that just okay um yeah yeah knows to make a lot of combos goodness just very rarely very rarely do you see stop sto get double com not double single Combos and there Sam my goodness that was quite a fast match yeah yeah sto went Sam would be sto's toughest competition so yeah he was playing aggressive against him and then at Jordan's game now he was just holding on for a hero yeah Jordan is starting to cut it close and Jordan might want to bring it back down to the ground because he's he's starting to cut it really close I don't see him doing it quite that fast though yeah I know that's the problem I can see the he's mainly just staying right at that spot it's quite dangerous because all the opponent needs W combo yeah but it looks like Jordan got out of it pretty darn fast yeah I don't see him getting out of it that fast get oh I lied I guess he's he just need it's FAL is from cani Valley oh okay oh and it's Vault Jordan got his the first point of the game Never Back Down never what always give up no we did not always give up sorry I was in my game mentality yep never never not quit no always quit no we not always they let the Liars lie to you just building Towers now oh he's going to hit the 360 Jordan yeah Tower's going to yep and Jordan uh building that Tower kind of big bit him and it messed him up he lost one point now it's on to round three of this game he could still survive I believe in my Jordan he he can still come back Jordan's a very good player he's really good at Teto really good he's okay he's okay no he's not just okay he's amazing yes it's the only way to describe Jordan yeah now he's now Jordan's starting to get the combos but that might yep and that one to two now and Jordan's losing by one you hate to see it unless you're our opponent yeah yeah unless you're our opponent we still hate to see listen I can make jokes too yeah but it's not really that all clear that Jordan's trying to go for isn't really working out for him nope but at the end of the day he always toss and turn hold it on for a hero listen I love that song there's not really many combos going on listen not everyone can pull off a womo combo his fault just got getting a quad combo see if that can happen again oh it does happen again oh Jordan got one too nice they're both starting to cut it close but if Jordan can play it right he can get it back down to the ground yep there yep there it is okay now it's back to being tied assuming Jordan can't get it right first mistake yeah fifth round fifth fif fifth round fifth round of this game for Jordan whoever wins this wins the match so let's hope Jordan can pull this win off his opponent is very well skilled as well so his opponent's really good oh oh and he just want yeah there it is being being quick doesn't always help you game no you could miss input and that could be cost you the game yep trust me I do it all the time with Tye of Smash Bros it is a very common problem game oh nope yeah yeah okay I was worried there for a second okay alrighty let F sto yeah stapo he only lost one they're both just building Towers but it building Towers isn't going to really always help them that could always mess it up for them I believe this is the last match of the day if I'm not mistaken all right so I means here soon Orly I got to re read those sponsorships yeah let hopefully I don't butcher him again yeah let's hope you not don't butcher the sponsors again I don't want to hear he didn't do it too much help either I started once oh Owen might get the point yes there it is he is built different no I'm pretty sure nearly built the same mentally wise no physically wise yes call me call me skinny huh what huh what I can't believe you said that to to my face what I I I I'm just I'm now better not answer I can't answer that oh yeah I can't I can't remember listen I it was a mistake okay was a Mis input was a Mis input was a Mis input I I didn't notice it until I've already said it okay I'm sorry H I'm sorry are you yes I am you see you say that but like how sorry really are you oh here's Brooks let's see if he wants to come in doesn't look like it oh man look like we're gonna get an interview from Brooks looks like he's being a little little Grouch trying to think of words honestly I legitly think I had a stroke that could have think it work getting having that misclick might mess him upen there's nothing wrong with one or two Miss inputs yeah but it could cost you a game the only problem Oh emt's playing right now against void Walker and why does that sound like someone from my final destination game Owen might end up Owen okay oh Owen needs to hopefully get it down back town nope looks like he's not going to be able to okay let's go to EMT and see how he's doing over right now he's only lost once it's that though there nice you got the triple combo his opponent isn't looking like they're doing very well well yeah your opponent kind of needs to step it up or he it's going to cost him um can get me um I'm thinking like I'm in a form of meditation emt's won a point now first to three so they both got two more points left until whoever gets the two points wins okay if any combos will happen right here you mean a Wombo Combo no not a w yeah I mean yeah sure a womo combo MH totally oh oh womo getting that line piece out line piece line piece oh yeah uh for those at home those are it's from a very weird Tik Tok that I saw when I showed hit Jackson I can't remember what that was it was a Tik Tok yeah but it was a really funny Tik Tok it was really funny El block El block Square yeah it's how to it's how a Tetris [Music] Square line piece T Block Jackson just busting laugh Owen just lost a point oh no Owen doesn't lose points he gains points don't tell me he got another line piece yeah emit emt's got to step it up no oh nice excuse me peace line peace zigzag um he has he's got to get that line piece there it is there yeah he needs another line piece to put it down where that other line piece was at T block Square t block T block the worst time you need a l block it gives you the L block oh oh he's starting to oh he's he's got to watch it though because that could mess him up think he didn't have a wi he's got a okay yes oh come on give him a line p no oh and no he missed the line piece ah he yeah he yeah he could catch up they could all catch up which is really good CU I like ketchup oh the scores are the same yeah let's let's go to owenson they're about to wrap it up maybe yeah oh I don't want to wrap though I kind of think a Subs a lot better than yeah if he doesn't oh don't you yeah that's line piece you didn't know what a line piece is even if it hits you in the face I would too yep that's game let's go back to EMT lost lost by two you hate you hate to see it yeah void Walker is actually doing a lot better than he was last week wasn't it yeah to where you can just drop them down into to that spot and they will just start clearing them out yep I know I already know about that yeah so emt's strategy right now is to to set up a well which if you don't know what a well is he holds on to a line piece and pretty much just makes a a direct line down to where he can get up to Total what four combos if he does it right four or five if he does it right but right now he's mainly aiming for for three and if he can you could pull it off it' be insane yeah if he can pull if he can pull off four that's insane you don't see many people pulling off four let alone five pretty sure in all the time I've watched YouTube I've only seen one person pull off of five cuz you never seen no one good as me you don't play tet you rarely ever play tetrio I never played tet I play tet see him play tetrio too there's no way you're going to get me unless there's $5 involved there's no way I'm playing tetrio six six bucks okay you got PayPal no who just PayPal anymore oh nice em and now emt's got the score tied up now oh now it's just uh race to see who can a race see who can get this last point because whoever gets this last Point that's game that's this would be the last match day then we go back to our sponsors and yep Ray uh and then I believe tomorrow is OverWatch isn't it yep that is we're going to have a rare appearance Kaden oh yeah Kaden con's coming in tomorrow yep it's a Once in A- lifetime thing besides if you go back and watch week one but that's about it yeah he's only what he's only appeared once hasn't he he has appeared believe twice twice tetrio oh and EMT won his game yeah he EMT got a good game going for him he didn't show up to that one tetrio EMT had a good game all righty time for sponsors let's hope I can read this correctly stuttering yeah without 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77 cents and that's going to support their kits and their supplies to compete I think it's h good for you to note that this is quite an expensive expansive program that we have uh there are 11 teams at our high school 14 Middle School uh robotics teams and 21 elementary school teams uh what we've tried to do with the grant is try to create accessibility and equ quality uh across all our teams uh so you can see uh you can see the differences uh in the amounts of money at the elementary middle and high school is how it's broken down um and um U we hope that we are awarded we expect to hear by November the 6th uh seeking your approval tonight to apply for and receive these funds thank you Mr Harman you've heard the recommendation of the administration to apply for and receive the IND Department of Education robotics competition Grant funds in the amount of 47 , 43177 for kits and supplies to maintain our robotics teams and participate in local robotics competitions I have a motion motion by Mr Vasser second by Miss Basin question or discussion all those in favor please signify by saying I I those opposed motion carries 5 Z again thank you Mr Harman 5.07 approval to apply for and receive Grant funds from the Indiana Department of Indiana Department of robots for autism Grant Mrs pascus I want to make sure I said that correctly you did thank you uh president Angel members of the board I am seeking your approval tonight to receive the department of EDS robots for autism Grant funds in the amount of $ 51,6 this will include two Ro two robots social skills curriculum and a professional learning package um this is actually a grant that has been outlined by house bill um one1 and this allows us as um special education departments to apply for this Grant and we had to select 10 students with autism that we would Target for a social skills and behavioral skills um work with the robots we Supply two iPads per robot and Milo and Carver the $16,000 each robots um will be housed at Taft in Wheeler and we will collect data on the robots and um see if we see an improvement in social skills thank you Mr pascus you've heard the recommendation of the administration to apply for and receive the Indiana Department of Education robots for autism Grant funds of $ 51,6 for two robots social skills curriculum and professional learning package may I have a motion so moved motion by Mr Smith second by Mr babjack question or discussion oh bailing bailing early huh oh I do I have one quick question see is this something that if this goes well because I know you said you were tracking the results which I think is fantastic if this goes well is this something we can apply for each year or possibly add to the program now yep yep and I have seen the robots demonstrated and um it's really pretty amazing so I'm excited and I think our kids are going to love these robots awesome thank you sounds like a great opportunity in program thank you thank you any other questions all those in favor favor please signify by saying I I those opposed motion carries five thank you Mr President board members um as you know we are beginning the process of making a conversion from Neola to isba policies and after speaking with folks from uh isba last week uh beginning that process so plan on seeing a little bit of this u in our meetings coming up here but this particular collection are a set of policies that we need to update here as we uh roll into the new year so we would consider these U quote unquote somewhat of an urgent batch to get updated here and I'll keep these coming uh at you uh each month but in this particular uh batch we have policy 310 which is the old Neola P policy 3121 this basically speaks to criminal history checks for applicants and contractors we have this policy already uh but some updates to it it uh talks about a couple of things in specific one being that uh there's a list of uh um reasons uh for individuals why we would not be able to hire them if they've been convicted of certain crimes so these are listed in here for you um in addition if we are represented with more than one type background check for folks that were hiring we want to choose the more rigorous one to keep our students and staff safe um so that's there in policy 310 uh policy 31 speaks to the cycle where every five years all of our employees must go through a a a background check uh so that is there uh as well and that one is O Neal policy 3121 as well um the tag Grant or the teacher appreciation Grant this is also being updated to ISB a language we've had this policy uh for years but this is now um um been updated to the new isba language and that the TAC Grant basically speaks that each year we'll receive this grants eligible teachers will will receive these monies and there will be a 25% differential between teachers that are highly effective and effective there's no change there it's just uh slight language change from the older policy to the new one so this is an update but it needed to be done and I will give you a little hint we're going to have to do uh we'll adopt that one each year going forward uh early in the fall okay just to make sure that we like that language um another important one is policy 4304 um this is nea's old policy 55 17.01 it speaks to the definition of bullying uh this is a very important update for us and there'll be some other language in bullying that will be inserting into our suspension policies going forward but we needed to get this one done right away one of the most important parts of this is uh making sure that it is uh cited in our policy due to state law uh that the uh parents of the victim of the alleged bullying need to be uh told within five business days of the report uh so that is now uh here for you uh to take a look at in this first reading and finally uh policy 5051 5051 this is new and this speaks directly to a new law that's coming out January 1st uh so with our first reading today uh hopefully our adoption in November will be all set to go and this speaks to uh challenges to library media and other supplemental materials this is embedded in our complaints area right now but it needs to be pulled out and needs to stand alone as its own policy and it will now uh under policy 5051 so in summary what I'm requesting this evening is just to have a first reading of these policies okay we'll bring them back next month uh in hopes uh that we get them approved and updated thank you Mr Kiwa as Mr Kiwa mentioned this is just the first reading so what I recommend is uh read through these any questions or that make sure we bring them up for the next before we actually go through and approve these changes officially next month may I pose a quick question to Mr Ki yeah Dr Teran I already talked about this so I just for public knowledge uh with the library books is a hot issue as you can imagine throughout the country how many have we had in Crown Point that challenges from parents or public so we could hold them on one hand probably most of them are uh they want to review um not necessarily uh requesting any removal if you will but uh we do have a a procedure for folks that want to come and examine any particular curricular area so we can have those materials prepared for folks to come check them out so we we've had a couple of those but um I I don't think think there's been been more than five and as long as I can remember I think that's great I think it's great that the public has that information yeah Abol thank you for that thank you quick question um you know specifically references School libraries is that include classrooms just Library this this policy speaks to library and media materials that would be supplemental materials that will be found in the library okay okay and and that's what the new state law is is addressing in specific and that's why we've got to pull this language out and so it stands alone um outside of our general complaint policy okay thank you again Mr AA for your work on that okay 6.02 superintendent discussion groups start telling you Mr V or anything from either of our Redevelopment commissions okay thank you two weeks two weeks okay Mr Smith anything uh nothing that impacts the school corporation thank you from Crown Point thanks all right with that 6.03 director of Grants and assessments Mr Hardman again good to be here and to uh just give you some uh uh feedback we had an opportunity over a fall break uh to give some training to our child care staff um again they're here from six o'clock in the morning till six o'clock at night uh and uh they needed a refresher and CPI and we were very pleased to offer and provide that uh to those uh um caregivers in our uh in our corporation uh Nick China was uh the the the trainer for that uh having been sitting in on the training just the deescalation the strategies the holds uh are things that are really vital to this group um knowing that they are there they're at buildings that uh when there's nobody else there uh people leave and so it's important that they are able to uh to uh work with the children in in positive ways and yet at the same time be able to uh to have the capabilities to uh uh to to have the holds to be able to help the students to uh regulate so we want to thank Nick we want to thank you for our staff that came in over fall break to be able to do that thank you thank you Mr Harman director of Elementary education Mr China thank you Mr President and board members while academics are you know always at the heart of what we're doing in our schools I want to highlight some of the meaningful opport unities that our elementary schools have planned and implemented recently in some of these areas uh to help students be successful in school and in life for example uh our elementary schools have planned some activities surrounding bullying prevention uh to help our students feel comfortable safe and ready to learn um this is through stomp out bullying month in October or bullying prevention month uh also our schools have been encouraging some interest and learning about life After High School with different activities towards careers and colleges uh during College and Career go week recently finally we are in the midst of a very exciting time for elementary schools uh one thing we value and prioritize is partnering and collaborating with our families uh for the growth and success of all of our students uh these homeschool relationships are you know really crucial to the growth of all of our students and uh while this is an ongoing Focus year round over the next week or so all of our elementary uh students uh and parents will be having parent teacher conferences um you know so the the goal is for us to have conferences for 100% of our students um and I can report back later and let you know how we what percentage we got to okay appreciate that thank you Mr Chin thank you director of secondary education Mrs Ramirez I'm going to have to learn now with them coming from the back with the new setup give them a little time to get the mics unless we're just going to have some speed Tri F and see how quickly we can get up here for the next meeting thank you Mr President board members I just want to take this opportunity to share with you um an upcoming event that I hope you will um consider attending we have the fall musical at Crownpoint High School taking place on November 11th 12th 18th and 19th at 2m also on the 11th 17th and 18th there is a 7 PM showing of Mary Poppins and if you have ever attended a fall U musical or a production by r cphs um theater Department you will by all means know that it will be fantastic and will be a great opportunity so um we encourage you to attend and just want to share with you that this is the first time we are doing the musical in the fall this will allow those who are in choir and Orchestra to be able to be part of the musical and still be able to participate in isma competitions that happen in the spring so it was a very strategic move to switch those two so that students can be as actively involved as possible so we are really looking forward to this performance and um hope you will join us there on one of those days if your schedule allows also want to share with you another great thing um that has really started to become a tradition and um it just took place this past week on on October 21st at the high school this is the third year that they are doing Cars and Coffee and it happened on Saturday and it's really pretty cool it's a great Community event former students as well as community members bring in their um vehicles and these can be vintage Vehicles these can be I'll use the term souped up Vehicles I'm not sure if that's what they would call them um however you do see their hoods up showing engines you see people sitting in lawn chairs talking about their cars and so it's really a great opportunity um for our students to raise funds for the auto club but also to bring in community involvement and support so we really um appreciate all those involved in that great event they will do another one in the spring and lastly I just want to commend Crownpoint high school and a successful PS Pat Administration on October 11th and our middle schools will be joining in their PSAT Administration tomorrow so big um undertaking and success already and look forward to completion of that at the middle schools thank you Mrs Ramirez director of exceptional education Mrs pascus good evening again members of the board I wanted to give you a little background on the Mangan family who uh gave the donation earlier I had some communication with Bridget today and uh they organize a golf outing each summer at Lake of the Four Seasons and the money they donated to us for Best Buddies was just a result of 5050 tickets and basket auctions so um they have four children their three daughters were members of best buddies in high school and one daughter was the president and then their son Kevin has been in our programming ever since preschool so I mean he's an awesome kid I don't know the daughters but um just a lovely family and when I asked about um how they raised the money she gave all the credit to their friends and family dad has 61 cousins or something that she said Lake of the Four Seasons everyone just comes together and um it's all hands on deck and everyone helps and donates and it's wonderful so some good news you have to make sure if you stay in contact let us know when that event is next year I because we do have some golfers here on the board some better than others I sure I don't know if we'll get a space it sounds like it's it's hard to get a spot okay um also uh I I know we're always looking for more pair professionals it's an extremely difficult position to fill um and I think we're not the only organization uh experiencing um a lot of coming and going of pair professionals it's a very intense position so um on November 1st we're going to hold an another all day open hiring event um we're going to publicize and invite interested applicants to come here from 8 to 4: anytime there'll be four of us just spread out Holding On The Spot interviews um and then just looking over the last five years um in 2018 2019 there were 79 peras for exceptional Ed five of those peras were in the preschool we now have 121 Paras and 15 of those are in the preschool so there's been a 53% increase just in Paras and about a 27% increase in our count of special education so I mean we are just Staffing it more so I think that is another reason we're seeing a lot of come coming and going so we're also going to try and support those Folks by starting on November 9th um a monthly training that we're g to call Exceptional Ed University ee so the second uh Thursday of each month from 1 to three we're GNA have at least two people from my team so myself or Kelly o our two Behavior Specialists our two coordinators were designing a training on Behavior disability 101 deescalation techniques communication procedures with families and other staff members um and we will uh hold that once a month and try to give them some more support and background information to help them be more successful that's it thank you Mr Basquez uh where we at oh sorry 6.07 assistant superintendent Mr G and fer me thank you Mr President board members um just a couple items um the third week in October is National safe schools week and in addition to the anti-bullying lessons Mr Kina mentioned we also are participating in Red Ribbon Week as anti-drug lessons and activities throughout our schools as well as um our individual schools participating in drills uh safety drills practicing our policies and procedures so we just want to thank all our administrators teachers and staff for taking the time to work with our students in those very important subjects and making those programs uh successful and one other item um if you have time this Wednesday evening uh the colonel wheeler band will be performing their annual fall concert I think they call it their Spooktacular all the kids dress up and uh play a little but they although they do this annually this is the first time they'll be performing that in their new Auditorium so if you have an Aon event there there is an opportunity to attend one at 6:30 Wednesday at the new Colonel wheeler Auditorium that's all I have thank you Mr J ferming 6.08 Chief Human Resource officers Mr Kiwa thank you Mr President uh just a couple of items uh one really fun unique one but I'll start with my staff I just want to go ahead and thank thank Gan Lang uh and Renee Rich in the move over here to central office there was quite a bit of information and files that needed to come over all at the same time uh we had no receptionist to work the front desk so uh they're answering phones and and unpacking a large amount of material uh for the Personnel department so I just want to just thank them for just keeping the the inertia and operations running so smoothly I also want to thank um there are other support or other support staff members here at central office that took a turn at the front desk um just for redundancy should we have any sort of Crisis or or a need for another individual to be at that front desk to receive calls to to work that front desk we've had uh seven individuals in addition to our staff take a turn uh covering uh in the last week and a half so just thank you to all for helping out with that effort um I I want to add here we had a well-known longtime teacher named Bill fricky used to teach a Taft middle school ironically uh the building that was almost sitting right where we're sitting right now um he was an English teacher he was also in charge of yearbooks he has brought over and I see Mike in the back over there he brought another box today um but he bought boxes of Olde books dating back to 1958 um and I've got actually first year book in my in my office so we want to make sure we get that over to the new te Middle School in case they have a display case or whatnot but I just wanted to publicly thank uh Mr fricky for taking the kind time to come out and and share those artifacts when you know he may have just ended up pitching them but but he thought we we'd like to have them here um in our schools um you know for historical purposes anyway so thank you Mr fricky for for making that efforts um and lastly just thanking all of our staff members Mark speaking about safety um just thanking all of our staff members for continuing to work hard on their tutorials that they need to take care of uh for safety um that are State mandated so keep it up CP staff and getting those tutorials finished here this semester thank you very much thank you Mr Kiwa 6.09 Chief Financial Officer Mr ree I apologize my button wasn't working I must have overused it earlier tonight I I I think with with part of that I I have the the lucky opportunity to present many of those agenda items to you uh on what has become a monthly basis uh the amount of work that goes in behind the scenes uh with the business office staff uh with the the cooperation of the partnership of the the cabinet uh Dr Terell and and Mr gmir and Arty uh as well as the other directors on the cabinet uh it it is uh great uh to be back and have this working environment to get those things accomplished uh I can't thank them enough for this opportunity to come back and and do this I've really enjoyed uh working with the Teachers Association as well through bargaining um it it's been a great uh experience and refreshing um uh opportunity and I I can't thank them enough and I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to come back and do that and so while I'm lucky enough to be the one that gets to speak on all those topics it's everybody else that that also allows us to put the work in uh to get that accomplished and I can't thank them enough uh to make that happen so we can lead the district in the right way and putting the money in the appropriate places to educate kids um that common goal is um special here and and I do appreciate it um also with that the amount of work that our buildings and ground staff did to move us into this building uh what was was extraordinary all without a working elevator uh up all 28 stairs not that I've counted in my walking through the building uh but there's 28 stairs between the first level and the second level and uh they got to carry all those boxes and uh up those stairs and I can't thank them enough for that extra work they put in to get that done in the face of uh some adversity uh with that so with all that thank you and thank everybody for getting done I appreciate it thank you Mr ree 6.

and we're very happy to say that we are hosting it here finally so that's some great news so thank you thank you Mr alen uh six 611 superintendent of schools Dr Terell thank you uh just a few things we're very excited this evening to have our first board meeting here in our new uh central office administration Center and uh just again as Ry has mentioned already um the staff and all the things that they endured and packing and unpacking and Mike molaski and his leadership we appreciate that as he got everything over here through some challenges um Mike will tell you he's moved a lot of offices and classrooms this summer and this was probably the most challenging just because of the amount of stuff that we have um also appreciate Dion and his team and their continued work here not just here but across our district seems like we've been doing this now for years um and we have and we continue to do so but we appreciate their continued work with all of that um want to recognize one thing I need to mention with Ry though and he mentioned the people at the front desk who were willing to put in there if you happen to stop by at the right time you may or may not have caught Mr AO with his uh headset on walking through the hall to go get a glass of water or to drop off paperwork uh yes welcome to Crownpoint schools how may I help you and uh using his radio voice that he uses for our our delays uh many times as well so he did a leadership by example and taking that time and I doubt you're going to find too many other Chief Human Resource officers across the state of Indiana or any other state who spent time wearing the headset at the front desk so Ry I appreciate you thank you um want to recognize Michelle bunch is here with CPA and um the amount of time that we were able to spend together with negotiations uh felt like we really uh have a great relationship with them I appreciate that Michelle and the leadership with your team thank you um last one and I don't know if you guys are you planing on hitting Athletics yes I got some of it and I think I'm going to I'm going to back off Athletics then all I'm going to say is our kids are amazing they're amazing in the drama Productions that are coming up at the high school and the middle school levels they're amazing at our Fine Arts and our Athletics as well so uh we've got some of the best to best including the car show and hoods up talking about cool engines uh at at the high school thank you thank you Dr Terrell uh item seven other board business just a quick reminder uh regional meeting at TBL November 8th if you haven't signed up Diana probably needs that yesterday if not before but I'm sure we can still get in do you have anybody's numbers on that Diana okay I I may have to bail myself I will let you know by the middle of this week yeah trust me that's not one I like to miss somebody get you car like four 14 pound bag of perch fillets or something anyway and a pound of butter to go with it maybe Dr CH doesn't enjoy the delicacy of The Purge that's okay uh any other board business from anyone this evening with that we'll move on to item eight board statements of appreciation and recognition Mr vaster I'd like to thank uh Mike and his staff for for all the work that they do you walk into this this brand new building and it's beautiful but I think when you walk into the other buildings you'll see them not equally as glistening but excellent so thank you Mike for the work that you guys do much much appreciated thank you Mr vassor Miss bason so at the end of last month I had the opportunity to attend the uh Indiana school board association annual conference down in Indianapolis so um it was a really great opportunity to kind of network meet other folks from around the state and and sit in on some uh little mini sessions that kind of applied to what we were interested in um but what I have to say was maybe the best little session that we sat in on was from our very own Miss Brooke she did an amazing job out of everything I sat in on and and I'm really not just plating because she's from cromo and she's ours but hers was by far the best that I sat on she gave very specific information for other districts who don't yet have a communications director um or trying to she even had a rubric to help them identify if they needed one and then gave very specifics for how to go about implementing and putting um putting it into process so she did a fantastic job she partnered with the communications director at Portage and together they were awesome and it really showed me how much um our our folks here in central office are collaborating with other local um corporations and even across the entire state so it was awesome to see thank you Brooke for that um and then thank you for the opportunity to attend in general and then as we hit Elementary uh parent teacher conference week I can say I've lived through that for seven years of being the teacher on that side so from the parents side and the Schoolboard side I appreciate all the teachers who are putting in extra work to prepare everything make sure they hit all the parents and and try to get that 100% goal um and then thank you for parents making time during your day taking off work to to make sure we hit that 100% goal as well thank you Miss Bas Mr babj anything seing I just would like to thank everybody that was involved with the negotiation process the officers of the um teachers union as well as the administrators that um that led uh that initiative from the school corporation standpoint um it's always I don't know how much um the officers are aware but we get updates of how things are going and everything um and and you've got a lot of advocates for for you guys up here on the board that's for sure so uh seems like a smooth process and that goes you know that speaks to your guys's leadership both uh in this building and with the teachers union as well so thank you thank you Mr babjack Mr Smith so I'm G to hit this one more time I just so everyone knows and understands it's Mary Poppins this year guys Mary Poppins how cool is that so really want to plug them and push them those tickets are going to sell quick so make sure you get your tickets going to cover some sports um hey we've had a lot of success so volleyball won the sectionals are they going on the Regionals have they played they played regionals lost in oh lost in the regional final to laort after being monster in the morning match all right so sectional final sectional Champions congratulations girl soccer won the Regionals so they're playing just lost in semi-state Saturday semi five so final four okay congratulations to them though that's awesome achievement um we have the cheer team andbody heard how they did this might be an old text they won their tournaments don't have the update on that we can bring that back for next meeting all right we have uh the boys tennis uh my son Sid Advanced the team did not but I'm going to recognize him so it's kind of unique to recognize your own son but he Advanced the Regionals and he played well and had a great career and a great season uh cross country I think lost in regionals they won sectionals lost in regionals they do have two Runners advancing uh I think to the state finals to run so Weston Huen and Jake meter congratulations to you guys and we're pulling for you this weekend and I assume Mr angel will clean up anything I missed sure thank you Mr Smith um I'll just the football update Dand conference Champs 9 and0 undefeated host Lafayette Jeff this Friday kickoff time difference 6:30 because the team's coming from outside our time zone so remember 6:30 kick this Friday and with that I'll give a special thanks out to the lake count Sheriff C Point Police that are going to make sure 231 is open on my way home so I can make it home from my kickoff with that I'll look for a motion to adjourn second motion by Miss bason second by Mr Smith all those in favor please signify by saying I I thank you very much have a good evening we're a journ

610 director of communications Mrs Allen thank you good evening um I have a couple of updates about videos um thank you to Mrs coven's class at MacArthur Elementary who hosted a few weeks ago to film our first super things video with superintendent Dr Terell um we were able to sit in on a class where students were using Matchbox cars to experiment with kinetic energy in collision and they used some really impressive vocabulary for fourth graders so that video will be um up on our YouTube channel tomorrow um we also just completed a safety series video um it's five videos and they each walk through a different component of school safety specific to our district terminology that we use different processes we have in place and plans that are there it's not always easy to talk about school safety in a way that is informative and not fearful so we were able to use a program that is an animation so it's more like moving infographic style and hopefully it's a good resource for families as they have questions about school safety and then finally um we have a coffee and conversation coming up on Tuesday next week Tuesday the 31st at 9:00 a.m.

