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the priority project update the cins center the town of Ashlin has partnered with UMass Boston's Colin Center for a staffing assessment to improve efficiency and resource allocation the first phase now underway involves data collection and comparisons with similar communities the findings will help guide recommendations on Staffing levels technology upgrades and process improvements Public Safety departments will be assessed in the next phase now for some news that you need to know the marry penny more Public Health award the Board of Health is accepting nominations for the 8th Annual Mary Penny Mortenson Public Health award recognizing outstanding contributions to Public Health in Ashland nominees will be honored with a plaque at Town Hall if you know someone making a difference submit your nomination to the Board of Health ashin mini Renaissance Fair step back in time at Ashlin library's second annual mini Renaissance Fair on Saturday May 3rd from 10: a.m.

and sustainability committee at 700 p.m. February 19 19 the select board at 700 p.m. February 20th the open space and Recreation committee at 700 p.m. find full agendas on the town website the town manager coffee hours looking to chat with Town manager Michael Herbert join him for coffee and conversation on the third Wednesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. at the ashin community center the next session is on February 19th for upcoming events we have friends of the ashin library today book sale stock up on books at the March book sale happening Friday February 28th and Saturday March 1st at the Ashlin Public Library don't miss the bag sale fill a bag with books for just $5 in the ashin Education Foundation casino night enjoy a fun night out Saturday March 8th at the Warren Conference Center while supporting Ashlin Public Schools play casino games enjoy live music and bid on auction items looking for something fun to do at the ashin public library here are some upcoming events there for all ages for teens and adults we have the cookbook Club February 18th at 5:00 p.m.

to 400 p.m. vendors performers and food trucks are invited to participate though no me or please the deadline for vendor applications is March 15th don't miss this fun-filled event at the farmers market field on Front Street the Metro West College and Career Fair students and parents mark your calendars for the Metro West College and Career Fair on Saturday March 15th from 9:00 a.m. to noon at ashin high school over 100 colleges and 50 career professionals will be available to answer questions and offer guidance on higher education and career paths volunteers are also needed to share insights about their professions visit m W ccf.org for more details and now it's time for our community shout out today we recognize Deb magalis an occupational therapist and owner of kids and motion therapy center right here in Ashland Deb and her team provide essential occupational and speech therapy services for children of all ages making a profound impact on families in our community her expertise compassion and dedication help children reach their full potential while offering much needed support to parents Kids in Motion is more than just a therapy center it's a safe and welcoming space where families connect and find Hope from all of us in ashin thank you Deb for your incredible work and commitment to our children's growth and wellbeing you truly make a difference now for some local meetings stay informed about town Decisions by tuning into upcoming meetings at town hall or on waca TV here are a few key dates February 18th the historic commission at 7:30 p.m.

featuring Pray song for the kitchen ghosts Come Share dishes and discussion gentle yoga February 18th at 600 p.m. relax and unwind in this calming session in the ESL conversation group February 19th at 6:30 p.m. a great way to practice English in a friendly environment for kids we have the anime club on February 18th 6:30 p.m. a fun Meetup for young anime fans build wve February 20th at 10:30 a.m. a Hands-On building game experience and Blast Off Bonanza February 21st at 10:30 a.m. where kids can launch their own rockets and explore the wonders of space for more details on these events check out the town's website or contact the ashin public library stay tuned for some more local updates a big thank you to our town manager Michael Herbert and the town staff for putting together this newsletter and thanks to you all for tuning in this is hi silver with waa wishing you a good night and go clockers

and sustainability committee at 700 p.m. February 19 19 the select board at 700 p.m. February 20th the open space and Recreation committee at 700 p.m. find full agendas on the town website the town manager coffee hours looking to chat with Town manager Michael Herbert join him for coffee and conversation on the third Wednesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. at the ashin community center the next session is on February 19th for upcoming events we have friends of the ashin library today book sale stock up on books at the March book sale happening Friday February 28th and Saturday March 1st at the Ashlin Public Library don't miss the bag sale fill a bag with books for just $5 in the ashin Education Foundation casino night enjoy a fun night out Saturday March 8th at the Warren Conference Center while supporting Ashlin Public Schools play casino games enjoy live music and bid on auction items looking for something fun to do at the ashin public library here are some upcoming events there for all ages for teens and adults we have the cookbook Club February 18th at 5:00 p.m.

can I say something as well um thank you so much for bringing that um it's been a few years with student ambassadors and I don't remember the last time you all came to us with like a concern on behalf of the students please continue to do that um and I'm sure Mr Kim will respond to you soon about the process thinking the same sentiment AR unless you want to dress it now or later I can dress I can actually meet with you guys if you want you're all in the same building cool yeah thank you so much thank you thank you nice job thank you very much all right really good one of you Dro something unless I'm seeing things on the floor closer to me my stick Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle all right bpn all right thank you guys thanks next is bspn Brad and Leanne it's gonna be Ashley and Ashley and Le yes hi Brad you are not Brad um hello I'm Leanne Rodriguez and this is Ashley merto um and thank you for um having us come and um talk to you about um the bavia special education parent Network also known as bspn because it's easier to say um again I'm Le Rodriguez I'm the speech pathologist at the Early Childhood Center and um Ashley Marta has two children in our district and um has been with bspn for many many years so she's been a great help in volunteering um I've been um helping with bspn since um its origination back in 2012 so a very long time um it's been um so wonderful to have wonderful parent uh volunteers help in networking with us in terms of just getting um supports and everything to our families and so every year we look forward to holding um different events the bsn's vision is to provide a network and support for families to share resources and connect people um so that they can get the information that they may need to help their children um and that's been our main charge um bpn has hosted many family events such as educational um parent opportunities on various topics and we've had our BPS staff um do the presentations for them um we've also offered our annual meet and greet um it's usually at joy and it's wonderful because parents and um our special education um directors can come and U meet each other and it's a really great kickoff to the school year I think families really enjoy um meeting our staff and then also getting to to meet new families and um a lot of brainstorming of resources happen at that that first kickoff of the year so that's great um we're planning um some social events and some of those things are coming up and um we'll announce those soon after um the resource Fair because that's been taking much of our time right now um but our biggest event is this one coming up um this Thursday night um February 20th at the bavia high school um in the cafeteria it's from 6:00 to 7:30 um since our first resource Fair um I looked back um there was 13 vendors in 2014 and we've grown to over 55 so we have over 55 vendors coming um Thursday evening and they range from recreational opportunities for our families therapies um family supports we even have the bavia fire department Police Department coming so um the families have really enjoyed um again um if you have an opportunity to come and just hear the talking and just a lot of the sharing um that goes on in that room it's really it's really kind of amazing so um but it is because of the support of our amazing parent volunteers that have co-chaired that have really grown this event so I really appreciate um working with them to help make this so successful um as well as everyone that has helped Holly D has been instrumental um Teresa Rodriguez Cindy Rodriguez K Ru I mean everyone's been so helpful in helping um us to to make this event such a big um success for fam so um we would um we also have Nicole um Smith who couldn't be W with us this evening but the three of us have been working um to kind of get everything organized for Thursday night so um I guess this is our way of getting more of the word out so the event is open to BPS families but everyone in the community is involved we've reached out to all area districts all near and far so if you have anyone that you um know that would like to come and join us and come and walk through and visit with the vendors we would love to see to see them um including yourselves so if you guys have some time to pop by we would love to see you all um and children are invited you know parents have asked me about that sure parent you know it's great for them to see um who um some of the therapies and the again Tavia Fire Department police department everyone so please feel free to bring children with you um and um let's see anything else that I forgot for that's no okay um and then thank you again for the support and if anyone um we do have a website so it is the BP bn- batavia.

roll call please Mr secretary Mr Mr Al here Mr gagos is it here uh Mr swales here miss zit stumber here miss wolfolk here Dr Hall here president Brown here let us stand for the Pledge of Allegiance led by board secretary Mr Gay heos followed by our mission statement read by our board vice president Dr h I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under the God indivisible liberty and justice and our mission statement engage and EMP our students posi imp commun thank you thank you both Hall and board secretary Mr gy hios all right we do have a couple public comments the first one is from University Park truste Miss Lewis good evening board members my name is Karen Lewis from the Great Village of University Park I'm here tonight for a few reasons one I would like to thank the board president Maurice Brown our school board voice from University Park and porches of of Moni and other representative Dr Todd Hall who although he could not be there with us on Saturday lent his hand in support in the days leading up to our wonderful diverse Showcase of Community Partnership superintendent Dr k condalisa for your ongoing ongoing unwavering support it was so nice to see you in the building on Saturday enjoying and participating in all the festivities principal lont Holyfield many thanks to you for your support you lent to our community empowerment and the head of the custodian management Bruce for your support and a helping hand the entire day was Illustrated and strongly reflects the unity between our school board and our communities on behalf of the honorable mayor Joseph rudz and the entire Board of Trustees our communication and Community engagement Department thank you all Saturday event Saturday's event Pro provided a template of proof of the narrative that we have fostered in University Park it is the idea that we must continue to build Bridges and close the gaps we support and EM Embrace together we are a better we are better in the partnership between Moni and University Park it was proof positive that we must continue to work together for the overall good for our schools our families and our resident at Large we hope that together we hope that together we support we have more support from our neighboring communities and that we can grow together finally I want you all to know as from the mayor and the trustees we are very concerned about all the recent Attention our schools have been getting regarding the fights we feel confident that you all are doing a good job in maintaining safe within the school walls of our children we wanted you to know that the district is not in this battle alone to keep the students and staffs safe we have had a myriad of recent discussions concerning ways we will be able to help you going forward we are excited that our village voted resoundingly for our new park district and importantly we believe that we offer a v variety of opportunities for the students to engage in activities and we will Foster positive engagement before and after school for the parents it will be an additional Outlet which will ease some of the burden beyond the school walls we will continue to update you as the park district creation plans continue and expand respectfully I am Karen Lewis from the University Park uh area thank you thank you thank you so much trust a Louis for those comments and been able to go out and participate in the event was a wonderful feeling for me and Dr h i mean Dr cones I think University Park I didn't see you I miss you but it was a it was a nice event appreciate it all right next we have on public comments I'm going to let Dr Cogan need read this that's from Miss Smith uh given that my eyes are challenged and this font is like a size three I'll do my best okay all right all right here we go good evening members of the board I'm here tonight to bring attention to a serious incident that occurred on February 4th 2025 involving my child a ail cornick who was left on a school bus following early dismissal on that day school let out at 12:15 p.m. however my child did not arrive home until nearly 2:10 p.m.

info so that really addresses a lot of the questions on the environmental aspects and the safety aspects and our goal as our company tenot which is our parent company is to keep kids playing 247 365 days a year and someone else also mentioned that I think it was Joel you mentioned about this isn't just for the football field so like you're right I don't know what you call it the the kids during gym class are going to go out there you're going to have the cheerleaders out there you can have band out there you can have soccer out there you could have people drinks B but there this field can be used all across and then even the kids from the community you you see kids warming up before game you know the siblings going out on the fields you know as people get ready to go out there so does anyone have any questions yes yeah um maintenance maintenance so helis can provide a maintenance proposal so what we do is when we provide the turf we also include a groomer a tow behind groomer um our project manager will train your your folks who will do it we recommend regular uh maintenance on the field after a couple years there is something called a clean sweep that we recommend it's about4 to$ 5,000 um we recommend that come out and do that on the field how often is the um the maintenance the groomer part we'd recommend that that'd be done every week um it's interesting you know you'll hear a big gamut of some schools say oh we we maintain our Fields all the time I've dealt with colleges who who look at me and say honestly we just don't even have anybody doing it and it actually shows because that's what makes a difference is the condition of the fields so on the NFL side when I was mentioning that life one of the challenges they have is thear thing the Cults is they have so many events right they put boards down and they have concerts and they have conventions so the turf field here at a high school is just to be a significantly better condition even in the NFL field because you're not having those number of events the uh pellets how often you got to put them on Rubes so those would be installed initially and then we usually leave an extra super sack that would be added there's some areas where people do penalty kicks and whatnot if you're doing lacrosse and whatnot where you want to make sure that either it's the maintenance folks I even thought if people should give a bucket to the team and have them someone on the team be the person that goes out and just you really just have to put a little bit back in manually because we're otherwise what'll happen is we'll wear down that area of the turf something else I want to mention that I get a lot of interested in is people doing just a baseball INF field that is I have so many requests on that I'm giving so many quotes because a full baseball field is about the price of a full football field but to do an infield it's about 400 500,000 and then you have the Outfield aesthetically you can do some things that look really nice with you you had mentioned an eight-year warranty if we are to have a flood that significantly covers the field or a portion of it is that type of damage covered in a warranty like that so what we do is it say we require the geotechnical survey we will not install any field without a geotechnical survey because we want to do it right um helis was founded in 2003 and 2023 was our 20 year anniversary we were doing $700 million in sales and I like to say that because it's the quality of our products it's the word Val it's customers it's doing things right from the beginning helis has never had a field fail and so as I said we do we are very cautious I don't know if all the other companies I think the majority of them do but we are going to require the Geotech so we know going in what needs to be done uh we do the drain Stone and the other thing with pal us having our own Crews do it as I said we're the One-Stop shop is that they become very skilled at it and become very efficient and then we can do things better and even faster get the projects done on time um someone was asking about how quickly could we do this um we could do this this spring I would recommend if Emily's got the proposal unless you have somebody else as I mentioned that could do the geotechnical survey if you want to move forward we can get that done get that piece out of the way come up with some proposals what we like to do is price RS with you know the ba the basics add alternates for if you want to add the shock pads i' say 50% of our Fields do not have shock pads you can have a field with just the rubber um this shock pads a little bit offers better Sports Performance and something else when you hear people athletes talk about um athletes high level athletes say I don't like turf fields what is that it's typically something called recoil so if you picture a slow motion camera of an athlete planting their foot into the turf into the rubber it's going to bounce back because it's rubber so what happens is that energy goes back into their joints and makes them feel achy I don't I'm a Cincinnati Bearcat and a Bengals man and um I'm not sure if anyone knows Alec Pierce he was a wide receiver for the Barat he's now with the Colts so I saw him at a draft party I gave my business card I said hey you I want to ask you if you think about how to field the indoor and he messaged me and he goes your fields are my favorite by far he go my body feels so much better than last year and the reason is because they did not have this shock pad me Andor they now have the shock had they have our turf with the Twisted fiber that keeps the blades up but they also have pork and coconut I can't recommend that for you guys here because it's an outdoor field because if it adds water it could be slippery If it freezes so the other he also commented he's like my other favorite field is the Houston Texans who has that feeli and I was like that's our field so that's kind of the reputation of it but again talk about build it they will come and the athletes and saying you know Brown County has the same turp as all of these teams same as the husers um exciting one thing that just a question for you so my son plays bam and he's played in a couple of the turf fields his and mind you he's 10 his biggest comment is that it's hot to play on and then when he gets tackled it hurts I would suspect there isn't a shock pad under there and there might not be consistent infill so that's kind of what the you know was say hurts or could it be a different type of um I can pass this around so you can feel a lot of people talk about this feels a lot softer it could actually be our type of turf that we're using oh I forgot to mention one of the thing that's different with our turf is we use something called a C8 resin which is a higher grade resin than some of our competitors they use C4 and C6 I'm not a chemistry major but with two more carbon atoms it's higher grade it's more expensive to make um but what it does is it adds about 25% to the life of the turf and that's makes it less abrasive on the athletes so I'm curious to be saying it's actually the abrasiveness of the turf or it's actually how hard it is because it might not happen getting the ABR yeah because that this is what the players love this Turf and actually a little fun fact um Patrick Mahomes if anyone seen on Instagram or the aerial view of his backyard he's got like a putting green he's a 50 yard field it is that Turf and is Hess Matrix heix um you've already said you put them in flood planes you might not be able to answer where's the closest one and when did you do from here I'd have to ask the COO but I can get back to you I know he said what he did one near the High River I don't know where where the High River but he did mention that and the pellets you say you got to put them on every year correct the rubber no so once those are installed they are typically there for good you might need to replenish every few years that first super sack that we' leave um should be sufficient so I got a bunch of questions okay um youve already talked about the environmental impact yeah if every wants us to go to that plane for keeps.

e e e is that RJ keep on Tas thank you RJ RJ it is now 7 PM Tuesday February 18 2025 and I call this meeting the Board of Education to order Cindy would you please call the role arando here Gonzalez Thomas present Meadows present sliger present matthys here kilberg present block she's way ill tonight all right next I would like to invite Aon kilberg to lead us in the pledge I pled to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all all right before I go to the next one I want to kind of let everybody know that I have to step out for a few minutes due to a a work thing that's not because I don't love all of you but I need to go do that for five or 10 minutes so um we're going to time will kind of run everybody through these next Parts um until I get back so just want to let you know uh Tom are there anything things other than me to add or remove from the agenda uh we're going to remove item 6.8 from the consent agenda item okay so we're removing it we're pulling it out we're removing yeah we'll pull take completely removing it from the agenda six all right that's the only am minut all right thank you all right I'm going to read this part and then I'm going to quietly sneak out so tonight we're celebrating Louise White Elementary oh wait skip you got it you got it okay Elementary School's response to Panorama survey data a committee was created to focus on enhancing School culture and climate here to present this evening is Michael wall principal and Jamie Hartness fifth grade teacher thank you hello hello hello hi I'm uh Mike wall I'm the principal at Louise White and this is Jamie hartes one of our fifth grade teachers sorry that you guys have to stand to watch this the whole time but it's riveting so you would have been on the edge of your seat anyway so works out fine uh we were asked to come and to celebrate something amazing about Louise White and so we had our pick because there's so many awesome things to talk about we kind of put these things together under response to Panorama uh data because um that has uh driven some of our school Improvement plan this year nailed it all right so um for Panorama data as you guys are all well is a new survey we've done this year collecting feedback from both teachers and students on many different areas but uh including their sense of belonging our school data had about a 90 was in the 90th percentile nationally which is excellent when we dig a little bit deeper and we look at um schools that are Elementary non-urban and have a low amount of low income um we're more in like the 80th percentile which is still excellent um but of course uh if any child feels like they don't belong at school that's one child too many and so as a SLT we started to look at our school and our information and thinking what things could we do um that might improve student sense of belonging and connectedness at school um so those were our goals great one area of focus from our sense of belonging that we wanted to look at was how much respect to students show you that was our lowest area so that question was student to- student interactions and whether students perceive themselves as being respected from other uh other students so we set as a goal to try to increase those two areas and we'll share two of our approaches here tonight um so one like all amazing changes uh it started with the formation of a committee uh this committee was called the school is awesome committee with the express goal of having children say school is awesome but unironically um so we are striving for that outcome and we are doing that in two major um thrusts one is through assemblies we work closely with with our PTO who um this is my first year at Louis white but according to Legend uh there have not been assemblies for quite some time at PT uh at uh Louis white so the PTO wanted to bring that back the school is awesome committee also thought that would be a great way to bring the school together and so the committee selected from different educational assemblies and the PTO is funding to bring in our uh uh weather related assembly I can't remember what it's called exactly but uh weather related assemblies it looks very dangerous in that photo I've not I've not cleared it with Tony but I think it will be fine um so that would be one aspect where we're partnering with our PTO another is um having different Focus areas per month um so that would be one area where the whole school is working together and then having some sort of Celebration and reward around that area so for the month of January when we came back from winter break we had the the focus being on reviewing our Champs expectations both in the classroom in common spaces and so that's something we talked about in the morning announcements classrooms talked about it and that was our shared Collective effort and then to celebrate how amazing we are we had a a staffer student volleyball game um which was very fun and exciting for both the staff and the students um the staff won of course so uh but it was fun all the same um and then for this month we've moved on and we're focusing on kindness with a bunch of different activities some of those are classroom buddy situations where students from different grade levels are working together to learn about kindness at school kindness in the community and doing different activities um around that and this is a picture there of our kindness wall where students are posting messages encouraging uh messages to one another um in our lrc as just a visual reminder of our Focus um for this month and so we'll continue that process throughout the rest of the year another area that we um were approaching was our fifth grade student jobs um This was um this was initiated um for helping build a sense of belonging so our fifth graders felt like they were a part of something bigger than their classrooms um but they're also learning leadership skills responsibility and respect along with that um and something that wasn't intended but has kind of been a plus from it um was helping meet individual students needs needs so some of our students need um like social interaction in the morning or just regulation when coming to school so having them standing at the front door greeting kiddos as they come in um is helping achieve that as well as um students who kind of need that motivation break uh for things that happen in their school day if they maintain you know effort and stamina then they're able to go to their job and get that mental break as well miss Hartness what are some examples of jobs that fifth grad might have um as you see pictured um we have uh students who help with the transition um during lunchtime so cleaning up as well as helping like the younger grades actually open all the things they bring for lunch um we also have them helping in the like K1 area of our school um helping them pull off snow boots and snow pants and stuck zippers and everything else um they help check in books they greet in the morning uh they lead our Kinders to the buses they hold the bus signs um to help students know which bus is theirs I think that's it yeah so this was uh Miss harness's idea and also she works very hard to coordinate all these uh student employees um volunteers legally we're not paying them uh but volunteers HR was signaling that whole time student jobs volunteer opportunity thank you all right and thank you are there any questions or anything else I have a question yes um so for the uh fifth graders um that for the volunteers thank you um are those like they just do they sign up or is it like I mean I know they're volunteers but does the teacher approach them and say you know I think this student is a good leader maybe they should be in this program or like how does that work there is a whole process um first I take um I send a survey out to all the fifth graders with the help of my teammates to see um which jobs they are interested in so that's essentially applying um and then there's the hiring process where I place them based on where I think they would be best fits which of course takes um networking with my team members um based on student need also making sure like some of these jobs happen during their wind time um so making sure they don't have another intervention or or something else that they need to reach um and then after that they have an orientation where they have lunch in my room and we go through expectations and what each job entails um and then after the orientation they have a training day where they have like a practice day with other students who have previously done their job and then they're kind of off on their own and is it like the volunteer is it like for a month or a few months because you said they're trained from previous so how what's the duration of their volunteer work um right now it's been trimester by trimester so it would get three different students in each position per year so roughly how many positions um last trimester there was 33 this year or this trimester we're up to 47 oh and that's so that's 47 time three right essentially yes okay okay and at this point in time in two trimesters I've been able to hire any student who wanted to do it air quotes So everyone who's been interested has had a chance thank you all right thank you very [Applause] much all right uh moving to our next item we'll be taking a look at action item here uh approval of the hiring for our new principal at hws at hooverwood school Steve would you mind taking a wead on this sure uh we're here tonight to uh approve um our new principal at hooverwood uh before he's introduced though I would like to uh there's a a large group of people standing behind me um along with hoe the hawk who I met for the first time tonight um but a lot of people this is the hooverwood staff obviously and a lot of the people that are standing back here were also a part of our um interview team um they put in like a 5 and 1/ half hour uh session that night and um I I just I'm always impressed with uh uh the commitment with figuring out what questions to ask um I thought they represented hooverwood and their culture really well they were positive they were supportive to every single candidate and um they uh had a had a big hand in uh making uh this recommendation to uh superintendent Kim and so I just want to thank them and give them a round of applause for being a part of that and I would say that you can tell that they're excited and and and and and about having um um a hand in their new principal with all the people that came tonight so we really appreciate that that's great and so with that uh we are making the recommendation that uh the Board of Education uh hire Sean degman um over here and he'll have an opportunity to speak momentarily um uh to a three-year contract and uh you know that's the recommendation so uh I guess we got to see if they're going to approve it or not right does the board have any questions yeah okay then I will entertain a motion to approve the hiring of sha dman for the p position of principal of hooverwood elementary school on a three-year contract beginning on July 1 2025 move second Aon kilberg motion RJ Mattis second all right Cindy please lead us in a roll call vote arando yes Gonzales Thomas yes Mattis yes Meadow is not sliger yes and kilbert yes all right welcome principal degman to bps101 you want to say anything briefly or at least introduce your family maybe yeah up to the podium yes he does yes he does hi well um you know first thank you to all you guys for showing up you know driving here I started to think like are there going to be two people three people um no I got almost more birds than people I thought I was going to have so that's good um no thank you all for coming out though it really means a lot to see all these people here excited to work with me excited for this next chapter for all of us so thank you guys uh thank you uh superintendent Kim for giving me this opportunity uh thank you to the board for Ag greeing and making this a less awkward night than it could have been so thank you guys um no that's it thank you guys all so much I'm super excited to you know start working as soon as possible and you know do my best to um do everything I can for Hoover wood and tell us about your family oh yeah these guys all right this is this is Parker he's uh eight he in second grade this is my daughter anley she's in kindergarten she's five this is my wife Kira um I'm not going to say her age but she reading in nice yeah very nice and we live in Downer's Grove so not too far awesome well welcome again yeah did you want to say something um I thought you were about to say something did I cut you off or no you don't have to go ahead Rob let's here um maybe a little bit about your background before you got here okay um so I started off teaching first grade I did that for four years then I transitioned in into a a data coach for four years then into an instructional coach um after that uh my last four years I've been an assistant principal in park rdge uh and now I'm here all right so board what we like to do is just pause the meeting for a few minutes if you'd like to come up and introduce yourself to our principal and and everyone you know kind of enjoy any of the refreshments that might remain and we'll reconvene at 7:20 right or resume the board meeting e e did you guys hear that it is but it is this screen only and e e e thank you very much um Holly do we have anybody uh that wishes to speak to the board today no we have no public comment as I said before in the past I will spare you of everything I need to read if that's the case so moving on to 5.2 BPS Partners uh Drew Ray are you here hiding in the back I just saw you welcome Drew I was told how we Hawk was going to stay for the remainder of the meeting um be I I think that'd be fantastic um before I go with my prepared statements uh I I just want to uh say uh thank you on behalf of our staff to uh the district for how we go about how we've gone about in the past uh couple Cycles here picking our principles so uh the you know the input that you get from staff uh that feeling that those voices are being Amplified the feedback that we get is always very positive so uh you know with Michael wall last year and now with Shan degman dechman um really appreciate that protocol let's keep doing that it's a good thing uh so January saw the ray family absolutely ravaged by the scourge of influenza a strep twice now with strep probably throw several other illnesses in there as well I'm sorry that I wasn't able to be with you last month but I'm very fortunate that Sarah Barrett was able to share my message with you at the last board meeting as this is my first year as president of the association I have found Sarah's constant support as our vice president in Val valuable and I appreciate her pinch hitting for me uh so few updates for you number one currently we are in the process of finally initiating our class composition and size committee a committee that was bargained into our contract almost a year and a half ago but had not formally begun the process of setting up a meeting until the past several weeks prior to our current contract this committee functioned primarily as an ad hoc group designed to review issues related to class size while class size remains a key Focus this committee is now a standing committe that proactively examines both class size and composition the change in this committee structure reflects the increase of accommodations and modifications that are needed to support so many of our Learners in the district the Bea looks forward to working together to meet the ever growing complexities of student needs and uring that as a district we proactively and adequately support our staff in those efforts as well and I know what you're thinking just what this District needs another committee uh are we a committee heavy District probably yes but does our committee system highlight the importance of collaborative structures that include the voices of our Educators also yes second Public Schools week is next week it's an annual weeklong celebration dedicated to honoring the invaluable contributions and achievements of Educators and education advocates in our public schools and the communities that they serve led by the Learning First Alliance a coalition of 12 National Education groups with a collective membership exceeding 10 million including the National Education Association of which the Bea is a local affiliate Public Schools week invites the education Community parents lawmakers and others to join us in celebrating our nation's public schools and the dedicated individuals behind them in light of recent efforts to undermine public education across the country Public Schools week is more important now than ever so let's continue celebrating supporting public education not just during Public Schools week but all year long finally in that Spirit of supporting public education a friendly reminder that the Bea trivia night fundraiser will be held February 27th at the Pavia moose we invite the board and administration to join us for a fun evening raising money for the Bea scholarship for two graduating seniors pursuing careers in education or vocational tra as you know this is a great way to be together as an educational community and support two of our gr forward to seeing all of you at the Moose gold Bulldogs happy Black History Month remember black history is US History solidarity forever with our brothers and sisters and Besa good night and good luck thank you uh tonight best bua does not have anyone that will be addressing the board but thank you for all the work that they do and then uh student ambassadors hey guys I think I'm starting all right hi everyone we're student ambassadors we're back um so A lot's been going on especially with sports um I going to say uh wrestling has been having a great season um they actually I think girls just had their sectionals this weekend I believe guys also had their sectionals they actually had two state qualifiers shout out to I think it's K Kai Enos and Asher Sheldon great job and um Track and Field track and field started up we had our first meet so some great great performances actually um I think the guys broke 143 personal records so that's crazy lots of good work happening there and a shout out to Olivia McKay photography for coming out she shot some great photos always supporting School sports so we had some some crazy wins over there and also uh basketball just had a game yesterday I think Monday I think they versed St Charles East and uh it was pretty close 47 to 46 so great job for them and then also I wanted to do a shout out I'm me and JY actually are taking a class called senior leaders at the high school and it's really cool because this class kind of helps us learn leadership skills and we work with ILP students learning about how to use AAC devices just communication skills in general and recently we took a field trip to the Fox Valley um special Recreation Association and it was cool we got to work with special needs adults and kind of learn better communication skills so shout out to miss MCH who started that class very I think it's amazing skills for students to learn okay and you might be wondering why the beag is up there when my wonderful friend director boss is sitting right here to present to you later um but there is an improv show and I couldn't find any improv pictures it's next Thursday pull up I'm in it we had a pretty good practice today if I say so myself um and yeah and then show choir we've had our first two competitions our first one was at creep Monet we got third place in Varsity Division and the best sportsmanship award because kindness is key and yours truly got best performer so you know and then at our second competition we went to Mantino and got fifth place in the open Division and our best performer was Paisley Roos okay um happy black history everyone so I'm excited to tell you about all the cool events that black student union has organized for this month to celebrate so so to start off our theme for this uh year is African-American in labor which was chosen specifically to um recognize the impact that black Americans have had in the workforce and the progress that has been made and is still being made today and so one of the things that we've been doing is daily morning announcements where we had different BSU members share facts stories and key people events moments related to Black um labor history and this is not just to like um learn about history but also to connect to how um the opportunities and challenges that we see today and I think that's amazing another event that we've been doing is lunchtime chats we actually had a first event uh last week and it was really amazing it's where we're bringing black professionals from all different careers to talk about talk to students they share their experiences their challenges and um give advice on like different career opportunities it's really amazing and it was really fun because you get to see students engage and ask questions and really connect with the speakers and so plus some guests brought some back so that's a bonus and we have another one coming up next Thursday so um students are welcome to come they can bring the lunch friends everyone everyone's welcome and also to wrap up the month we have a big event called The Black History Month Cafe and this is to celebrate um black art and to explain it it's basically just like a uh Talent performance there's basically going to be singing music food um written poetry like everything is going to be there and it's just going to be a really good vibe so anyone's welcome to come it's going to be February 20th after school in the cafeteria so um yeah happy Black History Month all right and then bavia music's always doing something but last month we had the band or beginning of this month actually we had the band concert and the orchestra concert and then next month there's a choir concert and then uh at the BAC there was just The Odd Couple play which went on I know we have a lot of students that are involved in theater and they did really good job so we have a lot of pictures of that and then RMS oh RMS guys so they have their musical it's actually this weekend Beauty and the Beast it's going to be so cute and so beautiful um basketball a direct quote from one of the middle schoolers I talked to girls basketball she says I think they're pretty good so you know Middle School language they're doing really good um there's a choir concert in a few weeks and the show choir has been working hard they're performing in a month from today actually at Showtime at the V so I would say come but you're G to be here and then um our last one is just like a student body concern so as a student ambassador we get the privilege to talk about a lot of the really fun things that are happening uh with students but it's also our responsibility to voice the concerns of the student body um I've been personally asked and I know a lot of the other ambassadors we've been talked to about this um to speak upon the concerns of the lack of e-learning snow days as compared to other districts across Northern Illinois with harsh weather concerns students who drive the run run the risk of like car accidents and those who walk run the risk of like slipping on ice and getting hurt and then if you ride the bus you kind of have those factors both combined um while I cannot speak on what has happened behind the doors of the District Board of Education I know you guys probably have a con a very specific way of deciding that um I do want to talk about the fact that there have been numerous absences that happen because of this just from parents calling out their students out of a concern and then also I know staff probably struggle a lot with that when their kids are off of school and they need to watch them because they have a snow day um which is e-learning but then they have to come to school and also be in the place for their students um as many of those who' have expressed concerns see it snow days keep the education intact through e-learning while also preserving the safety of BPS 101 students so I just want to make sure the board and family was aware of these concerns thank you thank you I have one question you didn't say what time the improv show is on third um it's at 700 p.m.

