001[Music] Good evening. Ready? All right. I am reconvening to open session of the regular meeting of the Fairview District Board of Education. It is June 11th, 2025. It is 7:06 p.m. We have already established we have a quorum. I'd like to request that all members of the public be respectful of everyone at this meeting. Please ensure you silence your cell phones and please join us for the pledge of allegiance. Mr. I pledge algiance 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. All right, we're going to start with um approval of the minutes of the regular and closed meeting of May 21st, 2025. May I have a motion and a second to approve the minutes of
002May 21st, 2025? So moved. Second. Okay. Anyone have any corrections, comments, concerns, questions? No. Will all those in favor of approving the minutes of May 21st, 2025 say I. I. I. Okay. Any oppose say nay. All right. Minutes are approved. Next item is approval of payment of bills. Um, may I have a motion in a second to approve the payment of bills in the amount of 151,24757? So moved. I'll second. Okay. Any questions regarding the bills? No. With the board secretary, please call roof. Yes. Saji Phillip. Yes. Esta Tamura. Yes. Hbert Witworth. Yes. Diana Diaakus. Yes. Christine Soya, yes. Jaclyn BJ, yes. Bills are approved. Next item is the PTA Association report. Do we have a member? Hi. Um, first, thank you guys so much for your staff. Sorry. Um Katie and I are officially
003going to serve for two more years as PTA co-presidents. So we're excited about that. Um we had a very busy few weeks. We started off with um eighth grade dance, I believe. I know a lot of eighth grade parents um had a threw their kids a wonderful eighth grade dance. Um and I know it was beautiful seeing pictures. They had an awesome DJ. Entertainment was fun. I know the community came together and helped donate a lot of really cool stuff for your people um for your kids and we had eighth grade graduation reception. Um we got great feedback. Um it was really nice. It's always nice to see um the kids graduate. I think you guys know this. The the videographers are my first cousins kids. Joey and Justin are actually alumni of Fairview, so
004they do the video every year. So it's fun to see them kind of back in school. Um, and then a huge thank you to everyone with extended field day. Um, thank you to the PE teachers for helping with their field day. And then a huge thank you to Fairview staff for our field day. It was so much fun. We had Kona Ice, we had relays, we had um water relay games, we had just a time to kind of chill for the kids. It was a beautiful day. Um, and then I think That's pretty much it, but we had a really fun, busy few weeks. So, um, thank you guys so much again. Thank you to the community for always showing up, for always donating your time and money, and thank you for the staff for
005always helping. Um, have a great summer, too. All right. Um, next item is school activity report. Does anyone from the board or admin have any good news that they would like to share? Hello everyone. Uh we similar to Sylvia, we had a very busy end of the year. Um I just want to echo and piggyback on um her comment about the field day extension. It was really great to partner with the PTA on that and allow kids to have more activity and time outside together. It we could not have had a better day at all in the morning and then it started to rain in the afternoon. We really lucked out. It was it was really beautiful and you know it's hope hopefully something that we can continue for years to come just to provide
006more opportunity for kids to be together outside. For me um I was able to help or participate with my first kindergarten graduation. I'm used to having 8th grade graduations and it was great to attend that as well, but to have to see the little guys um you know how far they've come um and to hear what they want to be when they grow up. It was really really cute. the kindergarten team did a really nice job of preparing for that. And then um also I just wanted to say thank you to the board and thank you to the um all of the the administrative team and staff here at Fair View. So I am I am rounding out my first year here and I could not be more happy um and just proud to be
007here and thankful. I'm very grateful and just want to say thank you for that. It's been an awesome experience. Thank you. All right. Similar to everyone else, um our celebration were for our oldest, the class of 2025. Um had a wonderful last couple weeks. Very sad to see them to them go and hopefully they felt uh just the the legacy they've left. Uh I know we say that a lot, but um you know, being a really good group of of students and people is what we we hang our hat on. So the class of 2025 was amazing. Uh, one specific um, if you weren't able to come to graduation, we announced the winner of the Louis Blumenfeld award, which is for an eighth grader uh, to Miss Emma Shurmer. Um, she's an eighth grader who's
008been in our community for a long time. Her father was on our board, so um, it was great to see her. But we had 18 applicants for that award. So, it was a lot of students that that put the time and effort to apply for that. So, that was wonderful uh, as well. And just a shout out too to our seventh grade PTA families who planned the reception for graduation. And it takes so many people to do all of the graduation for kindergarten and for for 8th grade and and making it really special. So, it's staff, families, um you know, other grades of students uh playing in the orchestra before graduation and after. So, thank you to to everyone. So, did you No, you didn't. You're good. Thank you. Um, we had the final stages
