001I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank [Music] you Johnson here. Katie Johnson here. Diana Mendoza here. Tyler Wilson here. Bond here. John brothers here. Can I get a motion agenda? Motion to approve the agenda. Second. Thank you. Second Johnson. Hi Katie Johnson. Hi Diana Mendoza. Hi Nik. Hi Taylor Wilson. Hi Robbie Bond. Hi John. Hi. Public comment. You want to have to sit there? Come over here. I'm used to being by myself. Okay. Number four, action consent agenda items. On the consent agenda, the only We have two donations to approve. Uh Horus man donated $250 to Broad Meadow for teacher appreciation week and the board has to approve the $100 donation to
002the RCS Foundation in honor of board member Tyler Wilson of gift for his time. And then the last item is the renewal of our uh HR consulting contract with like to make a motion. Make a motion to approve the consent agenda, including the personal report is submitted with the stipulation that each individual is required to comply with all requirements for new hires as indicated in Illinois statutes and RCS board policy and procedures, including ratification of bills by the finance manager under board policy 450. Thank you. Johnson. Hi Katie Johnston. Hi Diane Mendoza. Hi Vicky Pett. Hi Tyler Wilson. Hi Robin Bond. Hi John. Hi. Number six. I hope that's what's next. RCSA 202 2025 schools. All right. Well, we have quite a bit of staff moving this summer. So, uh, we wanted to spell out
003in partnership with the association, uh, we wanted to give our teachers and certified staff some additional paid time for the move. Um, I think we have 27 staff that are having a complete classroom that has to be moved and that takes a lot of time. So, this kind of what's on the screen details it, but um, what it comes down to is if they're moving buildings, they're getting an additional 32 hours of paid time. Um and then staff who are moving within building and then some of our staff who don't have who are moving buildings but don't move classrooms um get 16 hours. PreK teachers do get additional time. Um they're not going to have uh students on the last two days of the school year. So that's already built into their contract for this.
004Um and just so everyone knows that that teachers do not automatically get paid for the time. They actually have to basically do a time sheet and have it approved by the principles that it has question number seven. [Music] I guess we should put it in there. I'll make a motion to approve the item as presented. I'll second. Sorry. Hold on. Moto Johnson. Hi Katie Johnson. Hi Diana. Hi Nik. Hi Tyler Wilson Robin Bond. Hi John. Hi. Now number seven North Jim Ruth contract. All right. So I guess we could have had for this one. So, um, we, uh, this has been in the works for a while, but piece of Northw that needs to be redone now is the gym. Um, so we did have three bids, uh, three qualified biders. The price, it came
005out at 27, 279,000. Um, it is a complete what, but if it was your house, you would call it a tear off. Um, so that is the full project cost. So, they're planning to get started. as soon as the kids are back. That is the recommendation is to approve uh Ellens and Min. I make a motion to approve the item as presented. Johnson, Katie Johnson. Hi, Diane Mendoza. Hi, Nikki Pitt. Hi, Tyler Wilson. Hi, Robin B. Hi, John. Hi, Mar. country. All right. And you'll see the um stylish gentleman in the vests. They are from her student. And so they are I did ask if they could have someone be here in case board members have questions or information you'd like to share and say to our student. Um so we did go out to
006bid. Um we had five bids that were received. uh two of them were incomplete bids. So we ended up with three qualified bidtors. Um and then I I did spell this out in a letter to the board. Um so we then the next step was to review the three qualified biders. Um and uh come up with a recommendation from that. So what's on the screen is very brief, but um Robinson Transport is uh primarily located in far southern Illinois. I would say kind of around Carbondale and extending out of there. They do not have um a location within two hours of our district, which that is a concern um because of the lack of local infrastructure. Um the next company um and I'll say this company was very thorough in their process was positive connections.
