Each school had students lead us on a tour of the school to visit different classrooms such as an English science labs. A Mountain View had a wax museum where students chose to represent important historical men and women giving us their biographies. It was very educational. Mountain View is a steam school specializing in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. I want to thank their principal Debbie Cruz for welcoming us. I also want to thank principal Miss Hester of Shatteridge High School which is a blue ribbon school of excellence. We visited their engineering department which was very impressive and they provided us a great lunch with entertainment by their choir and musicians which were excellent. At Sunset Hills we also got to see a preview of the Beetlejuice play which was very entertaining. Today I visited Ashton Ranch Middle School and visited their English, math and science classrooms along with visiting teachers, staff, parents and students.
We're all stakeholders in the district. We appreciate the board and we thank you so much for your time and support. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> I'm Kelly Row. I am in the bookstore and bookkeeping at Donner's Grove South. This is my fifth year. I'm also an alum as well. And as she stated, I am I was girls head coach this year, took one down to state. She as a freshman, she made it very far and I have to applaud her for that. She missed it by two pins to make it to the next qualification, but we've got three more years of this. So, so, but thank you again for your time today. We appreciate everything you guys do. >> Thank you. Hi y'all. I am Ruby Montano. I am the exact admin assistant for health services at North. So I handle every sniffle, every band-aid, every hopefully not too often major incident.
>> Hello. Good evening again. Um unfortunately the lunch and learn that was supposed to be held at OE was moved due to scheduling issues um that happened among the students. However, there's no need to fear. We rescheduled it for March 2nd um and which will be held here in the community room during fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh periods for [clears throat] uh staff that are invited and student volunteers from clubs such as BSA, ISA, Coalition, and Bionic. And then OHS's lunch and learn is still being held on March 3rd. So it's directly after Ogo East. And then we will meet that following weekend week after to start uh rehearsing and practicing with those student leaders as well. Um everything else is confirmed. We are prepared for the rest. However, that little minor issue will not stop us from creating this amazing event. Um, and then tying more into the Speakings Park event, just to touch a little bit, different clubs and organizations across the district will be presenting about their clubs and their significance in the Oiggo community.
Show me again." Um so it's really amazing what they can do. And it's all sixth and seventh and eighth graders. And they also will help out with the spring musical here soon. So, and then we have writing club which is run by Jackie Ardropolis who is not here again. Happy birthday, Violet. Um, and these are kids who just like to write and they write various things from poetry to plays to lyrics to songs. Anything you can dream up, they're writing. Um, and so it's really exciting to see as a former English teacher that we've got kids who love to write. And then the yearbook club is sponsored by Lisa Sparks and these three darlings put together the entire uh yearbook. So, God bless them because it's a lot of work. Um, and so they're at all events taking photos and organizing and working with Lisa to get that yearbook out.
So I understand. Thank you. >> The top of our heads, do we know how many retirements we have actually accepted in for next year? Okay, thank you. Um, is there a does class size recommendations uh vary per grade? >> It varies based on groups of grades. So like kindergarten through 2 grade uh 3rd through 5ifth and sixth through 8 are all slightly different ranges. >> Okay. And um do you have recommendations for those groups? like what do you >> It's actually in a uh a board exhibit. >> Um I don't have that with me right now, but it's in a board exhibit that the board actually sets what the recommendation is for that. >> Right. Is that different from your recommendation though? >> No, it doesn't. Okay. >> But what we do when we see that somebody is getting close or going over what the recommended uh ratio is, what we do is we take a look at um uh who's involved in that group of students.
Um that's on the it's in the town uh office area as you enter the building. And then also down here the town area that's a few shots of the progress at to date. Um, we've got couple interior priority walls going in as as well as all the electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and Garmong's doing a great job on all of that. They're moving forward. They're communicating well, um, working well with the design team. The school side, this is the interior. A couple shots of that. Um, pretty much the same, just not as much mechanical going on just quite yet. that we've got priority walls starting to frame up. Um this was just a picture of the um mechanical chase um where some duck work and mechanicals will run through looking at there. All right. So now that you guys seen the um pictures overall to date we're right on construction.
