These are all considered open positions. So these all get posted and then we go through the process of transferring teachers. So we start with um teachers first get the opportunity to voluntarily transfer to a position that's open once the voluntary transfer process is done. Then we look at involuntary transfers where we move stu move students move teachers or make placements based on what's in the best interest of the students. Um after we finish that process then we post outside of the district and we work on hiring for any unfilled positions. Um we do have ongoing review of special education staffing needs by building. Um this is done because the biggest time of movement in special education is essentially from now through uh really about the middle of May. A lot of IEP placements are being made. A lot of IEP meetings are happening in that period of time.
And so, this is about where we're at right here. Um so this is a view of the exterior obviously um looking north um from the south. So um Danville would be over here to the west just to get your orientation but um you can see from this photo that we got brick going in. We got windows going in. Um brick is pretty pretty much accomplished all the way around that one. Um, and then we've got the exterior skin going in on area the office area for the town and for the school. Uh, we're we're dried in, completely dried in on the event center. Um, pretty well dried in on the town center and the school center. The roofs are all completely dried in and hooked up. Um, you'll see the center plaza here is got a rough shape. Um, this will be really beautiful when it's all all completed.
There's no change there. That fee is $300. One other change uh we are making is that uh students uh unless they have an IEP uh they'll all be charged uh the fee for the monthly fee, the $240 or the $300 fee. Um that's a change from previous years. And the the last change is that we want to increase the supply fee from $65, a onetime cost for that fee up to $100. As we've been in the program now and working through our expenses, uh our costs are significant higher than $65 at onetime cost that we're we're charging families for that that program. So with that, we're make recommending approval of the new preschool fees and charges for the 2627 academic year. >> Thank you, Mr. Ree. Board members, you heard a recommendation of the administration for approval of the preschool fees and charges in the amounts listed.
Sometimes what's going on in practice may suggest some updates in policy. Sometimes what's policies are on spot and we need to look at raising up practices to what you say in writing. So absolutely and the key thing is the superintendent actually in Maring County told us many many years ago um when we came in she says I need you to find I said what would you like us to look at superintendent? And she said, uh, I'd like you to look at the disconnect, find disconnects between paper and practice. She says, because that's when people get hurt, safety issues arise. And she says, that's when liability also occurs in the district. So, absolutely. >> As as you go through the schools, you'll be looking at the physical security uh issues as well, >> right? What we do when we go to the buildings, we like first to meet with administrators and their safety teams and talk through u a lot of questions, a lot of information on various aspects and then do the physical walk through afterwards.
She provided that the team at that time um an approved list for us to look through. I had participated as a observer in the adoption process a few years ago when TC and the other schools went through that. Um at the time we decided to kind of table our uh needs and just keep them going with what we hadum and kind of watch how um the implementation went at the elementary. Um so when it came time uh for us to do that, CKLA got on board because we like that alignment between one building to the other. And so mid November is when we first met with Amplify. They got samples examples and our kids and as a team we decided we'd use the time from November to mid January to interact with material and pilot lessons. And as far as our kind of our our wants, our our needs we felt were uh to provide this to have a curriculum that would provide both text variety and complexity for fiction and non-fiction.
I call it 800 fund. I call fund numbers sometimes. I have >> sadly I I know what you're talking about. So >> yes, it should go into that but I can look into that further. >> Okay. I just curious just so we can have a full picture. I know the the total on the package would be great, but just nice to know whole figures what we're doing and then yeah, if we could just get an idea of what we've been reimbursed in the past just as an idea, too. So, >> yes, absolutely. >> And Mr. Allen, we'd also like permission to post these positions as well. So, you're you're going to be approving the approval of our summer school program, but then also the opportunity uh starting tomorrow that we could post these positions for the high school and for the elementary. >> Well, then I probably need to amend the motion or not.
They're actually going elsewhere than people that are elsewhere are going into those rooms. >> I'm sure teachers are very >> Thank you. Any other questions or comments, board? Um, I did get a question from a constituent. They were ask inquiring um what grade levels will be moving into the addition at Forest Glenn or if it has been decided. >> The the the rooms are designed with bathrooms in them so that we could handle kindergarteners or the lower level grades in there. Um, and then I I have the luxury of usually let letting other people uh assign them. I I sometimes joke I I'll I'll get it built for you and then you can decide what you do with it. Yes. >> Okay. So, turn them to the building principal for clarifying questions. >> All right. Thank you for that. >> You're welcome. >> All right.