007Um they were came in at a higher cost than considerably higher cost than first student. Um and again they are not located in our area at this time. The only bidder that is really located in our area that submitted a bid is Illinois Central but they were one of the incomplete bids. Um the so first student meets all the requirements. They are the vendor that we've been working with I think since 2016. Um the cost was competitive. So um over the course of three years it's a 2.91% increase um which is frankly a lot lower than I was anticipating. Um, another reason, and I share this with the board, uh, in my memo for the recommendation, is the coming changes for next year, uh, with our K5 organization. We know we're going to have to
008add routes and add buses and shifting to a different vendor, I think, would there's some risk there that a different vendor coming in along with the startup challenges that any new vendor would have. Also, scaling it up and managing the um so it is a three-year contract with person and I'm recommending but I do want to clarify that there is or there will be when it's finalized language in the contract that we can end the contract when we want to. Um so after a year we could choose to end the contract. Um that's my hope is that we're not you know that everything's going well with first student next year and that's not even something that we end up wanting to talk about. So that's the recommendation and the motion is written this way because
009we still have to finalize the contract itself. Uh the pricing and the terms won't change. It's just the details in the contract that have to be finalized. So questions for me or the first student first for you on um the Robinson contract and you said that they did have no twohour location that's close enough. Um, I thought unless I misread his letter that uh or email that he um can provide that and at the cost of over half a million less than any other bid, $555,000 I think the bid that I read um compared to anybody else that's 15% less than anybody else that bids that you said might to do Um my my understanding is how to is that what he said that you know um you know um Robinson Trump transportation saying that
010they could not provide that um plus their buses in there. They said they're providing all new buses. Um and uh out of the 25 years they've been in business, they had no contract dispute, no problems. Um, why do we have to go to a three-year contract? Why can't we go to a one-year contract? See if that works and we save a half a million dollars. Okay, that was my first question towards you. My question towards you guys, um, I work in a different district and I know the the busing system is the same as this that that we have in our district here. Um, are you guys going to be able to provide what we're going to need, especially the additional um, routing that we're going to have? I know that we've had bus issues,
011personal issues of of bus drivers touching kids, cussing out kids, and doing different things. Have those problems or are you going to correct those problems before we go into especially another three-year contract with you guys? Um, you know, there's a because I know that you guys you got your plate full, especially with the districts that you guys are doing. And I hear problems not only from our district, but I hear problems in the other district that I work in. So that's my question towards you guys. Do you want us to answer? Yeah, I ask you that. Okay. Yeah. My my name is uh Chris Qu. I'm an area general manager. I've been with the company uh 17 years and I can tell you that um you're not alone. You're right 100%. You know, when you
012contract, you are hiring part-time folks. And so what we do as a location, as a company, is we we try to shape the behaviors. Okay. Now, does it mean 100% everybody we hire is is a rockstar? No. But we utilize um different tools that we have. One big thing is safety. We do a a driver hub and trainer hub scenario where we basically look at safety factors, hard braking, um rapid acceleration. So, to your point, 100% we're continually looking at our drivers and our monitors. We look we uh we analyze when we do our analysis on our our pulling videos. We do a 100% audit. We look for stuff. So to your point, 100%. You got to have that supervision. And I think what's different going into this next school year is Ryan's going to
013be in his second year as as a location manager. So that's that's a big boost. Bring us stability, bring uh opportunities. I think we feel really good about where we're going to be at from a starting rate at 23 bucks an hour. So that that's that's going to be key to recruit in this area. So 100% we hear you and and we really want to be that partner that tells you our plan going into the summer how we're going to achieve this and and I think you owe we owe it to you. So Chris, could you talk about how um this is a factor that that my team had to consider? So our bus barn has no facility for a mechanic. Correct. So how does first student manage that? Like what what do you do