009of like of our wellness incentive program for this year. So throughout the year, all these wellness programs that we do, it's for our employees benefit, but there is an incentive where we get up to8% of our annual premium back from our insurance program if we meet certain standards. And thanks to the participation of our staff and our wellness committee, we're going to get that number back. I believe it's for the sixth consecutive years. So we're going to get 10 to 11,000 back. And what that money does is it funds the wellness programs for the next year. We board a long time ago decided to use that money to roll it forward. So we're going to be able to fund our program for the next year, but really it's a testament to like the buyin we've
010gotten from our staff and our committee to put these programs out there for the for the uh employees. So we've had, you know, our wellness week has become a big thing. Everyone's pretty excited about the about the swag that we give out every year. So we have jackets. Oh, the board did the board get jackets already? Oh, well we have jackets for you all. So remind me to get those to you. But it was just it's just a good another example of the entire staff coming together for one goal and we're able to fund our program for the next year. So good news. Uh we just finished up or finishing up um a gym audio install. So the previous system uh was around 20 years old. So it definitely added was at its end of
011life. The previous system if announcements were made um teachers couldn't hear them if there was music playing or they were talking. The new system allows for whatever announcement is being made to cut through whatever audio is being played. So if there's an emergency, anything like that, the teachers can hear. We'll also be installing next week. It's called a beacon. Sometimes it's so loud in the gym that you can't hear anything. So what the beacon does, it's like a siren strobe light on the wall. And in case that goes off, then the PE team knows what is is going on. There's different colors for each alert that that we have. And then also next week, we'll be starting um in installing more security beacons around the building. this time in middle school, too. Um, right now
012we just have one in the office, but these are dualsided clocks that show the alert as well as sound an alarm, so the whole building can hear if something's going on. So, we're hoping to have this done by July 1, and then we can start training on them. I'm just going to piggyback on um what Barry was talking about. Uh Jeff and I also met with a security firm today. Um part of the strategic plan was to um conduct a security audit. Um, and so we met with a group today that we're very interested in in working with and they're going to be submitting a proposal to us. Um, but the way it would look would be that they would do some deep dives into our policies and our procedures here at school as well
013as do a sitewalk to look at different parts of the building outside inside and then give us recommendations going forward as to how we might be able to continue to improve the security. Um, so that would report would probably be more in the fall. Um, but I wanted to let you know since Barry brought this up because that's part of the security efforts as well. Um, that you know that even though school is out, we're we're moving forward and working towards some of those goals in the strategic plan. Um, and then the second thing, um, two small bits of good news. Um, Jeff Far graduated from Notre Dame, uh, which is second, so we're very happy for him. um didn't get to see him walk the stage, but you know, it was very early and
014getting over to South Bend is, you know, not the easiest drive on a Saturday, but um we're super proud of him. It was a very um difficult program that he was in. It was not, you know, there are very different types of master's degrees. Um but the work that he did was was really hard work. Um and he did a great job of it. So, we're really proud. And Karen Shiovoka has started a graduate school program as well. So she is going to be working towards her doctorate degree um and also her lensure as a superintendent down the road. So excited for her to start graduate school as well. So she'll be at Lyola University. Um so good things. You know, our our administrators are all always working to continually improve and take courses and
015go to professional development. So again, even though it's summertime, um you know, we're all continuing to work towards, you know, the future, whether it's opening school or the strategic plan or just our own professional development, this is a good time to do that. So question regarding um we going to install any metal direct detectors? No. Um so Mr. Phillips question is whether or not we would be installing metal detectors at the school. Um, right now what we're doing is we're having an outside organization um that are uh respected individuals in the law enforcement field who look at things with a little bit of a different eye than maybe school personnel look at things. So, they're going to come and take a look at our operations and then they're going to make suggestions. I I would
