So, that's that's a that's a good thing. And then also um the clarity and simplicity. Um there was a big effort Josh and Tony and their teams uh worked to try and make that budget or that the proposal um easier to read and um so hopefully you'll we'll see it and you'll agree with that. But uh so good work there by Tony, Josh, and the rest of the team. We don't Yeah, we didn't PL or yeah plaque didn't meet and then we have a policy meeting tentatively in July. July. Yeah. But I have nothing reported there. Uh I had equity on uh last week. So um they focused on the structure of next year um which includes what representation they want to have um in the committee. I think they're going to try to keep it to um like one rep from each school, but they also want to ensure that that representation covers various groups like you have your sped, e, you know, whatever other programs maybe that are necessary to ensure that there's um coverage through that.
So, it wasn't just, hey, do we like this or not like it, but we had certain categories that we were evaluating such as um the data in reporting. What type of reports was it going to generate for our teachers to help inform their instruction? What was the impact on instruction in instruction? Does the platform offer lessons or strategies or tips that could directly translate and make the teachers lives a little bit easier when it comes to teaching students? One of the things that I heard from here as well was the parent communication. What was the platform going to provide us to ensure that our parents were feeling informed when the students reports went home? We also looked at Spanish language availability. Um, and then we looked at that early literacy phonics. Is it going to assess that early literacy phonics? Because up until this point, as Dr.
Uh then we did a review of sections 3 and four of the D26 policy manual. Next up, we have the consent agenda. Included are those items that are routine in nature. Should any board member wish to remove an item from the consent agenda, the item will be discussed at the end of section 17. Any removals, monthly bill and payroll for approval are in the amount of 2,523,4201. The treasures report, the resignation dismissal retirement report, approval of employment, the destruction of closed meeting audio recordings, the disposal of assets, the approval of placing fiscal year 25 amended budget on display, the organic life LLC contract for 20 20252026 policy 410 fiscal and business management. May I have a motion to approve the following 16.1.2 16.3 16.4 4 16.5 16.6 16.7 16.8 and 16.9 So move so moved second.
Okay, hearing none. If we could move that to consent, please. Uh, next up we have the uh additional teacher allocation. That would be Dr. White. Yep. Good evening. Um, so when as just a followup from the 2526 staffing plan that I shared a few months ago, if you remember, we did have um certain grade level sections that we were continuing to watch based on um class size or average class size for that grade level. And so we've continued to watch um the fourth grade numbers for next year at Briergate and have determined um that we would like to increase um that allocation. Current class size um with having three sections where we're currently at, but have those classrooms at an average of right at 27 students. So adding an additional teacher at um at the fourth grade level would bring those down um around to 20 students per class.
Brian, somehow your email got kicked back to me. But I did ask the financial team Jason and his team to kind of look at the financial report, 108 pages of it. typically what we get a 100 pages and kind of see if he can kind of condense it to a little bit more meat on a couple pages as opposed to sending out the whole report but yet having it the report readily available as needed by a board member who wants to see it. So, he's going to get back, his team is going to get back to us. If you have any any input, suggestions, anything like that, I did receive one suggestion. I'll pass that over to the financial team as well on what we can add or don't add. So, we should have had an email email regarding that topic. Okay. There's no other further discussion on the consent agenda.
No balls, one strike here to Groork. Oh, sharply hit ball. Foul. Turned around too quickly on that one. That's in the dirt. May's able to make his way over to second base easily. Two and two. I think there's a ball. Now it's two and two. Guess I predicted it was going to be two and two. Yeah, it's in there for a strike. That'll be the third out. Ashley able to get four runs on the board in that inning. Great job by Ashlin there. Some good hitting, some good base running. Able to uh get that score closer now at the end of the at the end of the fifth inning. Hop in seven, Ashlin five. Good. Good. Good competition there by Ashlin being down six runs and able to put four up on the board in one inning. Cardos is back out on the mound taking some warm-ups as we head to the top of the sixth inning.
So um we have incorporated lessons that um you know student help students identify their career paths, what their interests are and then um built out you know what would their resume look like, what would those experiences look like. So again it was um so all students in ninth grade um were enrolled in it. So it it coincided with their experience in exploratory and um and so really prepared them for making those choices um when they did their shop selection. And now for the for the remainder of this year, it is building upon those skills. After the shop selection, this is when they're in their shops. This is um so it's all ninth grade and it's it's on it's the whole rotation. It's the whole rotation. Yes. Yeah. So it's not geared to any specific career that they're in. Thank you. I'm sorry, Ryan. Continue. Yeah.