org is our main website and then we also have a Facebook page but you can always just know so if you have any questions so anything have questions about no look forward to seeing if you can make it so all right thank you thank you thank you and if I can add the the bpn resource fair is one of the largest in this region they do a tremendous job thank you to both of you and everyone behind you helping with this event last year I was able to meet families that travel from DuPage County from the northern edge of cane County like from all over they come and they're all like this is amazing we don't have this in our area so to you guys I was telling you that we've had districts come and see what we do so they could do their own but they say it's a lot of work so come to hours so I'm like that's fine come to hours it's okay so yeah thank you all right board liaison are there any committee updates Rob um so stien committee I'll say we haven't met uh yet we're going to meet later this week in Thursday so update next next month um resource responsibility committee um we did meet last week um couple uh discussed a few different things uh Tony provided a staffing plan in at least initial we didn't get into all the details but initial Staffing plan updating some of the funding issues that we may we may be encountering um Josh gave a update on the my school bucks we talked about that um previously and uh implementation is planned at Roto I think on schedule so things are moving along on that and then Mark gave uh two updates one on the activity buses so maybe something we'll we'll be talking about a little bit later on in the year but the leases are ending on those buses and we're going to have to figure out what to do um whether to renew the lease or uh other options so we'll I'm sure we'll hear more about that a little bit later on and then uh also the um the kits the supply kits that um uh that are given to the kids right on the the first day of school um kind of the process we're going to use so a little bit we talked a little bit about that so that's it uh so we had the policy committee first of all plaque is hasn't met yet they're meeting this Thursday and we had the policy meeting on 24 um we talked a little bit about Title 9 UM and just where we're going to be at press has to have their updates on April 2025 so we're just going to follow them to see what language they're going to use um and kind of go from there um and then we are talked about the policy for um paper Flyers our communication policy um and we are amending the procedure so it's nothing that we have to vote on it's just uh something that we talked about and we agreed that paper Flyers are going to be good under certain conditions which one the flyer has to be printed by the organization um not using School resources two um the organization has to give the Flyers even by by Home Room room count like there's 20 kids in this home room or 22 and so forth or in packets of 25 um has to be translated in at least Spanish and um there has to be an established schedule so like every quarter they're allowed to drop these packets off um and then it's basically only for a type of like organizations like for Bick that are included in Bick so it' be like music Buffs pto's um dance things like that and then um also we kind of talked about because in our policy it says the board approves but then it also says superintendent or design and so forth so we're just going to add a disclaimer on anything that's put out there that you know material that's not BP BPS 101 does not imply endorsement that we're Distributing this um and that's it I think we that was basically all we talked about okay on anything uh I can say that the Hall of Honor subcommittee met uh earlier in the month and next week the whole body is going to meet and we had a large influx of candidates and supporting letters so it's going to be pretty exciting we're going have a pretty tough job narrowing it down to a handful of inductees but uh look for an announcement soon because we'll be selecting the next Hall of Honor recipients I wasn't able to attend the insurance and benefits committee meeting um were you there Steve I believe I was so you asking me what happened is to what happened yeah so as you can tell I didn't tell Steve I was going to ask we can call members from the audience perhaps too I don't know is there anything of relevance we can have any there's Josh there's the man yeah you if if you feel anything is it's a call to the couple yeah there's a couple of things you probably should be sitting up here anyways right Tony um so to refresh your memory I don't think you were there Steve by the way so I don't think it's a Memory thing that that you didn't remember the meeting getting worse yeah um we spent a lot of time just giving a new members an overview of different types of insurance plans so po HMO like all the different types that there are to start the process of getting ready for looking at you know possible changes or keeping things the same for our um benefits it was really just an orientation for new members you're right I was not there you weren't there I don't think I'm glad you remember that now thank you I forgot not being there that's the end of my repord thank you sir your level of Delegation is admirable anything on your side um I have no committees but I there's a lot going on at um the high school I guess I want to share that um I didn't get to go I was in one of my nanny days but they had um a health and medical career event um so I asked for a little like summary of how that went so they had um 15 Professionals in different Health and Medical Careers and over 100 students attend um and so basically each of the professionals gave a little like intro and and then they had small like roundtables for um group conversations uh there was like dermatologist healthcare administrator physician assistants uh we had a physical therapist business owner registered nurse pediatrician fir paramedics I mean there's various speech pathologist um and uh p over at the high at the high school had shared kind of some different student like uh feedback and a lot of it was that students were really they love the um opportunity to hear about some of the careers that maybe they didn't know about or some that they did they thought they were interested in and we're like I'm going to pass on that but maybe I'll go and like kind of over here where I didn't think that I was actually interested so it was really really good for them to get to know a little bit more about um specific uh Health Care professions um so that sounded like it was very successful um like I said they have a lot going on even just this month um there's an HBCU plunge that's an aurora there is a College and Career Wellness Affair that I guess we're co-host of um and that is at uh West oror High School for BH students and families um on 228 um and there's also it's like crazy how much stuff have going on at like one time but I would imagine like at the end of the year it's probably even like going into this part there's just so much for that I'm noticing for the kids to really be able to kind of see what's out there as far as different colleges just different uh career paths and and I love they're able to like be immersed in it but um I don't know I haven't been there but that's I mean a little gist of what's going on there thank you there you go um I don't have any specific updates um other than we spoken about at one point in time we're meeting with the Bea and Tom and a couple of board members kind of before this meeting to kind of talk and to kind of quote unquote break bread a little bit and today we're still in the state a number of kind of been through we're still in the state of figuring out a little bit what that meeting is and what it might morph into um so it was a really good meeting today kind of just trying to figure out a little bit of the organization of it and and see what it might drop into so we've all got a little bit of homework to do and we'll keep reporting back as it begs to do some I think really interesting and exciting things for the district so all right awesome all right uh next is uh consent agenda do I need to specifically State not item 6.8 uh we already made that adjustment okay you did all right so according to our board policy we designate a portion of the agenda as a consent agenda for those items that do not usually require extensive discussion before board action the items are generally routine recurring and can be grouped together for efficiency Steve would you like to walk us through the agenda please I would uh 6.1 and 6 .2 is the approval of the January 21st 2025 regular meeting and close session minutes 6.3 is our monthly Personnel report 6.4 is our monthly approval of payroll and bills 6.5 is the review of our close session minutes uh 6.6 is the acceptance of several donations uh thank you to Office Depot uh Costco frontstream the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and uh BF for a very large donation we appreciate all of those 6.7 um is a textbook on display 6.9 is the accept acceptance of the annual comprehensive financial report for fiscal year 2024 and 6.10 is the approval of the consent agenda all right anyone have comments or agenda I just have one comment uh I had Cindy print out the annual comprehensive financial report so my apologies this is 136 pages I think so you're going to start reading it uh we're going to start on page one and we're gonna how much time we got uh I just want to say that this is what's available on the website so there's a lot of good information so it's a long document but it is actually organized so it's very readable you don't have to be a an accountant to understand this and so uh when it comes to the district finances uh people are curious where the money's coming and going uh this is what's available to you so this is I I'm very proud of this document uh and this is when we talk about transparency I think this is a big part of what we're doing so want to point that out all right anything else yeah I so I have a question question uh 6.7 textbook on display so this is for sixth grade math to 9th grade math it actually is uh sixth grade math but we have elementary students doing that so it'll affect some elementary students through algebra in the ninth grade and then does this mean that the teachers in 6 through nine will no longer be writing the curriculum anymore correct and I'm just curious what prompted the Ching we saw stagnant math scorers which was really the impetus for taking a look at that so we looked at our data uh we have a math salt team that's comprised mostly of of Middle School uh Math teachers from each of the grade levels and we looked at that they have done a great job of adapting to the standards and they really know their standards but um really struggling to get that growth for our students and that means differentiating for students and that's where they needed a lot of that support so we looked at a product that aligns with Elementary because students were having to learn kind of different vocabulary which is even harder for our El students so looking at continuity from that Elementary program where we're seeing good growth results so this is the the middle school program for that so we took a look at that we talked to a couple of schools that in the area that have adopted this so it's something that the team unanimously said that they wanted to pursue um so it's out in a bunch of tote bags in the front lobby there but this is something that that team felt would take their growth to the next level and the school districts that you talk to in the surrounding areas they've seen growth with this curriculum yep they've seen good growth they thought implementation went well that there was good support for that product teachers weren't having to like scramble around for practice sets and other things like that so they felt like this was the way to go and then will this during the curriculum weekend this summer will this I'm was going to say the sixth through nth grade teachers but maybe the elementary too does this mean that they will no longer be a part of it since this curriculum resource is already there it's more about the implementation and working through because there when you get these products they come with so many different things that it takes years to actually learn how to to really work through them so I think their shift and we would we'd actually start this at the end of this of um next month is really working them on implementation of that resource so this is what it looks like like this is what the Cadence of the classroom would look like this is how you get students to participate the rigor level is is up so we're going to have to make sure that we're scaffolding instruction for our students to to bring them up to those grade level standards there's also a new course within that sequence which is 78 which accomplishes both seventh and eth grade curriculum which will advance more students because right now the your only opportunity is in elementary school where we do a 4 five compacting so this will allow some students to really accelerate and be in more advanced math classes when they enter high school well this also bring back the um I'm going say the math two in our middle school so I know we we had math like we had math one like sixth grade one you know um and I know we got away from the math to so is this going to bring it kind of back a little bit like so we have that in between there in seventh grade in sixth grade no there'll still just be the two levels regular Ong grade and then students were accelerated from elementary school in seventh grade they're at two levels right now but there will be three because there'll be seventh grade 78 compacted and then students who are accelerated already and then in eth grade there will continue to those three levels yeah I have a question to piggy back on this so when we say it's on display for the public uh how would the public access the materials yeah they come in uh they can take a look at the materials they can sit down and go through it and see what's we're going to be offering to both our staff and our students so there's student um workbooks there their staff teacher guides there so they physical book they can physically see them we make sure that the publisher gives us copies of all that stuff so the public and or the board can look at that and see what we're going to be offering to our students and then what's the mechanism for feedback there's a little it's h it's very basic so there's a little not card right there you put your name and address on the back of that and then you can write your comments and then I give all of that to the Board of Education I can say that doesn't happen very often but whatever feedback that I get goes to the Board of Education before their vote next month uh so that they can see what the public is thinking about that so you could you don't have to set an appointment to do this or anything no just come on in during regular working hours and uh we'll make arrangements for you to take a look at the the materials thank you I'm sorry look so it is it's digital and hard copy or is it there's a digital platform that the students will use and then all the hard copy materials are here well Aaron you stole my question so good job sorry it's okay no it was good so thank you very much one thing I will say is I remember as my kid was going through Elementary School and didn't quite make the cut for Accelerated and this is my kid that's working his way toward chemical and nuclear Engineering in in college kind of missed that little step up that he could have had in in ele in middle school so he just kind of jumped right into High School to the kind of accelerated classes that he could and it was a little harder you know so yeah this is I think this will be a really good plan for students every kid develops differently in terms of their math skills some are ready in elementary to accelerate what we don't want to do is to create gaps in math learning so when I started in this position we would skip kids right from fourth grade math to to sixth grade math so we we took a whole year of math away from them and while students are very bright and are able to kind of cope with some of those missing skills as math gets harder and it does we start we started to see Gap so even some of our brightest students were struggling with some math concepts in high school because they they literally didn't we didn't teach them anything in fifth grade math so the compacting allows students to get that whole curriculum so we're not creating gaps as they move and progress towards more advanced math concepts so that compacting in fourth and fifth it's it's fast and furious but our teachers take them through that um and get them ready for that sixth grade math and then now we'll have the option in seventh and eighth grade so a lot of parents were in similar situations where they're like well my kid didn't get it or I feel like they're ready well now there's another option for them they don't have to take preest or other things like that that um when you don't give kids instruction we're not expecting them to be super competent with that so now we're going to be giving that on the those the those students that instruction and then kind of moving them forward into more advanced math but I will tell any parent in bavia system you can start in the lowest level math class in high school and reach calculus 2 so we have that ability because we're on the Block schedule and the ability to double up on math classes so wherever a kid wants to go we're able to accommodate that that for them if you want to do that uh and then one think I know you're not a for and Teller but uh when would you expect when we implement this to see some type of growth you said because it was kind of stagnant for a while so in those areas that are stagnant when are you looking forward to seeing an uptake there people talk about like the J curve of change right so like sometimes you see a little dip before you get better I actually don't necessarily believe that in all cases especially with mathematics I do think you can start to see progress almost right away with students and that's because they're being exposed higher level materials and what we know about students is they will rise to those high expectations so I think our students are going to be exposed to tougher and tougher mathematics in a quicker pace and I think that they will respond and then those things pay off when we see um their I test scores or map test scores in terms of their growth so I think we will see rapid growth will all of our students be proficient right away no but we also want to make sure that kids are being exposed to this these Advanced mathematic uh Concepts and I think that's a hugely important thing that this new program will give us we we had really good feedback from that team um I was actually not expecting it to go the way that it went but that team really dug in they wanted to look at the materials they wanted to kind of experience it they were adamant about talking to uh other outside groups other teachers who have gone through this change process to see what their experience was like um I really commend them for all the work that they put into it our uh High ability teachers at the elementary school were like can we start this right now because they were really excited about that and you know sometimes that transition to high school is not always easy especially with math those algebra teachers that came to our meetings and saw the materials were right on board with us they thought this was the right way to go for students so I was really pleased uh with the reception that this got thanks everybody thank you Brad yep any other questions on any other item okay I will entertain a motion to approve all items on the consent agenda as presented second motion by RJ second by kilberg cdy please lead us in a roll call Vote kilberg Yes sler matth Yes Meadows yes arandu yes Gonzalez Thomas yes motion passes thank you very much Tom is there anything to report under your foyer or treasure or foyer reports um no this monthly report is being presented to the board and um you'll see the foyer requests for granted okay all right uh treasure requests or reports anything nothing since Tony's not here today no there was nothing unusual to report on what's been provided to the board okay great all right action item 8.1 adopt resolution supporting Vision 2030 Tom yes so um for we spent some time last meeting um discussing and reviewing Vision 2030 kind of just to recap um all of our documents are public Etc uh I if I were to boil it down the reminder about Vision 2030 is for one for us to focus on a enhanced future public educational system as a state which also obviously impacts BPS 101 that ranges from our our support of uh creating a strong pipeline of new Educators coming into our district retaining our Educators in our district and divers diversifying the workforce right um it also includes providing students with an increased opportunity as you've kind of been actually hearing tonight and and Danielle thank you for raising what you uh saw and shared at the high school and what's been reported to you you know those are the types of experiences we're looking to to be really aggressive about in providing students a pathway for any of their passion and Pursuits that they want and I and one thing I wanted to share is that I think that's a part of what the the beauty of our unit district structure is and what we do really well here in Pavia is that that starts at the elementary schools at a foundational level of trying to create a sense of belonging for all of our kids because if they can start thinking about like uh you know what Louise White's doing is they believe they're attending the best school ever and they love coming to school and the school rocks well that is nurturing the ability for every kid to find a SP for them here in our district and we're going to continue to work towards that and then same thing at the middle school Brad and I are talking with our teams at middle school and high school about how do we keep now reaching deeper into the middle school to start thinking about career Pathways and and and just Pathways in general right Post postsecondary in the future that's something we're working on too right now we we've done a great job with eighth grade we're going to continue to drill back down lower and lower and have our students start to think about what are possible futures for them um and so I I think that's the first component of vision 2030 I don't know how you don't say yes to that that's just me um the second piece I'd say is is the uh accountability aspect you know you've heard me talk a lot about um our District's goals around our strategic plan I will be sharing more about that to the board and and our work with DMG and how they're helping us refine our goal setting uh both for the board and then for the administration and then each building and their principles we're working on those things and should hopefully be able to get you to to that final product this this semester but in a bigger sense with the state the state of Illinois is refining its own accountability systems so um you know you've heard probably some of the talking and reading in the materials that you've been given how the state will be spending the next two years realigning how they handle their school ratings um right now it's impossible for every school in the state of Illinois to reach the most excellent ratings in in their system but yet then their middle Prof efficiency target has the widest band and so they're taking a revisit at that so that it's not based on a bell curve system and that students or schools excuse me districts hitting those marks would be able to receive those categorical ratings of H markers and that would be really great because that will reward the efforts those teachers support staff and principes are taking at each of those buildings across the state of Illinois um our s for our district we've had schools in our district that receive received proficient marks when really they could have probably should have been exemplary they just happened to be in the wrong year because other schools kind of met certain scores too so that gives you an idea what I'm talking about um and the last piece being and this is a big one Governor priser will be giving a state-of the state address tomorrow and um this will be about evidence-based funding from from my perspective and for your perspective as a school board what what does funding look like for public education in the state of Illinois and so the last big pillar of of vision 2030 is about maintaining a priority to fully fund public education in the state of Illinois um and you know Drew and I talk often when we take our social studies hats and put those on you know we talk about democracy um you know the the foundation of our country and productive citizens etc etc we talk about in just people in our society and Community um I think supporting public education is a no-brainer for me as well so last month we talked about that um board you gave me permission to bring this forward as an action item uh for the board to act on as a resolution of support and um there's nothing that would take that there's nothing that you would need to do in following up we are simply saying that as a district we support this Vision any questions any questions my question and again it's not like I'm this isn't for you to answer because it's for the state basically because it's like um as want to know how successful Vision 2020 was according to the state you know or if you guys know how you feel that BPS Vision when we adapt division 2020 if we were successful or not um and if they the state really accomplished what they wanted to you know they had like their goals um and it's like their Vision but I'm just curious of how the state actually did you know well let me do my best to answer that um I think that's a really fair question uh there's a couple of layers to this one I believe thing the vision 2020 including Vision 2030 are aspirational statements these are things we are shooting for high stakes aggressive uh progress and growth um so will we hit everything I don't know probably not maybe not right but what I'd also argue though what Vision 2020 produced was for the first time in the States history consistently arriving checks to all the school districts on their quarterly payment from the state and US able to have very predictable funding um two I would argue that as you've seen from our recent uh nape scores and even our own District's performance goals I would argue that we are seeing progress in all academic related areas are we perfect no but I think in the aspirational sense uh recel I think that's a great question I think it gives us it's like our strategic plan it gives us a place to aim and go for um because the last comment I would make is I don't think it's a destination this is an ongoing Journey the work will always continue um you know when we think about how we're preparing our students for a future with technology embedded in their career paths that is going to be ground that moves so quickly that the moment we install written procedures and curriculum and protocol the world has probably already changed on us you know what I mean so the challenge that we're we're actually as a DCC having conversations about and my partner in crime here Drew Ray and I are tasked with kind of creating some kind of blueprint to share with the DCC right for a draft or we've already begun curating some resources to take a look at that um is that it is just moving that quickly so I think Vision 203 when you look at Vision 2020 I don't think people would you know contend that every Hope was fully fulfilled in it but I would argue that without it people may have been aiming wondrously um wandering aimlessly that's what I meant to say sorry I like the word does that make sense it does I mean I think it's right like it's a vision right and it's a great vision i' would also kind of like and again maybe the state will do this and you guys might know more but like what are the actual actions or steps to get us to keep students safe I mean we have our own plans but it's like you know is the state going to say to you know the school district hey we have this new platform and it'll be free to you guys for XYZ or the keeping high quality Educators in front of students and having you know the ver backgrounds and well it's great of course we want that how do we get that you know I will say um you know in I should work for the Roe right now in defense of is or in in advocacy of what they've done one of the examples I'll give you in trying to help diversify the teaching Workforce has been changes into certification and lure um so as we've increased and expanded Pathways um in schools one of the things that the state is now allowing are um secondary career shifts for people and for them to be able to account their work experience over their career um I believe it's a minimum of 2,000 hours or more to apply for a um kind of an alternative uh lure educational lure to become a teacher that didn't exist um in the past in in the past it was a very rigid traditional approach to how you could become a teacher but with the teacher shortage and with the increased expectations and mandates that have been put on school districts I would say that the state realized we need to help the schools figure out how to be able to grow their teaching base um so that would be one example I would share with you that was a good example a good product of what Vision 2020 is work is and I think we're going to have to keep pushing that envelope in Vision 2030 anyone else all right so Guilt Trip nothing was standing I will entertain a motion to adopt the resolutions supporting Vision 2030 as presented some mov some moved by Danielle second by Erin uh Cindy please lead us in a roll call vote Gonzalez Thomas yes arandu yes Meadows yes sliger yes matys yes hilberg yes motion passes thank you uh 8.2 authorized rental rate adjustment for the bavia Fine Arts Center Dominic please walk us through it hello everyone great to see you again um there aren't a whole ton of changes in here uh so for example category one has absolutely no changes to rental rates there there are some uh slight changes to the Daily and weekly packages for category 2 uh renters and then category three renters see the larger side of the uh the rental increases there uh and that's the majority in fact all of our we don't have any really Category 2 rental rates uh renters from us category three is really 100% of our renters that are with us um category one would be things like uh beefy uh music Buffs stage those kinds of organizations Category 2 would be other things that uh benefit the students other organizations uh such as uh boy scouts or or things like that and then category three is everyone else uh everyone else in the world uh who rents from us uh you'll notice we are we're lessening the gap between daily and weekly rental rates we're trying to get that a little bit closer together and uh there's no changes to the ticketing fees that there are uh one small change is the uh we require people to sell tickets through us um and if they if they had a weekly package in the past they could get a buyout included with them we're getting rid of that buyout now uh it will make things a lot easier first of all logistically for us if we sell all tickets because people call us anyways we spend staff resources uh correcting people on where to get tickets and things like that so that will simplify all of that uh some new things that we have uh there's some people who rent for very very very very very long days and I will mean uh 5:30 in the morning till 11:30 at night so some really really long rentals that might be there so just uh a staff meal package when you exceed a certain amount of time that a meal package is provided to the staff and then they would be built out for that meal at the market rate plus 20% uh and then we have a new product the company digital down download uh which is if a company comes in and they want to provide all of their say dancers or somebody with a digital download of their um rental event there they could purchase as a dance studio or something for x amount of uh dollars their package and then they would get uh free digital downloads for their for their event to those people the last big one is Staff rate changes and that would be just $2 annually for and this isn't on a payout this is on a billing towards the renter $2 starting on July 1 of 2026 annually for three years would be a $2 uh rate increase per person on that we we a lot of people obviously are raising their rates and uh this we think Keeps Us competitive but also helps us uh grow uh with the times that we're facing right now I answer any questions that you have too right nice job thank you all right um I will entertain a motion for the board to approve the rental rate and fee adjustments for BAC as presented to align with market conditions cover Rising operational cost and sustain service Excellence by second by Rob uh Cindy please lead us in a roll call vote Meadows yes sliger yes arandu yes Gonzalez Thomas yes Mattis yes Hilbert yes all right motion passes all right Mark while I read this you can step up for 8.3 rejection of all bids for Demolition and flooring go for so this has to do with JB Nelson and Elis Gus in the flooring for the hallways cafeteria multi-purpose room and gyms um when you see that it's obviously much different than when I come up here I don't usually reject bids um actually this is the third time since I've been in this role um so kind of the process what happens is when well kind of going back to you know when this first started pretty much about nine months ago basically we get the architect they go into a design of what we're looking for get feedback back um also with that design you're given a budget so then that budget kind of should put you to stay within that budget um as we progressed through this we have the bid opening about two weeks ago and when with that bid opening there's two trades involved in here so you have the demolition of the floor and then you actually have the flooring installers um both of those trades came well demolitions not as high but the flooring contractors came in much much higher than what was budgeted um actually the flooring itself was over the entire budget um so obviously being you know as fiscal responsible as I can be with this um that's the reason we're rejecting these bits so then the next step is well we have to figure out why so in the scope review a lot of this has to do well I would say most of it has to do with the flooring type and how it's installed as we found out and the other thing is some timing um contractors got very busy very quickly this year um and in that usually what happens is you kind of get higher prices at that point too so there's a couple things we're looking at um one A different product and maybe packaging this with other projects that already have you know kind of moving forward so unfortunately the timing of this this can't be done this summer even to go back and to try to Reid this actually probably even with a different product I believe it'll even be higher um so we're looking to get this bid out um probably late summer early fall then to give more of a range of when they can do it so they could get in over winter break to do the flooring in some areas and then spring break and then obviously the summer of 26 so really that's kind of where we're at right now um now is the you know there's repairs that have to be done with the floor so there are some repairs that will be done this summer some minor repairs and and you know as things come up we'll just have to kind of unfortunately continuing to you know as I call put get the bigger and bigger Band-Aid out um until we can get it replaced what type of floor were we trying to get for them well it's it it was a vinyl type product but it wasn't the traditional VCT it was a little bit different and the labor was in the other piece in the gymnasiums mainly and how it was installed um and the laser cutting and things that they had to do um because they had to bring the product in get it laid out and then send it back out and bring it back in um so that was part of it that we're finding out um so this flooring um is used in other districts um even in talking to other districts and giving square foot costs they're like whoa that's really high and we just put this in in 23 so some of the things that we're still trying to figure out why we're we're at um and I don't unfortunately have those answers yet but that's you know what we're working towards I appreciate you doing this because this is a pretty an easy thing to say hey we got to go back to the drawing board because people are anticipating a new floor right yeah I mean when you reject bids is not an easy thing to do um at all but um you know in this case it's with the whole warm safe dry plan you know obviously there was a budget and we presented this and especially in this one I don't want to you know and we're still relatively early in this too and I think we have time but anytime you know and you've heard this before anytime you push thing another year I mean it doesn't usually get cheaper things go up but at the rate that this was at I mean it was it was about just shy as 70% over so 170% over so not double but it was yeah it was very expensive and again as they were reading the bids off I I knew I was like you know but not now you know when you reject the bids these same contractors will they will be able to yeah rebid um when you have like new specs and stuff yeah as many can bid whenever they want the one thing is is I mean in this type I mean I you know for me it doesn't happen that often but I would imagine I mean I know in other districts this happens so you know they basically you know put their bids in they have a square foot cost that they're at you know they get the product and they know how much it takes to install so for this type I wouldn't think can you know Craig can correct me if I'm wrong but in flooring type it's not as big of a process as maybe some other project projects you know some more in-depth ones any other questions all right I will entertain a motion that the board reject all bids for the trade package 02 A-1 Demolition and 09f floring at Alice Guston and JB Nelson schools moved so moved by Raquel second by RJ uh cdy please lead us in a roll call Vote arandu Yes matthys yes sliger yes Gonzalez Thomas yes Meadows yes kilberg yes thank you motion passes all right 8.4 authorized purchase of laptops and desktops Dave throbby please all right I am here for my big annual uh refresh Cycles uh so this one is for staff devices uh so this is desktops and laptops for all the elementaries um it totals what do I have 368 uh laptops and about 25 desktops um this year I actually threw it out to a bunch of different vendors as well to try to help get numbers down just hearing Mark's conversation with pricing it's in the same aspect of the tech world as well um I'm trying to get as much as I can for the dollar amounts that they want for these devices is uh as I mentioned in this too tariffs are also part of this so we're trying to avoid some of that um so right now I think we did pretty dang good this round um it is one of our bigger uh refresh Cycles being that it's all elementaries and 25 desktops as well it's not a small one um I've tried to balance these Cycles out because we if you guys don't know this there's three cycles that my department runs it's high school middle school and Elementary so I've tried to balance them as close to the same dollar amounts as I can just based on the sheer number it's easier to budget right um everything has come in higher than of course anyone's even thought these days so we were able to work out some stuff uh with HP this round uh to solve that solution so this is for the laptops and desktops any questions anyone good job Dave thank you all right I will entertain a motion at the board authorized purchase of 368 laptops and 25 desktops from it Savvy in the total amount of $438,500 Chromebooks so another cycle uh so about two years ago you guys approved my Chromebook Cycles to move to four years um so we are on year three of that um again prices are skyrocketing so this year I took the advantage of getting probably close to 12 different suppliers uh manufacturers I'm sorry so like you're talking Dell Acer Asus HP you know you name every company um to throw a number at us um what we ended up creating was kind kind of a bidding process that was like a battle essentially um it actually worked out pretty well for us um some of the Technologies are changing uh so some Chromebooks actually came with faster Wi-Fi some came with less battery power so we were able to kind of negotiate a little bit of the hardware as well as services so on this if you notice this comes with a four-year upfront coverage that I normally have to come to you annually to renew some of the other Chromebooks every year now this will actually solve that problem up front we saved so much up front to actually get this and essentially I got a year for free in doing that um so this basically covers this entire cycle right out of the gate for four solid years touch screen non-touch both uh so first Fifth and ninth grade um so this puts us in a great spot for our plan um and it seems to be going really well as far as the breakage and things like that currently with what we're doing with the touchscreens um we were a little worried initially because there's obviously like the grass going gorilla glass screen type problems that when you drop them they shatter um it actually hasn't been very bad at all um we did put some cases on them to help with that but uh this warranty of course covers all of that we've had some get ran over by a car we had one get dropped down a staircase like these crazy things happen I get it so no no I Dro down the staircase no no no something happened though it has been dropped something I don't know what happened so I'm trying to keep everything covered just for prolonging you know and trying to SA save every Buck we can um so this actually worked out really well for us this round and I'll explain a little more on the next item due to that any questions good job Dave on this one thanks two for two sir all right uh I will entertain a motion to authorize a purchase of 1,77 Chromebooks from it Savvy in the total amount of $439,000 so move by RJ second by I'm going let Danielle have this one Danielle Cindy please lead us in a roll call ath yes CER yes Meadows yes gilberg yes arando yes Gonzalez Thomas yes all right all right Dave authorized purchase of wired Network equipment so tried to keep this less techy on purpose because it gets pretty complicated pretty quickly um back in 22 you guys approved me to to replace all of our Wi-Fi access points in the classrooms um through that process uh we chose Juniper Mist uh so all of our little access points we have um it improved coverage and performance massively through that process um it was actually part of a phased process uh so these access points we have in the classrooms actually can get faster um so we'd had a plan uh put forth in capital projects to refresh all of the actual closet gear that runs all of that um it runs our internet it provides Wi-Fi to all of our classrooms access points so that's how it's kind of like distributed if you will to the classrooms um our current stuff is around seven almost eight years old um that's a really good shelf life considering how hard we hit stuff um and power hits and things like that tend to impact that as well um this was a very difficult process this year um numbers started almost three times what they should have uh similar experience um but we got to the point where I was able to negotiate quite a bit um our RFP process we put out I think I had six different people that put out proposals for that um really it was across the board as far as numbers if it actually fit our district as far as compatibilities and things to move forward on our main plan um we ended up uh reviewing those and conres with their Juniper quote uh came through as the winner for that um BAS basically now this will put us in a wonderful spot moving forward that I can actually start phasing some of this I think this is kind of the last time we'll be able to do all of it at once like we've done for the past 15 years um prices are that much different now um we're trying to keep the speeds up for the kids and the staff so everything stays nice and fast and reliable but it's coming at a more of a cost as part of that um there is also some subscription type things that come into play for a lot of these things of course which I hate talking about subscription itions everyone's got them now so this covers Us for a 5year subscription plus the hardware warranties on everything um and I know the eate conversation on here is a little confusing um essentially without eate funding the total would be 675 973 if it was not approved that's what we would pay it's already kind of going through the process I'm trying to get this done before tariffs and other things affect that number so we're trying to get it all pre approved ahead of time so once it is the 525 is what we would actually pay with all my eate discounts and funding that we've had to pay for this so we're saving right right around like $150,000 doing it that way but this lets us put out some really good performing gear and let us last quite a bit longer so any questions when will you know if that's approved the E rate uh I believe it's April uh which I see no reason not to at this point uh we're just kind of putting all this ahead so I can get it submitted ASAP by ASAP he's even are you still planning you and Josh to go do that now yes I'm actually literally going to go send this off tonight so before price tomorrow is when the Tariff hits certain companies so you better vote now all right without further delay I will entertain a motion equipment 5 years of support at no cost at a cost not to exceed there you go thank you caught myself at a cost not to exceed $75,900 moved moveed by Rob second by RJ Cindy please lead us in a roll call vote fos yes Gonzales Thomas yes kilberg yes matthys yes arando yes sliger yes you motion passes all right item 8.7 um does not require any motion but um Tom will lead us through it so this is uh the administrative procedure that Raquel was referencing earlier that came out of board policy we had agreed that we wanted to bring this to the board typically procedures are something that the administration and with any stakeholder groups might be working on administrative policies for procedures right um but in this particular case when we talked about this we had so many stakeholder groups kind of weigh in on this right when we went to Bick Etc and principles we figured in a forward- facing way to push this Poli uh procedure out there so people can see it my apologies board I should have placed it under information not under action so but so that's why there's no motion required but it's publicly displayed for anyone who's reading our board packet to be able to see it um so that's it any questions all right so no concerns consensus seems to be go for it sounds good all right uh next item is board matters time can you lead us in the overall description of yeah so Bard near the end of last semester we had talked about the um bullying flowchart that the administration created um and then we had we had received several different uh points of feedback from uh individual board members and Brad and Holly worked to try and and fold in your recommendations the reason why maybe there isn't a complete overhaul based on what everyone suggested or recommended was cuz there were a couple of points that might have been conflicting to put onto paper that didn't completely uh match and sync up in a process um the reason why we're bringing it tonight just for the board to have a conversation is um when it was presented there seemed to be a little bit amongst the board when I I rewatched the recording there was a little bit of just um I don't want to call it confusion just a differing point of view or to memory to this to this particular project that the board had asked the administration to complete so I'm just asking if there's anything this is publicly posted and Holly's going to show you exactly where it's been um and ask for the board to give us as a board of education if there's any other further work you want to see with this particular document yes the goal on this one is to kind of talk ourselves through it and I'm gonna kind of ask each one and RJ who left I was going to ask RJ to start um uh can Holly show you where it's at so we're going to go through that and then we'll just just I'm giving you guys a moment to formulate if you hadn't so I'm going to kind of call on everybody kind of one by one to give their input and then we'll talk about it so I'll just show you from the BPS website but if you went to any one of the schools websites you would go through the same process okay um so on our main page and then you go to students and it's under the school safety helpline this is where all students um and safe adults are to go when they have concerns about safety and within that is a flowchart of once you go through this process this is what the school does so you'll see here this is the process we go through once an incident is reported and there's the flowj and these are some of the things that we added so that the safe to help QR code to go right to that page if somebody was you know had seen this displayed and they wanted to report this and then here's all the individual steps um and then additional considerations are noted here at the bottom so if you wanted to walk through this or ask any questions we're happy to answer them for you AR just stepped out for a minute but we're gonna kind of give every board member kind of an opportunity if they have additional comments um this is when if I recall correctly from a board meeting it was kind of an idea you kind of offered at one point in time so I was going to let you kind of start because Tom I don't know when you stepped out but Tom had said there was kind of talking through in at the last board meeting we reviewed back in last semester it was there was some additional kind of direction or comments brought up trying to figure out if we need to provide better clear Clarity I'm okay I I sent Tom a separate email feedback on everything so so this is currently kind of sitting at about where you would be comfortable it's pretty darn close Okay um is there a link to this that we have yeah so um I can't see we just walked through so I'll show you really quick you stepped out while she was walking through yep that's okay so this is the main BPS website it's also under each of the different schools so if you want to like BHS bps101.net You' also find it there um under the students tab for school safety helpline there's the information to go to report an in inent and then this is the process we go through once an incident is reported and then that's where the flowchart is sorry to make you repeat all that no worries it's worth it seeing it twice please feel free to other people feel free to I don't need the floor to talk about it it's fine for other people if they want to talk about it okay Aaron anything you want to add uh I agree with RJ I'm comfortable with where it's at right now I will say that QR code I mean I might be not remembering this right but like that's posted in the schools correct did you say that yeah it is it was in the middle school for an event and I saw that posted many places so there're specific yeah they're specific that safe to help um is in each level so there are specific posters for elementary students versus Middle School versus high school um based on like if like a kid in elementary school doesn't have a phone um they're given more specific instruction on to find a safe adult and how to help process through making a report okay M um no I don't have anything but uh and I know that this is posted on our website but is it also posted in the school I thought we were going to have the full chart in school offices I don't remember but I thought it is not currently posted in the school this is like a public document for if you were going to rep this is where you would what is posted in the schools is a QR code and how to to help how to report yeah right this document in and of itself is kind of like the next step I guess okay I just want to the reporting mechanism is also on student IDs that's actually the boards that was a board request you asked that and an amazingly fast turnaround I think because the IDS were coming out very quickly afterwards thank you oh no Raquel anything else I'm sorry okay Rob um few comments here just one thank you I mean I think we as a board gave the feedback to to come up with um this flowchart to help as a guide and uh to me uh a very sensitive subject U but very visually appealing um looking at this flowchart so from that aspect uh great job on um that communication um process there um and then once again I I I I feel like this is a living document to borrow a phrase from uh superintendent Kim earlier in the evening it's not a destination it's a it's a journey and you know as as we learn as we move along um you know we may make adjustments to this and um updated as needed so you know this not set in stone I guess is is my perspective on on this uh flowchart and I don't think it necessarily has to be prescriptive in the sense that it doesn't have to cover all types of scenarios because you won't get that I in my opinion um but it is gives a high level guide and we know we operate in the Shades of Gray it's not black and white and this is the guide that kind of um helps us or helps communicate the process that we're using using yeah is there going to be some variation I'm sure maybe in every case um so but those are my comments I think this is a great starting point couple of things I just want to clarify and other board members can kind of put in on this question because you brought it up one of them is like you said it's a living document do you see that there's a need for is a living document that that the staff and the admin and can make adjustments kind of on the Fly With You Know research in depth of knowledge and everything else that they need to kind of come back to the board on kind of these tweaks and adjustments um if it's not like an overall structural change like if they're like oh we want to get rid of this thing then maybe they should come back but if they're making adjustments I'm asking how everybody kind of feels about that to give them kind of agency on that I think they have to be in alignment like like take the high school and the high school wants to change some verbiage or something I think they need to get alignment with all the other principles kind of like within the district itself okay do you think they need to come back to us if there's those types of changes I think it probably depends on Case by case what verbage they want to change okay so kind of it's if it if they feel it significant enough to bounce it off then that would be the way to go or there's a change kind of a notification of hey we tweaked it sort of thing okay I mean because again this is this is a procedure it's not a policy however we deemed in the policy meetings that if it's something that's procedurally that going to affect us like right in a certain way then we should bring it to the board so we all know so it's an awareness thing more than anything else okay kind of like the one procedure for the you know paper Flyers right you know just so the be as a border you know hey we're going to allow this with these stipulations right okay I agree with that so um thank you so much you definitely I was looking over my feedback and you definitely addressed it especially bullet point 9 where I thought didn't make sense because it was prevention and education but you adjusted it so it makes sense to me so if I'm your only audience thanks um but no it was about prevention but if you're if you believe you're a victim the prevention part seemed like well that should have been first right but now you're saying we're learning from the experience and we're going to continue to grow um just to throw this out there for future since I'm not for long here um some other suggestions that I threw out there was um and I don't know if we have this a step by step for the person who reports it um if they would like to see what's going to happen next flowchart doesn't have to be a flowchart um high level overview the process um that's definitely done um a step byep for school admin so they understand what happens once they report something um and maybe even um parents of the victim family of the victim um or some someone who was reported on you've been reported here's what happens next just so they can see what am I expecting so I feel like a lot of people are in the blind from what I've heard um so I just think the more information up front that could be given the more comfortable they'll feel once the reporting occurs that's all do you guys tend to walk through people as to like what the next steps are and what it tends to look like because I imagine those steps may be different depending on what the issue is at hand and who are involved in the age levels and everything else yeah I just completed uh an investigation and and walk the families through that were affected through that process both sides of it both sides of it okay I don't know if something on the website's particularly useful you know in those situations I think like that Personal Touch is really they need to be heard U the family I was working with like felt like they weren't being hurt so you know sitting with them talking with them hearing about their situation I think is to me really important so like that Personal Touch is really important I think where we could weave in some of those things RJ is developing like some communication protocols because sometimes we're in a rush to communicate with families we may not give them all of the information that they might need or think that we they might need so we could develop some communication templates so as administrators are working with with families on multiple sides of these issues through it they get like a full kind of picture of what that is kind of the next steps or here's where I'm going to go um I did that verbally with that family and the other families that I worked with but I think maybe like a follow-up email saying here's an email of where I'm going to go next or what the next steps in those process to me might be valuable and that way it's as Rael said it's consistent in aligned across the district and administrators aren't having to make that up while they're investigating and talking to families and all those pieces so to me that might be a way to weave in some of that alignment and consistency but further communication I think it's always best to do it with the families whenever possible but sometimes people are enraged upset and they're not hearing necessarily so I think a follow-up email with more detailed information might be the next thing for us to take a look at doing anything else AR you okay Daniel um it's interesting you put me last time I know I I I know I've talked more about this and anybody um would probably like to Tom what meeting did you were you referring to when you looked back on was it like one of the last ones was it the first one no no the last one when we finished this draft and shared it it was the uh uh what did I watch it was the November board meeting or the October board when we came back to the board with it okay I I guess I'm and I don't want to take up too much time here because it sounds like everyone here is pretty okay with where we're at I'm not um don't don't hold back talk whatever you I yeah I will okay um when we were initially talking about this it arose out of our bullying discussions when we had that put on the agenda and part of that were the nuances that went along with reporting how each school was handling things a lot of the answers are like we don't know there's not really a set thing everyone can kind of do things in a different way and when the board