>> So this is the year8 agreement. Yes. Um for $7,466. Correct. So this is basically a continuation of monitoring our solar fields. Any questions on that? Okay. Uh, all in favor of 8F, the performance services performance assurance agreement, say I. >> Opposed. >> All right. Motion carries. >> Okay. HG. I'd like to get a motion to discuss Ker Media. This is that spring newsletter we were talking about. >> Second, >> Dr. Mark. As I shared earlier, I think it's important not only to utilize social media to share the great things happening at Deli, but also this is an actual newsletter that will go in mailboxes not only in our deli uh community, but beyond. It's a four-page fullcolor newsletter. Um, and you know, I I do receive a lot of feedback, as I'm sure you do as well, um, just about all the great things that are happening.
And so we're we're much closer. We were looking at PSAT scores and SAT scores. Um, and I'm I'm like super excited that for the 60% that we have to get to get the cut score in math and English for English, we were about 11 kids shy of getting the the 60% on the cut score. Like 11 kids and those 11 kids missed it by one question. And we had 14 kids actually that missed it by one question. So that's how close we are in being able to jump over that bridge. Once we are once we clearly understand and SAT's done a better job because they were farther down the road than iLearn has done for us so far. Once we clearly understand what it is that's being asked of our kids, then it's just reverse engineering, right, for each kid. What is it that that kid needs to get to that spot?
And so just to watch it grow um not only in the number of kids, not only in like the number of kids and staff that we have, but in the offerings that we have and the supports that we can give our kids that like you said Mike uh before really there there was nothing else for them. So um for me it's it's uh it's a it's an awesome thing that we have to offer, but it it wouldn't be there if we wouldn't have had Greg. I don't believe because like from the very beginning he's the one digging in looking for like okay he created the handbook and he created rules and then okay we can get by with two teachers and an and an aid and now and then I'll teach these kids at night and just those kinds of things to like where we are now and then sitting down with a high school talking about okay if this many kids are coming over then the high school figures out okay I can do without this and this and this and then those staff members go over and so when I said it when we started this school year.
They've done some significant work actually to this field as the Mastico is down one and two with the pitch a changeup. She waits on it and she She's a little bit early but she did have some patience waiting on that changeup and pulled it foul. Yeah, George, the the the Department of Public Works here uh did a tremendous job getting some new infield dirt and doing some leveling [crying] >> [screaming] >> in for this infield. Uh it's it's a whole new infield. >> That's a ball. And what's been nice so far is we haven't had a rainout which in the past has been an automatic rainout. Uh the girls played most of the first half of the season over at Acton Middle School while the while the field is still getting ready. As the Mastico does hit a hot shot but a center fielder the center fielder number um who is in the game.
Grayslake has two big high schools. They have combination of ground or sorry roof and ground mounts and so they've actually uh um really standing closer to to you here have five elementary in Valley View. So that's Bolingbrook and Romeoville that have solar um Warren Warren Township High School has a huge ground ground mount. um Barrington has high school and two middle schools Lake Zurich high school elementary and two middle schools and we're still in the process of those but uh that that's moving on. So um I could keep going I could keep going on and on but it We we provide all of them. We provide all the references. We want you to call Both, both Deerfield and Highland Park uh, high school, um, which is closer where Doc came from, have, uh, have solar as well. >> No, it's a, I mean, it's a great return on investment.
Um, reached out and had several staff members that are contributing, you know, to these stories and writing them. Um so just excited to highlight the great things happening here to again our school community and beyond. >> Uh this is for 13,484 copies that will be mailed. So >> and the postage as well. >> So this is this is going out um far and wide.
Um, and we will need to add some pieces to the to the dashboard like attendance because we have to look at attendance in an entirely different way. If you look at Huntington North's attendance on a GPS, it gives you a very different number than what Dr. Det said. And it took us a hot minute to figure out why those two things were different. Um, so the work we've been doing is the exact work we need to do continuously. and tech. Uh, our new tech director is delightful and he's working with us, not this week so much, but most weeks to, um, to create exactly what that dashboard needs to look like. And then it'll change over the next couple of years as we get better at looking at the data. >> Yeah, >> Chuck probably wants to say something because this is what he loves more than anything.
