Um, we've had a lot of kids over the past several years that have been good javelin throwers and we have to go over to Hoisington and throw off of their track into their grass because they don't have a javelin runway either. So when you get regionals in state, we don't have a place to practice ourselves to do this. Um, what I I've seen more water set down in here and kids trying to hydroplane than it being used for ball field anymore was kind of to to fill that in and tear that out. Again, lots of people have volunteered to come in and help get that stuff out of there so that we could build in a javelin runway. Um, this is kind of what you kind of got some pictures of there. I stole this image here and this one here. Led got a new track two years ago.
So, so that's where we're at in the state of 131,000 last year to put a fire alarm at Del Rio. We're hopeful they can do it for 250 maybe 275,000 but that is a deficiency. Fire alarm not working super well at the high school. That's a quick look at those seven projects and look at our financial situation end of April. Any other funds or or questions for No. Um student activity. Student activity. I thought I would mention uh two things with student activity. We have the highest fundraiser group is high school student council over 13,000 year to date. And the highest expense group, high school band, uh $3,700 expense by one of our student activity groups. And I all I hear about the band at the high school is that the teacher is is rocking it. And we talked to her about the stuff she's doing.
Studies have found that among children diagnosed with FASD, 70% are or have been in foster care. And the percentage of youth in foster care with an FASD diagnosed is as high as 28%. But estimates are actually that that number is higher because of the rate of misdiagnosis. So what is the rate? One in 20 is what we've been talking about. So at least one in every classroom. Uh but a study from 2018 to 2020 found that nearly one in seven pregnant people reported drinking alcohol in the past 30 days. That's preandemic. And we know that the rate of binge drinking significantly increased during the pandemic. and we would see those kids coming into our school in early childhood. Now, another study, the adolescent brain cognitive development study, which is longitudinal, ongoing, it's based on parental reports. 26% of over 9,700 adolesccents were prenatally exposed to alcohol, one in four pregnancies.
Um it's really exciting to see that rebound coming and happening and so three times this year we get to visit. So let's keep winning so we get to keep seeing you come back. But really great work um uh for um David Burkard. What a what a great honor. Congratulations to him and his family for the recognition he got with that solar patrol. Um Chip, I was going to mention um as we start to look at some things that need repairs, you know, you know, um the the football field, locker rooms, concessions, bathrooms, lack of water, lack of hot water. Um some don't work. Those are things that we've really got to get on our list and get some serious work done down there to make it more functional. I do hear complaints as I'm cooking pork burgers about different things in the restrooms. That's disappointing.
So if you've got somebody who's really good at, you know, putting together the description of the community or what have you, that really is up to all of you. Um my sense is that we can there's not any sort of um restriction on when we do that. So my thought was to actually just send you that, you know, that worksheet right away and have you start working on it with the idea that that would already be done then when we start entering all of this conversation in the fall. Um then having spoken to Mr. Ganam um my plan would be to be in central office the week before school starts. So as you know things start to gear up in central office as we go through August. as part of that process having a conversation with those who are in central office um about what are the needs of the district what do they see um the district needing in terms of leadership um what is working well what is not and so forth then with the agreement of Mr.
McFersonen. I've talked to them and I've got roughly what they had spent on theirs, but their prices are a lot different where we'd be starting from the ground up versus theirs is a resurfacing. And they all did a lot of parking lot work and a lot of other things that I'm not looking into. But so phase one, um I would like to be able to see the field events moved to take the long jump pit that's in the middle of the football field out of there. Um kind of some reasoning there, too. We know our numbers are kind of high. As a football coach, we're flirting with the possibility of 11 man and I know that they've had it in there before, but a lot of facilities are just taking the pits out of the inside of the football field. If you're hosting a track meeting, it gets all the parents extra out of the inside the fence and off of the football field and out of the track area.
