So, good job by Gianna Byron. Goal for Gianna Byron. Spartans up five nothing 6:29 to go in the first period. Marino on the draw. Ball's up. Marino knocks it loose. Who's going to get it? Laroque comes up with it. Good job by Laroque waiting for that ball to come over the restraining line. She gets the ball over Rosario. Rosario kicks it up to Pazinski. Pazinski with just Avery Morgado. And Kylie Marino gets called with a checking call. Pazinski still with the ball. Kicks over to Rosario. Good pass by Aguallo to get the ball in as Kylie Marino gets hit with another call. And it looks like Rosario will be getting herself an 8-meter attempt. Nice pass there by Giovanni to get the ball to Rosario. Rosario gets the Kylie Marino with the yellow card on that. Rosario overruns it in. Looks to go up, turns around, gets a shot, and gets one by Julia Gray to put the Brownies up on the board.
So, if I ever you want me and you disagree with the call, then >> [snorts] >> Anything further on that? We're on to informational items, first of which is reclassified hourly increase of accounts payable for 2019-2020. Mr. President, members of the board, in the April board meeting, the administration asked for an increase in hours for Susan Leone for the classified salary schedule. The administration is also requesting an hourly increase. You have the amount right there for the time spent in the finance office, and you have attached the classified hourly schedule. So, we're you're we're drawing that information. That that is all from here. And we always uh share uh share the uh what we want to do with the title as well. We get another different set of eyes to look at it. So, uh it all looks pretty good. Okay.
Right now, the state is withholding 3% of AHO's um revenue on a monthly basis um due to the audit from 2020. one from the esser timeline. Um if you remember the auditor general came in reviewed um a lot of the audit findings from that 21 timeline. They're always working two years back. Um we've corrected those. Mate has also submitted the uh the revised uh cap corrective action plan to the auditor general. We're just waiting right now on them to accept that and take that back to the state board. Once the state board accepts that, they will reverse and return a lot of these funds that we they've been withholding. So, anticipate that um add-on and adjustments being corrected and then turning green into the positive when we finally close this case with the general from um that 2021 audit. Hey, Tyler. Uh, Tyler, was it was it 2021 or was it the fiscal year 23?
>> Yeah. And with that notion, then we'll go to the second part which says alignment between saying and doing. Can I ask someone else to read that section for us? >> I'll do it. Boards that want to have the strongest impact on improving student outcomes will demonstrate a very strong alignment between the vision and values they speak and the goals and guard rails they act on. The more alignment there is between saying and doing, the more likely it is that the schoolboard's actions will create the context for improvements in student outcomes. The less alignment there is, the more likely it is that the school board's behavior is unintentionally harming the school system's chances of improving student outcomes. Alignment between saying and doing can be measured by comparing how the school board chooses to use the precious time it has each month, the time during public meetings of the school board with the board's written vision and values, the goals and guard rails they they've adopted.
She can't be here tonight, but we are so proud of her, too. So, thank you. >> [applause] >> All right, we have some more students here from a little brief staff recognition before we get there. This last week the DuPage Regional Office of Education had Educator of the Year an Educator of the Year ceremony and District 99 had quite a few nominees as you can see on the screen. In the categories of school administrator, educational support and high school educator. So, quite a few of District 99 recognized recognized on this evening. Then advancing to the podium later on that evening, Darren Gibson for educational support person, Jeff Grant and Mary Beth Sensor for high school educator and Ms. Gina Zaccardi for school administrator. So, they were all finalists and then at the end of the night Jeff Grant was recognized as the 2026 DuPage ROE Educator of the Year and he is a North High science teacher.
Guidance on what that has to go? Um no, it's your it's local choice. >> [clears throat] >> So, I mean, before the education fund needed so much money, we used to do it by do it proportionately. So, it honestly the um operations fund always had a bigger cash balance and so it would get a bigger portion of the interest because it was allocated by that, you know, whatever portion of the total funds that the, you know, their cash balance was, that's how the percent that we would take and deposit into that. But once we the referendum went through and all that stuff when we were trying to get revenue to the education fund as much as we could, that's when we said decided that we would do the 80/20 like we do for the basic grant. Um but you have to give the cafeteria their portion and we also because you remember the telling our age, but when we did the whole buyout pension buyout stuff in the thing and we had to put [clears throat] money so the sick days that are in the teachers contract that we buy out when they're at retirement.