014when a bus breaks down and you're located here in Ranch? Absolutely. Great question, Scott. Um 100% softball. Yeah, it's it's a swinging away barrel. Um the the key there is yes our our footprint allows us to provide support. Okay. Prior to us actually getting the Paxton contract we ran uh maintenance out of um out of Urbana. Correct. Yeah. Urbana. So that that's the opportunity where our footprint is. You're you're one of six locations in and around uh less than an hour from there. And if you count normal, which is 140 uh buses, I mean, our footprint is is well established. Now, we're always continuing to look to to from a a standpoint of continuous improvement. Our maintenance, I think, uh we we would you would put us up against anybody out there just because of
015the amount of uh you know, PM checks that we do, our process. We do lean. If you're familiar with lean manufacturing, we we ported that into our maintenance side to really drive down the cost, but also make sure that we we make maintain a good quality fleet. But Chris, if one of our buses breaks down, it goes where go it'll go to Paxton. That's where the Yeah. primary. And then you have a bus either from Paxton or that you've got a we have standby buses here. So a concern with Robinson, I'm not trying to say anything bad about Robinson. I don't I mean this that's not my intent is the closest location they have to Rol is 138 miles. If a bus breaks down here, they do not have a repair facility here. And I
016don't know that they understood that in the bid based on the email from Robinson today. um they're going to provide service for the buses in our facility is what he said that that our facility does not have maintenance tax. They don't do the maintenance there. Um if a bus breaks down and we need to call in drivers from elsewhere, we're looking at least two hours away. Um I agree with you. The other thing I will say is I'm concerned on their the pricing that they gave us, even though they're willing to stand by it, is that every other bidder, the prices for a special education route and a prek route are considerably higher because a prek route and a special ed route must have a bus monitor on them. Robinson prices came in the same
017for all three drive types. Um, so I did ask, oh no, we included the bus monitors in it, but the math doesn't make sense to me because they're saying they're going to pay $23 an hour also. So it's the same number of drivers, same number of buses. I don't know. It doesn't It was considerably lower than any other, right? So it makes me feel that the bid is off and public knows is a transportation contract is one of the few bid processes out there where we can select uh the board can select whoever they want. Um you're supposed to go that it's in my memo that talks about things like safety um reliability service all of those things are things that you're allowed to consider in the process. Robinson may be a great company. I
018don't know how they would be. And so my concern is with us probably to add four buses and change routes that a new company also trying to come in and start up would be difficult. Another one I'll ask I'm learning way too much about transportation in the last couple months. If Robinson comes in, and they actually say this in their bid, I mean, how does an incoming transportation company typically staff? Staff as in Who's going to drive the buses when they come in? Absolutely. To be the driver local. They're not going to truck on folks from the outside. It's literally it's going to be the same drivers that are there. That's what I That's what that's my next question was um basically actually for you because um that was one of the questions asked to
019me was Robinson who actually used local. We're not going to have somebody drive back and forth to to do that. Um on your guys's behalf, um was this a young man that was driving I think this morning a bus and ruling the bus this morning, weren't you? I I saw I'm going to give them kudos. Uh when well, you know, I've seen many bus drivers and I'm not saying you're bus driver, but um he did he did amazing job. He stopped at the stop sign. Four-way. It was a four-way cuz I had to stop. He put it, you know, he put the lights on, the arm went down. He got up. Well, he opened He opened the doors. He got up. He escorted the kids to their seats, came back, sat down, and you know,
020turned the lights off, put on the going. I don't usually see that. I see a bus driver sit there, open the door, and then if they want, they'll put the door, you know, the arms down. But he did an amazing job. I I was I was really amazed about that. I I thought he did good. So, you you got a good manager there. Appreciate feedback. We'll make sure the other ones do the same thing. I fig I figured that's why you got him as a manager so he can you know he has to show him what he wants done and he definitely did it today when I seen him this morning. Um so I did I didn't want you guys thinking that okay hey I just wanted to kick you guys to the curb. It's