was talking about it it just felt a little problematic like what do you mean that you can have six different elementary schools possibly handle there's not one same incident because every student is different bullying is an imbalance of power no matter which way you look at it right and there's there has to be certain protocols you know hey we're going to do this we're going to do that still to this day there are so many families who are like I don't know what to do and they're at the mercy of reaching out to their each School administration and there is not always trust and we have to acknowledge that and that isn't something that's for us to take care of but we have to understand I mean I if you've not have you not heard a Community member come with that kind of concern like I'm not sure where to go I'm not sure what to do I try to talk to my building admin I don't think I'm going you know necessarily need mean getting the answers or getting the uh handling the way I I would understand or I don't know even where to go to begin with my kids's not sure what to do there's just a lot of like I don't know so in our conversation the flowcharts I would go back to that meeting I would have to at this point I mean this is going I don't know did we was that August that we made I had like a bullying conversation and in there again was like you know staff even aren't sure necessarily okay what happens next what about this or that in certain instances so the discussion came from a need for there to be separate thing not just like one chart I mean this is wonderful for for kind of like a simple layout but I don't know where I guess it still leaves a little bit of like a loophole for people who aren't sure necessarily what to do I mean it's it's kind of basic but there is no here's your chain of command I mean that is the biggest question we get so where do I go if I'm you know here what's next and so that was kind of like the here are the different options you have here are like what's supposed to happen here are your options here are definitions of bullying kind of all like in various places because it was just all over the place when we would ask questions the answers were just a lot of I don't knows and it's up to each independent school and I'm I'm just not sure how you have procedures and policies that are followed with a lot of I don't knows and a lot of like open for each person yes each like building admin should have the flexibility to understand their building but where where is the accountability and where is that cohesion across the district if we're allowing people to operate on just like you know it's I don't know that we're giving them the empowering tools to make decisions When A lot's up in the air so to me this flowchart is it's great for some of the things but some of the feedback points I had I don't know that IT addresses um necessarily what I had thought again I think we all walked away maybe with different understandings what I had thought would happen because I wanted to ensure that you know ba besta Bick people who were talking to us you know in a bck meeting I sat in they had different questions about I don't know what to do when there's bullying they had different concerns so I wanted to work with the community and the feedback of the community and all of our stakeholders to ensure people understand where to go on our websites people understand what they're supposed to do people understand where they're supposed to go what you know they can't say this is exactly what comes next but I don't see that we have something like that in place that's super solid and I don't know that this is that I have a question so some of the things we've implicated like the QR code on the ID have you gotten feedback there any of these changes having an impact I I think it allows for like an initial reporting part there's still not a solid understanding what is supposed to happen what is supposed to happen so some people are like I got a call some people are like I didn't get a call some people are like I don't know if I'm supposed to receive a follow-up and never or I did receive a followup but no I don't I don't know right is my kid supposed to receive a followup from a counselor are they supposed to be brought in again to talk about this so I think the initial reporting is with the the code or a site is a bit more clear but the actual process that happens after that just varies so much and is not clear to a lot of our community and I'm not sure that's beneficial I don't know that that helps people feel empowered to like ask questions to Advocate and like there's just it feels like barriers barriers barriers and just a lot of shutdown and so I'm not sure that when I read through this that it resolves those things necessarily I know I well I mean a flowchart is not going to yeah that's not going to so if I could I'm sorry it took my mile a second to get from my brain I heard two different things one the people at the schools aren't doing the same thing or not following the same process and two Community who reports things don't know what to expect so I'm hoping this helps what to expect somewhat the flowchart but would the goal be would your goal be that if let's say magically the same exact incident we gave a we gave a we gave a fake scenario to every single principal at every single school that they all handled the D the exact same way in new Honey analyst guess is that the type of process chart you're talking about well I don't know if you if we don't have certain procedures in place that you can have a flow chart that it it shows a procedure so um I guess that if ideally you have a bullying incident it's reported the same process is going you're going to investigate you're going to do this you're going to follow so if it's a founded report there's nothing in here that shows anybody what's supposed to happen to me next like am I going to have follow-ups what do those follow-ups look like you know what should I expect and I mean that's a lot of frustration because if they don't feel that they're being engaged in a way like do I am I supposed to have the right to have something else happen after this yeah that's what I was talking about when I said some sort of pamphlet or you've reported this is what happens next and I mean again I think that I I don't know if that's policy that must be like a procedural thing where I don't know that we have anything in place that actually allows for that to happen um and I I so I guess a flowchart I guess was like I get if I'm maybe I'm wanting something that we can't have because we don't have solid procedures in place I don't know if that's where I'm arriving at in this discussion here but like I don't see how it addresses some of the issues that have been brought to our attention some of those shortcomings that we discuss in our bullying conversation where we ask questions and we didn't get answers and I would just encourage I mean I I guess if this is a a living document or whatever we call it I would encourage us to go back there and revisit why I guess there was a need felt for this in the first place because I don't think it's addressing the needs that we had discussed necessarily I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone because I feel like I'm the only one who remembers this conversation well I RJ when you suggested this do you remember the impetus of why you thought we should generate a document like this yes and I said this last month and I said this the month before so I'll say it again my intention of the original request was that I wanted to understand what can and will happen if someone is bullied repeatedly will the victim receive continued Outreach will the bully receive punishment and what are the options how can we assure we remain as consistent as possible in this document to me does not show that it what where does this lack inconsistency for you guys is like do do you feel like there's consistency am I missing it I don't I don't I don't know that this gives our admin empowerment to do that and I don't know maybe we haven't been I I guess maybe I was walking away with a different understanding and different hope which we've talked about right that we want to make sure that we're walking with the same message and we're working on that that's not the message that I understood and I've know I brought it up but I I'm wondering um as I'm listening to you I'm comparing some of the uh notes of what all of you have been sharing um and then looking at our administrative procedures under policy 7180 and wonder if that might alleviate some of the concerns that you're raising um because I like I'm looking at administrative procedure uh ap17 response to bowling it provides a format document that actually requires documentation and outlines what the steps are who the Witnesses are that were spoken to um findings response and plan for the Target uh response and plan for aggressor and there's like documentation steps here that you would sign off on um it also lists what the punitive responses are in those matters and you would list them it ranges from loss of privileges to detention suspension expulsion community service it's a long list um because so that's one question um the other one being AP1 the very first administrative procedure uh if you scroll down on it there's a several numbered points that talk about responding to bullying and in it aside from E7 the document I I referenced it does talk about some steps on how the administration would respond to those are these the actual talking points that would be helpful I guess is my point because it's so much I don't know how we put that into a consumable format of a of a flowchart or a grid or or something nature I don't think that what you would have for admin would be the same that you would have for the general population like the parents or students I don't think it would have the same language I don't think it would have that same I that's why the whole I didn't understand how we have one flowchart so looking at this then that's that thank you for sharing that cuz then I I'm wondering like if you look at AP1 the language there feels like to me just from my perspective that that's what's giving parents the aggressor or the victim an idea of what is going to happen next for example if you look it um like number three there's a very specific prompt that would be used to help in set asking how can we help you and your child I mean a standard I know it sounds really simple but just as simple how can we help you in this particular complaint um if you look at number eight number nine number nine follow up with the target aggressor and their parents to ensure subsequent bullying has not occurred and no new concerns have Arisen um are those I guess I'm asking the question just just to help get why are we not asking stakeholders this question we're asking ourselves we're asking admin who they you guys do understand the way things work for me to go into our policy I'm like Okay click click click trying to do on my phone this and that and I'm used to going through the policy we're asking parents we're asking people with various skills to go in and click on this click on that just to get an understanding and be able to follow along with policy language I think it needs to be in layman's terms and it needs to be in terms that families need to have I think we've I guess where I stand is we've been told that what we have and what is there that is understood is not working for a lot of families a lot of students so that's where my feedback was can we work with ba basa you know family students whoever staff members to understand what their needs are to understand our protocols to understand like what the procedures are what do they need to see to better understand what they should expect and that's not only for accountability for you know these families for students but for us and um ensuring that it's just something that is a bit more efficient for everybody I mean I think it would stop a lot of like a conf I mean you'll still have questions and stuff but I just I'm not sure why can we answer that based on our limited experiences is there is is there benefit to talking to our stakeholders and engaging like what do you need it's a problem that I think we've been approached with a lot um and that's where I kind of don't know that when I think about the people have come and I think with the conversations I don't know that this necessarily it it is helpful I don't want to say it's not helpful it is helpful um I don't I don't think it I think from your perspective and I'm just gonna I think it's helpful but it doesn't approach the other concerns that you have that are preceding this event effectively yeah yeah and it still doesn't I think some of the concerns and what the the bring up of it again was there was a lot of like I don't knows um you know this could be handled this way it could not be handled this way and like how does admin know these things it wasn't very like okay there's something messing here there's a lot of up in the air a parent who has an incident that happens at Roto may be completely different differently handled it completely than something that happens to one of their other children at the elementary let's say and I understand there's different like you know there's obviously it's a different incident different place and all that but like it it there should be some understanding of a process a general process and what they should see as far as like feedback and the loop around and a time frame and it should be pretty easy to na I just feel so how does everybody else feel this is intended to be a dialog I mean there's a couple things Daniel you brought up um so um like to me this like a flowchart is not going to address your issues it's almost more like a an audit would be necessary to see if we're all following the procedures the right way or but then also you brought up like trust and things so that's more of like a culture thing that's how I would interpret it I mean I could be wrong but um like I know when you do the QR code doesn't one of them come like who's your trusted adult I think that comes up um I know not everyone's going to use the QR code but um like the flow chart's kind of a limited tool I don't think it can address some of the things you're talking about uh so it's kind of a different tier of analysis I think of what we're doing if we're going to go down that path is that accurate or am I on no no I I I hear I think I hear what you're saying the culture sh yes I mean we obviously have a culture there's a cultural something that that provides the space for bowling and whatnot what I more so meant is that you know just hearing from people who've had to navigate right and they're maybe they're it's not handled in the best way they're not sure where else to go you know we're not supposed to I can come to the board but it doesn't go anywhere because we're not really engaging I'm not sure I think people would just feel better knowing that there is this outline here there is something they know that they can follow and point to and say hey like I know I'm supposed to come to you right and I follow this chain of command and I know that this is next and I'm empowered to take this next step if I follow this or that that's not really out there it doesn't it's not really anything that we have access to that the public has access to um and for that part for the trust I think that allows people to understand like yeah you're there are certain things that you have in line so if you are having like an issue or you had issues like this is how you would navigate this um the cultural thing though I think is something wouldn't be solved with the flow chart yeah I'm not sure the cultural thing is that's that's put in place over years of you know that's challenged with years of perceived at a minimum kind of inaction or or not appropriate reaction and then the only way to really fix that is to try to go the other direction and kind of make some changes or Institute some consistency from what your perspective you're talking about so I mean I guess from a from my personal opinion about the chart is I feel like the chart kind of talks about kind of what happens on a post kind of element because it kind of talks about it does talk about like the steps that you guys are kind of generally going to go through does it talk about specific timelines I don't know because I don't know how consistent that is from a bullying instant or not I know I know that some of them have like a 10day period but often times you can discuss with the system and say okay that's going to take a little extra time or whatever else so that's kind of inherent in the process um some of these other things looking out front one of them is you talked about kind of getting stakeholder in involvement in the confirmation of what is on our website right well this was in a meeting an open session I'd have to go back this was told to me that this was for the board this was not for public when I asked the questions around I was told that this is for the board that this was not ever meant to intended that's where I was like wait a minute I thought when we talked I brought that up in an open session because this is supposed to be for us and now it's supposed to serve the whole Community I don't recall it that way okay that's just me to go back and look I'm not say you're wrong if you want to verify I'm very sure with with where I was like wait a minute this was supposed to be for us and that's where I was like no no no that just for you guys it's not like meant to be for everything when I asked about the feedback loop when I asked specifically about that in an open session I said are we able to you know invite people in it was like well this is for us and so we're we have our own perspectives here we have heard over and over and over that something isn't working for families and what I'm saying is that I don't see how this is how do we feel that this is helping our families and the problems that they have brought to us where does this Empower a family to have more education whether it's definitions of what bullying is whether it's this or that and easy even it's like links to to different places so it's like easy for people to get to they shouldn't have to navigate through our policies they shouldn't have to like second guest and click on this site it should be something where it's like okay let's get this we're educated we we have everything at our fingertips but I don't think that it's designed that way because we were supposed it was supposed to be for us somehow and there was like back and forth on who it was initially discussed to be for so question so it says uh bullet five on a vot chart it says bullying confirmed yes proceed to step six so there you would want to link this is the definition of our Pol like the link to our policy on what bullying is see I don't I guess I would have to sit longer as like a parent if that was how I and like thinking about that like yeah I I just that's why I'm just again I was hoping that we would have a little bit more engagement with the people who are actually needing to utilize this um from their perspective um who would actually be our users I would understand this being in place for us if it is helpful for us 100% but if we are saying that this on the website to direct people to it's what our admin necessarily going to take in yeah I I it's I think we need a little bit more of that feedback that engagement Loop because I don't I don't know how the seven of us can possibly decide on that as effectively so I don't I I I'm I feel like you guys have heard me I if you all feel it differently that is I get it I mean I know you guys care about this I know that this is all of our goals I'm not I'm not trying to push back this is just my understanding I feel like I put it out there very clearly I think you guys heard me I don't I'm not asking you do anything differently um understood yeah and I appreciate you bringing up and talking about it because it's important because there may even if it's not right now and related to this it's something that's going to kind of like when someone emails us or something it's like okay now we all kind of start to understand your perspective a little bit you know I think I think there's kind of two things is one is to kind of give maybe um and some of the administration to kind of synthesize and absorb a little bit about what it is talked about and to kind of look at some of the stuff we have as a lens I I I think the original kind of discussion Point started as something that would be PE to help people that are involved in the process and understanding what they would go through I think there was a point maybe in the meeting where you like it was created initially for it was created for us to under to be able to help us understand just like the people that are going through the process but I understand your point what you're saying is hey then they should probably be involved in an ability to kind of comment on this and I think part of that maybe a let's see how it evolves over time on a live document like as it gets enacted what are the things as part of that feedback as there it's actually people are actually going through the process with it I think initially it was to me it was clear but I think this is where as a board we've kind of discovered after meetings when there's action items we have said we want to make sure to well that's why we're trying to we're trying to do that we have an understanding because this is the perfect example y um 100% because the conversation that like I just I like I said it was in that bullying conversation and where it arrived from was different than what we're applying it to now for the way I see it from your perspective and I'm not yes I'm not minimizing that I'm just saying clearly from your perspective that's what you feel right right okay so that being said does any I mean do we is this for what people felt that their kind of their understanding of the intended purpose was aligned for that document and if there's some things that we could recommend being investigated on it or using it is that like as a live document how does that grow and change because the thing we need to come out of here is if there's going to be changes to it it needs to be kind of from an agreement of the board whether that's a majority or consensus this is a policy it this is a procedure item not a policy item so therefore we don't need to have a true vote on it but we do owe the staff and we do owe um superintendent Kim is a clear understanding of what the board is requesting so we don't have confusions like this because they're seeing it the way we that way it's being expressed effectively right now so this is this is for to be on our website for just general knowledge right this is what we're our Viewpoint is I want to make we are on that understanding right now this is what um does that and you guys are okay with that you don't want to visit having anything different for that I like the idea of having the links on it like what's referred to like so how did so you're asking how do we give that well that's that that's kind of the thing is hey I think there's a good point here about adding some links to get to the procedure the pages on the website so it's easier to navigate you know that or to figure out a way of being able to make that that's kind of the direction so if everybody's like okay is there a way of being able to put and I want some comment from you Tom is you know is there a way to bed some links on the pdf version because when it's printed on a wall it's not going to help anybody you know and that's like you said it's not posted in there right but when they go to the the safe help line it'll get there and get them to a PDF right so is that something the board feels like if we could embed in that some way of kind of helping to cross connect those elements can you restate that again for me I'm sorry so in this document so when someone goes to that website if it hits The Bullying section yes this is identified as bullying it it links to the definition of bullying or this board policy on bullying yeah I mean it sounds like a good idea does uh I'm just trying to figure out how we can give them more direction of like what kind of links we want to put on there is that what you were trying to get at is like so let's say we are hearing from I don't know um just parents let's say or or kids whatever like hey hey this is not I need you know we're just hearing over and over are you asking like when who makes those decisions to make changes like no I think that's like my question earlier to to Rob was look it's a live document if they're finding that it's not working quite the way it needs to be working they need to have some agency to make some adjustments to get it to work without having to come back to us on a monthly basis to ask for those amendments are you saying like Holly like yeah Holly or Brad or whomever's in charge or involved in that process you know that be able to do that so they can have some agency of making those change a recommendation based on what we're hearing is that having some links embedded in this may help that as a first blush I I I don't think it is either it wasn't I I don't think it I don't think I think it was just like she said it part of the dialogue I don't know who said it it's our idea run it back say it's my word so from that perspective on that now I think some of the kind of stakeholder involvement and some of those other ones you're talking about kind of on the pre- reporting issue like if someone's just like trying to figure out okay I I I reported it okay I kind of get my steps or I don't even know if I should report it you know early steps or I don't feel comfortable so what do I need to investigate to know I think that's something that that do we feel like as a board that there needs to be some Focus or time spent on that I paraphrasing some things correctly I don't know I don't know what feel like you're talking about some of like the language that's in the website and like it sounds like to me I'm way I'm looking at this is this is kind of what happens if you're if you're if you reported an incident it gives you an idea of the steps and the progress that's going to occur if you're thinking about reporting it it makes you aware of how people are going to handle it right so that's kind of somewhat clear but early on is how do I know what to report or if I'm going to report or do I need to report or whatever or to whom to whom that was a good point you made earlier so if there's some things to just ask the administration and Via Tom to kind of look at those components and see if that's clear and if there's ways to clarify that and is there a mechanism to get that feedback from people that's kind of the piece you're saying right like the people that are impacted I mean my first thought I'm sorry ba but like we have a union full of Educators that are with our kids day in and day out I think they have a pretty good idea and understanding or uh they're in touch with our students probably the most parents but yeah I I don't I don't think it has to be like a we're sending mail cards out to everybody necessarily I don't I don't know what that needs to look like I just don't know that I feel comfortable saying like my recommendations are it you know our recommendations are it I think that our stakeholders are the people that need to let us know so from my perspective we're elect this is we're elected people to represent the community and also our interests or people that you know that we have the ear that have our ear or people that talk to us a lot because like you talked you hear a lot of probably outside of just the people that come talk to us I don't right nobody tends to come to me to express those concerns right so I have to take it on faith to a certain extent with our dialogues that yes there is greater than the people I hear that actually come to board meetings so the only thing then that would educate us more is if that's the case is that people actually are coming to us that's like what I would take out of that because I'm saying from being connected to various people and especially in the outside work I do like with bcdi and other organizations this isn't the help that some people need um it doesn't help navigate through various barriers through just the system itself um and we can leave it like that and add in things and then wait for people if you're that that's what you're kind of getting at wait wait for feedback to come um or actively search it out a bit as it occurs so like if there's a bullying incident someone says okay let's talk about how this process went for you and how you feel like it or whatever I a mechanism yeah I'd Empower everyone to be able to to have that like to bring it back and if you guys do that already you can kind of speak up and say yeah that's part of our process a little bit you know so I mean a quick question is um does this uh like the our buling policy flowchart um is this given annually to all our workers for BPS so this flowchart was created this school year right right because it's new it came at the suggestion and discussion as Daniel you went out in that August board meeting um actually I think it came in the July board meeting and then I we we had a discussion about can we get this by the August board meeting I said we'll try but we're opening schools so if if the grace if the board could give us some Grace if you recall I asked give us a little bit of an extension beyond that that's why it came later in the fall when we were able to collect feedback from you put it together um so I've been quiet only because I'm really really trying to like focus in on what everyone's talking about trying to process at the end of the day if we look at what the objective and the goal is if I understand correctly is we're trying to create a mechanism that helps with the communication understanding and knowledge of our processes and protocols is that fair if I had to synthesize it in like a one sentence way is that feel right I see a lot of heads nodding yeah Danielle is good I I saw Dar you feel that was a nod yes right okay so we're trying to create that because to your point Danielle we have these administrative procedures living side by side our policy board policy but your point is doesn't really come alive for people when they're in need of some information or guidance that that's not that we maybe we could try a different tactic in a one goto document or something in that form right and because some of these things I do feel to a certain extent does outline what the content of the investigation is yeah literally we have a bank of questions that administrators will ask during the investigation I believe it's form three so but to your point like you got you do I mean yeah you got to go I don't think anyone should know what each question is because that I mean obviously you would have list and list and list because everything is so different but I think every incident our our our body our community should understand and what to expect there should be understood and cohesive expectations as far as okay you know this then that just like I mean some of this does hit hit on that Mark um it's just not necessarily hitting for I think people who don't have a lot of that inside knowledge that we all collectively have so I have an idea if the board is comfortable with this Brad had made a suggestion in response to some of the questions about templates right uh of of um different follow-through steps Etc I think Brad and I can find a way to meld some of that quick action here are some go-to links one page along with merging that concept that Brad had shared we have a bck meeting on March uh 15th I believe it is it's either March 13th or 15th it's that Saturday um if we're able to pull that together you know I can present it to bick we have Besa and Bea uh leadership there we also you you were part of the conversation when we did uh some of our bullying data and discussion with the slide charts that Brad was part of they they some of the parents just so the board is where some of our parents at Bick are also actually uh licensed clinicians um in this space and actually gave us really good feedback about the work um so if you're all okay with it can we try that approach because then at that board meeting in March we get that feedback from Bick we can present to you what a draft template might look like from this conversation and you know if it's good there we can work on a communication plan so I'm fine with all but then and I understand that this was created just recently but my qu are administrators all be PS employees aware of the bulling policy and what they're supposed to do everyone from like the janitors obviously all the way up to the administrators is there a clearcut when this happens I mean they're required to do our trainings right and that's what I'm saying are they done yearly that's that's what I'm asking are they done yearly yeah is there an acknowledgement at the training you have to complete it yeah it's it's correct I mean yeah for sure fair question no I I I you're you're you're the accountability M right I'm the compliant you're the comp that's the word I was um it is all tracked and monitored and then the last thing then is if we all after the big meeting and we all agree I don't know how difficult or not difficult this is is can it like you know when you go through registration you know you have to click on yes I got the parent handbook and all that stuff I received it right is there something in there like a link there like here is our bullan policy received right so everyone can see it I I don't know if that's we can talk about it I I don't know but I don't want to put any of our teams on the spot that touch that right what seems simple to me right I yeah I agree might meeting so like you said like if a parent doesn't know where to go and if it's in their packet or on our school or whatever and we have moved to uh um that online format for registration residency um right proof of residency uh process so um we can explore that yeah I mean so is the board collectively you're good with this yeah MH yes all right that helps that's awesome and we'll come back to you then at the March board meeting hopefully uh especially with some bck input all right all right thankk you thank you everybody no I'm just you you get to say it first then I'll say it afterwards so go ahead thank them thank you everyone you're welcome thank you thank you Danielle specifically all right um the next is Administrative comments Administration comments Tom is there anything else you want to add to this not this but I do have some comments I meant sorry that's what I meant and thankful that Drew did not steal any thunder tonight but anyway Happ at the last one are we at at that part we are sir okay uh I just wanted to begin by sharing expressing how truly excited and grateful we are to welcome Sean to our team beginning on July 1 um I believe Sean joins us with a passion for for supporting students and staff which is also coupled with a vision that aligns beautifully with our our shared commitments and our strategic plan um his expertise in teaching and learning combined with his diverse experiences in other districts and his natural leadership abilities will undoubtedly strengthen our team um it is clear that he will always keep the well-being and success of our students at the center of what hooverwood school is all about and I think you saw that energy and excitement tonight I also want to extend my gratitude to Miss Amber jersa a teacher at BHS for bringing to my attention the proclamation agenda item by the city of matava council last night um I was unable to attend the city's meeting but I was able to watch the recording of the meeting this morning witnessing the recognition of our employees and students in honor of Black History Month filled me with joy it is a reminder of the power of lifting each other up and honoring the stories that shape all of us I was especially moved to see mayor shelki recognize Pastor Seymour who is the leader of the Baptist Logan church right here in bavia uh Pastor Seymour has been a great voice and a source wisdom for me as I transitioned into the district last year um Pastor Seymour and I also have some mutual acquaintances which is part of how I was able to reach out to him when I was trying to learn more about our community in school district um so I was really pleased to see him being lifted in his own work for his dedication to the history and contribution of people of color in bavia um which I think is invaluable to the history of this community um so as we continue this work I think seeing what I saw in the in the uh City's meeting recording we are reminded that teaching our students about the rich and diverse history of our community and our nation is not confined to a single month rather it's a lifelong commitment to building understanding fostering unity and nurturing a future where every voice is valued together I believe that what we do is plant the seeds of empathy knowledge respect that will eventually turn into turn continue to uh make us a thriving and inclusive Community I hope that uh we continue to build minds of curiosity and the capacity for kindness and Humanity not the alternative so I just want to thank you board I want to thank our teachers our support staff and our administrators for the unwavering support and dedication in our mission and to the students that we serve everyone's compassion resilience and hope definitely lights the way forward so I'm excited thank you that's all I have tonight all right next is uh board comments Danielle would you like to start you let me skip no it's fine um because you guys have not heard from me enough tonight no uh let's see Tom I was actually going to bring up uh the proclamation um because not only did it celebrate like I mean you mentioned staff and students and I didn't know about some of the history of our staff I think it's Ruthie T Tuscana there was a a actually a proclamation for a day for her she was an educator I think at Louise White just like there's and then again Logan Street Church 104 years old and I was like what I mean just's some great history and how it's molded in then we had Amber's Daughter Molly who was in the picture also give a speech and you know she she is someone she's like her mother she is not going to shy away from the truth she's going to share her lived experience in that I'm just watching I'm just always so an awe of our kids because you know we've had people come to board meetings and we've this is what we're asking of our students right like this is like the portrait of a graduate to be able to get up and to like actually speak for your your true Liv experience to give hope like there was so much hope in it and just even a call to action and I'm just like these little activists and like how they're just willing to put themselves out there to better other people's lives it's just so beautiful to watch and I mean she just it was such a great representation of of what BPS is putting in this community what it's it's so just intertwined in so many ways um so it was a great celebration and by the way black happy Black History Month um I wanted to also just just I was really just moved by the Louise White celebration was it school is awesome and just like how they're bringing back I mean Co really took a hit I think in a lot of community events I'm at storm and it really we haven't bounced back from that and it's it's weird to walk up there and not know most of the people I mean I'm an older parent now but like I know I'm just like yeah it is it is um you know and Lucas is just in second grade so I just there's like that disconnect but seeing like what they're doing and that sense of belonging that ownership and you're talking about like Pathways for kids and like kind of coming down younger and younger for them to have these um you know different tasks and that ability feel like they really belong and they're bringing value every day it's just so cool like I just really I just thought that was so cool they did and I'm excited to see that kind of um maybe just go throughout the rest of the community um and I just want to say to like our staff and just everyone here with everything that's just I feel like everywhere in the news with Public Schools I'm so grateful for everyone here in this room for the time that everyone gives I know that everyone here truly does care about our kids that is why we are here um we give and give and we we are working on working together and I think that we get this communication thing down and um I do know that and I'm I feel bad because I feel like we're privileged in our bavia bubble because I feel like we are going to do everything we can to make sure our Educators have what they need to have our students and that every kid is able to come to school and get a proper education and feel as safe as possible and I I realize that comes with a lot of privilege but I just I don't know I just kind of lean back and I'm just like H like I feel like we're okay and we're going to make sure everything's okay but um I just I just want to say I see all of our Educators and um we're g to we're going to work hard to make sure that we have everything we need that's what I have Mr RJ can I go last yes you may thanks all right I'm up so um I want to thank um all our BPS Partners tonight uh I definitely want to welcome Mr degman you know I think those nights when we welcome someone to the bavia family are some of the best nights we have and it was great to see that outpouring of support he had this evening and see his kids there who are very proud of their father so very excited to have him in the fold um I also want to say like the student ambassadors RJ commented but uh I've been on the committee to select ambassadors and I think this was the first time where usually they kind of give a rundown of events and this is the first time where they kind of brought voice to student concerns which is sort of what we've asking for or hoping for and so to see that tonight and express so eloquently and clearly was really fantastic I hope we see more of that in the future so I'm excited about that and uh I do want to say before I forget I want to thank everybody who's going to get our kids the school safely and warmly our team I mean in the morning I dropped my son off at the high school there's teachers out there in the cold bundled up directing traffic making sure everybody's safe so I appreciate all those efforts including the community members that make sure the pathways are clear where people are walking so thank you for that and then I want to share three things that I personally experienced that were positive um so uh earlier in the month it was uh women participating in sports uh day and I really had like three instances so I have two daughters and so the first thing I want to say so that's a topic that's very near and dear to me is opportunities not just in sports but anything for women uh the first thing is I want to recognize our girls tennis coach Brad Nelson he was recognized by his peers as the 2A Regional girls tennis coach of the year which is outstanding and the thing I will say about Mr Nelson is he's an outstanding coach but when you interact with people that he's worked with uh he's just an amazing individual that really Fosters success confidence and he's uh his students his girls he's coaching so uh I bumped into him over the weekend and that's really outstanding so I want to congratulate him the second thing is more personal to me so my daughter's in sixth grade and at Rolo middle school so at matavia we're very proud of our football program they have started a women's flag football club this was initiated by students at Rolo they expressed an interest they had their first scrimmage public scrimmage I want to thank the coaches coach Freo and there's a a a parent coach coach Bruno they came up there and they gave us a little rundown there's 51 girls they talked us about the girls been working through they got out there then and they played a game and it was great to see them out there learning and qu they were doing their plays they had their playbook in the Huddle they're going out there throwing passes and interceptions and my daughter was just having a blast it was you know they're falling down they're kind of learning on the go and so you know I'm hoping that uh when my daughter's a senior this will be I know it's an ihsa sport I believe now correct I think it's emerging sport maybe emerging sport but you know it would be great to see in seven years 's uh the women out there uh Bulldog Field playing some flag football I'd love to see that and then the last thing was uh I had the opportunity to attend for the Women's Basketball team uh their senior night and I went and I was watching the game and uh one thing I always lament when I go is there's no paper programs anymore everything think's a QR code and I had to look on my phone but they actually had these programs and inside all the seniors they had a little information about some of their accomplishments and and then there was aot quot from every student so I want to tie back to earlier Mr Hall and uh Miss jantis they had when they talked about their student volunteers uh the goal was build leadership respect in a sense of belonging this is for fifth grade and so I saw this quote from one of the student athletes I won't use her name but I did reach out to the family and say would you mind if I read it cuz in the moment it really struck me so I'm going to read this for B this is one of our seniors years she'll be graduating in 3 months and uh she said being a bulldog means a lot to me to be a bulldog is being part of a strong supportive Community who always has your back it means working hard and showing determination in everything you do both on and off the court it's about embracing the values of teamwork respect and perseverance being a bulldog means representing your school with pride and integrity and most importantly it's about building lasting relationships and making a positive impact on those around you so I know her experience is not every student's experience but when I heard what we're trying to build at the grade school level you know this is one of the strengths of a large unit district where we have K through 12 that culture every year we're building and so I was just really inspired by that and so it's good to know that there are kids I mean I read that I think that's wor shooting for when we're you know developing these young people so uh that was a great moment for me and uh congratulations to the team and they had a game tonight I think did you get an update or you haven't checked your phone uh they won they won all right good so there's another game uh Happy black history month but again uh hope everyone's safe and stays warm but thank you all right so uh Happy Black History Month uh and I want to thank JB Nelson teachers Marcy cun and Katie Walter for for inviting me to the National read aloud day on February 5th I went to their classrooms and I read to their students um I let them pick out the book because it's been a minute since I read to uh young students in second and third grades um and after I read to them which I did enjoy the books I'm not going to lie what you read oh man you sorry sorry sorry there's one about a grape I remember is it like the angry grape or something or something like that okay the sour grape sour grape what was it about he was just he was he was happy and then something made him sour then he he kind of was like wait a minute why am I sour maybe this person just had this bad day and he changed his Paradigm shifting did he turn into wine he did not but he was sweet again um and then after that I had the Q&A session with uh the kids which was fun I got a last what's your favorite U but I enjoyed it and then uh I got also invited to sit in on their SLT meeting and it was very interesting never been to one didn't know what it was about but I enjoyed it it's good information um and I wanted to support JB Nelson's PTO trivia night but sadly I was too late to register for trivia night sold out but that's good though I will be supporting the Bea and attending their trivia night as a diamond dog so te to be you're bring on a different table yeah I got to bring my well it's it's the one that I'm always a part of okay all right go diamond we we we excuse her absence Diamond Dogs I don't if you see her this was totally coinci that's not a coincidence it totally is I the trash talking's already uh but that's all I have I hope everyone stays safe and warm thank you um so I I think I'm going to have like a process theme process data theme here with some of my comments uh first of all the uh Louise White U presentation um appreciated that and um I wanted to highlight that they use data right they use data to identify a gap um and then they took action to address it so hopefully we'll see more of that in our celebrating successes in regards to kind of looking at at information data and it's not always numbers it's could be verbal feedback and can you know that you know uh interaction with people and taking that that feedback and um trying to uh come up with a plan and action to address a gap that might be there so appreciate that um welcome to Mr degman as principal at Hoover wood um while we were on the break I was kind of talking to Steve a little bit and he explained the process that went through to arrive at that decision so um pretty uh rigorous I would say and you had a lot of candidates and you kind of had to go through it look at qualifications and and uh kind of the needs for that school so um appreciate working through that process to come up with the best candidate um possible for the school um and then and this one just came to me as uh Mark and Dave were talking is um just to appreciate some of the uh you know a lot of times those agenda items are um boring you know we just got to like listen and approve it quote unquote can I use that word and actually uh second I like he he meant riveting riveting all slump when you said let me let me add a butt there but but um I appreciated the fiscal responsibility that I saw in those presentations so Mark talked about rejecting bids because it just way over budget it's not it's not what we want to do you know and then of course Dave I'll call the Million dooll Man you know got a lot of money going but uh you know I he shared some of the process and the bids and um you know some of the um benefits that came out of the I don't know call it negotiation but just the process that went through there so hopefully people can um appreciate um that type of fiscal awareness by our Administration um as they're going through some of these items which is which is Big you know we we get a lot of community feedback are you using our money wisely you know so um so I appreciate that thanks guys um and then the last one I I got I just want to share a couple things and I I sent an email to you Brad but uh couple social occasions over the last month and uh heard about just good work by the guidance counseling department at bavia high school helping students um with their postsecondary aspirations and um I thought that would be a great opportunity for a celebrating success because I think uh you know some of the things that are due into um scholarships uh interviews helping uh the students prepare for interviews for either like a scholarship opportunity or maybe even um uh a next opportunity uh job opportunity or education opportunity as it as it may be uh but I heard that type of feedback uh on more than one occasion it it just seemed like this month I I got a couple just randomly so I shared that with Brad and Tom and and uh love to hear more about the good stuff that they're doing um in that regard so that's it thanks I appreciate let me go last I um I know I normally don't have a lot to say I think I've had a lot of meetings us i' nothing to say but um I've got something kind of long sorry um and if it sounds like it's emotionally driven it's because it is so I was going to try to just be professional but it doesn't sound like me so I'm just going I just spoke the words that came through my head and I'm I hope that this message is received with an open mind because it's also going to sound a little bit like uh I don't know I'm yelling at people I'm not I just want I have some things that I need to say that I want to because it's I only have a couple board meetings left so thank you for indulging me so I'm going to read this because otherwise I'm going to go off um so let's see I only have a few meetings left as Schoolboard member and I like to discuss a bit regarding my decision not to rerun for election not to run for reelection along with some other things that have been on my mind um while my desire to help students and impact education in bavia remains intact I'm afraid I've become overwhelmed with compassion fatigue due to the strong emotional impact of what I believe to be an altruistic motivation that seems to have been made to appear disingenuous by some members of public um I'm a supporter of Rights for all people and want to provide a safe environment for all of our students all students um every single student one of the main populations I've hoped to support is that of minorities and of the lgbtqia plus Community however members of that very Community have made it clear to me that they're not happy with my efforts uh that has been done several times on social media and through direct messages to my Schoolboard email um some of these folks have gone as far as becoming my personal bullies uh so to say that again those who say they want me or us the school board to work towards stopping bullying are they themselves sending us messages of hate well yes criticism is part of Public Service I had hoped we could engage in productive conversations rather than personal attacks uh Beyond this the amount of disinformation and misinformation that has spread throughout the community seems to be a battle that I cannot win um from incidents at school to the BPS referendum years ago to class population sizes and even to learning materials incorrect information spreads very easily using opinion to replace fact and Truth is causing chaos and a lack of unity disinformation being the intentional use of incorrect information with disregard to the truth and misinformation um being the misunderstanding of information spreading it um either way the intention it is happening and it happens a lot and I don't think it's doing anything except tearing the part the community um I personally have tried to speak to members of our community individually including several very influential leaders of groups in the community that have great intentions but everyone seems to only want to be heard and not to listen folks want to understand but they don't want to understand other people um I'm sorry folks want to be understood but they don't want to be to understand other people the members of this admin team and School Board I'm sitting with have nothing but good intentions for our students they have struggles of their own yet they put your children first this group of people are the ones you should be getting to know not just criticize they do what they believe is best for students in a collaborative and evolving effort that needs to be recognized as as a positive and not just as an uninformed statement such as nothing is being done um I've heard and read the statement nothing is being done about bowling way too many times so sorry to indulge me a little bit longer but I'd like to point out some specific things that have been done since the year uh the 2023 school year one the Board of Education updated policy 7180 and added stronger language the district will not tolerate bullying intimidation and harassment two our admin team plus a board member met with the bavia inter school council Beck and the leaders which has many of our school partners um and all representatives from the elementary pto's and they presented buling data and and the programs that are in place to prevent bullying took their feedback and um which committee said that they were thoroughly satisfied with the progress in programming that was shared three each building has undertaken various initiatives to educate and address bullying intimidation and harassment such as coffee with the administration uh there's training at the start of every year grade level teams are using portraits of graduate lessons and teachers and teams are using the inclusion in anti- bowling lessons developed by our behavioral manager four the school board watches the hiring and termination process we are consistently asking Steve about his attempts to help diversify Staffing and you always have great answers for it implementation of our Champs framework which addresses Behavior education expectations at three different tiers has been seen as one of the most impactful ways for uh creating strong learning environments in addressing bowling uh five we've had legal counsel provide training to all administrators six each building uh I'm sorry each building has established a school Improvement goal focused on belonging these data and goals were presented in November to the board in November to the Board of Education seven I personally met with every principal over the past school year and every single one of them told me that they feel support and that they have the tools they need to help students feel welcome and safe eight the district pays for counseling services for the uh and therapeutic support nine administrated Administration member members ride the buses when needing to address bus Behavior 10 we have increased visibility of bowling reporting which continues to evolve 11 students now have the QR code placed on student ID so sure they know how to report incidents 12 multiple languages are available by parent choice used for Messenger systems to improve communication and reduce systemic barriers in communication 13 we continue to update and involve the data collection and Reporting related to bowling and 14 upcoming is a restorative practices training and capacity building in-house trainers will be ready in May I know this was a lot and I appreciate you all for listening to me all that information has been discussed in previous meetings or is available if you contact any of the board um admin members if you cannot attend and watch the meetings and have questions on things please please reach out I know that the admin team I know that Tom are always willing to answer questions directly and I have three final things uh one just because somebody does doesn't agree with you doesn't mean that they're wrong I ask people to keep that in mind uh two I'm asking that every member of the public take responsibility for things that they say and post on social media the public has a loud has the loudest voice and must be responsible for how it's used words have a tremendous impact and need to be used with care and then lastly to everyone and anyone listening that's ever involved with the school board please assume good intentions and seek first to understand before seeking to be understood that's it thanks for indulging me oh thank you Rob appreciate that all right um I'm just going to close with I appreciate everybody's comments and the time and effort um I I'm just gonna Echo so I'm not going to actually do it so everybody made very good points tonight so thank you to everybody for all their efforts for everything um we are going to be going to close session right afterwards uh we don't have any action items afterwards and actually we're doing the board comments and stuff beforehand so you guys don't have to hang around and wait for that um so thank you for your time every everybody and we will be to close session um so the I do the time is here right for the close session trying to remember 11.1 do I do that here um I do that after once we get in there no you do you do this now and then we'll do a close session all right the time is 9:47 I will entertain a motion to move to close session as allowed under the open meetings act for the purposes of exception 5 ICS 1202 C2 and one sove so moveed by Rael second second by Aaron roll call vote please Cindy hilber yes mat yes sler yes Meadows yes arando yes Gonzalez Thomas yes all right thank you we will move into close session thanks everybody for coming tonight

