um he has successfully integrated the advanced calculus concepts that are needed for that class um with complex physical applications. This demonstrates a rare intellectual versatility and ability to apply theor theoretical complex uh concepts to practical problems. Beyond classroom excellence, Tyler has shown dedication and leadership. Um is a four-year member of both our band and robotics teams. In these roles, he has taken on increasing leadership responsibilities, mentoring younger students and helping strengthen these programs for future generations. What truly sets Tyler apart is how he uses his talents to elevate others around him. Side note, I just learned this and I think this is connected to it is this must be him connected to being an Eagle Scout as well. And I think those characteristics come out. He's willing to share his knowledge with peers, serve as an informal tutor and mentor, demonstrating excellence and personal character go hand in hand for Tyler.
It's um a demographically and developmentally appropriate group of students to serve on that committee. Um you may not I mean at the elementary grades you're probably not going to have a kindergarter sitting on that committee, but it may be appropriate for us to have some sixth graders on that committee. um families. So, uh optimally we'd have some parents involved and at least two members of the school community. So, school community is designed in the defined in the definitions. So, we have to pull in basically additional members of the school team. So, it's a reasonably sized group there at that point. Um, and it's annually reviewed and approved by the school climate specialist um, in coordination with the school climate coordinator. So, it's annually approved by the building based person in coordination with the district person. What they're responsible every building will have one. Correct. Yeah.
Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Keles. Yes. Dr. Pivarro. Hi, Mr. Taylor. Hi, Mr. Gaba. Hi, Mrs. Hassan. Hi, Mr. Odo. Hi, Mr. Ramos. Hi, And then we have me Mrs. Mrs. Peteri I and then Mr. Ferino I Mr. President former golf n number nine. Number nine. Uh we need a formal roll call of our officers of of our trustees. motion. No, there's no Mr. Keles. I Dr. Pivar present. Mr. Taylor, Mr. Gaba, hi. Mrs. Hassan, present. Hassan, Mr. Odo, present. Mr. Ramos, present. Mrs. Peter present and Mr. Focarino present. Yeah, here it is. Number 10. Yeah, here's 10 to approve the board of the of the days of the meeting. A motion to approve calendar the calendar of board meetings. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Roll call.
Are there any questions or discussion on that matter? What classes she could be teaching? Social studies middle school. There's no more questions on that one. Next up, we have personnel additional contract days for Okay, Mr. Mr. President, members of the board, it is necessary for to inventory and organize the science lab room month for safety purposes and just to have a better overall organization and planning for for this coming school year. Lori Lori Fagio and the administration are requesting extra duty pay be approved for two weeks from June 9th to the 20th. No word action necessary at this time. This is a study session item only. You have the amount there. We are double and triple checking right now as we speak uh between Miss Cotay and our financial consultant, Mr. Tyler Moore. We want to make sure that this um this compensation is coming from the appropriate budget source.
So, you're moving to approve the consent agenda items with exception of would you say F3, F9? Yes. Okay. Second to seven. Okay. We're having some technical difficulties. Should be good. Should be good. Refresh. You should see. Okay. SP Hopefully the program can handle five. You got yours? Yeah. I'm going to close it and restart. is everyone's updated. I'm sorry. Was that a yes? Okay. Thank you. Okay, moving ahead to um Oh, did we already vote? Oh, sorry. Yeah, my Okay, moving to item G1. Dr. Croto. Thank you, Madam President. Tonight, we have a few appointments to some new positions, and Mr. Mattingley will take the mic. Thank you, Dr. Croto. Uh, Madame President, governing board members, uh, I've got, uh, three announcements tonight. We'll do one at a time. So, I'm going to mix it up a little bit here. I'm not going to bring anybody to the podium.
And um earlier this week or last week, we had our last PAC discussion where we met with a dean and a security officer on focusing on how we can implement students well-being and just overall bettering how um active they are and how tardy detentions overall just getting a student's perspective on all that. And yeah, that about sums it up for us. You know, it's not been too long since I've talked to you guys, but um overall, you know, things are wrapping up. Seniors just had their prom and overall the event was pretty put together and people learned a lot. Um and the fireworks were a good touch. Uh this week is AP test week, so most of the buzz is about preparing for them. So, um I took one today and I do want to say that the digital format is really helping with the time crunch and I feel like people have a lot more time left over after they're done with the question.
I appreciate it. Awesome. So, we will continue we will continue with 3.1 board member comments and I will go first. Um, tonight we celebrate and honor some very special members of our team, and that's our student board members, Hope and Calie. Serving on the board of education of the seventh largest school district in Illinois is no small task. It demands wisdom, courage, thoughtfulness, and a heart for leadership. And both of you have brought all of that to this board and more. Your presence on this board has been invaluable. You have provided an authentic student voice, a perspective that no report, no survey, or a secondhand account could replicate. You helped ensure that our policies, our initiatives, our decisions stay connected to the very people that we impact most, the students. Your insights have helped us see beyond the numbers and the data to keep us focused on real experiences, real needs, and the real opportunities for growth.
