001[Music] to order. Now I can call the roll. >> Yes, sir. >> Mr. RD >> here. >> Mr. Roth >> here. >> Mrs. Perie >> here. >> Mr. Onus >> here. >> Mrs. Layman here. >> Dr. Crawl present. >> And Dr. Cross >> present. Pledge of >> Allegiance. 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. >> Um, agenda related audience presentations. There's no one in the audience. >> No. >> So, I'm gonna nominate this. >> Okay. >> Um, I'm going to move right on to administrative reports. >> Okay. Well, uh, thank you for the great audience that we have here tonight. So, it's like going to a birthday party and you have
002one or you're having a birthday party and one guest shows up. So, actually, Mr. Carter, thank you for being in attendance tonight. Um, so I I'm just changing things up. I've got a handful of slides. I've got four major talking points that I'm going to uh touch on uh over the next I don't know 30 or 40 minutes. But I'd like to first begin with gratitude. Um as I've done a lot of reflection over um the last three years here is three years uh this was my first board meeting back with uh Morton 709. Um during that time, you know, as a as an administrator, this is year 21 for me as a school administrator. And I got my start with these three guys here at the top, uh Dr. Scott Russell, uh Mike Fouse,
003and Dennis Johnson. That was a uh late summer um hire. And so I started I worked alongside Dr. Teter um as my first job in administration. We were both assistant principles together. and so he falls into that group as well. Um, you know, gave me my start in administration. I can't thank all of these people enough uh for their mentorship um their leadership uh just being a good sounding board over the years uh to do our jobs as school administrators and naturally you know board of education at that time there were some um influential board members. I I can remember a conversation uh in about February, March time frame when I shared with the board that I was selected as the uh principal of a junior high down in East Poria and I was going
004to be leaving after one year and it was one of the hardest things. I had a couple of board members reach out to me and they planted some seeds in Joe Sander back then. um seeds of, you know, hey, we sure hate to see you leave, but we also appreciate um you know, the work that you've done, and we see bigger and better things like, you know, pursue a superintendency. And I will tell you, the words of those board members got me through a couple more stages in my academic um uh progression. And so, so both past and present, um you know, I need to recognize Dr. Smok uh Tim Breaker and Tom Neely. And Tom was back in on the board when I you know started my admin career and was one of those
005that uh gave me a vote of confidence. And so um lastly just the administrative team. It is nice to have a full team. We've done a lot of hiring and just the 709 teachers and staff. I've I've received some just really nice posts and emails and and so um that's my gratitude uh to the people of uh 709. Uh the next thing I I'd like to just touch on the gift of giving. Um I had Lisa Kowalsski um tell share with me what we received in donations this last year. six $66,000 >> and those and we're going to have a couple three more donations on this next um on the consent agenda tonight uh to approve and it's we're off to a good start for 2526. But also I I also sit on the Morton
006Community Foundation board and I'm I'm going to give credit to where credit is due. I asked uh Scott Woodsig to uh generate a number of what Morton 709 umbrella received this last year and this was in things from community grants that benefit 709 students. it's designated fund grants and um and then scholarships and we had a total of $85,000 that went back to the students and so I I greatly apprec appreciate you know a lot of times there was heartache that are attached to some of these scholarships and these design designated funds and so that's that's what living in a great community is where people just want to give back even in um difficult times. And so I want to give a shout out to uh Scott Witzig and and his crew um and their
007work on the foundation. So moving on, I've got a a few slides here on summer construction. Um and so first off, uh we'll start at Lincoln. Uh the Lincoln Rise classroom is getting a total remodel. Um so they added a restroom in there which will be uh wonderful for the students. um in that classroom. There are in progress of doing uh the floors and getting the plumbing all finished up, but that project is on schedule. Uh the next thing is the related services office at Grundy. Um that is uh used to be a gosh, what was that? U like a computer lab that wasn't being utilized as much and so uh Lindsay Franklin and her team was looking at having dedicated space. So, there's three offices uh that are um it's they're almost complete. The
008walls are up. They're mudding and taping. And so, that project's coming along uh well, and it's on schedule. Uh at Morton High School, this is kind of exciting. Uh we have the East Gym renovation that was part of the phase one construction project that's going to include bleachers. And so, I I wanted to get a picture uh of that uh that is in progress. uh the basketball standards, the scoreboard, and the bleachers. We're looking at a September arrival date. So, uh most of the work uh is on schedule, but those other things uh shipping um should be taking place in September. Um there's also some roof roofing work that's taking place that is on schedule and some minor asbestous abatement in that. Uh the junior high has a new roof uh on a portion of
