Any questions? for the motion that we did do the second reading. No, we're we just need to do requested BA through BKA. I'll back to you, Miss Daniel. Okay. So, um I am respectfully requesting that we change the date of our June board meeting from the 9th into the 16th to accommodate Mr. Livingston. Just kidding. The auditor general hasn't released the forms for next year's budget yet. We received notice today that they hope to have them out in early June, but this allows Mr. Livingston to prepare the proposed budget for the board using all the correct forms. Um this happened last year as well. So, we always just wait and see if they'll get the forms out in time, but if that's agreeable to the board members, we respectfully request moving the meeting to June 16th. June 16. Okay. Um, we need to make a motion for that, too.
So, when you make your recommendations and approve these intersections that we're giving you tonight, um, I have to submit a form to the state of Illinois and that would classify our intersections as hazardous with the state. Part of that is for us to get reimbursement claims back from the state of Illinois on our our transportation reimbursement claim um which we haven't done um in a while. So we want to get that money back. Um, Fox, Chase, Thompson, Trober. Um, there's a few intersections that we identified was hazardous as well as the engineer studies. Um, Wolf Crossing, Bernardik. Um, those were some areas team and I went back a lot of times and talked about these areas and how we could make it non-hazardous. But at this point, we're going to continue to say that those areas were hazardous and recommend those for the state as well as Boulder Hill.
I'm sorry. We could do that. I know we have some guests and I'm so sorry we kept you. Um, but enjoyed our meeting so far. I'm gonna we could go into Lisa. Yes. So I um I'm really excited um tonight. My report is kind of a one one point and we have um our esteemed guest um Mrs. Irene Barry who is retired from the district. She was um um world language teacher extraordinaire as well as the world language um department chair and Such Chico who is currently the um history uh social sciences department chair um and um extraordinaire and all that he does and our varsity softball currently coach right now. So, um, but I invited them here today. Um, and there was another staff member who was not able to, um, come this evening. And it really is to honor the legacy that our staff leaves um, in um, in our students.
I mean I feel like everybody feels like there needs to be something done. The question is just the fun. Do you have any are you asking the board for just their thoughts on like you looking at other funds that are out there? I'm looking at that and I mean I know we've got where we're growing in every aspect. I mean the school and the elementary is growing and we're running out of space and I feel like this addition would also help more growth as far as more people coming also. I mean we've had kids that youth program Ellenwood didn't have a youth program. We had up to eight or 10 kids were coming from Ellenwood. Ellsworth just got a youth program. They didn't have kids up there before they were coming down here. So, we've got kids from other communities coming down and running on a dirt track to be a part of a track club because they didn't have something of their own place.
Make a motion for approval of the change of the date. I will move to approve the change of the date of the next board meeting from June 9th to June 16th. Second. All in favor? Excuse me. Larry, you don't get to come for us very often. I know. Welcome. Good evening, madam vice president, members of the board. I come to you tonight as a representative of the Superintendent Employee Advisory Council, CEAK, we go by. Uh what you have in front of you is a proposed first reading of a revision to policy GCCA which is our lead policy. Uh this kind of began as a subcommittee within the within SEAK. Um it kind of exploded a little bit into some minor tweaks into some major revisions that uh soon involved the human resource department, human resources department and Shelley. Um the original committee was myself, Dr.
Um, and then again, there's there's several schools throughout this slide that you'll see the intersections that we identify was hazardous. Um, what's next? Our June 9th um is our next board meeting. I'm hoping that we have action from the board that the is approve uh our recommendations and then on June 10th I plan to submit that to the state of Illinois for um hazardous areas. June 24th we plan to communicate that to our families and then in July we plan to have two town hall meetings with our families as well as with our engineers. um they will be with us in those town halls because they have that detailed information to provide to families and answer those questions that maybe I can't answer. Um and then we plan to have all of this information out to our families by August 1st. Um there's a lot of data that we plan to distribute to our community.