um come we're invited is the Public's invited to come learn important safety tips for trick-or-treating there's candy for the kids and other food trucks food trucks Halloween games and ant cars there's there's cars there's um emergency vehicles there's a helicopter the last time I went so it's it's very exciting it's a really fun place to go thank you that concludes my report I will now move to 10.02 town of Gilbert Le is on Mrs Pig yes thank you president wood um I had an opportunity to meet with council member caasi this last week um along with I brought along Rod Houston the director of community relations and we had a fantastic meeting talking about how Community engagement through the town of Gilbert and um in direct regards to Gilbert Public Schools could go forward we've just started this conversation and so we look forward to to having future conversations with involving the town of Gilbert and Community engagement within our district um so I'd like to thank council member caasi for that and I also want to thank her for her support on our bond we had a long conversation about that and she was given the relevant information about it and so want to thank her for that and that's all I have to report thank you thank you Mrs Paige 10.03 Gilbert Education Foundation and audit committee Mrs humph so um we had the cornhole tournament last month right I think it was Thursday after our board meeting which was very successful and I think um everyone who attended had a great time and it was a good fundraiser also the Gilbert Education Foundation completed the power of one campaign and raised over $35,000 and that will go toward WS classroom grants so their their unite Gilbert unit's campaign kicks off on Monday October 16th that's for our staff and it helps raise money for the shame program reaching hands and the Valley of the Sun United Way and then our classroom Innovation grants applications open up on Monday October 16th so they're already open and those applications close on November 13th um the notifications will go out December 14th and funding will start after the holiday break so we would love teach ERS to come up with their ideas and and put in for a grant application and then the next Business Leaders breakfast will be Wednesday November 1st at 8:00 a.m.

we will be holding a tiff 101 meeting that's going to be slightly different and very factual um in the merrywood community center thank you that concludes our public comment thank you very much thank you to everybody that came and spoke today I'd like to invite our BPS Partners up uh Todd Swanson welcome back we missed you last month but he did a good job filling in for you good evening everyone um I find it kind of ironic I'm standing by this sign that says always learning and always growing so before I even started my comments I just wanted to say thank you to everyone that came to educate me and the people sitting in this room and everybody listening and watching online about Tiff districts I learned more about Tiff District in 25 minutes than uh I think I have ever known about them so thank you for coming to speak and to help us all learn and grow so that was really appreciated uh tonight I'd like to begin by continuing to focus on our district accomplishments last month I shared some news that our art department at BHS was one of three schools in the state to receive the school of the distinction designation by the Illinois art educator Association and as we just celebrated at the beginning of our meeting tonight we have yet another Illinois art educator of the year as one of our district colleagues in Kathleen Terry ton in a span of just five years we as a district have our second Statewide art educator of the year for the entire state of Illinois on our staff in 2018 Don zulis also received this prestigious recognition and recognition of our BPS staff for an art educator of the Year other accomplishments our bavia marching band competed in the State marching band competition last weekend at ISU and placed second overall in class 2A was awarded best visual and this marks the highest placement in this class in our school's history it also marked the second 6ity year for the bavia marching band to be selected for the State final in the finals this year bavia marching band placed 11th which is the highest placement in the school's history this caps off a season with many awards and recognitions in other competitions with the band placing first or second repeatedly our football team is yet again Conference champions and is poised to make a deep playoff run the fall sports teams of soccer volleyball cross country tennis golf and cheer are all winding down their seasons and to all of our students and all of our staff in every one of these are that I mentioned who contribute to every win and grow from every defeat thank you for making our fall Sports season memorable leaving behind Sports and Fine Arts for a second I'd like to spend a moment on academic recognitions coming up in the consent agenda you'll see the Illinois school report card and in all of its data you will also see that each one of our BPS schools received a commendable or exemplary designation on the 2023 school report card this accomplishment comes on the the shoulders of all of our District employees But ultimately it's at the hands of our students who apply what they've learned in their classrooms receiving commendable status are Louise White Grace MCW JB Nelson Rola middle school and bavia high school this level is reached when there are no underperforming student subgroups but they're not quite in the top 10% of the schools in the state however we did have three of our elementary schools break into the top 10% of school in the state this year and received exemplary status congratulations to Alice gusterson HC Storm and Hoover wood for receiving this recognition an interesting piece of information I learned as I dug a little bit deeper into that data was that our top three performing schools in the district also had the three lowest average class sizes in the district ranging from 19 to 21 students per class these three schools had the highest percentage of students who met expectations for growth and Readiness on the I state test as a board I think that is extremely valuable information for you to have and to ponder as we move forward in planning for the future the Bea is also working very closely with Tom to get our Equity committee up and running this year as they have their first meeting scheduled on November 9th Tom and Amber jersa are the co-chairs this year and we are looking forward to using Tom's message from opening day of inclusivity to be the lens the committee operates under this year we're also excited to have Danielle be the board rep on the committee this year I'm really looking forward to some amazing things to come from our reinvigorated and refocused Equity committee with all this great news does this mean that it's always sunshine and roses with everything in our district of course not we are continuing to work with District admin on curriculum issues at the elementary level and Staffing across the district as we continue to seek out the wise of decisions to help with with understanding and transparency that's one thing I'm most proud of my members for doing continuing to seek out the why for a decision that has been made that doesn't mean we have to agree with the decision but at least we will know what led to the decision the other piece that would be help tremendous or this is the other piece that would help tremendously and Clarity and buy in is to be a part of the discussion even from the beginning as you heard earlier from our reading specialist we are a district filled with experts in our field fields we are just shy of 34s of our Educators holding a master's degree or higher problem solving together as admin and Educators experts at the front end makes transparency and byend even higher on the back end working together from the beginning builds a lot more trust and provides better communication and transparency than coming in after a decision is made and dealing with the Fallout to clarify and figure out a path forward as always I would personally welcome any questions that that you as board members might have if you heard something tonight that is stuck with you which I hope that it has I look forward to any conversations that we may have together as always as well I thank you all for your service as a board for your work on District committees and to those of you that have been able to connect with staff in your school Liaisons Educators really do appreciate seeing you and having a chance to talk with you when you come out into our buildings with that I'm going to say Enjoy your last few days of October and have a happy and safe Halloween thank Youk you Todd next I would like to invite up Laura for Besa please hi everybody I'm Laura versillo from Besa and I am the board's treasur and um I'm not sure if you're from familiar but every board meeting we've been uh coming here and talking about besta employee I think it's important um we have wonderful teachers but we also have wonderful support staff and it would be nice for you to know just a little bit about um each member and if you look at the slide Besa the first one here we feel the PPA we're the branches of the educational tree so just remember this because later it's all going to make sense not today but it will so just so you know what we did is we sent our besta members just kind of a questioner to get this started so when I'm reading these stories this is where they're coming from we just asked you know simple light questions how long have you worked at BPS um did you work at any different schools did you have different titles are you a bavia resident tell us about your family your hobbies um why do you work here and what do you like about working at BPS what's your best memory working day and what is something about your job or about you that is unknown um if you could change one thing about your job what would it be and then I just said you know be um happy to fill in whatever else you want to include so today I am um I have the honor of introducing Nikki shindle back and Nikki is a dedicated lunch recess supervisor SL campus monitor at Louise White School Nikki's Journey with the school spans eight years and her story is one of dedication and commitment to the well-being of our students Nikki embarked on this path when her youngest daughter started first grade after years of being a stay-at-home mom she was seeking an opportunity that would enable her to return to work while accommodating her children's school and activity schedules she knew she wasn't going to go back to being a high school math teacher after starting her family a friend pointed her towards this role affirming that Nikki's natural affinity for working with kids and her desire to be present for her two daughters at school made a perfect fit Nikki's personal life is filled with joy and respect responsibility she's been happily married for 21 years raising three wonderful children in the savannah division in Aurora Jason her 18-year-old son is currently attending wanzi Community College while her daughter's Madison 16 years old uh bavia High School Jr and Mason 13 years old at rotello 8th grade keep her busy with activities especially Scouts in Spirit Week crazy ha day and Halloween in her free time Nikki enjoys crafting reading gardening and exploring new places the reason Nikki continues to work at Louise White school is she cherishes the interactions with the children Benny of who she's come to know and who recognize her the relationships with her colleagues and the flexibility that fits perfectly with her schedule are added bonuses not to mention the ability to see her girls when they attended at Louise White the memory she's created by being a part of their Elementary school years are truly special in Nikki's role as a lunch recess supervisor campus monitor every day is an adventure it's a dynamic role that's never the same presenting new challenges and surprises some days go by smoothly while other days are filled with incidents like spills resolving disputes among friends addressing injuries and ensuring students leave with their belongings left behind in an orderly manner however Nikki does emphasize that there is some room for improvement as a lunch recess supervisor campus monitor they often face situations where some training and guidelines could prove incredibly beneficial they haven't received any training for emergency situations like fire alarms or tornado drills leaving them to rely on their Common Sense furthermore more they would greatly benefit from first aid choking and seizure training especially since they interact with the children daily Nikki's experience as a high school teacher and mother have informed her approach but dealing with elementary students that are not her own requires a unique set of skills in conclusion Nikki schindelbeck is not just a lunch recess supervisor campus she's a dedicated mother an enthusiast itic Scout leader and a valued member of our school Community her commitment to her role and her love for the children are evident in her everyday efforts as she continues to contribute to the students launch and recess time she also highlights the need for improvements that would not only benefit her but also make this role more attractive for other parents who may consider joining our team thank you for your dedication Nikki thank you thank you and next are our student ambassadors you guys are hiding in the back hi guys I'm Jer and cesara and these are some updates from BET High School okay so this month the girls wrestling team are starting off strong with a lot of committed members athletes um we also have Eco club uh creating a bat race uh festival for this Halloween I know some members who are really excited for that next weekend and for some success the girls tennis um qualified for States and they're ending the season strong and speaking of like additional clubs this year we have um M un um which me and Zara actually went today and the meeting Ended as a success and with future plans and like committed members as well and start uh talking about things that's starting up this year is um mentoring program which allows high school students to team up with the elementary schools to help build connections between the high school students and the elementary students and I'm one of the mentors that's in that program and I cannot stress enough how much like this really like like builds connection between the high school students and Elementary School students it helps build like fun and authentic relationships I'm like really excited for it it's something I look up to you every year all right and for some other successes we have um choir put on a great performance for their October concert and uh to reiterate football had a great season and the band cheer and dance all put on a great show and they have their first run of playoffs this Friday which is really exciting and volleyball also is fired up with their season and they recently won their first Regional playoffs so that was super exciting and they're actually playing against Bennett right now I believe and um like mentioned before the art programs at the high school have been getting some great recognition along with the teachers who have been doing some amazing work I can say cuz I just finished my 3D art class and it was amazing and shout out to miss tyri who won the secondary art educator um of the year that's amazing amazing work done by the teachers and also wanted to highlight a new uh program set up by the BHS counselors It's called the scholarship series and I'm really appreciative of this I went to the other event and they kind of educate students and parents on like different financial aid and scholarships that students can get access to so it's a really great thing that they have on and they have more programs coming up and as mentioned before we went to the model un meeting today actually and they're tackling different world issues and and kind of giving students the leadership skills they need to go forward so overall a lot of great things happening thank you thank you thank you okay next is board the aison committee updates are there any committee updates I have an update okay get my notes pulled up here does anyone else have one they can I can just go real quick I go um don't everybody jump at one mine real quick we just um beefy meets actually Thursday but today this afternoon we had a little Branch off of Hall of Honor um which has been on Hiatus for the last year or so and beefy has taken overhaul of Honor which they originally started it but um so we've gotten our committee together and we're starting to talk about it so it will be back for next year so we're working on that great thank you do you want to go M I have two that are kind of I'll go I got it pulled up here so the insurance and benefits committee met on October 12th I was able to attend virtually get a good discussion Josh does a nice job summarizing our discussion so what we discussed was the Open Enrollment presentations that uh were sent out to staff um and kind of a preview of what we we will be sending out we reviewed the CHC participation data which is up from last year um we looked at an overview of what's in driving Insurance costs in the district and we looked at a lot of different metrics we have a great tool where we can really do super fine detailed analysis of what's driving cost so what we're sort of working on for the next one is working on creating a quarterly standard of data review so we can kind of simplify things we can see how we're doing that's what we talked about do you have another one or that's it that's it okay perfect okay um first uh the stiping committee um so just to re iterate remind everyone the stiping committee is a group that helps uh maintain guidelines and make decisions on uh student clubs and activities there's a set aside amount of monetary funds for these groups and um there's members that decide which groups are going to receive funds for this so as you could if you just hear that like that it sounds like oh that could be pretty messed up um so if I could explain it best over the past year it's as if we had leaves everywhere you know know fall fall theme we had leaves everywhere and they raked it all up this this committee did a really good job over the past year they put a lot of work into it um so first I want to recognize all the members because they've they've really worked hard they were working um over the summer off their you know regular school hours as well so Steve if you can help me really quick because I'm just realizing now that I haven't said a lot of these people's last names um so how do you pronounce Shelby's last name gages so Shelby gages is one of the co-chairs with Steve and then Keith oth Keith oth and Adam Lester are two members that represent Roto then there's Chris milka and Diane kissper who represent Elementary and there's Justin nson and Brian Gamblin that represent vavia High School correct okay I'll say as a side note because my students go to um HD storm Mr milka's there Chris milka he takes extraordinary notes I mean I don't they're just they're amazing if you guys ever want to see them I'll be happy to show them to you they're colorcoded everything um it's true so the stip in the stip in process and I've heard this from other other um from students parents the sing process was kind of a little unorganized over the past couple years there was paper applications there was online applications there were applications that were getting out of date um people weren't sure what the criteria was for getting chosen for the stip in um the committee uh just sent out right before the meeting started Steve sent out a message to all the BPS colleagues um explaining the timeline a very nice well-written timeline um for when processes are due when the decisions were going to be made and they also came up with um values to guide their decisions and making so they have a clearly defined system um they're worried about equity and access for all students at all levels that's why we have two members from each different grade level there at the meetings um the stiens are going to be centered on activities outside of professional duties and the stiens are going to be fair equ and Equitable to all staff and buildings besides the student students at all levels so the email just came out all the BPS 101 colleagues will be seeing it whenever they're checking their email um and I just it was just great so I just want to recognize that that's what happened so they made a lot of progress um we're going to start rolling with with new decisions um in the next couple months here with the the new timeline that they proposed anything you want to add no you said it very well okay a lot of good work all right um and then my other update is with Fox Valley Career Center um in May there in May of 2023 the the fvcc was a recipient of a fire apparatus driving simulator actually from the city of bavia fire department so something for us to be proud of because if you don't know Fox Valley is associated with a lot of other schools in the area not just bavia uh so the fire science students and staff actually travel to bavia to pick up this machine and bring it back to the school do you happen to have a a picture that um the the picture to put up there know s did you have that I'm sorry I thought that I had sent that over to you let me send that really quick because that send it to me RJ okay Twitter account that was over there yeah okay okay so Holly I'll send it over to you and I'll continue to talk about it I just wanted everyone to see the machine so it's the machine is on the first email of that chain the first the first email that chain and um I'll send you another picture as well that I want you to share so essentially this is a machine that is going to go a long way to helping the fire science students um it meets it helps meet a lot of the requirements for Illinois standards as you can see it's almost like um you might have seen a any type of driving similar like an airplane similar so this is what it's like for them to be driving a uh fire truck um the the students actually had to take this apart and put it back together so Not only was it a challenge to get and they were happy to get it but um the the uh principal over there wanted me recognized Evan C uh he's one of the students who put a lot of time and effort into actually getting this up for the fire science program so thank you to Evan c um and let's see I just want to make sure I got this and then if you got the other um did you see the other one that I sent um just want to note that that uh our very own superintendent was able to go there and drive an old airport fire truck I don't know if you were sharing that but I wanted to share the photos of as well everyone just eats into my comments so that's all right you're joining time oh do you have the picture of it yourself no I was going to talk about my visit that's sorry you're taking care of it to took half my statements you're oh he shared that with you oh God so it's nice to see that you're getting your hands dirty know what the students are going through so that's it any question keep that up for the rest of the meeting you'd rather see that than the [Laughter] agenda just kidding all right thanks um Raquel go ahead and for the all right joint committee meeting effectively so capital gains or I'm sorry Capital project and rack um combined and we actually had two meetings uh prior to this one so our first one was on 928 uh basically they just were talking about the 2024 projects for the summer um and then uh not to steal anyone's Thunder sorry Mark but um there is basically going to go with a for the next few years they want to do a warm safe and dry that's going to be their main focus for the next uh Five Years on their projects um also they talked a little bit about uh the food service and the HB 2471 Bill about healthy meals for all um and they're going to send out a survey um to parents and kids um just talking about what type of lunch they have there's like a couple options so we meet that criteria for the uh that Senate bill um and then um in the last meeting uh they talked more about um The Five-Year Plan and uh um we have some contracts are going to be renewed like buses um our energy costs they're trying to work with those and then also accommodating for full day kindergarten and then they went more in depthly into like the actual years on what they are want to do for the schools and the costs and the projects and they kind of like broke it out so that basically it okay anyone else Rob um I guess I'll just mention I we did have a curriculum committee meeting uh unfortunately I was not able to attend I was out of town uh during that meeting but uh I did receive the the notes and the feedback and it looks like they started um reviewing some of the subject area leadership uh Team charters for sign science Ela social studies and essential programming um grades three through 3 through 12 um so that that started um leans was also picked for those subject area leadership teams um to help with communication so um so those were the notes coming back from that meeting great thank you in case everybody hadn't noticed that if I'm still in your thunder I apologize in advance um that the committee is kind of where there's a lot of reorganization ation and a lot of relook and that came out of kind of con constructed dialogue working with the teachers and staff so I appreciate all the hard work from all the teachers and staff and everybody else to really try to pull this together as the new year is starting and get here to be able to kind of talk about that and I'm excited for the opportunities that are going to come from those revisions and changes so thank you for that all right consent agenda so according to our board policy we designate a portion of the agenda as a consent agenda for those items that usually do not require extensive discussion before board action these items generally are retuned recurring and can be grouped together for efficiency Steve as usual would you like to share anything before we take action no I have nothing to share No Beyond this uh consent agenda okay you ready yep 5.1 approval of the September 19th 2023 meeting minutes 5.2 is our monthly Personnel report 5.3 is our monthly uh payroll and bills 5.4 is the destruction of our close session recordings from April 19th 2022 uh 5.5 we have several uh donations a lot of them very considerable we're definitely grateful to uh DM Hendrickson of cier City Florida bavia Arts Council and then considerable donations from beefy Are Much appreciated uh 5.6 is the uh authorized the application for our school maintenance project Grant 5.7 is our school report card uh 5.8 is the BHS overnight field trip approval 5.9 is the authorization to begin development of our budg approval of this consent agenda does anyone have any questions or comments yes I have questions okay so on the Personnel report I'm just curious how the incentive program is going um because I see the only thing that I see on there right is that there is three Paras that resigned and then um three Paras that were hired within that time frame so just how is it going uh ironically we had a meeting with um our besta uh leadership tonight and they asked the same question so they pre me in advance um unfortunately I'm I'm I guess I'm sharing that we have not seen great success with that um having said that I just got an email uh tonight or this this evening um from a uh staff member with a potential lead so I'm hopeful that that works out but to date um I can't I have to say that we have not seen any success uh with the incentive program um but we still got like a month left so um with the eight FMLA the staff is that going to impact us too I'm sorry with this the FMLA the eight staff that going to be an FMLA like do we have to replace all of them or I mean you know or they just kind I know like there was an intermittent FMLA so yeah it depends um it depends on what the FMLA leave is is uh like and what it constitutes um with intermittent FMLA I would I would share with you that interm intermittent FMLA is usually used for uh situations that may be fluid or a little bit unpredictable as an example um maybe a staff member has a loved one that has been diagnosed with cancer and a treatment plan is being developed and um if you've ever had a family member that's dealt with cancer uh there's a lot of unpredictabilities um they may have uh chemotherapy or radiation on Tuesday and after that treatment you know you may have to drive them to and from and be there to support them on that Tuesday and you might be able to come back on Wednesday but maybe um they don't feel so well after that after that treatment and the staff member has to take an additional day off and so what intermittent FMLA uh does and how we cover it generally speaking would be with our uh very very valuable um building subs or with a substitute teacher um the there's other FML in there that maybe are um uh longer in nature or excuse me maybe more uh uh consistent in nature where someone is out for a significant period of time maybe they've had a child maybe they're having a procedure um something along those lines and again depending on the length of it the uh people that we can hire sometimes we hire to replace that um a short-term person for five weeks six weeks eight weeks um or sometimes we again utilize our building sub so it really depends um I would say that FMLA is a uh an important um process to provide our staff some flexibility to deal with some very difficult situations but I would also say that um it's not a one siiz fits-all it's pretty complicated and complex um and it it's really individualized uh uh for each person recel I'm sorry I was just gonna say I noticed the two that caught my attention I don't know if you saw only there's four of them that are less than a month long and and then three are intermittent so I was assuming that we wouldn't replace for less than a month I mean we probably it it it all depends because you're not going to go through a uh when again it depends on the FMLA if we have for warning then maybe we would go to try find somebody for a short term but if we find out on Tuesday night that a person is going to be out for four weeks starting the following day probably not time to go find a brand new person unless we have a connection with somebody a lot of times we have a lot of cons assistant substitutes in our buildings um that know the building they know the staff they know the students um and those people fill that void for some of those more shortterm two weeks three weeks four weeks that might be it too it just depends so I know this will probably not be liked but I know that besta has a little over a year in their contract and maybe we need to kind of look at opening it up and what needs to happen for that um I just think it's something that we need to look at because seems like we're losing more than we're gaining I'm sorry oh I just said I know that besta has a little more than a year left on their contract and it might be something that we want to look into opening back up um because I know I think like we're losing more than we're gaining like they can go down the road and get what $2 more oh yeah oh yeah so then um going going back to the um the the bills and pays um I just have one and I still I didn't I'm sorry if I missed it Tony but I didn't know there was a mohawk again for the 11,000 and I don't know what the Mohawk is yeah Mohawk page 71 um it says Mohawk USA Education I just didn't know what it was again I don't know what that is I does it say what next to I come up again and then um so going to the report card I just have a couple questions is for science I just we why is there a higher participation rate for ELA than science do we not give it to everybody is that what that is or like because like math and Ela had a 99% participation rate where science had 77% I was just curious we only give it to um I'm not entirely sure but I also need to make sure that the board is aware as say stated in the memo that the report card link that's provided to you is where we house the report card that data is actually under embargo by is it's not going to be released and updated until October 30th okay so what's currently up on our on our website is um reflective of the previous two years ago oh two years I saw they work in our so on October 27th is be will take be taking down all live and active report cards updating them over the weekend and then then on the 30th they will be released and that's why we're coming to you for permission to release it once ISB has updated the report cards and it goes live and then our technology team will update our our uh link to reflect where the report card data so this one so I'm sorry so this one is live now or it's going to go live on after October 30th okay we're just authorizing them to release the information okay it's a bit of a technicality of the the board has to do oh okay yeah we're required to get your vote of consent I see so that then once the state makes all those links live we can actually publish it oh okay so everybody knows that you'll be able to view it very soon but we're just authorizing the district to release that information I think it could be made more clear in the memo but it says the upcoming 2023 report cards they're not they're not there yet okay so the report cards always work in a year a so so when you see the new updated report card it's a fiscal year 23 that's it okay thank you R any other questions okay I will entertain a motion to approve the consent to agenda as present so moved second so moved by Ain second by Sue all in favor I thank you Tom is there anything to share this evening under reports um yeah so we'll just go ahead and go down the line um under 6.1 board the foyer requests are presented to you as as responded to okay questions okay uh moving then to 6.2 under Treasures report I'll turn it over to Tony if there's anything to add for nothing out of the ordinary to present here uh under Section 6.3 you see the draft for the 2425 school calendar we just wanted to get that in front of the board for review uh Dr new newerk and the union have met and Dr newerk has also met with leadership and other constituents to make sure um we made adjustments that would appropriately Fit For What the draft calendar needs to look like um keeping in mind that the um Governor has reinstituted the mandatory no day of school on November 10th for our election no I'm sorry I'm using Veterans Day weekend sorry November 4th I believe it is for our our voting day so for the state 5th November 5th just thanks for looking out Steve um so November 5th so anyway so that's what built in we did have a draft we had to make an adjustment once that came out and then so um you have a month preview we wanted to present it to you and the public and then we'll have a vote at next month's meeting okay right we have and then the next item is actually uh board member lock under delegate assembly is there any discussion there um no I just wanted to point out that everyone at their seat has um the information for the delegates for triple meeting read through them if you have any comments you can go ahead and email me your yeah just so just so everyone's aware Sue is volunteered to be the delegate sort of volunteer told yeah cuz I'm the only one willing to get up in the morning and go I think that's what it was um and so that's a part of kind of the triple I session and school board members and others get together to kind of feel like they should kind of Lobby for or against at a state level so and don't put too much weight into this because it's not actually making decisions or acting anything it's just stating a position on various um uh educationally related topics yeah okay any questions for Sue please feel free to give her any information that you have or opin meeting on next month not not this meeting but the confence that meeting yeah okay board policy okay board policy um so this is a first read for the Board of Education um I would like to note and give some thanks and appreciation to uh Rob and Danielle for meeting with me we spent time looking over all the policy review that you're seeing here tonight um we walked through them um Rob are you comfortable if I just kind of run through it and if you want just jump in jump in right okay so uh we reviewed policies the the first set of policies you'll notice um let me back up we subscribe to press which is a service of the Illinois Association of school boards this is a um a service that is provided to hundreds of school districts in the state of Illinois um the policy review process is reviewed reviewed and vetted by a team of attorneys through their Association that focus on school law and they maintain and track how to continually update what school board policy manuals should look like as the state of Illinois passes new legislation impacting schools right so what you'll see in our board policy manuals um or specifically on board policies are typically like footnotes and legal references in addition to the bulk main language the core language of a board policy um what you see under policies uh two colon 080 2on 170 4 colon 045 and 4 colon 100 along with policies 7 colon 275 7 colon 305 7 colon 330 8 colon 025 and 8 colon 095 you'll notice that under those specific policies I reviewed them with both Rob and Danielle and then in those policies they they are just updating legal references cross references as new um case law might have come and been decided upon then they will go ahead and update those things but if you look at the policy itself that's in your board book none of the language was substantially change changed at all in the policy Sometimes some of those M minor changes they're actually cleaning up a typo they may have caught that was not caught in the past they clean it up but it is a change to policy so you have to review it and then approve it okay um the ones that will'll spend just a little more more time looking at more closely um so the policies I just read to you that's exactly what's happening nothing substantial in in the actual policy itself is changing and and I don't know if are you good with that okay um then if