There is a way for us to track work-based learning through courses. Um they call that simulated work-based learning. There's a way for us to track uh hours in the summer as long as the student and the parent and the employer is submitting all the information. Even though they're not earning a grade or credit, we can also count those hours. Um credentials of value, so think like impact their earning certifications and things. Um college and career course work, they did remove CTE from this list, so career tech ed doesn't count unless it's a dual credit. Um the ILEARN test in government can count, attendance. If they haven't taken the biology ECA, that could count for them. If they do take the ACT or the CLT on their own and we don't give that test here, but if they take it, we can also use that. Um and then the WIDA test as well.
>> Oh wow. >> Yeah. So you everything else if you want back >> you guys can measure it if you want. Stay on that wall. >> You guys got to protect that wall. >> That's why I just said it kind of feels awkward. >> What's the movie line? >> What's the line? >> But we avoid the life of you on that wall. You want me on that wall if you get down? >> Yeah. >> All right. Uh there is no public comment. So move on to the consent agenda which we we need to break up the personnel packet portion of that. I move that we approve minutes and payroll and donations. >> Yeah. >> Second. >> Moved by Katie, seconded by Amy to move approve the minutes, claims and payroll and donations.
>> And before we present these awards, I just got to say that's some really sharp gear. Those jerseys and uniforms that you made, fighting Bulldogs, pretty cool stuff. So, I don't know who designed that, but somebody gets props. >> You want to come over? Liam Patel Miller say I'm shortda Dash Cal Leo and Agnos Christ can't be here Myers Young. Coach Early All right. Thank you. If you could just stay there for some photos and congratulations again. Welcome. So, next up we have our Crown Point High School Project Lead the Way biomedical science students. So, we have Emily Alamad, Kim, Simra Khan, Ail Smma, and these ladies won first place overall at the big cell pitch competition at Purdue Northwest. uh Purdue Northwest University. So, I'm going to read their commen accommodation awards and then we're going to um hear a few words from their wonderful teacher and get their white jackets.
The total proposed cost is $175,000 to be funded from the debt services fund. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any questions or comments? >> I have one comment real quick. Um my daughter and my granddaughter went to North High School for a craft show. My granddaughter goes to Castle. And she came home telling her mom she didn't want to go to Castle anymore, she wanted to go to North. She couldn't get over how grand it was and how beautiful and how well-kept. And just she she said, "I want to go back. I want to go to North." I said, "Well, we can't do that." But the short of the story is she wouldn't stop. She was just so impressed. And I think sometimes when we go into our buildings, that happens. We just take it for granted.
A lot of hard work into that. It's really nice to nice to see. Uh yeah, it's just exciting time of the year with uh with end of the year and a lot of uh organized craziness taking taking place with just a lot of the fun end of the year things. Um certainly with field days. Um hopefully we'll we'll get a couple more in uh tomorrow. Might be a little bit wet. Um but I know that they have uh plan, you know, plans in place to take care of that. Um it's just been really nice to see a lot of community involvement in those field days as well. seeing the kids uh just having a lot of fun at the end of the year celebrating celebrating with the rest of their uh their classes has been really nice. Uh eighth grade is going to go to holiday world trip and we want them to get down there safe and get back uh back safe.
I jumped. Thomas questions from website. I got getting getting ahead of myself. So, uh Sam or no, Corey Sursa. Okay. We're doing that? >> [laughter] >> Okay. Well, a lot of things are going on at the elementary right now. A lot of moving parts. Um first we have our behavior event, our very last one for the month of May. It's actually going to be the KCS drive-in. Each student will have their own individual box where they can create their own car. Kids are really excited about it. Pratt Industries gives us uh about 800 boxes a year. They're out of Valparaiso. Gary Howard and the maintenance crew goes and gets it every year. So, a big thank you to them. We very much appreciate it. Um our fourth grade bridging ceremony is this Thursday at 12:30. Uh a lot of tears come out of that uh little ceremony, mostly from parents, not so much the kids.
At this time, we'd open uh to any questions regarding the scope. Uh and then uh following that, we will talk a little bit about the financing piece. >> Thank you, Mr. Miles.
