001good how are you good good got a couple minutes still can see the FL did anybody hear probably teacher probably's not oh technically it's all right broke it K you made it good wait second can wait don't stand rise please Al to the of the United States of America and to the for stands Nation God indivisible with liberty and justice thank you open our Bo meeting we have a rule call please Johnson here ky Johnston here Diana Mendoza n pedet here Tyler Wilson Robin B here John brother here thank you two action agenda addition Corrections and modifications see anything I'll make the motion to Pro theend remove and colting items as presented can I get a second I second thank you second Johnson I ky Johnston I ncky pet I Robin b i John Brotherton
002I miss fza has joined us she comes wait do a good job is the thy does work D we get start on the public hearing okay free public hearing for 2024 25 this we year 25 amended budget I have to read this have a script I have a script here see how well I can do upside down the next agenda item from the board of education is the public hearing concerning content of the Board of Education of ran State School District 137 Champaign County Illinois to amend the fiscal year 2025 budget at this time I'll open the discussion the purpose of the hearing will be to receive public comments on the proposal to amend the fiscal year 2025 budget the fiscal year 2025 tenative revised budget was posted public view with notice the that at
003least 30 days prior to this hearing fund balances are available publicly as part of this meeting's agenda packet and posted on the district we weite are there any comments from members of the Board of Education buing the budget any none we'll now move on to written testimony is there any written testimony regarding budget okay we'll move on to oral testimony or any public comments concerning the budget amendment is there anyone present who wishes to provide oral testimony or public comment regarding the budget this time all persons Desiring to be heard have been given an opportunity present oral and written testimony with respect to the budget amendment it is there motion to adjourn the budget amendment hearing I'll make that motion can I get a second second thank you John Brotherton hi Robin Bon hi I
004di Mendoza hi Katie Johnson I okay um four yeah now before you you vote I hope you vote to approve the amended budget but uh I have a summary here to just read over for you um there has been a change in revenue and expenditures within the Ed fund uh due to an increase of $285,000 in school improvment funds um so expenses and revenues have been updated to reflect this allocation additionally Amendments have been made within the Title One Teach Your vacancy Grant and title three to reallocate those funds accordingly um we've had a recent steam Grant award which no that's already been approved a stronger connections Grant totaling $267,000 that requires adjustments in both revenues and expenses um in fund 20 which is these are our two big funds fund 20 is the uh
005operations and maintenance fund at this point in the year expenditures have exceeded revenues um the ongoing updates and maintenance of our buildings have contributed to those costs while these updates should not be recurring routine maintenance will continue to be a necessary expenditure to help offset the deficit we have reallocated um some of our evf funding to the operations and fund um and although the that individual fund within the budget remains unbalanced we're not required to do a deficit reduction plan I don't want anyone to panic we are allowed we're spending our parts part of our fund balance and I don't know the number off the top of my head Chris you remember what were over what we're going into reserves yeah what fund 20 what was the it was like 346,000 that we were going
006all right we started with the million so we're just dipping into that okay so and we also have a $250,000 conting built into that that hasn't been touched yet so we may end up right on target but again even if we go over on paper on the budget we're allowed to go into those Reserve F and we're not concerned about that at this time thank Chris does it yes I'll make the motion to approve the 20242 fiscal year 25 amended budget as presented can I get a second I'll second thank youa Johnson hi Katie Johnson hi Diana Mendoza hi n ped hi Robin B hi John Bon Hi Five is close session I have any volunteers like to read what it says sure thank you the board will move to close session for the appointment
007employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park recreational or educational setting or specific volunteers of the public body or legal council for the public body including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee a specific in individual who serves as an independent contractor in a par recreational or educational setting or volunteer of the Public Public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its valid however a meeting to consider an increase in compensation to a specific employee of a public body that is subject to the local government wage increase transparency act may not be closed and shall be opened to the public and posted and held in accordance with this act 5 ilcs 12-2 make motion to to close session