you take a look at board policy 5230 talking about maintaining student discipline um the following four policies that um the board is going to be reviewing over the next month are four policies that do not C currently aligned to the Press manual and some of these are um policies that have not been updated in years um so what you see before you is a recommendation to approve the Rewritten policies as presented by press which would bring us aligned in into alignment with current best practice and advised practice by our uh legally reviewed Services through iasb um so under um 5230 you'll see there's a reconstruction of some of the language in um from what our current board policy is to what we're recommending and some of it in terms of the language that we're asking you to adopt will remove language that's in the current policy under student um maintaining student discipline however that language can be found in other areas of our board manual such as section six so some of the language there is not being lost it's just simply cleaning up this particular policy as recommended by the uh press group okay um under uh policy 6 col 010 um same thing our educational philosophy policy is not aligned to what is currently in press press is actually providing us with a much more robust policy format as you note in in the attachment um and what's nice is a lot of the review areas are covered by the very committees that you as board members just reviewed that you participate in so like curricular things might go through CAC things regarding facilities might go through rack Etc right or even matters regarding inclusion and Equity that might go through our Equity committee at this point too as point of discussion okay do I have any questions so far awesome um the third one uh policy 6190 so at the moment we would also recommend this change um there will be a a major overhaul by going to this policy this has not been uh updated in six years and so we felt that it'd be necessary at the moment to go ahead and and move towards the Press policy language on extracurricular activities all right byar um and then the final one on student travel we are recommending to adopt policy 6240 uh in particular I do want the board to uh be aware of the fact that we currently have this policy under Section 7 as policy 7320 uh we are recommending that that policy stay there and that we allow ourselves to work through that because that is currently the existing policy there are some things there that we use as part of our protocols in the district when it comes to student travel and field trips but we have nothing under Section six so we are recommending that we adopt section six's uh policy that was recommended by press and then we will work to align section s's policy and then at a later date present that to the board so press is is six hours the press's policy yes so this is where it gets a little tricky right um so the policy we're asking you to approve is 6240 or review for next month approval is 6240 we have a policy already in place that is similar to the language and spirit of this policy but it resides under Section seven right now is the is it is a suggestion to move it to a different section specifically or is there a large difference in no so this is a policy that hasn't been updated in five years currently since we don't have anything under Section six we're trying to make an effort to kind of bring ourselves back to what is being recommended as best practice for our board policy manual um this had some iterations of some homegrown language into it which we wanted that's why before we undo anything in this particular policy you know what I mean like no good deed goes unpunished you know if we were to change something there and and being the new person here um I don't want to accidentally undo something that was intended in good spirit but then all of a sudden we're like tomm you just eliminated that policy with the board so it's like we want you know we're going to take time in understanding that one and make sure we dig into any of the uh edits and changes on that but the policy under Section six would work for everything that our district needs to do so there's updates on these you know five years is that because laws change or just that's primarily what driving most of this right yeah or case law or something that has caused it's not like we have an inherently bad policy it's just the law no and then like this one 7320 this is just one of those cases where some additional language was added and then modified into it so I want to make sure that we're we are bringing ourselves to you know some of our better pract strong practices that are being recommended with updates but I want to understand also what some of this language uh what we want to tweak to make sure it matches then what we're philosophically pursuing yeah and it happens like you said with some regularity and I think two years ago when I did this with um former superintendent it was like 800 Pages worth of review it was monstrous at that time we used to have a whole committee yeah yeah so yeah the last uh as you know I mean last uh three to five years has seen the most educational impacting bills passed through legislation at the state in Springfield in the state's history impacting schools so it's it's uh a lot of districts are trying to keep up with all the changes and updates okay thank you can I ask a question or a favor maybe yeah and it's just me maybe it was done this way before but like I know there's the link down here below the PDF but is there some way we could have a link like I'm looking at parental involvement involvement 8095 could we have a link on that where I just click and get it takes me to the I think I hate change yeah I think that's how it used to be and I could just click on that and it's easier for me to does that make sense yep so if this table that's in the board book up here on the agenda had hot links live links to those actual policies is what you're saying yes okay right I mean problem it's not that I can't go down but then I have to scroll down the whole thing and the one that I'm looking for for which what I'm probably going to end up doing is printing out the whole thing anyways but while I'm going through it I can just click on the one I want to no problem does that make sense yep it's just I think it's easier okay okay maybe not well uh we can certainly do that no problem thanks Sue um you all right so if there's no other questions on that uh we will if you do have questions in the meantime between now and the next board meeting please do not hesitate to contact me I'm more than happy to spend time talking to you through anything or Robin Danielle um I think they have a really good understanding of it after we talked for almost two hours right so um yeah we did have a lot of that yes um all right so then the final item under reports um is our capital projects plan report and um Tony are you good to go at this time if I turn it over to you sure I'm going to invite Mark to the podium as well so I'll kind of kick things off and the intention here is to have a discussion uh not necessarily simply a presentation there are two components to this plan and the first are the projects that we've identified for work in this fiscal year which is fiscal year 24 work that we would that would take place this this summer you'll notice that this is a report we're not asking necessarily for your approval but we are asking for your asent that we're going to start planning for these projects this summer and so the next component of that though are the the warm safe and dry components that we've identified as being post referendum what we need to do to keep our schools warm safe and dry in the Years Beyond but first we want to start talking about what needs what we believe needs to happen at uh in particular the high school this summer and that would be uh replacing the weight room floor as a matter of fact that would wouldn't happen this summer because it it would actually happen over winter break yeah because uh that floor has deteriorated rapidly deteriorated rapidly and um it needs needs repair and then the other work would happen during the summer so I'll let Mark talk about those but then we'll come back to the warm safe and dry components ler as Tony mentioned the Wai room floor the board um already passed that last month in action um the next two are mainly focused on the Fieldhouse and the Fine Arts Center and basically with those two I'm going to start in the exterior first um it's really maintenance that's needing to be done um they are starting to show their age we're getting to the point where it's 13 years old now um some general maintenance that has to be done um obviously it's a little bit different than your house but it's very similar to your house um you have to do maintenance in your house this is just maintenance when you get to the field or the Fine Art Center they have 45t pre-cast walls it's a little bit different a little bit different equipment that's needed um and this is actually great thank you for queuing pictures so um there's some pictures up here on the screen uh this is looking at the Fieldhouse one of the overhead doors and you can see there's some really what you're seeing right there is some discoloration but if you look a little bit closer um you're starting to see some cracks in the walls um things that need to be filled um part of this will be painting as well and you can just kind of flip through and I'll let you know when to stop since I'm not controlling this thank you Holly um we're still the Fieldhouse so some more pictures you can kind of see that diagonal crack going up that's going to be filled um and sanded and then it will be painted just some more gutters are involved in this as well um that's one of the down spouts this is as you're seeing the stained this would be on the north side of the building you're seeing a little bit of stained concrete this is from where water is dripping from the seams now when it's like this it's not that big of a deal it's 70° but when you get those mornings that um are about you know 30° 25° that freezes so we're constantly putting salt on that so that's definitely causing a slip Hazard this is looking at the FI um um BAC Fine Art Center so if I say BAC it's just that is bavia fine art center most of you know that but I might say that more than once um this is looking at it at its Western exposure just kind of an overview that's right I threw this in so you know it's aavia fin art um this one's just getting into more of the cracks this is up close on that 45 foot pre-cast wall again a lot of you know it really only is the stripes are one color and the rest of it one color right now you're seeing more than one color because of the different fading and this is facing the West so it definitely gets that Western Sun this is an expansion joint right here as you can see now it's for the most part has done its job but I show this picture because if you're on the inside which I could not it's not was not easy to try to get an inside picture of you can see daylight um it's very difficult I mean I could have but I wasn't I'm taking that chance to get that picture but you you can see daylight from the inside on this one so this is starting to cause some issues is that beef or is that the that's be so basically Su from the stage kind of in the if you're facing the back of the stage in the upper leftand corner is there a lot of moisture coming in there then or no there's not a lot of moisture I mean it's when I say daylight I mean it's very little it's not like you're opening your window and seeing daylight but that caul is your only correct difference between you and the outside yeah so can continue okay now the next part is with this since we are doing extensive work outside we're also looking inside the Fieldhouse um again same age this is just a picture of one of the um protective wall mats um again it's um showing its age and needs to have some updates light lighting is another one that will be in this so these are original fixtures um they were upgraded to LED tubes two almost three years ago now um we had a the engineers come in and do a measure of light so they measure in foot candles and currently in the Fieldhouse right now we're at 17 foot candles we should be at 50 foot candles um so that is a pretty significant difference and if you're at the high school that difference is when you go from the gyms into the Fieldhouse so if you happen to be there because the um the gyms we did update that lighting it's three years ago now um picture right here is of the floor um the floor is basically the life of this floor they say is 10 to 15 years so we're kind of right in that middle um and it is definitely showing signs that it needs to be replaced um you can just kind of there's quite a few in here Holly oh that's right the other one is this is what's called a Copa so what a koopa's job is to do is basically it's what's vents the air so before we had Cooling in there it was a way to draw in outside air and exhaust the air out so when you just kind of really in your house same thing you're bringing air in and then you're bringing it out the bottom part of this is a pan that really catches the water because it's open well kind of but it's open outside so when we get a heavy rain and it blows from the south or west it drains down there or melting of snow these were not designed large enough So the plan is to replace those to a larger footprint so it holds more water and literally then evaporates water that's the design of the cupas so there's five of these the two that are on the Far West End of the fuel house leak onto the floor and one of them happens to be right in the middle of one of the basketball courts so that has caused issues over the well a few years now again some other pictures of the floor you can start see just the discoloration of the floor and really in this floor it's um it's also holding a little bit of dirt and that's really been from years ago when it was originally um installed and cleaned you can see in some of these pictures some of the line lines are fading and this is also a picture of just another example of the light lights so really what's happening to these some of these lights if you look at it it's a like the bulbs above you um the whole bulb should be lit these are starting to burn out in almost quarter sections at a time replacing the whole thing or the the whole fixture yep The Proposal will be to in place the entire fixture and it's more protected um fixture so unfortunately you know those are sometimes targets let's kick the ball and see if we can hit the lights but the the lights that are being proposed to be put in are really meant for that space and really I didn't get a great picture because we have all the cages that are kind of strapped up now some with zip ties but all of the clips are breaking and um things like that it was that it okay so this work would take place this summer and it makes sense to do this all at once because we're going to come in and do the Fieldhouse floor obviously we're going to have to shut down that facility for several weeks to do that and we may as well take care of the lighting and the other issues at the same time um because that space is used every day most of the day all day long one of the reasons why the foot candles are as dim in that space as they are is cuz those lights they're pretty much always on yeah so those lights can be controlled um so we can turn them on and off and I just got a request was probably two weeks ago they come on at 6 a.m.

I'd like to welcome everyone to our regular board meeting it's Tuesday October 24th 2023 at 6 p.m. thank you to those who are joining us here and to those who are watching live or recorded we appreciate it I will call this meeting to order and then we will have a moment of silence and if you will join me in Remembering we had two students who passed away this month Maddie cross and Ryland pogy in an accident from Gilbert High School and mosquite High School as well as two of our transportation department employees Conrad Stucky and Fay Eisen if you will join with me in remembering them in our moment of silence which will then follow be followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by Mrs Paige I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice thank you so much I will now ask M Wilson to call the RO Please Mr Chad Thompson here Miss Lori wood here miss Ronda Pig here Miss Sheila ug jetti here miss Jill humph here Madame President all board members are present you have a quorum thank you board members that takes us to 2.01 the approval of agenda tonight is there a motion I move that we approve the agenda is presented thank you Mr Thompson it's been moved is there second second second go ahead thank you Mrs Paige it's been moved and seconded that we approve the agenda as presented all those in favor please vote by saying I I any oppose with nay thank you that passed 5 we will now turn the time over to Dr McCord for our superintendent recognition Awards thank you madam president governing board members tonight is unique and that we won't have them as I look out amongst our uh crowd we had one person that had to cancel that would have been Jenny Nichols because um she was going to receive an award but because she's so diligent she we had a music teacher who was ill and they have a concert tonight and Jenny uh was going to kick in and help them out so make sure the school was taken care of we're also going to honor uh mosquit High toy box uh there was a couple folks from the district that were going to be here but I don't see them this evening so we will put them off the next time and we'll just move on to my report great thank you 4.01 Dr McCord superintendent report here we go well good evening everyone thank you for joining us um at Gilbert Public Schools 14 students have earned the AP Capstone diploma and yes these students have already graduated but we're just getting the results back now so we wanted to make sure we recognize them additionally three students have earned AP seminar and research certificates during the 2223 school year the AP Capstone diploma program helped students develop the critical thinking research collaboration and presentation skills that are crucial for academic success those students from camp O verie were Adam Anderson Frank danana Ashley furland Emily gig Emma Kessler and Lucas Slattery from deser Ridge High rer Carly radas Audrey hog Elizabeth mantoa and through Tran and from Highland High there was Joshua cook madis Madison loran and Caden priest so congratulations to all of those former students from Gilbert public schools good luck in your future endeavors also coming up this month or at the beginning of next month we have have the Gilbert Community excellence awards which are put on by the Chamber of Commerce and the winners for this year from Gilbert public schools are Milo Hart from Canyon Valley he is getting the Dr Walter Dei educator of the Year award Debbie Lopez Administrative Assistant from Carol Ray Ranch Elementary uh she's they're getting the Miss Sharon or support staff of the year and Karen faren from our volunteer network she is receiving the Mrs Sheila Rogers eug jetti volunteer of the Year award so we thank them and congratulations to all of our winners they'll be honored publicly in in a week or so and then tonight we have history in the making tonight is the very first night of girls flag football playoffs and all of our schools are in it that were participating williamsfield is at mosquite AZ College president at Campo Corona is at Highland High and Gilbert High School is playing at Desert Ridge so congratulations to all of our teams and good luck to all of them and um I know most of you are wondering it is the top of the fourth 1 one okay for those you that don't know Phillies one Diamondbacks one thank you for that this evening oh also we have a couple of guests Annie Kowalski from Highland High School she is part of our superintendent student Senate please give her a hand and Sh Billings is a tosa over at mosquite high school and she's in our Spire program so welcome and actually I gu high if you want to do it now so circling back to uh what is that our superintendent's recognition 3.0 if you guys would join me in front of the dice Our Guest did show up so we want to recognize them real [Music] quick will my folks related to mosquit High toy box please come up everyone Don you too I know but you showed up so you're coming up congratulations oh oh we locked you guys out oh no Don come come hither don't don't walk too far away guys this is this is a light crowd tonight it's going to be real easy for you okay Don will you introduce these folks and and tell us why they're here real quick well we have rainbow plasner and she happens to be the director of the toy box at M high school and she has her Paris are the teachers that lead in the classroom of the toy box classroom and we have both Eliana and Victoria and you know the exciting little note about Victoria is she was a former student at mosqu high school with toy box and here she is now as one of the teachers kind of cool congratulations you are here tonight because recognition of Arizona cities and towns week mosquite high school toy box preschool students and teachers shared a ton of thank you notes with the town of Gilbert this was posted all over social media and we wanted to make sure we recognize you guys for that tonight because it is those little things that make your program special but it's those little things that make this town a special place to be and a special district to live and work in so congratulations to them thank you for thinking of those things and making people feel good about themselves congratulations give them a hand if you guys would shake hands with our governing board and then we'll take a picture I don't want to be yeah you're all right thank you yeah we'll we'll fill in the Gap this is the hardest part of the whole meeting right here again congratulations box thank you [Music] guys thank you very much Dr McCord that will take us to our agenda item 5.01 request to speak to the governing board we have three requests and we will Begin by listening to the admonition please to speak to the governing board pursuant to AR 38- 431.073 an open call to the public during a public meeting subject to the reasonable time place and manner restrictions to allow individuals to address the public body on any issue within the jurisdiction of the public body at the conclusion of an open call to the public individual board members May respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask staff to review a matter or may ask that a matter be put on a future agenda however members of the board shall not discuss or take legal action on matters raised during an open call to the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action during an open call the board requests that speakers refrain from voicing complaints against School Personnel or any person connected with the district as it may impact due process rights policies K KB and Ked are provided by the board for disposition of legitimate complaints including those involving individuals forms required for the use of these policies can be obtained from the Gilbert Public Schools website thank you very much we will have Richard young be first followed by Lori bingenheimer and our final speaker will be Brendan Waller and you'll have three minutes each thank you all um yes I speaking with a friend of mine uh about the bond and uh we both agreed we're not going to vote for it but we asked ourselves what would change our minds so that we' vote for the bond or the override we thought maybe student performance I thought about that and uh in general American schools aren't doing very well and I wonder if that includes this one there's a video going around of UCLA students being asked if they know what Washington DC is they don't know they knew the Kardashians they didn't know that uh it took me back decades when I was in an office I was training a very smart young woman recently out of high school in California uh and to be a paralal and she didn't know where Washington DC was or what it was she was uh fairly recently out of high school and uh she thought it was in California no it's not uh on a long weekend I took a trip to Mexicali it's a Dusty poor risque and kind of fun wild Mexican Border Town which is why I went there and in the afternoon I found myself in the bus depot just as a bunch of Mexican girls school girls came running in middle school age maybe freshman high school there was a big map on the wall and I asked them do any of you know where Washington DC is they looked at me scornfully ran over there all of them put their finger right on Washington DC looked at me triumphantly they thought I was trying to make Mexican uh girls look stupid I wasn't I was going to see if they could make American girls look stupid and they succeeded magnificently maybe not stupid but ignorant so came up again Sunday this last weekend family gathering party friends and my grandson was there who's one of your students I asked him do you know what Washington DC is he didn't know he doesn't know uh one would think that in 12 years of education intended to turn people into better citizens you would at least teach them where the national capital is how hard is it to put a map on the wall and say this is the capital of the United States here is the capital of uh Arizona and we're two capitals here because we're a federal republic and then explain that it is incredible that we would have to ship our kids to a Mexican border town to find out what the capital of the United States is you are failing badly there's more I've got 25 seconds I can't give you the rest of it but it is not good news not from looking at the homework that my grandson has had oh by the way part of it uh identifies the American flag as propaganda we pledge allegiance to the propaganda at the beginning that slide could have been prepared by Hamas the teacher said she got it from California so perhaps it was do better thank you Mr Young next will be Lori bingenheimer and Lori you will also have three minutes well I will disregard what I was going to say primarily I came to say that I am in support of the bond and the override I think one of the things we have to to do in life always is move ahead to do anything other is to stagnate and die and we do not want Gilbert schools to not be able to continue to move forward into the future and I want to congratulate the board members here that take the the challenge of being on this board at this time in history to support your staff to support the students to do the beautiful job that I watched here this evening um I moved to Gilbert in 93 and I came here only because I had a new house but I would not have been here if it wasn't for the schools the schools did their job in a professional caring manner that I appreciate to this day I believe that continue news today and that what we had is what we have right now as I read the paper as I look at everything I hear and see around me I do not see the great dissatisfaction of the previous speaker I think it takes courage for people to be on the board to do the hard work that you do the demanding work that you do and so this is a voter since 93 that says thank you thank you to the staff of Gilbert Public Schools we have one of two things we can do we do nothing we do not look to the future we do not make sure there's money that we can meet the needs of an aging buildings um and give new resources whether they're for security that we didn't have to do 30 years ago for the needs that we have in technology there are so many changes that happen we never really know what's going to be into the future but not to prepare for it I right now I'm in the process of after 30 years getting a new roof on my house now I did prepare and put money aside because everyone else was getting new roofs but the thing is I procrastinated and life's so busy and fun that I didn't make the efforts to to get someone to check my roof the way I probably should have at least one or two years ago well now there's a hole in my roof and it's leaking into my living room and there's no one to blame but myself for yes I did plan and I did know but I didn't take action what you have done here is you have taken action you left it thank you Miss bingenheimer thank you and now Brendan Waller and you will also have three minutes thank you good evening all board members I have a quick curiosity question before I get going do we have any veterans that are on the uh on the board here okay I remember last year you did have a marine that was up there I will um so I'm coming here today because I have a son that is at Highland Junior High um he's the last of my three kids that have gone through the Gilbert Public Schools um I have one that is in the Army right now he's active duty and he is uh in third infantry division and and uh so he he did go as well to the to uh Gilbert Public Schools graduated in 2020 in the co year um I'm coming here today because my son uh that is at Highland Junior High was wearing this exact shirt that I have because we all have one in our family and this stands for remember everyone deployed we do that on Fridays and you wear it on red Fridays um this particular shirt he got dress coded because it's got two muskets on the arm I went to the assistant principal to talk to him about what the rules are and he showed me the dress codes there was nothing really in the dress code that said anything about wearing something like this um in the name of not having an argument with the assistant PR principal I went ahead and brought a different shirt for my son and he changed so the the problem that I saw with the rules is they're very subjective there's if he had Tupac on his shirt with a 9mm that's a problem but this is two outdated guns that the military doesn't even use my background is I'm a veteran we have a veteran family my grandpa was an EO gima I also had another uncle that made uh Lieutenant Colonel at with a battlefield Commission and then like I said my son is in now so we need to look at at having better rules about dress codes I'm not up here to talk about females that was a whole another subject when I went to the school but he's not wearing anything inappropriate and for someone to have a subjective opinion that this is offensive is ridiculous because two days later somebody brought a gay pride flag to the school and that's far more offensive I think to more people than having having this this is a brand this is this is a grunt style brand so if any of you want me to come up I will show it to you a little closer the last thing I wanted to say is my son is in the advanced GC GTC program at Highland he's in the gifted program he's extremely smart um and one thing I think uh the district needs to address is the homework uh policy um giving homework just for uh the sheer sake of getting getting homework is I think a bad policy it's not reality to the real world um so I think that they need to address that and the teachers don't get homework from the principes to just do at home so that's something to look at and it looks like I'm out of time thank you thank you very much we appreciate those who have come and shared tonight in the open meeting in the open in the request to speak to governing board as well as those who sent in online we will now move to our reports 6.01 FY 2024 monthly financial report and first quarter financial report ended September 30th 2023 Dr McCord thank you madam president govering board members uh we will turn this over to our associate superintendent of Business Services Miss Bonnie Betts good evening president wood uh Dr McCord governing board members uh this is a short report on the monthly but this is the first time that you will see the first quarter or the quarterly report so just to remind you the monthly really considers changes that have occurred month to month in the current year and the quarterly just uh second third and four and first second and third quarter we present to you data that shows where we are from a revenue standpoint in the current year as compared to the same point in time a year ago so then we're looking at year-over-year comparisons I also wanted to acknowledge um Mrs Lauren toska back there uh so she is uh brand new to school finance and brand new new to gber public schools and all of this work um she has navigated and learned quickly and uh without her efforts would not have been uh possible to have it presented in front of you so so just to begin uh just going to go through just um three grids on the monthly financial report the district operating funds state Grant funds and then the bond fund and then the second portion is on the first quarter Financial year to date as of September 30th 2023 so this is where we are today with all of our operating funds so again you have highlighted ml classroom site fund as well as unrestricted Capital at this point in time you would see a decrease in the available balance you can see $7 million left over from budget in maintenance operations and you can see um under unrestricted Capital the $26.4 million roughly available um but no under unrestricted Capital the year-to-date expended encumbered of the 26.4 million uh on uh remember that that unrestricted Capital does have that additional $8.8 million that was provided to school districts as a onetime supplemental uh in addition I wanted to share that last year our total spend in unrestricted Capital was about $19 million we're anticipating um a greater spend um in the current year uh and we are very happy to have um available resources uh in unrestricted Capital the classroom site fund uh actually increased in available balance as what happens every month School Finance staff look through the general ledger verify accuracies they did discover that there were some individuals account coded to classroom site fund that were not eligible to be and so they cleaned that up and the result was an available balance increase of about a million dollar any questions on that before I move on you'd said that last year we uh spent about $19 million in unrestricted Capital outlay that's correct and you expect it to be more this year what do you attribute the uh the added expense to be this year mostly uh due to that additional $8 million giving us opportunities to meet uh unexpected expenditures uh also with the waning available Bond dollars um knowing that we will need to have available resources to meet some of those needs that we did not have last year thank you you bet so uh this is just repeating what I just told you and then uh under the state Grant funds this is just a reminder that you have two of the funds that are highlighted that are in that negative position remember that we're very early in the school year we had late Revenue come in during the encumbrance period so we will be adjusting those adopted budget numbers up in both of these cases inst structal Improvement as well as the school safety program which will resolve the negative available balances just a reminder on that and then finally the bond fund fund 630 so this fund represents the 2019 Authority and if you recall we had our last Bond sale closing at the end of May so um at at this point in time due to all the summer projects as well as anticipated projects going into the new school year you can see the $8.5 million roughly of balance um and all of the proceeds have been received for this Authority at this point in time so specifically wanted to share that in the cost of issuance so we have cost of issuance it's our charges to to actually have a bond sale some of those charges are outside of the the bond Authority uh and that we use premium dollars that are paying for those and then other costs of issuance are have to be included in the bonding in the um in against the Total Bond Authority so we did have a couple of payments that we still need to make for those cost of issuance um charges and then in addition it's the facilities renewal that really drastically reduced I wanted to remind you that a month ago we had reflected just over $16 million as available monies and you can see now that the total is 8.5 million and that was totally within that facilities renewal section so completing all the bond projects that you all approved during last year to go through the summer so any questions on that is any of the 8.5 million remaining uh uh encumbered by services or supplies not yet received or performed so the encumberance if you look you can see the fiscal year 2024 incumbrances so that's the amount of money where there's a purchase order opened but we have they have not completed the work yet or we haven't received the goods that 8.5 at this point in time is left unencumbered or un unaccounted for and you will likely see over the next few months the um approval for um future Bond projects to be done either during December or through through spring break or likely uh next summer thank you okay sure so now going into the first quarter financial report um just really quick on this one so just note the operating Revenue by Source this is just a reminder indicating that our operating Revenue that first grid on our monthly Financial reports all those monies come from the state come from local come from federal dollars and you can see up above on top you can see that the expected annual revenue a year ago was 36.7 million and this current year it's 3334 million so an increase of about $17 million so a big portion of it is the $8.8 million I shared with you that that's that onetime um Capital um that we that we chose we weren't required to we chose to put it into unrestricted capital in addition we had about $3.5 million more in the revenue control limit due to the work of the legislature another million and a half or so from classroom site fund and then another just under a million dollars from the m&o override all those things together account for that 17 uh million or so increase over a year ago the next slide actually best shows uh again this is by Source it actually best shows if you look at the state grid here where it shows the um 187.5 versus the 22.8 million expected in the current year so note that only $41 million has been received to date out of that $22 where you would expect at least 25% to be we're in the