She's holding her own fundraisers. She's extremely proud of her program. And you can just you can tell when she turns her inventory in and there's four 400 items on the she knows where every one of her hobos is. One of her bass guitars is so I think the community I think really supports everything at the high school band. That's really all I have. That's great. Thank you. Anything? Okay. Fellow board members, I do apologize, but I have another obligation I have to go to. So, Vice President Martinson is going to take over for me. Thank you. Sorry for the interruption. Thank you. [Music] Okay. If you want to We're going to move along to a consent agenda. I will make a motion that we approve the consent consent agenda. Second I will all in favor. All right. Moving along to the increase in costition. Um board members and staff and visitors.
And very exciting news, um there is going to be a statewide free training in October um on FASD. I think we're going to have two days in the Chicago area and two days down in Springfield. Three. So, I hope somebody from this district, at least one, somebody um would like to attend that. I only have a minute. Dual language. First, I want to thank first, third, and fourth grade Boulder Hill dual language teachers who organized the penpal program with students at U of I who belong to the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. They do this all year. And April 26th was the field trip for Boulder Hill students to meet their college buddies. And it's so cool to see like they were waiting there for the buses and like wow these kids, these little first and third and fourth graders are important to these big college people who are successful junior high.
Um because we hear a lot of other compliments and that that's encouraging as well. But um so anyway, something to put on your list of things that are constantly fixed. Um so let's see last thing I want to mention. Indian Trails used to have an annual award tonight. They still recognizing our teachers that are in the just finished. Um, they just put out voting for that. So, honestly, I'm not it's not been put on our count. I just recognize that we haven't recognized those teachers that have won awards and done outstanding cooperative, but uh and to all of our teachers. Um, thank you for really everything you do every day. the students touch um as Rebecca said back school year. Uh you know really they feel it every single day and they all have those teachers that they'll never forget. So thank you to all our teachers and staff for making possible and uh keep the facilities up our administrators.
began the start date for faculty which as you know is on August 26th I will be in the district and actually do input sessions with the faculty as part of that. Um one thing that I really appreciate and think is actually really important um is doing it as part of a thing that staff is going to be doing anyway rather than a here's an option that you can give input about makes a huge difference in terms of the level of participation. Um, and so I really appreciate that actually just being part of the the professional development day that day. As you all know, the first day of school is the 28th. Um, honestly, genuinely, rather than having the public survey open that day, my plan actually is to make it available to send the link to all of you um to the district leadership so that it can go out with the back- tochool communication and just make it part of, you know, those first newsletters and those first emails and put make sure it gets on the website and everything else.
So, be able to move. We don't currently have anything for pull. Um, it'd be nice to be able to add that for the kids in the opportunity. I felt like that moving all this down here next to the practice field, having the trees there as a windbreak would help with pull bolt because you don't pull into wind. That's kind of a suicide thing. And the long jump pits either, you know, both directions. We currently have the discus rings down here that I moved. Um, and then again updating the shot put rings just kind of doing the raw the gravel and the curbs and things to that. Um, one option I threw out there, Tescuit's done it and somebody told him, I can't remember who the other school had done this. I asked Pat, I says, "Pat, why is this runway so long?" He goes, "Well, we used to run a straight 220." So, this runway coming all the way out of the end of here is super long.
Um Senovia is in charge of CASA and has ever asked me to um request because of um increasing costs that we're all dealing with to increase um CASA the monthly tuition fee for $10. And that would be um and CASA is our Chino after school advantage program. And this would raise the a standard month for tuition from 220 to 230. And um and then we have a a a discounted rate for our employee students from 145 to 155. And there will be no increase to the actual student enrollment fees that they take out. So that she's requesting that to help keep up with costs. And is that um four days a week the cost? And then what time does it go till um to six o'clock. Do do you think that that that's a fair number? Yes, I think it's a very fair number for a month for $10 a month.
We need an update please from our district leadership. What's the status on bridging for math for incoming sixth graders? Honor social studies available for DL. We know there was teacher upheaval again this year, not as bad as last year. What is the structured mentorship like for these teachers at plank? We would like leadership to communicate with parents as they did at the BPAC meeting at the beginning of the year and we need to also be concerned with what supports are available to our DL students as they move to high school. There's a specific path in class that is recommended. My kids are at OS and they have had a successful joyful experience. No short of amazing considering the educational trauma they endured at plank that they're still not over. But I have heard that the experience at East is marketkedly different. So, I hope there can be some consistency so that all graduates of DL can experience success and joy at the high school level as they continue to explore the language and culture.
