Um, I I understand kind of where where y'all are coming from and to me, you know, this this looks good. Like, you know, I know a lot of work went into this. So, thank you to everybody um for sticking it out and and working on it. Um, you know, we're trying to get through this together. So, thank you, Miss Marcus, Miss. So, a couple things. Um, thank you, um, team. I know this is a long process. Um I didn't have to do it this year because our rights got taken away. So um I don't know if that's good or bad, but I know how much time and energy it takes um to to do this and I really appreciate um the thoughtfulness um of coming back with what you came back with. Um I highly agree um that we do have a when we have a loss of trained individuals and we don't have the consistency, our students do suffer um and I fear for that for my district um for next year and I'm hoping um that we do retain and I would like um Dr.
Um, this is a security tool, but it in itself doesn't necessarily add an extra layer of protection. It in itself creates visibility across our tools. I mentioned that we have hundreds of thousands of events across our tools every day and discerning between those and adding up any correlation is a very difficult task. I mean imagine you had two Excel sheets with hundreds of thousands of lines all seemingly random and you had to figure out which of those were related. It's an impossible task for any real human to do, right? So we do respond to threats, the important ones, the high severity ones, and we do begin investigations for those every day. But it requires us to look at one tool that kicked off that high severity and then map it to data that other tools have gathered. And we have to do that cross referencing essentially through that massive data set.
All right. Under the consent agenda for item A, personnel and culture, item one, approve superintendent 2425 evaluation. Item two, approve personnel report which consists of approving certified staff reassignment and that concludes that on the consent agenda. Okay. Is there any board member who like to pull anything out of the consent agenda? If not, can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Moved. Moved by Bill. Second. Second by Nelson.
I think that will hold over till Q4 will hold over to for in the fall September 4th April. Right. Okay. Usually third quarter, which we do. Do we meet over the summer? Do we do we typically don't meet in July or August for Pelum, but I well, one of the things I think probably need to talk about or have some information about is um retreat. What we're going to do for a retreat, which is typically been in August, later in August. Sometimes that's a problem because people are on vacation before school starts, but we'll work that out. And occasionally there's a need to, you know, if something special came up. I know we were higher in number of meetings in the summer, but you know, I don't anticipate. Yes. Don't anticipate a lot of meetings this summer, but most of them need to be. So I will read it.
So correct that's very helpful. And and what's what role is Cynthia going to take over? Um, so we had a teacher transition from the elementary school to the junior high at Christmas and Tyler Wagenfir doubled over as a special education teacher and teaching sixth grade math and science. Um, and then Cynthia is going, we already hired her to come in, fill the finishing of the year and uh, kind of hit the ground running as the special education teacher for sixth grade next year. All right. So, I think we probably ought to read these names and what they're going into. Cynthia Rothosberger, a teacher in elementary. David Butler's fed aid in elementary. Theodore Harris mechanic transportation. Rosa Ramirez, custodial custodian and facilities.
Lauren, if in an update after contracts are signed, I would like to know what the retention rate is. Um, just for a frame of reference, I I think that's just some to see if it's working. Um, so that's one thing. Um, and with that being said, I don't mean to interrupt, but if we can have some numbers like at the end of this year so we have something to compare it with versus saying, "Oh, this is how many I I want." That's a good point and thank you for that. So just so we're aware of what happens right now and if this were to get fully approved with no edits, what does that look like with our retainment of staff even in feedback as we do our end of year, whatever that looks like. So thank you for sharing that. Go ahead. My apologies. Yeah, no worries.
The purpose of XDR is it pulls all this data together through all these tools and puts it in one place and automatically when one of these tools kicks off an incident, it is going to reach out to those other tools for us and say, "I have this device. He one of our tools said something's happening over here. I want to know everything that that device or that user did and tell me about it so I have all the relevant information in one spot." And the result is going to be more visibility than we had before and ensuring that we're not missing things in our investigation and that we're getting a holistic picture. We're also able to build automation in with this. Right? One big threat is ultimately as a school district, we are not literally but a 9to-ive shop, right? We have a sort of start of our day and the end of our day.
