Any questions or comments for Dr. Dots before we vote? >> So, they're just getting paid the stipen even though there's extra tons of hours in there. >> Yeah, this stipen does account for the extra because especially our high school band directors receive certain stipens for their extracurricular commitments as band directors and so this helps account for that. they do um document the hours that they serve in the summer to help make sure that the documentation is squared away each year. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments? Uh let's vote on the motion. That motion passes 6. Moving on to D1 through8, the consent agenda. Mr. Brimberry, >> Mr. Allen, board, before I get to the consent agenda, I also want to recognize Dr. Digits, his team. I see Miss Brown's here, um, the teachers, the administrators, and success academy virtual school. Um, very impressive number.
Board, any questions or comments? Yeah, Miss Lawrence. >> First, Mr. Miles, we should all be very proud of these members and not just not just especially you um and your team for keeping us strong as we are as a district. Um I think some people don't really recognize the difference between the operating in capital referendums. I wonder if you might quickly explain and then also explain how many other school districts around compare to us when it comes to referendum. >> I'm actually glad you brought that up. I the operating referendum versus a capital referendum is is is a good question. Uh capital referendums are in place uh when we want to go out and borrow money for a specific construction project typically and we did so um to to finance our high school renovations as well as touching every building across the district as part of our blue ribbon phase one um project.
uh she she always does a great job at her school events. But on top of that, I want to thank all PTAs here at DiceArt um because they are a very very crucial organization within all of our schools that help with funding and activities at all the schools. [snorts] Next one, we'll go to a motion to approve the consent agenda items. Motion to approve the consent agenda items as presented. Second. >> Yes. Motion passes. >> [snorts] >> And I believe next up is information and discussion school spotlights. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Tonight we have Snoren Heights Middle School here to present their amazing information and Dr. Asai will introduce our guests. It is my pleasure to produce uh to introduce the wonderful school of sonorin Heights led by Miss Amberlin a principal you drop [laughter] that good evening presidenta members of the board Dr.
Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Hi, my name is Stacy Britwish and I am a job coach here at Downer's Grove South. And many of you probably don't know what a job coach does because until about three years ago, I had no idea what a job coach was myself. Um, so a job coach is someone that works with the multi-needs department. I'm in charge with one other person and one person higher than me as the vote coordinator. We take students in and out of the community all day long. So our day consists of being out driving one of the mini buses or minivans, taking students to places in the community that we do volunteer work for. And then um in return the kids are learning like basically what they're going to do later on in life, what jobs they might be able to hold, what they might be interested in doing.
And yeah, and if there are any questions about any of the events, feel free to ask. >> I have a quick question. >> Yeah. [clears throat] Can you So fourth period, fourth, fourth, fifth, sixth, and sixth period. >> Sixth and seventh. >> Okay. So from what time to what time? >> So 10:02 to 13. No, sorry. Oh, yeah. >> Anything close >> to 12:38? Yes. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. >> Of course. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Thank you. Um, moving to 8.2, our board committee report. We had a finance and facilities committee report. >> I wasn't there. >> Uh, we had a meeting and we talked about the Hung Club ADA sidewalk and we also talked about the other thing that's on this agenda which is the fuel transportation insurance fuel bid. So you'll get a heavy dose of that in just a few minutes here.
Thank you. She's a painter. She was I saw her pictures involved in >> Okay. So, how do I want to have Okay. Okay. Next up, we have some staff recognition. Uh Dr. Thomas will be up next. >> Okay. I am very excited to announce this. We have three staff members for the first time ever have been uh recognized by the Illinois State Board of Education and their Those Who Excel program. So, um I am going to I think they're all here tonight. I'm going to ask them to come up. the program that they do through the Illinois State Board is um they have multiple levels of uh different types of awards they have for all different things. And so I will talk about each person individually a little bit and I will ask um the the three people to uh come up here as I call them.
That actually happened this year in first grade at Brierggate. Um, we saw the numbers over the summer increasing right before school was starting. We got three more students and it kicked up those numbers would have been in first grade. I think it was 25 or six >> or maybe it was 26, 26 and 27 in the three classes. And at that point, we ended up uh agreeing yes, we need to add one more teacher here, which brought the numbers way down, which in first grade the recommendation I think is only up to 22 students if I'm not mistaken. So, it it really did bring it right back down in line uh with where other um grade levels were across the district. Yeah. With that particular grade level. >> Great. Thank you, >> Dr. Thomas. About class size, I'm going to move this because that's weird talking that way.