008regard appointment employment compensation discipl forance for take employees and I to say second we did read the motion twice Rob all right Nikki read the motion first and then just read it so you second I said okay there you go okay thought I had to do that we have to wait till 6:15 yeah we're going to go ahead and go close session and then we to oh yeah Moto Johnson hi K Johnston hi Diana Mendoza hi Vicky pet hi Robin Bon hi John Brotherton hi all right then we'll come back y so for the public we will be leaving the room and I will mute you're not being e all right all right where are so uh Hannah the board adjourn close session and motion to reopen Open Session and we're going to move on
009to public comment I think right that's oh hold on like speak you want to do some more talking what you said back here three things you said okay we're public comments nobody's gonna speak cons agenda number eight pretty straightforward consent agenda the only thing to bring attention to is the approval of the facilities manager job description um we did we are interviewing for that position we did that today and we hope to have it filled but we realized we to um have uh the job description approv to hopefully the next board meeting will be uh asking for your approval for a new facilities maner that's it than I'll make the motion to approve the consent agenda audience including personal report submitted with the stipulation that each individual is required to comply with all requirements for
010new hires EXC me as indicated in Illinois State Illinois statutes and RCS board policy and procedures including ratification of bills prepaid by the financial management under board policy 4.50 I don't know I know I know news Wills Tyler is but some of us have to just step forward sometime I second it thank you MTO Johnson I Katie Johnston I Diana Mendo hi ncky P hi Robin B hi John Brotherton hi nine wor about that 10 action M us rcsa all right one is one that the board actually approved last year but we need to update it for one more year um this allows us to do a $1,000 initial signing bonus for our newly hired certified teachers and it is paid for out of the teacher vacancy make a motion to approve the item as
011present second hey John brother hi hi P hi Diana Mendoza hi Katie Johnston hi Johnson hi okay number 11 action approval of K5 boundary change okay so um after the last we all got a little thing right we all got the one little thing here um I I did email this to the board previously um hopefully you had an opportunity to uh the map the proposed Maps um they're so what you have in text is kind of what I'm trying to do is a written description of it and then the map reflects that so by the time all was said and done it's uh 51 students that would be affected uh K through K through four um if we do the change here the majority of the kids come from a neighborhood that has no
012name in my head right now pulling oh you can't even see the M it's not onen um is that the Maplewood neighborhood there's a name for the neighborhood so there's the Maplewood retention Pond you know what I'm talking about the big long retention pond it's that neighborhood north of there it's Winding Lane Shady Lane Sunset very so that's where the majority of these 51 kids are pulling from um and then and they will be up now reassigned to North VI BR is the recommendation there are there is an area on uh the homes on the north side of par drive out Bel View and the north side of Willow Pond it's really one word um and but again the the vast majority of the fids are coming out of that neighborhood north of the Maplewood
013reten DET you to do that so that the numbers would be equal right so now what we're showing is the with the shift in grade levels and the shift in boundaries um I'm trying to pull it up here the the school enrollment is I no I'm just going to tell you we're projecting right now that pleas and acre have 48 kids North VI 259 wait writing it down yes who was the second one North VI 25942 plus 248 in the wild card there is kindergarten really don't know so that's the variation really is coming in kindergarten um East Lawn we're projecting 265 and Broad Meadow 263 so have the fact that broad Meadow Easton or that even is is where uh those are the kids we know we have so it's really getting us balanced
014uh yeah and we're at this point we've gone through the teacher reassignment we're doing the uh ta reassignment they got their survey today or excuse me yesterday and we're going through reassignment of Tas right now but we're on boundaries sorry sored to digress that you did yeah the teachers actually the teachers know so we reassign there's 109 staff members that were impacted by the 109 um I hope I get my numbers right um 83 if I recall correctly are in the same position same position same school so 75% of the kids or teachers aren't moving at all I think it's 83 that's 75% I know that's the hard number um and there were 23 three teachers who are G to move buildings but stay in the same position so they might I might be going
015from fifth grade at North View to fifth grade at Broad Meadow um and then four teachers I think voluntarily chose to move positions so they could stay in their current build so and they got do that yes so we're that's the process for but if you don't approve boundaries tonight then I have to go back to the drawing board so did anyone not yet um I I would imagine we will have some staff leave I've been saying this all along that some staff will leave and potentially say that this is why uh but I would say nearly all teachers got their first or second choice for what they wanted all the numb did you say 83 23 and four and 109 affective does that up to add up to no okay you have my email
