And it's not just me in the library. Same thing. Yeah. Like dude, but uh in the library a lot of kids even sitting at the tables together head earbuds heads down in the phone. You don't see you see a fraction of that compared to what you used to see. It's been really from my observation much better. still not perfect by any stretch, but way better. Um, and I just like that I don't disagree. Like I said, I like the idea of, you know, basically freshman, sophomore don't have it, but the enforcement of that would become really challenging to do. If you're in a study hall, which we have mixed grades in, like the study hall monitor is going to be arguing with every kid about whether they're a sophomore or a junior, you know, you got a junior sitting next to you. Like, but I'm not on my phone.
As you know, we've had bond override committee meetings going on and um plan on bringing a question to you on 428. So, our next governing board meeting. So, tonight we have an update and that has a little time and and gap for you to have uh discussion and ask questions and go from there. So, with that, I'll turn it over to Mr. Mui to introduce this topic. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Dr. proto. Uh tonight we have with us uh one of u our members who's actually was chosen by as the spokesperson by the committee uh and uh we had our last meeting on March 27th. And so I'm going to invite Patrick Campbell to come forward and he's going to be able to provide a summary uh from that meeting uh in preparation for what's going to be brought to the board on April 28th.
Kelgotti in the mass in the long range facility plan that we will see coming soon. Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you. [Applause] Yeah. Garren, [Music] who we want? Yeah. Do we want to join them? All right. They did all the work. They did all that. Yeah. [Music] I see that movie. [Music] Santa. No. Yes. Come on. Love it. Thank you. [Applause] It's only one minute. Okay, cool. We could just keep going till tomorrow. There you go. Hey, now Dr. K Dr. Kgatti, you can give your superintendent report. Uh, thank you board. Um this morning our leadership team had the distinct pleasure of the opportunity to prepare and serve an appreciation breakfast for our staff for the team over in our transportation department. Yes, we recognize and sincerely thank our incredible drivers, monitors, mechanics, transportation staff for their unwavering dedication to our students and school community.
Yeah. But always, but a good guy. Oh, and he's brilliant, too. But he he's just not he's not, you know, he this is a guy who's played baseball in Cuba and Russia, you know. I mean, he he hit he's played in China, you know. He got he gave up a home run. It didn't go over the wall. It went over the Great Wall. Oh. So, for the next That's going to do it for another edition of All Politics is Local. That's Bill Smith, Mike Adams. I'm John Fe. We'll talk again real soon.
I'm watching his phone, he's a junior, you know, like I just think it's the juice to squeeze, as they say. Got to continue to make more progress, educate people. get there. But I like the heart of it. It feels like bands are for everybody, right? Other grades. No, no. I mean other high schools for everybody even even if you're a senior which again like I you know that's the sort of thing Jonathan height you know I respect very much would argue but I disagree with um the you know I think there's a certain responsibility to teach kids about how to use it appropriately and respectfully before Yeah. I think it's it's more of a understanding what this is and what is intentionally doing to your brain. Yeah. Like it's it's it's like we should be treating this like smoking or drinking because that's it's as addictive as I'm there with you, you know.
And I know Patrick was uh coming here from he puts in time working with the Shadow Ridge baseball team as well. So I could see him running in the door as well. So, thank you for being here, Patrick. Thank you, Madame President, members of the board, Dr. Croto, cabinet, and guest. Um, so my name is Patrick Campbell. A little history real quick for those of you who don't know me. I was uh the chair spokesman for the first bond override committee, which obviously failed. Uh, we had presented a bond in $127 million to go forward um last goound, for lack of a better term. Um, this time we're doing a little bit We're still taking the evidence and the information that we have and need, but we're taking it on a little bit shorter compact schedule. So, as Mr. Moosey mentioned, we met March 20 or excuse me, February 27th.
every day. Uh they show up with care, professionals, and deep commitment to safely transportate transporting our most precious uh cargo, our children, our students. They are often the first smiling and welcoming our students in the morning and the last in the afternoon. Our transportation team really makes a difference in the lives of our students and we are deeply grateful for what they do. Today was also a day of learning. I had a chance to visit some buildings and see the investment and collaboration that our educators and staff across the district um were investing in. And I think that's such a testament um to that support and vision for continuous improvement which is ultimately as a learning organization every minute spent in our learning practices is what leads to success for our students. The more we learn, the more students gain from that. Um April is autism acceptance month.