These are halftime days for kids. We're using it as a time for preparation and preparing but this way we'll be using this think I understand other questions or comments. All right there being no further questions or comments we move to a vote all in favor signify by saying I. >> I nay. Vote carries 5. Moving on to action item 5.06 donations. Mr. Reese. >> Thank you, Mr. President. We are grateful tonight to have the opportunity to bring you two donations to the athletic department at the high school. Uh, one from the Bulldog Wrestling Club and the other from the Crown Point boys basketball club. Uh, the donations for the Bulldog Wrestling Club are for a new wrestling mat. The donation is $5,000. The donation from the Crown Point boys basketball club is for $25,000. Uh the nice part about these donations is once we uh you accept these donations are put into the extracurricular accounts at the high school and then have to be spent according to your board policies and procedures as well as audited by state board of accounts.
The template would already be done. And I think that's the key is looking at the data in the district. Two of our colleagues who are not here now, Dr. Traia Jones and and Bobby Kipper are going to be working with students support staff and looking at discipline data, behavior-based issues to see what that data tells us uh that the issues and concerns are that that administrators are facing each building and then make recommendations based upon that and as well as looking at things such as threat assessments uh student uh protocols and and models that you have. But to the weapons detection piece, the the we could there are two arguments that you typically hear on weapons detection. There are some who will people who will say spare no expense. If it saves one life, we should spend hundreds of thousands or millions on on weapons detection systems.
Like just even the difference from maybe they're our freshman or eighth graders down to um what we have now in sixth grade. I mean, I like that that the numbers are trending in the right direction for our checkpoints um for all grades, but I know like at sixth grade the the need of the CPLA program having that heavy dose of of non-fiction and we see that as a benefit >> vocabulary, how is it? >> Vocabulary is is a big one. I like that they have a lot of vocabulary options embedded in this and so every lesson with a vocabulary. So, it's there. It's there. >> As a previous English teacher, as you know, >> yes, I do. >> Vocabulary is huge. >> Has to be. >> Good. Good to hear. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions, discussions? >> Okay. Um, I'm also going to share FFA week is this week.
So, similar to the other positions, I think we're asking for approval to post the stipens and approve those and then the names will be filled in at a later date. >> Thank you, Dr. Dets. I'll entertain a motion. I reference 2026 summer band program. >> Do we need to So, we need to post that as well then, too, as part of this. >> I believe that's typically been done. So, yes, >> uh recommend approval for the 2026 uh summer band program as presented and the posting of those positions. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller.
So we'd love to see that going up. That's about 3.25%. Um so that's a that's an a good thing to report as well. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Miles.
I want to thank new principal Dr. Casey Romero and assistant principal Jay Carlos Pearlla for welcoming us to welcoming us to their school. On Sunday, February 16th, I attended the walk and roll for inclusion of the Daart special education at Dream C Dreamcatcher Park in Surprise. I picked up a lot of good information for people with disabilities to network with commu community members, educators, and advocates for foster inclusive to foster inclusive environments. Thank you. >> I would like to take this time to thank the Freedom PTA for putting on a great dadaughter dance last Friday. Um, love the fact that they keep the the tradition alive um for the dad daughter dance. It it it means a lot to me to be able to participate in something like that with my daughter and it also helps brings fathers into the school atmosphere. Um, but I also have to give kudos to uh Principal Crow for tearing up the dance floor with her students once again.
Um, but one of the key things I'm also responsible for is I accumulate all the data for our health services for state compliance reports, all the immunization reports, hearing and vision reports for the state, dental, BMI, you name it. If it's pound paper, it's up to me. So, um, aside from that, I also serve as the VP at North for our association as well as the regional rep for IIA and at the IA IIA level, I also serve as the ethnic minority rep for the state. So, um, I'm kind of got my fingers in everything even though I'm not from Donner's Grove. Um, I've been here for eight and a half years now and I love the community. I love hanging out and um I look forward to doing great things with this board. So um I'm looking to hang out. So I hope you make that possible for us.