009that facility and that work is is progressing on time. Um just to spend a little bit of time on this one because this is like an architectural like find right here. So the picture on the left, Jefferson is having their floor replaced. And so the picture on the left is what we discovered a after they uh demoed the old wooden floor. Okay. And so those uh those parallel treads there, those were 2x4s that were mortared in with concrete. And so you can only imagine the hours of work that someone had to do to get that put in place on a concrete slab and then try to make that level. Okay. And so that was many years ago. And then the next uh picture on over is uh the the plywood that goes down on top
010of those um those stringers. And then you can see what the um the unfinished floor looks like and just how bright that is. And so greatly support the board's um you know support of that project moving forward. Uh that one is pretty much on schedule as well. The next phase is to uh bring in the floor finishers and then uh they're looking at different colors of stain for the floor and then they'll naturally have to paint and then seal the floor. So, as I mentioned before, that one was on schedule. Um moving on to uh the MHS phase 2. I just want to briefly touch on this. So, phase one did locker rooms, did the main entry um addition, also the east gym. Phase two is a work in progress at this point. And so
011I tried to grab a screen uh shot of one of the plans there. Uh and you can see in the I don't know what color that is. I'm color blind. So someone whatever color that is. So what we see here is the weight training facility which is in the lower portion um right about in this space. Uh this is what the architect is working on the plans for that. And then there's also um a a fine arts expansion. Uh this is the Bertha of Frank building. This is the part of the existing lobby area. And so what this entails is an expansion into that. I've had some questions about, you know, the multiple projects that we have going on at this time. Um you know, we're we're considering a possible addition at Grundy and a
012possible addition at Morton Academy. and how can we um handle all of those things? Um and so I I've got a one pager that I'm working on. It's not finalized because we are meeting with our architect. We got a meeting this Thursday to discuss um some of the bid design, scope, and timelines with this project. Uh our architect has shared that um from our original plan of of having bid documents ready to go and you know to be able to push out there. Um, I think that was originally tenatively set for July. We're looking at having that ready to go at the end of July, but there wouldn't be a board uh any board decisions until the September board meeting because our August board meeting is August 5th. And so, if we get the bids
013out, we got to let them sit, you know, for at least 10 days. And so, we won't be bringing to the board any decisions by that time. So, it gives us a little bit of time. So I ask if you have questions about the scope of this, whether we can financially swing this, as we continue with these meetings, we should be able to get more information to answer those questions so that the board can make an informed decision. So um moving on at Grundy, um we Dr. Mock did a fantastic job uh at the B at the excuse me the May board meeting um where he shared uh information about shifting from a multi-phase approach this larger project at Grundy that would incorporate possibly bringing Morton Academy on over there. Well, we've pivoted from that
014and so we're looking at a reduced project, probably a singlephase project to add say four or five classroom spaces that are dedicated for ECE and the preschool for all expansion. Um, we have playground equipment that I got to give a shout out to Mrs. Scrogs, Mrs. Franklin, uh, Mrs. Higgus, and Miss Bulma. They have done a commendable job securing funds uh through the PFA grant. It was about $80,000 uh in last fiscal year FY25 and we're hope hopeful to get about another $80,000 that we can throw at uh that playground equipment. But having a dedicated playground uh space for our early childhood all the way through um like kinder or second grade students um is a wonderful addition. And so I appreciate the board's support on that. But getting back to the scope of Grundy
015once again, we have another meeting set up with the architect. So that project is going to be reduced way down from it. The original numbers that kind of stick out my head was over $7 million for a phase one at Grundy. Um we're looking at a significant change in that. And so um I look forward to sharing those updates with the board as far as the scope and estimated costs on that uh expansion. And then the last thing uh underneath um you know capital projects is Morton Academy. Uh we are meeting with the uh center for uh child and family solutions admin team uh later this week or early next week. We've got a meeting that's on the schedule to look at um administrative space in their current facility that is adjacent to the Morton