016open right there I have your email it says I mean you went off yeah it doesn't matter 109 positions 2 23 teachers will be moving School but staying in the same position and four teachers are in the same school school but moving positions so you said 83 maybe it's 82 yeah okay because that number actually isn't in here but that's got to be the the difference and I didn't put that stuff in the agenda because we really sent that out yesterday after any questions about the bounders I'll make the motion that we approve K5 bound changes Robin okay Moto Johnson hi Katie Johnston hi Diana Mendoza hi ncky pedet hi Robin Baugh hi John brother to um before we go forward I want to make trying to be as transparent as possible the next steps
017with this now that you've approved it um is Darcy and I will get the new maps to transportation and they will actually start doing the detailed routing so that we get a better number we'll know more much more specifically have to be added that kind of thing um and then the other one is is those families that are affected the ones we move uh when we get back from spring break I'm going to make sure they get a direct communication from the district probably do a a good oldfashioned letter in the mail because I do think people open their mail uh just to make sure they know uh that the Chang is happen great well media all right we had um nothing that exciting we do have two bid notifications that are going out um
018the bid for transportation went out Monday and the bid for the gym roof at North View goes out by the end of the month no one's looking at me tell me what day it is when's the 27 March 27 March are we gonna have no the project if we can we're going to do the project over the summer right so it hopefully both will be up for at the April I don't know that uh it will either be April or expensive job yeah all right is that why there's a for but we're not approving he was here for anything else under student student that's it oh you guys can't see my screen you don't know how far ahead new business have new business present we talked about the bid I'm so sorry the transportation bid
019where did we publish that so it's published in the News Gazette and uh we put it on our website I usually Hannah reaches out to vendors but I did this one because Chris SNY Johnson and I are handling the transportation B so I went through I've already heard from a couple but I went to the triple I conference website and pulled the vendors that were there and emailed those Transportation vendors to make sure they're aware a lot of them uh only serve Chicago land right but uh I do think we'll have at least more than one bid which is what we need to have a competitive process yep new business okay comment I've got a list yes you can't see my list so the next regular board meeting is Thursday April 17th and it's going
020to be held at prek the new prek building we're going to do a ribbon cutting at 530 um so the architect uh and I believe laoren Russo will also be there to participate in I know the architect's going to be there he's coming down um we've bought big scissors already um so 5:30 so that gives us time for public and I know the prek staff are planning to come over gives us time it's not that big of a space to walk through and look at and then we're planning to hold the meeting at 3K um assuming Wi-Fi is up and going uh if it's not we'll have to go down the hall and we'll have it at the library at pleas neighbors so but it will be in that building for the next so park
021on should have their new parking lot open yeah um but yeah and I'll make we're going to put out information about that and publicize it will be our first event uh final walkthrough is the week the 25th of March shouldn't say the final walk through the big one the B and well you don't do that that's with us in construction most mainly Tom and Lor vedar will do that walk um that's where we go through with the construction company and do the punch list like determine what needs to be done that outlet doesn't cover on it um so it's getting very close to being D there is a dance at East Lawn on March 24th and Eon is getting very good about inviting us to everything is it Fray oh and um I say we
022would have there whoever wants to BU me are you you told him we were the you said yeah I said that good so Diana will be there 28 28 see the statements of economic interest are there start my so Hand needs those you do it every year every year yeah um can't do the last thing I've got is the board reorganization um I did a little deep dive into this today so the election is April 1st the county clerk's office doesn't certify the election results until 21 days after so that puts it at April 22nd all right so uh there's a possibility we would get the certified results by April 17th but um the clerk's office isn't required to get them to us by so we are going to and then we have until May