e testing testing one two three e e e okay I would like to call this meeting to order for cre mon School Board District 201u regular board meeting Tuesday February 18 2025 6:30 p.m.

I had placed an air tag on my child at the beginning of the school year due to ongoing inconsistencies with first students transportation services at approximately 1:35 p.m. I reached out to a friend to see if her child had arrived home he had concerned I check with my child's air tag location saw that my kindergartner was pinged on Chicago road heading north past Highway past um Highway B bakery at that moment I began calling the school and for student to locate my child when my child finally arrived home I immediately contacted Katie Cooper upon the review of the bus camera footage it was revealed that the driver never stopped at our designated bus stop located in our front yard and failed to conduct the required walkth through um of the bus after that last stop had I not placed an air tag on my child would I what would have happened how long would my child have remain on the bus and the days following this incident that I learned that my child was not the only one left behind on the bus I understand that the driver has since been terminated but this issue goes beyond a single employee what steps is the district taking to ensure that no other child is Left Behind again more importantly why does a district continue to contract with a company that has repeatedly demonstrated incompetence in keeping our children safe and ensuring that they arrive at home on time I urge the district to take immediate action to hold first student accountable and to implement safeguards to prevent this from happening in the future the safety of our children must be a top priority thank you for your time and this was submitted by Denine Smith concerned mother of AEL gorick thank you doc Dr cogin and as you alluded to in this public comment we will take the appropriate action this is definitely unacceptable Behavior we will take the actions as to mitigate and to prevent the reoccurrence of this event and Dr kogan will be posting on the on the web her response yes we will respond to the parent individually and let them know uh let her know of uh how we're addressing this addressing this okay thank you thank you all right do we have any board updates that's good when everybody want to speak at White time that's great no I just wanted to um say how proud I am of we have a a wrestler who's going down state Thursday um and wrestl near and dear to my heart because not because I wrestled but because my sons wrestled um and my youngest son placed that state for Creek he's a All State wrestler but we have one going down then our ch team which I know nothing about Chess I know how to play checkers um I have finished the highest they've ever finished in the state um and in class 3A I think they finished they W five matches was it four or five matches right and they and overall they finished fourth and 3A or something like that but they they're doing they did a phenomenal job so just really Mr Noble the coach of that so yeah and the the coach of the who's the coach of the wrestling team her MZ yes fantastic yes so and we had a girl who I think went down I know she she won a match I think which is the first time in uht history we had I think they won one or two matches wow yeah so so we're growing um and and I know that I wish that I could have um seeing the show choir perform you know I just I heard I saw the setup and everything it's always a beautiful setup and amazing how they do I saw a lot of the videos so that weekend we hosted an event but then Alex and I were at one Saturday in Mantino and the team did amazing yeah they they won actually they won best Coro best vocals Best in Show solo mom's Choice Award and they are also the grand Champions yeah awesome so two of our kids won best male best female solo solos yeah so we yeah we cleaned house cleaned house so far I think the up the the up FYI by Miss Highline has been really good bringing us that information yeah um to at least keep us uh posted so that we're in the the buildings we can tell the coaches and the students you know how proud We are them so so Bill and and Alex did your kids get their talents from you or no no no mind nope oh I forgot you Jamie I forgot okay J I forgot oh I forgot Jamie oh bad we this boy is representing the choir a big time parents are good wow I'm sorry Dr Hall Ste on you that's fine um I'm used to it no I'm joking I'm joking it's good to mention I'll talk to you doing amazing the wrestling doing amazing every you know our our basketball team is close they haven't won 20 games and God knows when and they I think they're up to 18 victories oh wow it'll be tough but I don't I don't know how many games they have left but wow um so we're doing good in that in that real um hopefully that would lead with the work support of University Park and their Park District and Creek hopefully will'll start working with us um I know Co coach um the the director of Athletics um Mr keki said that he now has a partnership with the Lions play at the new stadium oh wow as well as the uh Creek Bulldogs one will play Saturday G home games another will play Sunday home games so they're doing a good job of trying to connect with the communities yeah um from that standpoint so that's really exciting and creep already practices at the high school because they had no where to practice but up already had a place to practice so that wasn't an issue so you know um I know University Park basketball program um they use the facilities so that that's exciting so I I really like how we're just partnership yeah trying to partnership with the communities and I think that's the idea having a separate Fieldhouse and the the main gym is that allow these youth programs to come up and understand hey there's a goal yeah you want to be here right this is where we're we're coming so I think it's great that is excellent that is excellent just to here that we definitely got a lot of talent and I just want to add to that our special Olympic teams you know that side of the fence been blowing out the box they've been hitting out the park with different championships different team uh members and athletes placing in first second and third place so so definitely board for supporting going out and see these kids participate that means a lot to them thank you thank you so much if I remember properly I think our dance team also did really well so Kudos kudos to the dance te I see the Jay's over there today J and and J and Jamie both are not in ah head about that well I'm just saying is your kid your kid J participate but oh yeah all right we have a really a really good dance coach uh Miss Mrs Brown Beverly Brown she's a really good dance coach so I know because I was was her assistant principal at Morgan Park when she won City champ I think she won like three City championships I thought they took some lessons or something no you know what I don't think anybody can teach me how to dance that's fo that is so great keep it going Warriors keep it going out there all right anything else board updates yeah one more [Music] yeah he said Dr Hall is the greatest that's so there exactly there is going to be a bpack uh presentation where uh Dr Fernie Hernandez uh is is going to make a presentation about um uh Tech methods to raising happy children like like successful children and I think it's important that um if anybody uh if any of our uh bilingual parents are watching today like they they know where to go uh to get uh the information that uh that uh can help you know so uh that is going to be on uh the 3 March 3rd at 5:30 uh uh uh for Zoom through Zoom it's going to be a virtual uh meeting um shouldn't take more than an hour I don't think um but uh yeah I'm I'm looking forward to uh seeing that presentation I've heard a lot of good things about uh this doctor uh erandis so wow excellent that was great the way you communicated that man I love that that was good didn't understand the word you said but that was good I I thought I told you what he said oh no if you told me that I knew I knew that wasn't the truth okay thank you Alex doing just a great job representing our uh Hispanic kids so thank you so much any other comments from the board do want to welcome back our our board sister Jamie and again let you know we are here for you anything we can do reach out for us we love you we love you Jamie all right do we have any administrative updates um yeah I've just got a few things to share um in echoing what was said earlier from uh our trustee from University Park um I do have a meeting that we're trying to set up with mayor rudz and business manager Elizabeth Scott in the upcoming weeks we are looking for ways to continue to collaborate on communication and ways to support one another in um you know communicating back and forth the good things going on over our district to to the up community and also being sharing the good things that are going on in the University Park good community so just we definitely could get I know we Embark upon some input with cre with their yes I meet with them once communication lad letter or something to that nature right know mo you get involved with that somehow right with their communication portion still um I'd like to do more with them like I said so it's nice to see these Bridges coming with the communication so I'm really uh pleased to do that I think what we're all finding the same thing is you know the written word is no longer even acceptable to get information out to people it is the video it's the video social media as everyone knows uh it's very hard what we're seeing you know anything you put in print has to be so concise and short no one's reading it so we're challenging ourselves as we talk about in this these communities how we getting information out there's so much information and even about information that's going on in our schools I know there was something that was put out on Facebook about a fight it was from 2016 it wasn't even current so those are the things that are frustrating because you know we uh we don't we don't look like we did years ago things are different and so we're really working on that in District to get the word out some of the good things and so one of the things I'm going to be talking about at least today is um I want to let you know one of our teachers her name is Sarah Val Valerio she's an AP History teacher over at the high school she is a finalist one of 30 for the Golden Apple so that goes to show you we've got some outstanding yes so we're putting out a press release right now we're working on that to push that out so I mean and that is just one of things I was just meeting with Mr hollyfield today you know we in our our district stands out in a variety of ways but in particular is we have the highest amount of dual enrollment around for anyone else um the amount of things that we offer our students for AP classes and if you're a parent that's having to think about college you know having AP classes under that belt is a really nice way um to either have the aps or having the dual enrollment as you know we had one student that graduated with a two-year degree under their belt already wow that's what we want to see those are the things that we're offering wow um our academics are strong they really are and I think we've got to make sure that we're sharing that with everybody and not only our our Sports programs our um and our fine arts program but our academic program as well so um like I said we're working on it to get that information out so I wanted to share that is the golden apple a state award or a national award um I believe it is a national I think it is National yeah that's great yeah it is one of 30 yeah so we're really excited about that so anyway uh we certainly want to highlight our own staff and you know we have so many fabulous alumni that are coming back to work with us and what we're doing at the high school with growing our own program here uh Mr holfield is going to be taking another group down uh to state to be showcasing our program so again I could really talk all night about some of the good stuff going on but like I said I'm working on getting some of that information out through video work that we're working on right now as well as some other uh vehicles um for that well I don't want to take any thunder away from but I just want to just compliment you what you're saying here we have some Dynamic teachers we do and as we off these schools these are some well oil schools I mean they they are Ono from the cafeteria to the teachers the gym teachers the whole n yards I'm like I challenge parents to just walk these schools and don't you don't have to announce yourselves and go to the principal and say hey can I walk to schools or whatever it is unbelievable how well functioned these schools we he a couple things that you said 2016 some stuff came out and all of that but I am so impressed I am yeah we're really we're really pleased with our our school programs and we appreciate that all the board members all of you are in our schools in one way or another to see what's going on and I know sometimes and once in a while you might get fed a lunch too protein egg and a protein bar yeah so so everything is actually you know I'm really pleased with this district and everybody that is just really doing phenomenal things it's a it's a privilege to work here it really is well keep it going so um I think that's all I've got for tonight oh I I also wanted to just give a little bit of an update and uh Mr ozinsky can chime in on this just an update with the Mec building that would be for sale um I know it's not on the agendas but um Jason do you want to just talk briefly about where we're at with that so people in the community know about this in case there's people that are interested we are hearing there's a several people did you say it's not the agenda it's not did you say it's not to we're doing the opening bidding for it that's coming up tomorrow okay so let me have Jason kind of share with you on that correct we have the resolution um to take action on tonight um I do have a publication set for uh to run uh tomorrow in the Daily Southtown uh run once a week for three successive weeks and we have a bid opening scheduled for March 13th um for the sealed bid process to for the sale of the building okay um also work with Miss Calla Ericson uh direct uh in Communications Department and we have information posted on the website underneath Department's business and bidding is where you can find information regarding the sale of MEC okay so yeah let people know if they're interested so it starts tomorrow the tomorrow starts the day yeah after we take action on a resolution tonight then that'll get the process going and I approved the proof earlier today and made the deadline so it'll be in the paper tomorrow is it on our it's going to be on our website as well it's currently on the website yes and then social media as well social media okay okay good like I said our goal is not to pay for cutting the grass over here this summer The Lights yeah okay anything else is the teacher here she she's not here right she's not here okay yeah that's that's excellent and just think about we have maybe 800 60 school districts coupled with how many teachers are in those districts and to have one of 30 are finalist to be a finalist here that says a lot that says a lot says volumes so all right thank you Dr koganes for the good news all right moving along on our consent agenda send the approval is there anyone board member that would like to pull an item out of the consent agenda and to approve it separately hearing no response can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so move move by Dr Hall second second by Bill and want to read it can all right um underneath superintendent report item one approve the regular meeting minutes of January 21st 2025 item two approve the regular meeting close s minutes of 20 January 21st 2025 item three approved Committee of the whole meeting minutes of January 14 2025 item four approve the closed approve uh approve review of the closed session meet minutes of June 2024 through December 2024 item five approve a special board meeting for May 6 2025 under business item one approve the Board of Education financial report item two approve a payment of uh 49,1 12423 cents to be construction for work at crey high school item three approve a payment of $225,900 to bernon Jones Construction for work at cre high school and underneath personnel and culture approved the Personnel report which consists of approving certified staff resignation and educational support staff employment reassignment amend retirement dates resignation termination and unpaid leave of appson and that concludes our report thank you Dr koganes any further questions or comments yeah I just I just note that the budget def projected budget deficit for the year keeps growing so hoping maybe at the coming uh Committee of the whole meeting maybe we could have that as a presentation on what's driving it what we can do about it to kind of close that up before the end of the year yes um we do plan to have a a forecast coming in in March you know we're doing some preliminary things of efficiency plans right now once we have those efficiency plans in we'll be able to better uh tweak that budget uh before we present it to you okay yeah and I'm planning to get my eyes on that too uh shortly thanks Nelson any other questions comments just real quick on that the TR you don't know the transportation numbers until the reimbursement and any of that till afterwards right doesn't that carry into 20 the next fiscal year it lags the year and um tried to explain it pretty well in the FYI but I put a together presentation for the public when you come back in March if you have like an idea on that I guess that'll help our project or what I think Mr Al said before okay Jason do you know when do we expect to get our first Tiff money in from University Park is that is that the fall no it'll come in the spring and June spring and that's honestly that's something that I'm relying heavily um to balance the budget this year okay excellent um real quick on that so we have an idea what that amount is and we talked about that at least a year ago and even a little long before that with your predecessor I know it's you know when March is coming kind of bring a idea we had I think we had an original concept of how that was going to be breaking down because in the next year MO is going to close a tip which will bring up just over a million I think it is million and a half I yeah it was a 1.2 or 1.3 million and we had that combined with up to figure out you know how we were going to section that off in three sections with uh I think prevented however it's going to work just kind of look at that too so we make sure that we're still on course for all of that because all the work we did in all the buildings yeah it was going to be onethird Debt Service one third preventive maintenance and one third operations yes and I want to make sure we're on point with that because with all the money we spend we want to make sure the buildings stay maintained because that's where we I got trouble for yeah and and and just I was thinking bill because yeah you did we did kind of say a third here third here third here that third was one3 was going to be for PMS and things like that and just as I was thinking the other day I'm going to talk to Jason and his team to be a little bit more specific if they can give us a little bit more detail on what some of those big gun items for PM is forecast to be correct because saying some of that money will help the budget deficit but realistically the cost of preved Maintenance right long term is huge right so so I would like to see some specific things just say borders being inspected you know once annually for 400,000 we had the high school chillers I think we had them drain and redone yeah over the year we ran into the issue this year one of them went down right and we had to repair that yeah so that's the idea and I know forecasting could be a little challenging now because you're still trying to set everything for the end of the year the fiscal year but it is still important at some point maybe through the summer to forecast like a fiveyear plan on our because I know we're in our second phase of creed Elementary roof but what other buildings like where we at so we can still kind of save some of that out yeah and the good news is our life safety dollars came in much lower than I would have ever 500 something thousand and then I want to see those items because the last time it came up I don't get off TR track here but the last time we had our life safety survey in 2013 those prices were really escalated right because I don't know how we came up with those prices our architect but for example a light switch cover it had an estimated cost of like $300 or $400 to install the cover so we extrapolated a lot that we did inhouse that our people can do in house with the workforce we had and a lot of those numbers tremendously came down so I just would like to see those items that was identified before we get too happy we can even probably bring it down from 500,000 to 200,000 and you were right Mr Brown of saying that Jason and his team can put together something where we can do it over two years we could do it so that it doesn't because we understand the budget is where it's at and we understand you got to work on that but we don't want to put the pressure on that part of it as as much as trying to stay right just giving Jason his so we can probably bring that number down even more by doing some work in house no I'm I'm in complete agreement with you when uh Keith mlan and I looked at it we felt a lot of those numbers were inflated and we could bring them down but I just presented them to you with a contingency with the architectural fee to you know My Philosophy is to go high and then we could always come in lower sure but I I do have faith that we can handle a lot of that in housee and I'd be surprised if that number got anywhere near because at the end of the day we trying to have the most effective budget we we can get okay as efficient and effective as possible and those numbers are worst case scenario yeah yeah yeah that's good but they can easily be in uh inflationary sure real easy right so that's why we want to get it done as quick as we could because the June or the 2013 price was this amount but when we actually did the work five or six years later it almost doubled from inflationary benefactor okay great any other comments concerns on consent agenda if not roll call please Mr secretary miss wol I miss zit stus I Mr swales I Mr gagos is an i Mr Albert I Dr Hall I president Brown I motion Carri up next is number eight Action Report Alpha we missed the word approved so the first word under Alpha under eight it should say approve Board of Education I'm sorry under Board of Education number one it should say approve resolution declaring Creek mon 2011 UA Safe Haven School District give have a motion to approve such statement jet said so moved move by Jamie I second second by Mo any questions or comments I just I I have some concerns is that how this will be perceived by the community um there's nothing new in here it's all that we don't already do it's all policy school code state law and we're already following that and these uh protections apply to every student in our district currently and I just think I think it's going to be uh misinterpreted by a good section of our constituents and uh as we're doing something new here when we're not so I just have I have concerns and you know when I was sitting in your seat Mo I just always tried to think about we're not approving anything new here why do you want to do something to bring attention I mean to the board that's un unneeded or unwarranted and um you know in Tennessee you kind of call it an unforced error so I think it we'll see how it plays out but that's my concern I guess my only thing is sort of is what's most important is what your team put together procedurally right that's really where this is really going to take itself to the next level of protecting our kids it's not cuz to be honest with you it's a piece of paper and if the procedures aren't filed then it doesn't really mean much so what's most important is that you have procedures with for your team get out to the building and you relay that out to the community I think that's to me more important because Mr Al's right it's already in all of our stuff that's our job and I remember the week the well was it two weeks ago when we were talking about this I called you to talk about and you had already said someone else had already called to bring up you know what to do because my main priority was I need to make sure the kids in this district and the and the employees are safe right and you said we putting a team together you're putting all that together that to me is more important of of how we're handling that and do we have our procedures in place because like I said it's it's one thing to put it here but if the procedures aren't followed you know I mean we have it already in writing and now you're just putting in writing again but if the your team and your procedures are what's most important to me so any other questions comments and again the intent was never to divide the community at all and I think I mentioned the last time and I hate to be repetitive in my statements that I said that if there's a initiative out there that doesn't negatively impact anyone and I'm not seeing this negatively impacting anyone other than perception but it positively impact one person it's a good initiative that's how I look at it and then I did I sent the board all of the different policies that meet the intent of this particular resolution so we just grabbed it here we grabb every procedure we had somewhat and put it here and personally and this what the board think it's just not my personal feeling here but personal I see no harm in doing this I think nothing but something good could come out as if if the people who's against it if they really look at the intent if they're saying that this is already covered by the current policies and procedures that we have I don't see any harm that's me we let the board I'm sorry you go ahead is there a way to add the caveat at the beginning that states in accordance with laws already existing we declare our you know what I mean to let people know that this isn't something we're changing but right up at the beginning we're saying what it is those laws say and then is there the potential to add what the policy and procedure is with that so I it it would take more smithing I do understand so we wouldn't be able to vote on it tonight but if we told if we had this is what the state says we we need to do we do all of these things and here's how we do them and put together like the procedures that we are following to ensure we are A Safe Haven District okay so you want the opportunity to revisit this no no no I want to hear other people's thoughts this is just like I'm sorry sure no no because you know again we had we had a lot of conversation because this way it might address some of the concerns that you folks had had while also adding the we do this and here's how we ensure we are keeping your stud so one thing I I brought up or I talked about before and I think Mr alre mentioned it last week it's about consistency where we're we're a very diverse District without a doubt and back several years before doc do uh Dr Hall was here miss Mitchell was here and we had the incidents of George Floyd and I went out to bre you know went out and had coffee with Miss Mitchel to discuss that to how are we going to move forward as a district because at that point in time you know there was a lot of tension in in the country between African-Americans and police and everything going on and remember after that happened we had security guards and police here in the building and we had to address how to how to come together with that everything was in our place we superintendent put stuff together and we kind of tried to keep all that where we come together as one in the same sense there is a situation out there in the country right but we didn't make a resol ution then and just pull stuff out of our stuff we just kind of came together we put some policies we put some uh procedures in in place to make sure that everybody in our district at that time felt safe to come to school and and kind of be together and we talked about it as a board and I talked to Miss Mitchell to make sure that we bring it that you know we want to be together in this so I kind of feel that making resolution is is is I I just don't understand it and again every body there seven of us can vote either way but I'm just want to make sure that the message is consistent as we move forward and anytime there's an issue you know procedures to me and the way Dr car's team handled that is really it's Pinnacle right I mean anything that happens here it's about how they handle them the procedures in place are we ready for it okay any other board member definitely out of respect for Jamie that to give her opportunity to look at it I do value your input that an opportunity to word Smith it possibly uh don't want to throw anything down for lack of a better phrase your your throat without you having a good chance to vent this no no no I I've read it and I'm I I support I support report it but in addition I also understand and hear what these two gents are saying so I think if there are ways to assuage these fears and kind of just nip that maybe we should nip the fears in the bud like be very clear like this is what we have always believed this is who we are and this is how we're enforcing these which seems like what these gentlemen are looking for which then is also kind of a resolution just declaring we are a Safe Haven District because we always have been well I want to ask the question but I apologize I want to ask the question and maybe I missed this um and I I'm sure I missed this I'm sure somebody said why we are doing this right at this time I mean I know everything that's going on but to hear like from the people who put it together someone why are we doing it because if we can explain it then maybe that'll help as well like why you may be able to that might be the wording I don't know that we put it anybody else want to talk on it I think I think it's just um it's it's um a a gesture in in in the right scope of things like I we want to um we want to support all of our students and staff and parents and families and I think it just goes another step to having people feel included in things um because uh they you know it's it's a Scary World out there you know and if you have something like this that's behind our staff our our our administrators our staff um and the kids see that behind them like they they just feel more confident they feel like they have an extra uh sense of security with feeling safe sending their kids to school you know just how do the children see the resolution I mean that only because that's what you're saying seeing these words having them backed up is what matters yeah and I'm not disagreeing with you but we're not posting the Words Anywhere so I think it's the actions that we're looking for right which is what I think it's the talking about it because the biggest thing with kids or staff members right they're watching it today newspapers don't almost exist anymore because no one's really doing that but it's about the action of talking about it the week that somebody else brought it up okay I had called Dr Cara and I said what are we doing are we are these kids like what I wanted to know what is the procedure if I showed up right I want to make sure are these kids safe yes they should be I'm like I wanted to know and right away they they they you know they don't have the right they don't have this and what is the plan cuz I mean does it directly affect my family no but I was a board member so it it affects my school board family and my school district family so I called her right away and I was concerned about like I want to know is there our building safe for sure and she reassured me that we our meeting is an administrat we're putting together our procedures and this is and I said what is your approximate process because at the moment it was fresh right off the press and she was giving me you know a top level highlight about you know of what the procedures were to me that was good they were already on top of it and at this point I think just talking about it and is the reassurance and if you send a letter home both in English and and in Spanish that's great it it should reassure everybody because social media is where it's at right it's not about it's not about reading this anymore it's about the social media presence and the constant reminder of yes we're here for you we support you we want you we want you here well I'll say this and I I struggle to say anything about this right so I'll be honest um I was coming here to just a few minutes ago listening to MSNBC and one of the things they pointed out and that's mostly Democratic station one of the things they pointed out is how the Democrats get the message out and how archaic it is I'll be honest this is kind of similar to that there are so many other ways to get this message out still have a resolution but get the word out nobody's going to read it nobody's going to but we're going to do this sit here be proud and 40 people might 30 people might see it what whereas if we if we really want to get the message out if we really want to let them know that they're protected then what ways do we go out and do this video do we go out and to have Administration going District administration going to the schools talking to the principles um Ann them announcing certain things in the school in the schools um not just sending stuff home but putting it on certain uh things on the website like again we go back to videos we go back to I don't know I'm not the the person who can who has those type of creative ideas but if we really want to get it out doing a resolution even if we don't do a resolution we have the policies in place and that's I think the most and then and the same thing is what Mr G is saying send it out English and in Spanish send it both ways so that the people that it needs to go to that they get the information so they're right I mean right that's the idea I mean I know I every Sunday I get a Sunday Night Live call if we can do phone calls social media blitzes um maybe Community Pages things like that so people can actually because yeah I like the resolution like right we're doing these things right I believe in this but we need to let the people who need to know that we believe in this so I'm not opposed to the resolution as long as we're actually getting it out there so last week I had asked about that like what is our communication plan like so that it doesn't just turn into a piece of paper you know what are we going to do with it like are how do we be proactive because we do know that people are being insecure and they want to feel safe about coming into our school buildings that it's okay for me to focus on school and I always have this thing on the on my shoulder looking behind my back wondering and parents teachers and kids want to know that so I ask again we do a resolution great I think I'm in support of it of the principle and the intent but I guess the next step is what's missing from me is the now what what do we do with it how do what how do we plan to use it how do we plan to make our students and our school Community feel safe and secure about going to school cuz essentially all this really is is taking all of our policies and putting them in one spot and you don't we don't necessarily have to do a resolution to do that what what if we do we do I um but I think that again it's how we get it out what we do to get it out so the people versus the way that we traditionally get stuff out and that's my I have no issue with our policies that we follow the law everything that we do my concern is that it'll be misinterpreted by the good segment of the public that you know we're declaring our school district a sanctuary district and I I think it'll we have a hard time building up kind of the public trust and getting um you know most people out there don't have a very high opinion of the school board they open up their taxes they see how much we're charging them and you know and anything that we I just feel like this will be misinterpreted and any any positive press or anything that we've done to earn their trust we just move backwards on this so and I and I so if there's better ways to communicate it and get the trust out to the folks who who need it let's let's go that route but I I just think having this resolution is a wrong way to go and and this is the last thing I've say on and it's again it's nothing against the resolution does this open us up to have more people decide to come to our district because we said um like we're we're a sanctuary District or whatever you could I just want to we're not saying Sanctuary oh no no no Sanctuary is is a taboo word out there so whatever whatever it is okay we're we're we're safe a safe safe place does this open us up we already don't want to pay the people who do it extra money for doing it then I get more people so now what what happens then yeah and again and it's not directed towards you I mean I'm looking at you because you're there but it's not I want you to think like no not at all not at all it's just the thought no I'm I'm here representing the board in the community go ahead J is there a way to add a resources tab on like the website or um through uh any one of our social media channels like you can do a whole album of resources available and the the laws that we follow and be like as like an FYI here's all the information that was part of her presentation last week I know you would didn't see it but yeah but I I didn't know where we had landed with that and and instead of with just a resolution like was this all part of that resolution because a resolution to me is words and the further action is is not a resol if that makes sense well so that I mean I did watch the bo I wasn't completely out of it but I was but so I saw it when the original action came out about ice going into different places community ities and the fear of kids being pulled out of the schools and so on and so forth Dr cines and her team put it in first gear and a second third gear and start disseminating information out to the public saying this is what we do what we're going to do not breaking any laws whatsoever to try to give some type of confidence and safety component out there to the public that hey we're going to protect you according to the rules of the law okay that we're just not going to open the doors and let people come in and take our kids and as a result you know it came to my attention about a possible resolution that other districts are doing and Dr cogin E and Council myself we talked about it and at that point we agreed that the policies and the procedures that we have in place basically address the intent of a policy that was presented to me I sh sh that with the board I said here's the policies eal protection under the law one of the policies we have safe uh a safety component with our policies as well these are board policies yes and at that time I said let's hold a breaks no special meeting no emergency meeting is needed let's talk about it as a board which we first talked about last week no correct and and that's where I had left off with this yes so my understanding is then this resolution is just the words of so what I think needs to happen is and if we approve this there needs to be a phase two where um some kind of video series um like a I know we've got our policy book but if somebody could like put right on on the website which policies answer these questions for people so they can see exactly what law we're already following yeah to kind of help so that was what I was missing from going past the resolution and I think again as receive and what I'm hearing too handw words like sanctuary and all that that people may perceive this as a resolution that will allow illegal migrants or immigrants however you want to say it into our school and we're protecting them and that was never an intent that's not the intent of our policies our policies is saying we can only disseminate any information to people so on and so forth we protect our kids no matter what race color or whatever origin you are that's for all and it just so happened that over the last couple weeks the issue has been that a segment of the students here is of a certain ethnicity that they were fearing too and I said you know what if we have to provide some type of by law that's all it is to Encompass all of our board policies into one resolution personally after we thought about it talked about it I said I I personally don't see any harm than that are we talking about the messaging just to um our families that are impacted because I think I'm hearing a lot of you know we're concerned about having this all out there because we we've got some folks in the community are we mostly concerned about the families that it's impacting that they know no I think everybody should know that we're what we're doing and why we're doing it and I I but I think the message should be too that these are protections that are provided to every student every student our district and we're not we're not doing this for one segment or for people who are feeling very un right now but you know but the real story is it is for the most part one one segment of the population of the students are being more affected than others that's just that's just the truth right I think the intention is good I just don't like the way we're doing it yeah and I don't I don't think any amount of word smithing is probably going to change one so I don't know if we should just do an up or down vote in the spirit of being inclusive though I do think that we do have a segment of our population that's probably a little hyper about hyper sensitive AB but I don't think that it we should go down list based off of race and say oh you get the email you get the email I would say absolutely not It Go um I I would hate for us to do that and I hope that's not what we were saying remember just because we're talking about hispanic Families how do we know we don't have any polish here because I'm telling you right now I'm in the TR and I work with them with them Eastern European people every day and they could be afraid too we don't know that because country thing not a does the resolution mention anything about ethnicity I was just saying that Mak off the question that's where I was going with that right that's why I think you're right I think everybody should get in CU then they're just letting everybody know what's going because remember kids are resilient they're amazing and when a Junior High kid or a high school kid reads it or sees it they're going to console their friend or or someone in the school because you know these kids are amazing yes every I'm telling you the kids in the district are amazing without a doubt so they will lean on each other they will support each other I understand understand that sometimes like we talked earlier about arguments and fights and all that they're teenagers yes right and everybody handles things at different way but for the majority of 4,400 kids they are amazing they get along they don't care who they are friends with just walk in the schools and you'll see it every day and they'll support each other I agree yeah it does not it just this immigration status basically right yeah so so how do you how do you want to proceed we feel confident to vote for it or we postpone it get more our council did word Smith do put in kept us from any legal ra ramifications some gray areas that you know we had a template so to speak of another district and we were Smith it so what the after just the words okay all right we feel good to vote yeah okay any exceptions any other exceptions everybody feel good we vote all right all right um call Mr Alber nay is an i Mr swal n miss zumers I miss wol nay Dr Hall up stain president Brown I we get one three Ty three and three uh motion did not carry okay all right all righty moving on number eight act report number B business number one can I have a motion to award and approved Creed Elementary roof roof or roof project in the amount of 2,369 45 to ridle Fort Roofing VI the national corpor corporative contract contractor network am I think that's amnia Partners to replace roof Alpha Charlie Echo Fox Ro Golf Hotel Juliet and Lima during the summer of 2025 at Creed Elementary so second by Bill second by Nelson any comments just to clarify Jason this is phase two but I think you said you might wrap it up in phase two right yes initially it was uh three phases over three Summers we're confident we can get it all done this year that's making a three-year project a two-year project so the money we had to allocated in the third year is just bumping itself up yep just shift over column okay okay any further comments if not roll call please Mr secretary Miss wolfolk I or yeah Miss z stus i Mr swales hi say I Mr Albert I Dr Hall I and president Brown I motion carry can I have a motion to approve on the action report number eight Bravo number two approve the resolution directing the sell of the property mon Educational Center located at 5154 West Main Street mon Illinois VI the seal bid process in accordance with the provisions of section 5-22 of the Illinois school code in parentheses open parentheses 105 Illinois Capal statue 5 5-22 close parenthesis okay I have a motion to approve such statement read so moved move by Nelson second by Bill questions or comment are I have one question are we establishing any kind of minimum acceptable bed we did the minimum the minimum floor price would be it's advertised I thought it yeah it's advertised so they I wasn't sure it stilled B well I mean we we have a floor that we won't accept anything below that but anything above that would then I wasn't sure contractual terms I checked with Mr gleon and he said to advertise it that way you didn't quote unquote so they don't want to give a bid they'll know what the floor is yeah correct okay so so it's 545 uh 553 500 okay 553 5 okay good okay motions on the floor has been moved any further comments or questions if not roll call please Mr secretary Mr Albert I okay you go as an i Mr swsh hi Miss Z somus hi Miss wolfolk hi Dr Hall I president Brown I motion passed do we have any old business um yeah this just came to to my my brain um it really did so I I don't want you to feel like you on I put you on the spot with this but um I know we've had some incidents um where the school is gone on whatever they call them still lot same for a lack of a better term you I mean you all I I call it a loot whether it's a mini lockdown Lo and and I don't like um I think we got to figure out a way and I don't know if it's possible maybe you could we can just um where we get the information before student before we start getting not student but before we start getting phone calls asking about the information you do cuz sometimes we get you do you are we get it as fast as possible you get it when I get it okay that's pretty fast the the principles we have on in our address book instant responders these School board is on it so how does it I mean so is that via email okay cuz I'm think cuz you know we don't always check our emails like that instantly you know and then that's that's the fastest way I can get it you think that's our B I think we had go back and check our policy on superintendent board relationship and how emerging issue come comes up and how the superintendent supposed to and I'm not saying it's wrong when she says that I'm just saying that that's to be wi I says email I think text is kind of followed by email something to that a lot of it depends on the situation and I think that's before we created this instant one because before I would text yeah we talked about that we actually I think put it in our policies it's in our policy that it should get text or communicate to us right away through email cuz that was the fastest for someone on her team in a minute whatever the response was they could click one button and shoot out the information to us right away that's the quickest now sometimes we may not be the first to know because you know these kids if something happened in the school they calling their parents up and the kids might be the first off the press to see something before it gets over to the superintendent and they're calling their parents up and parents are calling us yeah I and I get that but I'm was just trying to see if are how we do but I I guess if email and not text um then it's email yeah because if you get them like there are certain days when you'll have a green or a yellow place and hold if someone gets hurt or something they always do that anyways but you get them we get I get them nah I'm good text yeah well that's why I'm asking it's not a you know Todd if you get a call just stall the person and check your email right there you go see ask how the weather is what I do like you know I'll call you you don't okay okay all right but go back and visit the board policy on superintended board relationship to make sure that it is in fact emails the first source of communication check that okay checks and balances all right any any other to are you I'm good sorry any other old business okay hearing none new business okay we have no reason to go into close session can I have a motion to adjourn motion move by Dr Hall second second by Nelson all in favor say I I any n we are adjourned thank you public for joining us thank you for all that's here today have a great evening be safe stay warm