Thank you. Well, hi. Uh for if you don't know me, I'm Todd Belnowski. I the the treasure for the music boosters. I Thanks, Matt. Yes. Um, I I found out a little bit ago that I'd be talking to you all and I had this great speech worked up in my mind, but then it just occurred to me that those words don't matter that much. The the kids behind me and the kids in all of our music programs across the district are really amazing. Not only do they do this, which has been phenomenal all night, uh, but they're in sports, they're in academic competitions, they're like the leaderboard for academic achievement in our school. They keep, uh, the the football games lively at halftime. They keep the basketball games ppped up the entire time. Truly an amazing group of kids. Give them a round of applause if you don't mind.
Tyler represents the ideal candidate for this award. A student whose academic achievements are matched by leadership, character, and commitment to using his talents to better our school community. Tyler will be leaving us to tr in to continue his passion in the STEM field at WPI for chem chemical engineering. Ladies and gentlemen, Tyler Ferrer. I'm sure you'd rather talk to them. They're way more intellectual, as you can know, than I am.
Why is a system under they want it to be capitalized? I was going to say it's probably not capitalized. Um, so they're going to, this is where I was telling you there's a question that I have. So here it says assisting the development annual scheduling which it it must mean like annual scheduling of the meetings um and administration of the school climate survey and reviewing the school climate survey data. Um you they they use the data to identify strengths and challenges to improve. Um they assist in the implementation of school climate improvement plan and recommending any improvements or revisions to the plan, advising on strategies to approve school climate like I was just talking about. Basically, they're reviewing the data. They're reviewing the um the reports. They're reviewing how things went with PD and trying to plan strategies that support a positive school climate. But we also have students involved in this.
Any discussion? Roll call. district. Let's approach. Okay. Miss Mr. Keith. Yes. Dr. Pero. Hi. Mr. Taylor, I Mr. Gaba. Hi, Mrs. Cissan. Hi, Mr. Odo. Hi, Mr. Ramos. Hi, Mrs. Petiri. Hi, Mr. Focarino. I approve district code of conduct. What is this? This was a resolution board action. There's no board yet. At this time, I'd like to open up for public comments. Mr. Sure. Whoever whoever is all right. How are you? Good evening, Mr. President. Congratulations, Madame Vice President. For the record, my name is Al Deleiz, assemblyman for the legislative 35th district, which includes Garfield. I'm your new assemblyman. Thank you for having me. I want to congratulate all the commissioners that were um elected. Um Commissioner Hassan, Commissioner Peter, and uh Commissioner Otto. Um I'm looking forward to working with each and every one of you with the administration, all the board of education members because down at Tren, we want to make sure we fight back, make sure you guys are fully funded.
So we will have every everything for sure checked to make sure all is okay for this coming wesley. Okay. Any questions on that? On to the classified reassignment of school secretary Sean Morris. Mr. President, members of the board, um some good news here. Uh the administration has posted internally for the position of school secretary. Four internal applicants applied and were interviewed. Uh the committee has recommended shine bodies as the school secretary. No board action necessary. This is a study session item only. So uh this is just about um culminates. I believe we have maybe one more the next position as well. But this is uh where we have internal postings for these positions trying to promote uh uh staff from within trying to build on credibility and also for retention. So in as many of the positions that we could that were possible, this was another position that was posted internally to try and just give our staff already here a chance to even questions on that.
We'll just have you stand up once I call your name, but you do have to do like five jumping jacks. No. So, I'd like to uh, Mr. Andrew Frasier, please stand up and be recognized. Uh, Mr. Frasier uh has been recommended to the governing board to be approved as the director of curriculum and instruction and assessment uh for the 202526 school year. And uh just a little background for Mr. Frasier, he's been in education over 21 years. And over that 21 years, 16 has been as an administrator of a school site. Uh he specifically has uh been an administrator successfully for Valley Vista currently and then Sonorin uh in the district. Uh so just want to introduce Andy to the governing board and thank you for your consideration. At this time, I move to approve the appointment of Andrew Frasier as director of curriculum instruction and assessment high school for the 2526 school year.