02311th to seat the board so sometime between April 22nd and May 11th we likely have to have a special meeting because our regular board meeting May because our regular board meeting in May is the fourth Thursday in May that's too late we can't cannot wait and Che them it would be the 22nd but we can't do that right so it's just a weird window and honestly I'll I'll remember this two years from now because we we could have just set the regular board meeting on April 24th yeah why can't we just do that um well now we can't because we're doing the ribbon cutting we just so you would be in favor of moving the meeting to the yeah then we just come to the ribon cut have I will check with VP to make
024sure that that works for them it should one thing I have to let you know is uh there's a little clause in the open meetings act that if we move our regularly scheduled board meeting I have it has to be published in the News Gazette 10 days in advance so we will do that um announce we're good on moving it to the 24th is everybody because we do need everybody there and that also we're still Gon Do ribon 1 still meeting there on 17ib right and then whoever can show up and so no no I thought we would do the whole thing do the whole thing at oh so 5:30 on the 24th instead of the 17th got correct try to do it all on 24 that okay 174 are you gonna send us an
025email for ster sh or we're gonna set it in still right now we can set it in stand still ex all right I I just want to check with up to make sure so I would say the the that is the meeting too so those of you that are on the ballot you do have to be re uh you do to redo the oath okay and it's fun good um and then that's also the meeting where you go through the process of selecting the board leadership for the next two years because we do it every two years um and we establish the 25 26 Calendar for our regular board but so third Thursday of the month is that still generally good I okay yeah want to be exact so except for June we have all
026these exceptions so we there's all these times where it doesn't work and I'll look at the parent teacher conference schedule also thank you for all the parents that are on okay I just think it's great that like five of you up here have four of you up here have kids that have parent confes that that's a good thing we didn't need to schedule this on the same day whoever's in charge of the C when do they need statements at economic interest Hanah um as soon as possible technically not until May but I I would really really like to have it by the end of March because I I have to take them down to the office and turn them then okay I'm done MERS do we have any for conferences thanks things going on to
027the teacher because that I went to help and that was a lot so shout out to all our teachers and administration and our ad and our and our amazing other and where's oh since he's not here real quick so um hopefully he'll come to the next Port his name is already up on the plaque there Hanna already signed him out um and put the 2025 up there but uh I just want to make sure the board is okay typically historically board members were given a clock the last several board members to leave were given the option doing a donation to The ran City Schools Foundation that is what Tyler requested instead it does require board approval so I just I'm assuming you're all going to approve his gift okay yes you didn't ask how much
028time but that's okay all right so that'll be in the donations next time hey hey hey hey can I make a really quick announcement you guys are figuring your thing out um everybody has to sign the budget appr so don't leave until sign the budget okay you would like for ay to be more authentic not say it authentic yes um that's not the word is anyway for us to have more set rules in place for disciplined pures um instead of color to be more consistent across the board we feel like there needs to be something set in place so that people are just like it is in the corporate world how people are written up and it's it's in their file that they've had a verbal one and a written and so on and so
029forth we would like to have some type of consistent thing here with RCS or yes yeah I think I there are lots of good reasons that limits are as a district our liability I think that you know it promotes more fairness amongst our employees you know like everyone knows what the looks that I just in general feel like it's good idea we can come up with we generally do follow Progressive discipline ples so that's maybe we could at some point kind of brief the board on what that looks like is there like aode we have this really thick employee manual though it's all in there no I wasn't trying to well then something's off and not consistent if if those those measures are in place and we don't feel like they are that's what I
030I think it's probably helpful for us to kind of do an of generally what it is I believe that it's there I don't know that I feel like it's actually maybe like looking into where the disc is I don't I don't know you know I think just it's something that comes up periodically so we just want to be sure that all of us are doing everything that we need to do and we know you're doing a really great job like that's not what anything is it's just a matter of we want be sure that we're doing our due diligence expressing that's something that we yeses are over anything else call the last thing to do is a motion to adjourn make the motion to adjourn do I have a second I'll second thank you all
031in favor all right thank you board thank I'm sorry