of that want you to be able to have time to be able to fill it out would you like to stand for the pledge please to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all call meeting I call me in order for the board of school Trustees of Brown County um is there any modifications to the agenda there are none okay and this is where we recognize our visitors or comments from the audience this is three minute corre I have a Don hammer right okay um I'm Don H head Bo track coach at Frank count high school former assistant football coach here um how many of you have heard of the very recent as in this week ruling from the ihsaa on transfers okay if you have it I'll tell you no longer do you have to prove residency or change the residency or for academic reasons you are now allowed to transfer based off of Athletics so what does that have to do with us what do it to do with the proposal of a new field Etc there's a thing called trickle down effect what's going to happen in football is all the best kids are going to go to the best schools now the kids who like number two there now what am I going to do so they're going to trickle down and go to a different school where they can play etc etc etc County will reap some benefits from that maybe not the first year maybe not the second but we will reap some benefits of other kids looking for somewhere to go because everybody else is taking their spots I mean just look at the transfer port hole in college all right that's what this is becoming okay kids are going to this school no I got to go to this school no I got to to this school we will have more kids come out for football but they may Overlook us if we have to continue to play on a field where the sprinkler system really hasn't worked where there holes where there's go for holes it's in bad shape it has been for several years um I myself twisted my ankle out there one time on the sidelines it's just it's not really great but they see a brand new field out there we're going to get some of these kids that makes our team better our team gets better more kids will come out more people in the stands more money coming in talk track sectionals of track and field you're allowed two people prevent right now blooming to North high school has five boys that can run a 155 800 they got two more boys under two minutes we don't have a single kid that can do that so two kids go two more go in the relay number five who's one of the best kids in the area is left out we think that kid is going to want to do he's not going to want to stay Bloom to North we don't you know never they triple down effect he can come to Brown County oh we got a brand new track he's not going to want to come run on that piece of concrete we have we have more kids with shin splints stress fractures we need a new track it's that simple people say well we can't do this we can't build that we don't want to do all this you still have to address the problems the field is in bad shape the track is hard as a rock it has to be a kids are not going to want to run they're not going to want to come here that trick effect will not work because they're going to see what we have they're going to say no I'm not going there we could benefit from that that number five at Bon North can now all of a sudden go to state championships whereas before he wasn't even running all because of this new rule he could come to Brown County and say I I can Advantage I can I can actually go I can tell you your three minutes are up I was talking fast I know you were I know you were I people fill out some papers I would also add that you are always welcome to write us emails if you have more to say and you want to do that so um you know we read all of your emails and so if you have you know more or you don't want to speak in public that's okay too but we're happy to hear what you say through in writing as well as in person Ian good evening good evening coach Ian price I've been coaching here in Brown County for probably the last almost 10 years it started in the B leag with football parks and wreck baseball I moved up I was the Middle School football coach this year and last year I'm the middle school wrestling coach and I'm the High School varsity and JB coach for baseball so I've coached and worked on all of our fields at this point in facilities uh I can attest to the safety measures that need to be taken for our Fields uh but more importantly over those years I haven't ever really felt like the school had a lot of buying in our Athletics and this is a great opportunity for us to show our students and athletes that we want to be there for them we want to provide those facilities that are needed to bring more to get them to do better and give them more opportunities to play that'll bring more out um and I think it'll promote more from our community to come play from our student athletes student body I'm not going to take up much more time I appreciate you having me thank you thank you thank you casual my name is Ash shinger I'm not only a student here but I also perform in football and think about doing track as well um so I think one of the biggest reasons that I think we need a track F uh ATT track and tur football field uh is mainly for uh athletic safety um so right now every time I go out onto the football field or almost every time I sprain my ankle do something and uh last year I had to uh had a ankle and I it went and it popped and I couldn't play for probably three games now with that being said uh with some of our uh like major athletes that we use for multiple positions with them being out could really cause like problems not only that with people transferring into our school uh to play athletics which is not happening a lot right now more people are transferring out than transferring in it gives us more students uh for like the school uh it'll grow our school like make it a little bit bigger and uh it'll give our Athletic program a little bit more confidence as well so that's really all I have to say and thank you guys you have a minute 30 left Williams uh good evening my name is William Redmond uh I coach bam football and uh I've played at many different schools while coaching bam football and I'm going to take it from the opposite perspective as the coach there meaning he's looking a trickle down effect we're looking at the what's coming up effect so I can tell you guys that from coaching bam football we lost 30 kids last year that should have played for bam and in Brown County that live in Brown County and they went to Indian cricket played instead we had 10 more that went to uh Columbus in play and when they were asked there were two reasons why they said they went to those schools one it's a bigger School two they got better facilities everybody's looking for the better facilities and in order to keep supplying coach Bell and the rest of the Athletics with more kids coming up we need better facilities for these kids to play in we travel all around the State playing at these facilities and we're one of the I hate to say this cuz I love BR this is God's country in my opinion but when we go when we go play We're looked at oh it's just Brown County we're just going to run over them and keep playing us us in the bandam league are trying to do new things to bring more people in and I can promise you if we get a new field tur field updated facilities we will get some kids to come back and play for us because they don't get a whole lot of playing time at these bigger schools whereas if we had the facilities we have the smaller teams they will get more playing time and more experiences here on top of all of that we need to give our young kids more things to do around here they they we've got all the other stuff to do for adults and stuff I'm also on the fire department and on HL fire department and the number of bad situations that kids get in because they're home alone or they haven't got anything else to do is uh astronomical whereas if we had more options and more stuff for them to do they would stay busy and stay out of trouble that's all I got I thank you guys for your time thank you any more Joel Lewis I'm going into my 20th year coaching football here in M County um I've coached kindergarten up through high school um this isn't just a football field this is softball this is basketball this is everything within our school system soccer team will be able to play on that field am I correct the youth will be able to perform on that field not just football not just soccer I see kids out there playing all the time on our Fields am I correct what are we doing here it's not a football field we need to quit referring to it as football it's an athletic activity it's for the entire school system it's for the entire Community we get together on the 4th of July that's where we go how many people love going to our bathrooms if they can find [Music] right we got to walk down a hill I'm not even sure if this is approved to go to the bathroom is it does it meet the standards we're talking about not just a field but we're talking about upgrading our facility our bathrooms our locker rooms I emailed you earlier this year because we had a problem in our locker room needs to be upgraded we need a lot better facilities here for our athletes for our students if we can't keep that in mind there's no point in being here I appreciate your time thank you anybody else yeah thank you um um have um several presentations that are on the agenda tonight um and I just wanted to be able to take an opportunity to introduce them and just give a short little brief timeline of of how we got here February 18 to have the final scope of these projects um as I've stated at the recent board meetings um we have uh the opportunity to be able to look at all of our facilities across the entire district and determine what priority things um arrive so um we have um great partners with Performance Services that have been with us um for quite some time we have an a guaranteed Energy savings contract with them so they help us look at all of our facilities um infrastructure wise um HVAC lighting all of those things and and determine where the priorities are when I arrived here at Brown County schools in 2021 um we had the board had just approved to move forward with the high school H uh Bond um to to again take care of the hbac um in in most of the building um when looking at the priorities after that that project uh the Middle School became Rose to the top because it was the only facility in the district that did not have a secure front entrance um and so when we did the 2023 bond for the middle school that became the priority um vanen which most of you if you have been uming watching the board meetings or paying attention to the scope of the projects the vuran project has been a priority for all of these years it is just now been able to rise to the top um and so we have um two two different types of projects that Performance Services will be outlining tonight for us and one of them is infrastructure across the district um and then the other one obviously is about the athletic site um improvements for for football field track restroom locker room I know that there there is a lot of talk or chatter that is on on Facebook um about the turf project and and Mr Lewis I appreciate you reminding everybody that it is much more than just a turf football field um because it will serve in so much more capacity than just Turf um but the big thing that was out there is this Fieldhouse right and um I I want everybody to know I want the board to know that this isn't an either or project um this isn't uh if we do this then this one does not happen or if we don't do this then this will happen it is not an either or it became very clear and validating to me after reaching out and having very intentional conversations with community members and and board members that there are several different Visions for a Fieldhouse right and um um when when we want to take something as and and do it Super Bowl like right for our kids and our for our families and our community that is a project that is going to take very intentional strategic planning and vision with appropriate stakeholders at the table so we do do it right I just want to remind everybody that this isn't an either or this is a piece this current athletic site facility upgrade is a piece that that can happen without raising our tax rate it does so much more than just the ch right it is the track it is the restroom it is the locker room um it is soccer it is uh practice for softball or baseball or community events it is uh baned um it is so much more so uh just remember that and then um again we have Performance Services that will be here to talk about the scope of both projects uh Tina glass is here from hellis turf company I've invited Tina to be here because we've had um several questions about safety and environmental impact on Turf and um I thought an expert in the field would be best to be able to help give us Insight on both of those topics and then our partners with ice Miller and Ste are here to be able to talk about financial impact in tax rate um again I just want to remind the the public here tonight that these presentations are an opport opportunity for the board to be able to do Q&A back and forth with our presenters um we will hold our public hearing on those projects on March 3rd the public hearing is the opportunity for the public to be able to provide comment and ask questions to the board at that public hearing as opposed to with these presenters tonight so um with that said I'd like to bring up uh Steve thomman and Neil Fleck from Performance Services to to tell us about the final scope of both projects thank you for having us this evening it's good to see you all again I'm just going to uh pull up the preliminary Improvement list that we've been discussing I think I'm sure that's been shared discussed through that all right so all right think as we mentioned there's two pieces to this project one being an improvement project to facilities V Elementary um it has been on the priority list for quite some time um and now it's it's time to address the hbac and other issues there so um what we have looked at thus far um upgrading classroom gym cafeteria essentially all of the hbac systems and replace the existing systems with uh new equipment uh new controls while we're doing that we will replace ceilings replace the 4S and lights with LED similar to what we've completed at the high school and spera and helmsburg in previous phases the next piece is here at the high school in the first two phases the two summer project um in 21 and 22 that we completed we focused on the classroom portion of the building placing all of these units in in most of the classrooms we did not touch the science labs at that time as they had just gone through a renovation in 2014 and so timing wasn't appropriate I mean obviously we needed to allow that equipment to age and and get closer to its end of life before going in and replacing it um facilities is having issues now with those areas maintaining humidity and temperature in those rooms is causing an issue so we updating the hbac systems and the science labs along with the two or I believe there's three classrooms in the athletic Corridor going to the main gym updating those as well as far as finishes go they were done in 2014 they're still in great condition there may be a few things that we need to address while we're in there but primarily hbac and um right now fac two two different temperature control systems in the building so that creates a challenge for them so as part of this project we we'll bring that all onto one control system uh the second piece here at the high school as I mentioned we focused on the the education wing of theol we looking at addressing the main gym the auxiliary gy and white systems so now in the main gym you have four small air handling units and extremely small mechanical rooms uh in each Corner uh air distribution isn't great I think there's some noise issues I think facilities typically ends up having to shut them off during events graduation other other events where noises of concern day big yeah uh so we looked at combining the four units into a single unit um setting it on grade on the uh on the East end of the building that's our preliminary plan obviously what we do with Jimmy and the administration and then uh we talk about installing duct work through the gym um potentially utilizing a fabric duct I'm sure you've seen that in other gyms that you you've been to but it's around fabric duct that third piece here at the the high school restrooms we look at two sets of restrooms one being the main set here in the in the common space and then the other in that 100 Wing which is the the 100 hallway is the first hallway as you enter the main door to the right at the end of that corridor restur that have not been touched in quite some time so getting those a facelift um replacing the partitions ceilings mirrors replacing the the sinks and fixtures and then currently planning to remove the tile and install an epoxy floor in those rooms okay so that that's the infrastructure portion of the project the the second does the board have any questions about that that Curiosity on the timeline can those be done can van burn be done at the same time that the ones here on Main Campus are done or is it one career that's going to be doing no they can be done at the same time at the same time um timing wise of course depends on uh what decisions are made um that most of that work would happen during the summer of 2026 because contractor availability is limited at this point for 2025 so we're trying to get ahead of their Bing schedule to count um it's been brought to our attention down there van that's where I went um it's still the same furnace um the tank in the bottom uh that's in the ground out there you know oh yes the fuel oil tank so what the environmental well that is a question certainly U that we'll have to investigate um actually we're meeting later this week to start those conversations but we'll have to empty that tank at some point obviously we're not going to do that during school tank um empty the tank and inspect it to see if there's any any leaks if the tank is in good condition typically you're able to just fill it with sand or other media and it'll remain in place if it does leak it'll have to be removed and there will be some soil remediation like but that's an unknown at this point questions on the bathrooms I assume they'd stay the same size but we're not changing we're not planning on changing the footprint okay um Ada there's there's no concerns there it's just they haven't been touched in quite some time and even though you can't start the hbac stuff until summer of 2026 could that be done the summer of 2025 interested in bidding those that project early you can certainly advertise and and try to find contractors that have availability I do have some concern whether you'll get how competitive your bids will be and may be in your best interest to wait but we certainly can try that's a priority to get done sooner rather than later so you do the you do the bidding now correct that's correct and as far as some of these things you're talking about like a bathroom you don't have a design for that yet right no these preliminary projects numbers see the budgets uh well you could on the left or on the right um those are preliminary numbers based on projects that be Rec completed and um we try to keep up with the current bid market so that's why we provide range right and we haven't had discussions design finishes um types of sinks types of partitions and we would do that later during the bidding process yeah we would we would do it during design and we'd have all of those decisions made before we go out to B if if it were to change design it would change cost right absolutely potentially but that's not this stage is what I'm saying no no no no we're very early in the process trying to provide some information to to give you an idea of what could be accomplished and I will make the assumtion will [Music] thebody so um when we're looking at at all of those Renovations I know that the one of the things I'm conc concerned about is just as we go on the price of materials keeps going up right that is correct so that we need to do the we need to I mean we have reasons to do the bond for other reasons rather quickly but there are also cost reasons for us to move as quickly as we can right yes yeah so I mean the sooner we can come to an agreement with contractors and fixed prices they can material and re the benefits of those savings okay say with a lot of the equipment that's long lead time or we probably recommend kind of a ordering it prior to you know so probably this summer depending on the timing you would order that equipment that could be a year you know chillers are still out there quite a bit and so we would go all go through all that critical equipment and sit down with your leadership team and kind of make a recommendation these things should probably be ordered sooner as opposed to later because it could take several months for it to get here it can we're still I mean there's still some Co effect and all that kind of stuff so we were dealing with a similar situation when we completed the high school we order the equipment had it stored here on site the and I know when we did the HVAC in here of course it was you know it's a big messy project so it had to be done during the summer I assumed um van buan and the science rooms and the gym would also need to be done during the summer that's the in yes okay if there's if there's spes available that we can get done while schools in session um that's certainly a possibility we haven't had again we haven't had those conversations yet any other questions about the uh renovation portion okay and then the second piece the athletic field and track improvements so replacing the grass with field it's still on a high quality shock B will elaborate on these these items but drainage is currently an issue I think there's at least a portion of the track that is undermined from time to time um so addressing that drainage issue and then we talked about reloc jump and within the track so that would be part of that um the second piece is upgrading the LED lighting on for the football field the fs would remain um but we just update the fixtures themselves and we would be able to drive coverage currently we have a full track replacement uh assuming that we'll have to all go all the way down to the to the dirt and and refill an eight track in the same location um again we we still need to do more investigation there we have an option down below if we don't have to replace the track completely is my time up uh if we don't have to replace the the track completely we certainly would recommend just resurfacing um again those are still things we're trying to determine what the best path is we also investigated a new restroom concession and locker room facility on the south end of the uh the track so that would be relocating um one of the locker rooms out to that new facility uh new public restrooms that would be centrally located between the home and visitors bleachers make it a little bit easier to venture off to the to the restro rather than the current location planning a split current in our budget we planed for a masonry building split face block uh with steel steel structure standing sea metal roof um that's what we determin is the best path at this point there C again we can talk about finishes and um what that building looks like ultimately but that's what we based our budgets on today certainly Ada accessibility um given the elevation that we would have to raise the pad of that building so making sure we have the the appropriate slope and to for ramps and and those things we have to establish what that elevation need to be and then just power getting electric power or power to the new building um planning on tying into the existing switch gear in the mechanical room that's adjacent to the gym so it's much closer than the mechanical room on the south or the West End of the high school so that helps um still haven't determined if we need a sanitary lift station or not I know that there's the city has a lift station somewhat close so depending on the final location of the building we may be able to to utilize it and it would be a full electric building so domestic water heaters any heat for the building would be electric we wouldn't run hydronics out there and we we're not planning on air conditioning a couple of items that we have also discussed I mentioned the resurfacing of the track so that would be that would be an either or scenario if we're able to determine the track good enough shape that we can resurface um we can we can discuss that option we also um discussed Turf baseball and softball field again these are preliminary based on the current size of the fields and then a few items that we hadn't included in our budgets at this point Doug you mentioned the fuel oil tank we don't know what condition it is we'll we'll work on that as we're going through design so if there is it does have a leak add mediation we discussed raising the field elevation uh we had a civil engineer review the the flood zone and determined it would be cost prohibitive to raise or relocate relocating is a bigger challenge because um one there's not a good location to move it to if moving it to Eagle Park you're in a similar situation a large portion of that site is in the in the same PL raising it has potential but again it's it's we're talking about thousands of cubic yards of dirt to race the field and track and bleachers and essentially the entire site and when you raise it it's my understanding that the toe or the the end of that soil that slope needs to be outside of the floodway so raising the field creates a number of different challenges um that's why we today we determine that leaving it at the same elevation makes the most sense allows ground County to needs um while still making improvements how does it can you talk a little bit about um are the materials different like what is going to Aid the drainage to to help it or right like oh versus grass I would answer that question she has that that she brought with her as far as the drainage of the turf yeah I mean I just you talk with Engineers I just I want to feel confident right that the portion of this is in the flood plane and we're going to put Turf in and we're going to put these high most highest quality materials in it whatever um we want to feel confident that if we do get flooded right like what is the likelihood of it flooding over the turf what is the um how do you mediate those measures going forward like I know if it floods on grass we still have cost that we have to fix the flooding there too right but I think I think BR county has been told for quite some time that we we aren't able to do it strictly because part of the field is on that flood plane right so I just where does that fall into it I'll talk about that one when I go up Emily okay okay think are there any other questions and then we we also talked about fencing um as part of the the building and the the athletic field uh Renovations I know that there there was discussion about some additional fencing improve security around the field and then also potentially you know um Brown County decided move forward we third at the baseball and softball field uh we haven't included anything for fencing at this point we'd have to investigate the back stops dugouts those things but we haven't included those at this point try to keep it as tur for now any other questions I think you missed something um above the building there the restrooms uh the score I did you are right the scoreboard I apologize so um we have also discussed the the scoreboard of the football field um to a new LED type scoreboard which has to be approved by the town like I've already inquired about that the the town considers it a sign so it will whatever we go with we'll have to have it approved by the town and part of the reason for that is is uh efficiency right efficiency and um the scoreboard is it's not original it's it's pretty close that was a very nice way almost an antique so timing as you're making these improvements it makes sense to go ahead and the scard at the same time I'm Wai from her I say all right my question like on the steps this process because I've never been through a bond project before so once these are approved like design does that go to Administration or like designs on all the projects how does that work yeah we we will meet like once and if everything goes through and we um to move forward our team meets regularly with Performance Services and um whether it's once a week where a couple times a month or determined as needed um we are constantly in collaboration over next steps and if decisions have to be made in order for the next steps to happen so when you think about the middle school project right like um up front it seems like there's it's heavy meeting right to make sure that we meet steps on the timeline and then when work is happening it slows down a little bit and then you get into some questions about oh I didn't know it was going to look like that or what if we did this or what if we did that and so it is us meeting with them and they will um come back and do updates to the board like throughout the project so you can see progress um all of that all the way through thank you thank you you're going to wish I had a three minute limit so real quickly I want to tell you a little bit who about who helis is and I did not know this when I started working for the company but helis is another work for police and the founder of the company named that because that's where the first Olympics was in competitive Sports and that's what we do so we were found in 2003 we do turf tracks tennis courts and LED lighting so what sets us apart is we manufacture our own turf we manufacture our own Coatings for the track surfacing our own light pictures and we do the installations too so we're a One-Stop shop one point of contact one warranty uh we were founded after our found of our company is a gentleman named raid Sean and he was in the turf and track business for 20 years in Texas at one point he bought asttr Turf the original asttr Turf out of bankruptcy built it up and sold it off and after doing this for 20 years he said I'm changing the model I want to control the quality from start to finish so you're going to deal with that one point of contact so there's not finger pointing oh was it the turf or was it the installation of it so going to Emily your question about the flood plane I was kind of curious and I was like I wonder what part what percent of the country is in the flood plane and so I did a Google search and it says according to available data approximately 133% of the United States is considered to be within a 100-year flood plane which I thought that was really interesting and it said 100-year flood plane means there's a 1% chance of a flood occurring in any given year so halis has installed hundreds of fields in flood planes and one of the c c uh senior VPS at our company came from one of our competitors and I called him uh yesterday and I said hey when you were with the other company um did you install the flood planes and he said yes they did so there's things to do to mitigate that so the first step is I already gave Emily a proposal for a geotechnical survey so that's one of the first steps as a geotechnical to find out how much we need to stabilize underneath and then you move forward with that towards an estimate and and I also talked to our coo yesterday to ask the question after discussing with Neil about the creek that I guess the creek does sometimes impact that area and so he said there's multiple things that you could do is one would be a retaining wall you could also add additional drainage Stone in that area to help with the drain for drain that area a little B faster so when a new turf field goes in we typically excavate eight inches down that dirt is removed there is um drain Stone drain tiles perimeter drains tie into your pursu and drainage so that's one thing as far as if it ever does happen and there is a flood which our Co told me he did have a story he said there was somebody that built along the Ohio River we built a field he goes they did have a flood and what happened there was a lot of dirt that went on it and he said took a lot of time to clean it I said I know what they're going to ask they're to ask me how much should it cost they go give me some numbers he's like you know it can range from five to $50,000 he said but typically if there was going to be some type of flood like that you're going to be informed and know it's on the way you said what you actually could do is put tarps down um on the field and then after the whole the whole you know flood any type of flooding was done then the tarps would be lifted up and you wouldn't have that issue with all that dirt on top of the field need need to clean that it would probably be minimal so we did mention that um as far as player safety um let took some here talking um as far as what Asher was talking about I got of a story so for those does anyone know derck Henry the elite running back so they had a natural grass field at the Tennessee Titans and helis had the indoor bubble and he where they were located the trans it was considered a transition zone geographically and they actually had rep replaced the sad three times in 2022 because there were a significant number of injuries people were slipping it was it like you talked about ankle issues and so he actually went to the owners of Tennessee Titans and said I actually feel safer playing on the indoor bubble in that field they did listen obviously that was the only reason but it was tied to the injuries they did replace the field it is now a hellis field so helis has the Tennessee Titans but it talks them to the safety and then also when Dawn talked about these kids transferring it's true you know build it and they will come that's what's going to happen and you see all this investment I see these architecture firms now investing in athletic facilities 65% of business is at athletic facilities because it is going to bring people here William also mentioned something about there's a lot of studies and data about giving kids something to do and it's true you're going to keep kids out of trouble there are studies directly tied to they have less chance of getting involved in drugs and illegal activities and I don't know if anybody saw one of the Super Bowl ads where one of the athletes talked about how he was homeless and he stayed focused focused on Sports and it kept him off the streets it's not a sports field but there's a similar story to Washington he said if there was the girls and boys club I wouldn't be alive today so what if he we would have gotten into um so for your feel talking about player safety Turf has come a long way so the original turf fields that were out in the 70s like the astro turf it was considered nylon resin it was very abrasive on the athletes they had a lot of cuts open wounds and then it changed to something called linear low density polyethylene so what the the fields that came out were then linear low density polyethlene and what they decided to originally they were on concrete and asphalt so the turf would be on concrete or asphalt and obviously it's very dangerous for concussions and then they said okay let's put rubber in the turf so then rubber started going in the turf to help mitigate some of that so then what they realized was one of the challenges when you have a lot of rubber is it can be a little bit slippery if there's too much rubber which of of our competitors believe in using a lot of rubber we believe in a shock pad so I've got a sample of what the shock pad is that is in our NFL Fields um also it's in high school fields and parks and W Fields so this is called Kush drain it it I think goes through to that have water 2,000 millimeters per hour go through so it's very porous sometimes in presentations I brought a bowl with water pour it on here to show that it goes through so it's Tire chome Aggregate and moisture pure polyurethane it's paved in place this goes down first and then the turf and then what makes us different is we instead of sand which can get compacted we use a PE gravel patented PE gravel side size that goes at the base of this Turf and that holds up the turf blades and then also keeps the turf weigh down the athletes would never interact with this and then on top of that would be the tire Crome Tire crumbs in probably 90% of the sports Fields um tying into Umi we have I did I did print something out with a kind of a snapshot view of our Fields helis has 20 fields in the NFL we have the game fields at the Dallas Cowboys the Houston Texans Sofi Nissan stadium and the Colts and we have practice fields in uh 14 other team with 14 of the NFL teams um I'm really excited to let you guys know that hellis was just awarded the IU Stadium Field so we're going to be installing that in May so in the state talking about building they will come the students if Brown County puts this field in your kids are these kids going be playing on the same exact Turf as the Dallas Cowboys the same exact Turf as the I as Kurt signet's players and what's exciting about this is I get this question can we afford it absolutely we've done 5,000 Fields so sometimes I get frustrated when I talk to my friends about our Fields I get excited and they'll say well do you do it for high school and I I Tech goal I'm like obviously there's only 32 NFL teams we've done 5,000 Fields across the un States K through2 parks and W college and NFL um but I can't rattle off 5,000 school names um matter of fact Salem I don't know if you guys heard Salem recently did it at hellis field so those kids are playing on the same Turf as the Colts and now it's going to be the hoers um if anyone wants to obviously go see the Salem field you could do that if for some reason somebody or you want to coordinate a trip and I could coordinate something at Lucas Oil Stadium or up at the indoor colts for you guys to see that as well um we can also do the track as you've talked about the track um whether you do a whole demo of the track one of the challenges is don't know uh until you lift up the existing track surface to see what condition the asphalt is underneath unless you already do know where there's a Geotech that says yeah you need to redo the whole thing um we can retrofit existing lights and let see something else on the on the safety side so when I first started selling Turf I love the company that I work for I love the products that we have and all have people say Oh I thought turf was bad and you know I'm like okay where is this coming from and I don't know if everyone's been hearing a little bit of the buzz on Turf in the NFL that made the national news a couple years ago and it came from here's where it came from so the San Francisco 49ers were playing back-to-back games at MetLife Stadium so they were in from the e from the west coast to the east coast they were playing against the Jets and the Giants and Nick Bosa had a non ATT lower extremity injury so did someone else that named Solomon Thomas or Thompson and then Jimmy garoo had ankle injury he said this field is terrible what is it and it's something called slit film and slit film is a type of turf and I actually a sample of it and so they never came out and said what what it was that sliit film was doing but they cited data they looked at the NFL fields and they said okay these six stadiums have slip film and it was life Detroit Cincinnati Indianapolis Minnesota the Saints and the description that the coach the players used is that the field was sticky so what what we believe was happening is this is what sliit film looks like and when you bend the turf over the blade Turf blade it stays bent over so if you've ever walked a field and you see the turf blades looking like this that is not the way it should be so helis has a patented and this has led to a lot of our success being able to do five 500 5,000 fields and have Fields with 44% the NFL teams so our turf has a twisted fiber it's called Matrix Helix so when you actually bend it over you try to squeeze it the way I did that it'll flip back up so I have a sample box that I brought and presented to you guys I put a board on top of it I put weights on it for six weeks just to see what it would do and it was very interesting I took it off and the the tur actually spirals back up so I deal with um Sofi stadium and were planning to replace the field every two years but the stadium director said I'm not going to replace it but every four years because it's in such good condition because of this design the normal warranty on a turf field is eight years um on I've heard stories of our turf lasting 12 to 14 years it kind of depends on the part of the country in the UV uh on the shock pad this shock pad is a 25e warranty we have a less expensive shock pad this is the top of the line with other shock pads um they have 15year warranty and as far as the environmental aspects go uh in 2016 the EPA and a few other groups did some studies and here's what it came out the data was finally available in 2024 and what they said is the EPA recently re re released reassuring findings that there's no difference found when using recycled crumb rubber on sythetic Turf planing fields and playgrounds when compared to grass fields the research was a multi- agency effort that included the Centers for Disease Control and prevention Agency for tox xic substances and disease registry in the consumer product safety commission um also our turf is made without any added P so past people heard of a forever chemicals um there's actually more past in a um dental floss package than in a turf field but people want focus and Target turf field so if you have questions about that um Also if anyone interested we have a website called playing forfor keeps.

