I've never met a school people didn't work hard. But my goal today was to help them become more efficient, more effective at the hard work they're already doing. There we have it. That was our one day and that was uh just a really a powerful day. The speaker was magnificent and of course he had written a book and that's what he was signing for everybody that wanted to come up and get that book. So, um, anyway, that was that. >> How long ago was that? >> Uh, what was it? How many weeks ago was that? >> No. >> Okay. >> February 13th. >> So, and then we'll bring up the next video. This was a busy month in February. And then again, this is some of the things that we were doing for um celebrating um, Black History Month. >> Okay. This video was quieter than the other one.
We we could maybe go cheaper but we'd have to do something. So the question is what do you do. Okay, thank you. >> Recommend recommendation to approve a resolution authorizing the negotiation, execution, and delivery of a government lease purchase agreement. May I have a motion? >> I'll move. >> Second? >> I'll second. >> All in favor? I. >> I. >> Opposed? Passes 5-0. >> [clears throat] >> Recommendation to approve out of state or overnight field trips for all of these are FFA. Lakeland College Livestock Invite March 20th through 21st in Mattoon, Illinois. Western Illinois Livestock Judging Contest March 26th through 28th in Macomb, Illinois. Joliet Livestock Judging Invite April 4th in Joliet, Illinois. Lincoln Land ICC Livestock Judging Invite April 11th 8th through 11th in Illinois. Last chance contest April 24th through 25th in Columbus, Indiana. State Contest May 1st through 2nd at Purdue University.
Um in education fund, just a touch above it. Um as you remember, January was a free pay month, so [snorts] it's kind of like uh if I get an F on my first test, but I get an A on my second test, I don't quite catch up in one, I only get to a C. Um so, um after January with a free pay month, I think we were two or three percentage points above the the expenditure limit or not expenditure limit, but just kind of where you'd be targeted wise. So, kind of edge down there and we'll get closer um back on that on track. So, when you see that, you're like, "Ooh, we're over the overspending in 2 months." Well, you had a free pay month at the beginning of the year. So, um everything else looking really good. Debt service, um just again kind of as a as a point there, you look at that and you say, "Man, they should only be at 16.67, you're at 33.92 after 2 months." Again, debt service is a is a little tricky to think about there because you're only getting money twice a year, you're only making payments twice a year, too.
Line Wise provides real-time content filtering, classroom management tools for teachers, proactive student safety monitoring, and optional parent visibility into student device activity. The total cost for three-year agreement is $417,7242 payable in annual installments of $39,234.13. Funding will come from our common school fund. The office technology is re >> requesting your approval as fertus. Thank you. I'll >> move. >> Second. We have a motion and a second.
And following that conference, the board spent a considerable amount of time deliberating in this matter. You also individually, I know, took the time to review all the evidence that was tendered by the parties and you gave this a lot of consideration before you here this evening. So, I want to tell you all that I really respect and appreciate all of the time that you have put into this matter and the attention that you have devoted to it. It's very important and you all as a board have treated it as such. You've been very thorough and very thoughtful in your review of the matter. And so tonight now we are here and there's a decision that needs to be made in this matter with respect to the administrative recommendation to cancel the contract. So with that, I'll turn it back over to the board president to be able to call for a vote on the pending recommendation to cancel the teaching contract that they call Thank you, Miss Cooper.
And again, when we put out those um RFPs, I think this one went out to 211 um different people that um you know, so we we know we're getting that out in front of people that can give us the most competitive bids. The second part is um something that we're proud of that we do offer all of our students um those devices. Um we have designed a uh refresh recycle plan where we uh refresh those devices at right now three different grade levels. So, students have those devices for three or four years, and then they get a refreshed one, um which is fantastic for our kids. What do we do with the computers that are no longer in service? That's a great question. In some cases, if we have uh a surplus, and we can actually um utilize some of our vendors out there do a buyback program um where they will um take those.
So that's why we've been um relentless in u in dealing with that. So thank you. >> Um I think that's all I have for now. >> Anyone else from the commission like to ask a question? Sure. Go ahead. Preston. Just want to follow up on something that Carl said about you know how do they take an imper this much uh surface and make it impervious and not create uh huge amounts of runoff. Uh as you mentioned infiltration is one one big part. The other thing is the state law uh regulates what the peak runoff is. So a lot of their system is designed to hold the water and discharge it slowly so that the peak runoff at any point after the storm it is not larger. But that means that it's discharging water for a longer time after the storm. Uh we have a local bylaw that says that the total discharge can't also be increased but the local bylaw has been waved by the ZBA.
