001I'd like to call the regular meeting of the board of education of September 17th um 2025 to order at 62 p.m. Andrea, can you call the role, please? Andrea Delati here. Allison DS >> here. >> Tina Wanio here. Stephanie Theori >> here. >> Moren Clowninger absent. Inada >> here. >> Jennifer Ziggler >> here. Also in attendance we have Dr. Curtzmus, Dr. Sabru, Dr. Lea, Miss Meganelo, Mr. Humbles, Mr. Groby, Mr. Moronto, Miss Groki, Miss Holllet, Mr. Amsler, Miss Sindelbach, Miss Fishials, Miss Meleone, Miss Gastler, and Miss Bow. >> We have a quorum. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. The first item we have
002is the budget hearing. So, I'd like to open the floor for anybody wishing to speak on behalf of the budget only. So, we will just give it a couple minutes. Tiffany, >> we'll just give it a couple minutes in case anyone else is running in the door. Oh, this cute. >> Mhm. >> Now, my computer is Yeah. [Music] Did I do that right? All right. All right, we'll move on to the consent agenda. I'd like to entertain a motion that the board of education establish the consent agenda as presented. >> I'll second. Any questions, comments, concerns? Seeing none, Andrea, can you call the role, please? Gwanio, >> yes. Fiori, >> yes. >> Sada, >> yes. >> Ziggler, >> yes. >> Delzadi, >> yes. DS, >> yes. >> Motion passes. I'd like to entertain a motion
003that the board of education approve the consent agenda. >> A second. >> Any questions, comments, concerns? Seeing none, I Andrea, call the role, please. >> Yes. Biori, >> yes. >> Sada, >> yes. >> Ziggler, >> yes. >> Delati, yes. DS, >> yes. >> Motion passes. There were no items removed, so we'll move to the next item, which is public participation. Anybody wishing to speak before the board today? Um, enclosed in the board packet was the principal report and the enrollment reports. Yeah, we're excited. This month the principles have created a video um that will highlight all the magic that really takes place at the beginning of a school year. So, enjoy. >> Thank you. [Music] One, two. [Music] All right. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] There you go. [Music] Oh my god. [Music] Oh my god.
004[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] I feel like the excitement and the energy that you saw in those photos wouldn't be possible without teamwork across the district. So, I just want to take a a moment to just thank the teachers and the staff for welcoming our students with such care. Obviously, our custodial team, John, thank you so much to your team for making sure the buildings were ready at the beginning of this school year. Um, our office teams worked so diligently to make sure that everyone was registered and ready to go with a smooth start. Same thing with the business office on boarding in our district office, all of our new staff, um, and obviously our administrators. Thank you so much for your vision and your leadership and your dedication. It's a lot of moving parts, but
005as you see from those photos, it's been an inspiring and a really exciting start to the school year. So, thank you to everyone for a great kickoff. It's been great so far. >> Very nice. >> It's so fun to see so many um smiling faces in those pictures and so many different activities. And God bless those kids who like to run really far in cross country because this mother has not been running conducive I would say. So thank you for sharing those moments with us. Um up next is examples of excellence. So this month we really want to um spotlight the strong partnerships that we share with our community. Um the focus of partnership really represents a board area, a board focus goal area that we would have strong relationships that connect all of our
006stakeholder groups with our our community and our schools. So just kind of going through some of the photos that you see that are highlighted here uh today for this example of excellence. We have from our top lefthand corner our um wonderful staff at Kennedy. They deliver and welcome our incoming kindergarten students with a yard sign at the beginning of every year to welcome them to that Kennedy community and getting to know our mascot. So, it's wonderful to see um that magic happen in the community and see it um in in the front yards of our homes um where our students are living. Um it's also great to see it all of our staff members who support students outside of the classroom. Um, so whether they play travel sports, um, it's really awesome to see our
007teachers and staff who go above and beyond and support our students on those games at night and on the weekends. Um, we also have a wonderful partnership with the historical commission. You see some photos there as well. Um, they have their weekly meetings on Mondays um, at the space that is allocated to them at Washington School. They really work hard. Kathy and I visited and I felt like we were interrupting a really productive work meeting. Um, so we like to visit them, personally, invite them to events that are happening and and keep that connection alive. Next month, we'll be featuring the historical commission as an example of excellence for the work that they're doing with our students. So, we're excited to show you and talk to you more about that. Next month, um, you'll also
008see some photos from Grace Park Condos. We went and visited Nelly. Um, and we're excited to set up um, you know, meet and greet with all the community members who live at Grace Park Condos. And we also stopped by the Autumn Leaves bingo game and we invited them to literacy night and just let them know that we look forward to continuing to invite them to our musicals. And sorry, Washington, we slipped and told them what the musical is. So, I hope that they don't tell any of your students and hopefully they can keep a secret until Friday. Um, and then >> maybe they won't remember, too. We're excited about it. I'll tell you >> there's always that >> the bottom right hand corner you'll see the table that we had. Um we're excited to support
009and partner with our village as well this year and continue with a strong partnership. We participated in their annual car show that took place in a um August. So members of the administrative team were there on site giving uh giveaways and it was just great to see our families before the year started. We also participated, as you'll see in the lefthand side, in the charity softball game. Our mascots were there as well as members of our learning community. So, it was just great to be part of that and see a wonderful event that was for our community. Um, and then obviously we have our partnerships with the Schiller Park Police and Fire Departments. Uh, they were integral. They're always part of our annual meeting to develop and analyze and review every year our emergency plan.