021just that five cooking was looking kind of it is but there's so many other other pros and cons about it. Anyways, I'll give you a little insight if you if I may. I was on the business development side as well. And when there is that much of a disparity in pricing, there's usually because something's not right. And yes, if you go by pricing, I can show you tons of issues that are happening up in Chicago land at Safeway and formerly Illinois Central years ago where clearly they were coming in to buy the business, but they didn't have enough in there to pay their drivers. And unfortunately, just like anything in education, uh, a good percentage, um, close to half of what we pay out in in expenses is wages. So, naturally, if I'm going to
022cut somewhere, I'm going to cut on the back of the employees. And and we're not going to do that. That's not what we're about. We understand they're the lifeblood. They're the reason why kids come to school and and have that smiling face and every day to look at. and that's what his job is to continue to to re reinforce that and and develop and coach our our drivers. Um I will say positive connections I I mentioned they came in considerably higher. Um but again I think they were very upfront with me about why and that is because they don't have a local presence and that they were going to come in and have to establish a facility and so they were including that in their cost. So they But they were being very upfront about
023that. So, can I ask a question? Um, okay. So, I saw in the um your bid that were um priced out at 65 and four bus routes, right? Go ahead. Okay. So, if we add bus routes, are we adjusting cost or is that just factored into the bid? And then the second part of that is if fuel prices um surge, is there going to be a search charge that you're going to add to our bid later to adjust for fuel prices? I believe you provide fuel. We already Yeah. As far as the pricing, um what your established rates are is what we would do, but I don't think we're opposed to having a fixed cost adjustment. I can't pull it up again. So I I got to preface that with that's negotiating. I can't really
024talk about that until an award. So that but that's a potential thing that we can we can talk about. Um so on the bid form if I can get it to rotate here. So this is stas but um oh my gosh that's fine for students. So you the first part of your question was about the cost of adding buses. Yeah. Okay. So we know we're probably have to do that next. I guess what I wanted to know is it was it built into this bid? No. For none of that's why the cost is here on this line. I can't see the plus. It's 37. So we have to add a bus route which so one of our bus routes is $37746 a day for a genet and that's the same as what they're charging us
025right now for those six routes. So we just and that was a cost presented to the board earlier. Um it was very round numbers at the time but yeah so we're looking at adding do that math 377* 170 1070 And uh that's the cost for one bus route. So we think we're going to have to add one special ed route, but that was regardless of the changes. Um we were going to add one special ed route. So looks like one spent for sure and up to three uh regular routes. We added that's so within the bid package is cost for adding routes. We've added routes. We added one this year. Um, another price adjustment that is good that um, Chris pointed out is uh, the pricing for our after school routes actually is going to
026go down uh, which is our right now the explorers rout. So, right now they're being charged at our regular bus route cost which is over $350ome dollars and it's going to next year be $70 an hour. So, it's going to cut it more than half for those And that would be part of the it's not in the in the contract. Yeah, we would have to add that. But again, the other thing to say is probably my biggest hesitancy about switching vendors right now is all of the changes. So we do have the ability and I again I hope we don't end up being at that point that if if the board is dissatisfied with first student next year we have the ability to uh cancel the bid and or cancel the contract and do another
027bid process. Is there um do we have to show cost for cancing? You probably read it more closely than I have. Uh there's mutual termination for convenience language typically that would be put in. So But if I may, we don't want to get to that point and and our goal is to have that open dialogue. Definitely we have it with Scott, but definitely the board as well, but we want that because you guys are definitely hearing it from the the public and we may not necessar necessarily see that. So we want to be that partner that we have been, you know, since 2016 and and go on to a different level. Chris, what are the biggest challenges you have for and Nick and Ryan? Feel free to chime in. What are the biggest challenges you
028have with operating transportation? Uh, retention and recruiting new drivers. I mean, it's the the challenge you're in a highly uh you're not quite at fully uh fully employed level, but you're close to it in this area. The challenge is CDL holders. They're they are a prime resource out there. A lot of trucking companies, they're running short, so they attract full-time jobs and and we talked about earlier, it's a part part-time job, so it has to fit into kind of that niche. Um the good thing is is we're we're trying to keep those wages up enough to to number one retain our folks, but also attract new people. And uh that's probably our biggest biggest challenge. Scott, I definitely agree with you and somebody that's been there anyways. I think that's that's a positive in itself