You are constantly trying to keep everything. We really appreciate you. I think this is about all been said, hasn't it? That's right. Yeah. I I appreciate everything that everybody was doing. Teachers, transportation director, athletic director, uh, you guys doing an outstanding job. Even not a a farm boy. It's, uh, pretty cool to hear how you guys are improving. It seems like every time you guys come back, you're always raising that bar a little bit higher and by the time you guys get to be seniors, I think you're going to reach that highest high mark that you can. So, keep up the hard work. Sounds like you're doing a great job. And nice to hear about the athletes in some of them in middle in middle school. Is that correct? And maybe one more thing to put on your list is basketball school boards. Congratulations. All right.
Um because as you had spoken of, you know, making this essentially part of the we're coming back to school, we're planning for next year um is a really useful thing. Um so you can I guess disregard that it would be actually opening on the 28th, but mark that it would be going on through the communication. Uh I am going to ask that within that first week or two, there's some flexibility there. It will depend on when people are meeting. Um, I also get an opportunity to meet with your student council and then um I will schedule public input sessions in the evening. Um, if you have strong feelings about how that should work, I'm happy to take um your direction on that in terms of sometimes two town regional districts want to make sure that there's one in each town. Sometimes communities like to make sure that there's one in person and one online.
And I've seen some schools where they would add pits onto the end. So, if you had done a new track, they would add pits on the end of this runway so you could mark your lines and they would actually utilize that space. So, you'd have pits there on the end of the track. Um, it just kind of saves saves space. It gives you more areas to work with. Just kind of throwing that out as another idea. So, this again is that image. This is from the track company's drone. He gave me that image and then I kind of photo oped in the other different things kind of to give you an idea what the track and football field up here would look like without the pits inside. Um, just kind of letting that be visible. So what I calling phase one which makes things a little bit more affordable and over the longevity in time is improving the shot put rings discus rings um an addition of a javelin runway and moving those long and triple jump pits to the south um and possibly adding the pvolt pit.
Yeah, I do think that's very fair. Okay. I can understand the increase. Yeah. Is there like any scholarship programs or anything for lower income? She she does um work with um getting vouchers from and I forget dees. Yeah. Oh yeah. So people can use dees vouchers and our homeless students. Um we have funds to help cover the cost for homeless students that may be in our after school program as well. Okay. Great. No, that's fine. Okay. I will need a motion. I will move to approve the 2526 increase of the cost of monthly tuition fee by $10 for each student. Second. All in favor? I thank you. All right, moving along. So, as we've been working in HR um on um job descriptions and evaluation tools, my esteemed colleague, Mrs. Bryce, helped me with the dean of students evaluation tool. We escalated you to esteemed.
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any other move on to uh superintendent report? Dr. K. All right. Good evening board. Um just on behalf of our senior leadership team and really all the the hardworking members of this district committee, I'm thrilled to be here with our newly elected and returning board members. Um it's truly an honor um to continue in our service to our district and to our students. Last week we um we celebrated teacher appreciation week. Uh we also had school nurse day and national sign language interpreter day and it was really amazing to see our staff members being recognized um truly an honor to be a part of that work um by their peers, leaders, uh parent groups and other committee members who we've stepped up and came in and found ways to show appreciation to our staff and we want to thank them for making time to recognize our our staff in every part of our district.
I'd like to say thank you and welcome to everyone that was visited today. I can't say enough impressed I am that national contest this was an athletic dentist winning the state championship might fund I'd like to congratulate uh Uh Jessica Baines, she just has finished up her master's degree in counseling. She's got her certification. That's your second master's degree. I know it takes a little appreciated. I like to wish all the seniors and everyone that's taking finals coming up here in a couple weeks on that stressful time. Thank you for all the teachers for everything you've done in your corner and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at graduation on May 31st at 10 a.m. Uh I'm back to echoing my fellow board members thoughts. I think they um I would like to uh uh call out um the students being here. I think that uh that has been a great addition and that last Okay.