first quarter we should receive 25% but remember this is just a reminder that as a budgetary uh a budgetary strategy several years ago the state delayed the last payment and so we we do not receive the last payment from the state of Arizona until July 1st so it actually is reflected in the next year okay just a reminder of that and then again the same dollars here and then this one is just showing the year-over-year comparison by fund same story um and this you can see that the fund largely impacted of course by that delayed state aid payment is maintenance and operations because that's where most of the money goes [Music] okay and then finally the expenditure analysis uh so you can see that um last year at this time we had $3.1 million encumbered or spent and this year at this time we have 3 $134 million encumbered or spent that accounts for that additional roughly $7 million that's already encumbered and expended in unrestricted Capital also accounts for the pay increases that you all awarded um last uh July in the adopted or last actually last spring um awarded to all staff and it was a a dollar per hour for all hourly staff and 3% for all exempt staff and if you recall we did utilize classroom site fund at a large extent to be able to achieve that pay increase so and that you can see the the increases in salaries um and benefits and then the operating and and capital the capital in particular you can see $8.1 million a year ago versus the 29.7 in the current year so that's where we are today and that's all I have if you have any questions I'm very prepared to answer [Music] them I actually have a question if unless anybody else wants to go before me no okay so can you tell me what why did that operating expense go at P me remember it's 43.8 million this year whereas it was 34.2 last year what would be some examples of that so um the probably the largest contributor to that increase is likely fuel in transportation so remember that all that activity is in here uh generally they load up all of their tanks at the beginning of the school year we were still in very high uh costs at that point in time um but know too that all utilities all fuel is fully encumbered at this point in time as well as spent um so that's a big part of it um and then uh in addition our schools they're getting used to the fact that they do have available budgets and they are um expending them as you would expect at this point in time either by expending them or encumbering disorders so that's happening as well and this is the first quarter so maybe in the past they would wait till the end till the end to do it it wasn't not necessarily it's maybe the timing of a SP it's also timing all that is it's always difficult when you're comparing quarter to quarter um it also is impacted by um when fall break Falls right and when whe they're preparing for fall break before they go out for fall break which was earlier this year or whether they're waiting until after so this is just activity through September 30th oh and and also the early start so there's more activity a little we started a little bit earlier so more activity reflected in the financials first quarter yeah okay thank you is there any other questions board members no no thank you verys we appreciate it all right we will now move to 6.02 teaching and learning academic Spotlight Dr McCord thank you madam president govering board members tonight uh I'll turn it over to Mr Jared Ryan our assistant superintendent of teaching and learning they have some folks from our technology department as well as our professional growth Department Mr Ryan great thank you Madame President governing board Dr mcord thank you for the opportunity to uh share with you some exciting activity um going on across our school district in support of our students and teachers um specifically tonight we're talking about two critical uh groups that we we have that you've supported in ensuring our working with our teaching staff on a daily basis our um ties and our instructional coaches if you remember a couple years back strategically instructional coaches were supported in place on each campus and sometimes is a large District communication becomes critical and Alignment becomes critical and in those pieces and tonight we have um John calano and Shan abley and Melinda Murphy who are three of the best in the business who have spearheaded this and taken on is is um is a large project with great importance not only in our department but across the entire School District so they're here to present this evening on the work that they're doing and kind of update you on where we're at with both of those groups so thank you John yeah thank you um Madam president members of the board Dr McCord um as I was looking at this we're here to talk about the ick and tii collaboration so I'm I'm glad Dr Ryan helped with yeah that's what that says I and tie it sounds like a cartoon um obviously instructional coaches and our technology integration Educators um these two groups um support student learning in the classroom and they cross path um sometimes on a daily basis and so um we just really been discussing how do we get these groups together um so that all of our arrows are pointing in the right direction um and that's what we're going to talk a little bit about tonight um I'm not going to talk too much uh I'm here with two amazing people who are far far smarter than me um I'm going to turn it over to Melinda Murphy and then Shawn will follow up and kind of tell you what we've done with these two groups and some future plans with them so thank you I'm much shorter than John um so first let me give credit to Sea because this was her brainchild last summer um we were kind of chitchatting back and forth about how we get these people working together and Sean called me and said I think they should meet quarterly and I was like you run with that idea let me know what you need and so we had the opportunity to bring these groups together they really are um two sides of the same coin um instructional coaches largely engage our teachers to sitting with them determining what they want student outcomes to be and then working with those teachers to implement effective instructional strategies and they guide them through the process by looking at what teaching is going on in the classroom and then determining how effective it is the um key to a lot of what they do is effective instruction and the ties are really the secret to the technology tools that teachers can use to engage students in the process of learning um and when we sat them down and had them partner together and start talking about what was going on in their classrooms and what they were seeing across campuses it was pretty magical um so Sean's going to step in and she's going to tell you about um our first session together hi thank you um so the instructional the instructional coaches and the technology integration Educators or the ties have very different roles right they're very unique in the things that they do um the instructional coaches are focusing on the teaching staff where the technology integration educators are helping to integrate technology into the classrooms using the Chromebooks more effectively um engaging students by using technology bringing in robotics and doing a lot of those things um and last year what we what we saw in a couple of the schools was organically these teams started to work together and when they were working together they were having really real success during PDS um with the new teacher programs that were going on helping the administrators with their CIP goals so what we wanted to do was give them a forum where they could celebrate and highlight some of the things that those teams were doing and see how we could do that better in all the schools so in our first meeting we started by uh grouping Everybody by the ti cuz that worked the best cuz there's one tie that supports three to four different schools and then there's one um instructional coach on each of the schools so we grouped them all together by the tie and had them just brainstorm the things that they do in their roles they just put them all out on paper actually on a jam board because we wanted to use the tech and then after they had all those listed we had them just look at them and see which roles were specifically Thai which were specifically ic's and where those kind of just naturally came together to complement each other and some of the groups really had everything right in the middle so they thought it was a trick but it wasn't um but some of the things that we found huge were uh professional development very high on the tech side because we want our teachers to know how to use the technology and the instructional coaches wanted them to be able to use effective strategies and how do those come together so we started to see where those things can come together and where they can really support each other so so then we um had the groups talk about the continuous Improvement plans on the schools and really kind of unpack those and say how can we together help support our schools and our administrators in reaching those goals and then at the end um we asked everybody to just complete a survey as a final reflection of the day and um I had come up with the topics for the first one because this was something that I come up with but I didn't want it to be my show I wanted to address the things that they really wanted to do so see these are some of the things that they had said that they wanted to do one of the main things was how do we work together to um integrate technology into our small group activities teachers want to use the tech but they don't know how to get them going on it by themselves so that they can work with a small group over here um how can we work together to to plan these joint PDS and then um another big one was talking about integrating technology into uh teacher and student Clarity which since that um since that meeting we've already the ties have already designed a bunch of things that will go on their um Ben Q boards that go along with teacher Clarity student Clarity so we had a lot of success just from the first one did you want to talk about the last part okay um one of the things that I I told Sean this year whenever we are going to pull people off of campuses when we're done we're going to ask for feedback right I think that we spend a lot uh you know people's time is valuable and the more you're away from campus obviously that's time you know away from their students um so we sent out a little quick five question uh feedback uh afterwards you can see the questions right here the graphs on the right go in order of the first four bullet points um we definitely wanted n rate the experience but the big thing for me was was time right you know was the amount of time too long too short Etc um at 75% said it was just right um but I wanted to highlight that you know five people said it was too long well if five people said it was too long even if the majority said it wasn't I want to look at that look at their feedback look at the processes we went through have Sean look back through the agenda was there any place where we could shorten things up or you know save some time because if if it was 3 hours and we could have done it in two hours then we need to do it in two hours right we need to be respectful of that time so I just wanted to share that with you anything that technology does where we pull anyone off of Campus this year um we're going to get feed back from them because we wanted to be purposeful um and there was a lot of great comments so it was a very positive experience for both of the groups and we wanted to share that with you so if you have any questions for any of us we'd be happy to answer those for you now thank you thank you very much board members do you have any questions was the last question is asking them to share so what was some of the other feedback that you received with that last question that was the slide before so we switch those on the PowerPoint okay so this was the feedback that they had given oh okay y all right thank you you're welcome I think my question would be uh sometimes I've heard families are concerned that we're pushing technology pushing technology so I guess I just want to hear what's the overall strategy or thought behind all of this as you go forward well I'll give you my opinion on this and I'll let Sean jump in um Melinda as well um I mean I've said numerous times technology is it's it's all timely and when necessary right again I've said more and more if you walk into a classroom and 30 Chromebooks are open and everyone's staring at it you need there's you need to ask why right because technology should be there when it's when it's needed the power of Sean's group is they don't come in and do anything unless it's something to integrate into a plan it's not just to use I don't know if you want to add to that a little bit so our Focus sor sorry thank you so our focus is always on the who like who is this for and it is for the students so if a student is sitting with headphones on Staring at a computer by themselves then they're not collaborating with the other people in their classrooms those are the things that they could probably do at home right so our focus is always to focus on the standards that the the the teachers are teaching um the things that that connect directly with curriculum and to be using technology as a tool for learning so if a student isn't necessarily understanding understanding uh I'm just going to go with a math concept for example we can bring in robotic things that they can program and we've done it where like you shake it and it'll change a number and then their friend programs it to shake it and change a number and now multiply those numbers so they're they have to be able to do the programming in order to do the the math concept we have them retelling stories with robots and and using all of the Google suite for their slideshows to do presentation um infographics and everything else that's connected to like ready genen if you go through the ready gen curriculum there's always things that have them described in infographic have them demonstrate their learning using an infographic well they can't do that unless they know how so we use the technology more as a tool than than a babysitter yes thank you yeah I would Echo exactly what um Sean said I think that teachers see technology is a way to make classroom teaching effective and efficient um it gives them immediate feedback so one of the things that we talk to teachers about is we we don't teach a cahoot right we use it as a tool to measure student learning um and I think as we've integrated it into the classrooms more and more over the last several years and as the ties have really been able to get into classrooms and now pair with instructional coaches I think teachers are understanding more that sometimes technology is great and sometimes paper is great and the trick is knowing with to use what and how to be flexible and adaptive to the needs of your students so that you're engaging them you're making sure that class um activities are interesting but they're also relevant because we do live in a world that is full of technology and kids should be able to access it in a meaningful way thank you I appreciate that any other thoughts or questions I I just want to thank you for the hard work and I love the way that we are collaborating and bringing people together and focusing on what the students need I think that shows that we're high functioning as a district to be able to do that because I know over time we've gotten out of our silos and more into a a situation where we're working together and I think that really supports the students so thank you thank you very much appreciate that all right board members that will take us to our consent agenda items 7.01 is there a motion to approve the consent agenda items I move to approve the consent agenda items as presented thank you Miss humre it's been moved is there a second second thank you Miss eetti it's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda items all those in favor please vote by saying I I I any oppos with thank you that passed 5-0 that will take us now to our action items 8.01 policy development First Street of policy BCB board member conflict of interest Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members uh this policy and the policies that follow that we'll talk about have all been through the first round with our uh policy committee and if approved tonight it'll go back for a second round with our policy committee to come back for a second read so just want to make sure everybody knows that uh we have seen this once before uh policy BCB uh governing board member conflict of interest uh if you'll notice we've added the word governing before the word board in uh several sections of this and then there's a larger section that was added uh and that is the district is allowed to employ including through a third- party contract C that provides services to the district any person who served as a member of the school district governing board during the preceding 2 years only in a position in which the person will provide services directly to students pursuant to ARS 15421 the district is authorized to increase the time period for this restriction to more than two years thank you Dr mcord board members is there a motion I move that we approve the uh policy BCB as presented thank you Miss hre it's been moved as there second second thank you Mr Jetty board members is there any discussion seeing none I will call for the vote all in favor of approving policy first read of policy BCB board member conflict of interest please vote by saying I I I any oppose with nay thank you that passed 5 8.02 policy development First Street a policy BDA board organizational meeting Dr McCord thank you mad president governing board members again in this policy the word governing board has been added or the word governing has been added before the word board in several sections uh also in the first paragraph uh just some gr grammatical changes organization has been turned to organized the word shall has been changed to must and then in the middle of that uh in that sent says the governing board must meet in January following the election in January following the elction the election is the addition and at the end of that paragraph uh there was it was stricken related to uh the month of January and time constraints there in the second paragraph again the word shall was changed to must and in this next section it says if if that person is no longer a member of the government Gover in board a temporary president must be elected to call the meeting to order and preside until the successor is chosen then the rest of that was uh deleted and then in the third paragraph it says the new president well we added the governing board and then a last section it says if there is a vacancy in the office the governing board shall elect a new officer to fill the vacancy however the governing board may elect a governing board president at any time for any reason providing that the matter is handled in a way that is consistent with the open meeting law and adopted by the governing board and those are the changes to that policy thank you Dr McCord board members is there a motion I move that we adopt um policy the first read of policy BDA thank you Miss uet it's been moved is there second second thank you Miss humph board members is there any discussion uh there is um I did have a point on that one if we could put it back up on the screen we that talks about um the election of the president but we've removed any mention of the clerk and how we elect a clerk so I do think that we need to restore that sentence and I thought we can just do that in policy meeting but when we bring it back for a second read can we leave it on the um action items rather than put it on the consent agenda just because we've made that change yep that would be good if we make any changes definitely will put it back on the on the action item yeah if not even a first read if there's enough changes to it right yeah is that sound good to everybody okay so we'll take this back and um bring it appropriately back for second read or first read next to the next meeting anything further in the second paragraph the election of a of a new president is that happening in an open meeting or is that in an executive session no it would be an open meeting that would be an open meeting yeah I do have a question but it's something that I can we can wait until we discuss it at the policy I was thinking the same thing I have some things too that now that I read it again so okay yeah looks like we'll be we'll be definitely discussing this but I guess at this point then do you feel comfortable in approving this first trade since we know we're taking it back okay board members all those in favor of approving the first trade of policy B da board organizational meeting please vote by saying I I any oppose with nay thank you 8.03 policy development First Street of policy be Schoolboard meetings Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members policy be school board meetings we added the word governing uh to all of these titles just so you know that and again uh the word governing has been added before board in several sections the main uh addition to this is a paragraph that says the governing board must provide sufficient seating to accommodate the re the reasonably anticipated number of Desiring attendees when feasible however this does not require a public body to relocate a meeting outside of the largest regular meeting room and that has been oh also in the second section notice must include an agenda of the matters to be discussed or decided at the meeting of information or information on how the public May obtain a copy of such an agenda except for a meeting through technological devices the agenda shall also include notice of the time that the public will be will have physical access to the meeting place so in our essentially in our notifications it will say doors will be unlocked at specific time and that's pretty much it thank you board members is there a motion I move that we adopt uh the first read of policy or just the first read of policy be school board meetings thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved is there a second second thank you Mrs paig my question would be it said it has to be on the agenda the time would we post it on the agenda as well as I guess we just put it in the heading in the heading y okay I had it'll probably say something to the effect of regular board meeting at 6 doors will open at like 5:45 okay or whatever we decide okay thank you very much board members is there any further discussion so just out of curiosity do we have resources available if the number of attendees is significantly greater than what we anticipated well we do what we've done in the past is we've opened up the first floor conference room and um projected the meeting in there and if people if it was uh called to the public we would make sure that they had the opportunity also to come in and uh We've also lined the Halls um so we've been able to accommodate it most times thank you I do remember a past meeting years years ago this was before I was on the board that was held at mosqu high school so um that was a b change meeting I think at one point in time but we anticipated that so we made that change before it went to the public thank you board members is there any further discussion okay seeing none I will call for the vote all those who approved the First Street of policy be Schoolboard meetings please vote by saying I I I any any disagree please vote by saying nay thank you that passes 5 Z 8.04 policy development First Street of policy B notification of board meetings Dr McCord thank you madam president govern board members kind of piggybacking on that last piece uh in the first paragraph we added except for a meeting through technological devices the agenda and notice shall also include the time that the public will have physical access to the meeting place and then again added the word governing before board in a couple sections thank you board members is there a motion I move that we adopt the first rate of policy B da thank you Mrs paig it's been moved as their second second thank you Mr Thompson board members is there any discussion seeing none I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the first read of policy BEDA notification of board meetings please vote by saying I I any oppose with nay thank you that has passed 5 8.05 policy development First Street of policy bedb agenda Dr McCord thank you madam president gy board members policy beb uh relates to the agenda and we didn't make any changes we just added except for a meeting through technological devices the agenda and notice shall also include the time that the public will have physical access to the meeting place thank you board members is there a motion I move that we adopt first read of policy BB thank you thank you Miss SRE it's been moved is there second second thank you Miss Jed board members is there any discussion did we discuss just getting rid of this uh policy because it seems so duplicative of I think it was be or maybe da I don't remember getting rid of it cuz this one specifically applies to meeting times and access times which was covered in I don't recall if it was be or B yeah we've said it twice now it it is very similar but I don't think that the accommodations for the disabled is covered in those other policies so well it is certainly that language that we've added three times is I guess repetitive but the other parts um especially the accommodations I I'm only aware of that in that policy are there other we did discuss we did discuss there was more that had been suggested there was a specific um remember there was a specific agenda that was on there suggested and we decided not to include that correct for this First Street that's correct is that what you're referring to no I I do I do recall that okay I just I thought I remembered that we talked about how duplicative this one was except for the accommodations for the disabled which have we can we confirm that those aren't those aren't included in another in another policy yeah we can by the next uh and and I think also looking back looking at the future trust policy I think there was a combination and this was a combination of several policies if I recall them together new trust so I think the discussion was we were just going to move forward with this and then when we made that change then all those would come together thank you yeah so for now um again we'll take this back to the policy meeting again but for now all those in favor oh just one more I did I did want to clarify that we're going to add the name of the designated Agency contact person and their telephone number so when someone goes to this policy they know who to contact okay thank you that's all thank you anything further okay I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the First Street of policy BB agenda please vote by saying I I I any oppose with nay thank you that passes 5- that will take us to nine our requests for future agenda items board members is there anything that we need to know of tonight okay seeing nothing else in that we'll go to our board committee reports and that begins with me so sorry let me get mine here um city of Mesa leaz on I wanted to announce a few things one was that the express Library over by sup Springs Elementary in Monterey Park will be opening this Saturday there's a ribbon cutting MH and then there's an expanded park that's also along with that and should be a really good place for our community members and students around that area go check out that Library it's it's more of a what I understand is it's a it's a new model of kind of more of a request and drop off there's kind of a place to pick up and then drop things back I don't it's not a full scale yeah full scale library but it gives access to that and then some new pickle ball courts and some other fields it's very exciting so we're we're grateful and this the town wanted us to know uh to know about that and then as well I wanted to remind everybody also Scott Summers the city councilman over there in Mesa wanted me to remind everyone too about the spooky Halloween district 6 spooky Halloween sponsored by the police department and council member summers at Desert Ridge High School Monday October 30th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

and it'll be here in the boardroom so that's what we're doing thank you Miss hre and did you have anything from the audit committee uh the audit committee hasn't met since I last reported so thank you very much 10.04 Insurance trust representative Mrs U jetti we're meeting tomorrow thank you 10.05 legislative representative Mr Thompson so I I don't have anything in regards to specifically to our state um legislation but I just wanted to make one comment um that has to do with events going on outside of our state borders and even outside of our national borders and commend our staff and administration um as we all have heard heard there's lots of uh political and religious and cultural upheaval um in different parts of the world and I want to uh make sure that I want to thank our staff and administration and make sure that they know that we appreciate um all that they do to keep the focus for our students on education and um it's uh these things going on around the world are impacting different areas different school districts around the country and uh we are um although not completely immune to those things I just I'm really really grateful for the staff and administration for um for keeping things professional and uh again keeping the focus um in our schools on education so thank you very much thank you Mr Thompson that will take us to our meeting dates 11.01 Dr McCord thank you madam president Gover board members on Tuesday November 14th we have a board work study and brief board business meeting and on Tuesday November 28th we have a board business meeting great thank you that will take us to our adjournment board members is there a motion I move that we adjourn thank you Mr jetti it's been moved is there a second I second thank you Mr paig it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn I will call for the vote all those in favor of adjourning please vote by saying I I I any oppos with nay thank you very much we are adjourned you

evening everyone it is now 7 PM Tuesday October 24th 2023 and I call this meeting of the Board of Education to order Cindy would you please call the role AR here hilber here Gonzalez Thomas present ma here here Meadows present next I would like to invent invite RJ because he volunteered on on knowing lead us in the pledge I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America repic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all good job RJ thank you you're welcome Tom are there any items to remove or add to the agenda remove from or add to no sir okay thank you next item tonight we'd like to celebrate a success of uh with about Kathleen Terry Tan and the BHS art Department would you please come to the podium Mr Owen yeah thank you good evening my name is Chris Owen and I have the pleasure of being a music teacher at Pavia High School a new role for me a few years ago was being asked to help my fellow Fine Arts teachers as a coordinator and advocate for large events that we do at the high school and help advocate for some of their needs it's in this capacity that I have the pleasure of speaking to you uh tonight to congratulate my Fine Arts colleagues on the Illinois art education association's department of Distinction award for bavia high school for 2023 to 2025 These Fine educators work tirelessly on behalf of their students creating new projects to Showcase their art and media allowing space and time for students to tap into their inner artists to express thems in safe spaces and providing feedback in an authentic way that always focuses on the growth of the student from where they are currently not where an arbitrary bar might be the journey is where the learning occurs I could speak briefly about the criteria on this award is chosen but suffice it to say that each of these educators put students first before anything else and does whatever is needed to help each student find and express themselves through their artistic medium we're all fortunate and blessed to have them work with the artists in our high school and their bavia Community speaking from personal experience I'm a better music educator and Fine Arts educator because of conversation conversations with all of these Elite Educators and I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge all of their work and accomplishments to earn the prestigious Department of Distinction award for Pavia High School for the second time their names are Jennifer Carpenter Josh casburn Lucy Jensen Jennifer Melendez Kathleen Ty ton Andrea schindelbeck and Emily Smith additionally a former bavia High School teacher Don zelus was also instrumental in earning this award for bavia high school please help me acknowledge their many contributions and achievements to our school district high school and Community there some of them are s we uh we distributed some of the uh pamphlets of student artwork and the accomplishments to the board uh and administrators this evening so feel free to peruse those and uh I'll be sending to that that to you digitally tomorrow too if you wanted to check that out there there's a couple examples that I think a couple of my colleagues have here too uh furthermore One of These Fine Art Educators received additional accolades from the Illinois art Education Association Kathleen T ton uh if you know me this is sidebar if you know me a little bit I might cry a little bit here um because I I'm very proud of her Kathleen received the Illinois secondary art educator of the year without a doubt you've seen Kathleen's student work throughout the community on posters apparel signs and even with the new bavia community flag her graphic students begin with a desire to learn a new artistic skill and grow their passion to do incredible professional work there's no doubt in my mind that Miss tyry tun's are expertise as a graphic designer physical artist and educator sorry I can't I get worked up when I talk about people that I care about so sorry about that I have a marching B banquet tomorrow it's going to happen there too um um there's no I'll start that sentence again because it's a good one um there's no doubt in my mind that without Miss Ton's expertise as a graphic designer physical artist and educator blessed in the art of teaching that these students would not be as talented as a and successful as they are She's continually on the pulse of changes in the curriculum with the artistic Community to design new courses to meet the needs of the students in the everchanging world of graphic design she's a continual and uh Ardent advocate for students sponsoring numerous clubs at Pavia High School including pride and future creative professionals speaking from personal experience and as a fellow Arts educator she makes all of us better by thinking and challenging our ideas and coming up with new uh creative ways to support artists at the high school there are few Educators who are more tireless advocates for their student and their program I'm always in awe and I'm purposely not making eye contact with her right now um uh because of her students professional skills and her gift for teaching students of all abilities please join me in acknowledging Miss Ty ton as the Illinois art educator second yeah probably going to yell at me later for crying but congratulations Kathleen well thank you anybody have anything they want to say or add okay well thank you very much job well done of course and we all appreciate all your efforts and I love having the moment of kind of celebrating the success to remind the great job our teachers do for our kids um so next is public comment we welcome the meeting uh welcome to the meeting of the Board of educ Education if anyone wishes to address the board this evening please see our recording secretary to submit a form for addressing the board please put your full name and address on the form in general the board will not answer questions or engage in dialogue during public comment this does not mean we do not value or take your participation take your concerns or comments seriously the board values AC of community participation in the district's Endeavors encourages people to engage with the district using appropriate channels and systems designed with your input in mind board members are not involved in the day-to-day operations of the district and cannot Engage The District in business in District in business individually if you have specific questions or would like to engage further with the districts you may submit your questions using the link on the website and the appropriate staff member will communicate with you our PPS 101 communication manager H Holly dman will now explain the procedures for public comment and call up the speakers thank you president Meadows speakers will be called up in order of form submission and today we have 10 people that have signed up to speak and each of you will get three minutes we also ask that if somebody before you has already said exactly or basically what you are going to say say I agree with what they have to say and then we can continue on with our meeting the first form we received is a first person will be invited to speak when your name is called please come to the podium so that you can be heard all individual speaking will be limited to 3 minutes and I'm going to be putting a three minute timer up on the screen I will start this timer when you are set at the podium we ask that you please abide by that because it makes a really annoying noise once the three minutes goes off and it just kind of Echoes In Here at any time during this meeting written comments may be submitted to our recording secretary Cindy Rodriguez who is at my right speakers should conduct themselves with Civility and respect towards everyone in this room our first and I apologize in advance if I don't pronounce your name correctly Helen [Music] ratlo want to