Uh we'll continue to progress on the town and school glass getting that in and sealing that up and the interior buildouts. And interior buildouts is the the finishes, the drywall, the framing. Um we'll be getting started on the event space metal panel siding on the exterior. Um, so up here where it says event space exterior, that that's all brick and and wrapping up loose ends as far as that goes. But the event space metal panel siding will be starting as well. Uh, the office school office brick and the the big thing ordering furniture and interior signage, which that will we've been working through that a lot as some of you guys in the room know, but it's shaping up really well. As far as budget goes, um, keep this high level. Um, but there is the overall budget for the town and the school. School has 16 million in the budget for a total of 36 million overall.
Are there any questions or comments? >> Just like to thank both of those groups. I know the parents go through rigorous fundraising efforts to build those funds up and to thank those parents that are involved in that on those that go to those events that help raise those money to make sure we have what we need for our kids. >> My quick question is just to clarify, so these were like fundraising efforts from the wrestling families that then are transferred to the athletic department similar for basketball program. >> Correct. their booster club or parent parents that that are supporting those two uh programs. >> One more follow-up question. So, is it standard then for like to cover I know it says equipment like uniforms, practice packs, shoes, socks, etc. gear. So, is it common then for each one of our programs to take their fundraising money and transfer it here to be spent out this way or is this a unique situation?
And the expectation is sometimes more greater than what it happens. And and it's u we there are a couple of what we're seeing around the country is questions of implementation of f fidelity of implementation with weapons detection. You look at your high schools, and we've only been to one high school so far, just today being our first day. But you look at high schools, and they have dozens, sometimes hundreds of doors depending on the on the building. So, if you put all of your staff at the front entrance doing weapon screening, number one, are you going who who would those staff be? Number two, how are you going to train them? Number three, do we really believe that you're going to train them up to the level of the TSA? Number four, if you do, there's still not a 100% guarantee that people understandably won't.
>> Pardon? >> What day was that? >> April 9th. And then um 67 prek students have already filled out that enrollment piece. So we're hoping to get more in there. Um our is state choir contest with this past weekend and Mr. Hansen shared they had 21 students participate and all earn silver and golds and we have our band this coming weekend 12 students participating is that correct wins and >> awesome and then we also have our decision coming up um this I think that's like a Monday Tuesday of next week and I think we have 41 students qualify for state who are participating. >> Lots of stuff happening this weekend um for our Milus. >> Oh, sorry. >> So much to celebrate. >> It is a lot to celebrate. >> It's been 19 years since Pat. >> That's awesome. Remember Pat? Pat was awesome. >> He was a good diver, wasn't he?
We'll share with you at one of the work sessions on how they achieved that. But, uh, Russ, I believe just under 94% on your graduation rate from last year at Huntington North High School. And that is a, um, that is an amazing task done by a lot of wonderful people. And um and I'm really really proud and you'll see on a work session in our future of maybe some of the programs that we like to bring forward for you to see of that that are different buckets that uh they they allow these kids to be successful. So I congratulate you uh and your team Russ uh on the consent agenda board for your action items tonight. As you can see several items on there uh field trips, professional leave requests and so on. I would draw your attention to um number six on the adjunct teacher agreement.
So we do have that um that that dollar amount is fixed when it goes out to the the to the voters for approval. the voters approve that and then over time as that referendum gets paid down typically the uh the rate falls uh with with AV increasing. Operating referendums are a little different. We are unique in Marian County. We're one of only two districts in in the county uh that do not have an operating referendum and so we're proud of that. The uh the operating referendum is more in terms of use more uh for paying your bills um whether it be uh salaries operation operating dollars. So day-to-day operations, um, a district may have to go to its taxpayers and ask for additional funds if they don't have enough money coming through their budget. >> M, just a quick followup question as a point of clarification.
Croto cabinet and community. I'm Amber Luna, the very very proud principal of Sonorin Heights Middle School, and we're excited to be here today to highlight how our seventh and eighth grade math team uses their PLC process to ensure all students show growth and proficiency on our AASA math assessment. Before we jump into that, we do want to recognize our hot corner that we have over here. We have our assistant principal, our TLS, and some important team members as well. Um, our team up here consists of Jacqueline Adami who teaches seventh and eighth grade math, Caitlyn Caldwell who teaches eighth grade math, Connor Golki who teaches seventh grade math and eighth grade algebra, and our ESS resource teacher who couldn't make it tonight is Jennifer Schneider. The vertical articulation from this team allows them to get creative, take risks, and see success in our students data.