It was great. We got to eat eat and talk and converse and solve all the world's problems. We did it all. We did it all. And I also wanted to say thank you again for allowing ETA to be here and to share this information with you. Thank you. Next we have Larry Samples. Tonight I want to make a few comments about the Career and Tech Center. Back on April 15th, our Kiwanis Club combined with the Career and Tech staff to present Kiwanis awards. I'm always impressed when I go out there the number of programs that are offered, also the number of students from area that are they're out there participating. The board member Ragland was there that day. Also, we gave awards There are some career programs at the schools. Central High School has a Academy of Science and Medicine. New Tech has Entrepreneurial Academy, and North High School has a Aerospace Academy.
So. Anything else? So, for you guys, we Each one of you get t-shirts. We have your your sizes here cuz you guys are champions. I really I appreciate that. I even appreciate more the comment of you guys behaving yourself while you're out there representing us very well. So, thank you guys very much for that. Mr. McCann, I'll give you these and you can pass these out. We have the sizes for them. Um so, you can get those uh on your way out. Make sure everybody gets one. Um and then also, if you get get a picture for me, too, and just send that to me. I'm going to get you guys on the Facebook page, too. Okay? So, definitely appreciate you guys' work. Keep it up. Math is one of our focus, right? So, keep developing, and I'll even encourage you guys to find your friends and bring them on the math boat, right?
Now, when they are newcomers or they are new students or new to our district, new to our country, we will do pullout services and that is more um in a small classroom setting with the ELLL teacher, maybe a few other students where they're uh they're getting provided with um explicit English instructions. It could be phonics, it could be reading, it could be writing depending on the level of that child. >> So, I guess the the there's a lot of terms that we use in education each and every day. And so I hear you say newcomer. Um I hear like there's different things like so explain a little bit about what is a newcomer versus you said a four a student who's at like a 4.2 or a six like how how does that work for us? >> So um yeah so there's a lot of you know in education there are a lot of acronyms.
Um and uh to answer any questions that you may have or that the public may have. I'm looking at you. So who's actually going to be performing the test? That's a good question. We don't know that. We There seems to be uh I don't want to speak too much about this other than be because the applicant is not present. [clears throat] Uh but there seems to be a little bit of a communication breakdown between what the Conservation Commission is asking and what the applicant is um um providing. And so we hope that we got that clarified uh in in in our discussion this week in our back and forth. Um Time will tell. I I don't know. Uh we don't know who's doing the work. As far as You mean as far as identifying the contamination and and that kind of thing? Is that what you mean?
On April 29th, our student participated in the Special Olympics at Taber Academy. It was an inspiring event in a great experience for everyone involved. Also on April 30th, our Best Buddies program hosted a karaoke event, continuing to build an inclusive and supportive school environment. On May 1st, we welcomed Carafilla, a national nationally a recognized motivational speaker who presented to our 10th and 11th grade students on topics such as peer pressure, decision-making, and traffic safety. We are also excited for our upcoming preK to 12 art show, which celebrates the work of our talented student artists. The show will be open to DHS teachers and staff and students on May 6th and May 7th. Looking ahead, the senior countdown will begin this month as we celebrated the class of 2026 in the final weeks at Dartmouth High School. We will also encourage participation in the Teresa Street Harbor run on May 16th.
Rosario with the Brownies first goal of the game cut the lead to 5 to 1. It's Rosario's 11th goal of the game. And we Pellegrino up on the draw. Pellegrino and Giovanni. Ball goes up. Mack Whitmer one hands it. Good grab by Mack. Mack quickly gets the ball over the restraining line. Gets the ball over to McKechnie. McKechnie feathers it into Illingsworth. Illingsworth a little twister. Julia Illingsworth continuing her goal streak getting another goal there. It's Julia's 12th goal of the season. It looks like Agua will be calling a timeout as these Spartans take a 6-1 lead with 5:25 left. >> Freshman Eva Pellegrino on the draw. Still believe it's she's going up against Giovanni. Pellegrino flicks it up. >> [crying] >> This time Jurez comes out with it, gets the ball over to Larocque. Larocque kicks it back over to Giovanni. This time Mac Whitmer gets hit with a call.
Any questions on this? The next item is classified issuance of notices of employment contracts for 2026-2027 [clears throat] school year. Mr. President, members of the board, the following support staff are being recommended for issuance of notices of employment contracts for the 2026-2027 school year. District office and finance staff members, you see them listed. Uh school and educational support services office staff, you see them listed. Cafeteria food services, facilities, instructional staff. Uh you have the attachment, the list of support staff that has uh each staff members and their hourly rate. And so, um here's the information for for all of you guys to see.