It really was the first time in those five years that it's been kind of status quo. Um we didn't have a big influx of teachers and students or we didn't move from one little space to a giant building and um >> you didn't have to drive a bus. >> No, he didn't have to drive a bus this year. That's right. Because he did that, too. But him and Chris Middleton would share. But um it's just great to see the number of kids and then when when you're down there and then you can go upstairs and see the adult ed program. Um, so it's just kind of it's great. So, thank you. I'm excited about where we're going to. Um, and has it been all smooth? No. There have been lots of bumps in the road. And, um, Greg and I don't always agree, >> but as my my good buddy Jeff Kennedy used to tell me, sis, sometimes we're just going to have to agree to disagree, >> right, Lauren?
She's a replacement here. I'm not exactly sure what her name is as as I did not get the entire roster. But I'm going to have to get her name. That's a heck of a catch there uh by the center fielder for the Mustangs on a really hot shot ball uh by the Mastico. And and that It followed up by Vendetti who laces a line drive double to right field. Great shot there by Vendetti. So, we've got the fly out to center to start followed up by another double for Ava Vendetti. George, she's a doubles machine. I think that may be number 10 on the season for Ava. That was a beautiful slicing bomb line drive that just worked its way away from the right fielder over towards the foul line. And she saw that right away and just kept those kept her wheels going right around first base to have for an easy double there.
Um, but I'm I'm going to I'm going to >> Yeah. And what what I would >> You're going to dot your eyes and cross your tees. >> Absolutely. >> There's there's definitely a lot on even the public document that you put out there. I wonder what the next steps are. So. >> I mean, what I just want to say is if you remember, I think, 2 months ago, we came up with, uh, with an idea to reduce, uh, expenditure on electricity by doing a reverse auction. There are very few things that we have control on when it comes to our expenses because, as I always mention, short of laying off a bunch of our teachers, um, which ties up 80% of our expenses. So, then we're left with 20%. If you look at those 20% of the expenses, the biggest expenditure driver of those is actually utilities, which is why we've been looking for ways of trying to mitigate that.
Any questions on that? Okay. Uh, all in favor of 8G the Ker Media spring newsletter say I. >> I opposed. >> All right. Motion carries. Okay. 8H. Let's get a motion to discuss creative flooring for the high school. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Uh, Chris, >> I haven't seen this. So this was like the flooring stuff was done between hey custodian and principles >> and then to me. So as you can see in the recommendation it lists each of the areas that will be worked on um with the total cost listed. So this is through the recommendation of Austin with Mr. Long um and was given to me.
But Michelle and Brooks, >> um, I'm looking forward to the state's final model. you're starting to see it. Um, I won't get into how I feel about why they wait for cut scores, but I I will just tell you this. Uh, my entire past leadership model was tell us the rules you play by. We feel like we have a really good school in Huntington. Uh, Mr. Peters would tell you we're just over 90% last um, summer with the I read. That's that's a really good that's a great number. I see Deb smiling. Um, I know Dr. Digits and his team and and a multitude of leaders there, we end up between 94 and 95% on graduation rate. So I know the beginning and the end. And then you say, well, what what's the rest of it? The rest of it is determining what we're being evaluated by.
>> Yeah. >> So, anyway, but ultimately I'm the boss. So, Right. Right. say that too. You can say that, but I did. But anyway, so um yeah, I'm just excited about where we're going and um you know, I've just to watch it grow and then to watch the relationship between the academy and Logansport High School specifically grow because there have been, you know, sometimes we get territorial and sometimes we think things should happen faster than they do and sometimes they don't and sometimes one school thinks the other school should just know what's happening and they don't. It's a swing and a miss. But just to watch that come full circle has has been great. So thank you. Um last Thursday night I attended the teacher retirement dinner and 25 years celebration for or celebration for those uh staff members who've been here for 25 years.