info that would answer a lot of the environmental questions so our wed system in this County most of it goes to Monroe Lake get to local Lake over another County of course it's in Brown County too um I've got some concerns of the rubber floating off um fish Birds Wildlife I'm a farmer and I farm quite a few Acres along Sal middle for Middle Fork Salt Creek and I am aware of the way the current weather conditions will change by the way I am Varsity I've heard Varsity letters I think there's three of us in there Varsity letters at the school so I I'm I want something to happen I'm just curious about a lot of things um you know so we got the uh pellets washing off it's going to flood um I've lived here 49 years and uh I've seen it flood multiple times um so it how many times have you seen it flood the whole the whole Field's flooded I've seen it flooded completely twice in my lifetime okay so but so what you got is a uh you got 4 6 here Highway our football Fielding track right here and then you got old 46 right here problem you got that Creek comes down here hits a bridge runs it in here this is a manmade Dam now this goes into a bigger Creek what we run into is the water will come through here hit this and it starts backing up we already have backup water problems so this water will actually almost sit here until the actual Creek that runs right here goes down and my concern is this water when it starts slowing down that's when it drops everything and the thickness of you know I've been out there with Drew before and other people cleaning it up and I've got I'm just curious about what the cleanup process on that is if that's that's a 50 year old field roughly well I've been out of school for 30 the reason why I bring it up because if it was just a field that you guys turn into a football field it's not what's called a perfect built field so a purpose built field would have that's impacting the drainage would be a sand based field so that's how they do Sports Fields now it's a sand based to offer excellent drainage so that might be contributing to these challenges so I feel that by it being engineered properly as I said we've done 5,000 of these so we would engineer it so that the proper amount of drain Stone to handle excessive rains and divert that water properly it sounds like what it is is not a purpose built field it was originally a farm field so like your rubber mat part if that seals over you got to take the turf off to get it cleaned off to let the water go through it no this actually already just this is this is called cush drain and so it's offer it's combination how that word is like the cushioning effect for the athletes and it's drainage it's offers excellent drainage so this is I I have to ask how many outdoor Fields this is this is in but this is a lot of fields but you see what I'm getting at I'm talking we're putting four or six Ines of silk coming off greasy treat it's going to lay on top of the the turf and then that's laying on top of that do you have like a drainage structure underneath yeah so when there is so what they would do is they put in um so they excavate about 8 inches down and then there are flat drain tiles and drain stone in there and then there are perimeter collector drains and that ties off and I feel that this is so this should probably handle all of this water issue because this is not again a purpose built field I think that's quite the challenge with why water retains on it stays on it so we're 4 foot below water level or the flood plane already and the problem you got this is what I see and I'm not picking on it but the problem we got is our Creek we're already down close to Creek level and we're going down another 8 in I want to know how we're going to get that 8 inle the 8 in is going down for the drain Stone in the drain pipe so it stay where it is so it goes to the creas TR it would go tie into whatever water you know water system that go to so there isn't any sewage line that goes into it straight the creek no so that's what you so I know like on our farm ground we do field tiles on our farm ground and it doesn't drain till the creat drains and it'll actually plug up and and I'm just want to you know I I'm just looking at every I'm case scenario gu I mean I but that's good that's smart you're asking ni question so I'll work with Neil on this design and I know he's got Fred from Context who's done a lot of fields the thing if I need to I can bring our coo out here he made sales calls with me a couple months ago he's been doing this for 40 years you might have some ideas I spoke with on the specific projects since you have some of these challenges but I think he mentioned as he said the retaining wall the other thing I asked about is typically when we excavate the8 Ines of dirt then all that drain Stone goes in there that's typically hauled off and it costs about $40,000 to haul it off I asked him I was like is there a way to utilize that and build somewhat of a BM too to contribute um along that wall as someone who sits on other communities the thought of a retaining wall going there is Slim to not okay okay I think just I really yeah I I think what's really important to is that we don't know right until we get in there and and I think right like the Geotech that you talked about like all of those things will come into play and those will inform decisions moving forward it's a Geo and Topo too that's what I want to point out it's a topography so it's going to lay all that out which then would be taken to place with our Engineers with our designers we we won't have all of these answers all laid out um before March 3rd or you you know when when we're talking about approving resolution so we can get way down in into the weeds and stuff um again right there's there is a possibility out there that we won't be able to do this um effectively or or the way that we want to do it I'm not sure but so do we own the the land on both sides of the creek based on GIS yes you don't own the creek that's what I was going to say I was just trying to think about if it's really a d drainage problem that the creek needs some work I was just trying to think about who who would who who's is that whose responsibility would that be it goes under the road obviously that's DNR I was just going to say y why would it be DNR DNR owns all waterways anywhere water fls be our own so they basically have an easement in the middle of our property for that but then I would think the road is that's Department of Transportation so a dam that's caused problems since they put 46 here so on the average windy replace your so on the high school level I see people mostly waiting at least 10 years realistically sometimes 12 and what's the cost on that so the initial field installation um I'd say for a brand new field with the shock pad is about 1.3 to 1.4 million and then when you do what's called that's called a drop in field in AR lingo and then a Ripon replace is just you're replacing the turf piece of it that's about four to 500,000 you have to redo the sand underneath no need to do with the turf and again the better you maintain it the longer know it's going to last so you're not back at the 1.3 anymore you're you're doing it at half or less less yep yep less depends which option you take correct no because so the turf itself is about said the the turf piece the Excavating the drain Stone and the shock pad takes up a big chunk of it and then the shock pad depending on which one you get one of ours is a 15E warranty and one's a 25 so you won't need to replace that per se if you do a shock pad or you you can also not do a shock pad and you said the warning would not cover flood no the question is whether your insurance covers the flood we do have flood insurance through our um trust that we have and we have a $10,000 dble because I remember we used it recently how much does that raise our insurance I do not know so annually um I give them more information as to like uh facility building updates things like that and Turk is one of the questions I have not asked what the difference would be when we do that um the updates are usually in the spring that will take effect the next January thanks for letting me talk thank you so much we now get the opportunity here from um our bond Council and financial advisor to talk about tax rate and how this impacts that just take minut so good evening lukman with we Ser respond School Corporation our role in the financing or this project is to show how the financing can f within the school corporation historic what it's been last couple years 5787 so so the first thing that we always start with is a school corporation's current outstanding debt obligations uh as you can see in 2024 to 25 the debt payment dropped off as you had some debt that was retiring you'll have some some uh more debt payments falling off beginning in 2007 some more 2028 so we're going to structure this in a way to fit within the school corporation Deb payments but also know the school corporation maning to a total tax rate so not just focusing on the on the debt service fund but also uh looking at the operations fund and the operating referendum fund as a whole so on this slide here uh in Gray is the operations fund that's going to pay your day-to-day operations these three funds make up your uh total School tax rate in red is the operating referendum as you guys know as you just went through this it's actually good for eight years you've assume for the purposes of this that that that referendum rate is renewed uh for the life of this graph at least if if you do decide not to do the operating referendum that's just going to have a decrease of 10 cents in your total tax rate what we don't want to do is structure debt around that and then you go back to do a referendum with a tax rate increase so you I think you'll see here as I talk through this we try to be conservative with all of our estimates um in blue is the de Serv tax rate which is outlined on the previous chart that was the debt payments this is the actual Debt Service tax rate in 2023 and 2024 the school's debt rate was or total tax rate was0 5787 it dropped about six cents uh in 2025 to just under 52 cents when we look at structuring these Bond issues our goal is to stay within that historic rate to 5787 so I broke these up into two separate projects the first one being the building project you'll notice that these match all the numbers of perform Services we take the highend uh for for this again to be conservative whenever you go through the resolutions we're setting maximum numbers we can always come down from those numbers but once they're set we cannot go above them so as Neil mentioned they're still early on in the design phase there there may be some things that come up so we always want to be conservative going in if there's some extra dollars we can just reduce the borrowing amount or or get some of those uh uh alternate projects that that come into play so in green would be the impact of the building project so again $6 million for construction costs cost addition to 165,000 that's just going working group member C S&P rating call things like that uh if we assuming that both of these projects get authorized and sell one issue bonds likely the total cost of isance between both is going to be around 165 for purposes of this we we' split them out separately in case the timing of it doesn't quite work out we have to do two separate Bond issues most likely for efficiency purposes to do this one issue although will be two separate projects uh in light blue is the site projects or a lot of the athletic projects uh and again you'll see we're maintaining that we're structuring this to maintain the total tax rate of 5787 the hard and soft construction cost 650,000 cost of issuance 165,000 for a total borrowing of 6,215 th000 you also note that we're keeping the tax rate up at the 057 87 for two years and leaving some capacity going forward we know as a school corporation you have a lot of ongoing Capital needs this isn't just going to take care of all your needs for the next 20 years so our goal is to not hamstring the school corporation from a borrowing capacity going forward so this would leave the school corporation the ability to come back in 2027 you needed to to fund some additional projects this is all preliminary to once we get farther down the road we can build that cliff and at a later date if you say we need money next year three years down the road five years down the road we can change the structure of this this is just to kind of illustrate what this could look like to maintain the tax rate and leave some capacity down the road for any future projects that we may have this last slide is the legal parameters resolutions are being passed tonight so this is going to look very similar to what you would see on March 3rd and March 17th for hearings um so again the building project and site project we've outlined the borrowing amount cost estimated proceeds there think the most important thing that you'll see is the bottom line there as we're maintaining that 2023 and 24 tax rate is a 5787 would be a slight increase over the 25 rate as that rate get a little bit in 2025 kind of going back to that historical level that it was in 2023 2024 oh we also have a have a refunding that we're looking at so uh right now the school corporation's 2014 fonds can be refinanced on a tax exempt basis uh we would have been about two months ago the savings would have looked a little bit better but interest rates have increased of the last month or two a little little bit of volatility in the market uh so there is 3.7 million bonds that are outstanding on that the average interest rate on those bonds is 3.98 if you refinance it today that would be uh an interest rate of 3.36% so a cash flow Savings of just under 40,000 so this is a standalone transaction we would say it's not worth your time to do that I 40,000 is obviously nice but to go through the process and take on the interest rate risk probably doesn't make a ton of sense but we also know the market can move pretty quick so this is one thing that we we would like to approve at the next couple hearings is uh have this re refunding we'll set a minimum savings threshold so if the market does improve interest rates drop we can react quickly if it doesn't no harm no foul bonds stay outstanding you don't get any savings ideally we'd like it to be kind of in that 2% savings or more and you can see if interest R just decrease 25 basis points we get there that can happen within a week uh you can see kind down as interest rates uh decrease what that does to the savings and so for every 25 basis points about $45,000 savings to the school I think you went right over my head um why would I do this I mean why I I I appreciate that you want to keep it open as an option because we like our options right um but what would be the circumstance in which we would want to do this if interest rates decrease and you've already got the legal stuff out of the way so we can act a little bit quicker if the timing works to do it at the same time as these projects we can combine the building project site project and the refunding all into one so that to save on economies and scale efficiency and the cost of issuance um so if the timing works out to do that great if it doesn't an interest rates decrease over the next three months six months two years then you have the legal steps out of the way and then you can get savings which are the savings you can pass on to the taxpayers so if we do this then um we're borrowing less essentially because we'd be refinancing or am I wrong you're basically take you're taking out the old bonds kind of like you're just refinancing your B so you would just lower your annual payment you know 10 20 30,000 a year depending on where interest rates are so you'd still be borrowing the same amount for the projects it would just if we add this on it would just be a Debt Service savings but the tax state level yes that would that would be our goal would thatone of this at the state level um is there a circumstance in which the tax rate would have to go up um right now no legislatively some things went through uh that were initially proposed that could have an impact on your assess value yes I me that's the unknown if something happens with the general assembly if they make a major change in in the way the tax base is assessed that's going to be an impact for all School corporations ACR across the state so if it's something like that yes barring anything outside of that or interest rates going absolutely through the roofs no okay so I know one of our goals has been to complete whatever part of this process we need to complete because we know what the law is right now and after April 30th we don't know what the laws are going to be right um so are we on track to complete it before April 30th yeah sure oh yeah hi christollen with ice Miller thank you um have some timetables and again this is just an example if you want to pass these down yes to answer your question right now um we are right on track because as if you've been following the legislation there haven't been too many proposals that have impacted the legal process it's more on what we've talked about the AV side and some of those your operations fund things like that but this timetable would if you choose to proceed under this timetable it would be the quickest that we could go and yes the legal steps would be the exact same because we would finish them before April well I mean I want to make sure that's really clear to the public right there's a a very specific reason I was at the state house today some of the bill actually impact our ability to do bonds in the future that we would have you know and those haven't passed and they're out there but it is just scary to me because and again we don't know what the law will be so we want to make sure we're making these choices with the law that we know today yeah with the law that you know today and I think the other thing to point out is as you said that could change until you know May 1 um however I think one of the most important things for you all as a for your public to recognize is that you own this until the minute we pull the trigger to sell the bonds so even though we're going through the approvals as Luke said we're going to set maximums you can never go over them or we got to start all all over but if they come back and you guys decide oh we don't want to do the site project or we only want to do restrooms you could do that I mean you own it until the very end we could go forward with all of it none of it some of it but this would at least give you the flexib ability to proceed with these two maximum projects if you would like but again adopting these resolutions won't force you into issuing anything you still make those decisions if you look at this timetable as Luke kind of mentioned we're going to have um a hearing on March 3rd we're going to then adopt resolutions on March 17th we're going to follow up with more hearings on April 21st and then we are through the formal legal steps that's when we're all the way done with the legal steps but then you still have the design time the bidding all of those things to figure out before we on so that's why all these dates passed um April are all to be decided because that's truly up to you but it would give us the flexibility to move forward if you want to but because we've made those decisions and signed those resolutions under the current law we would be protected correct there's always a risk um not as much risk now because uh the transfer to caucuses is on 24th but there's always a chance that a law could be passed that isn't grandfathered but this would give you the most flexibility yeah I understand the cave it depends I know you love that answer right I I have a question and I'm just gonna playing plead ignorance on this so like with the bond proposals that we have and I apologize Emily because I know you've explained this to me like a million times with the bond proposals that we have each of them are right at that six million so explain to me how they can both be at six million but our cap is six million like I'm there's there's no cap at million right now um the project sizes that we were showing tonight if you choose to proceed next month and if you choose to proceed with these maximum amounts again what Luke did was take the hard and soft estimates that were due from um Performance Services in those first few graphs you showed and then added on cost of issuance so so there's truly No Limit like there's a general obligation bond process and there is a lease bond process every unit has a Geo capacity or a limit a cap these are going to be lease bonds though so you could tell me that you wanted to issue 12 million you could tell me you wanted to issue 50 million and we could still do a bond process for that as a lease the cap is really your general obl ation bonding capacity which we don't have to worry about here because we're doing the second type of financing but so jice if I think where you're coming from is the um the petition remonstrance process like how how how can we do both of these under this one lease not you're doing two projects so you're doing a site project and we're going to have a hearing on that and then you're doing a buildings project which is how we're going to call it the first one that was shown tonight was the buildings project which was been be and all the internal work at the high school then there is a second project which is really your athletic piece right so it's the out buildings maybe the turf maybe the track all those so that's how we're doing it is that you have two separate projects here you're not going out with one 12 million $300,000 project you've actually done two separate projects okay and it's so two separate projects means that like you were not able to take money from one project to give it to the other right like they're two separate and I think the importance in doing that here was to not go over on the athletic piece itself and the buildings piece as you manage that tax rate that's why it was so important here because Luke was watching your tax rate okay I I did um pass out the timetable again this is preliminary um and you all own the decisions but as you'll see there are several several steps several hearings several notices several resolutions if you have any questions on any of that what's the difference between the the March 3rd where they potentially adopt project resolutions and then March 17th where it's adopting different resolutions great question so um on the March 3rdd date these actions are required because the school is proposing to spend more than a million dollars on each project so those project resolutions would be required even if you said I need a new roof at the high school because you would be spending more than a million dollars so that's what we're doing first and those are the most important resolutions in my mind or if I was a taxpayer in the district the most important in my mind as well as a taxpayer because it's going to set that Max it's going to set the maximum borrowing amount and that's all in so you can't put operations fund monies in it's all in and it will also set forth that tax rate impact that Luke was talking about how we expect it to remain neutral so in my mind Emily those are the most important resolutions to both the board and the public on March 17th when we come back these are really um the lease steps so this is required under law anytime we're going to do that lease financing so instead of the general obligation Bond and what it requires is for us to use a building corporation which we've done several times over several years in Brown County and frankly all school districts across the state so what happens is the school board kind of has to authorize this lease process so they have to determine that there's a need so you'll determine the need for both projects again if you decide to move forward you'll approve that building Corporation and it'll be a pretty detailed resolution about what they were formed to do and they were formed over 15 years ago so it's just reapproved their existence and then you will approve the actual form of the lease which will include those maximum parameters that you've already approved in March on March 3rd then when we come back in April that's when we hold the second hearing and that one is a 30-day notice rather than a 10-day notice so when you come back you'll see the building Corporation will also meet on that day but that's when you hold a hearing again we'll include those maximum numbers again so they'll be heard three times again we can never issue over but we can issue under there may be an additional appropriation it just depends on how we structure the deals but that final piece will be the final approval of all the documents you would want to enter into you still would own it though after that date and if something comes back they come back and the Geotech survey wasn't the way you wanted it or van Bean doesn't need the work that you thought it needed or the high school you can always come in lower on each project you could a project you don't have to approve it until we're ready to bid and ready to sell bonds does the way we at what point when we're writing it to give ourselves maximum flexibility to be able to use that money for other things or or or something that doesn't go the way we want at what point are we writing it in that way like the words that we're using so you will do that from day one so if you decide to move forward with this Tim table you'll see that we have notices that are going to be published on February 19th to be heard at that public hearing on March 3rd the project descriptions will be included at that time um at the bottom of the Tim table um on page four you'll see I try to keep my uh notes in my head also on paper the way that we're talking about this right now under projects is we're going to have the buildings project which is the facilities including HVAC site improvements purchase of buses Equipment Technology and then the site project which of course is site and athletic improvements including the purchase of equipment and technology so we do do draft those broadly so for example it's it's kind of backwards when you issue bonds because you have these are public funds so we like to have bids in hand before we fill the bonds so that we know exactly what to sell them for but we can't get dollar for dooll equal so there's th000 left over you could use it for a whiteboard or new key card swipes or something like that with this project description why you said um site and athletic improvements throughout the school corporation so that is that's what I was that my question is that was very broad including the purchase of equipment and Technology yes and so everything that was listed under that project would be included whether you decide to do the school or not whether you decide to do some of the restroom facilities or not that could all be included the lighting or not would included with that project description again just to be broad as possible great my head is full full at no if you were downtown today any more questions thank you very much be careful dve I guess extras we have any discussion items I think there is I need a motion to accept approval of minutes February 3rd I yes Carol Vick yes yes yes motion Carri the following action needed items the recommendation to approve the following Neola policies I move we approve all the Neola policies listed in the agenda I second that motion dou yes Carol yes Vick yes yes yes motion carries I have the recommendation to approve the donation of $221 from the Brown County High School band boosters to reimburse High School B ECA for eight senior banners we get a motion to accept I move second second yes Carol yes VI yes yes yes motion car have the recommendation to approve the proposed academic schedule at Brown County High School get a motion to accept move to approve the academic schedule gr count high school second yes Carol yes Vicky yes Amy yes Janice yes motion carries I have the recommendation fory to attend the National Conference on education in New Orleans Louisiana March 4 through 6 2025 I have a motion to accept so mov second Doug yes Carol yes Vicky yes Amy yes J yes motion carries I have the recommendation to approve a donation in amount of $1,000 from and Linda charitable family fund to Brown County schools for the benefit ofex have a motion to accept second V do yes Carol yes Vicky yes am yes J yes motion carries I have the recommendation to approve a donation in the amount of $500 from Duke Energy Indiana to Brown County schools for the benefit of tedx I have a motion to accept second yes Carol yes VI yes yes yes motion Carri recommendation $70 donation to hswg Elementary from the Brown County Community Foundation for winter wear for students I just want to clarify that that's coming from the Brown County uh board of realtors my board fund not not from the foundation itself that sense it's through the I recommend that we table this so we can correct that error and bring it back at the next meeting to approve officially I still move that we table it until we um have it correctly roll call yes Carol yes Vicky yes jie yes jice yes and I just want to say thank you for all those donations we really really appreciate it um I love it when every month we have people who are being very generous to us so thank thank you to all of them thank you the consent agenda items uh starting with the appointment of Spa elementary school after school preschool Care La East $10.50 per hour one and a half hours per day 180 days per year effective February 19th 2025 through the other appointment BR County Middle School assistant track coach Caitlyn snd group 12 $1,278 effective February 18th 2025 I move to approve the appointments of the after school preschool care and through the track coach assistant track coach second V Doug yes Carol yes Vicki yes yes yes we have no transfers superintendent report um this evening I know it has been a long meeting um it's been a long time since we've had a long meeting like this so I appreciate people staying with us um I just want to thank uh our our presenters that came and offered an immense amount of information on both scopes of the project um I do think it was highly beneficial so I appreciate them um and then just to remind the public hearing will be March 3rd that will be an opportunity for the public to provide comment or questions to the board at that time um and then I want to thank our team Gavin steel and Michelle Hatchet and Jimmy Jackson for driving roads um and cleaning Lots on Sunday evenings and um getting everything they possibly can do for for us to be in session I know we haven't been in session yet but I'm really hopeful tomorrow at 10 o' so um again I'm just so grateful for that work um nobody knows what that entails unless you're out there at at 5: a.