And I think that's something that really needs to be lifted up and we need to feel very very proud of. So, I received um this letter. My name is Brendan Shanahan. I teach US and Canadian history at Yale University. I'm a proud graduate of Boilston Elementary School and of Tanto Regional Middle High School, class of 2007. Ghost Dags. My first book, Disparit Regimes: Nivist Politics: Alien Edge Law and CI Citizenship Rights in the United States 1865 to 1965 was recently published by Oxford University Press. I am sending a hard cover hard coverver copy of disparit regimes [Music] there um to Mr. P Chico to review in in this is this is I I I can't imagine how you feel being recognized in the book's acknowledgement section. I recognize the foundational education I received from the schools of the Burland Boilston Regional School District and my teachers at Bees and Hanto.
Yeah. So, I mean I I think yeah, you're not going to get any argument from anybody that something needs done out there and improvements would be great. So, is this something that the rough neck reinforcers is working on? Not yet. I don't think there was any number specific numbers or anything like that. Yeah, the guy that gave me this bid, I think, is the one that gave RJ that initial bid for the reinforcers to have kind of a ballpark figure. Um, but that wasn't weighing in. I I called him. I wanted to kind of meet with him and say, "Hey, you know, what is what have you done in the past?" And when I sat down with him with kind of my drawings and schematics and moving stuff, he goes, "Well, you're more prepared than most people would meet with." They usually just kind of say this is we want to do track and they do everything.
Moody uh Jenny Ted Bird and Paul Romati. And so, uh, it kind of got a little crazy, but this is a good crazy. And so, some of the highlights that, uh, I would like to point out, we tried to simplify it. Instead of calling it undifferentiated leave, we're just calling it leave. We're trying to make it easier to, uh, for the employees to use it, take out some of the loopholes that that have been built in. We're also asking uh for the maximum amount of leave to actually go back up to 960 hours. A few years ago, we requested to drop it. It did not have the impact that we hoped and so we're requesting that goes back. We also have a different scale now for leave payback we're calling it. Instead of it being a flat 40% for everybody, it is a it is a scale based on continuous years of service with the district.
Uh, one of the things I will point out here is on our transportation web page, we will have frequently asked questions as well as our safe walk routes that we are working with the village to create for all of our buildings. And I think that's it for me to Teresa or Raphael or Dr. Con, I know you've been working very closely. Anything you'd like to add before we open up for questions? Oh, all right. Thank you, Miss Smoothly. Questions from the board. Is it too early? It's probably too early in the game to determine if this will be if if this will be a big relief to uh our transportation or if it will there's so many hazardous crossing routes, it almost seems like it's going to be worse. Um will be will we be able to free up some bus time, some this year?
I meant every word. I thank Mr. Pico specifically along with Mrs. Irene Barry, Mr. Patrick Minham for launching my interest in North American immigration history. He outlines that in um in his in the acknowledgement acknowledgement sections. Um Brendan's journey is not only a reflection of his own dedication but also a reflection of the educators who guided him along the way. This serves as a powerful reminder of how the power that educators have to transform the lives of young people and the future. and Brendan's success is really one of many that highlight the great things we do at um the Berlin Boilston School District and I wanted to acknowledge Miss Ironberry and Mr. Steve Pico for their contributions and being a legacy. And so not and so this serves as to me like thank you for the public for supporting what we do because it is so incredibly important.
So he said they like to work with local contractors and business workers. So I mean I was trying to I think we could save money. I mean they're not hauling dirt equipment out here if we can get somebody locally to do it. Yeah. Uh the price that he gave the reinforcers rough. Was it a breakdown? No. or it was, hey, it was he showed up, he looked at it and said, "Here's a here's the amount that I could just ballpark you basically." Okay. Um, yeah. So, I guess our my recommendation too would be to try to raise funds, find out about any specific grants or anything like that. I know we do have a few more things to talk about tonight too with the daycare and stuff that might impact your phase one phase, you know, phase 2 expansion. Um, but I think everything looks great.
Anybody who is a current employee now will stay at the 40% even if they would drop. But anybody new would be impacted by this scale. And it also could uh elevate some people's leave by back or payback if they've been here quite a while. But I think you'll see on the scale is quite a bit. I also do want to point out that the term blackout dates Dr. Moody he insisted.