016Academy building. And so what that will entail is we're we're going to have to look at our lease agreement with them. There would need to be some adjustments to that because we're going to be in a sense leasing more space, but that helps us out. We are space limited at Horn Academy. And so uh working with uh their team has has been very beneficial. They're open to that. So, we're going to try to nail down some of the conditions of being able to utilize the the space in the building adjacent for administrative purposes. And then we have a second meeting scheduled later after we meet with the architect to discuss some concepts on a possible Morton Academy facility expansion. And so that is in the planning phase. And so hopefully by the August board meeting,
017we can come back to the board and share the numbers that, you know, some estimates on that and kind of put this all together in a um one pager that uh that we can share with our community, you know, kind of walk us through uh where we're going. Okay. Um other items. So the board, we had a an ad hoc committee that looked at facility naming. Okay. that that committee has met a couple of times. We've made really good progress and we've made a decision to shift from that concept and so we're shifting some work on over to the Morton High School administration because we're going to be rolling out a the MHS Hall of Fame. And alls I can say about that is I'm excited about this concept. I'm excited about the longevity of
018of what ha having a MHS Hall of Fame is going to be about. Uh it'll memorialize the accomplishments of some great people and great teams. And so I really can't talk any more about that. We got to let the admin team do their work. But um I just want to report back to the board that we did our work and we've made a decision and and we're moving forward with this other um this other venture here or initiative. The last thing is I I'm giving another shout out to our uh to Craig Lauder in our the village. Um later on the agenda tonight will be an action item to approve um the bids for the crosswalks. We have four of them. uh in Q. The village has already approved it. They're just waiting for this
019approval tonight, but it'll enhance our community and it'll touch on safety. We're looking at one of the crosswalks uh that are automated and you hit the button and the lights will strobe. Um so it's at Grundy Letty Brown and two of them are at Lincoln School. So, um, a couple of reminders. The online registration window is now open. Okay. And that, uh, and then we have in-person registration on July 1st from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. >> 31st. >> Excuse me, 31st. Thank you. Um, and I hate to say this, that means four weeks from today, all the children of Morton 709 report for school. So, um, I hate to bring that news, but uh, we're excited about it. So, the last thing I I'd like to cover is um the, uh, facility the monthly
020board review. So we have sections 1 3 and uh and then policy 4170. And so what this entails is um the policy review is uh it was originated last October when we did our board self-evaluation. Lori Grant and Katie Bolv with ISB facilitated that. And we have a we have a requirement to review all of our policies. And Cristiana and Diane are on the policy committee, but there's also extra work that the board should have their eyes on every policy within a 5-year window. And so we discussed this. I like this concept. So the homework for this board meeting was to review sections 1, three, and 4170. Um, it's just a chance to read through it, see what's in it. If you have questions, go ahead and you can email me the questions. But this
021is going to do two things. Number one, it's going to force me to get into the board policy manual and review these things as well as the board. And number two, to meet the requirement that Valerie will then update after tonight's meeting since it's on the administrative report, it satisfies that requirement that we've met that condition. So, um, that being said, are there any questions for the administrative report? Okay, I'm done. Doc, sweet. All right. Well, mine will be shorter than yours. Good. Thanks, Joe. Um, committee updates. So, the superintendent please. Um, um, is this in everyone's, right? that never thanks Valerie. Um so as we get in to the school year um committee meetings for finance and facilities and um all that will get kind of back on track and so um we have
022you have some tenative dates in there and so we just have to get together with our uh committee members um and figure out what day and time will work for everyone. So, nothing pressing, but that's that's about it. Agenda building concerns, things that uh we need to talk about, get a schedule to talk about. Andy, yes, we should probably talk about what we want to do as far as getting into the buildings this year. Do we want to go back to what we did years past of having a dinner with the teachers? Um, we need to probably figure that out for this next school year. Yeah, because it's only four weeks away, I think. I heard. So, >> so I think we'll be having that. >> I I will be really brief on this one.