We uh we're always looking for more members, but uh there's 21 folks that have stuck with us. We're a service organization and we're dedicated to helping kids. That's uh that's who we work for all year. Excuse me. Getting over getting over a cold. Last uh excuse me, last week we uh we gave out scholarships to eight graduating seniors at Walden and Serena. Uh those were $2,000 scholarships which we hope will give them a hand in getting on the right path in their life. Excuse me. the students that we gave the uh awards to the the scholarships um weren't the top students at school, but they were the students that we thought needed the help the most. And that's kind of been our theme uh is to uh is to give a helping hand to the the kids that need it the most. our uh our gift, our award uh that we give out each year here is to the what we call the comeback kid.
based on a market evaluation that we had done uh by a company and um so we are resolving that with our lease agreements with our long-term facilities users. Uh we were going to be taking a look at our um rate. We try to keep it as low as possible um for those facilities users who are coming in as you said for enrichment. um it they get a discount uh when they come in if they're going to be serving our population of students uh on top of low rates for facilities use. If you go around and look at other facilities use that the rates are so much higher. Um so I mean we can absolutely take a look at that and if it if you feel like that's something that is creating a scenario where parents cannot participate, kids can't participate in enrichment programs, we we want to be aware of that and and do a little more deep dive.
Clones, um, he's created a very great a great culture where it doesn't matter what what your political beliefs are, what your religious beliefs are, what what other things you like, you feel welcome there. And so I think I just urge you to think about the message you're sending by cutting one of a priority CTE program. Thank [Applause] you. Hey, I just I just real quick wanted to say I watched several of those Highland games with my kids and we love your commentary. It's so great. We appreciate it. Thanks for your comments. Our next Karen Fields. Am I saying that right? It's files. Okay, Karen, whenever you're ready. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Um, good evening. Thank you to the board and to the cabinet um for this opportunity to speak. Um, as a mother of children in the district, a community member, and a fellow educator, uh, I am here tonight to ask you to investigate and create systems of action to improve Gilbert Public Schools support of students who are vulnerable to peer-to-peer aggression.
Um and then discuss how to get their information uh because uh through the internet there's not a ton of hits on like the equity page. So kind of using their SLT, which are their school leadership teams, um to kind of push out that information from equity to the schools versus trying to rely on individuals to visit the web page, the internet. So if there's important information to push out using the SLT, which was a great idea. Um, we heard from student services um committee um and their focus on uh portrait of graduate and um continuing education. I think they're really leaning into more of the um adult seal and just also trying to continue to bring student voice to the table. Um so they were updating us on that part of it and just seeing if there's like overlap with equity. But I think as a whole um I'm I'm sure we're going to switch over committees, but equity really has had some discussions on bringing student voices to the table and um maybe like some community outreach because we know we have data, right?
White recently just said, we haven't really had an effective benchmark to assess those components. So we drafted a rubric and then from there evaluated the two. The results were as follows broken down. The very first part was the benchmark review committee 7 67% were in favor of I ready. Grades K2 67% were in favor of I ready. Grades 35 74% I Ready. And then grade 68 56% I Ready. So across the board the majority vote was for I Ready. And that was based on all of the teachers uh input that submitted their vote. So some of the things that they had shared uh teacher feedback was that it seemed very studentfriendly. Uh that there were support materials, a personalized learning path, which I'm going to explain in just a moment, interactive lessons, um that it placed them exactly where they needed to be. Uh and we continue.
Any discussion? I just have one comment um directed toward Mr. Daroo on the resignations. I read all of the resignation letters. um are you are giving these people that are resigning like an exit interview and kind of figuring out why they're leaving or where they're going that and we'll get a report on that maybe toward the end of summer or fall or something. Yes. Uh all employees, all exiting employees still receive an exit interview and I'll have that data and a presentation ready for you next month. We're gathering it up just as the um retiring employees and exiting employees that leave at the end of the school year. Okay. um to get those in May and I'll have that for you at the May board meeting or the May cow meeting. Okay, that's wonderful. Thank you. Yep. We were going to bring it this month, but we thought with it would finish out the year we're getting all of the the last one.