talk about the Farnsworth Builder Tiff tax financing or tiffs traditionally have a 23e lifespan 23 years ago my son was a 9-year-old fourth grader at Louise White now he has a a career and a student debt a wife a house a mortgage and a stepson in 23 years he went from a fourth grader to a stepdad of a fourth grader the farnworth Builder Tiff will affect the students you have now the preschoolers waiting in the wings students who will move here from others places and students who haven't even been born yet property taxes are the engine of local government they must increase to meet inflation and increasing need the Tiff district will allow the casino to freeze their property tax at the current level while they build a facility worth hundreds of millions of dollars the property taxes above the Baseline will stand their hands for 23 years your needs will not stay level you will have more students there will be new technologies equipment books there will be salaries and benefits to attack attract and retain retain quality staff there will be maintenance and probably new construction with property tax funds diverted to a tiff either you have to do without or find Revenue elsewhere EAS Ro School District waited for 23 years to reap the benefits of the casino and then the casino applied for and got an extension EAS Aurora ended up waiting more than 30 years for prop for prop full funding to reach them at which point the casino announced their plan to move and build and get a new Tiff pen entertainment is a billion- dooll company that could afford to do this project without a tiff the CEO makes $65 million a year with which is 130 times the 500,000 that you are being offered to split seven ways they also had a vought a g video gaming system for over $300 million and then sold it back for a dollar you need to organize with the other taxing bodies to vote no on the Farnsworth Builder tiff with a no vote you can negotiate a better deal for your students a tiff doesn't have to last 23 years it could be 20 or 15 or 12 and the full proper property value property tax value of the development will come available sooner likewise you could negotiate to get some of that increased value in two or three years after the construction is finished you could get a 2080 deal or or 3070 or 5050 but the world of possibilities will only open up if your res Representatives vot know at the Joint review meeting you should if it should happen that you cannot get three other taxing bodies to commit to vote no as well then you still have time to sign the intergovermental agreement before November 8th the yellow handout um has projections of taxes diverted based on the city of Aurora estimate thank you next is Pat wer hello thank you for the opportunity to speak um my name is Pat Wier um Tiff districts are tax increment financing districts tiffs are created by slicing an area out of your taxable map and funneling any incremental public dollars away from public services and into the hands of the mega Wealthy on paper tiffs were invented to help develop blighted land that would be hard to develop otherwise unfortunately tiffs have instead become an easy way for big developers and large companies to publicly Finance large projects and Pad their bottom line to shift the risk to the public and shift the profits to private individuals a feature that makes the new proposed cassino tip especially egregious I really do like that word um is that it is a m micro Tiff meaning it only encompasses the property directly owned by the single entity pen entertainment there's no way to use these dollars outside of the Tiff District to develop other land nearby because the Tiff is so small at least with other larger tiffs you could potentially develop other land and develop and Revitalize a given area this micro Tiff is simply a cash grab facilitated by the city of Aurora tiffs are an abuse of property tax law by carving out more tiffs we limit the number of properties taxed to fund our public bodies if we maintain or increase spending while we remove taxable Parcels property taxes must increase for everyone within U the districts to make up the shortfall I'm going to present four scenarios they're short I guess see the time here okay I better get a in scenario one vote Yes approving the intergovernmental agreement as is would give you only 10% of the tax revenue for 23 years plus and potentially higher revenues in 23 to 35 years if the casino doesn't fail scenario two vote no do not sign the intergovernmental agreement as is demand more concessions either a larger percentage up to 100% or a shorter Tiff so that you can reap 100% sooner so potentially higher revenues in 23 years if Casino doesn't fail three no Tiff I mean vote no no Tiff at all and casino still builds they have the cash and they can afford this development without public funds taxing bodies get 100% of increased revenues if the casino doesn't fail the last scenario no Tiff at all and casino doesn't build properties is sold to other entities and property taxes develop naturally I meant it uh next speaker David Canon share a little too okay hello everyone my name is David Cannon I am from Aurora I'm here uh with a spooky Halloween tale East Aurora School District and Tiff number one a cautionary Tale in 1986 the city of Aurora created Tiff number one a legal mechanism which diverts property tax dollars from their rightful destination of schools and local governing bodies to an unaccountable undemocratic bucket of money to subsidize private development as is the case with the new casino Tiff District in 1993 Hollywood Casino run by pen entertainment opened in Aurora and began paying incremental property taxes not to taxing bodies but into Tiff number one the school district encompassing the original Casino property was Easter School District due to Tiff number one Easter schools for went any incremental property tax revenues from the new casino for 23 years in 2009 after 23 years before the initial Tiff expired it was extended another 12 years currently allowable by state law over those combined 35 years Tiff number one diverted over $50 million away from public tax bodies into an unaccountable undemocratic pot of money Easter War schools missed out on approximately $31 million just the school with the new Cino Tiff District this could be you in 202 sorry in 2022 after 35 years of waiting Easter R School saw their first dispersement of Casino property taxes totaling $323,000 per year and now as the school district is finally posed to benefit from the casino pen entertainment and the city are moving it to a different jurisdiction to give pen a better return on their investment any promise of future tax revenues for public schools was a bluff the company has demonstrated that they will accept your tax concessions UPF front but have no problem leaving you behind in pursuit of profits they've demonstrated that they are not a faithful partner and cannot be trusted in the long term based on conservative city of Aurora figures if the new casino Tiff district is approved bavia schools will miss out on approximately $74 million in tax revenues $74 million that's city of Aurora figures the city of aora has proposed an intergovernmental agreement which is before you today where the taxing bodies will get 10% of any incremental taxes and 90% will go to pen gaming that is a bad deal you must not sign that by taking a hard line you strengthen your hand the buck stops with the school board you are the decision makers for the students staff and parents of bavia school district 101 and you are the ones who will be held personally responsible for those decisions please do not send staff to make that decision on your behalf the bavia school district should please votee no on the intergovernmental agreement agenda item 7.2 please also pass a resolution that would send a sitting board member to the Joint review board meeting on November 8th vote no at that joint review board meeting and have District 101 staff run the numbers yourself to make sure that you understand it entirely thank you so much next is Ivon dwy I agree with everything the predecessors said but Hollywood Hollywood Cino where it currently stands is making money Aurora Tiff was dissolved on 10262 21 the taxes that were assessed on the casino in 2021 were $ 38,3 3412 the taxing bodies in that Tiff District would see would be seeing the benefit from their 30-year weight now the casino will move and take with it the tax dollars that should rightly go to the taxing bodies who put up with the loss of Revenue and the opportunity cost of forgoing improvements or upkeep the tax dollars would have provided this is government sponsored theft and our tax dollars promote business expansion the city of Aurora purchased the property to be used for the new casino development back in 2017 the property was not truly blighted because if the casino was to be built there which they planned this there was potential for profit pen entertainment has made plenty of money from the casino and in fact could afford to build that property without t a tiff several times over why should taxpayers not be only be giving the land to the casino but paying to develop the property and the infrastructure surrounding the property when Penn's second quarter 2023 operating income was 44.6 Million gaming revenues alone were $1,292 uh8 million doar not counting food beverage and hotel and other operating income carving out a portion of Tiff seven and eight has the same effect as extending the Tiff beyond the 23 years and is taking higher Revenue producing property from those two tiffs which are set to expire in 2034 we teach our children not to talk to strangers to go and tell someone who can be trusted to act when I read the offer of the poultry 10% of the money to go to a special allocation fund to be distributed to TA taxing bodies along with the NDA the district agrees not to make statements or take actions disparaging the new Tiff District the existing existing Tiff District or the project the red stranger danger Flags go up if this is such a good deal why would the school district or any other taxing body have to agree to this statement obviously bavia school district has some experience with Tiff districts given the Aurora outlet mall which was only one successful tip and one Washington Tiff which was not so their experience could be a blessing to the Tiff or if it was not performing a curse this is akin to the city of Aurora paying protection money to the school district or if you prefer a bribe for the school district and other taxing bodies not to oppose the school districts uh could I just finish this one little sentence the Tiff the tiffs are self-perpetuating and are nothing more than corporate welfare at the the school district stands to lose over $74 million over the life of te the opportunity cost of forgoing improvements and repairs to the school for 23 years if the Tiff doesn't produce the aformentioned increment to pay the proposed money what are your guarantees for receipt Carl he can read the rest is Carl Carl dwy 1156 Pine Street poav Illinois first of all this has been my first official time to uh welcome superintendent Kim to our neighborhood and his family to our neighborhood it's great to see him and I watched at least three board members over the Su board meetings over the summer and it looks like the board and Mr Kim and all the staff did a really good job they're really attentive and one of the things I heard from uh editors once upon a time is the public comments time is called the deer and the headlights in front of most boards you know they just go to sleep but in this case I watch your meetings all summer long and I thought the comments were good and the attentiveness was good uh I'm not going to repeat what anybody said I'm mainly just going to focus on 7.2 about the agreement uh intergovernmental legal a I'll go through some problematic areas I see okay first of all of course the the aora can Surplus whatever it wants so that's not an issue it goes out to all the taxing bodies when I get to section four support by the district uh to vote in a certain way um at the Joint review board uh I have to say if it looks like a duck walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a duck so this looks like compensation to a public official for voting a certain way in a public meeting and um that gives me problems in fact so much problems as that I go to one board member who used when I'd go up to talk he says I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop so I would say that constitutes a brass and I feel obligated to um contact the FBI office in L and have them review Aurora's office and if you accept it to review or accept it that this is a material um compensation for a vote and I don't think that's correct um with Integrity the other I'm running out of time I don't want to hear that Bell again most of the rest of this is okay I wouldn't wave the trial by jury and you can be sued so i' been very careful what I sign here giving away your rights thank you Kio good evening my name is Kate coo I'm a bavia resident and mother of three children attending our excellent Public Schools I want to begin by thanking teachers staff and the bavia school board that have gone above and beyond to meet my children's needs especially since two of them have IEPs my primary purpose for speaking tonight is to ask you to vote no on the intergovernmental agreement with the city of Aurora and ask the school board to send someone to the Tiff joint review board meeting that will be held on November 9th and cast a no vote at that meeting the fact that pen entertainment is pursuing a tiff District to use taxpayer money to pay back an 8 a $58 million subsidy from the city of Aurora is of great concern that $58 million Bond will be repaid by tax Sellar that are diverted from bavia schools pen entertainment is a multi-billion dollar company and their CEO makes $65 million they don't need a tiff they don't need a subsidy and bavia school shouldn't pay for it the Tiff is projected to generate more than $120 million in Revenue under the current agreement that money will be diverted from our schools and into pen entertainment's Pockets instead we should push for 50/50 Tiff and use that money for the school repairs we needed to fund through the failed referendum we need to look out for Pavia residents taxpayers and our budget not pen entertainment's bottom line the existing Aurora Casino starved East Aurora schools for over 30 years and they just now started paying their taxes to Easter War schools we should negotiate a deal that gives bavia a bigger piece of the pie not live on a promise of future revenues our needs to M our needs to maintain our schools are now not 20 years from now or 30 years from now thank you that's all I have have a good one next we have Julie ster great all right hello we are the reading specialist representing each of the elementary schools and one of us has her doctorate in Reading collectively we have 83 years of experience in this District role which has changed dramatically during the last n years our goal here today is to to inform you about our Vital responsibilities as reading Specialists and to help you understand why our role is so valuable historically we were regarded as leaders in the instruction of reading and writing working alongside administrators and classroom teachers such Partnerships led to effective curriculum which translated to successful engaged Learners bavia was a place for other Educators to observe and return to their own districts with ideas and materials we are an essential partner to parents and their children as well as to our colleagues our skill set comprises those of a diagnostician a researcher a designer and a data analyst at the September board meeting superintendent Kim presented an outline of his strategic plan which includes identifying District resources well that's us we are very willing and eager to return to a role which would permit us to use our knowledge and talents to guide instruction reading and writing for all elementary students not just those who participate in a tier three intervention as diagnosticians we know how to go beyond Universal District assessments and dig deeper into a student's literacy profile this is crucial especially when they aren't responding to classroom instruction at a comparable Pace to their peers from there we could design instruction that better supports them if we were allowed to do this it would help those children and in part May address the over identification of students of color for which this district has been cited frequently during the past nine years as researchers we are the specialist in our domain teachers have many subjects to teach but we have one making us the experts we stay up to date on current reading practices and research and can synthesize that for teachers to benefit tier one and two instruction as designers we know how to create instructional practices for students based on our work as diagnosticians and researchers we can take a boxed program and customize it by adding modifying or taking away elements in order to best fit the needs of the students in front of us additionally in years prior we have designed and offered professional development to our colleagues in both reading and writing instruction as data analysts we use information daily to make instruction C decisions about our students this responsive teaching is critical to supporting atrisk readers relatedly we know how to gather District data and look at it from both a current and in terms of instructional practices and materials in conclusion we believe in the importance of this role which has existed in the district for the last 40 years at least our colleagues and school families have relied on us we know how valuable it is to have a reading specialist in every building we are your inhouse literacy experts minutes next is Julian heckbert all right good evening board members everybody I am here to talk about the casino Tiff I agree with what most of my fellow residents here have said so out of respect for your time I am going to skip to the very end of my little speech here so pen entertainment they don't they don't need this money you know um they spent more on stock BuyBacks last year than we stand to gain um from voting no on this Tiff they spent 91 million on stock BuyBacks just in one year and we stand game about 74 million over the full 23 years they don't they don't need this money we do so I would urge you to appoint one of you to go to one of the elected officials on this board to go to the Joint review board meetings to take a look at the financials yourself and to vote no on the current proposal on November 8th so that we can negotiate for a better deal that's all I've got thank you next is Mary Lee Lou good evening I as Julian said I won't uh I agree with my the prior uh people that have spoken in regards to the Tiff so I will just speak to slightly different places in the sense that um this 74 uh million in funds that will be diverted from your District shortly you're going to have a presentation for your Capital expenditures requesting 52 million this year so if you have one year that you need 52 million to do projects those are going to have a a long lasting uh not repr progressions but they're going to be long lasting for the students in 23 years the Fieldhouse the other uh project you intend to do will outlive this Tiff I'm the parent of two teenagers it's potential that I will actually have grandchildren that are not even conceived of yet be born graduate college before the benefits could be done of this so your body is making decisions today that are affected a full generation that we don't even know about yet so as Julian stated I uh encourage you to make a resolution tonight to send one of you as an elected uh body members instead of some staff and also to um resolve that you stand in opposition for uh granting a for-profit of dollars um because as he stated they don't need it um thank you so much for your time and finally John le uh good evening board uh first of all I want to thank you I served on the East Aurora School Board uh for four years and during the May discussion where the city of Aurora came and presented to you some of you asked the question what does this do to East Aurora some of the other speakers have done a good job articulating how this wasn't just a it was a short 23 25 year Tiff and then got extended and that's how Illinois Tiff law is written and if you think about the life cycle of a building is or a project is 25 years A lot of people are even in their building less than that so you're effectively negotiating deal for the lifespan of this building um I am also a sitting Aurora Alderman uh who you also had asked what about the other um um Alderman because I know Alderman Worman was here what do they think this is an issue I ran on I can assure you that Ward one residents uh some who are here tonight are against this uh because it will dramatically change their lives and decrease their property values but you know your role as a school board is to set policy on these tiffs District 204 has adopted an official policy opposing Tiff districts and they are so far the only successful that I taxing body that's negotiated effectively against uh what I would call aggressive negotiating strategies by the city of Aurora uh making one of their tiffs down to a 15-year Tiff there's a number of levers that you can pull to change it uh either to make it a 50/50 Tiff which is a point nobody's made yet um we do have a a sheet and a handout and I'll email it to you if you haven't got it yet using the city of Aurora's own numbers numbers that were presented uh at this in May that this will generate $5.25 million a year that's money that doesn't go into the taxing bodies but instead goes into the the Tiff district and over the course of time that's $120 million so over the course of 23 years so we are financially pot committed to $58 million not a vote I cast um and prior to my time on the on the board but if if we're only need 58 why are we doing a math problem with 120 million so something to think about so would Echo some of the other um points that have been made by my peers and also encourage you to talk to District 204 about this before committing to tonight's um uh vote on the intergovernmental agreement I personally just left the aora city council meeting and voted no on it and um I would encourage you to talk to the other taxing bodies and um I would encourage people to attend the jrb even if you're not there as a voting member just to educate yourself and and I will be sending out an invitation for November 4th 10:00 a.m.

and they go off at 11: p.m. to turn them on sooner than 6 because there's groups meeting there before 6 o'clock so I had to bump that time up to 5 a.m.

um come we're invited is the Public's invited to come learn important safety tips for trick-or-treating there's candy for the kids and other food trucks food trucks Halloween games and ant cars there's there's cars there's um emergency vehicles there's a helicopter the last time I went so it's it's very exciting it's a really fun place to go thank you that concludes my report I will now move to 10.02 town of Gilbert Le is on Mrs Pig yes thank you president wood um I had an opportunity to meet with council member caasi this last week um along with I brought along Rod Houston the director of community relations and we had a fantastic meeting talking about how Community engagement through the town of Gilbert and um in direct regards to Gilbert Public Schools could go forward we've just started this conversation and so we look forward to to having future conversations with involving the town of Gilbert and Community engagement within our district um so I'd like to thank council member caasi for that and I also want to thank her for her support on our bond we had a long conversation about that and she was given the relevant information about it and so want to thank her for that and that's all I have to report thank you thank you Mrs Paige 10.03 Gilbert Education Foundation and audit committee Mrs humph so um we had the cornhole tournament last month right I think it was Thursday after our board meeting which was very successful and I think um everyone who attended had a great time and it was a good fundraiser also the Gilbert Education Foundation completed the power of one campaign and raised over $35,000 and that will go toward WS classroom grants so their their unite Gilbert unit's campaign kicks off on Monday October 16th that's for our staff and it helps raise money for the shame program reaching hands and the Valley of the Sun United Way and then our classroom Innovation grants applications open up on Monday October 16th so they're already open and those applications close on November 13th um the notifications will go out December 14th and funding will start after the holiday break so we would love teach ERS to come up with their ideas and and put in for a grant application and then the next Business Leaders breakfast will be Wednesday November 1st at 8:00 a.m.

we will be holding a tiff 101 meeting that's going to be slightly different and very factual um in the merrywood community center thank you that concludes our public comment thank you very much thank you to everybody that came and spoke today I'd like to invite our BPS Partners up uh Todd Swanson welcome back we missed you last month but he did a good job filling in for you good evening everyone um I find it kind of ironic I'm standing by this sign that says always learning and always growing so before I even started my comments I just wanted to say thank you to everyone that came to educate me and the people sitting in this room and everybody listening and watching online about Tiff districts I learned more about Tiff District in 25 minutes than uh I think I have ever known about them so thank you for coming to speak and to help us all learn and grow so that was really appreciated uh tonight I'd like to begin by continuing to focus on our district accomplishments last month I shared some news that our art department at BHS was one of three schools in the state to receive the school of the distinction designation by the Illinois art educator Association and as we just celebrated at the beginning of our meeting tonight we have yet another Illinois art educator of the year as one of our district colleagues in Kathleen Terry ton in a span of just five years we as a district have our second Statewide art educator of the year for the entire state of Illinois on our staff in 2018 Don zulis also received this prestigious recognition and recognition of our BPS staff for an art educator of the Year other accomplishments our bavia marching band competed in the State marching band competition last weekend at ISU and placed second overall in class 2A was awarded best visual and this marks the highest placement in this class in our school's history it also marked the second 6ity year for the bavia marching band to be selected for the State final in the finals this year bavia marching band placed 11th which is the highest placement in the school's history this caps off a season with many awards and recognitions in other competitions with the band placing first or second repeatedly our football team is yet again Conference champions and is poised to make a deep playoff run the fall sports teams of soccer volleyball cross country tennis golf and cheer are all winding down their seasons and to all of our students and all of our staff in every one of these are that I mentioned who contribute to every win and grow from every defeat thank you for making our fall Sports season memorable leaving behind Sports and Fine Arts for a second I'd like to spend a moment on academic recognitions coming up in the consent agenda you'll see the Illinois school report card and in all of its data you will also see that each one of our BPS schools received a commendable or exemplary designation on the 2023 school report card this accomplishment comes on the the shoulders of all of our District employees But ultimately it's at the hands of our students who apply what they've learned in their classrooms receiving commendable status are Louise White Grace MCW JB Nelson Rola middle school and bavia high school this level is reached when there are no underperforming student subgroups but they're not quite in the top 10% of the schools in the state however we did have three of our elementary schools break into the top 10% of school in the state this year and received exemplary status congratulations to Alice gusterson HC Storm and Hoover wood for receiving this recognition an interesting piece of information I learned as I dug a little bit deeper into that data was that our top three performing schools in the district also had the three lowest average class sizes in the district ranging from 19 to 21 students per class these three schools had the highest percentage of students who met expectations for growth and Readiness on the I state test as a board I think that is extremely valuable information for you to have and to ponder as we move forward in planning for the future the Bea is also working very closely with Tom to get our Equity committee up and running this year as they have their first meeting scheduled on November 9th Tom and Amber jersa are the co-chairs this year and we are looking forward to using Tom's message from opening day of inclusivity to be the lens the committee operates under this year we're also excited to have Danielle be the board rep on the committee this year I'm really looking forward to some amazing things to come from our reinvigorated and refocused Equity committee with all this great news does this mean that it's always sunshine and roses with everything in our district of course not we are continuing to work with District admin on curriculum issues at the elementary level and Staffing across the district as we continue to seek out the wise of decisions to help with with understanding and transparency that's one thing I'm most proud of my members for doing continuing to seek out the why for a decision that has been made that doesn't mean we have to agree with the decision but at least we will know what led to the decision the other piece that would be help tremendous or this is the other piece that would help tremendously and Clarity and buy in is to be a part of the discussion even from the beginning as you heard earlier from our reading specialist we are a district filled with experts in our field fields we are just shy of 34s of our Educators holding a master's degree or higher problem solving together as admin and Educators experts at the front end makes transparency and byend even higher on the back end working together from the beginning builds a lot more trust and provides better communication and transparency than coming in after a decision is made and dealing with the Fallout to clarify and figure out a path forward as always I would personally welcome any questions that that you as board members might have if you heard something tonight that is stuck with you which I hope that it has I look forward to any conversations that we may have together as always as well I thank you all for your service as a board for your work on District committees and to those of you that have been able to connect with staff in your school Liaisons Educators really do appreciate seeing you and having a chance to talk with you when you come out into our buildings with that I'm going to say Enjoy your last few days of October and have a happy and safe Halloween thank Youk you Todd next I would like to invite up Laura for Besa please hi everybody I'm Laura versillo from Besa and I am the board's treasur and um I'm not sure if you're from familiar but every board meeting we've been uh coming here and talking about besta employee I think it's important um we have wonderful teachers but we also have wonderful support staff and it would be nice for you to know just a little bit about um each member and if you look at the slide Besa the first one here we feel the PPA we're the branches of the educational tree so just remember this because later it's all going to make sense not today but it will so just so you know what we did is we sent our besta members just kind of a questioner to get this started so when I'm reading these stories this is where they're coming from we just asked you know simple light questions how long have you worked at BPS um did you work at any different schools did you have different titles are you a bavia resident tell us about your family your hobbies um why do you work here and what do you like about working at BPS what's your best memory working day and what is something about your job or about you that is unknown um if you could change one thing about your job what would it be and then I just said you know be um happy to fill in whatever else you want to include so today I am um I have the honor of introducing Nikki shindle back and Nikki is a dedicated lunch recess supervisor SL campus monitor at Louise White School Nikki's Journey with the school spans eight years and her story is one of dedication and commitment to the well-being of our students Nikki embarked on this path when her youngest daughter started first grade after years of being a stay-at-home mom she was seeking an opportunity that would enable her to return to work while accommodating her children's school and activity schedules she knew she wasn't going to go back to being a high school math teacher after starting her family a friend pointed her towards this role affirming that Nikki's natural affinity for working with kids and her desire to be present for her two daughters at school made a perfect fit Nikki's personal life is filled with joy and respect responsibility she's been happily married for 21 years raising three wonderful children in the savannah division in Aurora Jason her 18-year-old son is currently attending wanzi Community College while her daughter's Madison 16 years old uh bavia High School Jr and Mason 13 years old at rotello 8th grade keep her busy with activities especially Scouts in Spirit Week crazy ha day and Halloween in her free time Nikki enjoys crafting reading gardening and exploring new places the reason Nikki continues to work at Louise White school is she cherishes the interactions with the children Benny of who she's come to know and who recognize her the relationships with her colleagues and the flexibility that fits perfectly with her schedule are added bonuses not to mention the ability to see her girls when they attended at Louise White the memory she's created by being a part of their Elementary school years are truly special in Nikki's role as a lunch recess supervisor campus monitor every day is an adventure it's a dynamic role that's never the same presenting new challenges and surprises some days go by smoothly while other days are filled with incidents like spills resolving disputes among friends addressing injuries and ensuring students leave with their belongings left behind in an orderly manner however Nikki does emphasize that there is some room for improvement as a lunch recess supervisor campus monitor they often face situations where some training and guidelines could prove incredibly beneficial they haven't received any training for emergency situations like fire alarms or tornado drills leaving them to rely on their Common Sense furthermore more they would greatly benefit from first aid choking and seizure training especially since they interact with the children daily Nikki's experience as a high school teacher and mother have informed her approach but dealing with elementary students that are not her own requires a unique set of skills in conclusion Nikki schindelbeck is not just a lunch recess supervisor campus she's a dedicated mother an enthusiast itic Scout leader and a valued member of our school Community her commitment to her role and her love for the children are evident in her everyday efforts as she continues to contribute to the students launch and recess time she also highlights the need for improvements that would not only benefit her but also make this role more attractive for other parents who may consider joining our team thank you for your dedication Nikki thank you thank you and next are our student ambassadors you guys are hiding in the back hi guys I'm Jer and cesara and these are some updates from BET High School okay so this month the girls wrestling team are starting off strong with a lot of committed members athletes um we also have Eco club uh creating a bat race uh festival for this Halloween I know some members who are really excited for that next weekend and for some success the girls tennis um qualified for States and they're ending the season strong and speaking of like additional clubs this year we have um M un um which me and Zara actually went today and the meeting Ended as a success and with future plans and like committed members as well and start uh talking about things that's starting up this year is um mentoring program which allows high school students to team up with the elementary schools to help build connections between the high school students and the elementary students and I'm one of the mentors that's in that program and I cannot stress enough how much like this really like like builds connection between the high school students and Elementary School students it helps build like fun and authentic relationships I'm like really excited for it it's something I look up to you every year all right and for some other successes we have um choir put on a great performance for their October concert and uh to reiterate football had a great season and the band cheer and dance all put on a great show and they have their first run of playoffs this Friday which is really exciting and volleyball also is fired up with their season and they recently won their first Regional playoffs so that was super exciting and they're actually playing against Bennett right now I believe and um like mentioned before the art programs at the high school have been getting some great recognition along with the teachers who have been doing some amazing work I can say cuz I just finished my 3D art class and it was amazing and shout out to miss tyri who won the secondary art educator um of the year that's amazing amazing work done by the teachers and also wanted