023Uh I will own this one. We tried I tried to get that committee together and then lost the time battle. People got off on summer break and so I will revisit that. we have a a group that will um that will meet um now that most of the summer activities like summer baseball and and those type of activities are wrapped up. Uh I need to put that on my calendar to have a meeting. Um and then we'll bring that back to the board. Uh I have discussed that with the MEA and I I'm positive that we'll we'll put something together. It is really important for relationship building um that we have these opportunities and so uh we've got great support from the MEA the MEA leadership and so I'm confident that we'll be able to
024bring you know have good discussion on options and then bring something back to the board. But that's that's our goal to have something um we most likely wouldn't do something in August or September. Uh so maybe looking at October or November time frame. Uh and then we have a couple of months in the spring that we look at. So >> can I throw out a suggestion? So you were going to have me be on part of that committee kind of as an impromptu because I was available at that point in time. My suggestion for the seven of us would be to give options, individual options to the president and then if you could, if I'm still going to be on the committee, then you kind of shoot me with the consensuses of the board. So
025that way the board gets their kind of input into this how we're going to meet as well. >> Got you. So they tell me what their preference is. >> Yes. Individually. Because if we're not going to discuss it here out, you know, individually, just send it to you. Then everybody's got an input and and if I'm still the committee person, which you know, it could change. Whoever the committee person is, just shoot the the input of the board to whoever is going to be on the committee. And that way the board has a little bit of um input with the MEA and the administration. >> Okay? because I think we're all in agreement. The the morning thing, we tried it, it just didn't work out very well. >> Yeah, it's just hard to get that
026to work out consistently with work and so >> so that way we all have input and we're not going to >> not going to say waste time, but we can >> be more efficient with time if we just shoot you an email >> and then just give us a date on when you want that email. Okay. >> Oh, when do you think you will actually meet? Not this school year. >> Uh, no. I'd like to look at by the end of July, have a meeting. Okay. >> So, and then if that meeting, how that meeting goes, I could bring something back to the board in August. But that's what I'm shooting for is sometime by the end of July. >> And he'll be in that meeting. >> Uh, so July 27th, I will not be
027available for at least a week. >> Okay. through through August 3rd. >> July 27th >> or somebody else >> after the 27th. >> So 27th through August 3rd, I am unavailable to go on Monday. >> I do it that week if he if he were gone. So unless someone else wants really wants to do it. >> Okay. Just can you review the stakeholders because I really am getting the message that MEA is driving this bus and I'd like to really know who's going to be there because it isn't a request by the teachers and their advocates to meet. Um it's our request of the administration and the teachers just to have relationships. So how are how how are you thinking that's going to unwind? Who's going to be at the table? I guess is >>
028uh boy that's a good question. Um so I reached out to the union president which is u Ben Ginsel and and we had discussed this at one of our last MEA DO meetings. So um once a month the MEA president and a couple of their executive members meet with uh the superintendent and the assistant superintendent. And so we had that meeting. Um, and so we just I just asked him who he wanted to be on that that committee. We looked at just trying to keep that pretty small uh small group, not a huge committee. Uh, so I think that there's four members of the MEA that are on that. Um, I can I can let you know. I I can't recall >> like our building principles to have a say in what their objectives would
029be. Yes. And definitely just my personal opinion is that it should be voluntary for our teachers. Um, and that's something that I would really hope that we could communicate as an opportunity for our staff instead of an obligation. Um, because we're viewing it as an opportunity. So just anything we can do in the tenor of that meeting to really communicate that I think is really important. Um you know we don't want any more obligations on our wonderful tax staff >> and there so on our committee we do have Faith Waterfield. Um I asked you know I felt it was really important to have a a building principle on that and so uh she's sitting on it myself. Troy, are you on that or is Kate call the judging from the look? But um and then
030one board member as well. We'd like to have a board member. So we we want to have some representation on that, but I really like the opportunity versus obligation. >> I think that goes a long way. >> Okay. >> How many of our teachers are not affiliated with the MEA? Do you have any idea? >> I don't know. Well, if if the meeting potentially is next week, then um think about it and try to shoot me an email by by Monday. I'd give you enough time to consolidate and send it to whomever. Unless Unless it's you. >> Yeah. >> Or or doc Dr. Crawl. I mean it's next week. I said I'm available next week. Just the following week. I wouldn't be. >> Okay. >> When you say preferences, what do you mean by that?