Any discussion, comments, concerns? If not, roll call, please. Mr. Secretary, Mr. Mr. Albert I. Mr. Gigas is an I. Mr. Swalish. Hi. Miss Zit Sburus. I Miss Wolffol I. Dr. Hall I. President Brown. I. Motion carry. We are at a point now we can share some tears. Ajourn. Sai die. And we need a motion. We need Yeah. for this for to move sign. Yeah. Tojourn. We need a motion to adjurnn. Okay. Tojourn. Okay. Okay. I'd like a motion to adjurnn. Side eye. Move. Moved by Bill. Second. Second by Jamie. Questions or concerns? Roll call, please. Uh, Mr. Secretary Mr. Albert I sir. Can you say it again? I did I say it loud enough? I Mr. Ggo says an I. Mr. Swallish. Hi. Miss Zit Stumbers. I Miss Wolffoke. I. Dr. Hall. I. President Brown. I. All righty. So number 10, we have the point of the organization of the new board of education.
So, um, any questions about any of those others? Not. We have a motion to accept those individuals as presented in item 3.5. Have a motion from Michael, second from Bridget. All in favor? That also looks to be unanimous. Okay. Item 3.6 a recommendation to approve the inter the inter intergovernmental agent intergovernmental agreement IGA career and technical education course. Now this is between Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology in Blige. This is a housekeeping item that we have to do every year. Yes, it is. And it had the agreement hasn't changed substantially. We always have it reviewed annually and it's a good arrangement for us for our career and technology programs.
Um the other thing I would like the team to think about and I'm not saying um this needs to change either way. I would love for the team to look at the difference between the meet and confer process and the IBN process and try to decide which one would work better for us because I think think there's some misconceptions on um some people's part about the differences that they that they are and how we might need to change policy to reflect what we really want out of it. Um just some things that I was hearing. Um, and then uh I think and I I think Kelly this is something if you're president next year that you need to put out that we are paying fully for insurance. I don't know another district that does. Mine went up 2.5% again this year. So literally I pay probably 150 a month for mine and that's a pay cut.
We all go to home, go to sleep and that's true in our cyber security front as well. While our tools do offer some protections, the automation can take this a step further. So when a device might become compromised and a tool starts to alarm, this tool will be able to kick into gear and make the other tools aware that something is happening and perform actions to mitigate our risk from a hacker moving laterally while we're all sleeping so that we're not waking up in the morning and finding out the worst has happened and that we've been compromised and our systems have been locked out. They're able to do things like isolate an endpoint. So if a staff laptop or a computer or a server has been compromised, the tools could work together and segment that device immediately off the network so the hackers lose their access and the virus can't spread.
Thank you all. I think I think he deserve a standing. I think he deserve a standing. I know he don't like it, but that's okay. All right. So, Dr. Coglin is on you. So you Dr. Koglin uh 10 alpha will county election results. Dr. Coglin. Yes. We had three candidates on the ballot this year. We had Elizabeth Venegas. She was un uh unopposed and she had a total of 182 um votes and uh yes and Janine Wolfkol she was in the creep um sector and she had a total of 276 votes and she was uncontested. And we had Dr. Hall and he was running against Vanessa Star Lawson and he had a total of 189 votes and she had a total of 139 votes. So Dr. Hall then won his precinct. So congratulations. All right. Now it's time to elect a president pro Tim. Does anybody want to president?
Any questions about that? If not, can we have a motion to accept item 3.6? A motion from Michael. Uh second from Sylviana. All in favor? That also looks to be unanimous. Okay. Item 3.7. There's a list of things that uh Dr. Wright you'd like to update us on. Thank you. Absolutely. We had the balora last night. It was well attended and well organized and so we appreciate the effort that went into that. On the 9th, we had the teacher staff the annual barbecue. We're doing it a little different. We're doing a district-wide this Friday. The board will post a possible quorum if you want to come and help flip burgers or just join and have food with us. Come on over. I believe that's 1:30 to 3:30. It is. And so that's that's always a fun event. on the 10th, the 13th will be the senior trip for the kids that qualified and went and are going to Disneyland.