to highlight a new uh program set up by the BHS counselors It's called the scholarship series and I'm really appreciative of this I went to the other event and they kind of educate students and parents on like different financial aid and scholarships that students can get access to so it's a really great thing that they have on and they have more programs coming up and as mentioned before we went to the model un meeting today actually and they're tackling different world issues and and kind of giving students the leadership skills they need to go forward so overall a lot of great things happening thank you thank you thank you okay next is board the aison committee updates are there any committee updates I have an update okay get my notes pulled up here does anyone else have one they can I can just go real quick I go um don't everybody jump at one mine real quick we just um beefy meets actually Thursday but today this afternoon we had a little Branch off of Hall of Honor um which has been on Hiatus for the last year or so and beefy has taken overhaul of Honor which they originally started it but um so we've gotten our committee together and we're starting to talk about it so it will be back for next year so we're working on that great thank you do you want to go M I have two that are kind of I'll go I got it pulled up here so the insurance and benefits committee met on October 12th I was able to attend virtually get a good discussion Josh does a nice job summarizing our discussion so what we discussed was the Open Enrollment presentations that uh were sent out to staff um and kind of a preview of what we we will be sending out we reviewed the CHC participation data which is up from last year um we looked at an overview of what's in driving Insurance costs in the district and we looked at a lot of different metrics we have a great tool where we can really do super fine detailed analysis of what's driving cost so what we're sort of working on for the next one is working on creating a quarterly standard of data review so we can kind of simplify things we can see how we're doing that's what we talked about do you have another one or that's it that's it okay perfect okay um first uh the stiping committee um so just to re iterate remind everyone the stiping committee is a group that helps uh maintain guidelines and make decisions on uh student clubs and activities there's a set aside amount of monetary funds for these groups and um there's members that decide which groups are going to receive funds for this so as you could if you just hear that like that it sounds like oh that could be pretty messed up um so if I could explain it best over the past year it's as if we had leaves everywhere you know know fall fall theme we had leaves everywhere and they raked it all up this this committee did a really good job over the past year they put a lot of work into it um so first I want to recognize all the members because they've they've really worked hard they were working um over the summer off their you know regular school hours as well so Steve if you can help me really quick because I'm just realizing now that I haven't said a lot of these people's last names um so how do you pronounce Shelby's last name gages so Shelby gages is one of the co-chairs with Steve and then Keith oth Keith oth and Adam Lester are two members that represent Roto then there's Chris milka and Diane kissper who represent Elementary and there's Justin nson and Brian Gamblin that represent vavia High School correct okay I'll say as a side note because my students go to um HD storm Mr milka's there Chris milka he takes extraordinary notes I mean I don't they're just they're amazing if you guys ever want to see them I'll be happy to show them to you they're colorcoded everything um it's true so the stip in the stip in process and I've heard this from other other um from students parents the sing process was kind of a little unorganized over the past couple years there was paper applications there was online applications there were applications that were getting out of date um people weren't sure what the criteria was for getting chosen for the stip in um the committee uh just sent out right before the meeting started Steve sent out a message to all the BPS colleagues um explaining the timeline a very nice well-written timeline um for when processes are due when the decisions were going to be made and they also came up with um values to guide their decisions and making so they have a clearly defined system um they're worried about equity and access for all students at all levels that's why we have two members from each different grade level there at the meetings um the stiens are going to be centered on activities outside of professional duties and the stiens are going to be fair equ and Equitable to all staff and buildings besides the student students at all levels so the email just came out all the BPS 101 colleagues will be seeing it whenever they're checking their email um and I just it was just great so I just want to recognize that that's what happened so they made a lot of progress um we're going to start rolling with with new decisions um in the next couple months here with the the new timeline that they proposed anything you want to add no you said it very well okay a lot of good work all right um and then my other update is with Fox Valley Career Center um in May there in May of 2023 the the fvcc was a recipient of a fire apparatus driving simulator actually from the city of bavia fire department so something for us to be proud of because if you don't know Fox Valley is associated with a lot of other schools in the area not just bavia uh so the fire science students and staff actually travel to bavia to pick up this machine and bring it back to the school do you happen to have a a picture that um the the picture to put up there know s did you have that I'm sorry I thought that I had sent that over to you let me send that really quick because that send it to me RJ okay Twitter account that was over there yeah okay okay so Holly I'll send it over to you and I'll continue to talk about it I just wanted everyone to see the machine so it's the machine is on the first email of that chain the first the first email that chain and um I'll send you another picture as well that I want you to share so essentially this is a machine that is going to go a long way to helping the fire science students um it meets it helps meet a lot of the requirements for Illinois standards as you can see it's almost like um you might have seen a any type of driving similar like an airplane similar so this is what it's like for them to be driving a uh fire truck um the the students actually had to take this apart and put it back together so Not only was it a challenge to get and they were happy to get it but um the the uh principal over there wanted me recognized Evan C uh he's one of the students who put a lot of time and effort into actually getting this up for the fire science program so thank you to Evan c um and let's see I just want to make sure I got this and then if you got the other um did you see the other one that I sent um just want to note that that uh our very own superintendent was able to go there and drive an old airport fire truck I don't know if you were sharing that but I wanted to share the photos of as well everyone just eats into my comments so that's all right you're joining time oh do you have the picture of it yourself no I was going to talk about my visit that's sorry you're taking care of it to took half my statements you're oh he shared that with you oh God so it's nice to see that you're getting your hands dirty know what the students are going through so that's it any question keep that up for the rest of the meeting you'd rather see that than the [Laughter] agenda just kidding all right thanks um Raquel go ahead and for the all right joint committee meeting effectively so capital gains or I'm sorry Capital project and rack um combined and we actually had two meetings uh prior to this one so our first one was on 928 uh basically they just were talking about the 2024 projects for the summer um and then uh not to steal anyone's Thunder sorry Mark but um there is basically going to go with a for the next few years they want to do a warm safe and dry that's going to be their main focus for the next uh Five Years on their projects um also they talked a little bit about uh the food service and the HB 2471 Bill about healthy meals for all um and they're going to send out a survey um to parents and kids um just talking about what type of lunch they have there's like a couple options so we meet that criteria for the uh that Senate bill um and then um in the last meeting uh they talked more about um The Five-Year Plan and uh um we have some contracts are going to be renewed like buses um our energy costs they're trying to work with those and then also accommodating for full day kindergarten and then they went more in depthly into like the actual years on what they are want to do for the schools and the costs and the projects and they kind of like broke it out so that basically it okay anyone else Rob um I guess I'll just mention I we did have a curriculum committee meeting uh unfortunately I was not able to attend I was out of town uh during that meeting but uh I did receive the the notes and the feedback and it looks like they started um reviewing some of the subject area leadership uh Team charters for sign science Ela social studies and essential programming um grades three through 3 through 12 um so that that started um leans was also picked for those subject area leadership teams um to help with communication so um so those were the notes coming back from that meeting great thank you in case everybody hadn't noticed that if I'm still in your thunder I apologize in advance um that the committee is kind of where there's a lot of reorganization ation and a lot of relook and that came out of kind of con constructed dialogue working with the teachers and staff so I appreciate all the hard work from all the teachers and staff and everybody else to really try to pull this together as the new year is starting and get here to be able to kind of talk about that and I'm excited for the opportunities that are going to come from those revisions and changes so thank you for that all right consent agenda so according to our board policy we designate a portion of the agenda as a consent agenda for those items that usually do not require extensive discussion before board action these items generally are retuned recurring and can be grouped together for efficiency Steve as usual would you like to share anything before we take action no I have nothing to share No Beyond this uh consent agenda okay you ready yep 5.1 approval of the September 19th 2023 meeting minutes 5.2 is our monthly Personnel report 5.3 is our monthly uh payroll and bills 5.4 is the destruction of our close session recordings from April 19th 2022 uh 5.5 we have several uh donations a lot of them very considerable we're definitely grateful to uh DM Hendrickson of cier City Florida bavia Arts Council and then considerable donations from beefy Are Much appreciated uh 5.6 is the uh authorized the application for our school maintenance project Grant 5.7 is our school report card uh 5.8 is the BHS overnight field trip approval 5.9 is the authorization to begin development of our budg approval of this consent agenda does anyone have any questions or comments yes I have questions okay so on the Personnel report I'm just curious how the incentive program is going um because I see the only thing that I see on there right is that there is three Paras that resigned and then um three Paras that were hired within that time frame so just how is it going uh ironically we had a meeting with um our besta uh leadership tonight and they asked the same question so they pre me in advance um unfortunately I'm I'm I guess I'm sharing that we have not seen great success with that um having said that I just got an email uh tonight or this this evening um from a uh staff member with a potential lead so I'm hopeful that that works out but to date um I can't I have to say that we have not seen any success uh with the incentive program um but we still got like a month left so um with the eight FMLA the staff is that going to impact us too I'm sorry with this the FMLA the eight staff that going to be an FMLA like do we have to replace all of them or I mean you know or they just kind I know like there was an intermittent FMLA so yeah it depends um it depends on what the FMLA leave is is uh like and what it constitutes um with intermittent FMLA I would I would share with you that interm intermittent FMLA is usually used for uh situations that may be fluid or a little bit unpredictable as an example um maybe a staff member has a loved one that has been diagnosed with cancer and a treatment plan is being developed and um if you've ever had a family member that's dealt with cancer uh there's a lot of unpredictabilities um they may have uh chemotherapy or radiation on Tuesday and after that treatment you know you may have to drive them to and from and be there to support them on that Tuesday and you might be able to come back on Wednesday but maybe um they don't feel so well after that after that treatment and the staff member has to take an additional day off and so what intermittent FMLA uh does and how we cover it generally speaking would be with our uh very very valuable um building subs or with a substitute teacher um the there's other FML in there that maybe are um uh longer in nature or excuse me maybe more uh uh consistent in nature where someone is out for a significant period of time maybe they've had a child maybe they're having a procedure um something along those lines and again depending on the length of it the uh people that we can hire sometimes we hire to replace that um a short-term person for five weeks six weeks eight weeks um or sometimes we again utilize our building sub so it really depends um I would say that FMLA is a uh an important um process to provide our staff some flexibility to deal with some very difficult situations but I would also say that um it's not a one siiz fits-all it's pretty complicated and complex um and it it's really individualized uh uh for each person recel I'm sorry I was just gonna say I noticed the two that caught my attention I don't know if you saw only there's four of them that are less than a month long and and then three are intermittent so I was assuming that we wouldn't replace for less than a month I mean we probably it it it all depends because you're not going to go through a uh when again it depends on the FMLA if we have for warning then maybe we would go to try find somebody for a short term but if we find out on Tuesday night that a person is going to be out for four weeks starting the following day probably not time to go find a brand new person unless we have a connection with somebody a lot of times we have a lot of cons assistant substitutes in our buildings um that know the building they know the staff they know the students um and those people fill that void for some of those more shortterm two weeks three weeks four weeks that might be it too it just depends so I know this will probably not be liked but I know that besta has a little over a year in their contract and maybe we need to kind of look at opening it up and what needs to happen for that um I just think it's something that we need to look at because seems like we're losing more than we're gaining I'm sorry oh I just said I know that besta has a little more than a year left on their contract and it might be something that we want to look into opening back up um because I know I think like we're losing more than we're gaining like they can go down the road and get what $2 more oh yeah oh yeah so then um going going back to the um the the bills and pays um I just have one and I still I didn't I'm sorry if I missed it Tony but I didn't know there was a mohawk again for the 11,000 and I don't know what the Mohawk is yeah Mohawk page 71 um it says Mohawk USA Education I just didn't know what it was again I don't know what that is I does it say what next to I come up again and then um so going to the report card I just have a couple questions is for science I just we why is there a higher participation rate for ELA than science do we not give it to everybody is that what that is or like because like math and Ela had a 99% participation rate where science had 77% I was just curious we only give it to um I'm not entirely sure but I also need to make sure that the board is aware as say stated in the memo that the report card link that's provided to you is where we house the report card that data is actually under embargo by is it's not going to be released and updated until October 30th okay so what's currently up on our on our website is um reflective of the previous two years ago oh two years I saw they work in our so on October 27th is be will take be taking down all live and active report cards updating them over the weekend and then then on the 30th they will be released and that's why we're coming to you for permission to release it once ISB has updated the report cards and it goes live and then our technology team will update our our uh link to reflect where the report card data so this one so I'm sorry so this one is live now or it's going to go live on after October 30th okay we're just authorizing them to release the information okay it's a bit of a technicality of the the board has to do oh okay yeah we're required to get your vote of consent I see so that then once the state makes all those links live we can actually publish it oh okay so everybody knows that you'll be able to view it very soon but we're just authorizing the district to release that information I think it could be made more clear in the memo but it says the upcoming 2023 report cards they're not they're not there yet okay so the report cards always work in a year a so so when you see the new updated report card it's a fiscal year 23 that's it okay thank you R any other questions okay I will entertain a motion to approve the consent to agenda as present so moved second so moved by Ain second by Sue all in favor I thank you Tom is there anything to share this evening under reports um yeah so we'll just go ahead and go down the line um under 6.1 board the foyer requests are presented to you as as responded to okay questions okay uh moving then to 6.2 under Treasures report I'll turn it over to Tony if there's anything to add for nothing out of the ordinary to present here uh under Section 6.3 you see the draft for the 2425 school calendar we just wanted to get that in front of the board for review uh Dr new newerk and the union have met and Dr newerk has also met with leadership and other constituents to make sure um we made adjustments that would appropriately Fit For What the draft calendar needs to look like um keeping in mind that the um Governor has reinstituted the mandatory no day of school on November 10th for our election no I'm sorry I'm using Veterans Day weekend sorry November 4th I believe it is for our our voting day so for the state 5th November 5th just thanks for looking out Steve um so November 5th so anyway so that's what built in we did have a draft we had to make an adjustment once that came out and then so um you have a month preview we wanted to present it to you and the public and then we'll have a vote at next month's meeting okay right we have and then the next item is actually uh board member lock under delegate assembly is there any discussion there um no I just wanted to point out that everyone at their seat has um the information for the delegates for triple meeting read through them if you have any comments you can go ahead and email me your yeah just so just so everyone's aware Sue is volunteered to be the delegate sort of volunteer told yeah cuz I'm the only one willing to get up in the morning and go I think that's what it was um and so that's a part of kind of the triple I session and school board members and others get together to kind of feel like they should kind of Lobby for or against at a state level so and don't put too much weight into this because it's not actually making decisions or acting anything it's just stating a position on various um uh educationally related topics yeah okay any questions for Sue please feel free to give her any information that you have or opin meeting on next month not not this meeting but the confence that meeting yeah okay board policy okay board policy um so this is a first read for the Board of Education um I would like to note and give some thanks and appreciation to uh Rob and Danielle for meeting with me we spent time looking over all the policy review that you're seeing here tonight um we walked through them um Rob are you comfortable if I just kind of run through it and if you want just jump in jump in right okay so uh we reviewed policies the the first set of policies you'll notice um let me back up we subscribe to press which is a service of the Illinois Association of school boards this is a um a service that is provided to hundreds of school districts in the state of Illinois um the policy review process is reviewed reviewed and vetted by a team of attorneys through their Association that focus on school law and they maintain and track how to continually update what school board policy manuals should look like as the state of Illinois passes new legislation impacting schools right so what you'll see in our board policy manuals um or specifically on board policies are typically like footnotes and legal references in addition to the bulk main language the core language of a board policy um what you see under policies uh two colon 080 2on 170 4 colon 045 and 4 colon 100 along with policies 7 colon 275 7 colon 305 7 colon 330 8 colon 025 and 8 colon 095 you'll notice that under those specific policies I reviewed them with both Rob and Danielle and then in those policies they they are just updating legal references cross references as new um case law might have come and been decided upon then they will go ahead and update those things but if you look at the policy itself that's in your board book none of the language was substantially change changed at all in the policy Sometimes some of those M minor changes they're actually cleaning up a typo they may have caught that was not caught in the past they clean it up but it is a change to policy so you have to review it and then approve it okay um the ones that will'll spend just a little more more time looking at more closely um so the policies I just read to you that's exactly what's happening nothing substantial in in the actual policy itself is changing and and I don't know if are you good with that okay um then if you take a look at board policy 5230 talking about maintaining student discipline um the following four policies that um the board is going to be reviewing over the next month are four policies that do not C currently aligned to the Press manual and some of these are um policies that have not been updated in years um so what you see before you is a recommendation to approve the Rewritten policies as presented by press which would bring us aligned in into alignment with current best practice and advised practice by our uh legally reviewed Services through iasb um so under um 5230 you'll see there's a reconstruction of some of the language in um from what our current board policy is to what we're recommending and some of it in terms of the language that we're asking you to adopt will remove language that's in the current policy under student um maintaining student discipline however that language can be found in other areas of our board manual such as section six so some of the language there is not being lost it's just simply cleaning up this particular policy as recommended by the uh press group okay um under uh policy 6 col 010 um same thing our educational philosophy policy is not aligned to what is currently in press press is actually providing us with a much more robust policy format as you note in in the attachment um and what's nice is a lot of the review areas are covered by the very committees that you as board members just reviewed that you participate in so like curricular things might go through CAC things regarding facilities might go through rack Etc right or even matters regarding inclusion and Equity that might go through our Equity committee at this point too as point of discussion okay do I have any questions so far awesome um the third one uh policy 6190 so at the moment we would also recommend this change um there will be a a major overhaul by going to this policy this has not been uh updated in six years and so we felt that it'd be necessary at the moment to go ahead and and move towards the Press policy language on extracurricular activities all right byar um and then the final one on student travel we are recommending to adopt policy 6240 uh in particular I do want the board to uh be aware of the fact that we currently have this policy under Section 7 as policy 7320 uh we are recommending that that policy stay there and that we allow ourselves to work through that because that is currently the existing policy there are some things there that we use as part of our protocols in the district when it comes to student travel and field trips but we have nothing under Section six so we are recommending that we adopt section six's uh policy that was recommended by press and then we will work to align section s's policy and then at a later date present that to the board so press is is six hours the press's policy yes so this is where it gets a little tricky right um so the policy we're asking you to approve is 6240 or review for next month approval is 6240 we have a policy already in place that is similar to the language and spirit of this policy but it resides under Section seven right now is the is it is a suggestion to move it to a different section specifically or is there a large difference in no so this is a policy that hasn't been updated in five years currently since we don't have anything under Section six we're trying to make an effort to kind of bring ourselves back to what is being recommended as best practice for our board policy manual um this had some iterations of some homegrown language into it which we wanted that's why before we undo anything in this particular policy you know what I mean like no good deed goes unpunished you know if we were to change something there and and being the new person here um I don't want to accidentally undo something that was intended in good spirit but then all of a sudden we're like tomm you just eliminated that policy with the board so it's like we want you know we're going to take time in understanding that one and make sure we dig into any of the uh edits and changes on that but the policy under Section six would work for everything that our district needs to do so there's updates on these you know five years is that because laws change or just that's primarily what driving most of this right yeah or case law or something that has caused it's not like we have an inherently bad policy it's just the law no and then like this one 7320 this is just one of those cases where some additional language was added and then modified into it so I want to make sure that we're we are bringing ourselves to you know some of our better pract strong practices that are being recommended with updates but I want to understand also what some of this language uh what we want to tweak to make sure it matches then what we're philosophically pursuing yeah and it happens like you said with some regularity and I think two years ago when I did this with um former superintendent it was like 800 Pages worth of review it was monstrous at that time we used to have a whole committee yeah yeah so yeah the last uh as you know I mean last uh three to five years has seen the most educational impacting bills passed through legislation at the state in Springfield in the state's history impacting schools so it's it's uh a lot of districts are trying to keep up with all the changes and updates okay thank you can I ask a question or a favor maybe yeah and it's just me maybe it was done this way before but like I know there's the link down here below the PDF but is there some way we could have a link like I'm looking at parental involvement involvement 8095 could we have a link on that where I just click and get it takes me to the I think I hate change yeah I think that's how it used to be and I could just click on that and it's easier for me to does that make sense yep so if this table that's in the board book up here on the agenda had hot links live links to those actual policies is what you're saying yes okay right I mean problem it's not that I can't go down but then I have to scroll down the whole thing and the one that I'm looking for for which what I'm probably going to end up doing is printing out the whole thing anyways but while I'm going through it I can just click on the one I want to no problem does that make sense yep it's just I think it's easier okay okay maybe not well uh we can certainly do that no problem thanks Sue um you all right so if there's no other questions on that uh we will if you do have questions in the meantime between now and the next board meeting please do not hesitate to contact me I'm more than happy to spend time talking to you through anything or Robin Danielle um I think they have a really good understanding of it after we talked for almost two hours right so um yeah we did have a lot of that yes um all right so then the final item under reports um is our capital projects plan report and um Tony are you good to go at this time if I turn it over to you sure I'm going to invite Mark to the podium as well so I'll kind of kick things off and the intention here is to have a discussion uh not necessarily simply a presentation there are two components to this plan and the first are the projects that we've identified for work in this fiscal year which is fiscal year 24 work that we would that would take place this this summer you'll notice that this is a report we're not asking necessarily for your approval but we are asking for your asent that we're going to start planning for these projects this summer and so the next component of that though are the the warm safe and dry components that we've identified as being post referendum what we need to do to keep our schools warm safe and dry in the Years Beyond but first we want to start talking about what needs what we believe needs to happen at uh in particular the high school this summer and that would be uh replacing the weight room floor as a matter of fact that would wouldn't happen this summer because it it would actually happen over winter break yeah because uh that floor has deteriorated rapidly deteriorated rapidly and um it needs needs repair and then the other work would happen during the summer so I'll let Mark talk about those but then we'll come back to the warm safe and dry components ler as Tony mentioned the Wai room floor the board um already passed that last month in action um the next two are mainly focused on the Fieldhouse and the Fine Arts Center and basically with those two I'm going to start in the exterior first um it's really maintenance that's needing to be done um they are starting to show their age we're getting to the point where it's 13 years old now um some general maintenance that has to be done um obviously it's a little bit different than your house but it's very similar to your house um you have to do maintenance in your house this is just maintenance when you get to the field or the Fine Art Center they have 45t pre-cast walls it's a little bit different a little bit different equipment that's needed um and this is actually great thank you for queuing pictures so um there's some pictures up here on the screen uh this is looking at the Fieldhouse one of the overhead doors and you can see there's some really what you're seeing right there is some discoloration but if you look a little bit closer um you're starting to see some cracks in the walls um things that need to be filled um part of this will be painting as well and you can just kind of flip through and I'll let you know when to stop since I'm not controlling this thank you Holly um we're still the Fieldhouse so some more pictures you can kind of see that diagonal crack going up that's going to be filled um and sanded and then it will be painted just some more gutters are involved in this as well um that's one of the down spouts this is as you're seeing the stained this would be on the north side of the building you're seeing a little bit of stained concrete this is from where water is dripping from the seams now when it's like this it's not that big of a deal it's 70° but when you get those mornings that um are about you know 30° 25° that freezes so we're constantly putting salt on that so that's definitely causing a slip Hazard this is looking at the FI um um BAC Fine Art Center so if I say BAC it's just that is bavia fine art center most of you know that but I might say that more than once um this is looking at it at its Western exposure just kind of an overview that's right I threw this in so you know it's aavia fin art um this one's just getting into more of the cracks this is up close on that 45 foot pre-cast wall again a lot of you know it really only is the stripes are one color and the rest of it one color right now you're seeing more than one color because of the different fading and this is facing the West so it definitely gets that Western Sun this is an expansion joint right here as you can see now it's for the most part has done its job but I show this picture because if you're on the inside which I could not it's not was not easy to try to get an inside picture of you can see daylight um it's very difficult I mean I could have but I wasn't I'm taking that chance to get that picture but you you can see daylight from the inside on this one so this is starting to cause some issues is that beef or is that the that's be so basically Su from the stage kind of in the if you're facing the back of the stage in the upper leftand corner is there a lot of moisture coming in there then or no there's not a lot of moisture I mean it's when I say daylight I mean it's very little it's not like you're opening your window and seeing daylight but that caul is your only correct difference between you and the outside yeah so can continue okay now the next part is with this since we are doing extensive work outside we're also looking inside the Fieldhouse um again same age this is just a picture of one of the um protective wall mats um again it's um showing its age and needs to have some updates light lighting is another one that will be in this so these are original fixtures um they were upgraded to LED tubes two almost three years ago now um we had a the engineers come in and do a measure of light so they measure in foot candles and currently in the Fieldhouse right now we're at 17 foot candles we should be at 50 foot candles um so that is a pretty significant difference and if you're at the high school that difference is when you go from the gyms into the Fieldhouse so if you happen to be there because the um the gyms we did update that lighting it's three years ago now um picture right here is of the floor um the floor is basically the life of this floor they say is 10 to 15 years so we're kind of right in that middle um and it is definitely showing signs that it needs to be replaced um you can just kind of there's quite a few in here Holly oh that's right the other one is this is what's called a Copa so what a koopa's job is to do is basically it's what's vents the air so before we had Cooling in there it was a way to draw in outside air and exhaust the air out so when you just kind of really in your house same thing you're bringing air in and then you're bringing it out the bottom part of this is a pan that really catches the water because it's open well kind of but it's open outside so when we get a heavy rain and it blows from the south or west it drains down there or melting of snow these were not designed large enough So the plan is to replace those to a larger footprint so it holds more water and literally then evaporates water that's the design of the cupas so there's five of these the two that are on the Far West End of the fuel house leak onto the floor and one of them happens to be right in the middle of one of the basketball courts so that has caused issues over the well a few years now again some other pictures of the floor you can start see just the discoloration of the floor and really in this floor it's um it's also holding a little bit of dirt and that's really been from years ago when it was originally um installed and cleaned you can see in some of these pictures some of the line lines are fading and this is also a picture of just another example of the light lights so really what's happening to these some of these lights if you look at it it's a like the bulbs above you um the whole bulb should be lit these are starting to burn out in almost quarter sections at a time replacing the whole thing or the the whole fixture yep The Proposal will be to in place the entire fixture and it's more protected um fixture so unfortunately you know those are sometimes targets let's kick the ball and see if we can hit the lights but the the lights that are being proposed to be put in are really meant for that space and really I didn't get a great picture because we have all the cages that are kind of strapped up now some with zip ties but all of the clips are breaking and um things like that it was that it okay so this work would take place this summer and it makes sense to do this all at once because we're going to come in and do the Fieldhouse floor obviously we're going to have to shut down that facility for several weeks to do that and we may as well take care of the lighting and the other issues at the same time um because that space is used every day most of the day all day long one of the reasons why the foot candles are as dim in that space as they are is cuz those lights they're pretty much always on yeah so those lights can be controlled um so we can turn them on and off and I just got a request was probably two weeks ago they come on at 6 a.m.