031Cuz >> like ideas of when to meet, how to meet, what to do, like you know, because um last year we did kind of um coffee and donuts or breakfast pizza and met you know, walked around the buildings a little bit, met in the teachers lounge and chatted. And it, you know, that was at like 7:45 to 7:15 and it gets, you know, you got to be at work at 8. >> Sure. >> Um, it gets really hard for board members to get there. >> Um, and so prior to that, we would have a um every building in town, we would have one meeting there. So, typically it was a sec when we had two meetings a month. Second meeting would start at the building. We would have dinner with the teachers slideshow or some
032sort of like kind of tell us what's was going on in the school, right? So that's what was going on before. And then um that that was viewed as um a lot of time and stress on the staff because of the presentation, how formal it was and they wanted to try to do something kind of less formal is kind of how it came across in negotiations. And so we said, "Okay, well, we'll try something different." Um which is tough. I think it's it's hard for, you know, people to get to those things and because of life um and extra extra mornings couple times a month for us. Um and it just it it doesn't work for the board. I would say like I personally the morning thing I would not ever do again personally. It
033just doesn't doesn't work. You can't get there early enough or stay late enough to accomplish anything. >> Did that make sense to you at all? >> Yeah. >> So, two years ago and prior, the teachers felt obligated and kind of stressed to put in this huge slideshow. So during negotiations we did the morning thing which then now we have 14 mornings that were missing work or missing whatever and it just didn't work for the board but the evenings work better for the board members. So it was seven nights compared to 14 mornings and it would be one night for the for the teachers and staff at this individual school. So somewhere in there is going to be a happy medium that we need to make sure the teachers aren't going overboard with all this videos
034because they put I mean some of it was beautiful. I mean it was really neat and the idea is that >> it was probably timeconuming. >> Yes, it probably was. We don't want that. The idea is for the board and the teachers to have a relationship a better relationship. I mean, we have great relationships with certain teachers because we're friends, but not with all. And I think that's the idea is just to have the relationship from board to the teachers through the district office. >> So hopefully that helps when you put your email together on what you would like. >> You could also say, "I have no idea." >> Okay. >> And that's perfectly fine. >> I was thinking of writing like a 10 pager, but That works. >> You're going to jail. No. >>
035I like it. [Laughter] Okay. Good on that then. I think. Okay. And that made me think of something else that maybe should I should chat with you on Wednesday about this. And we talked about super valless and then with pricing and stuff about kind of going forward in your new role. EV valuation of it and everything. Um we have an update on that. >> We do. So I sat through the um onboarding session for the superintendent and so I have tentatively scheduled going to come later um the September board meeting. Uh the next step in that is to do a an onboarding session during close session with the board of education. And so their representative, it'll be about a 20 minute. We'll bring her up virtually and she'll walk through the super eval. Before that
036time, I will get you some documents um like what the rubric looks like so that you have a little bit of familiar uh familiarity with it u before you get into that session. >> But it is it is pretty it's a pretty slick process uh to go through it. I I really enjoyed it. Um, and so I'm excited about working with the board on establishing goals and then um, working through that process because the timelines are pretty fixed. You'll have a little bit more work as the board president, a little bit more control work on that, but uh, other than that, it's it's pretty seamless. >> And then they sent Superal sent out an email today at 3:16. I don't know if you have time to look at it. >> That's why I was >>