So we take them, most students, juniors and seniors go out twice a week. Uh sophomores go out, I'm sorry, sophomores stay in the school and do in school jobs and we don't work with freshmen because they're still getting acclimated with Downer South and with the high school. Um I have loved what I have done. This has been something that has been um very rewarding for me. The students are super appreciative. Um, as well as the staff and parents are always super welcoming and we're always looking for other people in the community area. If anybody knows of anyone willing to take us on for a couple of shifts sometime during the week, we'd be we'd love to do that. We just acquired the Dairy Queen on 75th and Woodward. So, we go there. Most of the time when we go out, we're in places when people are like opening businesses prior to them actually opening.
>> Correct. A heavy dose of fuel. >> What's that? >> A heavy dose of fuel. >> Of fuel. Diesel. Diesel somehow. >> Unled. Um, any questions? Should we postpone those until the presentation? Okay. All right. Uh, 8.3 our board member comments. I don't have any um I was out of the country actually in Mexico from like the day after the last board meeting [clears throat] until a couple days ago. Um fortunately I did get back on Saturday so I was able to um avoid all of the unrest. Um but it's really first of all two things I just want to say real quick is that first of all it's really interesting when you travel internationally um to get other people's perspectives. Um enough on that. Uh but but bottom line my heart does go out to the people of um Mexico with everything that's going on right now um subsequent to the death of the uh cartel leader.
So the first one I'm going to talk about is Melissa Haniker. So Melissa, if you could come up if you want to stand right over here. So Melissa is a PAR professional at Three Oaks and she is being recognized by uh ISBY for an award of special recognition. The award of special recognition acknowledges educators who are valued members of their school community who have been recognized for their skills, passions and talents that they bring to the school community. Um, specifically, Melissa is being recognized for her work in the bridge program, supporting students with social emotional needs. And she was nominated for her positivity and generosity with the students and her colleagues, as well as her ability to create opportunities for students to grow to achieve their potential. So, congratulations to Melissa Haniker uh on the Isby award of special recognition. And if if you could stay up here, Melissa, next I would like to ask Amy Han to come up.
Um about class size, does the state recommend any particular size? Do they break it down by grade um like that or is it totally up to the board? >> I I'm not aware. Uh, Mr. Rivera, do you know does this I don't I don't know that I don't think that they do, but does the state do you know if they have any specific recommendations they make for class sizes? I I don't know of any. >> Okay. >> Um, we usually have looked at that based on uh the grades of the students, the younger students looking at smaller class sizes for them and then slightly older uh students would have, you know, larger class sizes. And keep in mind too, all those class sizes are just an average. So, for example, the junior high is a place where you might have one math class that has 20 kids and you might have another math class that's a very advanced class and has 32 or 33 students.
Um, the school spent 4.9 million to date, which is about 31% to date and we have about 69% remaining to spend to date. um for the overall contingency for the town and the school and we call it owner contingency. It this is showing combined. Um we have it broken down in uh in more detail elsewhere if we need to but um we have 3.3 million in the budget. Uh we have approved 369,000ish of change orders. And the reason this is a negative is because um some of these change orders come out of the GMP the Garmong's contract and it goes over into the owner side. So that's a it's showing a negative because it's going to be money back to our side. But so the total amount spent would be 355,658. So, uh, overall summary down here in the lower left, the we're complete of 40% of construction, which we're on target on track.
>> No, I would say each program is a little bit different what they provide the fundraising for that they use that for each up to the uh the booster club and how to donate that money and the purposes. Once it's accepted by the school corporation, we can use it for whatever purpose we see we deem best fit for that program out of the athletics department. In this case, out of athletics. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? Any other questions? >> Be no further questions or comments move to a vote. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. vote carries. 5-0. Uh we'll move to uh discussion report items. Uh 2027, 2028, and 2028, 2029 school calendar. Dr. Terrell, >> thank you. Uh before you tonight, we have a couple of different calendars that put together uh through several hours of conversations and working through issues with the calendars.