this is some of the he most heavily used square footage we have in the broad section of the community I mean not just students and teachers y it's it's it's used that's why the floor looks the way it does and it's it's it's showing its age you know it's so I know almost 14 years old so it's been it's been utilized for past like might consider sporting events I mean when the weather's bad marching band goes in there and uses it for continue their practices when the weather's bad instead of canceling that are we um we're open for discussion right now on this yes um could you do you know what items fell off of this I I assuming this is all within our budget right that's why this is a report not a request right could you tell me what items four five and six are that didn't make the cut so to speak um that'd be a good question for for Mark uh there's we're constantly looking at the list of things and right now um you know when comes to warm safe dry it's a pretty massive number right and so we're trying to package these together in a way that would make sense it isn't that you know we cut off necessarily four five and six because we actually we'd have an excess of work that we would do uh in terms of funds for capital projects that we could in fact undertake this year as you recall we move money from the operations and maintenance fund to the capital projects fund uh kind of using that as a piggy bank so that we don't have to use all that money in a given year and we don't whipsaw between surpluses and deficits and so in for these particular projects there just happen to be urgent and ones that we can package together in a way that makes sense but the next topic area are the ones that are also urgent and items that are in uh not good condition that we need to talk about how we're going to package them together in different ways I just want to comment that maybe I need to absorb this more but it's doesn't sit well with me the the I understand some of the foundational things but discoloring lights being broken because our kids or the students are hitting them um choose my words carefully here um it just feels like a lot of problems that a lot of other schools would love to have and that's why I'd really be interested to see what areas we're not addressing for this um I get it I know you guys put a lot of time into this I just would like to see more of it maybe we could talk later about part of this is we've been waiting for project to undertake projects because we were in fully anticipating the passage of the referendum so that's the other Factor here too and because the planning times on these projects are so long we have to plan in years these are the ones that we can pull off in the time frame that we have left this isn't a all these things uh you know how to figure out how to get everything to fit is it's an art and it's a science were these part of those the original top priority yes from the team that did it before the team that did the review well these ones weren't in particular because at we knew we always we knew what we're going to probably get somewhere between 10 and 15 years on the Fieldhouse floor we knew and we had that marked in our we call it our capital projects database that has had has held a place there for basically since we put the floor in um but we were trying to figure out what is our what are we trying to Envision what the future is going to be for our school facilities how do we make those facilities match the educational environment of today and be flexible for the educational environment of tomorrow all we're talking about here right now today though however post referendum is maintenance we're not we're not talking about any functional improvements that would actually improve our facilities for our programs in in for educational environments we're just kind of keeping the lights on Yep this is what we're at we're just but we had been waiting for many many years as we were building this master facilities plan working with the community to get stakeholder input on what they wanted to see in their facilities and talking about what it was that uh we were willing to pay for and afford and we all know how unfortunately that referendum turned out and now we're left figuring out what the next steps are this Project's identifi for work this fiscal year it's kind of the interm step these we are things that we know that must get done okay the next conversation that we need to have though is how we're going to keep our schools warm safe and dry Beyond um NE this coming year and how are we going to be able to fund that how much of how much can we afford to pay for these projects uh because as you can see it's it's a massive amount of money and the longer we wait the more expensive it gets and the more our our facilities deterior but these are just the essentials of the essentials this is this is these are not wants these are needs so just a few questions um for the I know the the BAC the cock's Coming Undone but the cracks and the gutters is there any water damage on the inside of the buildings or um just in the Fieldhouse as far as those kopas leaking really the gutters are just outside on you know concrete and that's just you know getting new gutter gutters to to fix that piece but as far as in the Fine Art Center right now there's not any significant water damage coming into it um but again when you're like I said before when you're dealing with a 45 foot pre-cast wall that can change pretty quickly so we definitely Mount and those really these inspections that you know professionals came out and did has been over a year ago at this point um so again this is just something that you know they're inspecting these because it was time to inspect in the Fieldhouse and really more than that got done but this is one that are packaged together you know really the entire building got done but this is just one portion of it at this point and you can see it's not just paint when it comes to these pre-cast walls if we don't put a Fresh coat of paint on them and and treat these cracks we're going to have bigger problems on our hand this isn't so we just want to make it look nice no this is this is what we need to do to protect our investment we're very lucky to have what we have and we use this facility extensively and it requires real work and maintenance to do that and it happens to fit in our budget right now it happens to be a project that we can pull off relatively quickly until we can contemplate the next steps for warm safe and dry I'll point out that one of the discussions that came up a lot during the referendum discussions was why did the buildings get to this point why weren't they kept up so there's a good argument on the on the side of doing this is the maintenance to keep it regular instead of asking for a million dollars to fix it or a couple million to fix it so thank you um and then a couple with the floor um will the new floor be like a like an upgrade from like the existing like you know like has the technology gone and made it better yes this is definitely going to be an upgrade to what is there now and is there any special cleaning like um because I know in one of the meetings it said that we didn't clean it right um so just what what do we have to do to make maintain it better yeah so basically the manufacturer gives you exactly what you do to clean this there's two types of FL floor there's the track surface and then there's the court surface um and really with the court surface and well both of them we have already have the equipment um the track surface is basically you got to keep it clean not scrubbing it clean but keep it clean with like a sweeper um and then the other one there's there's you know 6 months a year 5 years you know know it's it's all laid out exactly what you have to do it could be better maintained I I plan on being here for another 10 years yeah I do want to say I mean this these repairs are not because of a dereliction of Duty and maintaining it's there's a shelf life for the yeah and so things need to be replaced or repaired so you could say maybe we would done you know we were waiting on a referendum to see what that happen so maybe we waited a little bit like a year maybe like this was the backup like we knew this was coming if the referendum didn't pass so yeah the referendum had no bearing on when we need to replace it right yeah it would have needed to happen anyway could could you know could we get another year out of it yeah we probably could um but um you know we've got a lot of other projects that need to be done too so we we got to figure out how this stuff fits together and what makes sense need to be asking what's not Nam you have other questions recel mm- no I would suggest then that we move on to warm safe and dry to make sure that you have an idea of what that is and it's a pretty plain title as you would as you can tell and and and and I think it captures the essence of what we're trying to accomplish here these are the what we call the priority one and priority two projects that we identified in our Master facilities planning process as you know we hired our Architects drr and they came and did a very in-depth assessment of our schools and it wasn't just to find the stuff that needed to be replaced it was to Envision what educational spaces need to be like today to beat um our needs for students and to meet uh the Styles and needs of our teachers and then to make sure that those were flexible enough to meet the evolving needs of tomorrow and so it was a full plan that was in intended to get us from you here to there over a period of about 15 years well with the failure of the referenda um we are left without funding to to keep working on these projects and the capital projects committee has been struggling with the the amount of projects that need to be undertaken and and the approach that we would take to get to them and so um that's why we started we undertook this master facilities planning process um so here we find ourselves now and we want to talk more about what what these Bare Essentials are going to give you an idea of what uh kind of the categories and concepts of what they include and start beginning this conversation in terms of how we might undertake them with THS that we have available you want to talk about these pictures Mark can talk about the picture sure what you see here is what's called a rooftop unit so this is similar there's four of these well eight total so four at HC Storm and four at Louise White um and you can also see the picture of the roof which that roof probably like yeah okay that's a roof well that roof is 45 years old um it is definitely ready to be replaced it has been um we are having some roof this is actually thank you um for going the next one if I want to take a little time on this picture if you look at the different colorations of that picture so that's a roof drain you can tell how many times that has been repaired I mean literally you can start counting the different colors and the different age of that um and really that's what I've been in this role now seven years and every single year we come and we are repairing these roofs um and we do it throughout the entire District annually um more time is definitely spent in Lou white and HG storm because of the age um but back to the rooftop ones really if you're talking about replacing roofs you're not leaving rooftop units that are 15 15 years old there um because you have to remove them to put the roof on um and we are having some you know mechanical issues with some of the rooftop units at those schools as well um this is just another picture of um the roof this is Louise White also can show the Skylight so each one of the Pods at storm and Louise have um natural daylight comes out in the center of the Pod this is one of those which um I believe that well I know that one's being replaced a lot of them are starting to um drip a little bit um seals are breaking things like that and I can't wait a couple more years on these because um they have to be replaced you can keep going Holly again another example of the roof and a rooftop unit this is when we talk about the shell of the building the outside of the building um you can tell there's some cracking going on here definitely tuck pointing is needed um continue this one's Louise White I believe I got a picture yeah there you go my reminder now moving into um domestic piping this is a picture of um bathroom at JB Nelson so when there's a leak that occurs you cross your fingers that you can figure out exactly where to start punching a hole into the wall um to fix it and that's at least two repairs done inside at the bathroom so it's galvanized pipe um it is original mhm this is so both um Gus and JB Nelson have tunnels that go underneath the building um oh that's not a picture this is a picture of in the pipes that are in the bathroom in between kind of the bathrooms that feed both um boys and girls bathrooms we're going to get to the next one though there it is so this is a tunnel um at JB Nelson this is JB Nelson so both domestic water and the heating and cooling so the hot water and the cold water that Heats and cools is all run under a tunnel system um and that is literally the height of it it's not even 4 feet tall if you go to the next p picture and yes those have to be posted because it is a confined space and it is always always a contractor that comes in at a higher cost than just working on a normal piping so none of our employees in the district have this um certification this is a picture of an air handler that's from that's late 80s you go to the next picture and just kind of shows you the piping that feeds it this is an example of a univent in a classroom so that univent I tried to capture the so basically if you see those you know five to 10 students sitting right there compared to the five or 10 students that are sitting away from there they're either going to be really hot or really cold depending on the season um it's not the most efficient way to cool or heat spaces but I wouldn't Ian I would say that's most of our buildings are done that way and then the next picture shows the inside of the univent and this univent um this is an example at JB Nelson and guson these are from these were installed in 1989 um they're definitely pass their useful life same type of situation at the sewing so the 1995 Edition at the high school very similar experience for students as far as and then the other piece that univent seem to do is they tend to make a little bit of noise and we're always in there adjusting and you know making sure the covers on correctly or if the loose piece in there um but this piece it's I try to get this picture a little bit better but you can tell the piping in there that's feeding it has a number of I just I call them Band-Aids they not really Band-Aids but they're just different repairs that have happened again these are just examples you know of what we're talking when we're talking warm safe dry um this is the outside of sewing and we are starting especially in this corner starting to see a little bit of water penetration um nothing major at this point and highly the next two are just more examples of seaming I believe that is it Mark quick question with some of the piping that you're referring to in some of our buildings uh for the water lines are some of those uh original to the building's footprint yes yeah so you're talking 1957 1955 so when you showed us pictures of where we have to punch through to fix things um is it possible because of the age of some of those pipes that when our teams are going in to try and repair those that it's going to compromise the Integrity of some of the other original piping or that area itself and require larger repair most of the repairs we doing are within feet of the other repair okay and basically it's like a big boot that you put on and you just clamp both ends and you're really putting copper boot on a ice pipe and that's how it is throughout that um entire building as you pointed out sometimes cutting out galvanized pipe is a violent process to the pipe and you can cause other leaks down the line and we always try to depending on the repair try to go to the seam you know but sometimes that doesn't work that way so it suffice to say JB Nelson like the entirety of the galvanized piping at this this point at this age needs to be replaced because it's essentially a you know it's going to keep breaking and degrading yeah and this is the same situation at the high school so the original part of the high school so um the 1966 part um all of those are still original galvanized pipes that feed kind of the the center of the high school so to give you a better idea of what's involved in all each of these projects kind of a breakdown by ear is um provided in the board report that's the the CPP list or the cap capital projects planned list and uh H if you would open that up please giv you a little bit of description of the school and the and the scope of work and an estimated cost in the fiscal year in which with which we could undertake this work we're talking about substantial costs however particularly when you get to um to stor and Louise um that's so we've also provided a a performa in terms of like you know funding in terms of what the district could afford with operating funds increasing the amount that we allocate in operating funds toward capital projects and spending some fund balance it is theoretically possible that we could undertake this work but this is should be thought of as a framework is again one project that you might undertake you might it might make sense to package that with another project you know a year from now so any one of these projects could be removed other projects that we are unaware of at this time could be added they could be combined with others they could be repackaged this is just kind of like a highlevel framework to think of in terms of how we could address the idea of keeping our schools warm safe and dry and it would cost something to the tune of uh you know 52 million over five years this doesn't do anything again to improve our educational environments this facilitate better instruction this is just warm safy this is bare minimum this bare well right these are the highest priorities we had to kind of I don't want to say eliminate push down the line some others but these are the highest this isn't investing in new technology or no this isn't investing in um any kind of efficiencies that would like you know let's say maybe uh you know we pay pretty significant costs for electricity uh you know we pay PR signant cost for demand charges this wouldn't wouldn't you know uh this isn't any kind of investment you know like geothermal that could make our our schools more uh efficient in terms of heating them or cooling them or even putting in better insulation to keep them you know prevent heat loss or or thermal penetration those sorts of things this is the bare minimum well an example too of some of this to like push kind of push down towards outside of 5 years is is um there's two of the chillers at two elementary schools that are at a point where they should be replaced and here it's proposing to do a Refresh on them and what a refresh means is to kind of go through and get another five years you get a five-year warranty so hopefully push that down but again it's not going away it's just you know trying to be more you know fiscal with your money and do it that way so it also assumes each that there's a 5e an average of a 5% escalation cost because as we know inflation is a real thing especially inflation in terms of school construction cost costs which have gone up well over 20% in the last couple years but we're assuming you know as time goes on these projects are going to get more expensive and so we we have some basis of we have a basic assumption in there for that you know it could be more it could be less um but the longer we wait the more expensive this get it also includes um secure vules for storm and Louise as those are the only two schools that do not have them as of right now um but what also isn't in here is the the full um investment in terms of costs for supporting full day kindergarten so we're close to being able to support full day kindergarten from a facility standpoint but there's some things that we need to do so that we can support that additional section in our schools I could the when we look at this fiscal year we're we're going July to junee for fiscal year right I did fiscal year in June 30 yeah so for FY 2026 when we are finally going to address major safety concerns at two of our schools we won't actually see that Improvement until fall of 2026 there's 2027 school year that would so those those Renovations would be pretty extensive and they would require both extensive planning and then and bidding and so that's about the soonest we could pull it off so they might not even start at that point because they no they would they would they would get underway in uh fiscal 25 potentially but we need a we need a proba we need about a year to to plan those projects and that would involve displacement of students or is that unable to decide there's a chance it could where obviously we wouldn't want to do that I this is it's heartbreaking to to even see this site but you say this placements on trailers is that what you're talking about we we well no because we couldn't afford to do trailers but there's obviously there might need to be phasing in terms of how we we tackle some of this stuff and so we have a like a high Lev plan conceptual where we you know we've talked about this preliminarily as to how we might approach it we don't know until we actually start working with the Architects and Engineers to actually put pen to paper and figure out how the pieces fit together and then work with our construction manager to make it happen the dollars you're really showing there like on FY 26 is actual construction dollars not necessarily architectural fees construction management fees or anything else that are occurring the years beforehand we do have some uh um allowances for those the they're kind of packed into your number but you may be expending some of those in the earlier year or two that that's the top line item you see up there fees okay fees is because yeah yep thank you you start playing before and it's never on the same fisc year so the 25 is planning for 26 correct actual construction work thank you one of my questions is just for everybody's purpose refresh my memory which I know but just for purpose of discussion which are the two schools that we were potentially replacing as a part of the referendum those are they storm and Lis white storm Lou and white so the one consideration I want to bring up for discussion or consideration for the board is by doing significant potentially by doing significant Renovations and I'm not saying we shouldn't be doing these I'm just asking the question we potentially put a Jeopardy and ability to in the future significantly renovate replace those schools as a part because you would be obenson throwing out you know putting good money after bad right as a point again I'm not trying to weigh decisions because I believe a lot of the work is critical in nature but I just want to make sure we're aware that the part of the difficulty of being a board member is making decisions like this so which is probably why it's breaking your heart oh yeah there's no improvement to learning environment right and want the students to have better grades which I've Heard lots of times from the public um so yeah it's disheartening and the ability to achieved that later is now effectively established as Renovations not replacement I mean these are our top priorities that we're saying for the next five years to address top priorities yeah I mean I'm not even seeing in here the doors that have to be you know um hinged open because they don't they don't hold open appropriately others that's a good question so could you say that again Health Life Safety isn't that part of something you have to do every year or set yeah we're just about well 2024 so we will be getting the 10e health Life Safety survey that is going on as we speak okay so be in here or some that have already been done in there you'll see some um fire alarm and smoke detectors and heat sensors upgrades in tools really I see Life saf storman Lou is on there I know for sure even at um MCU and hooverwood yeah okay those are important since there's no sprinklers in the schools oh yeah no we don't have that in storm and Louise correct well there's some of Louise C cot at Louise has sprinklers my question is you're laying this out you're saying based off the current assumptions we have that there's a way to us to fund this current assuming it's possible but a lot of things have to go our way um great like the last meeting I before we were talking about how we' really never been in a better financial position where we actually have the capability to do some of this stuff before we were having to take out loans to make payroll not that long ago so we've worked very hard to get to this point but if we were to do this this would probably put us I mean this is like walking a tight rope it is yeah and the assumption is uh that we're increasing our allocations for capital projects by 15% each year that sounds like a big number and it is a big number but keep in mind escalation costs for cap just in the last year was 20% so we're not even keeping up inflation true Tony I think one point I'd like to point out for the board too is what's our new money for state aid what was the increase uh $5,000 literally it was it wasn't like 5,000 per student it was $5,000 so essentially we we are remaining static flat on our state aid while you're hearing a presentation is talking about inflation on construction projects which is real school districts all across are facing that and that's why you are seeing some school districts announcing aggressive plans to address it just like why we're having this conversation with you as a board we do need the board to have these conversations um you know if you look in the uh papers uh District a little bit to the northeast of us um just announced to their board they have a list of a potentially close to1 billion do in capital projects that need to be addressed so um and that's probably not going to go down if they tried to tackle that entire list um fortunately we're not in that type of situation but um oh Tony sorry I cut you off I just wanted because we were talking about inflation and and cost shifts of of where our funding source is coming from so that's in terms of state aid that's where we're at and then additionally the state is requiring full day kindergarten with a $5,000 bump this year so one of the things that we're working on right now and this is the season for us to do our annual fiveyear Financial forecast and and usually we'll bring it to the board you know right about uh November or December time frame somewhere in there we expect that we'll have that done we've done some preliminary numbers with what we know right now but we're not yet finished with our um audit for the last fiscal year so we we have to work with our resource responsibility advisory Council to finish that that projection and we'll have some more information that would get into a little bit more depth about this performer that I've shown you and whether or not those assumptions will hold but this is something again it's a framework we we know we need to do this work we can't sit on our hands nobody's going to come save us we have to start what is what are the highest priorities and how are we going to tackle this um and so the only way that we can do that is by having these conversations with you and making sure that you understand all the the puzzle pieces so that we can fit them together and make decisions as to how we move forward to best support our students and make sure that we keep learning moving forward because the decisions that we make today they really will affect the Next Generation we see evidence of that all over you know I've been lucky enough to been part of this organization for over 25 years I can see evidence of the decisions that boards before you made 25 years ago and the capabilities that we have today the decisions are weighty but I know that we'll we'll figure it out and we'll keep moving forward let me ask you this question by funding it if we were to do this by ourselves without getting going on a different route or coming up with a different plan I mean what kind of things would this limit us from doing other types of investment that might be required well the Assumption the the base assumption is fundamentally that we don't hire any more employees more than we have today I I didn't add any more FTE into the financial assumptions and the numbers are starting to go the other way when you get into the out years now you know things play when you get into years four and five of any forecast you know a little bit you know you can't you can't get things exactly but the basic assumption is not a single not a single more higher given our history I don't think that's a realistic assumption you know CU I've been saying this we have fewer students now than we did 10 years ago and yet every year we're hiring more FTE but we're going to have to wrestle with that if we want to take care of our schools we're going to have to wrestle with that these are very challenging decisions well I'll just say that you know I mean I you're right we have to face this now we've made decisions as a community and now this is this is a cold hard facts and um it's just a little disheartening because what we're talking about is such basic stuff warm safe and dry yep I mean we'd all hope we could do a little bit better than that for our kids I guess and the people that work in those buildings and they're in those buildings so and we had the opportunity and the good news is that we have done some work that this is even a possibility that we're you know we can even entertain it CU five years ago or 10 years ago we would just found what we would have done yeah we couldn't we couldn't do we would have done it we just went ahead yeah that's true and then that's when it really got bad right no we were talking about laying off 100 teachers uh over 12 years ago and we were facing the Great Recession yeah can't have questions why are you raising your hand no no you can send an email that'd be absolutely fine so you can mul this over a little bit if there's anything like as I said earlier you know I don't want to like you know I have a tendency to cheer people up when I talk about our finances sometimes but um this help with that that's a baseline for our conversation in the coming months we're going to be you're going to see more of capital projects you know if unless you want to take a different direction for the Fieldhouse coming to you for approval but we're going to need to you have to keep talking about this and what the next steps are we get more information from this financial forecast you get more information from our strategic planning process you know in input from the community and you have more information when we get to the levy and we build in the next year's budget and those sorts of things and so all these pieces will fit together so I don't want you to feel overwhelmed but um I do want you to have again all those puzzle pieces so you can put put the put it together well and to highlight something that Tony has already raised um and R.J this was part of your conversation is that uh with some of the projects it does take a longer runway for us to start getting official plans in place bid processes moving so um this conversation is important no decisions on the docket tonight unless you have other direction for US unless you have other direction for us on this on the Fieldhouse and the BC or and if there's anything else that I missed Mark that you can think of so what I'm hearing is on the the safe warm safe and dry element there's going to be continued conversation on that so any questions that you'd like to have us po POs to you would be fine as needed and whenever needed correct but what I'm kind of hearing is a opinion or consensus on the board from items one two and three as to any objections to moving forward with those three items it's actually just two and three two and three yes we already did one didn't we thank you one is two months away yes thank you okay thank you I have the next one too okay you don't want to sit down for 30 seconds Mark I've been standing here long enough I think all right so next are items that we require board action uh first one Mark has um retaining possession of the podium uh for the approval of purchase of a delivery truck uh as it says in the report we have two delivery trucks for the district um the one we use the most is 2016 um it has 60 plus thousand miles on it um doesn't sound like a lot all of you driving vehicles but this is the truck that basically drives through town oh at least three times a day it's to every school at least twice this delivery truck does all of the lunches so the middle school does all the lunches for the East Side elementaries and the high school does all the uh lunches for the Westside elementaries this also delivers a number of different supplies and you know anything from a ballast to copy paper to Elementary student supplies um the backup is over a 100,000 it's definitely seen its age um the plan would be is to basically you know retire or you know put for auction the oldest um box truck and then the 2016 the one we're currently using would kind of go as a backup now I say backup it really is a backup if something would happen to the one we have another one because we have to get lunches to school I mean that's kind of a a necessity um but even through the summer um they're used both of them trucks are used a lot during the summer and this time of year both of these trucks are used um the oldest truck I kind of have a 10 mile radius of aavia at this point seriously gre's laughing cuz he knows I know very well um and that's about all I can go but the the current one um we use both of them for both um marching band we just heard about marching band for their competitions they go to one of these trucks takes their equipment and football um they're a little bit closer they use the other truck um truck for their equipment so these are used all the time um and I've been looking to get a truck now for about a year and it's probably going to take I hope it's not going to take a year things are getting a little bit better with vehicles and to get them but this is you get the chassis you have to put the Box on it and you have to put a lift gate on it so all of this takes a little bit of time because we deliver pallets and so it has to lift 3,000 lb because that's what the salt weighs about and that's what all the copy paper weigh that we take well to the different schools so even though I mean I'm hoping that I doubt I'll get this before winter it'll probably be towards Spring that um even if I get consensus tonight that's how long it's going to take any questions on purchase of this vehicle Mark you have a idea of uh if we auction off the the truck or sell it back what what we would get for that uh believe it or not we I would estimate about5 $6,000 but who knows yeah it could be 10 it could be two yeah it's kind of one of those things I'll buy that too no well we'll put a lemon on it I can tell you that it won't go down Tru it's just going to go wrong my I mean just to point out because we did get kind of a question um emailed to us about kind of like the mileage on it I mean these are not not easy miles this is not highway miles of driving 40 50 miles at a time this is a mile and a half stop the truck turn it off do the thing you need to do turn it on again it's heavy wear and tear on the vehicle so and I can personally attest particularly from a marching band as a you know the amount that we use those trucks and the Really the ability to take the money that was saved and turn it back in toward props and student usage and food and other things that are budgeted toward it was immensely helpful to the marching band and the um music Buffs themselves because they didn't have to donate or to you know provide as much money as they had in the past to kind of cover the rental rates which are4 to $500 a weekend for when they do that for five or six shows so it's been critical and that dollar that $68,000 amount includes everything so includes the you know lift gate that's on the back includes the box it's the whole thing all right any further questions okay hearing none I will entertain a motion for the board to approve the purchase of a new delivery truck in the amount of 68,276 26 so Move Motion by RJ second second by Aaron all in favor I opposed okay thank you very much appreciate that report uh item 7.2 is approval of the [Music] intergovernmental agreements um there is an Act statute uh statute that um allows the governmental bodies the public bodies of Illinois to um to cooperate to kind of delegate powers or transfer powers or to um to work in a Cooperative fashion um between them and and that's essentially what we're doing here is approving an intergovernmental agreement we're not approving an NDA an NDA and legal parlance is a non-disclosure agreement we don't do those in fact it's you know it's very difficult to do you it's almost almost impossible you wouldn't do an NDA in a in a public school district we're doing an IGA an intergovernmental agreement so I just want to make sure that that's clear to folks there's no NDA here there's nothing that nobody can say um and the reason why the city of Aurora has approach just on this is because we have an existing IGA on tiffs Aurora tiffs seven and eight that work very much the same way that disperse a surplus at 10% of whatever the increment is to the the taxing bodies and for the same uh kind of agreements that they won't contest uh like not support the Tiff itself so what we have here is very much a replica of what we already have an IG we already have in place with the city for that and one of the key reasons as to why they have replicated that is because this casino Tiff will pull a series of parcels out of Tiff 7 as it exists and turn it into this new um Farnsworth buil or Tiff that for its purpose of funding the development plan for the casino two more Parcels if I recall correctly would be added to this Tiff but essentially this is the agreement that we currently have on these Parcels with the city of aural we agreed to it some years ago I don't remember the exact year off the top of my head but it was probably something like 2013 or something like that um you have a question was that part of the expansion of the mall or is that something different that's well there's part of that and so um you know these were created about the time where they expanded uh the outlet mall yeah and because that Tiff had expired was one of the most successful tiffs in the history of the state of Illinois uh as a matter of fact but they wanted to expand that outlet mall and so the the board of education at the time entered into another IGA with the city and with the developer to um to do a tax rate and we've and re I think it was last year that we actually fulfilled the obligations of that that tax rate where we paid uh the city and the