And it's a first initiative that they're doing of $2 million. So, I let everybody know this because the final budget hearing is on May 7th from 2:30 to 5:00 at city council. So, any public comments in this that can actually support our Phoenix residents are great because it also bleeds in and intersects with the work that we do here in Creighton. Um and that I was going to say at that same hearing they're they're going to consider again all that work on the ordinance regarding providing health care and food assistance to people in parks. They got tremendous pushback at their last one. They were supposed to go back to the drawing board and create something that was more acceptable to the community. It doesn't seem like they've met that need quite yet. Um and so it'll be very interesting to see what the heck happens on May 7th.
That's the cadence of schools in particular. Some of this stuff being mechanical, usually we like October, November, but some mechanical things you could get into January. The only problem with that is then you're dealing with lead times. So, the longer you wait, you just kind of move down the line and it's getting in line for really the same type of equipment that many other districts in well, not only Illinois, but all the surrounding states are doing the same thing. So, I'm clear. So, if we vote for the adoption amendment or the authorization of the survey amendment, we're submitting it to the state. Uh we hopefully they will approve what we submitted on, which should be about $11 million. You'll come back and say this got approved. We have an option to take the bonds out or not. Then at that point we would vote. And then that would that money would be earmarked for the work that would happen not this summer, but the following summer.
Uh May 5th. May 5th. >> Uh May 5th from 2:30 to 5:00 at city council offices. So, anybody interested in that, that would be great. Um another update that I want to give to that has to do with Phoenix Union High School District, us and Roosevelt. Some of us are starting to get together. Superintendents and board presidents are convening together and having conversations on how we're aligning our SOAR framework. And I would like to say that's part of a legislative or a political report because as elected officials for the first time, we are really trying to start working together in what even a tri-model would look like for us as feeder districts as we start feeling the restraints or the constraints of the federal and the local levels of funding that we're getting. So, I think that's great that we're actually collaborating with our our Phoenix Union High School District and we're so thankful for their superintendent and their board president that has taken the time to start this journey with us.
Is that correct? You will have already been through summer at this point. So, we're going through the summer of '26 here soon and then in the summer of '27 some of that work would start. Right. Not Not all of it. Not all of it. But some of it. But some of it would start. Yeah. And then can you go back, Mark? Uh Uh I'm sorry. Go forward now. Right right there. So, the paths are move forward with this that preserves this option with a life safety bond. Mhm. Or you're saying we could defer and do a different strategy of funding like a refer- take out a referendum the voters vote on. Right. Or you could defer both and then try to And then try to figure out >> Figure it out. Figure it out. Yep. So, am I accurate that tonight we're voting on this hypo- health life safety bonds.
So, that's great feedback that we have as well for that. Um those are kind of the only updates that I have as we know right now. I don't know if anything's changed, Katie, but our governor has stated that she will veto any of the bills coming up as until the Republicans decide to come up with some nice budget. So, we're in a contentious moment right now and I know that a lot of that um is going to be dependent on what we do here based off of what our legislature is doing. So, any of you guys that can have use your advocacy voice out there, that would be great. But, I'm really proud of the city of Phoenix for some of these small things that they're doing. They have a surplus right now. A lot of cities are facing cuts in their budgets and we're having conversations at the city level of actually expanding some of the programs because they have a little bit of surplus.
Can't don't know why I struggle with that. But at some point I would assume that the district's going to be looking for guidance on a referendum too, and if we would want to pursue do the work in doing the due diligence for that. Not tonight, but at a future meeting. Is that accurate? If that's a possibility. It's a possibility, yeah. Uh and to consider that as being a possibility, I would imagine that it's not just something you just say, "Hey, you know, it's not flippant by any means. Um it would take work and um it would take consideration and information that would need to be compiled and shared with the board over reasonable period of time to make that decision and consider it. So, I guess what I would say to the board is, you know, tonight we're focused on this one item, but on that second item, a referendum, I would say start that.