037I almost didn't send it here on time. I have not checked emails since this morning before I went to work. >> So 3:16 Super sent out an email. >> Okay. >> And I'm assuming you got one around the same time. >> Cool. >> Yes, it was 3:16. Okay. >> All right. Uh anything else for agenda building? we move on to discussion. >> Okay. So, uh Cristiana and Diane sit on the policy committee and and we met on July 2nd and reviewed the press 118 update. So, we had a uh couple handful of uh policies that we needed to review. When we go through that process, we'll go through each policy and the suggested recommendations and we'll take each one and either put it into the consent agenda for board approval. Those require the changes in
038those policies are very minimal. Um they're typically language updates, legal references or citations. And so we we go through the whole set. These policies will they'll be in the consent agenda for approval tonight. And then we set aside the ones that uh need a deeper board review. So uh this is would be the first reading of those five policies. I will briefly touch on all five of them. Um and I'm going to try to do this in an organized fashion. So four of the policies are related to one event. And the one event was a new law that hit the books on July 1st, 2025. It's the ESS law which is ensuring success in schools. And so that is board policy 7255. And so there's three other policies that are related to that that had
039substantial change because of this new board policy. So you might ask what's in the ESS law. The SS law was uh created a new article in the school code and the article requires school districts to have policies, procedures and resources in place to ensure that students who are parents, expectant parents or victims of domestic or sexual violence are provided with the support services necessary enabled them to meet state educational standards and successfully attain a school diploma. I'd like to say at Mort 709 and I would say at most districts across the state, they already have things in place for situations like this. Um, this is just now law. The law also requires designation of it uh for two additional um duties and responsibilities that need to land on someone. That is one is called a
040resource person and that would either be a school administrator or uh a related services personnel and their responsibility that they have one staff member in each building must be identified as the resource person. And then there is a complaint resolver. Um, from what I've read in some of the legal updates, uh, most districts will probably task one of our complaint managers as a complaint resolver. In accordance with this, um, there's not much information regarding the training requirement. This law has a training requirement for these two individuals or multiple individuals because you have to have one in each building to do these services. Um, it's like eight hours of specific training. So we asked what is the training? The training hasn't been developed yet. The IPA is working on a training plan for this. And so
041I reached out to our board attorney and I said, "Hey, can you give us some direction on this?" There's a lot of ambiguity in this uh new policy. and his suggestion was go ahead and approve the policy knowing that there's going to be additional press updates that happen in October or maybe later in the year that give additional guidance but at some point we have to approve the policies. So the policyy's in there you have a month to read through it. Let me know what questions you have. Hopefully we can uh learn a little bit more about that by that time. So, so that was policy 72 uh55 and then 510 0 um and and 7250. They just piggyback off of that. It's because of this new policy it's being referred to in those. Um