I would say no. Not this year. I mean 25 26 I would say no. Okay. Um because again we're identifying them as hazardous now with the state which means the students that we transport that are up under that's under a mile and a half and in those hazardous areas we will get um funding back in the reimbursement claim. That will be a cost savings but that's not a lot but it won't free up our buses. But but what one sorry when I add one thing but it's me over here sorry votes 100 um no but I do think one point to clarify is by following the policies for alternate drop and pickup though there would be greater efficiencies because right now with kids connection not being at every building there is a lot of shuttling going on and there will be no need for that anymore so that time would be saved for sure and then and then the uh after school care not that's kids connection that they have to be in their own right following the rules, right?
Um and I don't know did you you've been reviewing the book I know I know it's the end of the year so not a lot of extra time. Um, but is there any was there anything that you wanted to say about the book or about Brendan or Well, it's it's an overwhelming piece of scholarship actually. I mean, there there are about 60 pages of of notes at the end regards to, you know, his sources and that sort of thing. It is a tremendous piece of scholarship. Um, well beyond anything I ever tal um but uh It's just an impressive piece of work and and um it is something that he was oddly um passionate about um even as a teenager. So it wasn't wasn't like anything I directed him towards. It was um motivating Brendan uh is like motivating a shark to attack seal. Uh but but he really um so I'm quite proud to even have him be able to acknowledge me in this in this piece of work.
So, you can get the money. Thank you. Thanks. Okay. Item number 14, high school science. All right. Um, Mrs. Chamber Baron came to me um a couple weeks ago and asked if there had ever been a discussion about um some of our high school science or I'm sorry some of her our high school a classes are science credits um and I don't know the answer to that as far as has that ever been presented to the board um so I am going to present an idea for allowing um animal science and horiculture to count for high school graduation credits as a as a core science credit. Um so just to give you a little bit of background in that um this the high school graduation requirements for the minimum requirements from the state for the three science credits it reads three units of science which shall include physical biological and earth and space science concepts and which shall include at least one laboratory course.
So, do you have any I know there's a first reading, but do you have any questions on this? And I know we'll be back next month for the actual So, my math isn't too good tonight. How many How many days is 960 hours? And that's that new that allows people to accumulate. Oh, I see. Yes. That's a maximum accumulation. So, you don't use right. Every July 1 leave is built based on how many months you work. um your your FTE. It's different for every employee the number of days it equates because not everybody works a 10-hour day. Some people work a seven hour day or so 900. So that many hours will be well we don't pay off days, we pay off hours. Full time 12 months would typically earn 96 a year. 10 years worth if people didn't use le for 10 whole years in a row.
There's greater efficiencies which I think save time and money. Not to the extent where if we were to eliminate 10 or 15 buses, but I'd want to say that there's definitely some efficiencies that are going to be realized and then I I correct me if I'm wrong. These are probably considered hazardous already. Most of these Yes, we consider them hazardous now. We just have to get So there's no increase. There's no increase except for the roundabout. Roundabout is what we're recommending. So, oh, one second. So, it sounds like um we've thought through how we will support our families who may be losing bus services, kids connection um being one of them, which I think is awesome, but are there any other supports we'll have in place such as um hiring additional crossing guards, um identifying walking routes? Are there any other plans to look into that a bit further?
is is is obviously it's topical but it's really more associated with 19th century. So it's not really a work by any stretch of the imagination, but does it is a great reference. you know, sort of the history of immigration um in this country and how it connects to voting rights and and um citizens rights and and um and census and even you know um lenture for professional um work within the government and even blue collar work and there there is a there is a blurb about the building the Clinton Dam right um and that's which is really cool and um in regards to um the workforce that was needed build the Clinton Dam and of course then you had the des you had conflict between the Irish um uh existing workforce and the Italian immigrants and that was very interesting I never I really never so it's it's um it it's a book that talks about the varying policies of state for state but it's also local so it's it's it's a wonderful but tense read well thank you thank you so much both for coming and that is my lifting up of what happens at Tahanto.
Okay. So, my recommendation would be to allow or to require students to take either biology or physical science um as as one of their high school graduation requirements and then allow them to um take a horiculture class or a plant and soil science class or a um animal science class as their other two credits to satisfy their graduation requirements as um from the school. Um I do have her uh syllabi if you'd like to look at them. Um the way that CTE courses are designed are around competencies. So our other courses are designed around state standards. Um you know teachers have to teach state standards. Um those are usually um just a few things like when I was teaching there were four concepts in science that I had to cover. Um these are the competencies that have to be covered in that in just one of her CTE courses.