So, that's one thing that I noticed, you know, after I was finished and I just looked around, you know, there's a lot more people done. people had way more time left. So, I think that is a really good improvement when we're looking at those AP tests. That's very different than your feedback from the last time you talked about. Yeah. Which was the ACT testing, right? Two different again. So, you're saying the AP is doing a better job than so like college board in that sense is doing a way better in my opinion. Okay. Right. But uh um and then another thing I wanted to bring up was um we had our last student advisory board meeting last week and a lot of our discussion um during that meeting was centered around you know communication towards our student body and you know how we're going to get across messages and different you know information to our students and how we can better do that right because as of now you know most students don't really you know check their email that often and stuff like that and like it's hard to get our student body more informed and like some of the solutions we we were coming up with was you know kind of employing you know more upper classmen and more um people that are have already been at DGN for a while to like you know communicate to our underassman, right?
Your participation has has also modeled something very powerful for your peers. You have shown that young people are not the future leaders. You're today's leaders. You're today's leaders. [Applause] You have proven that leadership is not just about titles and age. It's about commitment. It's about responsibility and heart. As you move forward, this experience will serve you incredibly well. You have learned how to lead with empathy, how to collaborate across different perspectives, how to analyze complex challenges, and how to advocate effectively for others. All skills that will set you apart in college, in your careers, and in your community. You have already operated at a very high level of governance and strategic decision-making, something that many adults don't experience until much later in life. Most importantly, you now know firsthand what it means to be a servant leader. Someone who uses their voices not for personal gain, but to make life better for others.
So, Music Boosters plays a very small part in the success of these of these musicians. We have the opportunity to fill in the gaps, if you will, for equipment, uh, school supplies, things that are needed that allow these young people to demonstrate their musical talents for you. Whether it's the band here, our vocal ensembles, whatever it may be, if it's brand new instruments, instrument repair, uh the list goes on. Each and every year, Music Boosters gives about 20 to $30,000 to support the programs districtwide. Mr. Nickerson, I don't stand that close to the mirror in the morning. Please, a little disconcerting. The way that we're able to do that isn't through direct gifts of money, though we accept that. It's actually through volunteering. Uh if you look at the back of this half sheet, you'll notice an entire list of names. If yours is not on there, don't worry.
So if you have any questions for them, please the floor's theirs. Well, I don't have any questions, but uh on behalf of the whole committee, um we are all so proud of you and you reflect Dartmouth, Dartmouth High School and Dartmouth in a wonderful way. Um so kudos kudos. Anybody else? Yeah. No, congratulations to you both. Yes. Thank you. I was going to say something about the Eagle Scout thing. As a daughter of a scout leader and a sister of an Eagle Scout, I've always sort of admired um uh watching the two of you really grow from afar from Dartmouth Early Learning Center all the way on up. And so um yeah, you are the best of uh you know of and uh are such an inspiration I'm sure to your peers as was just noted as well. and um and amazing the work you're doing at at uh on your own time and and uh in science and research.
Yes. Okay. Mhm. Which, you know, I think that makes sense if particularly, you know, sixth graders on up. Yeah. Um now, didn't school climate also report the curriculum? They do provide reports to curriculum. They're not required to do so under the law, but we have. Right. No, I mean that that's been our general practice. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. So, I just like they do the reports, but then it doesn't say who they report to at the building. At the building level, they report to the uh district school climate uh coordinator. Okay. And those reports go on our website. They're there now. But does the um is our general practice was that the was it the district coordinator then would do a rollup report for the board? Um not well yeah the rollup report frankly is all of the individual building reports typically. Yeah. Um and we do have that on our on our website and we do report to the curriculum committee was shared out at the board level.
We're here to support um upgrades our facilities, build some schools in Garfield. So, I want to come out here today to wish you all uh congratulations and my office, my door is always open to make sure that we're bringing resources back to the great city of Garfield. Thank you again and have a great night. Thank you, that's a lead off double. Oh, okay. Thank you. Thank you, Tanner Raymond, 93 Spring Street. Congratulations. What a breath of fresh air. [Applause] It was time for a change. Thank you to those that did serve, but we're looking forward to the to the new board that's sitting. Mr. Folkarino, I would like to say I'm I'm I'm very proud to see you in that seat. Your grandfather has to be looking down smiling. For those that don't know, his grandfather, Al Focarino, was the president of the board of education years ago, and he was a man when he gave his word, he lived by it, unlike a lot of the men today, I have to say.
Next item amendment is classified employment by school health aid. Mr. President members of the board of co has been interviewed for the position of school health aid. Um see remarks from Angelina below. There's no board action necessary. This is a study session item only and you can see key information right there. So um uh this is a position that we did open up um outside of the district because well quite frankly we we didn't find someone that had these credentials. So that's where we questions on that. The next item that is approval of the staff for the 7th through 12 summer school grade summer school June 9th through 12th and 16th. Mr. President, members of the board of the district and hold 7 to 12th grade summer school in June to make up credits for secondary students. The administration is recommending the employment of five teachers and two par professionals be employed from June 9th through the 12th and the 16th to the 19th 8 a.m.