042the last one uh the other policy that we need to review is on our access to electronic networks. So they uh dropped in a section in that and the new stuff is in green. So if you look at the uh 118 update and you go to that policy, you'll see a section right in the middle that addresses the use of AI enabled tools in the district. And there's five things that need to be um uh covered in that. And the district has to have an AI plan. We have language in our student handbook that covers a lot of the requirements in there. What our student handbook doesn't cover is the training and the uh the plan for staff using AI tools. And so we brought to the policy committee um the suggestion that the student
043handbook is going to cover it and that we'll task um two people uh Mrs. Wyman and Mr. Sturm, the administrator, and our top tech person to create a uh administrative procedure that governs that is based off of this policy that governs um the uh responsibility and use guidelines for staff and uh the training for staff. you know, our students get trained on AI from their teachers as they as they go through um as they learn about magic school. Um what we don't have is something and so our recommendation is to bring that you know as an administrative procedure which APS don't need board approval. The admin team can change an AP to meet the current conditions and the processes and procedures that we have in place that are based off of the board policy. So
044Diane Cristiana, did I cover it all? Is there anything I left off of that or anything from that um policy committee meeting? >> I mean I think you did a pretty good job there. Dan, >> um the part that the I thought was board work was that the um guidelines stress responsible and appropriate use of AI. And so the student handbook helped students understand this is appropriate and ethical. But in our generations that are teaching, we really felt like our district needed our teachers to know when was appropriate and ethical use. You know, our district has high standards and we don't want AI writing our lesson plans for our teachers. We don't want our AI generating study helps with very minimal qualified teachers in our district helping or overseeing that well. And so I'm really
045excited that our administration is going to be working on this. um we see it I saw it read recently about a law brief that was obviously I AI generated and how um there were penalties for that and I think it's not just education it's all of our fields as we're using AI like when is this okay when have we um been ethical and diligent with it so anyway >> so quick question approve and then the law changes in October, we adjust the policy after October. No harm, no foul. >> And for that matter, the law doesn't have to change. We might find out that, hey, this policy can be bettered by doing and we can adjust the policy to make it better even if it's not in cycle. Correct. >> That's correct. So in a
046future press update, this same policy may surface again with some additional clarification. And so then the policy committee will review that then bring that back to the board for either board review or or consent agenda approval. >> Correct? No harm, no foul. Go press forward, find out that hey, the law changed or this is a better way to phrase this policy. We bring it up and we change it as needed. Think that's it for discussion. >> All right, move on to action items. Do I have a motion for board of education approve a non-resident for board policy 760? >> So moved. >> Support. uh discussion. >> Um I ran this by the high school principal, uh Mr. Edwards. He was okay with it. I ran it by uh Miss Kowalsski. Uh she's all right with
047it. Uh we'll be able to accommodate this student. So, um no other no other concerns with this. >> Questions? Call the role, please. >> Mr. Roth. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Layman. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mrs. Perie, >> yes. >> Dr. Crawl, >> yes. >> Dr. Cross, >> yes. >> Mr. Onus, >> yes. >> And Mr. Ren, >> yes. >> Uh, do I have a motion for the board of education uh to approve the RRFP improvement projects for school crossings at Groundy, Lady Brown, and Lincoln? >> So, move support. >> There's a second, Mr. >> We've talked about this a lot over the past year. I think everyone's probably doesn't have any questions about it. It's about safety and good for the community. It's kind of a no-brainer. So, >> I have nothing else to add.