029and I agree with what you said. You know, we definitely don't want to get to the point where we got to try to make a decision to say, hey, we don't want you after the three the first year, let's say. Um I just like I I just had had that post few questions just to sort of put my mind at ease. And I can see with you being here for one and and wanting to talk to the board instead of shy away or or or not want to email the board by the way that letter read to me show he had no interest but to just talk to one person and hope he got fed. So, I appreciate you guys coming and um presenting what you guys have so far presented. Thank you. And the
030good thing is I live in Lincoln. He lives in Danville. So, you literally got us within uh two hours. So, we're here to support. Thank you. Make a motion to award the student transportation contract for the 25 through 28 school years to first student. Authorize the superintendent to finalize and sign said contract Johnson. Hi Katie Johnson. Hi Diana Mendoza. Hi Nik. Hi Tyler Wilson. Hi Robin Bond. Hi John. Hi. Thank you guys. I did want to mention I forgot to mention in the personnel report that we have hired a you just approved it. Uh facilities director um and he's a local young man. He should be here by August. Brian knows him but he's Ranchel High School graduate currently in the Air Force. We hope to have him here by um August. There's apparently a
031process to get out of the Air Force. You can't just, you know, give you two weeks notice. Um so that is a thing. Um so uh information items, the I am in a special kind of nightmare of FOYA right now. Uh I received the 16th FOYA of the month uh this morning while I was checking the news in bed. Um and not really related to anything that has to do with our school district. So, I don't want you to think that uh there's a lot of school districts right now in Illinois that are getting these very complicated frequent foyas. Um so, yeah, I'm just letting 16. It's a record for me. Um and uh family engagement activities. Uh if you when you have a moment, it's posted in the packet. Um I think this is
032actually what you were mentioning before was so right now what we have is a list of everything that's already happened and we can look ahead and we know some dates in there, but you were one of the things you were saying is we'd like to know that ahead of time and what time it is like that. So um but there's just a ton of different activities that happened. Um, and I actually took some off this time through so we have some more. I'll talk about those during superintendent comments. She end [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] All right. Thank you, sir. Oh, no. I'm stealing the whole thing cuz your picture's okay. Okay. We did order sweat a new one. It's not coming yet. It's not here yet. A new name plate. It's not here. I got something
033for you, though. Don't worry. Mr. Brother and I see really small. A That's nice. Thanks. Thanks. It's time. It's time. It's not really, but it'll work for tonight, right? Look at that. [Music] Oh, wait a minute. Hold on. We're now in the board organizational part of the meeting. You're the first person don't want to have to stay for this. could be a man. Okay. Thank you very much. Hey, thank you very much. You guys have a good day. Thanks to our present superintendent. This is a lot of it used to be individually before. Now we're going to do this together. So all you have to add your name and go as slowly as I can possibly go and make sure I'm clear with everybody. I'm just going to start. I'm going to say I and
034add your names. Can you all read it together? Yes. Yes. Say your names. Katie and Robin. You don't have to do this right now. You're already sworn in. You're in your terms. I wonder why I didn't have one. But I think I recently reelected. Wait, who just got reelected? Um, Robin Diana and I don't have to Diana. Hannah has asked me about this 25 times. You're ready to get sworn in again. Start again. So, we're all going to be in unison. Okay. I do solemnly swear or affirmally discharge the duties of the office member of the board of education or board of school directors the case may be of Ram City Schools in accordance with the constitution of the United States the state of Illinois and the laws of the state of Illinois to the
035best of my ability. I further swear that I shall respect taxpayers interest by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets. I shall encourage and respect free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the students and employees. I shall recognize that the court has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by majority vote at public court. I shall abide by majority decision board while retaining the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels as part of the board of education. I shall accept responsibility for my role in quality education of every student in the school district. I shall foster with the board extension, participation in the community, formulate goals, define outcomes,