Kyra Kyra super aggressive on that first one. Swung at one that was a little high. Fouls it off. Looks like she's looking for her first hit of the day after a fly out, a walk, and a hit by pitch. And she swings and misses on that one. Strike two. She's down now 0 and 2. Uh so, I I probably shouldn't even say it, but Kyra has not struck out all season. And yeah, you shouldn't have said that. >> I did just say it. Uh she's down 0 and 2. Let's see if she can shorten her swing up here and and and put [screaming] this ball in play. And she's going to foul one back. That's going to get just out of play. She's got a new life here. Uh she's still going to have to fight 0 and 2. And the center fielder, um who made that great catch, was Becker.
And this is one way of us being able to mitigate that, and then the savings that accrues from that being able to invest in our buildings, be able to to do the things that we need to do as a district with our building. So, which is why we we explored this as an opportunity to be able to do that because, there, as I said, uh, it's a repeat myself, there are very few options out there for us to be able to to reduce expenses when it comes to utilities. >> Any other questions? >> I I just have one quick one. Is Is there any cost saving or cost difference, and and I mean, initial outlay, if we were to do this in pieces as opposed to doing, you know, both the high schools or both the high schools and the junior highs? >> Um, we've we've given, uh numbers as a a la carte, so >> Okay.
>> Any questions on the flooring repairs? installation material and labor. And right now we are, you know, we've approved previously to put in the band lockers and this also which is the right time to do that is to work on the flooring with the van locker area as well while that's being installed.
Attendance is an intervention based which you have the least control over. Um, this is these are kids and so our goal is to have the kids show up as much as humanly possible because they want to be here. Well, kids, as Meg will tell you in a little bit, um, they got a lot going on. You know that you guys are advocates. That's why you're in the spot you're in. So, I'm a it's not a ABCDF. I'm a what experience are they having? And Huntington does this really well. And once we understand what we're looking at, um I know we'll rate extremely well, but we have to get our team and we've been working on this and then we I want it to be live in terms of it's fluid. Here's what they monitor us and here's how we're doing on some key categories. No judgment.
This is something we started I don't I couldn't even tell you how long ago probably 10 years maybe 11 maybe we did it. I don't know maybe it's been longer than that. Um but we come together the administration comes together along with the LEA and provide a dinner to recognize our our staff members who are retiring who have 25 years of service and um the LEA members pay for the dinner uh of the members and then I pay to I pay for the dinner of the people who aren't uh members and so it's always a very nice night. we had the swing choir come and perform and last so last Thursday night um I said this at the chamber meeting on Friday it's um you know it's a bittersweet thing because you think like wow we have we have these teachers at the top retiring so that's a it's a cost savings to us if we're if we're hiring people who don't have that much experience but the real better part of that is one these people given so many years and two you don't just replace that experience which is really hard and So, we will have more.
Uh Becker made a nice catch on that on that play by uh on that hit by Bella Domestico. Yeah, she she ranged all the way over to the right field. Almost all the way to the right field or and made that catch which and did two hands, textbook catch, great job there. 0 and 2 to Kyra who takes one high with Vendetti over at second. 1 and 2. Uh Cordani looking to see if she can get the number four hitter out for the Clockers who is 0 for 1 on the day. Still only one out here. Low roller. Kyra definitely wasn't swinging on one. >> Yeah, low is an understatement. Yeah, ball rolled in over the plate. So, Carolyn again looking for her first hit of the day against Cordani. She's now back two and two. Takes one high. Three and two is the count.
>> we're showing you what two high schools look like just because we were trying to maximize what the potential return on that uh IRA tax credit would be. But you absolutely could just pick one high school, try it out. Difference might be if that tax credit changes too much, >> Sure. >> uh I I don't know. Now, if you safe harbor the whole thing and didn't move forward, uh I mean, that that that could be an option as well. The fact is you have till 2030 or 2031 to be completely energized, so you you would have time in between. But there isn't there isn't a big uh there is a little savings to the project management and and having the contractors on site to do a couple buildings versus just one. The truth is they're going to do one building at a time just based on how solar works anyways.