Yeah. So, they should know that. Yes, it's a tool, but you know, I don't know. Do we do that in health class? So, we have a cell phone section of curriculum. We'll probably be talking about that in the curriculum because the next book I have um for this summer, not to give away too much, but um the book uh was referred to me by Penny Ling, who's a professor of psychiatry from QU, who um was on our uh panel or the discussion will be on the panel again Wednesday. And um I read it, I was like, "Wow, this is is really powerful and I gave it to Mike Divine who's our not just lacrosse coach but he's the K8 or K12 department chair for health P. Uh I give it to a few other folks. Kristen Shanley who's the English department chair at the middle school speaks the librarian at the high school.
Uh, it's a little bit smaller group, not as large as the one we had before, but it's a very informative group, and it's a very opinionated group. Some of the things I'll share with you tonight are going to be facts, things that have been presented to us, needs, and things like that. Some of the stuff is going to be opinions from the committee and I speak freely about those opinions that come from the committee. Um and then to wrap up at the end obviously I'll stand for questions but I will I want to um make sure that we understand like uh Mr. Moosey said we'll be coming back on the 28th for a formal recommendation to the school board. Um so that said we started we met in this room on the 27th. First thing we did was go over meeting objecting objectives review of the previous meeting.
We celebrate and honor the experiences and identities of autistic individuals. Um, this month is a time for us to emphasize the understanding, inclusion, support, and moving beyond awareness towards one of meaningful acceptance. As a district family, we strive to be open, accepting, inclusive in all we do, recognizing that it is one of ever learning. We are committed to creating these learning environments where students feel seen, valued, and empowered to thrive. Let us continue to learn from one another and celebrate the neurode diversity and work together to build a community where everyone belongs. This Wednesday, April, this Wednesday at 6:30, we want to invite again, and I'm sure you heard lots about it, our incoming kindergarten families toformational session about our dual language pro language program. It's an exciting opportunity. Cue, you can do it. And we are very um the students in our programs gained so much.
Uh Ian Wman's the department chair for English at the high school to say where what sections of this book can we pull out and use it because there's so much rich information use it as a teaching tool um for our kids around health and wellness around social media use and the phone use and so they've been evaluating that over I didn't give out the title I'll tell you but with the author in the conversation I had with Jonathan height was talked about this is the book that we're reading that I'm reading now we're looking at doing down the road he's like oh that's that's crazy goes I'm writing a book with art right now for um and the cell phone. So that book may be the next resource that we can have kids reading at younger grades because it is designed like to your point to be addictive and I find it highly addictive for the amount of time I spend on it.
Um, we looked at the five-year history of multiple questions in election review. So, as you know, last time we had the decision, do we want to go for bond? Do we want to go for override? Do we want to go for both? Um, so last time we chose to go for a bond. It was an overwhelming 16 to no 160 vote. Um, this time, um, we're not formal in a committee, meaning we do not have the same, we don't have to actually have a quorum and voting and that kind of stuff. But that said, it's still important that we be on the same page and that we be lock step with each other. Um, so we did look at the five-year history. It was one of the questions that got brought up on the 27th of February. If both of these go out, what's the history?
One of the moments at the end of their tenure for those students who join our program is the seal of biiteracy. um a lifelong skill that those students walk away with uh for lifelong success. Um regardless of your home school, this is going to be at home club. Uh please join in this opportunity to learn about our district's investment in bilingualism. On April 1st, our community elected four new members to the board of education. These individuals will officially take office at a special meeting on May 5th where they will be sworn in and the board will organize its executive positions. This transition brings excitement for the future while also marking a bittersweet farewell to our four dedicated members whose service has made a long lasting impact on our district. We'll share more reflections and appreciation in the coming weeks. Another shout out to our assistant principles this week.
My 10-month-old 11month-old baby right touches my I'm changing her diaper touches the colors. She's addicted to the touch and Well, that's developmentally that'll be dead. Cause effect. That's why they flip light switches on when they were, you know, that's they love that like that anything cause effect at that age. She's starting that phase. I can't have my cell phone out around it and see what happens. Yeah. And that's why they like when you make faces when they make faces, you know, that I'm interacting with the world. What I do people responding. So, we're trying to work on the education piece, too. I think this would be really important. So, anyway, good question there. But again, we'll have another chance to read this over again. But if you think of other things, if you see other things, um, this is going for a second. So, this uh we put definition in here too of the power.