016not I would be surprised if they recommended metal detectors. That's not something that I think would be an issue here at Fairview, but I can't predict what they might say we need or we don't need right now. Um, so that plan would be coming. you know, they will give us a report in the fall and then the board will have to decide, you know, what your priorities are, what we have the money for, etc., etc. So, it'll be a work going forward. Okay. I know I know we we all all in all of us who are educators, I think, and parents as well with children in school, it's our greatest fear um that something could happen at school. Um so, there are a lot of measures that we put in place. Um, there are a
017variety of things that schools do to to keep students safe and with new technology, there are a lot of new ideas out there of what we can do. So, I I hear you. We take it really seriously. Um, I was one who was deeply impacted by Lori Dan back in the let's see, I'm dating myself. The mid to late 80s um because I was in high school at the time in Wanka when that happened. And so, um, that was like one of the first school shootings that really was heard of. Um, and it happened right here in Illinois where I was growing up. So, it's something that I've always held very close to my heart how important it is to keep these kids safe every single day. So, it's not something we take lightly. Um,
018and you know, there's always room for improvement. So, um, I'm just going to be like the fourth person who echoes field day. Um I was a volunteer so it was per perfectly orchestrated from a sort of scheduling perspective but the amount of times I heard students like various students like chanting this is the best day ever. It it was just so fun to be a part of. Big thanks to those in the dunk tank that was such a huge hit and so being good sports about all of that um is wonderful. I think Mr. Corey left out uh that report cards were sent out and I don't think there was any issues because all the parents that I spoke to received them. Um so yeah, so uh nice work on that because I know sometimes
019that's a big feat. Um so those were just the only two things I wanted to add. I need to add something and it's going to be kind of silly, but I want to thank y'all because my my my daughter got straight A's. That is something I never thought was possible. and you guys made that happen. Thank you. Um I just wanted to end the discussion with a thank you as an eighth grade parent. Like everything was perfect. Um from the communication to everything that was set up for these kids. They're so lucky and so blessed and um yeah, it was a lot of good emotions. Um but good things. So, thank you. I like get emotional and I have like no in like no vested child there, but it's just a send the video of
020me giving this speech. Yeah. Um, but it's just a sentiment to like the community that you guys have all built like and hearing the student stories and speaking on behalf of the teachers is truly just like tugs at my heart like every time. Like I I'm like a blubbering mess and I like don't even have a kid up there, right? But it's just really speaks volumes to just this place. Um, and so yeah, it's just all incredible. And my kids like didn't like they got sad that it was like the last day of school like right to to have students like not want to leave this place. Um, I I you can't put into words what that means. So, all right, we're going to move on to board discussion items. Um would the superintendent please
021introduce the reports to the board? Yes. Um so this evening we have the second reading of the board policies. Last month we introduced the policies to the board. Um and I indicated that there really isn't a whole lot of options for the board with this um because most of these are dictated by changes in the school code or the law. Um so you know I asked all of you to take a look at the policies to let me know if you had any questions. I haven't heard from any board members. Um, but now is an opportunity to talk further. If not, uh, and you feel comfortable, you know, I recommend that you would approve these policies as they're stated. Um, and then we can do so, um, when we get down to the action. So,
022open to any discussion, questions. Okay. Um, the second is the superintendent report for June. Um, and you know, I hope you've had an opportunity to take a look just like everybody else. It's been a very, very busy month. Um, one of the highlights for me, um, I had the a former Fairview principal, Mr. Strongen, reach out to me. Um, and he is in his late 80s and he and his wife wanted to come to visit the building and have an opportunity to see the new additions and whatnot. And it was it was a wonderful walk down memory lane for him. Um there were parts of the building that obviously he didn't recognize at all, but there were parts that he remembered and you know he shared some stories with me that you know just were
023priceless. Um so it's always always fun to have um folks come back and and visit Fairview. Um we also Mike and I also received an email from the class of 1985 having their reunion. They're going to have their eighth grade reunion this fall and they were wondering if they could come and visit Fairview. So, it's um kind of along the lines of what you said, Christine. People just really stay connected to their Fair View friends. They may not still be here in the area, but there those connections and those relationships last a lifetime. So, um that always makes us feel really good. And of course, all of you who bought homes in the district, who grew up here, wanted to come back and raise your families here, that is the highest compliment anyone could have