At Daart High School, students embrace the Valentine's Day holiday with their love week where students wore different colors to spread awareness about multiple important developments within the community. And finally, at sundown, they are partnering with Elmarrage to do a peer mentorship program with the kids from the elementary school, as well as celebrating their seniors leaving soon with a senior sunset celebration on March 5th. Across all of our unique campuses, students are interacting and proving their community in assortment of ways, showing not just their school pride, but also their Daizart pride. Thank you. >> Good job. Thank you. [applause] Next up, superintendent update. Dr. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um, few things. This week, ABC15 will be bringing a meteorologist uh to Sunset Hills Elementary School to talk about or to talk to the Garden Club, excuse me, about what they do and giving 30 students the opportunity to do a mini weather report um that will be added to the library of videos that the station will pull um to show throughout the year on their station.
However, that is not the case for many of our members when multiple when they have multiple jobs and when over 80% of our members don't make a livable wage when comparing the to the state of Illinois average. This data was collected through the compensation committee that was convened last year. I'd like to thank the board for their time, consideration, and continued support during the support staff association's negotiations. Thank you. >> Thank you. I'm a little short. I don't know if I can reach this. >> Good. It'll it'll pick you up. >> Okay. I'm Mary Row and I've worked at Downers Grove South for the last 18 and a half years in PE health and driver ed in the morning and in the afternoon in career and technical education. I've worked in two departments. I assist our driver ed department with their pip nights, having the information packets assembled, Chromebooks ready to loan out, and then I assist giving the students their permits, making sure they're signed in black ink because otherwise it's a that's a no no.
Again, together we empower, support and motivate all students to thrive along their unique educational journey recognizing each student is unique. And with that, I want to invite the board to share any highlights. And I want to thank you for your the opportunity to share some reflections this evening. Um, [laughter] I'm going to shout out the Asiggo East girls bowling team placed fifth at state. Their impressive score of 11,78 total pins. Uh, Leah Andrew finished 12th overall, earning all state honors. Congratulations to the entire team on their performance. The boys swim and dive co-op finished third at sectionals. We had multiple individuals qualify for state. Um the day was highlighted by individual titles earned by Jackson Rapper in diving. Owen Lipult in the 50 free and 100 free. The 200 free relay which was Owen Lipult, Tyler Liska, Zack Peterson and Ethan Schrader were sectional champs and they achieved a new Matia Valley pool record as well as breaking an Asiggo co-op team record.
It was so great to see them interviewing adults. They were so nervous initially. What am I going to say? What am I going to do? And they were so supportive of one another. We did do it for 12 weeks because that was the format we had available. But we are trying to increase that. We would love to have a student news broadcast throughout the school year. I think there's plenty of wonderful things being done at our school and in our community that we could share. So, we really enjoyed it and we'd love to come back next year. And most of our kids were sixth and seventh graders. So, I think we'll get some build on that. Bring them on back. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> And then we have a recycling club that happens every Friday. It's run by Nathan Joel. Um, what I think is really special about this club is that our TLC students are involved and stay on Fridays.
So there's uh some shifting and changing that goes on as students are added to the IEP rosters or uh are taken from the IEP rosters. Um so we'll be keeping an eye on that. There could be some shifts in positions. Um we're not anticipating the staffing necessarily to go up or down, but shifting positions. So, if we have a larger group for social work, say at Three Oaks, and we need to shift some social work time over there and that sort of thing, that we will do. Um, usually we try to get that done before the end of the school year. And then the final thing is monitoring the class sizes. So, that's something, as the board knows, we do throughout the spring and in the summer. In the summer, it's a I want to say it's weekly. It is a weekly, Jack. It's almost daily.
And you'll see on other pictures the uh parking lot on this side taking shape and the parking lot taking shape over on the other side as well. Um this is a view uh looking west from the east side. Um so you see the event center here. These are access doors um to the event center from this parking lot that you can see is taking shape. This is your door access to the um town center. And then school over here. You can kind of see in this picture, but there's a large retaining wall that runs along the north edge of of this job site, and there's a pretty good drop off that goes down into the woods there. Um, so it's pretty um you can kind of get a good shot of the overall development here. Um, they've got roads in. Um, and then you can see the main main interstate road up there.