Uh, there will be a panel discussion where each club will be asked questions that relate to what it means to be a portrait of a learner. The event is open to anyone in the community and many are encouraged to come and support their community clubs and activities that keep our community well-rounded. And then again, um, OEI lunch and learn will be held in their community room on March 2nd. OHS's lunch and learn will be held in their community room on March 3rd. And then some exciting events in our district that are happening. Oiggo High School student council is hosting its annual talent show on Tuesday, March 24th in their school's auditorium from 6:00 to 8:00. Um, also AIGO High School's MSA is advertising their annual Fastathon, which will be held on March 5th from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. Um, and then Coalition's annual event Amplify will be held at Ougo East on March 24th at us at 7.
So, uh, a big thank you to these three kids. And then we have something special. Um, Ashley, do you want to talk about that? We have some kids here from the musical. So, I'm going to let Ashley talk to you education because I think we're seeing higher and higher numbers in our extracurricular programs because of the activity bus and the funds that you're putting towards that. So, thank you so much for that. Um, I do think that that is why we're seeing such an increase and and a willing to willingness to stay. I also want to thank all of these um teachers here who put in a lot of work after school um when they don't have to when they can get in their cars and go home, but they choose to spend it here um enriching the lives of our students. So, thank you all so very much.
Do we have a lot of students with high needs? Is it a relatively easy group? is it um uh you know do we have this size group and we all have all brand new teachers like we take a look at a lot of those things um to see what the trends are um with that and then year to year and then make decisions based on that. There's also a process for um teachers if uh they have a concern that they can request that we if we haven't automatically reviewed it, they can also request to have us review it. And then what we do is teachers make the request uh the principal and the superintendent um review the information, sit down and talk to the teacher or teachers who have made that request and then so we have all the information and then we make a recommendation based on that.
As far as the schedule goes we're looking good. We're right on track. Armong's been doing a great job of u working through challenges in winter um snow and ice and some of the wet conditions we had in the fall. But so this uh slide showing uh as of February our start date was 6 62 to 25. Our target date is 1119 to complete so uh just before Thanksgiving here and 40% complete to date right now construction is we have about 60% remaining um till our target date. So as far as our two-month look ahead schedule, well not schedule but two month look ahead um this is what we can expect to happen over the next two months and two months will be end of April um complete about 59% by then and 41% remaining but over the next two months um we'll have the event space exterior uh complete town office masonry complete the school office storefront front will be in except for the glass and the interior brick will be complete.
Gives us a little more control over what's going on and those spending money for those programs. So, with that, we're recommending accepting the donation of $5,000 from the Bulldog Wrestling Club to the CP Athletics Wrestling Program and $25,000 from the Crown Point Boys Basketball Club for athletics to the Crown Point High School athletics boys basketball program. Thank you, Mr. Ree. Uh board members, you heard a recommendation of the administration to accept donations uh $5,000 from the Bulldog Wrestling Club to the Crown Point High School Athletics Wrestling Program and $25,000 from the Crown Point Boys Basketball Club for athletics to the Crown Point High School Athletics Boys Basketball Program. May I have a motion? So moved by Mr. Vasser, second by Miss Basin.
Others will say, I don't want my school to be a prison-like environment or my kid to go through that each day. And the question and both you can have legitimate arguments or at least emotional legitimate arguments on both of those. The question is what would implementation look like? And what we're finding is it's not that guarantee that people want the little secret here which we'll reveal with TV cameras going is that weapons still get through TSA. Inspector General reports that have where they've tested TSA at airports who do a stellar job at what they do and are highly trained more than you would ever be able to train school staff to do weapons detection. Weapons still get through. You can just do a Google search and see what weapons are confiscated, but there are some where there have been tests where it's going through. So people say, well, if they can do it at TSA, let's do it in in in in the school corporation.
Our middle school and high school are celebrating and showing off their FFA pride. We have spirit week going on and a pep session, I believe, on Friday. Is that correct, Mr. Pastor? Yes. Um, I read testing begins next week with our second and third graders. So, they will be working on that. Um, all of our principles have worked to create a really good schedule, get the kiddos in small groups so they're focusing. Um, so we are excited to see how they do next week. Um, we also have SAT school day for our juniors on March the 5th. Um, so a lot of wonderful testing happening next week. Um, Kindergarten and prek roundup are happening April 9th. We already have um 58 kindergarten students who have or families who can um filled out our enrollment form that we've been pushing out. And >> what day was that?