What happens? Um, some of the reviews for you districts and these are comparable districts to Daizard. So this is not us comparing that somebody that doesn't matter. This is somebody that actually is very comparable to us. So in 2020, the history was districts with multiple questions. questions meaning multiple things went out being a bond and an override in this case there were six um the passing rate was 100% um on all questions uh in 2021 uh similar 2022 it went up 2023 it was 12 um with a passing rate of 75% in 2024 there were multiple there were 12 that went out with a passing rate of 75 so that's just a little bit of history on that um if if I would love I would remind you that on the first one we did we had a um company that went out and actually did a survey if you will.
As this is National Assistant Principles Week, we want to thank our each of our assistant principles for their dedication to their roles. I had the great bounty of serving as an assistant principal for five years. I won't forget a single one of those days. Um uh we know what you do and uh when many times no one knows what you do. Um, but we know what you do. And more importantly, I can guarantee you, assistant principles, that in every single space that you serve in, there are children, there are students who can't wait to see you in the morning and who know your name. While you may not know every one of them, but they know who you are and are so appreciative of what you do to make their schools a special place. So, I want to thank our assistant principles. We hope and we hope you are feel celebrated and loved this week.
So really the big additions then is the AI power glasses. Yeah, we just added the fake piece based on the conversation. The next one I'm actually going to recommend we put on hold and we not move forward yet. Um yeah, because uh K board of directors meeting earlier, well I guess last week and Shipman Goodwin and um Bert and Moses are recommending that this kind of be put on hold for the moment because um they're putting out some revised guidance on this policy. So during the legislative session, so we do have to have for the current legislation, we have to have something adopted by July 1st, but given the fact that changers may be a foot and we know we've been down this road before. Um I'm just recommended we put this on, you know, keep it here for this month and not move it forward because it's likely to be tweaked again for those guys.
These are in my opinion with my history working with bonds and packs and things like this. Those have been very accurate. It had a 60% success rate from the public when it was first submitted. That was the last bond. So we were in a good position. Those have a plus or minus uh success rate of 4.9%. So even at a at a 60 with a 4.9 negative, it would have put us in a good position. But as we know, it didn't pass. Um, Mr. Moosey and Miss Meridel, she went um went over the tax rates. Um, the current bond is going to be paid off in 2028, as you might know. Um, we compared tax rates um different ways of comparing the tax rates for 90 million, 95 million, and 90 million. This was a thought that got put out there and I don't know where it came from but we addressed it and we looked at okay instead of 127 million could we possibly go for something less 90 95 something that I guess in theory would look a little less intimidating um at the end of the day we we did discuss it we had very spirited discussion um as some of you know because you were here um there's no shortage of opinions at the table that said there are they're set in good faith and The bond scenarios were discussed.
And please know of our gratitude to you. Um, what a what a what a moment to this evening. We have a number of ex additional exciting shoutouts. I'm going invite our board members to add to the celebrations we've had this evening. Thank you, Dr. Katti. The Gear It Forward 2338 robotics team won the Excellence in Engineering Award and were champions of the Midwest Regional Championships. Can we give my hand? Congratulations to our students from Asiggo East High School who recently competed at the Illinois Design Educators Association's Regional and I think it's CAD, not CAD, CAD design competition. Out of the 12 students who participated in this event, nine meddled and two qualified for state. That's right. Uh many of our junior high students recently participated in the fine arts festival hosted at Thompson Junior High School. Uh excellent showcase of our students hard work and talents in both the visual and the performing arts.
So, is this another one of those K policy that's actually legislation? Yes. Yeah. Y and that would completely replace whatever we had. Correct. Effective July one of 2025. So, it's not current legislation. The next one is actually that this is like all these pages with all the definitions and everything. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Because uh like I said likely to change at some point. We'll probably have to I think next month we'll probably have to do a second reading on it. You know, we're a good spot in the queue here because we'll do May and then we'll do June um to adopt for July one, assuming that there aren't major adjustments. So, even the forms in here would replace the forms that we have. Yes. But some of the forms are a little problematic from a purple perspective for some of the attorneys. So, we're still trying to iron that out.