can I say something as well um thank you so much for bringing that um it's been a few years with student ambassadors and I don't remember the last time you all came to us with like a concern on behalf of the students please continue to do that um and I'm sure Mr Kim will respond to you soon about the process thinking the same sentiment AR unless you want to dress it now or later I can dress I can actually meet with you guys if you want you're all in the same building cool yeah thank you so much thank you thank you nice job thank you very much all right really good one of you Dro something unless I'm seeing things on the floor closer to me my stick Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle all right bpn all right thank you guys thanks next is bspn Brad and Leanne it's gonna be Ashley and Ashley and Le yes hi Brad you are not Brad um hello I'm Leanne Rodriguez and this is Ashley merto um and thank you for um having us come and um talk to you about um the bavia special education parent Network also known as bspn because it's easier to say um again I'm Le Rodriguez I'm the speech pathologist at the Early Childhood Center and um Ashley Marta has two children in our district and um has been with bspn for many many years so she's been a great help in volunteering um I've been um helping with bspn since um its origination back in 2012 so a very long time um it's been um so wonderful to have wonderful parent uh volunteers help in networking with us in terms of just getting um supports and everything to our families and so every year we look forward to holding um different events the bsn's vision is to provide a network and support for families to share resources and connect people um so that they can get the information that they may need to help their children um and that's been our main charge um bpn has hosted many family events such as educational um parent opportunities on various topics and we've had our BPS staff um do the presentations for them um we've also offered our annual meet and greet um it's usually at joy and it's wonderful because parents and um our special education um directors can come and U meet each other and it's a really great kickoff to the school year I think families really enjoy um meeting our staff and then also getting to to meet new families and um a lot of brainstorming of resources happen at that that first kickoff of the year so that's great um we're planning um some social events and some of those things are coming up and um we'll announce those soon after um the resource Fair because that's been taking much of our time right now um but our biggest event is this one coming up um this Thursday night um February 20th at the bavia high school um in the cafeteria it's from 6:00 to 7:30 um since our first resource Fair um I looked back um there was 13 vendors in 2014 and we've grown to over 55 so we have over 55 vendors coming um Thursday evening and they range from recreational opportunities for our families therapies um family supports we even have the bavia fire department Police Department coming so um the families have really enjoyed um again um if you have an opportunity to come and just hear the talking and just a lot of the sharing um that goes on in that room it's really it's really kind of amazing so um but it is because of the support of our amazing parent volunteers that have co-chaired that have really grown this event so I really appreciate um working with them to help make this so successful um as well as everyone that has helped Holly D has been instrumental um Teresa Rodriguez Cindy Rodriguez K Ru I mean everyone's been so helpful in helping um us to to make this event such a big um success for fam so um we would um we also have Nicole um Smith who couldn't be W with us this evening but the three of us have been working um to kind of get everything organized for Thursday night so um I guess this is our way of getting more of the word out so the event is open to BPS families but everyone in the community is involved we've reached out to all area districts all near and far so if you have anyone that you um know that would like to come and join us and come and walk through and visit with the vendors we would love to see to see them um including yourselves so if you guys have some time to pop by we would love to see you all um and children are invited you know parents have asked me about that sure parent you know it's great for them to see um who um some of the therapies and the again Tavia Fire Department police department everyone so please feel free to bring children with you um and um let's see anything else that I forgot for that's no okay um and then thank you again for the support and if anyone um we do have a website so it is the BP bn- batavia.

roll call please Mr secretary Mr Mr Al here Mr gagos is it here uh Mr swales here miss zit stumber here miss wolfolk here Dr Hall here president Brown here let us stand for the Pledge of Allegiance led by board secretary Mr Gay heos followed by our mission statement read by our board vice president Dr h I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under the God indivisible liberty and justice and our mission statement engage and EMP our students posi imp commun thank you thank you both Hall and board secretary Mr gy hios all right we do have a couple public comments the first one is from University Park truste Miss Lewis good evening board members my name is Karen Lewis from the Great Village of University Park I'm here tonight for a few reasons one I would like to thank the board president Maurice Brown our school board voice from University Park and porches of of Moni and other representative Dr Todd Hall who although he could not be there with us on Saturday lent his hand in support in the days leading up to our wonderful diverse Showcase of Community Partnership superintendent Dr k condalisa for your ongoing ongoing unwavering support it was so nice to see you in the building on Saturday enjoying and participating in all the festivities principal lont Holyfield many thanks to you for your support you lent to our community empowerment and the head of the custodian management Bruce for your support and a helping hand the entire day was Illustrated and strongly reflects the unity between our school board and our communities on behalf of the honorable mayor Joseph rudz and the entire Board of Trustees our communication and Community engagement Department thank you all Saturday event Saturday's event Pro provided a template of proof of the narrative that we have fostered in University Park it is the idea that we must continue to build Bridges and close the gaps we support and EM Embrace together we are a better we are better in the partnership between Moni and University Park it was proof positive that we must continue to work together for the overall good for our schools our families and our resident at Large we hope that together we hope that together we support we have more support from our neighboring communities and that we can grow together finally I want you all to know as from the mayor and the trustees we are very concerned about all the recent Attention our schools have been getting regarding the fights we feel confident that you all are doing a good job in maintaining safe within the school walls of our children we wanted you to know that the district is not in this battle alone to keep the students and staffs safe we have had a myriad of recent discussions concerning ways we will be able to help you going forward we are excited that our village voted resoundingly for our new park district and importantly we believe that we offer a v variety of opportunities for the students to engage in activities and we will Foster positive engagement before and after school for the parents it will be an additional Outlet which will ease some of the burden beyond the school walls we will continue to update you as the park district creation plans continue and expand respectfully I am Karen Lewis from the University Park uh area thank you thank you thank you so much trust a Louis for those comments and been able to go out and participate in the event was a wonderful feeling for me and Dr h i mean Dr cones I think University Park I didn't see you I miss you but it was a it was a nice event appreciate it all right next we have on public comments I'm going to let Dr Cogan need read this that's from Miss Smith uh given that my eyes are challenged and this font is like a size three I'll do my best okay all right all right here we go good evening members of the board I'm here tonight to bring attention to a serious incident that occurred on February 4th 2025 involving my child a ail cornick who was left on a school bus following early dismissal on that day school let out at 12:15 p.m. however my child did not arrive home until nearly 2:10 p.m.

info so that really addresses a lot of the questions on the environmental aspects and the safety aspects and our goal as our company tenot which is our parent company is to keep kids playing 247 365 days a year and someone else also mentioned that I think it was Joel you mentioned about this isn't just for the football field so like you're right I don't know what you call it the the kids during gym class are going to go out there you're going to have the cheerleaders out there you can have band out there you can have soccer out there you could have people drinks B but there this field can be used all across and then even the kids from the community you you see kids warming up before game you know the siblings going out on the fields you know as people get ready to go out there so does anyone have any questions yes yeah um maintenance maintenance so helis can provide a maintenance proposal so what we do is when we provide the turf we also include a groomer a tow behind groomer um our project manager will train your your folks who will do it we recommend regular uh maintenance on the field after a couple years there is something called a clean sweep that we recommend it's about4 to$ 5,000 um we recommend that come out and do that on the field how often is the um the maintenance the groomer part we'd recommend that that'd be done every week um it's interesting you know you'll hear a big gamut of some schools say oh we we maintain our Fields all the time I've dealt with colleges who who look at me and say honestly we just don't even have anybody doing it and it actually shows because that's what makes a difference is the condition of the fields so on the NFL side when I was mentioning that life one of the challenges they have is thear thing the Cults is they have so many events right they put boards down and they have concerts and they have conventions so the turf field here at a high school is just to be a significantly better condition even in the NFL field because you're not having those number of events the uh pellets how often you got to put them on Rubes so those would be installed initially and then we usually leave an extra super sack that would be added there's some areas where people do penalty kicks and whatnot if you're doing lacrosse and whatnot where you want to make sure that either it's the maintenance folks I even thought if people should give a bucket to the team and have them someone on the team be the person that goes out and just you really just have to put a little bit back in manually because we're otherwise what'll happen is we'll wear down that area of the turf something else I want to mention that I get a lot of interested in is people doing just a baseball INF field that is I have so many requests on that I'm giving so many quotes because a full baseball field is about the price of a full football field but to do an infield it's about 400 500,000 and then you have the Outfield aesthetically you can do some things that look really nice with you you had mentioned an eight-year warranty if we are to have a flood that significantly covers the field or a portion of it is that type of damage covered in a warranty like that so what we do is it say we require the geotechnical survey we will not install any field without a geotechnical survey because we want to do it right um helis was founded in 2003 and 2023 was our 20 year anniversary we were doing $700 million in sales and I like to say that because it's the quality of our products it's the word Val it's customers it's doing things right from the beginning helis has never had a field fail and so as I said we do we are very cautious I don't know if all the other companies I think the majority of them do but we are going to require the Geotech so we know going in what needs to be done uh we do the drain Stone and the other thing with pal us having our own Crews do it as I said we're the One-Stop shop is that they become very skilled at it and become very efficient and then we can do things better and even faster get the projects done on time um someone was asking about how quickly could we do this um we could do this this spring I would recommend if Emily's got the proposal unless you have somebody else as I mentioned that could do the geotechnical survey if you want to move forward we can get that done get that piece out of the way come up with some proposals what we like to do is price RS with you know the ba the basics add alternates for if you want to add the shock pads i' say 50% of our Fields do not have shock pads you can have a field with just the rubber um this shock pads a little bit offers better Sports Performance and something else when you hear people athletes talk about um athletes high level athletes say I don't like turf fields what is that it's typically something called recoil so if you picture a slow motion camera of an athlete planting their foot into the turf into the rubber it's going to bounce back because it's rubber so what happens is that energy goes back into their joints and makes them feel achy I don't I'm a Cincinnati Bearcat and a Bengals man and um I'm not sure if anyone knows Alec Pierce he was a wide receiver for the Barat he's now with the Colts so I saw him at a draft party I gave my business card I said hey you I want to ask you if you think about how to field the indoor and he messaged me and he goes your fields are my favorite by far he go my body feels so much better than last year and the reason is because they did not have this shock pad me Andor they now have the shock had they have our turf with the Twisted fiber that keeps the blades up but they also have pork and coconut I can't recommend that for you guys here because it's an outdoor field because if it adds water it could be slippery If it freezes so the other he also commented he's like my other favorite field is the Houston Texans who has that feeli and I was like that's our field so that's kind of the reputation of it but again talk about build it they will come and the athletes and saying you know Brown County has the same turp as all of these teams same as the husers um exciting one thing that just a question for you so my son plays bam and he's played in a couple of the turf fields his and mind you he's 10 his biggest comment is that it's hot to play on and then when he gets tackled it hurts I would suspect there isn't a shock pad under there and there might not be consistent infill so that's kind of what the you know was say hurts or could it be a different type of um I can pass this around so you can feel a lot of people talk about this feels a lot softer it could actually be our type of turf that we're using oh I forgot to mention one of the thing that's different with our turf is we use something called a C8 resin which is a higher grade resin than some of our competitors they use C4 and C6 I'm not a chemistry major but with two more carbon atoms it's higher grade it's more expensive to make um but what it does is it adds about 25% to the life of the turf and that's makes it less abrasive on the athletes so I'm curious to be saying it's actually the abrasiveness of the turf or it's actually how hard it is because it might not happen getting the ABR yeah because that this is what the players love this Turf and actually a little fun fact um Patrick Mahomes if anyone seen on Instagram or the aerial view of his backyard he's got like a putting green he's a 50 yard field it is that Turf and is Hess Matrix heix um you've already said you put them in flood planes you might not be able to answer where's the closest one and when did you do from here I'd have to ask the COO but I can get back to you I know he said what he did one near the High River I don't know where where the High River but he did mention that and the pellets you say you got to put them on every year correct the rubber no so once those are installed they are typically there for good you might need to replenish every few years that first super sack that we' leave um should be sufficient so I got a bunch of questions okay um youve already talked about the environmental impact yeah if every wants us to go to that plane for keeps.

driving and um doing it the next day all day so I really really appreciate that team and really hopeful to see some kids tomorrow thank you legislative update yeah and I thank you all those of you who stayed um there and I do need to just talk about this because there are some really important things happening in the state house um I was there three times in the past week um trying to Lobby on behalf of Brown County schools because it is just so important that our voice be heard as a small rural school because a lot of times I hear from IPS and Gary and they don't know what's happening here uh in the rest of the state so that's really important um the other thing that's happening this week um Wednesday and Thursday A bill must pass out of its originating either the house of the senate or it dies so right now we're in what called third readings and if they call a bill up and it passes then it goes over to the other house and you know continues on if it doesn't then it is dead so our hope sometimes is but bills that we don't like we want them to kind of die um but there is a bill that has been uh an issue that's been going on it's about partisan school boards uh I don't know if you all know but we are nonpartisan we don't run with a party and we'd like to keep it that way um but there are some of the State House who um want us to be part of a party one of the main reasons not to do that is there are a number of federal employees and people under the Judicial Code of Conduct who cannot run as school board members because they uh cannot run in partisan r they are prohibited by what's called The Hatch Act um and that means across the state we would lose a number of school board members who are currently in office and we think that everybody ought to have an opportunity to run in a nonpartisan School Board Race so um what's happening with that is there was a bill in the Senate called SB 287 uh that passed yesterday uh but it passed with only one vote over what it needed it was 26 to 20 and our Senator Eric cook voted against it which I very much credit him and thank him for that because um it is a tough vote um so that bill is moving over to the house but because it was a half and half vote you know it's it shows that it's a little bit weak um the house has a similar bill that was supposed to be heard this afternoon and was not which is called hb1 I'm sorry HB 1230 uh it is a similar bill but it would allow uh the school board members to run as Democrat Republican nonpartisan or independent however that still would not solve the issue I just told you about about the Hatch Act because they would still consider that to be a partisan race um so in the next two days they're going to call that up in the House of Representatives if you have a strong feeling about it um I talk to representative Hall today and and um let him know what our concerns were and he'll be voting on that so if that's something that is important to you if you could make a phone call in the morning to representative Hall's office and say hey here's what I think um um numbers matter to legislators so if 50 people call about something they go oh I guess somebody thinks that's important um if only two people call you know or it's just me again you know they don't necessarily pay that much attention so um so anyway we just really think that politics shouldn't be a part of school board we think that what's best for kids is what's best for kids and it's not a party issue so that's very important to us it's a local issue and and local control so the other issues I want to talk about are about local control um so two bills that are the budget bills so I don't know if you know but the governor Braun had a budget Bill he's very big on cutting property taxes uh under his bill we would lose $3 million in property taxes over the next three years I don't know where we'd find that but that's what his bill says the Senate which is called sb1 which is their priority budget Bill we would lose about $186 million over three years so it's a little a bit less and now the house has their bill house hb11 um and it is actually even less in property tax relief so um who knows which one of these bills is going to go forward we still have another two months and what happens is they get a budget forecast the last week of the session so it comes out like I don't know April 25th and they have to finish by April 30th so whatever they do up to this point doesn't matter until they get that in any case it's the things that worry me in those is not just that we would lose money through property tax um relief it is also that they would restrict our ability to do referendum they would require us under one of the bills to have a year off uh before we could ask for another referendum and since we use that for staff raises right here here here that's not really good when we're trying to pay staff and keep them even um and they would also require that a referenda would only be allowed every two years during the general election as you know we went in a primary election last year and we actually thought that was a really good because it also let us know that we passed a referendum in May and then we could do our contracts with our teachers in October and we knew how much money we were going to have and we can Don can write a budget uh for 2025 so that was a really beneficial timing for us and we again think local control when we need an operating referendum we should be allowed to decide how we want to do that in our community uh and so some of these bills want to again keep us keep a lot of barriers from school systems doing that and then the last one is our ability to take a bond just like we're talking about today which is why I'm very concerned about us making sure we get this Bond done before the Law changes because we don't know um but that would also requires right now we have debt rolling off and we're immediately going to keep that tax rate even and take on similar debt and keep our payments the same just like you would if you had debt rolling off at home you know you pay off one car and then you get another car payment you kind of keep it the same um that's what we like to do they would require us to wait a year again a cooling off period is what they cover so I'm very frustrated that again they don't trust our local control that we should we think we should be able to do what we need to do that's based on our community and our school system and what's best for our kids so I encourage you again to talk to Senator cook and and representative Hall they represent both of them represent all of Brown County and they are very happy to talk to people and and listen so if you're like again if we lose we can't do bonds we can't do referenda we lose property tax money and then our education fund um we in uh inflation's expected to go up two and a half% this is a two-year budget um one of them wants to give us 2% and one of us wants to to Flatline it meaning we wouldn't get any additional money over the next 2 years well inflation's going to go up 2 or 3% guaranteed um so that means we would be losing money in the current budget that again goes towards our teacher salaries instead there are huge increases that are going to Choice scholarships uh vouchers um and Charter Schools they're getting a much larger part of the pie that we are so those are some things that I'm very uh concerned about I wanted to make everybody aware that those things are going on at the state house and if you feel strongly about it I hope that you will um Talk uh do that if you uh want to know about any other education bills I'm happy to talk to folks about it I have a list of like 19 bills that I'm personally following just so that um we understand what those implications would mean for us there are a lot of other things such as teacher appreciation grants um that pass that's something that we do for Effective and highly effective teachers that is likely to change dramatically um because and I heard Bob Banning the head of the education committee actually say this that he was unhappy that so many teachers were effective and highly effective and you know he wants he wants to teachers he thinks that they're not effective and I'm like you're crazy our teachers are fabulous that's why they're effective and highly effective so um we so we need to keep track of all of those things but that's all talk about today thank you we don't have any claims we do have a motion to accept claims so V Doug yes Carol yes Vicky yes yes jice yes motion Carri the meeting all in favor I any oppose no I want to stay thank you for coming

info that would answer a lot of the environmental questions so our wed system in this County most of it goes to Monroe Lake get to local Lake over another County of course it's in Brown County too um I've got some concerns of the rubber floating off um fish Birds Wildlife I'm a farmer and I farm quite a few Acres along Sal middle for Middle Fork Salt Creek and I am aware of the way the current weather conditions will change by the way I am Varsity I've heard Varsity letters I think there's three of us in there Varsity letters at the school so I I'm I want something to happen I'm just curious about a lot of things um you know so we got the uh pellets washing off it's going to flood um I've lived here 49 years and uh I've seen it flood multiple times um so it how many times have you seen it flood the whole the whole Field's flooded I've seen it flooded completely twice in my lifetime okay so but so what you got is a uh you got 4 6 here Highway our football Fielding track right here and then you got old 46 right here problem you got that Creek comes down here hits a bridge runs it in here this is a manmade Dam now this goes into a bigger Creek what we run into is the water will come through here hit this and it starts backing up we already have backup water problems so this water will actually almost sit here until the actual Creek that runs right here goes down and my concern is this water when it starts slowing down that's when it drops everything and the thickness of you know I've been out there with Drew before and other people cleaning it up and I've got I'm just curious about what the cleanup process on that is if that's that's a 50 year old field roughly well I've been out of school for 30 the reason why I bring it up because if it was just a field that you guys turn into a football field it's not what's called a perfect built field so a purpose built field would have that's impacting the drainage would be a sand based field so that's how they do Sports Fields now it's a sand based to offer excellent drainage so that might be contributing to these challenges so I feel that by it being engineered properly as I said we've done 5,000 of these so we would engineer it so that the proper amount of drain Stone to handle excessive rains and divert that water properly it sounds like what it is is not a purpose built field it was originally a farm field so like your rubber mat part if that seals over you got to take the turf off to get it cleaned off to let the water go through it no this actually already just this is this is called cush drain and so it's offer it's combination how that word is like the cushioning effect for the athletes and it's drainage it's offers excellent drainage so this is I I have to ask how many outdoor Fields this is this is in but this is a lot of fields but you see what I'm getting at I'm talking we're putting four or six Ines of silk coming off greasy treat it's going to lay on top of the the turf and then that's laying on top of that do you have like a drainage structure underneath yeah so when there is so what they would do is they put in um so they excavate about 8 inches down and then there are flat drain tiles and drain stone in there and then there are perimeter collector drains and that ties off and I feel that this is so this should probably handle all of this water issue because this is not again a purpose built field I think that's quite the challenge with why water retains on it stays on it so we're 4 foot below water level or the flood plane already and the problem you got this is what I see and I'm not picking on it but the problem we got is our Creek we're already down close to Creek level and we're going down another 8 in I want to know how we're going to get that 8 inle the 8 in is going down for the drain Stone in the drain pipe so it stay where it is so it goes to the creas TR it would go tie into whatever water you know water system that go to so there isn't any sewage line that goes into it straight the creek no so that's what you so I know like on our farm ground we do field tiles on our farm ground and it doesn't drain till the creat drains and it'll actually plug up and and I'm just want to you know I I'm just looking at every I'm case scenario gu I mean I but that's good that's smart you're asking ni question so I'll work with Neil on this design and I know he's got Fred from Context who's done a lot of fields the thing if I need to I can bring our coo out here he made sales calls with me a couple months ago he's been doing this for 40 years you might have some ideas I spoke with on the specific projects since you have some of these challenges but I think he mentioned as he said the retaining wall the other thing I asked about is typically when we excavate the8 Ines of dirt then all that drain Stone goes in there that's typically hauled off and it costs about $40,000 to haul it off I asked him I was like is there a way to utilize that and build somewhat of a BM too to contribute um along that wall as someone who sits on other communities the thought of a retaining wall going there is Slim to not okay okay I think just I really yeah I I think what's really important to is that we don't know right until we get in there and and I think right like the Geotech that you talked about like all of those things will come into play and those will inform decisions moving forward it's a Geo and Topo too that's what I want to point out it's a topography so it's going to lay all that out which then would be taken to place with our Engineers with our designers we we won't have all of these answers all laid out um before March 3rd or you you know when when we're talking about approving resolution so we can get way down in into the weeds and stuff um again right there's there is a possibility out there that we won't be able to do this um effectively or or the way that we want to do it I'm not sure but so do we own the the land on both sides of the creek based on GIS yes you don't own the creek that's what I was going to say I was just trying to think about if it's really a d drainage problem that the creek needs some work I was just trying to think about who who would who who's is that whose responsibility would that be it goes under the road obviously that's DNR I was just going to say y why would it be DNR DNR owns all waterways anywhere water fls be our own so they basically have an easement in the middle of our property for that but then I would think the road is that's Department of Transportation so a dam that's caused problems since they put 46 here so on the average windy replace your so on the high school level I see people mostly waiting at least 10 years realistically sometimes 12 and what's the cost on that so the initial field installation um I'd say for a brand new field with the shock pad is about 1.3 to 1.4 million and then when you do what's called that's called a drop in field in AR lingo and then a Ripon replace is just you're replacing the turf piece of it that's about four to 500,000 you have to redo the sand underneath no need to do with the turf and again the better you maintain it the longer know it's going to last so you're not back at the 1.3 anymore you're you're doing it at half or less less yep yep less depends which option you take correct no because so the turf itself is about said the the turf piece the Excavating the drain Stone and the shock pad takes up a big chunk of it and then the shock pad depending on which one you get one of ours is a 15E warranty and one's a 25 so you won't need to replace that per se if you do a shock pad or you you can also not do a shock pad and you said the warning would not cover flood no the question is whether your insurance covers the flood we do have flood insurance through our um trust that we have and we have a $10,000 dble because I remember we used it recently how much does that raise our insurance I do not know so annually um I give them more information as to like uh facility building updates things like that and Turk is one of the questions I have not asked what the difference would be when we do that um the updates are usually in the spring that will take effect the next January thanks for letting me talk thank you so much we now get the opportunity here from um our bond Council and financial advisor to talk about tax rate and how this impacts that just take minut so good evening lukman with we Ser respond School Corporation our role in the financing or this project is to show how the financing can f within the school corporation historic what it's been last couple years 5787 so so the first thing that we always start with is a school corporation's current outstanding debt obligations uh as you can see in 2024 to 25 the debt payment dropped off as you had some debt that was retiring you'll have some some uh more debt payments falling off beginning in 2007 some more 2028 so we're going to structure this in a way to fit within the school corporation Deb payments but also know the school corporation maning to a total tax rate so not just focusing on the on the debt service fund but also uh looking at the operations fund and the operating referendum fund as a whole so on this slide here uh in Gray is the operations fund that's going to pay your day-to-day operations these three funds make up your uh total School tax rate in red is the operating referendum as you guys know as you just went through this it's actually good for eight years you've assume for the purposes of this that that that referendum rate is renewed uh for the life of this graph at least if if you do decide not to do the operating referendum that's just going to have a decrease of 10 cents in your total tax rate what we don't want to do is structure debt around that and then you go back to do a referendum with a tax rate increase so you I think you'll see here as I talk through this we try to be conservative with all of our estimates um in blue is the de Serv tax rate which is outlined on the previous chart that was the debt payments this is the actual Debt Service tax rate in 2023 and 2024 the school's debt rate was or total tax rate was0 5787 it dropped about six cents uh in 2025 to just under 52 cents when we look at structuring these Bond issues our goal is to stay within that historic rate to 5787 so I broke these up into two separate projects the first one being the building project you'll notice that these match all the numbers of perform Services we take the highend uh for for this again to be conservative whenever you go through the resolutions we're setting maximum numbers we can always come down from those numbers but once they're set we cannot go above them so as Neil mentioned they're still early on in the design phase there there may be some things that come up so we always want to be conservative going in if there's some extra dollars we can just reduce the borrowing amount or or get some of those uh uh alternate projects that that come into play so in green would be the impact of the building project so again $6 million for construction costs cost addition to 165,000 that's just going working group member C S&P rating call things like that uh if we assuming that both of these projects get authorized and sell one issue bonds likely the total cost of isance between both is going to be around 165 for purposes of this we we' split them out separately in case the timing of it doesn't quite work out we have to do two separate Bond issues most likely for efficiency purposes to do this one issue although will be two separate projects uh in light blue is the site projects or a lot of the athletic projects uh and again you'll see we're maintaining that we're structuring this to maintain the total tax rate of 5787 the hard and soft construction cost 650,000 cost of issuance 165,000 for a total borrowing of 6,215 th000 you also note that we're keeping the tax rate up at the 057 87 for two years and leaving some capacity going forward we know as a school corporation you have a lot of ongoing Capital needs this isn't just going to take care of all your needs for the next 20 years so our goal is to not hamstring the school corporation from a borrowing capacity going forward so this would leave the school corporation the ability to come back in 2027 you needed to to fund some additional projects this is all preliminary to once we get farther down the road we can build that cliff and at a later date if you say we need money next year three years down the road five years down the road we can change the structure of this this is just to kind of illustrate what this could look like to maintain the tax rate and leave some capacity down the road for any future projects that we may have this last slide is the legal parameters resolutions are being passed tonight so this is going to look very similar to what you would see on March 3rd and March 17th for hearings um so again the building project and site project we've outlined the borrowing amount cost estimated proceeds there think the most important thing that you'll see is the bottom line there as we're maintaining that 2023 and 24 tax rate is a 5787 would be a slight increase over the 25 rate as that rate get a little bit in 2025 kind of going back to that historical level that it was in 2023 2024 oh we also have a have a refunding that we're looking at so uh right now the school corporation's 2014 fonds can be refinanced on a tax exempt basis uh we would have been about two months ago the savings would have looked a little bit better but interest rates have increased of the last month or two a little little bit of volatility in the market uh so there is 3.7 million bonds that are outstanding on that the average interest rate on those bonds is 3.98 if you refinance it today that would be uh an interest rate of 3.36% so a cash flow Savings of just under 40,000 so this is a standalone transaction we would say it's not worth your time to do that I 40,000 is obviously nice but to go through the process and take on the interest rate risk probably doesn't make a ton of sense but we also know the market can move pretty quick so this is one thing that we we would like to approve at the next couple hearings is uh have this re refunding we'll set a minimum savings threshold so if the market does improve interest rates drop we can react quickly if it doesn't no harm no foul bonds stay outstanding you don't get any savings ideally we'd like it to be kind of in that 2% savings or more and you can see if interest R just decrease 25 basis points we get there that can happen within a week uh you can see kind down as interest rates uh decrease what that does to the savings and so for every 25 basis points about $45,000 savings to the school I think you went right over my head um why would I do this I mean why I I I appreciate that you want to keep it open as an option because we like our options right um but what would be the circumstance in which we would want to do this if interest rates decrease and you've already got the legal stuff out of the way so we can act a little bit quicker if the timing works to do it at the same time as these projects we can combine the building project site project and the refunding all into one so that to save on economies and scale efficiency and the cost of issuance um so if the timing works out to do that great if it doesn't an interest rates decrease over the next three months six months two years then you have the legal steps out of the way and then you can get savings which are the savings you can pass on to the taxpayers so if we do this then um we're borrowing less essentially because we'd be refinancing or am I wrong you're basically take you're taking out the old bonds kind of like you're just refinancing your B so you would just lower your annual payment you know 10 20 30,000 a year depending on where interest rates are so you'd still be borrowing the same amount for the projects it would just if we add this on it would just be a Debt Service savings but the tax state level yes that would that would be our goal would thatone of this at the state level um is there a circumstance in which the tax rate would have to go up um right now no legislatively some things went through uh that were initially proposed that could have an impact on your assess value yes I me that's the unknown if something happens with the general assembly if they make a major change in in the way the tax base is assessed that's going to be an impact for all School corporations ACR across the state so if it's something like that yes barring anything outside of that or interest rates going absolutely through the roofs no okay so I know one of our goals has been to complete whatever part of this process we need to complete because we know what the law is right now and after April 30th we don't know what the laws are going to be right um so are we on track to complete it before April 30th yeah sure oh yeah hi christollen with ice Miller thank you um have some timetables and again this is just an example if you want to pass these down yes to answer your question right now um we are right on track because as if you've been following the legislation there haven't been too many proposals that have impacted the legal process it's more on what we've talked about the AV side and some of those your operations fund things like that but this timetable would if you choose to proceed under this timetable it would be the quickest that we could go and yes the legal steps would be the exact same because we would finish them before April well I mean I want to make sure that's really clear to the public right there's a a very specific reason I was at the state house today some of the bill actually impact our ability to do bonds in the future that we would have you know and those haven't passed and they're out there but it is just scary to me because and again we don't know what the law will be so we want to make sure we're making these choices with the law that we know today yeah with the law that you know today and I think the other thing to point out is as you said that could change until you know May 1 um however I think one of the most important things for you all as a for your public to recognize is that you own this until the minute we pull the trigger to sell the bonds so even though we're going through the approvals as Luke said we're going to set maximums you can never go over them or we got to start all all over but if they come back and you guys decide oh we don't want to do the site project or we only want to do restrooms you could do that I mean you own it until the very end we could go forward with all of it none of it some of it but this would at least give you the flexib ability to proceed with these two maximum projects if you would like but again adopting these resolutions won't force you into issuing anything you still make those decisions if you look at this timetable as Luke kind of mentioned we're going to have um a hearing on March 3rd we're going to then adopt resolutions on March 17th we're going to follow up with more hearings on April 21st and then we are through the formal legal steps that's when we're all the way done with the legal steps but then you still have the design time the bidding all of those things to figure out before we on so that's why all these dates passed um April are all to be decided because that's truly up to you but it would give us the flexibility to move forward if you want to but because we've made those decisions and signed those resolutions under the current law we would be protected correct there's always a risk um not as much risk now because uh the transfer to caucuses is on 24th but there's always a chance that a law could be passed that isn't grandfathered but this would give you the most flexibility yeah I understand the cave it depends I know you love that answer right I I have a question and I'm just gonna playing plead ignorance on this so like with the bond proposals that we have and I apologize Emily because I know you've explained this to me like a million times with the bond proposals that we have each of them are right at that six million so explain to me how they can both be at six million but our cap is six million like I'm there's there's no cap at million right now um the project sizes that we were showing tonight if you choose to proceed next month and if you choose to proceed with these maximum amounts again what Luke did was take the hard and soft estimates that were due from um Performance Services in those first few graphs you showed and then added on cost of issuance so so there's truly No Limit like there's a general obligation bond process and there is a lease bond process every unit has a Geo capacity or a limit a cap these are going to be lease bonds though so you could tell me that you wanted to issue 12 million you could tell me you wanted to issue 50 million and we could still do a bond process for that as a lease the cap is really your general obl ation bonding capacity which we don't have to worry about here because we're doing the second type of financing but so jice if I think where you're coming from is the um the petition remonstrance process like how how how can we do both of these under this one lease not you're doing two projects so you're doing a site project and we're going to have a hearing on that and then you're doing a buildings project which is how we're going to call it the first one that was shown tonight was the buildings project which was been be and all the internal work at the high school then there is a second project which is really your athletic piece right so it's the out buildings maybe the turf maybe the track all those so that's how we're doing it is that you have two separate projects here you're not going out with one 12 million $300,000 project you've actually done two separate projects okay and it's so two separate projects means that like you were not able to take money from one project to give it to the other right like they're two separate and I think the importance in doing that here was to not go over on the athletic piece itself and the buildings piece as you manage that tax rate that's why it was so important here because Luke was watching your tax rate okay I I did um pass out the timetable again this is preliminary um and you all own the decisions but as you'll see there are several several steps several hearings several notices several resolutions if you have any questions on any of that what's the difference between the the March 3rd where they potentially adopt project resolutions and then March 17th where it's adopting different resolutions great question so um on the March 3rdd date these actions are required because the school is proposing to spend more than a million dollars on each project so those project resolutions would be required even if you said I need a new roof at the high school because you would be spending more than a million dollars so that's what we're doing first and those are the most important resolutions in my mind or if I was a taxpayer in the district the most important in my mind as well as a taxpayer because it's going to set that Max it's going to set the maximum borrowing amount and that's all in so you can't put operations fund monies in it's all in and it will also set forth that tax rate impact that Luke was talking about how we expect it to remain neutral so in my mind Emily those are the most important resolutions to both the board and the public on March 17th when we come back these are really um the lease steps so this is required under law anytime we're going to do that lease financing so instead of the general obligation Bond and what it requires is for us to use a building corporation which we've done several times over several years in Brown County and frankly all school districts across the state so what happens is the school board kind of has to authorize this lease process so they have to determine that there's a need so you'll determine the need for both projects again if you decide to move forward you'll approve that building Corporation and it'll be a pretty detailed resolution about what they were formed to do and they were formed over 15 years ago so it's just reapproved their existence and then you will approve the actual form of the lease which will include those maximum parameters that you've already approved in March on March 3rd then when we come back in April that's when we hold the second hearing and that one is a 30-day notice rather than a 10-day notice so when you come back you'll see the building Corporation will also meet on that day but that's when you hold a hearing again we'll include those maximum numbers again so they'll be heard three times again we can never issue over but we can issue under there may be an additional appropriation it just depends on how we structure the deals but that final piece will be the final approval of all the documents you would want to enter into you still would own it though after that date and if something comes back they come back and the Geotech survey wasn't the way you wanted it or van Bean doesn't need the work that you thought it needed or the high school you can always come in lower on each project you could a project you don't have to approve it until we're ready to bid and ready to sell bonds does the way we at what point when we're writing it to give ourselves maximum flexibility to be able to use that money for other things or or or something that doesn't go the way we want at what point are we writing it in that way like the words that we're using so you will do that from day one so if you decide to move forward with this Tim table you'll see that we have notices that are going to be published on February 19th to be heard at that public hearing on March 3rd the project descriptions will be included at that time um at the bottom of the Tim table um on page four you'll see I try to keep my uh notes in my head also on paper the way that we're talking about this right now under projects is we're going to have the buildings project which is the facilities including HVAC site improvements purchase of buses Equipment Technology and then the site project which of course is site and athletic improvements including the purchase of equipment and technology so we do do draft those broadly so for example it's it's kind of backwards when you issue bonds because you have these are public funds so we like to have bids in hand before we fill the bonds so that we know exactly what to sell them for but we can't get dollar for dooll equal so there's th000 left over you could use it for a whiteboard or new key card swipes or something like that with this project description why you said um site and athletic improvements throughout the school corporation so that is that's what I was that my question is that was very broad including the purchase of equipment and Technology yes and so everything that was listed under that project would be included whether you decide to do the school or not whether you decide to do some of the restroom facilities or not that could all be included the lighting or not would included with that project description again just to be broad as possible great my head is full full at no if you were downtown today any more questions thank you very much be careful dve I guess extras we have any discussion items I think there is I need a motion to accept approval of minutes February 3rd I yes Carol Vick yes yes yes motion Carri the following action needed items the recommendation to approve the following Neola policies I move we approve all the Neola policies listed in the agenda I second that motion dou yes Carol yes Vick yes yes yes motion carries I have the recommendation to approve the donation of $221 from the Brown County High School band boosters to reimburse High School B ECA for eight senior banners we get a motion to accept I move second second yes Carol yes VI yes yes yes motion car have the recommendation to approve the proposed academic schedule at Brown County High School get a motion to accept move to approve the academic schedule gr count high school second yes Carol yes Vicky yes Amy yes Janice yes motion carries I have the recommendation fory to attend the National Conference on education in New Orleans Louisiana March 4 through 6 2025 I have a motion to accept so mov second Doug yes Carol yes Vicky yes Amy yes J yes motion carries I have the recommendation to approve a donation in amount of $1,000 from and Linda charitable family fund to Brown County schools for the benefit ofex have a motion to accept second V do yes Carol yes Vicky yes am yes J yes motion carries I have the recommendation to approve a donation in the amount of $500 from Duke Energy Indiana to Brown County schools for the benefit of tedx I have a motion to accept second yes Carol yes VI yes yes yes motion Carri recommendation $70 donation to hswg Elementary from the Brown County Community Foundation for winter wear for students I just want to clarify that that's coming from the Brown County uh board of realtors my board fund not not from the foundation itself that sense it's through the I recommend that we table this so we can correct that error and bring it back at the next meeting to approve officially I still move that we table it until we um have it correctly roll call yes Carol yes Vicky yes jie yes jice yes and I just want to say thank you for all those donations we really really appreciate it um I love it when every month we have people who are being very generous to us so thank thank you to all of them thank you the consent agenda items uh starting with the appointment of Spa elementary school after school preschool Care La East $10.50 per hour one and a half hours per day 180 days per year effective February 19th 2025 through the other appointment BR County Middle School assistant track coach Caitlyn snd group 12 $1,278 effective February 18th 2025 I move to approve the appointments of the after school preschool care and through the track coach assistant track coach second V Doug yes Carol yes Vicki yes yes yes we have no transfers superintendent report um this evening I know it has been a long meeting um it's been a long time since we've had a long meeting like this so I appreciate people staying with us um I just want to thank uh our our presenters that came and offered an immense amount of information on both scopes of the project um I do think it was highly beneficial so I appreciate them um and then just to remind the public hearing will be March 3rd that will be an opportunity for the public to provide comment or questions to the board at that time um and then I want to thank our team Gavin steel and Michelle Hatchet and Jimmy Jackson for driving roads um and cleaning Lots on Sunday evenings and um getting everything they possibly can do for for us to be in session I know we haven't been in session yet but I'm really hopeful tomorrow at 10 o' so um again I'm just so grateful for that work um nobody knows what that entails unless you're out there at at 5: a.