So, I think that's just a little bit of bright spots in a lot of the chaos that's going on around us right now. Do we have any other legislative political updates or reports? One thing that came out fairly recently, I'm not sure how this is going to affect us, but the um education department is dissolving the office of What is it? English language acquisition. Um so, that's going to have a huge effect on English language learners. Um and they're even cutting back the Department of Education even more and cutting stuff. So, I again haven't dived delved into it, but yeah, it's it's kind of grim. Yeah, I thank you so much for bringing that up and I just want to I appreciate Copper State Education Alliances reports that we've been getting lately on the federal impacts and just to attest to with Mrs. Marquez said is that K through 12 education funding through the mega bill, which is make education great again, is facing a loss of $7.3 billion altogether.
You might want to start the process of getting your head around it and talking to Dr. Lacey about it because of my understanding of it, especially going through the previous referendums, is that uh we would go through a process of probably hiring some consultants or someone to help help us gather information uh if this is viable in the community, if there's an appetite for it. That type of thing. Is that correct? >> That's right. Yeah. We do have a master facility plan that is shared with in this agenda item. But if if that were an option for us to consider, we would need to spend more time ensuring that the scope of that work is fully aligned with our program attic, enrollment, facility needs, and the community's intentions, will, and um you know, willingness to to to fund. Are there questions for Mark or Tony or anyone?
So, that's a 17% reduction of the $43 billion dollars in their K-12 budget right now. So, those are just some of the federal implications that we're dealing with. So, um we we I I like to share this information not to bring some scare tactics or fear to individuals, but really that we hone in and appreciate all the work that we're doing here specifically in Creighton because as all these external um budget cuts are happening, we're still remaining in a place where we can have meet and confer conversations on what we're doing with our dollars and that just shows great stewardship of the dollars that we've cultivated here in Creighton. But, yeah, um just to acknowledge what Ms. Marquez said, um a lot of those programs through mega will be absorbed absorbed and that would be title two, title four, our 21st century grants, our state assessments that help title one B, and our McKinney-Vento.
So, well, just to be clear, what we're voting on is tonight to submit for approval with the state of these bonds and then we're not voting on them but taking them out but we're keeping our options open that if it's approved we would have the option to elect to issue those bonds. Okay. Yeah, a very simple one. So, when the architects put this all together there's literally two boxes. Okay? One says not using bonds, H L S bonds not using or are using. I mean that's I mean that's literally what they have to those two boxes that they have to check. So, now it's going back and amending that, checking the other box, but also looking at specific items and putting costs on there for the state to approve. Any more questions? No questions? All right. I will entertain a motion to authorize amendment of the 2024 health life safety survey to include estimated project budgets thereby establishing eligibility for health life safety bond financing subject to future board approval.
McKinney-Vento is a huge federal program that we have for youth that are in our district that are unsheltered and that is in the process of being completely wiped out, which is a 120 million dollars in reduction. So, there's a lot of things that we're facing right now. Um but good news is that we have a city council. We need to really start working with all our local electives and really start working and figuring out what we can do to better serve our families and our communities and I think this conversations that we're having with other districts and superintendents is one great way of starting to figure out how we can really support each other when we can't really depend on our federal or our state um um legislatures our let's legislators. Um yeah. I was just going to quickly add that most of the crazy education bills at the state legislature have been vetoed or died.
So moved. So moved by Rob. Second. Seconded by Katie. Cindy, will you please lead us in a roll call vote? Sosicki? Yes. Aralondo? Yes. Gonzalez-Thomas? Yes. Kilgore? Yes. Spivey? Yes. All right, 10.4 authorize plat of dedication. Mark, you're up again. Okay, this is a new one for me and I know it's a new one for Tony and probably all the board members. Okay? Um I don't have a presentation on this one because it's basically as simple as what you see. So, the city really when they started the subdivision kind of re-looked at the setbacks and stuff from the curbs and literally in the curve of Van Nortwick there's as you can see it's not really a great picture but there's like a little I don't even can't even call it a pie shape. It's a little piece of land that technically was assumed to be ours over the years, but really is the city's.