So so clearly it's not I know that from my own experience. >> [laughter] >> I double bag it sometimes which I ain't doing but like it is going away for sure. And the other question I had about relating to that is you know, basically they're saying now PFAS is in there. All of us It's all there. It's not going away. It's being passed on for generations. Um, but she was talking to these couples. They were doing certain steps to reduce content of plastic chemicals in their system. But, the baseline that we just have to accept there's going to be plastic in our systems for the generations to come. So, it'll take a long time to get out of there. But, we can improve the short-term a lot of things by getting this out. And And the question goes along with that is how do we synthesize this down?
Um, so I'm going to start there tonight cuz I think that's going to help set the table. Um, supplements two and three provide a lot of the information in the RAM report, um, reformatted in a little bit more easily digestible by the commission and members of the public. Um, we have the team here to answer questions, so I'm going to give kind of a high-level review. I'll present it. If you have questions, the team's here to answer your questions tonight. Um, and and then, uh, we'll go from there. Mhm. Um, so supplement number three, um, we we've discussed a pre-characterization of the site. Um, what we've done for this preliminary pre-characterization we think is appropriate for the scale. It's industry standard to do what we've done, um, particularly on the size of the scale and, uh, for the industry standards. We fully intend to do a full characterization of the site, um, as construction begins, um, cuz right now we can't test underneath the buildings and and whatnot.
By the end of the competition, Dartmouth had logged 1.1 million reading minutes and Potter students contributed 376,000 of those minutes, nearly onethird of the winning total. So with this win, Dartmouth became the highest circulating community in the sales library network and the most read town in the state. And I don't know about you, but I think that's very exciting to be part of the most read town in the state. It was a incredible reflection of what can happen when schools, families, students, community partners work together around reading. Thank you, Miss Sullivan. And we appreciate all of your support throughout our school to make that happen. So now I would like to invite our second grade stu students up front to tell us a little bit about what they're learning in CKLA. And these are in their words. You're good. >> In the beginning of the year, we learned about tall tales and fairy tales.
You You probably will not get a state budget until after July 1st, generally every year. Yeah. All right, so. There's all of this current political agenda, that can only be less later than that. Yes. And we're still recording. >> I think we're still recording and the meeting should still be going. Okay. Okay, good. >> [clears throat] >> So, hopefully the sound continued. I'm pretty sure it does when the screen dies. Yeah. Okay. So, what I mean, I'm new to this obviously, but we would need to like approve the transfer from the vacancy savings. That's correct. Okay. >> We would have less school choice, less of this that tuition and those monies would be in those accounts for us to then use. After July. Correct. All right. And then my next question is what does that leave in preschool revolving and what does that leave in vacancy savings?
Um so, I would I think I'm most proud of the work that I've done with my team to help us have the difficult conversations um about service and our delivery models and case management and time out of the classroom and and where we're going to get the impact of the for our kids on the services that we're providing. So, difficult conversations um in order to move us forward. When you talk about that team, who are who specifically are you referring to and what roles? So, our team has 13 full-time members um plus some part-time members um that are in my building one day a week. So, we have five specialized teachers um in my building, one of whom runs a specialized program in my building. Um we have one full-time speech pathologist and two part-time speech pathologists. Um we have one and a half social workers.
I feel like I'm gaining real-world skills that will give me an advantage in college and future careers, especially in fields like marketing and business. All right. Um going forward in terms of our upcoming goals, we'd like to continue to incorporate the wide range of technologies, texts, and other resources that we that we use. This really does help support real-world applications, student engagement, and problem-solving. Increase opportunities for student use of technology, again helping them research, analyze, create, and apply the concepts that concepts that they are learning in class using those technologies. And also again working with emerging technologies just to support student learning going forward. The next thing that we that we looked at were our instructional strategies and Matthew Elliott is going to share with us his experience. Hi, I'm Matthew I'm a senior at West Ranch High School. During my four years here, I've taken many business classes such as dual enrollment accounting, AP macro and microeconomics, and a couple more.
Will the first row please stand to line up and be recognized. Our first eighth grader, Alaina Aikens. >> [applause] >> Alaina was on the higher honor roll, will receive an academic letter, was top 5% in computer applications, and will receive the Presidential Award for fitness. Alaina is most proud of her academic performance and effort in keeping her grades and motivation to play sports. Archer Aikens. >> [applause] >> Archer was on the higher honor roll, will receive an academic letter, and will receive also the Presidential Fitness Award. Archer is most proud of getting second at the cross country league meet and second at track also. Gavin Belcher. >> [applause] >> Gavin was on the higher honor roll and will receive an academic letter. Gavin is most proud of putting on the putting a smile on everyone's face every day. Madelyn Bell. >> [applause] >> Madelyn was on the higher honor roll, will receive an academic letter.