010They're pivotal in our our drills for our safety weeks. So, it's been nice to have them be present um at school arrivals and dismissals. I'm sure you've seen Roger, our school resource officer. Um and and really the next component that we're excited to partner with them is just the education. We know that the DARE program is thriving and will continue at Washington School, but we're also excited to welcome our fire department back and they're they've already met with us and expressed an interest in partnering with fire prevention for our youngest students at Kennedy School this year. So, these are just some examples of ways that SD81 is strengthening partnerships with community stakeholders and we really look forward to doing that and supporting the board's mission and goal with that. >> Nice. >> Very nice. It's
011so nice to see. Mhm. >> I mean, if this is what you can do in a month, I can't wait to see what you do all year. So, >> okay. The next item we have is board business. Um, the triple eye conference is always the weekend before Thanksgiving, November 21st through 23rd. There's a signup sheet going around um to indicate if you're bringing anybody with you and if you'll and what you'll be doing on Saturday evening. Um, also coming up is the IASB West Cook Division meeting um at September on September 30th. Um, and that is at 5:30 at Elmrest and the teacher of the year from our very own Leiden will be presenting there. So, that's exciting. Um, I think everyone's able to attend that event. Um this is not listed but I you
012know you guys took your Saturday out to go to um the workshop all day on Saturday. So I appreciate you guys taking that time and you know it's important to continue learning. You know we expect that from our from the staff and everything. So it's nice that we are able to um be an example for that. >> Thank you guys. We spent a great day together um that we had learning in person through the IASB. So, we were together um on Saturday in Neighborville. And again, it's just another way that you guys are living up to your goal of good board governance and teamwork. And so, I thank you for participating and and wanting to continually grow and participate in professional development. So, I look forward to the dinner as well coming up. >> Thank
013you. >> Um and the the last item we have from board business is the resignation of our board member Moren Clowninger. and we'll have Andrea read that. >> All right. Dear SC81 school board, I regret to inform you that I will need to resign from the school board due to relocating. It has been an absolute pleasure serving among you and supporting Dr. Carzmus as she steps into her new role. I know you will make all the best decisions for the students and hope to stay in touch. Thank you for everything. Sincerely, Meen Clowninger. So while Moren was on the board for a short period of time, she really had a great impact and a great attitude and really supported the decisions and student focus decisions. Unfortunately, an opportunity came up where she had to move
014out of town. So one the only criteria to be a board member is you have to live in town. So um unfortunately she had to stepped out from her position, but we wish her all the best. Um and uh Dr. Cartimus gave her a lovely gift on behalf of the district. So that was really nice. Anybody else? >> We'll continue to update the community on the timeline for filling that vacancy. >> Perfect. >> Um the next up is old business information. Um we don't have anything there. And new business information. We don't have anything there. So we'll move on to uh new business action. I'd like to entertain a motion that the board of education approve the district 812526 official budget as presented. I'll second. Any questions, comments, concerns? No. Okay. Andrew, can you call
015the role, please? >> Yes. Diori, >> yes. >> Sada, >> yes. >> Ziggler, >> yes. >> Delati, yes. DS, >> yes. Motion passes. Thank you, Pascal, for all your hard work on that. Uh, the next item up is the approval of the posting of the EIS report. So, I'd like to entertain a motion that the board of education approve the posting of the EIS report to the district website as presented. >> Okay. Any questions, comments, concerns? >> Seeing none, Andrea, can you call the role, please? Ananio, >> yes. Fiori, >> yes. >> Clowninger, oops, sorry. >> Sada, >> yes. >> Ziggler, >> yes. >> Delati, yes. DS, >> yes. Motion passes. Are we doing executive session? I'd like to entertain a motion that the board of education adjourn to executive session at >> 6:18 p.m.
016>> Oh. To discuss vacancy in a public office. Sorry. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> Any questions, comments, concerns? >> Andrea, can you call the role, please? >> Yes. Fiori, >> yes. >> Sada, >> yes. >> Ziggler, >> yes. >> Delati, yes. DS, >> yes. Motion passes. I'd like to entertain a motion that the board of education reconvene the regular board meeting of September 17th at 6:55 p.m. >> I'll second. >> Andrea, can you call the role, please? >> Yes. >> Biori, >> yes. >> Sada, >> yes. >> Ziggler, >> yes. >> Delati, yes. DS, >> yes. >> Okay, motion passes. I'd like to entertain a motion that the board of education approve the personnel report for the month of September as presented. >> I'll move second. >> Any questions, comments, concerns? >> Seeing
017none, Andrea, can you call the role, please? >> Yes. Fiori, >> yes. >> Sada, >> yes. >> Ziggler, >> yes. >> Delati, yes. Downs, >> yes. Okay, motion passes. Um, our next item is public participation. Still no takers. So, with that, I would like to entertain a motion that the board of education adjourn the regular board meeting of September 17th at 6:56 p.m. Um, Andrea, call the role, please. Danio, >> yes. >> Biori, >> yes. >> Sada, >> yes. >> Ziggler, >> yes. >> Telati, yes. Downs, >> yes. Okay, motion passes. Meeting adjourned. Thank you all. Have a great evening.