But it could impact late bus transportation, supplies, material, things like that. Right. So, it is a combination, but personnel is a large chunk. >> Some of our events we have. >> Yeah. And member Webb, as you're you're fully aware, and I know the public is too, and the mayor is, um, when you when we have to cut, and not tonight, but we know we're going to have to cut. When schools cut, you cut the cuts are in personnel. That's where you have the savings, right? You don't cut um pads that you're buying for 89 cents from Staples or Amazon, right? Like it takes way too many pads to equal $700,000 or something like that, right? Um it's unfortunate. We want to keep cuts away from people, right? So, initially cutting supplies, materials, unfortunately, sometimes events, uh things that are deemed not even extras. I don't want to say like events are extras, right?
It's more so to allow us through educational use to to start our training start training much faster. Yeah, again, I just don't see how you you folks are doing it now. So, I'm not exactly sure perhaps as we move forward before it if it gets that far to conference that you guys can give us more specifics because to me this is about about language and that much of this you can already do. I know yeah, maybe it's not as simple as you want it to be. It it takes longer. That's all it is. Okay. But definitely we can come see you and we I mean we can we can give you more specifics. Definitely we work we'll work on that. I think this bill really needs that. Okay. Thank you. No? Okay. No other questions, let's move on. Senate bill 1872 relating to the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii exempts one strategic planning retreat of the Board of Regents per year from open meeting requirements if certain conditions are met.
They also talked a lot about the fear that they have for their children. And here's what I've learned so far. Transgender people are not abstract ideas or political talking points. They are human beings. They have bodies that belong only to them. They have thoughts, emotions, strengths, and struggles. They want safety, education, friendship, belonging, and understanding. Just like every other child sitting in our classrooms, when hostility spreads online about recognizing a transgender public figure like Sarah McBride, a child somewhere reads those comments. A child hears their parents talking about those comments. A child's classmates repeat those comments. And that child learns whether this community believes they deserve dignity or rejection. Disagreement is part of democracy. Sure. But turning discomfort into fear and fear into hostility teaches something that none of us wants our children to learn. Every adult helps shape the emotional safety of every child in this town.
Um in the area of goal five, use of resources, we are very fortunate to have the human resources that we have to support our students and want to make effective and efficient use of our resources to engage students in intervention and enrichment opportunities. Um also um the use of the technology tools in our classrooms um are valuable resources in order to support inclusive opportunities, and our teachers have the opportunity this year to have multiple sessions with our assistive technology specialist, Aaron Bowman, to help to help um equip our teachers with the tools to understand how to use them to support our students.
So we might have a class that that has had six or seven requests or transfers in for that for a level change going one way or the other. So we just try to use that to inform how we're trying to advocate for the building. And then really for for me at least it's on a section by section basis to see and to inform it. >> Okay. >> Yeah, the the biggest change we had in all honesty this year was in the number of EL students transferring into South. Um, we used to count on that if we started a class with three or four in particular in our newcomer and level one sections, we could be eight to 10 easily by the the middle of the year and sometimes higher. We stayed flat. There was no movement at all. Overall in terms of transfers the last five years, it nets out that we're we lose eight students a year over the last 5 years.
We don't want students struggling. Right? So that's where we're going. Any other questions? Thank you. These will be on display and later after we're over our 30 days I'll come back for the actual approval. All right, thank you. >> Thank you. So we bring up our architects to come present. I do want to just make a quick statement about this morning obviously we had some interesting weather today. I want to thank Dan Palawan his department and Pam Porto and her department for being here at 3:45 in the morning ensuring that things were ready to go today. Three for his people four five six for transportation a couple trucks got destroyed. Anyway, so there was just a lot that was going on here. As you know, we're always in communication with the surrounding districts and everything but thank you to to buildings and grounds and thank you for transportation and you know I thank you for the teachers for for getting here cuz there were a lot of districts that are closed sometimes it's challenging to get teachers here because their kids are home instead of doing stuff but it was a successful day and is now over and thank you.