to guide Mentor coach and encourage Bogle Junior High students from balona elementary school ludim [Applause] pla Mrs pazola is is always willing to step in and lend a hand in classes offering her expertise and support she consistently makes time for the school showing her commitment to Student Success she genuinely cares for students and their well-being creating a positive and nurturing learning environment from Carlson Elementary School ra odonnell ra is a wonderful parent and volunteer she creates bulletin boards organiz detailed and unique class events to give kids wonderful memories and serves on the PTO she is kind and patient with students and she and her husband also designed a large bulletin board in the front office each month thank you ra from Castile High School Jennifer [Applause] Hamilton Jen has been instrumental in helping build castile's Unified sports program she's assisted in finding grants for equipment spearheaded a booster program to help athletes this way they received the same perks their varsity athletic peers have and she's the first to offer to provide a ride for any or all students who otherwise wouldn't be able to participate her impact in Castile Unified sports is immeasurable from Castile Junior High School we have car Kapa Hansen Carrie has been instrumental in organizing the Castile Junior High boosters transforming it into a thriving community that actively supports the needs of both staff and student her vibrant personality and Boundless Energy Inspire those around her motivating parents to contribute their time and talents to support School initiatives from Chandler Care Center we have do Dr Rick swaringen Dr Swearingen has served as a volunteer doctor in the Chandler Care Center's Children's Medical Clinic for several years providing no cost Compassionate Care to uninsured children in the district he can often be found working late connecting with families and finding resources to help kids struggling with complex medical issues he says there is no more precious resource than our children I choose to give of my time and resources locally as I believe the value is immediate impactful and meaningful from Chandler Early College we have Karen BS oh okay from Chandler high school we have Kimberly Kowalski okay from Conley Elementary School we have Bonnie [Applause] Ortiz as the PTO treasurer Bonnie consistently goes above and beyond to support the students and staff at Conley Elementary Bonnie dedicates countless hours of her personal time to ensure the school Community thrives whether it's coordinating PTO activities assisting with events or simply being available to lend a hand Bonnie's commitment is evident and [Applause] admirable from CTA Freedom campus we have Ranna bom Miss Bol has been an invaluable asset to the school Community for over 10 years her dedication and reliability ensure that teachers have the resources they need and has significantly impacted the quality of Education students receive her friendly demeanor and willingness to help have made her a beloved figure on [Applause] campus from CTA Goodman we have Maggie Jimenez Maggie has made incredible contributions to CTA Goodman over the past eight years her commitment as a classroom volunteer art masterpiece supporter and her involvement in numerous schoolwide events have made a significant impact on the community whenever the school staff needs assistance they can always rely on Maggie's support from CTA Humphrey we have Lindsay kak Lindsay has been a CTA Humphrey parent for eight years she's volunteered for school events field trips and in the copy room in addition Lindsay has served on the the PTO board for the last 3 years to know Lindsay is to love her she is kind caring flexible and makes herself completely available to the school from CTA Independence we have sue Kim Sue has been an invaluable asset to CTA Independence as PTO president she's actively involved in supporting students and staff she always puts the school and students first having their best interest in mind Sue is truly exceptional at what she does her ability to plan with Precision unleash creativity and maintain a positive attitude is inspiring from CTA Liberty campus Amanda speltz Amanda is a reliable and dedicated volunteer who can always be counted on she has volunteered at the school for many years and recently taken on the role role of art masterpiece coordinator she's always gone above and beyond what is asked of her and puts kids [Applause] first from fry Elementary School Lesar Johnson Hunter lar goes above and beyond as the school's PTO treasurer she has given hours of her time by meticulously managing funds ensuring transparent Financial dealings and organizing fundraisers that greatly benefit the school Community her commitment and efforts as the PTO treasur have undeniably enhanced the quality of the school and supported staff students and families in countless ways from Fulton Elementary School Britney Smith Britney is the Fulton Elementary school PTO co-president and goes above and beyond to support students and staff she makes herself available no matter the situation and is always looking to make the school better she's on campus supporting classrooms helping to raise money and plans events that bring the school Community together from Galveston Elementary we have daa ellerman daa has generously dedicated countless hours to fostering artistic expression at the school and beautifying the campus her creative talents have shown through in numerous projects from helping the school tell their story through beautifully edited photos to to crafting the school's spelling be mascot which was even adopted by the district daa consistently goes above and beyond transforming every project into a masterpiece Haley Elementary School we have Andrea Hernandez Andrea is always lending her artistic flare and creative Spirit to the Haley Community she helps with drama clubs scenery decorating for graduation and other community events making t-shirts for many groups and events and always does it with a smile and a can do attitude from Hamilton High School we have Roger Pearson Roger he's been an intrical part of the Hamilton High School Community since its Inception in 1998 throughout his career he dedicated himself to teaching mathematics at all levels even after his retirement Mr Pearson continues to give back to the school by volunteering as Co for both basketball and football as well as providing tutoring support to students in need from Hancock Elementary School Amanda Harrison Amanda PTO treasur and dedicated parent is a driving force behind Hancock's growth and spirit her Joy creativity and Leadership have made a lasting impact from organizing family events to tiously supporting students staff and families we appreciate Amanda's kindness from Hartford Sylvia and cenis Elementary Sandy Hill Sandy has been a consistent volunteer at Hartford for over 10 years she takes time out of her week to comp to come out and help teachers prepare copies work with small groups of students to further their learning and she will always bring donations of school supplies when she arrives she's also quick to adopt families for Christmas it takes a village and Hartford is lucky she's in [Applause] theirs from Hill Learning Academy Joe [Applause] Mason Joe has shown tremendous passion and put forth extraordinary efforts to support the students at Chief Hill Learning Academy as a former mentee of Chief Hill himself Joe and his team continuously give their time and donations so generously they have shown great compassion and provide inspiration for students to look forward to a bright future Joe collaborates to provide Equitable employment opportunities for students postgraduation from Hull Elementary we have Tiana Walker Tiana is a dedicated and invaluable volunteer on campus she consistently goes above and beyond to ensure that everyone has the resources they need Tiana has also volunteered her time to teach Junior Achievement lessons to fifth graders Tiana is always willing to step up and help out on campus committees she has been an active member of the reimagining journey and the superintendent parent advisory committee and she is always willing to lend a hand wherever needed from the instruction Resource Center we have gay K Clans K has been a steadfast supporter of the fit program for several years making significant contributions to both students and the community she consistently donates items to support the program and helps secure tax credit funding to assist CTE students in attending National competitions in addition to her financial support Kay volunteers her time to Mentor students particularly guiding youth through the process of postsecondary Education from Jacobson Elementary we have Jessica Johnson Jessica exemplifies dedication and commitment in every aspect of her involvement at school from volunteering for art masterpiece and assisting with special events to helping make copies and donating supplies she consistently goes above and beyond her willingness to step in as a substitute teacher is an added bonus and she's always a welcoming supportive presence in the classroom from Knox gifted Academy Mindy H Haskins Mindy has been an invaluable supporter of kga for years as co-president of the PTO she leads key events contributes practical Solutions and serves as a dedicated substitute teacher an advocate for gifted education Mindy tirelessly donates her time and talents from Navarette Elementary School Aaron freeze Aaron has served as PTO treasurer for six years making an incredible impact through her meticulous management of finances from budgets and reports to reimbursements and spirit Weare sales there's no Excel spreadsheet she can't handle a standout achievement was transitioning the annual fundraiser to a platform that lets naet keep 100% of the profits Payne Junior High School marcine Bennett Marine wears many hats as a volunteer for the specialized classroom at pay she advocates for her son and other students making sure the classroom has enough supplies and donates prizes for the treasure box and school competitions she's a huge support for the teachers and parent Educators and always lets them know how much she appreciates them congratulations from Perry High School we have Jen Austin Jen has served as the football booster president at Perry High School for three years running the club like a business with exceptional communication paperwork and bookkeeping her personal skills and kindness set her apart she addresses parent concerns works with coaches and keeps Administration informed Jen also supports teacher appreciation week and contributes to causes like cancer awareness and Military recognition from Rice Elementary we have Stephanie tokarz Stephanie is an intrical part of kindergarten reading groups she Volunteers in multiple kindergarten classrooms and works with a variety of students they love when it is her volunteer day Stephanie also spends countless hours prepping materials in the school workroom supporting all teachers she's extremely efficient and organized [Applause] rggs Elementary School we have Stephanie [Applause] Cummings Stephanie brings exceptional dedication and service to rig's Elementary she consistently exceeds Expectations by volunteering in classrooms supporting PTO events assisting in the cafeteria and creating Remar remarkable bulletin boards that enhance the vibrancy of the campus Stephanie's positive energy energ Readiness to assist wherever needed and commitment to collaborative efforts with with staff render her invaluable asset to the rigs community so for the next Honore we do have Mr Joel worth former cusd CFO and board member on the stage who will help us present the next honory but we would also like to give him a special happy birthday shout out Mr worth very happy birthday from Ryan Elementary School Susan kingan Smith Susan is a parent volunteer at Ryan where her two children attend she has been an instrumental player at Ryan through volunteering serving on the PTO board as Treasurer and organizing multiple events in addition to her time on the PTO Susan Volunteers in the classroom by chaperoning field trips teaching art masterpiece and teaching Junior Achievement thank you Susan from San Marcos Elementary Cindy Carroll for the past two years Cindy has dedicated herself as the art masterpiece coordinator ensuring lessons are thoughtfully prepared supplies are well stocked and every class is covered her efforts to recruit volunteers and expand the program have made it possible for all students to experience the joy of Art in their day thank you Cindy from Sanborn Elementary School Jordan Baron Jordan is such a positive impactful influence on the students at sanbor they love it when he walks into the classroom Jordan runs small reading groups math groups and has facilitated free choice time playing games with students he notices when the students are having an off day and goes out of his way to say a kind word or just quietly read with them giving the students the individual attention they need from Santan Elementary School Stephanie Bach and Christine farmer Stephanie and Christine have stepped in to support the copy room whenever needed from making copies and laminating to handling various other tasks in the workroom they ensure everything runs smoothly their dedication to this demanding role greatly benefits the entire Santan Elementary staff we appreciate their cheer enthusiastic demeanor from Santan Junior High School we have Renee Paige Renee has served as Santan junior high booster club secretary for the past three years playing a vital role in fostering a positive School Community she spearheads successful fundraising through family food nights creating eye-catching marketing to boost participation her efforts during staff Appreciation Week including organizing Raffles with generous donations highlight her dedication from shamway Leadership Academy we have Dan pagle Pagel Daniel is an invaluable asset to the shamway school community and a dedicated advocate for cusd and public education always ready to step in and assist he generously volunteers his time to teach art masterpiece in his daughter's classrooms Daniel's positivity inspires everyone around him students and staff alike appreciate his cheerful Spirit from tarwater Elementry we have Samantha Ruiz Samantha serves as one of the dedicated art masterpiece coordinators at tarwater she invests countless hours to ensure the program success and even steps in to teach classes lacking volunteers art masterpiece Samantha contributes through time to various other activities at tarwater making a meaningful impact on the school Community thank you Samantha from Weinberg gifted Academy Melissa [Music] Mt Melissa is the PTO president at Weinberg gifted Academy and one of the school's most dedicated supporters if anyone deserves a designated parking spot it's Melissa she's practically a fixture on campus from volunteering in classrooms and caring for earthworms to organizing movie nights and braving the windiest day of the year year to hang 730 pieces of student artwork her commitment knows no [Applause] bounds from Willis Junior High School Drew Suggs Drew is a passionate volunteer dedicated to enhancing students after- School sports programs together with his wife cat he founded a nonprofit Sports initiative aimed at providing entertainment motivation and positive role models for inner city students from lowincome backgrounds who can't afford club sports as a former cusd student Drew's strength and great attitude inspires students to reach their full potential let's give these fantastic volunteers one more round of applause okay staff by now you should know the drill it's your time to rise head over to the left line up by sight [Music] nice job nice job 7:35 good job at us look at us look at us it's like we've done this a few I know I really appreciate you being here I think it just keeps the pacing so well it's nice to have a partner yes um was there one no it was the Joel one I'm just trying to think if there was oh yeah um anything about these ones but I've just been kind of also trying because then Ken was like like three in a row and I'm like wait minute they're not all right we are going to begin Anderson Elementary we have Kristen Christian Morton Kristen is a staff member who goes extra mile is enthusiastic about teaching others and helps all team members be successful by sharing her ideas knowledge and most importantly her time she always puts forth the effort to ensure all teachers are seen heard valued and appreciated Kristen has been a treasured resource in and is the clue at Anderson Elementary School congratulation on your Apple Achievement Award from Anderson Junior High School we have Ann Smith an demonstrates a student L approach to education at all times and is always patient and supportive of both students and staff to ensure incoming students are taken care of and everyone's needs are met her calm and reassuring approach is a reminder to all of us that it is possible to move mountains when you give it your all from Arizona College Prep High School we have Christy Sims christe is the kind of teacher who puts her whole heart into everything she does not just a teacher but as a mentor and leader from staying late to support students with projects to mastering new skills like 3D printing for Hands-On learning or writing letters of recommendation for her students she is constantly finding ways to inspire and help others embodying everything we strive for at ACP from Arizona College Prep Middle School Marie kleinberger as Department lead Mentor for Hope Squad and involvement in night buddies Marie's an inspirational leader at ACP middle school she's always available to guide and provide feedback to her colleagues constantly Works to make ACP a more inclusive space and works tirely LLY to incorporate the best methods into her curriculum ensuring her students achieve and Excel from auxier elementary school Amber ker Amber's ability to demonstrate patience and calmness with students coupled with her ability to make difficult tasks look effortless is truly inspiring and speaks volumes about her commitment as a parent educator she has shown herself to be not only a hard worker but also a true team player always ready to lend a hand from Basha accelerated Middle School Shannon Reed Shannon is an exceptional educator who demonstrates professionalism dedication and compassion daily she holds herself to high expectations by always planning thorough and concise lessons to meet her students needs that also keep them engaged and excited about learning Shannon maintains high standards for her students by providing clear directions and procedures ensuring they understand expectations both inside and outside the classroom from Bas okay from Basha High School we have Lori Miller Lori consistently demonstrates exceptional dedication and a positive attitude making her a player who always goes the extra mile to support her colleagues her strong work ethic perseverance ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and concisely and willingness to share her knowledge and expertise with others makes her a joy to work with from Bogle Junior High School we have Denise Brown each day Denise is with students she makes their lives richer and creates a family inside her classroom where all students can be themselves have a voice fail succeed and learn more more than just math she uses storytelling to make her class relevant holds students accountable and pushes them to work their hardest all while working collaboratively with her peers to improve instruction for all bogul students from balona elementary Tara Anderson Tara is an exceptional Administrative Assistant who consistently goes above and beyond her duties her dedication to creating a welcoming environment supporting students and staff and organizing engaging events makes her invaluable to balona thank you [Applause] Tara from Carlson Elementary School Kathleen cat [Music] Hendrickson from leading running club to helping with safety patrol and assemblies to planning act activities for each grade level cat's positive attitude energy and willingness to always go above and beyond for the students and staff at Carlson is endless she empowers kids by giving them jobs and opportunities to help her and makes PE a fun class for her [Music] students from Castile High School Linda Frederickson as Castile stugo adviser for the past nine years Linda plans coordinates and facilitates activities for thousands of students she teaches multiple preps in one year to ensure students are offered all the courses they need to be successful and is incredible at connecting with struggling students to help them get on track to graduate Linda is a leader on campus in a variety of facets and helps make Castile a great place to be from Castile Junior High School we have Christen schella Kristen embodies the essence of an exceptional educator through her dedication hard work and thoughtful approach to teaching from the moment students enter her classroom they are met with engaging and inclusive environment that Fosters learning because she takes the time to understand each student's individual needs ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to thrive Central Kitchen we have April Carpenter as a dedicated kitchen manager April is an invaluable asset to CD nutrition with her dedication to going above and beyond taking on additional responsibilities and assisting nearby sites as needed with her commitment to promote healthy eating by teaching students the importance of nutrition known for her positivity and resourcefulness she adapts seamlessly to the challenges to ensure uninterrupted meal service while fostering a sense of unity Chandler High School yeah go from Chandler High School Nikki bin nope nope Chandler Early College from Chandler Early College Sherry Paul Sherry embodies the true Spirit of dedication and adaptability due to her commitment to go above and beyond by integrating strategies and insights for practical application in her math class she's a teacher that wants all to succeed and go the extra mile making her an inspiration to both her students and colleagues now Chandler he told me no I don't know Chandler High School Nikki bin no Chandler Learning Center Julie Honeywell Julie is a great transition specialist who helps students create resume search for jobs apply for jobs or vocational training and assist with the interviewing process by teaching them interview skills she also partners with Community businesses to ensure every student she works with achieves success from Chandler Online Academy Roxanna lezma FIS Roxanna is committed to making coa's enrollment process efficient and is always prepared to assist prospective students in their families her dedication to being present every day for the needs of students and parents coupled with her positive sense of humor always has the staff [Applause] laughing from Chandler Online Academy Elementary we have Christine RAB Miss RAB has been the COA Elementary since it's an exception and has been a cherished member of the Hornet family she has taught several grade levels and is always willing to do what is best for her students her Bright Smile joyful attitude and engaging smile is an inspiration to all Community Education we have Jam Smith Jan truly exemplifies the spirit of Community Education with her dedication to families that Foster sense of trust and partnership with over a thousand preschool and prek registrations per school year she single-handedly walks parents through the process and her smile and seemingly Boundless Energy bring an infectious positivity to everyone Community Education is proud to honor Jan Smith connley Elementary School we have Bridget Dunning Bridget brings an unparalleled level of energy positivity and passion with her joyful demeanor and willingness to jump in and help wherever needed whether it's assisting with lunch duty covering for a class or colleague or volunteering her time to support the choir Bridget approaches every task with enthusiasm and Care Conley is fortunate to have [Applause] [Music] [Applause] her from CTA Freedom Courtney Bickley Courtney brings positivity and high energy to her job every day she's passionate about teaching her kindergarteners and goes out of her way to help her students 100% she is invested in making sure the DLI program thrives and remains current and contributes to the positive morale of the staff making her a positive Beacon of light to all who know her from CTA Goodman Natalie mckever Miss mckever is an incred inredible physical education teacher who is dedicated to integrating various aspects of student interest she organizes and plans numerous activities including the running club kids heart challenge student council and field day her commitment to students in the school Community is commendable and Goodman is fortunate to have her from CTA Humphrey yenia Gutierrez yenia is the hardest working most organized most thoughtful office manager who is a great multitasker with her time management and administrative skills that are a true asset to CTA Humphrey she goes above and beyond and the staff and students are fortunate to have her from CTA Independence we have Jessica fou Jessica exudes positivity encouragement and Care by supporting her colleagues and taking the time to share her knowledge of techn te ology to enrich the educational experience of students on campus her ability to uplift her teammates coupled with her creativity and organizational skills makes her a genuine asset to the school no Liberty from the district office we have Mr sha rusted as director of secondary Athletics and auxiliary program Shan has been instrumental in continuing to build build upon the growth and strength of CD athletic and activity programs districtwide sha oversees athletic departments for seven junior high schools and six high schools as well as the elementary running club and track programs his knowledge and experience enthusiasm and dedication to the cusd Athletics brand Second To None is evident and appreciated by all who have the pleasure to work alongside him from Elite Performance Academy Deanna Hansen Dianna always creates a friendly and welcoming atmosphere with her positive attitude encouraging words and funny anecdotes she works tirelessly to make sure students are successful through her commitment to co-sponsoring student council and dedicates her time or her home for staff celebrations and events she's a wonderful person and an amazing contributor at EPA from fry Elementary School Sandra lubian Miss lubian is an amazing kindergarten teacher who works tirelessly to ensure all students including those with mild to moderate needs feel included and supported she consistently improves her pedagogy encourages her fellow teachers and shows remarkable skill in managing challenging behaviors with care and compassion her dedication is greatly appreciated from galvaston elementary school Christian shanine Christian is incredibly giving of her time and always follows through on her commitments whether it's supporting students in need assisting families or lending a hand to colleagues Christian is always eager to help no matter the situation she maintains a calm and reassuring president's presence offering a helping hand and a listening ear exemplifying her dedication as a true love and pride member from Haley Elementary we have Stephanie palz Stephanie is kind and connects with the school community in authentic ways she goes above and beyond with her leadership in student council as an A and is a consistent supporter of cusd initiatives championing championing the district at every turn as a natural leader Stephanie is always looking for ways to improve the campus community and our positive attitude makes her a joy to be with from Hamilton High School we have Carrie San Carrie is a great asset helping to lead the new Reed 180 Program where she collaborates with teachers Administration and the IRC to assist her students she takes ideas from the entire team and works to make them fit the goals of the team the school and the district making her an amazing supporter and leader for her fellow fellow [Applause] teachers from Hancock Elementary we have Mandy serin Mandy's leadership in the El program displays how she supports the students staff and families at Hancock she has a special way of building relationships with students supporting them both academically and emotionally she takes the time to purchase and collect books so her students can develop a love of reading making her an invaluable asset to the school community from Hartford syvia and Cena Elementary we have Alan Richards Allan a dedicated fifth grade teacher is always willing is always the first to volunteer for anything on campus whether it's organizing breakfast helpers covering crosswalk duty hanging signs mentoring students or creating an Afterschool Sports Club to provide additional support for students he loves to play practical jokes and provide staff with some much needed [Applause] laughter from the instructional Resource Center Karen Brooks Karen's leadership has a positive impact on both students and teachers she's a strong advocate for Chandler schools modeling initiative and instructional Improvement and fostering positive relationships with both staff and students her commitment to Excellence professionalism and growth is evident in her contributions and she consistently inspires others from Jacobson Elementary School aurelli Santiago Morales AI Works tirelessly to ensure that daily tasks run smoothly and efficiently and is always available to go the extra mile to ensure everyone has what they need to be successful she assists in coming families with the enrollment process and greets every child who comes into the office with a smile her dedication is admirable from Knox gifted Academy we have Tony horn from initiating Tony horn from initiating a mindfulness space in a can9 companions program to becoming an integral part of the kga team Tony has proven to be indispensable the students and faculty have come to rely heavily on her skill skills and willingness to help in any situation thank you Mrs horn from Navarette Elementary School we have Martin kamacho Martin has been a custodian at Navarette for the past 16 years and a lead custodian for 14 years he puts 110% into every task and aspect of his job and is truly committed to the school Community Neah is so fortunate to have have him as a part of the school family from Patterson Elementary School we have John Kuts as a crossing guard and a newon aid at Patterson John is a valued member of the community and brings a daily smile friendly greeting and playful humor to the school which helps students begin their day in a positive way what stands out most is his genuine care for the students ensuring every child feels seen and valued whether it's making sure a child getss the help they need with lunch offering words of encouragement to those who might be struggling or simply offering a kind word of high five John always makes a positive difference from pay Junior High School Mary Bren Mary Kay is the kind of teacher who leaves a lasting impact on her students often remembered fondly by them as adults for her genuine passion for teaching and her care for their well-being she consistently goes above and beyond for her students to ensure their success by addressing their academic social and emotional needs she's deeply attentive to her students and her commitment is appreciated from Perry High School Norma Rios Norma is a leader and Champion for English language development students creating classes professional development and peer support programs to ensure academic success and initiating a student-led Spanish class for senior citizens that Fosters cross-generational connections and a cultural understanding through her mentorship passion and tireless advocacy she's truly an outstanding [Music] educator from Rice Elementary School Erica Christo Erica is a creative and Innovative resource teacher with a huge heart for her students she sets high expectations for her students and finds creative ways so that all are successful Erica's collaborative spirit and her leadership as the Special Education team lead along with her involvement on the spelling be committee and social committee embody her heart for the rice community and her commitment to Excellence from rigs Elementary School we have Cameron estrea Cameron's passion dedication and Innovative method of teaching music provides opportunities for students to shine in the classroom before school choir and Community performances his supportive nature to his colleagues Fosters a collaborative environment and the positive impact he makes on students staff and Community is undeniable making him a truly remarkable [Music] [Applause] educator from Ryan Elementary School we have Trudy McClair [Applause] Trudy is a dedicated school counselor who provides daily support to individual students and teaches meaningful whole class lessons that promote students well-being she's a reliable and compassionate listener for students and staff and her caring nature flexibility and extensive knowledge of mental health make her an invaluable member of the Ryan staff from s Marcos Elementary we have Shila Aziz Shila has great relationships with students and staff and is always willing to do anything necessary to support Student Success on campus with her dedication as a paraprofessional crossing guard and logistic coordinator in the cafeteria she's creative and insightful when it comes to finding out how to reach every child as an individual making her a vital part of the San Marco [Applause] staff from sandborn Elementary School Shay Dodson Shay is a tremendous advocate for the students families and staff at sanbor she works tirelessly to connect individuals and families with resources creating a food pantry and clothing closet to give immediate assistance to the sandborn community she makes home visits builds positive relationships with families and is always available to offer words of support and encouragement to students making her a true blessing at Sanborn from Santan Elementary School Jesse Norman Jesse goes above and beyond teaching by creating lasting relationships with her students holding them lovingly accountable for learning she has helped to grow the student council's positive impact on the community through Veterans Day luncheons appreciation events community outreach and spearheading San's first Multicultural night thank you Jesse for your contributions [Applause] from Santan Junior High School Lindsay Valentine as the school counselor Lindsay goes to extra mile providing support to staff and a personal investment in the well-being and future of students her kindness and empathy leave a lasting impact as students from previous years continue to reach out to her for guidance and support a testament to the meaningful connections she builds from shamway Leadership Academy we have Ryan dong Ryan is a standout star at shamway Leadership Academy fully embodying the mission to nurture Innovative Leaders with strong character he demonstrates leadership exemplifies adaptability and showcases the strength of teamwork at shamway to ensure the school Community thrives from student services we have Robin demeler as an incredible special education academic specialist Robin has made a profound impact through her dedication to both teachers and students she provides exceptional training and support to the special education teachers advocates for the needs advocates for the needs of students with disabilities ensures that every child receives the support they deserve her kindness positive attitude and encouraging demeanor is truly uplifting from student services we have April daily April is an incredible resource with a deep well well of knowledge about gifted education and Beyond she is constantly learning and expanding her expertise ensuring she stays at the Forefront of best practices dedicated to both students and teachers she's passionate about fostering success within gifted programs and schools a strong collaborator April welcomes new ideas and continuously seeks ways to enhance and improve programs her dedication makes her an invaluable asset to the student services department and the entire CD Community from Support Services Matt McCoy Matt is an exceptional member of the staff due to his strong work ethic and dedication he is always willing to assist others on a regular basis with a positive and caring attitude Support Services is truly grateful to have Matt as a member of the cusd team from tarwater elementary school Chris Yao Chris's strong professional teaching skills coupled with the distinctive expertise in math and science make him an outstanding devoted leader to the teachers on his team his volunteer work teaching Chinese at a modern Chinese School is commendable and he is always willing to spend the extra time to help those in need we appreciate his [Applause] passion from technology Gina Malvo Gina's outstanding contributions and commitment to Excellence embody the qualities of an exemplary professional she continues to make a lasting impact in her role as field service technician consistently advocating for the success of students and staff by creating an environment of trust understanding and collaboration her remarkable dedication truly makes a difference for the cusd community from transportation we have Tammy Rockwell as a dedicated school bus driver since 2013 Tammy truly makes a difference with her kind heart and cheerful demeanor she's always thinking about of others helps her fellow employees navigate computer taask covers routes feeds the mechanics acknowledges everyone's birthday and some special way and volunteers to help whatever is needed the transportation department is beyond grateful for everything Tammy does from the warehouse we have Marsha gerch no from Weinberg gifted Academy we have Jennifer civier Jennifer's dedication energy and enthusiasm have played an integral part of opening and growing Weinberg gifted Academy her commitment to designing engaging curriculum expertise in clubs and mentorship of teachers and students on campus is commendable she is a teacher leader and Advocate who goes extra mes for the Weinberg Community one last round of applause for our honores thank you governing board thank you superintendent Narducci thank you Miss Veronica King for helping with the awards everyone drive safe get cookies out there and thank you for making CD the best District in [Applause] Arizona again you too thank you for your wife she's she's a fan and I really appreciate it cuz you're a sky cuz you're a sky for star [Music] I'm going to give you my heart cuz you're a sky cuz you're sky