Um Mr. NZ is also watching first grade. Um so if there is the determination, we don't have any other classrooms. So it would either have to be first grade or fourth grade, but right now it is needed in the fourth grade um in that section. And so that's the recommendation is to add um an FTE. Mr. Shepard has already um pre-planned if the board were to approve that that that would be able um to be in um the upcoming budget already. Okay.
I'm not going to have the superintendent read that each line item. Pretty cumbersome at this point. So, is she agree? All right. So, I would like uh roll call, please. Mr. Sales. Hi. Dr. Hall. I. Miss Venegas. I Miss Wolf. I Zites says an I Mr. Gagos I Mr. Brown. I motion carry. That takes us to number eight, action report number eight, alpha, business number one. Could I have a motion to approve the resolution debating the working cash fund of Creek Monique Community Unit District 2011, Will County, Illinois in the amount of $20 million. So moved. Move by Alex. I second. Second by Dr. Hall.
What happened? A lot of players on the Ashlin baseball team here have older brothers that play or have played baseball that I know. I I don't know the middle schoolers, but I know uh Padulla and Gorman and Petta and Groork and Lame. Um any right, we're getting going here. We got a New batter for him. I don't have on my list. Towering foul ball. Way out of play. Near the range of the left fielder. Is it one and one? That ball's in for a strike. One ball, two strikes. Quickly gets ahead of the first batter here. Exactly what you want to do. That ball's down in the dirt for two and two. Nice pitch. Frozen gets the strike out. First batter out. One out here on top of the sixth inning. That ball way high. Look like Baracki up about the train comes through Ashlin.
Well, that was a good good because next we're going to talk about CTE. So, we just talked about curriculum implementation in academics, which there's a lot to it, a lot to it. But, um, what's easier about the academic side, I would say, is that there's a lot of curriculum out there that's been vetted and there's, you know, so much like nationwide, so much emphasis on that. Um, and then you turn to CTE. We have 21 programs. Um, and where's the vetted curriculum out there for those different programs? Well, we have searched high and low. Um, and um, actually Brenda and Lauren and I went to the national CTE conference earlier this year and that was one of our main goals was to see what is going on in other states. Um, and um, we talked to people at like the very top in different places and they're like, well, no, there isn't really something out there.
And uh in the past that's been somebody that maybe didn't start out on the right foot or maybe it was somebody who was never came out of their shell but eventually did. And uh so our uh our award is for that that person that's not necessarily shown the most improvement, but the person that has has turned their turned themselves around. Uh Mr. Lean is going to talk a little bit about that person and we'll give them our [Applause] award. All right. So, I want to give a shout out to the Optimist Club really quick while I'm up here, too, because with three weeks before the track season started, they donated money that allowed us to get hurdles for the first time in Continentals history. So, thank you. And our track teams gave that back 10fold by bringing home two championship first place trophies for boys and girls.
We have committees uh that take a look at those data sets and I know that that's something that maybe our fiscal stewardship committee um could put on our uh agenda this year and we're always looking for parent uh support in those committees. So I'm happy to if you want to come and serve. It's a fun committee. I have a committee member in the audience. I mean I'm open to considering that. I like I I talked to some other parents who bring the enrichment programs to other schools and other districts and they have like an hourly rate of like $8 an hour. Sure. So I don't know how we we have a similar rate if there's no fee is being charged. So So the the differential is typically if a fee is being charged. So when it's forprofit, but we have a similar I think it's I don't know the exact number, but it's around $8 if the program is being provided to our students at no cost.
whether that vulnerability stems from a social communication disability, sorry, like autism or cognitive impairment or there's an incident on a school campus proving a student is at risk. The district as a whole needs to implement a system of identification of students at risk and supports in the form of explicit interventions to support all students. My son has enjoyed eight full years of incredible partnership and support. Miss Cork, Miss Matthysse, Miss Welsh, Miss Kenny, and Miss Crab deserve awards for their service and dedication to our students. Miss Stevenson has been instrumental in the incredible growth that we have been able to witness. They have been eight years of intentional and caring inclusion. Unfortunately, they have not been eight years without incident. It became clear in November of this year that my son was at risk for exploitation and susceptible to peer-to-peer aggression. I would love to believe that a zero tolerance policy is enough to keep students safe, but it's not.