048>> Okay. >> I kind of do. So, when we write these, we need to put the rapid rectangular rapid flashing beacon up front and then put the RRFB so that way I know what it is. >> Okay. >> That's tongue and quill. >> Tongue and quill. Yes. All right, please call the roll. >> Mr. Ona Sourge, >> yes. >> Mr. Red, >> yes. >> Mr. Roth, >> yes. >> Dr. Cross, >> yes. >> Mrs. Perie, >> yes. >> Mrs. Layman, >> yes. >> And Dr. Crawl, >> yes. >> All right. Uh, do I have a motion for Board of Education to approve the district student handle provisions? >> So move. >> Support. >> Okay. Just a couple brief comments. This came on recommendation from our attorney. It ties to directory information which is listed in
049our student handbook. And so directory information there's you know a broad scope of what could be that what call qualifies that something if someone were to foy the school district would have to turn that information over. And so, um, what our attorney has done, not only for our district, but a number of other districts in central Illinois, times are different. They used to hand out phone books that had people's names and addresses and all that sort of stuff in there. Um, you know, privacy is important nowadays. And so, uh, the substantial change on this is directory information will only be shared with groups that meet one of three conditions. And they're bulleted out there. um any uh information that goes with that. So uh for someone to receive the information from us through a foyer
050request, they'd have to meet those conditions. >> Have we ever updated the student handbook during the school year >> that you're aware of? >> I'll give Dr. Teter a moment to think about it. I'm not aware of >> All right, let's just pretend that we do. Do we then send out an email to the parents that says the student handbook is updated and then this like this yellow highlight you can get right to it at that point. >> That's what we would do in the event that we would have if we have to change it for whatever reason. Yeah, I I can't recall the exact details, but we have changed it during the year because of a legal >> reference that came out that had to be changed and I don't >> and then we
051just basically we just let the parents know here's what's changed and the highlight just an FYI. So then we would >> so usually you know when you sign the kid up you're a kid whoever kid you get the student handbook sometimes you read it sometimes you don't sometimes you scan it sometimes you don't whatever but in this case it changes you got the highlight this is what's changed kind of similar to this >> true >> it should if that isn't what happened that's what should happen if you're changing expectations of >> right and that's that's the only >> notify someone that you changed >> because this isn't big deal, but it's a big deal. And I just think I don't know how to highlight this to the parents that this is what changed even though
052this is a brand new school year. >> It's making it more restrictive though. It's It's harder to get the information than it was. So, I think most parents would be >> happy about that. Yes. And I guess that's why I was looking at it in that aspect. Hey, you should be happy. Here's why. And then here's the highlight if you if you want to read it. And I'm not saying that everybody reads it either. So that's my only what I'm getting at is is if something changes, highlight it. Let the parents know. And in this case, I think they should also know even when you get it. >> Well, you could say, yeah, well, if you you have someone who's going to be senior in high school, like, well, I've seen I'm not looking the
053handbook again. Or you read it every year. Is that what you're saying, Jerry? >> I scan. >> You scan it every year? >> I'm a scanner. Okay. >> Let's go forward. >> Okay. >> Please call the role. >> Yes, sir. Dr. Crawl, >> yes. >> Mr. Red, >> yes. >> Mrs. Pury, >> yes. >> Mr. Roth, >> yes. >> Mr. Onus, >> yes. >> Dr. Cross, >> yes. >> And Mrs. Lang, >> yes. >> Uh, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? >> So moved. >> Support. Please call. >> Mrs. Layman, >> yes. >> Mr. Roth, >> yes. >> Mr. Red, >> yes. >> Mrs. Perie, >> yes. >> Mr. Onus, >> yes. >> Dr. Crawl, >> yes. >> And Dr. Cross, >> yes. And real quick, and there is
054some big numbers in that one. >> That's right. Thank you for bringing that up. Uh, what you just approved there, I want to recognize we um had two matching grants. the the Caterpillar 10 to one. Um and so one was $2500 and another one $29,000. And then we had a uh grant um or a donation to Brown Elementary from Trinity and Troy and Katie Graves uh for Brown playground equipment. And so um going back to my gratitude, you know, it takes a full community to do the amazing things. Um, over my career both as a teacher and as an administrator, I can't say enough what Caterpillar has done. I've seen them buy computer labs. I've seen them fund STEM projects and then just doing this 10 to one matching grant. It was just off the
055charts amazing. So, so thank you to those uh that are continuing to invest and uh pay it forward to 709. All right. And then do I have a motion uh for the board to end close session for the purpose of a boarding on a banana fuel? >> There is nothing else. >> Okay. >> Mr. Roth. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Layman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Onosaur. >> Yes. >> Dr. Cross. >> Yes. >> Dr. Crawl. >> Yes. Mrs. Pertie. >> Yes. And Mr. Red. >> Yes. Just an FYI. >> I support it. >> Oh, Christian. I'm sorry. Mrs. >> Okay. [Music]