So, um this is a big win for you guys if if the board um approves it. Um and I think that really needs to be promoted and I think it needs to be promoted on the website um as part of that hiring because I feel like that's like something that people do look at like how much are you going to pay for your insurance and some districts are more than other districts. Um, it's very lovely that we are able to do that so we're not taking more money out of the employees pockets. Um, so I think that's all I have. Thank you, Miss Ayes. Um, I really like this presentation. I see how sometimes again with the goals it might be a little bit different, but the way the guardrails work is that that's the way the way they're supposed to work, right? We set certain conditions that are non-negotiables for the district and based off those I get aligned to the goals and that's how we can get to the outcomes is by basing our energy on guard rails to produce those outcomes.
There's numerous other actions that these tool can perform for us as well. But all together, it's going to take a lot of our comp already. It's going to take a lot of things we already do. It's going to automate them and it's going to protect us in those after hours that we currently can't guard against. Yeah, this is an incredibly powerful tool. Um, you know, quite honestly, before you would have to either hire a company to do something like this or or have like a a central um point where all the district's traffic would go through and then they would monitor something like this. Um, but those are extremely expensive. um and as much as many organizations have tried for uh to pull together to do something like the state level which there's some stuff being worked on but it just hasn't materialized because of the cost right so um so this is a tool that we're very excited to to to be able to add and that is also part of what's in the consent agenda tonight but um it's really isolating those things anytime you read about a hack uh into a network the people have already been there for months and months and months right and moving around and taking what they want you usually don't find out about it until it's kind of late and they have everything.
Oh, I was going to nominate Tom. You can nominate that. That's okay. Oh, that's right. Because you got this. All right. So we are at the point of oath of office administered by me at this point I guess. And where is Elizabeth? Ah you gets to be the center of attract of attention here up there. Come over here. They all got because y Okay, come on up. We're going to do this in unison though. I'm going to read this one time and you say your name. Okay, you stand up and you face. Okay, okay. Do you have the same thing I have or what you have here? Okay. Mine is in bigger print. Huh? All right. You can bring it. Do I need this done? Okay. I need this with me. [Music] Todd Hallmir swear that I will faithfully discharge the duty that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of member of the board of education of the office of member of the board of education of 2011 school district of creep on this 2011 school district in accordance with the constitution of the United States in accordance with the constitution of the United States the constitution of the state of Illinois the constitution of the state of Illinois and the laws of the state of Illinois to the the best of my ability.
And God bless those uh sponsors that are going with him. And Mr. Webb, if he's one of them, hope he makes it back. The senior walk at the elementary schools May 14th as his scholarship night. And on 15th of May, we have a barbecue from 11 at 11:00 a.m. That's a senior barbecue. That's kind of fun, too. for the boards just for your notification. We'll notice a possible quorum for all events so you can come and don't have to worry about it. As long as you're not talking about schoolboard business, you're good. The uh last day of school is the 15th of May. Graduation is the 17th, excuse me, 16th at 7 p.m. And then um lock in at grad night if anybody wants to help. They're always looking for help at that event and it's a great event. And so if you want to come, come on in.
So I love this is a great start. This gives me more of an understanding on certain reasons on why um you know I think I still need to have a couple of more conversations and go back and forth on certain things. One of my biggest um questions is is how is this going to affect our student ratio that we have this year going into next year? Is that going to increase our class size? Um is that a question that we know of? We don't know. Anybody can answer that? Um yeah. Yeah. So, um, last year when we approved the, um, class size reduction of the ratio of 27.5 to 25, um, that was done with onetime funding because when you get onetime funding, there's only so many things you can spend it on essentially. Um, and we decided that, you know, the amount of money that it would about 1.5 million to do that ratio reduction.
So hopefully with adding this tool along with the others and continuing along with the EA agreement, we're doing everything we can, right? It's a moving moving target as always. So any questions about those pieces? We can talk a little bit about the the renewal details uh on the cost front. So you just said the continuing of the EA agreement. So is this I'm looking down here at the renewal details. Is this $2.5 million over the next 5 years, is that in addition to what we've already what we're already spending on GoG Guardian and and Umbrella? No. So, all of those pieces we talked about are wrapped up into one. So, that's the total cost over five years. We'll pay that annually and that's what the 511,000 is, which is just a little bit more of what we've been paying over the last four years. four-ish years.