024for a school. So um other than that um we have posted the superintendent vacancy position. So that process is well underway. Um we will be sending out a survey to the community to seek um input on the next superintendent as well as u volunteers for the process going forward. So people should watch their their emails. There will be a staff survey as well as a community survey going out. So we're really looking for people to complete that and u be a part of the process in one way or another. So other than that um summertime is just busy for us because we have a lot of state reporting that we need to do. Barry's nodding his head because he's spending a lot of time trying to input data. Um but you know there are a
025lot of requirements that public schools face um with deadlines of usually June 30th. Um so we're working hard to kind of get all of that information in and be in compliance with everything we're required to do. So, it's kind of a the next couple of weeks is pretty busy for us and then July is pretty quiet, so we look forward to that. Any questions about anything that I have on the N Okay, awesome. Next item is our board committees and representatives. Jackie, any updates on buildings for committee? Yes. Um, we met on May 22nd, Raphael, myself, and uh the group of us. Um, Cassio and the maintenance team, I want to say thank you. You were talking about graduation. I know they they were telling us about the the prep and the work that goes
026into that. So, um we talked about the summer projects, deep cleaning, uh maintenance. They have the annual inspections coming up in the summer. So, there's anything I'm missing, Cindy. But yeah, we went over in our meeting. Yeah. All right. Um Raphael is not here. Um any other updates from Ed Rad that anyone might Yeah, there is a meeting for Ed tomorrow, I believe. So, we may something from that. Um I think Raphael was planning on attending. I'm not 100% sure. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Okay. So, no no real updates. And then Jackie, any updates on NCDSC? We met about month ago. It was the day after the last board meeting. Um there were some new board members. Um they went over the end of like the school year and they had 12 students graduate in CPSC.
027So, We had a Fair View student graduate from Mallaloy. Um, and Carly attended that graduation ceremony which was really neat for Carly to be able to be a part of but also to have that connection back to Fairview. So that was pretty cool. And then Christine, anything for PTA or anything additional? Uh, Sylvia touched on most of it. The one thing I will call out is I I think next week is a social like thank you to the volunteers at Viligen. um and to also show our support back to Viligen for all that they've done um this year. So, please join us um as we would love to to sort of celebrate what a successful year uh Sylvia and Katie uh orchestrated. So, that's all. All right. Next item is freedom of information regarding freedom
028of information act. I can report that there was one freedom of information act received since the last board meeting and it was responded to as required. um information items and correspondence. Jackie, could you give us a quick summary? Yes. We received one item from the retiring teacher, Miss Massoff, who thanked the board for the opportunity and gift of working at Fairview for the past 30 days like years, right? She was here when I was here. So, I think that was 30 years. Fairview will always have a special place in her heart. We also received um an email thank you from Sylvia for the flowers. So, I apologize that that didn't make it into the official correspondence. All right, next item up is public comment. At this time, I'd like to invite members of the audience
029to address the board and public comment. Public comment period is designed to gain input from the public and not for immediate response by the board to the question or comment presented. If you wish to address the board, please come to the microphone and state your name. A three-minut time limit will be set and the board secretary will keep the tag. And I can confirm that there were no online public comments as well. All right, we're moving on to approving of action items. May I have a motion and a second to approve the three-year director of maintenance contract? So moved. I said, anyone have any questions or additional things? No. All right. Would the board secretary please call a roll call vote? Jeff, yes. Phip. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. May I have a motion
030and a second to approve the extended IGA with Culver District 71 Food Services? Um so moved on that. I'll second. Yeah. Just very briefly. Um for many years um as small districts, Culver is very small district similar to Fairview. Um, and for many years we've looked for ways in which we can share services to f to reduce costs to both districts. Um, and this is one that has been a success for us in that Karen Kemp, who is our food service director, spends the majority of her time at Fairview, but she also assists with the Culver program as well. So, she does their menuing, um, does some hiring for them, etc., logistics, uh, ordering of food and whatnot. Um and so it's worked out really well um to be able to share this employee. Um