developer back their their property taxes to to build that that development which now we continue to earn taxes on so that was an economic incentive for them to expand them all I think what's challenging here is is the butt four clause and this is where things get really tricky with tips tiffs um you know but for the Redevelopment plan and these economic incentives that go with it the development would not exist it's kind of the criteria that you that you have to establish as a as a municipality before you can move forward with a tiff but for these conditions in terms of having this economic incentive this plan or this development wouldn't or this Redevelopment would not happen not necessarily this development but Redevelopment of that space wouldn't happen not NE perhaps not with the the the vision that the city might have so it gets contentious in terms of how folks interpret that when it comes to tiffs the municipalities themselves they really hold all the cards so we heard from public comments in terms of like how the process works and where the money comes from there'll be a joint review board and all of the public bodies that are affected by or have an interest in and that Tiff are invited to attend they're not required to attend and those that show up to the Joint review board meeting get a vote and they get to decide in that meeting as to whether or not um essentially the Redevelopment plan is necessitated by the conditions that exist but for as I mentioned earlier now if those public bodies which in would includes this the city of Aurora they get to send a representative too um if they vote Yes for that Redevelopment um still requires action from the city council if the public bodies majority vote no um it still move it could potentially move forward as a matter of fact the power still lies with the city council of aora all that happens after that is they require a super majority to make it happen so again when it comes to tiffs the mun municipalities hold all the cards they also have other revenue streams unfortunately in this particular instance um the city of Aurora receives considerable gaming revenues from this ConEd or stands to receive considerable gaming re revenues um they receive gaming revenues from the old Casino which have dwindled over time is that casino hasn't competitive with other casinos in the area especially as the gaming laws have evolved but they would also stand to receive taxes from sales taxes from other you know incidental um transactions that may occur in neighboring properties because that casino is there certainly with the outet mall nearby and then the hotels you know municipalities have the ability to assess fees and taxes for occupancy of hotels those sorts of things so the city has other revenue streams unfortunately we as a school district we've got two revenue streams yeah well three one is property taxes which we all know we rely exceptionally highly upon here in matavia they fund 80% of everything that we do quite literally come out of the pockets of residents of the school district and fund our our programs we get the balance of the money from the state a little bit of money from the feds and a tin bit of money from student fees and other incidentals that we you know go on here but not much to speak of so those are the three revenue streams and all that the state that you as a public body have control over is the property taxes in the sense that you get to Levy for those amounts up to an the the the tax cap but that's it and so any new development that goes on in town is of keen interest to the school board because that's basically what's funding your schools any new dollar that's going to go into educating our students to make our schools better to improve our educational programs that's going to come from property taxes not going to come from anywhere else question is but for this economic incentive will the casino be here that's the question unfortunately you as a public body don't have much power in making that decision that's it's that's within the pvy really of the city of Aurora and uh and their city council you get to talk about their plan and you get to weigh in on it to some extent but even if you vote no and and the majority of the public bodies where there with you vote no all that's required Thena is a super majority of the city council of aora so the question that you have before you is the city's offering 10% of the Surplus that they would declare we would get our proportionate share in terms of uh the tax rate if you say no to this it is in my opinion not likely that you'll get anything you get nothing for the duration of the Tiff other school districts have been able to get um better deals uh but those my understanding is that they are because those particular tips generate students they're usually building uh homes or or town homes or apartments that are going to increase property values and they're going to bring students into their schools you never really can quite tell how many students are going to show up but depending on the nature of those developments you can do you know some estimations but in those instances those are real costs that are going to be immediately borne by the schools and so in those instances the city has increased that Surplus but here the city has committed to a development plan with pen for this casino and this Tiff will repay the bonds that are going to go toward the casino and they would be repaid over the duration of that Redevelopment plan and so if they were to give you more money they'd have have to come from somewhere else because they built a plan assuming that uh the money coming into this Tiff which literally is the cassino is going to fund the payment of these bonds so as you well know when it comes to bonds those obligations are due first so you as a public body were to issue bonds the very first thing you have to do is repay those bonds you can't do anything else but to repay those ponds and so um the city of Aurora also has those obligations and if they were to give more money to the school district or the other taxing bodies they've got to find another place to get that money to repay those bonds any questions I've got plenty to say but looks like you want to go first go ahead RJ all right my thoughts are jumbled all over the place on this I've I this is by far the most constrained I've been on on a decision for something which is so funny because it could be completely irrelevant whatever I say so I'll just say it um first of all thank you to everyone that came out here I appreciate that I know we're not in discussion with everyone but still thank you um I'm confused by the public stance on this and what I mean by that is we wanted the referendum and the public said no I understand some people said do it a different way but it was no and don't raise our taxes or you already raise our annual taxes we don't want any more tax we don't want any more expenses um then there's the building proposition by HD storm for new houses which would bring us in more tax revenue the public says no we don't want those houses um then we have a bird in the hand right 300 $1,000 or something like that 10% every single year so we would is guaranteed correct guaranteed 10% every single year well it's 10% of the property taxes that it generates okay so 10% of the property taxes that generates public says no we don't want that money but on the other hand I'm also trying to figure out how much value is in 300,000 because we the ref run was 170,000 I can't or 170 million I think we settled on $300,000 to get $170 million of work we need to do 500 years we have a Prof forer right here I could tell you we're budgeting $300,000 to upgrade fire alarms at Lis white there you go so so is it $300,000 is great or can or is there really some sort of significant value of us saying no and now we're going to get 20% and then does that move our projected goal of $170 million to 250 years instead of 500 years so I'm just super conflicted because it's just like if we get $300,000 a year or $600,000 a year let's say they bump it up they they double how much we're going to be getting and I'm just going off make believe numbers here is it worth saying no to now not have a chance to get $300,000 instead of saying yes and we have $300,000 immediately on the other hand it cost us $70,000 to get a new truck so what's the value of $300,000 so as much as I'm not giving any direction or any answer I'm just letting you all know what's on my mind right now because it's just like I would love to say well the public says you know they voted for us in this position and we've heard from maybe 20 people and the public on this and every single person just said no don't vote for this so I don't know maybe maybe that's just the way I need to lean because 20 people spoke up and said no I'm confused so if anyone has a good answer for me I'd love to hear it I don't have an answer for you I have questions so all right maybe that'll help all right so again I want to thank everybody who's here and you know you've been here for two and a half hours so thank you um first question if we send someone to the Joint review board do we have the ability to negotiate on our own a better split or shorter term on the Tiff The Joint review board meeting is not a place to negotiate anym so all we're doing is up or down on that yeah you get a vote yes or no on that that's it you can have ask questions and have a conversation about what their plan is but ultimately you you can vote you vote on their plan yes or no and again if the majority of the taxing bodies vote no city of Aurora can move forward with a super majority of their Council another question is what would be the anticipate so I know like I've heard like okay tips like when West Wasing Washington was downtown but that in my opinion that's a little different because that was people housing moving in potential students busing with this casino I mean what would we anticipate the burden it would place on the district from cost but for this economic incentive if the pen came in and built this casino it would mean um a lot more money obviously to the district's tax rolls that's my next question is what are we what is that area currently approximately I don't expect you to have the exact number what's it generating tax revenue for us at this time nothing the city of Aurora owns those parcels and it this tax ex so there's zero I'll let some other folks speak I got a few more maybe I might want to ask but what does the outlet M bring us that TI I haven't checked recently in terms of what uh it generates in terms of property taxes but uh when it uh I recol recollection serves when that Tiff expired it generated 3.2 million worth of new construction toward our property taxes so basically $3.2 million revenue for us that's on an annual basis but yeah that's just the altim Y right understand not neily that's a very successful I mean that's like you said that's one of the it's kind of a little bit of an anomaly and I would also say at the time that that tip was created in I don't remember when it was the 1980s I know that um it was in my opinion a blighted area met the definition of of the need for support for a tiff my humble opinion but there was no plans to build an out model of any kind when they created that Tiff it was hey we need to do something about this area it needs economic Redevelopment but there was I'm unaware of what their plans were at the time but I know that it didn't include an outw and then what does the sorry what does the uh Casino employ now do you know what their numbers are like how many they employ no I do not know but as you can recall um that that casino was built in the9 early 90s when uh it was a river boat C when you actually that literally had to be on the water and the boat had to go out in the river and then literally and then come back and then they kind of relaxed those requirements and then it didn't actually have to leave the dog and and now now we have landbased casinos like the the markets in casinos has changed dramatically and as I've saw the the the values of of the the taxing values of those that casino has changed over time both because of the facilities and how it was used and I would imagine too the the nature of how the gaming laws have changed and the competitions that that that that casinos face no because the evolving expansion of of of gaming my thought is just um really quick is this what they employ it might be obviously prob more but if they employ 250 let's say this one due to the restaurants and the hotels and that venue if they employ three times that could that be an impact on us like you know people will move I I worked for the valet company for the casino so I didn't work for the casino I worked for their and they brought people in from out of state that wanted to work there I do know that the city of Aurora has published their estim of you know the number of jobs it will generate I just don't remember what it is off the top of my head but that information is is available from the city I mean in theory if people moved into the area or bavia and the district in theory they would be purchasing homes and they would that that's the ancillary effect outside of the Tiff that it's not subject to Tiff so if property values go up because it's a more desirable place to live therefore in theory it would help bolster property tax and keep in mind you know we came from a riverb casino that was designed for that purpose and this is much different this is a casino and a hotel and several restaurants and so this is much more than we're not necessarily comparing Apples to Apples for both between both of these casinos according to their website 700 jobs which would double their current employment roster they're adding 7 be total total so they're currently estimated they approximately at 350 employees um their site is stating that it would increase to 700 they don't give a specific number on what amount of construction positions will be created for the project itself they just said hundreds so they don't give a specific number so Tony back to I just want to understand a little bit more like back to the negotiating point of better Tiff terms because I heard that a few times what in your opinion is our ability to impact like the Tiff terms as a a board as a board um functional functionally I think it all comes down to leverage because ultimately as I said earlier the municipalities when it comes to tiffs they they hold all the Cs and uh and and so whether or not you go with along with it or not you know they can make this happen with you or without you here they're offering us 10% I do believe the city of of Aurora is offer trying to genuinely be our partner here understanding that you know our interests can sometimes compete but in some cases they're alligned and that recognizing to some degree uh the nature of how schools are funded and other public bodies it's not just about the school district but the reality is is that the school districts not just bavia but all school districts are the vast majority of of the cost in terms of taxes and the other public bodies are fractional the only other large public body after us would be the city of Aurora itself and it already has its own best interests and after the city of Aurora it falls off sharply in terms of those percentages so generally speaking the other public bodies don't much care okay doesn't affect them as much and say we we send someone to this board this review meeting and we vote know is there can we for lack of a better word punished or penalized and like they they'll take that the 10% away from us yes they haven't said that they would do that but if I were in their shoes that's probably what I would do Tony I have a question so when these tips are being discussed and talked about was our district do school districts are they at the in the group that's negotiating these well typically Municipal now so again Aurora is approaching us attempting to be a partner typically municipalities would just do it right that's what I'm saying so it was don't approach us with we were at this meeting where we started to talk about and we said well we want we didn't have a vote to say well we should historically when we're working with the city of bavia on tiffs we don't talk about IG they just do it they just do it and I've gone to Joint review board meetings historically with the city of bavia and I voted no on the board's behalf and we have for that re we have voted no yes and and usually it's not this amount of money involved no that's Tony who are who are we voting towards I guess I should say is this are we voting at a proposition from Aurora or on a proposition from Penn from the casino well I I think it's really both um this very much brings um uh economic a bigger economic engine to that area well I'm wondering who who came up with this 10% the 10% again was Aurora attempting to be a partner with us after the um success of the outlet mall knowing that you know how all this thing all these pieces work together and so when they created Tiff 7 and8 which didn't have a defined plan at the time they pledged to us the 10% okay cuz I'm just trying to get to the you know we say no because we think pen can give us a higher percentage is that really what we would be saying if we say no would we actually be saying No thank you Aurora thank you for offering that 10% but we thought you should have negotiated for more and you didn't they we're negotiating with the city of aora we're not negotiating with pen but I would tell you that most municipalities don't negotiate anything with the the public bodies they just do it and us saying no to Aurora wouldn't get them to go to pen and say hey we need more because it could it could it could but they don't need our authority to do they don't need us they don't need us they can go on their own I understand but I mean I want to learn from history here we we saw what happened the with the past Tiff that the same exact company Situation's a little bit different but the same exact company with the same exact idea and I think based on what's on the front of the board right now this is how it's going to play out if you vote no and decide not to move forward with the a I think the city of aora is fine with that does not give us the 350,000 annually okay that's it if I'm being really direct about this conversation I've had conversations involved that's what I'm trying to get to and that's what I'm getting down to the IG that's in place is with the city of Aurora as the signatory lines are indicating and if the board decides to vote no that's by me board that's your decision but just so you know this isn't going to help their process they're moving they have a joint review board set scheduled already um I have been in other districts where Tiff discussions have occurred and Tony's absolutely right cities plow right through what they want to do they have the right to do it and listen I know there's a lot of feelings around this I we're not economic Specialists we're Educators right so but we're just in front of yeah I mean they have a structure of how they plan on making all those repayments and that formula is built in accounting to this particular IGA with anyone that they're you know signing on with so um to ask them at the 11th hour to restructure it completely on our behalf with a negotiation is probably if I'm being real just if you're asking me for my thoughts based on your experience well in my opinion based on where we're at discussions I've had I think really the decision if I'm just boiling it down for for you is um you know you can vote no send the message of what you want to do as a board that's totally cool but just know then don't expect that the city will still honor the agreement that was inside of this IGA they're not obligated to even offer it in the first place they're also definitely now not going to be obligated to offer it once we've actually voted and taken action against it is my point I mean I'm only and I'm only jumping in RJ because you're asking about what are the terms and ability what are the abilities to negotiate terms with them based on conversations I've had I know Tony's been kneee involved in making sure the terms of agreement um you know don't allow other things so yeah what time in one of your previous roles did this scenario come up and did it happen that way um no there was no offer of an IG the municipality just said we're doing this just as Tony pointed out we tried to fight it but the city moved forward with it anyway because we didn't agree with what they were considering to be a blighted area given that it's a main Corridor that was that felt pretty good to go I think fundamentally the problem is with the way that the tax or the Tiff statute is structured that's that's the problem and I want to point a clarification so I know we did get involved a little bit and there was there was an ask that if this was voted yes and we uh approved it or you know gave our consent or whatever that we would agree to any other tiffs moving forward and we actually did negotiate that said no if we voted yes or we didn't vote against it I should say we're only looking at this one if there's something that's proposed in the future we reserve the right to vote no on that down the road correct yeah so this isn't like a blank check for future tiffs just for this Tiff because way tips work on when you have adjacent tips you can move money between them you can transfer funds you can you know you can adjust boundaries those sorts of things we wanted to make clear that this agreement is simply for this um Farnsworth buor Tiff for this casino you know there's probably going to be other developments in this area because other makes other properties more attractive they're probably likely to be more tiffs but we're just making making clear that this arrangement for this particular Tiff is the only Arrangement that we're looking to agree to and nothing Beyond it and the original language kind of implied not stated that we were giving consent to Future Tiff adjustments or without that so we already from whatever strength we had utiliz that as a means of protecting our future interests yes and then just to clarify because it addresses a bit RJ's comment that from where your understanding of how the deal between the city and pen is structured is to a certain extent contingent upon this 10% and whatever other igas are out there and that's why you said earlier if there was an ability to provide a higher percentage to the district that would have to come out of some other Coffer because that's not in alignment with their Prof fora for what they're doing with pen yes so it be the city would have to find a new Revenue source to cover it that's or pen would have to take less or pen which is you know a bet that it'd be difficult for others to make I presume said so I just like I'm curious is why they came to us if they didn't go to East Aurora because like right there in Aurora they came to us as a school district I'm just like well there's a very clear reason for that yeah they came to us because this development is within the boundaries of our school district so that that's you know districts I think you know we bavia School schools We Touch parts of Geneva We Touch parts of North Aurora We Touch parts of Aurora we even touch parts of Elburn although nobody really nobody lives there but so our district this development is in our school district that's why they came to us they have to come to us because that's what the Tiff law requires this has nothing to do with EAS schools the the old casino is in the boundaries of EAS schools the new casino is going to be in our boundaries right next to the outlet mall which is in our boundaries south of Bilter that's is that that's us yep that's us we go past i88 down there in that cor I know we got I know we were on the north side of Bilter I didn't know the south side and I know it's also two and there's a long history as to why those boundaries are what they are but that's a different discussion yeah a Aurora is actually our second largest um area of drawing students and families 10% of our student body comes from Aurora any other questions I'm G to pause a long time here just to give you guys a moment to think about it all right here yeah um so hearing none I will entertain a motion for the board to approve the intergovernmental agreement with the city of Aurora concerning Tiff districts in the vicinity of Farnsworth Avenue in Bilter Road so moved motion by lock second second by Aaron and this is a voice vote so all in favor I I opposed okay motion passes all right next is Staff board and comments Tom is there anything you and the administration would like to comment comment on this evening yeah um I'll I'm GNA modify my version since Todd did his usual thing and then took most of it and then RJ jumped in on that too so appreciate that but um I will say this uh past week had a great opportunity to see our Fine Arts programs perform and um during the performance you know uh one our students did a spectacular job and and I really appreciate all the staff that um support our kids to getting to that level of ability I also support uh thank you to the staff at the BAC for uh running those evenings throughout those nights um I really appreciate what Mr bar said when um giving uh appreciation to the audience that he also noted and I couldn't agree with this more appreciation to all of our music teachers in the district who really have built that foundation for our kids to be able to by this point now at their time in their career in this District perform that they were at the level that they were able to execute and I thought that was a great um tribute to all of our music teachers in this District um having built that passion for music and excitement um you know for myself I just I was able to really enjoy the event close my eyes and just listen to the kids performing each night and it was just it was beautiful they did an amazing job and I think it's a great reminder of what we're here for we've talked a lot about tonight about buildings brick and mortar which are so critical and important Tony have and I have had great discussions around this but I also you all know Bor I how I feel this is a people business too and I just want to say thanks and appreciation to all of our teachers or support staff our administrators for making such a moments in opportunities to be able to happen um you know you've heard so many great things being presented tonight from about what our staff are doing I think that's so critical um and that we just keep in mind I know it may really feel like a lot of Doom and Gloom I just want everybody to remember uh we have great people doing great work with great students and um I think that we should not lose sight of that and on that note I I'll end I won't be labor this but you know I was talking with Zar and d and as our student ambassadors and it just reminds me of the hope of this generation and what our future brings I just had this amazing conversation with them when we were preparing them about what our board agenda included I just that's one of the I don't know Bard if I've made you aware of this one of I know Craig and Aaron know but one of the things I've been doing is meeting with our board ambassadors before each board meeting now and walking them through the agenda they look at it when we release it and then we have dialogue we do Q&A these are our future leaders and I have no doubt that those two are going to do amazing things in this world and one and tonight was such a great reminder we're talking talk they're going to be releasing a really cool project that they're working on right now and as I'm allow I was given permission I can only tell you that it is going to be called uh bond to Beyond and it is absolutely what you've heard me talk about in terms of just how much more emotionally connected social their intelligence is just so much higher than what it was with me and my friends I don't know how you all feel as adults now but I don't recall ever thinking the way these two young ladies thought are thinking and wanting to take action and I'm so excited to see what they end up doing with it um and we also it's part of this whole people thing that I am always about uh we did honor our principles last week and celebrated and appreciated them and their leadership being a principal is a very very difficult job maybe right after my job I don't know but that was very self-serv that was a joke that was just a joke no but honestly the principal ship is so tough and um just wanted to say thanks to them but again like I said so much stuff going on and I know there's a lot of work we have to do but if if you think about it that way there's just there's so much light at the end of that tunnel so just thank you and thanks to my team and thanks to all of you all I got okay board comments RJ do you want to start or you want to kick it down I can start um so the season just ended for bavia bavia Youth Cheer this was the first year that bavia youth Athletics had a cheer group from first to sixth grade no tryouts no Cuts or anything like that I third grader participated in it and found a new love um I never envisioned myself as a cheer dad congrats yeah looking like I'm be D and a cheer dad yeah exciting but um it was really great so so Props to the to the um the T Youth Association um it was so amazing to go out and see on our field every Saturday morning um there was at least six different teams of of cheerleaders out there because there's no Cuts there's all all the different grades and they're out there cheering on whatever grade level uh flag football teams were out there and then to finish it off man time's flying I can't remember if it was last Thursday or the week before but we did it under the lights where we actually played all the games on the football field which was amazing that was the first time I was ever on that football field that Turf is amazing but um it was it was really neat you know the the the cheerleaders held the banner and the football teams ran through it all that jazz and it was it was really neat and then at the end of it the football players gave uh all the cheerleaders uh roses which was very nice the the the football teams were good the whole season about actually sitting down and watching the halftime show which I also really appreciated that the coaches were having them do that to show you know that they're part of it and that they're thankful for the cheerleaders being there to support them so um yeah just really grateful for that opportunity and um happy uh principal appreciation to all the principles out there I I agree it's a very tough job um that's it thank you um I will keep it brief here but uh few points uh just uh once again congratulations to miss uh Terry Tan on her award um that's awesome that really reflects well on our school district um so congratulations to her again and I think I heard it mentioned in four different uh spaces if you will um so that just shows you what a great achievement that was um I did want to say uh I really love the besta presentations every board meeting I find those you know just a a great way to represent uh some of our employees um and our support staff that's uh really making a big impact on our school district and um I'm all for keep keep doing that I I'd love to hear about uh all those things and I love to hear about the personal side of uh of the uh the staff there so um and then uh just a plug for Mean Girls the musical I think it's coming up November 9th 12 and uh I was a big fan of the movie so I'm really looking forward to the musical oh my gosh um just congratulations to the beta art uh and then Mrs Tian and this have a safe Halloween okay all right uh I want to thank every everybody who is in attendance this evening I reach out to the board your voices are important I think we had some pretty Lively discussions they were driven by a lot of your comments and input so thank you for that it's really vital to the work we do we need to hear every voice out there um again I want to Echo all the celebrations we had I mean with the art Department I'll say I always come in early and look at the artwork I walk in here right behind me this is Kayla bash 7th grade she's my neighbor I took a picture of that and sent that to her mother father and they were thrilled and she was super excited about that so uh you know I think one of the things that strikes me so last week I think I was out almost every week with football and the marching band and one thing that really strikes me about bavia you know when I was in school when you were underclassman or Junior High you kind of felt unseen you know it wasn't until you became a junior or senior that you got a chance to shine and what really I wish wish Mr Owen was here because I have a a fifth grader who's playing clarinet and I have two older kids and they tried music and they they were out of it with an ear but she Lily is taking to it um and so they had their performance and it got rained out and then they rescheduled we went and they did the performance and it was amazing and she was looking for the clarinet and she's on every note but then what he does is he says hey all the future young kids who are just starting can you come down here and all those kids come down and then the percussion did a performance and then they have a poster of all the seniors available and they have Shar to say okay kids you can go get an autograph with these kids and my daughter went out and saw the one kid she recognized and she got his autograph and so what I think was great about Pavia is that we're instilling these kids that yes your achievement is to be recognized and we come here and we celebrate but really what you're doing is you're inspiring those younger kids because they look up to you and and you're showing them what's possible because when you're in fifth grade and you can't make a basket in the big hoop or you can't get a note out of your clarinet without a few few squeaks and you see those other kids and you know hey they were just like me and you can do this too I mean that's really amazing and so uh I just want to thank our school district for creating that culture because that's really I mean I get I'm getting Goosebumps right now thinking about it um and then the other thing I just want to say is yes thank you to our principles I had opportunity to speak to principles at high school middle school grade school that is a tough job I mean that you know every day they're just putting out fires basically whether it be their staff the teachers the parents it's a tough gig so if you have a chance to see one of them and say thank you for what you're doing I know they appreciate that um and then I guess my son's a football player so I'll say hey Friday we got a football game and uh it's a tough game for a first round so if you can get out there when you go to a game you're not only supporting the football team you're supporting the cheerleaders you're supporting the pals the music all those kids I've come to realize when I and I'm going way too long CU it's 10 o'clock but I'll say soon as you go go to a game and after halftime some people leave people like what are they doing I'm like those are those parents for the band you know I mean so when you go to a game you're not just supporting the athletes you're supporting everybody so go Bulldogs and again thank you for everybody who came tonight I don't even know where to start so I'll just say it was nice to see you Carl and ion tonight so take care that's it um I will just kind of summarize a couple of things um one I appreciate again like everybody said everybody coming tonight I mean I think tonight was a very good example of kind of the emails and the discussion um I think in my tenure on the board I have not yet seen a um a approval or an action that was not unanimous and I applaud everybody for sticking to what they think is right and what they want to move forward with and while that might not be what other people wanted um it shows that we have an opportunity to engage in dialogue and I appreciate that everybody did that tonight um on the one thing I do want to mention that um I had heard because I while I am not having a kid in Marching Band anymore I cannot quit and that's a personal problem but um I was talking to some other uh parents and staff and they and I will give acolytes to Tom because they noted that you were there at every performance and it was felt and it was seen and they felt that you know they appreciated you coming to kind of really understand what it was about and to see that so I appreciate you as our employee of the board doing that effort so thank you um and then last for everybody that kind of came to the community night um the one interesting thing about the community night this year was it was right before the bid band competition down at ISU so they went and did the performance that night and then three or four days later effectively they were down state in Illinois performing for that and that's effectively the playoffs the N you know their big Super Bowl for the state of Illinois um and so I would be remiss not to State you know that they are continuing a tradition of Excellence they are utilizing the capabilities that the district and the board and others and the staff importantly as well have given to those kids and they are running with it in in style and in um in effort and in rewards so congratulations to them and congratulations to the staff and those that volunteer and those that help it is cast really in my opinion if not thousands that's an exaggeration but it's definitely hundreds that help pull that off and this year was a unique year it was the biggest set of props that the crews ever handled it was a significant number of kids and they um made big big headways and then lastly the pair off of yours the other thing that I noticed about vavia is we make a a lot of effort to engage the community in our efforts so like the community night and the band events and the music events and everything else of giving the opport opportunity for the outside those that don't have kids to participate if you were there at the community night there were far more people there than once and one interesting note while there was a kid you talked about your kids getting the signature that Chris Owen was telling me that there's a um I'm going to just say at least a grandmother in a wheelchair being pushed around by her daughter SLG granddaughter with the seniors and he said she's been coming here as long as he has been running the community nights to get signatures from every single senior on that card so it's wide ranging not just your seven or eighty olds it's your 80 or 90 year olds that are enjoying the event so thank you and with that um I will oh this one's a little different today huh so um so we are be moving and AD juring to a Clos session uh we are uh I will entertain a motion to move to a closed session allowed under the open meetings act for the purposes of ception 5 i l CS 2 col parentheses C parenthesis 1 in case you're noticing I don't have to read an hour and a half of a statement anymore so thank you to who figured that out um so um I will entertain that motion second by Rael second by RJ all in favor I I opposed I'm not in fav

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