I'm pretty sure that concurrent resolution you mentioned is dead. There have been three or four bills that have actually been signed that implicate us in some way, but they're really not anything super important. I will say this though, um a lot of this stuff can be resurrected from the dead during the budgeting process and and become you know, bargaining chips, concessions. And the biggest thing you can do, uh you know, we say to talk to your elected officials, it's going to be supporting them in holding their ground when it comes to non-negotiables for education funding um at in the budget because this is it's an election year. The governor wants terribly obviously to be reelected and has made lots of interesting concessions in in in furtherance of that effort and I think there's plenty of state lawmakers who are willing to do that as well.
So, as a board, that's what kind of you do, so you have to give the off, you know, um basically let the city know that you're approving this, so then they can basically redraw the boundary. It's as simple as that.
Uh at at the risk of looking like you know, holding up this budget is going to piss people off. I don't know. At the end of the day we always you know, people get worried about how late the budget's coming out, but then we always end up with the short end of the stick. So, I say push them and tell them to hold the line. So, if you have it in you to talk to your lawmaker and be like, these are the top three things that are important to me about schools and school funding, do not bend on these. These should not be things that are sacrificed in our budget just to get a budget passed, then please do so. Whatever those things are to you. I know where they can find a billion dollars if they're if they're desperate. So. >> [laughter] >> Me, too.
Any questions? No. All right, then. I will entertain a motion to authorize the plat of dedication for a portion of Van Northwick property to the city of Batavia. Batavia. So moved. So moved by Raquel. Second. Second by Tanya. Sandy, please lead us in a roll call vote. Councilwoman Thomas? Yes. Councilwoman Tiger? Yes. Councilwoman Kucera? Yes. Councilwoman Londo? Yes. Councilwoman Kilburg? Yes. Moving on to the 10.5 approval of the updated services agreement for the Boys & Girls Club of North Central Illinois as presented. Holly, would you like to share anything about this? We have decided that we are going to expand to AGS for the 26 27 school year, and while we are going through that process for them to start marketing for the summer for students to be enrolled in their before-and-after school care, in that building, Louise White school students and families started knocking on the door at Louise White saying, "We want that at our school, too." So, we reached out back out to the Boys & Girls Club of North Central Illinois at so that they would be interested in taking on this as another uh space and facility for them, and they were very excited to offer that to the fifth of our six elementary schools, so um this is unfortunately again having to come back to you just so that you we can put Louise White School as a school for next year.
I was going to say something there. [clears throat] Say the Phoenix police budget. I I was I was referring to the hand the money that's being handed out. Um vouchers. Yeah. All right. Um hearing no other political um legislative updates, we will take that to our item 12, which is future agenda items. Um do we have any future agenda items? All right.
Any questions? No questions. Then I will entertain a motion to approve the attached updated services agreement for the Boys & Girls Club of North Central Illinois as presented. So moved. Who's that? Katie? Motion by Katie. Second. Second by Rob. All right. Cindy, please lead us in a roll call vote. Gilbert? Yes. Gonzalez Thomas? Yes. Jaros? I'm sorry. Um Slieger? Yes. Suski? Yes. Arambula? Yes. Moving on to 10.6, approval to place textbook on public display. Brad, you're up. Well, I'll try and keep it short here, but the board should kind of recognize this moment as where your strategic plan actually moves the district pretty quickly. So, when that plan was adopted, one of the core strategies was to look at our literacy practices uh K-12. And we have done so, and this is the kind of the final piece of that holistic approach of K-12. So, the board previously approved um CKLA for our K through eight students, and we're in various stages of implementation.
Hearing none, I move to 13A, which is our adjournment. I move the governing board adjourn. May I have a second? Second. All those in favor? I. I. Any nays? Hearing none, muchas gracias. Buenas noches. Thank you, everybody. Have a great night. Good night. Oh my god.
We'll be fully implemented at the elementary next year, and then we are we're implementing in the second semester of the middle school for for um CKLA there, Amplify. And then the high school had a different process. There's no product that aligns with that, but we used the same process, the same um um really deep look at our literacy practices to find something that works for our students. And while the high school's slightly different because AP require and dual credits require their own curriculum, and that has to align with the college board or with Waubonsee um who we work with as a partner for dual credit classes. We said, "What are those core courses which are freshman English, sophomore English, and then uh it starts to the branch out. So, some of our students their junior year take um junior year English and some of them take an AP class.