Uh we but there's not an ability to do that anymore, and I think that's proven with all these other districts going through the same thing. If we were on a spotlight right now, we were the only district doing this, I would say that's a concern, but it's not. So, again, it's where we're at. So, for the recommendations that you see tonight, it is less proportionally of different um positions that individuals were let go um with regard to restructuring, performance, financial needs. There's a bunch of different reasons. I like to just call it that unfortunately through your probationary period, um we we had to go through a restructuring, and we we couldn't um recommend a a rehire. That's where we're at. Um in saying that, uh that's not an easy thing, obviously. Nobody wants to see that happen, and this is weeks and weeks of trying to you know, save as many individuals as possible.
But I have one more memory for everyone here tonight. Did you know the Disney Cars movie is 20 years old this year? But many of us remember how it made its way into our kids' lives. Whether it was watching the movie on constant repeat or zooming a Lightning McQueen across the dinner table, the class of 2026 chose Race to the Finish Line as the class motto this year, and it was inspired by the Cars movie. It really is fitting for a graduating class because each stage of your life can often feel like a race. As you all cross the stage today, it may feel like you've come to the end, but as soon as tomorrow hits, you become Lightning McQueen again as the new rookie. A new track is waiting for you. Whether it's college, careers, military, or wherever life takes you. And just like McQueen, you'll face sharp turns, unexpected obstacles, and challenges you never saw coming.
Amy, do you know off hand if there are other policies that would be I don't know off hand. I'm kind of going through it too as we're looking. >> I don't think there are honestly. I mean, I think we did cover some of the stuff with like in terms of or unleash like, correct me if I'm wrong, right? Like I'm not I'm not remembering incorrectly. I that was earlier in the year where we talked about even conduct and behavior. Yeah. And I think the new secret society thing is this hazing prevention policy because they don't have a hazing one. So, we can double check and see if there are any left, but these were the ones that are definitely left. Um, and the next steps I'm not quite sure about. Why don't we take some time to brainstorm if we have any um like any recommendations?
Um I don't know where to stand. By the by the flag. By the flag. All right. Over there where they Let's go to And um Is it going to be on camera? Is there room for you? Yeah, that's probably what I think. Um here's your oath. Yeah. Yep. Thank you. Appreciate it. You're welcome. All right, are you ready? Are you comfortable? >> [laughter] >> You're already bossing me around. Sorry. Okay, you're ready? Yep. Awesome. I I, Ervin Madden do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of member of the Board of Education that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the member of the Board of Education of Community Consolidated School District 62 of Community Consolidated School District 62 in accordance with the Constitution of the United States in accordance with the Constitution of the United States Constitution of the State of Illinois and the laws of the State of Illinois to the best of my ability to the best of my ability I further swear that I will that I I further swear that I shall respect taxpayer interests by serving as a faithful protector of the school district assets that I shall respect taxpayer interests by serving as a faithful protector of the school district assets I shall encourage and the free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees.
Again, not a surprise, but we see that significant growth over time. Um and just to clarify that last bullet point at the bottom, um for the charts in the presentation that show the percent of students um who are present on the zero-to-one list, that's zero students who've been identified as having zero-to-one relationships. The lower number here is more positive, okay? You can click to the next slide. Again by gender, a little bit of a difference here that male students are more likely to have zero-to-one relationships. Um we're going to talk about some uh at the end of our presentation about a couple of things that we do in response to this data, but for example, one of the things with that we look at in terms of gender relationships is that we look at this data and say, "Oh, maybe we need to create a support group for males." And we actually have that.
So, thank you. >> Thank you. All right. The next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. In the consent agenda, we have our minutes from our regular board meeting on April 20th, our treasurer's reports, our payment of bills, um our personnel reports, our school lunch fees, the approval of financial depositories for Central 301 and for Northern Kane, the appointment of an audit committee for Central 301 and Northern Kane, approval of a student activity funds treasurers, appointment of a person to prepare Central 301's tentative budget, appointment of person to prepare prepare Northern Kane's tentative budget, um a resolution authorizing payment of custodial and maintenance salaries and utilities from the operation and maintenance fund, the approval of supplemental retirement contributions for tier two TRS and IMRF administrators and approval of board certified delegated authority for Central 301 and Northern Kane. So, with that, can I have a motion and a second?