The other one I tested. I don't know how loud this is going to be. So, we'll just enjoy your pictures, I guess. There we go. Throughout the month of February, Creep Monese School District 2011U proudly celebrated Black History Month across every school in our district, honoring history, culture, creativity, and community. At Creemon High School, students and families gathered for the annual Black History Month program. The past is the present. Guests explored a student-led Black History Fair and voted for outstanding projects that highlighted powerful stories and influential contributions. The evening continued with vibrant performances, including a fashion show, drama presentations, jazz band, dance team, and showfire performances. It was a powerful celebration of talent, expression, and pride. At Creek Monique Middle School, staff proudly wore Black History Month shirts while students participated in a spirited battle of the houses. Each grade level competed in interactive challenges like escape rooms, Big Brother, and an amazing race bout competition combining teamwork, learning, and fun.
State Convention June 15th through 18th in Fishers, Indiana. May I have a motion? >> Make a motion. >> Second. >> [snorts] >> All in favor? I. >> I. >> Opposed? Passes 5-0. We can move [snorts] on to superintendent comments, Barry. >> Mr. Faber, do you have anything? >> Lots of things. First, Vicki, thank you for giving me an idea earlier about Grandparents Day because it was going to be very easy to dismiss it because it does take a lot of work and a lot of time to put together a nice Grandparents Day, but after Vicki approached me and said, you know, it doesn't have to be fancy. We just want to come visit the school, and that's basically what we did and what we're going to be doing Wednesday night this weekend 4:30 opening up to the grandparents and their grandchildren to come back and visit the school and visit the book fair.
So, um everything else looks really good. Um within uh the education fund again, and I'll keep saying it um because we do not uh get those funds anymore. Um and so, that will slowly dwindle. Um and when it's gone, it will be gone forever um unless the state comes back and changes legislation. And I don't foresee that ever happening. So, um there's 274,000 within that um million five up there uh in the education fund. So, uh just in general, and I and I went through this last month, I'll kind of go through it quickly again, but just finances is current state of the district. Um they are strong and stable and and certainly um thankful for that. Um what does the future look like? Expenditures continue to rise. Um you know, not only in terms of just salaries, but in terms of fuel. Uh I don't know if anybody's filled their gas tank up in the last few days.
Any questions or discussion? >> This makes our children safer. Correct. >> Yes, it does. >> That's all I needed to hear. >> Other questions or comments? >> Roll call, please. >> Secretary Dere. Hi, >> Vice President Moore. >> Hi, >> President Duckworth. >> Hi, >> Trusty Kefir. >> Hi, >> Trusty Hollingsworth. >> Absolutely. >> Trusty Ryland. >> I >> and Trusty Camp. >> Thank you. >> Votes. That carries. >> Thank you, Joe. >> 6.04. Public hearing on building projects and preliminary [snorts] determination. >> 6.03. >> I got to pass it again. My problem. 6.03. Thank you. consideration to approve the curriculum adoption for English language arts. Dr. Goth, I really wasn't trying to get past you here. >> That's okay. I'm flexible, so I was going with it. Uh, good evening, President Duckworth, members of the board, Dr. Hoover. The Office of Schools and Instructional Core recommends the approval of SAVIS, My View Literacy, and My Perspective as the district's core ELA reading curriculum.
Okay. The school administration has recommended that the board approve their recommendation to cancel the teaching contract of Dana Carr. Do I have a motion? >> I moved the board cancel the teaching contract of Dana Carr. >> I have a motion on the table. Do I have a second? >> I second the motion. >> All right. Has been moved and seconded that the board cancel the teaching contract of Dana Carr.
Sometimes they are in bad shape, and they just have to be recycled. In many cases, we keep them, and we use them as loaners. So, a student brings in a device that needs repair, sometimes it might take some time to get that um that that part back in, and so now we can hand that student an older device that still works and they can use that to make sure teaching and learning continues until we're able to get their device repaired. Thank you, Ms. Lawrence. Board, any other questions on the devices? Ms. Dunn. My question about the recycling, which is fabulous. Um, but I did I curious because I do see obviously that they we gave total points and so we're looking at more than just the cost of the device. So, could you just explain a little bit about what more is included um in the purchase of these devices cuz I'm assuming there's there are other things other than just the device.
So that has not been a factor and we haven't we haven't looked at those calculations because they're not jurisdictional in this case. So it's just or just general understanding of anybody watching this. >> Anyone else from the commission? One more. Yeah, Jean. >> Yeah, I have another question. um in going through um uh GCG's uh comments um something hit on me um about um using a low uh permeable material as a in a core in the burm for the basin. Um and then you're going to obviously have an outlet pipe through that. I would I don't know how you were planning to build it, but I would suggest you build the pipe in the burm as you build the burm and not build the burm and then dig it up and put a pipe in it because now you've compromised the core in that burm by digging it up and weakening it.