036and set the course for city schools. I shall assist in establishing structure and environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework. I shall strive to ensure a continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law. I shall serve as education's key advocate on behalf of students in our community schools or schools to advance the vision of Grand R schools and shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision the board has created for fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship and personal development. Thank you. [Applause] just stand up like right against if just goes and stands behind them then
037yeah there we go start All right. Ready, Mr. Stand? All right. Happy board. [Laughter] [Applause] Now, now we don't know how to Hannah has to probably record all this point by hand. We don't know how to add memory until the next meeting. So, Miss Wet, did you want to say anything before we welcome other than thank you um to the community and those who wrote my name in right and voted for me. Thank you for stepping up. Welcome. Thank you. Welcome. All right, Scott. So um the first step is so what the next step in the meeting is for the public is the board has to reorganize um and there's several things that are supposed to happen during the reorganization um selection of the board officers appointment of the board treasurer and then approval of
038a uh calendar for our regular meetings for next year. So the first step is to delegate the chair to someone I'm suggesting superintendent pending selection of the board president and so that I will run the election of the board president and then whoever's elected board president takes over at that point. So is there someone to say I make a motion to delegate the leading of the meeting. I make a motion to delegate the leading of the meeting to the superintendent pending selection of board president. So do we have to vote on that then? Yeah. Can we do a voice or I would say no. Okay. So, um, Nikki Pett, hi. Moa Johnson. Hi, Katie Johnson. Johnston, hi Deborah Sweat. Hi, John Brotherton. Hi, Diana Mendoza. Hi, Robin B. Okay. Um, so the first officer election
039component board president. I'm going to review what the process is. So, the first step would be nominations for the floor. Uh, any board member may nominate another board member for an officer position. Self-nominations are allowed. A nomination does not require a second and a board member may nominate more than one person for the same office. After we've after the board has nominated possible candidates, there will be discussion and then voting and if we need to get into how the voting works, I'll get into that. One caveat is if we only have one person nominated for president and then we can call for a nominations of vice president and we only have one person we can call for nominations of secretary and if we only have one person and we only vote once at the end.
040Okay. But I don't know what's so at this point are there any nominations from the floor or board presidents elected? Go ahead. Nominate Mr. John. Got it. I'd like I'd like to nominate. up to three. So, I've got John, Nikki, and Robin. Are there any other nominations from the board? I will I will start off with so there's no dis no additional nominations. Is there any discussion? Um the floor is open for discussion regarding the nominees on the ballot. Um what's not on here is nominees do not have to accept the nomination. All right. [Laughter] Yes. Thank you. All right. Um, is there any discussion? Would either of anyone like to Mr. Brotherton or respond say anything or we can just call for a vote? It's up to you. I'm good about having my Um,
041so we have a nominees are Robin Vaughn and John Brotherton and I've got So basically the way this goes is we have to go around. I think we do John and then Robin. No. Okay. Oh, did I set this up? Doesn't make any sense. You would call the name of the person. So you call, for instance, call Diana's name and she would have to say Nikki or excuse me, Robin Vaughn or John. Sorry. It's amazing how much Can and I talk about this get into the moment and all right. So um I am now at this point going to call for the vote. Hannah will call the board member's name and then indicate which board member. Okay, hold on. I'm sorry. I really spent so much time getting this cool little spreadsheet and it's not
042going to work at all. So, it's fine. Okay. All right. Ready? All right. So, I'm gonna call the name. You're gonna say which person. Correct. Okay. Nikki Pett. Johnson Katie Johnston Deborah Swat John Brotherton Robin Diana Mendoza Robin Robin [Laughter] Vaugh you are the chair and president and Mr. Brotherton. Thank you. [Applause] You're still on the board. You can just stay where you are. [Laughter] All right. Over to you, Rob. You ready? The first ever call for nominations for vice Okay. Can we say it? There's no other nominations. discuss. I'm ready. Okay. All right. Um, so we're voting between Nikki and Katie. Um, Nikki Pett. Nikki. Moto Johnson. Nikki P. Katie Johnston, Deborah Sweat, Nikton, Diana Mendoza, Robin Johnson. Congratulations. Congratulations. [Applause] [Music] I call for the election of the board secretary nominations. Anybody else?