031while she is Fairview's employee, Culver does pay the district um for her time. Um she does spend one day a week there on Mondays. Um and so on that Monday she goes to Culver. Her team kind of steps up here and you know knows what to do. Um so we would recommend um continuing the relationship with Culver. It's worked out well for for both districts. Okay. Will the board secretary please call a roll call vote? Yes. Diana Diaakus. Yes. Albert Witworth. Yes. Esta Tamura? Yes. Saji Phillip? Yes. Jaclyn BJ? Yes. Christine Sya? Yes. Thank you. All right. May I have a motion in a second to adopt the resolution authorizing transfer of interest from working cash fund to the educational fund. So moved. I'll second. Mr. Jeff, can you explain please? They did. There we
032go. We got it now. See, um interested in the working cash fund, it can be transferred out at the end of every year to any fund in most need, but we have to do it through board resolutions. So, this year it's accumulated, I believe it's $23,000 in that fund, and we're transferring that to education fund. Secretary, please follow. Yes. Esta Tamura. Yes. Obert Witworth. Yes. Diana Diaakis. Christine Sya. Yes. Jaclyn Boug. Yes. Saji Phillip. Yes. Thank you. We have a motion in a second to adopt the resolution of working funds to operations and maintenance capital project. So moved. I'll second. This is similar to a transfer we did last year and this is to cover costs from the construction projects. So we're just moving money from the working cash fund to operations and maintenance. It's
033like a double transfer and then operations maintenance to capital projects. So we try and do as best we can any pro any capital projects is these big projects. So we're trying to be transparent about how we do it. So this has been budgeted for but the cost fluctuated throughout the year because of construction costs. So okay secretary please follow. Yes. Christine yes. Jaclyn BJ. Yes. Saji Phillip, yes. Esta Tamura, yes. Hbert Witward, yes. Diana Diaakus, yes. Thank you. All right. Can I have a motion in a second to adopt the resolution to pay June bills? So moved. I'll second. The same thing we've done for about four years now. So since we canceled the July board meeting because we pay bills a month in rears, this gives us the authorization to process bills as normal
034for the next month. Even if we don't have a board meeting, we will still send out the list of payments and the final financials for the month to the board and also post them online to make sure that we're continuing the transparency. Makes sense. Okay. Uh board secretary, can you please call a roll call vote? Yes. Saji Phillip? Yes. Jaclyn Bday, yes. Christine, yes. Diana Diaz, yes. Hbert Witworth, yes. Sarah Tamura, yes. Thank you. All right, last one. Can I have a motion in a second to adopt board policies as discussed? So moved. Any questions on those? No. Okay. Board secretary, can you please call roll call vote? Yes. Hbert Witwward? Yes. Estimura? Yes. Saji Phillip? Yes. Jaclyn BJ? Yes. Christine Sua? Yes. Diana Diaakus? Yes. Thank you. Okay. Next item up is items for
035future consideration. Does anyone have any items for future consideration to share? Okay. I have one. Um, I was just wondering if we could look into our lunch program, kind of gauge like what the community likes about it, does not like about it, what they're looking for, um, and kind of see what we can do better in regards to the lunch program that we serve. Of course, uh, so we spoke about this prior to the meeting tonight and I suggested that we may want to send a survey um, related food service, what you know, people are looking for, what they enjoy, what they'd like to see different. Um, you know, our our goal is to serve students healthy meals um that fill them up so that they're able to attend to learning for the rest of
036the day. Um, and you know, we want them to be happy with the food that they're being served and enjoy it. So, um, our goal is the same as your yours. Um, and if there's something that we can change or do differently, I think, you know, I know Karen is open ears to that. Um, and you know, like I said, she wants students to buy the lunch and eat it, not just buy it. Um, eat it and enjoy it. So, um, you know, that would be my suggestion to try to get some feedback. Um, you know, we we hear things from, you know, isolated parents, you know, here and there. Um, but it would be interesting to see, you know, if there's some consensus amongst the parent community about what they don't like or don't
037like, and then we can kind of go from there. I'm I'm totally open to that idea. It is. It is school lunch. So, you know, there's there's some parameters that come with school lunch, but um it would be very good to get the feedback. They can't have a fillet. No fillets. No fillets. Just kidding. Right. Are you guys okay with that? What? the one I was telling you about because they seem I will mention be very careful when you're backing out of these parking spots because kids are on their bikes on this in that driveway all the time and it just it really worries me that you know if someone's not paying 100% attention when they're backing that there could be an accident. So, all right. May I have a motion and a second to
038adjourn the regular meeting of Fairview Board of Education at 7:35 p.m. So moved. Board secretary, can you please call roll call vote? Yes. Diana Dakis, yes. Christine Sya, yes. Jacqueline Bate, yes. Saji Phillip, yes. Esta Tamura. Ober Witworth, yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you everyone. Have a good summer.