>> It was 2023, right? >> The fiscal monitoring was 2023. >> The the fiscal monitor. >> Yeah, the corrective action plan, I believe, was for for the fiscal year 2023, >> right? Because I heard you say 2021 for Esther, which is when >> Oh, yeah. You're right. That what I referred to. Um I mean that was still a thing in 23. So that was some of the biggest um compliance issues with regards to that audit. >> Okay. And we won't have that that issue 2024. >> No any all the all the previous audits from that um after that one have been in good standing. It's just um there until we've made a corrective action plan complete in the eyes of the attorney general uh they will not release that current poll with the state board of education. Right now >> we keep getting love notes from the auditor general in our emails.
This benefit of a time use evaluation to reveal the extent to which there's an alignment between what the school board says and what the school board does as a means of helping school boards see a path toward improving student outcomes. what's coming up for you as a team as you read that section. >> So to President Cario's point, right, what we what we say is important, what's just as important is aligning what you say along with what you do. >> And for me, it's that I think historically um in in our district, I've seen that we've worked in silos. And that's not something just here in this district. it I think it happens everywhere but I think that stems from the governance board members different paths and them themselves not being aligned onto what truly matters. So I think it sends this whirlwind down the pipeline.
So, uh we did pretty well in our community this last week. So, congratulations to all of you. >> [applause] >> All right, at this point, I'm going to invite our students that were part of the ISBE Student Summit up to talk about their experience. >> So, you might remember, um we had actually the same crew um last year, and they were invited to participate in the ISBE Student Summit. It was in Springfield this year. So, they are able to they're invited as students from Downers Grove South to go participate in the Student Summit, and they share their perspective with everyone at ISBE on what the high school experience is actually like, and what they're working on, and they really have a chance to be leaders and have agency in their school experience. But, I'm not going to steal their thunder. I'm going to turn it over.
There's a separate fund that we put money in that that fund has to we put interest into it and grow it. That's what's supposed to, you know, cover those expenses so that you don't have an unfunded liability for benefits. So, that that fund gets a portion of it, but it's only that fund only has like um 250,000 in it. So, it's less than a percent usually that's getting. And is that what pays on new sick days and things like that? Right. or return on every dollar and yeah. But other than that all the interest goes into the education fund. Uh so the next page is just I wanted to give you guys over the last 5 years of our enrollment and the tuition support that we've received. Um so you know we have two counts um each year for our enrollment. So we have a fall count and spring count and then your basic the ending [clears throat] uh tuition support for the year is based on the average count.
So, and that There were 19 there. We picked the student in each program and gave them a Kiwanis award. Then the Career Southern Indiana Career and Tech, they have 22 programs there. From Advanced Manufacturing, Culinary Arts, Cyber Security, 22 Quite a variety. And I was amazed at the students who come from outside the area. All programs that are open to students in Vanderburgh County, students in Posey County, Gibson County, Warrick County. Some [snorts] of the winners that day we had a winner from Castle, North Posey, Wood Memorial, Gibson Southern, Boonville, Princeton, Castle, Mater Dei, Gibson Southern, Mount Vernon. All students attending from outside the area, but made available by EVSC. And the qualities of awards are like 15 criteria. Some of them are attitude, perseverance, interest, sense of humor. I'm always amazed at that. And I'm not quite sure how that fits in. The sense of humor counts.
Help them out as you guys are going going through school. Definitely appreciate that. Okay? All right, guys. Appreciate it. Yes, sir. There you go. Appreciate it. Thank you, everybody. High five all around. Good work. Good work. Good work, guys. Good work. Good work, guys. Congratulations. Good work. Thank you, parents. Parents, thank you very much for bringing them. We appreciate you. You're You're welcome. What are you What are you talking about? That's good, Mr. S. Yeah. How do you feel? I feel fabulous. How do you all feel? >> [clears throat] [laughter] >> Okay, let's let's move forward. Item number seven, board recognition. Mr. Wish will discuss the recent board recognition from the Indiana high school school board association. Yeah, so every year the uh ISBA, the school board association, they give out little plaques and awards to uh boards that have gone through professional development, been through meetings, whether that's in person or online.
>> Yes. >> And so um we say um FEL is a is a term we use is formerly English language learner. Those are students that those are students that have uh tested a 4.2. They no longer need services, but we still need to monitor them. Okay. >> Then we also have um ELLL students who have been identified as scoring a 4.2 or below that we need to provide them services um every day. Um then we have slice students who are students who are ELELLL students and also students with interrupted schooling uh due to you know uh specific amount you know uh reasons. Um and so when we say newcomer we we mean new to the country but usually um that's how we like identify if they're newcomer versus like someone that was born here and um they speak another language in the home. So I guess for me is to acquire the English language and and in the training like I didn't specialize in in this field like you are and so it's really great to like engage with you and hear not just to see and to hear your passion for making sure that our students get get what they need.