Uh may I have a motion move by Miss Basin? >> Second by Mr. Angel. Are there any questions or comments? So with the addition with additional fees there for the supplies, it just it's just a zero sum game for us, right? >> For the >> uh uh No, it's not. This bill is not charging what we're spending in supplies for that program. Okay, that's the reason I asked because it's we're not making money on this. Get that. >> That is correct. We are definitely not making money this. >> So, Mr. Warney and I attended a meeting this morning here in our building for ISBA their coffee regional coffee talk and I believe the number that was brought up that the state has reduced their on my way preschool funding and limited it to I believe it's 2500 seats in the state. And so when we started our preschool program, it was with the under what we believe was that they would continue to grow the support.
So we can see first talk with the people to understand what are the issues, what are the concerns. We like to talk with the diverse group of people. We'll talk with students, we'll talk with uh your school nurses, food services, the transportation people. We try to get as many diverse perspectives because safety's comes in a little piece to everybody. Everybody has a piece of ownership. Your facilities people, your transportation, your bus drivers are the first and last school employees to see kids during many days. Uh your front office staff are on the front lines greeting parents and dealing with security issues at the door to know who do we let in, who might not, who might we not let in. your food services teams. We have breakfast, lunch, after school programs. So, we want to look in what's going on in the cafeterias. And sometimes it's a simple thing.
Um strong alignments of course to our Indiana academic standards with both questions that challenge student thinking and learning. We wanted a written component to it as well as differentiation to support all our learners. And I think the final piece was the ability for teacher to balance the digital and print materials allowing students to interact with both control. Um those pieces. >> Was there anything else considered? >> We looked at SAS. Um we didn't do any pilot lessons on that. If we had Denise and I kind of talked if we had a strong opposition to Amplify, we would bring in another one. But we really wanted to try and get that page alignment and the feedback from the teachers. I sent out a survey at the beginning of what they really wanted, what they were nervous about with the new curriculum, what they didn't want to seek on.
We might as well just for safety sake, >> right? I recommend the approval of the 2026 summer school as presented. I also recommend the posting of the positions associated with the summer school program. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. I'll agree to that as a second. >> Thank you, Mr. Walt. Any further comments or discussion before we vote? Thank you, Mr. Peters.
>> If there are no other questions, we will move on to 3.2 2026 budget tax rate update with Mr. Miles. >> Thank you, Madam President. Good evening, Dr. Smith, members of the board. Uh, at this time of the year, we bring back the final budget order. Uh once that is ironed out from the state, we typically receive that right around the first of the year and then there's a few weeks that it takes to uh uh process and and confirm that. Once we get clearance back from the state to release that, then we do so. And that's what we're doing here tonight. Um we'll share that in three different slides. Uh the first one is uh revolves around the actual budget. This is the amount that we um are legally have authority to spend in each of the funds. uh would highlight at the bottom of the slide our assessed valuation.
So, that's exciting. um they will run a short story to introduce the school and the garden club to launch the videos and they'll we'll make sure to share that once we have them. So, kind of a cool experience for our future meteorologists. Um and then next week it the time is here. Our DiceArt Hero Squad is going to be heading out to all our sites um to surprise some of the amazing staff uh members with the special balloon and certificate to recognize them as uh DAEART heroes. These employees were nominated by their peers. uh they'll be invited to a special dinner coming up on April 22nd where we honor all the DiceArt heroes and we'd like to invite our board members to join us uh for any of the hero surprises and of course you'll be there for our huge event in April. So uh we are excited about that is a fun time of year and there's a lot of laughter and smiles and a lot of tears.
I also interact with members of our community for our wellness day, which we do every other year. We average 35 to 45 community members ranging from fitness instructors, physical therapists, law enforcement, firemen, state police to name a few that come to our school and interact with our students. I set up our hospitality room. I make sure our guests feel welcome and appreciated. This is why South still has wellness day. North does not. I assist with career fair for CTE and the various career opportunities that our local community affords our students now and in the future. I play an active role in the Young Hearts for Life EKG screenings every other year and assist associate principal Omar Davis with the hospitality room. I order the food for the volunteers. I solicit volunteers through the colleges um various real estate offices throughout the districts, things like that.