043discussion. Thank you so much for Thank you. Okay, let's go. [Music] Do we have Okay. Nikki Pett Johnson. Katie Johnson. Deborah Sweat. Katie Johnston. John Brotherton. Katie Johnson. Diana Mendoza Robin jump in now. So the next thing is treasure which is um the treasurer is a qualified treasurer and that's ours is kind of good. So annually we need to vote to reappoint. I think most of you know Kendra's actually business manager high to appoint good to serve as the district's treasured [Music] Okay. Moto Johnson. Hi. Katie Johnson. Hi. Diana Mendoza. Hi. Nikki. Hi. Tyra Wilson. Should I [Laughter] say what? Brother. Sorry. That's what I get for just reading down the list. I'll have you in there for next month though. I promise. The next item is Did you get me? Sorry, I think I
044got [Music] Oh, sorry. Next action item is the 2526 board meeting calendar. All right. So I've shared this with the board already, but we typically meet the third Thursday of the month, which is what we're doing. And then so the what I'm proposing for the board and there may be some discussion is there's three dates where the third Thursday of the month does not work. All right? And so one of those would be Thursday, June 19th, which is now a federal holiday, Junth. So my suggestion is that we move it to the Wednesday before we just kind of discuss each one of these like make sure everybody calendar. Is there anything that anybody wants to change or discuss? So, the one I'm going to make sure I double check is the Wednesday before the triple
045eye conference or we do it like two weeks later. I say two weeks later, but that's just me. Is it two weeks later? No. November 27th is Thanksgiving. And so, we could do it the 19th or the week before, which would be the 13th of November. So we'll note it as the 13th. Um, oh, one thing I wanted to mention to the board is I I will not be here for the July 17th meeting, but I plan to join the meeting. I don't vote, so as long as you turn on Zoom. I'll be I will not be here at that meeting. Hopefully. All right. Um the other date was March 26. So the regular meeting date would be March 19th. That's during our spring break. Um which is fine for us to meet, but none
046of our other employees work during that week. So we have Hannah. Um, and then um, so alternate dates would be I'm suggesting March 26, which pushes it back a week. If we want ahead a week to March 12th, that's conferences. I got some feedback about that this year. My birthday cake. You promised me that. Okay. So, uh unless there's more discussion, I think then what we're saying is the calendar that's in the proposal except change the November date to November. That's not parent teacher conferences. Parent conferences is in October. Right. We good? All right. I make a motion to approve the item as presented. [Music] Hi Katie Johnston. Hi Dr. H. Hi Robin. Hi John. Hi business. I was thinking as I was putting this together probably um prior to the next meeting want to
047review what the point of new business is. We added it since we have a new board member. We added it April of last year and I don't we've almost never had any brand new business during that time. So I'm gonna go ahead and kind of review the notice from that meeting probably two or 10 um and see what we said was the point of that time um and I'll bring it back to you for next month. The board super comments though there was Moving on to comments. I'm ready. Okay. And I want to say few things. Calendar things. Tomorrow there is a blood drive district office. Anna is our blood drive person. So um what time does it start? 11 o'clock. 11 a.m. till 3:30ish. Okay. Um We have tons of spots open. Please come.
048Also, tomorrow night is the day of the child celebration that's being put on by our bilingual parent advisory committee. Does anyone over there remember the time? Rachel. Um, but it is today a child is like a big holiday in Spanish speaking countries. 4 to 6 at Wash Park. and that's open to any of our family and community. Um, and then also next Thursday is our autism awareness event. I believe that starts at 6 at Northw, but I can confirm that time. Um, and I think the idea behind that is to bring awareness to autism and also have an event that be sensory friendly for our our students and children. next Friday. Next Thursday at 6. Yes, I will double check the time on that. Um the and at the um I do want to thank
049everyone. Uh Hannah did a lot of work for getting tonight's meeting more so than most. And thank Nikia uh and his team. They were over here. We were all over here at 8:30, 9:00 this morning. It did not look ready at that point. The building does still have a bit of work to do and you saw that as you go through, but we're not occupying yet. Playground's not done. Uh there's still some landscaping work that will have to be done. Some small punch list items. And then uh also want to thank Mr. Brotherton for having served for four years as president. The bulk of my first four years as superintendent. It's been um a privilege to work with you um in that leadership role in having your guidance and support that um and you all
050do that but John gets a lot and as John said not everybody knows the president gets to see how the sausage is made and uh so he gets a lot of phone calls about sincerely appreciate that. Um I think that's all I have from my side. Thank you. The meeting in favor I Amen.