001it's now 7:06 and with that we will do a recall of to order of a regular session Jackie can we please start with a r hereis here here present all right next item is public participation and recognition public comment members of the public who wish to speak to the bar complete a request card prior to the start of the meeting the section of the meeting will be reserved for comments from the public all comments should be limited to 3 minutes criticism of individuals is not in order and with that we do have three um comments the first one is Brian Brickner Brickner I believe that that's what it is bner the YCA um okay so subject mou with boys and girls club and you can you please go to the microphone thank you okay so
002as you stated my name is Brian Vick I'm the CEO of the kwaki YMCA as board members I believe you all know for the past week the topic of the new business item the mou with the boys and girls club was a a Hot Topic last Friday the district proposed the idea of the why and the boys and girls club both offering after school proling at those three sites uh this morning my staff and I had a zoom call with the leadership staff of the boys and the girls club both organizations feel this is not the best solution for the children furthermore last Friday both organizations were informed that at tonight's meeting both organizations would have five minutes to talk about their programs neither organization felt this would be beneficial to either of us we
003both respect the work of the other organization both organizations feel this process has been too rushed and neither organization knows all the facts regarding the process therefore we told the district this morning that neither organization will present a statement tonight and we we ask that the vote is not taken on this matter for another four weeks this will allow all parties involved to discuss the matter further is this okay with the board for tabling this process including a vote for four weeks at the request of both organizations uh to the best of my knowledge there is no representative here tonight from the boys and the girls club thank you next is Aaron grit uh in the subject is Dei so it's actually Aon grick rhymes with apologize no worries I just thought I'd clarify that
004um the US Department of Education directs schools to end racial preferences uh they must cease using race preferences and stereotypes as a factor for their admissions hiring promotion compensation scholarships prizes administra to support sanctions discipline and Beyond acting assistant secretary for the Civil Rights craiger trainer and I might Slaughter that sorry students should be assessed according to Merit accomplishment and character not prejudged by the color of their skin education department will ensure that America's education institutes will again Embrace Merit equality of opportunity and academic and professional Excellence hiring compensation promotion scholarships prizes sanctions and discipline schools including elementary middle and high schools May no longer make decisions or operate programs based on race or race stereotypes in any of these categories or they risk losing to federal funds so my question is what is this
005board doing to make sure we don't lose our I think it was1 19 million I don't know the exact dollar amount um in looking at project 21 uh this is views of promoting African-Americans April Chapman she said these programs have convinced an entire generation that black Americans don't have the ability to compete based on Merit and Horus Cooper says it is great to see that we are recognizing that all Americans regardless of race can compete and furthermore that we can't predict based on race who will succeed and who will fail and my last quote is Priscilla Ron Dei policies while often well intended have led to divisive and counterproductive outcomes by prioritizing identity over Merit and fairness the president's order restores Equal Opportunity by ensuring that all Americans regardless of race compete on a Level
006Playing Field rather than being subjected to government mandate quotas or preferential treatment true opportunity comes from empowering individuals based on their skills hard work and character not from government impose classifications that divide rather than Unite so for our students having low standards for everyone lowers our test scores victimhood mentality keeps the little man down no hope to live out the American dream to work and fight for something better did you know that nine out of 10 millionaires in the US didn't inherit their wealth thank you thank you I'm sorry didn't have a clock thank you thank you um the next person is Peter vender um V Vander uh and then the subject is spending and learning good evening everyone my name is Pete Vander my wife and I are community members and parents of four
007d428 students along with one in college I thank all the board members for their service and especially those who speak up and ask questions as for the all all great teachers I've ever had said if you have a question others do too sometimes you may feel loan up there but lots of us are nodding along with your questions on YouTube or or from these seats right here I was nodding along with Aon gck two weeks ago when she questioned the cost of a new administrative position a quarter of a million dollar a year employee to connect the vision to that vision and to the mission statement to the initiatives a couple of board members questioned it as well and again I was nodding thank you for asking the questions I don't see the position on
008tonight's agenda I hope it means it's been withdrawn to put it in perspective the price tag for something like that is very close to the median home sale in decal County last year and that sounded like it was going to be a long-term thing meaning the value of an entire decal home was going to be taken out of the community's wealth every year now someone's going to say Pete that's not one person's home it it's spread out among everybody else but isn't that how we've gotten to some pretty bad places fiscally in one of the most heavily taxed places in the country and I urge you to consider our community median income of $35,000 when looking at these huge expenses along with our great successes our district also has many students who are struggling and
009I dare say it's not because we don't have that crucial additional administrator instead of an equity lens a strategic plan or whatever the flavor of the day is I urge you to cons continue to focus on every expense every hire every yes and no vote on student learning in the classroom what do current what do the current adults need to help the little medium and large people in their care to be successful sucessful I want to leave you with something that will be before you tonight on the agenda item 6C the FTE request the warehouse specialist position at the cost of just over $81,000 a year I think the board should have lots of questions about this item we're leasing space for all the furniture we have do we have too much stuff with the
010cost of of the lease plus the FTE how much are we really paying to store stuff that we may have overp purchased or just need temp a temporary home what's this stuff even worth if it's worth less than 81,000 it's a no-brainer throw it out don't bother with the FTE boiling it down we could afford to throw away and repurchase $80,000 worth of furniture each year that's not including the Sav On savings on storage if these ideas seem silly here's another thought the FTE carries a starting salary of $43,000 which is just below the cost of a new teacher by the way the benefits uh are $38,000 that gets us up to $80,000 have we thought about using overtime to get the job done by people who already received benefits every employer would do this
011calculation how many OT man hours or part-time hours could we get for $80,000 I'm no mathematician but I know it's a lot thank you thank you all right next item is board correspondence we have any board correspondence I've got a couple things so the first one is that I wanted to congratulate Huntley for doing a phenomenal job with their Wonka Musical that they did this last weekend I have had multiple people from the community actually reach out to me to tell me how amazing they thought it was so just want to say congratulations for the job that they did over there then on I'm sorry that's FYI that's both middle schools working together see we're better together look at that and two other things so in regards to the associate superintendent you guys are correct
012that is not on the agenda anymore and that was with on and I do want to take a moment to I guess just speak on that real quick so that there's transparency and you guys know there are times where we as board members were people we missed the Mark I thought I had a great idea it was something that I thought was good and I threw it out there once I talked with people within the district I talked with people within our community and I talked with people just all over I realized hey that's not the time it's not the place for this role so I just will full transparency admit I missed the mark on this one I thought that it was something that would be a bigger support for the district and as
013I talk to people like I said I missed the mark so I just want to be transparent and let you know that's why that's not on the agenda anymore and then I will just also while I'm talking just address really quickly Brian you did mention about putting that on hold um we will be doing it later in the meeting but I did want to let you know that we will be just want we don't respond to the question just I respond whoever I want to okay anyway throwing it out there because I don't want to make it a accustom to to do that that will be removed from the agenda for this evening just so that you guys are aware and then just quick final thing I have been asked by the iasb to sit
014on a panel to review things that we're doing at the conference this year so I am spending most of my month this month going through different recommendations for things that people are going to be doing at the conference so just know we are working for different things around the clock even when we're not here at the room congratulations on that thank you all right any other board question yes I have something um I had the opportunity to attend the Dream Deferred conference um was that last week yeah okay time has been timing for me um but it was really exciting to get to see some of our cabinet and some of our district leaders present they shared a lot of great information it was very very engaging and I just was beaming with pride to
015see you all in action if you're here so thank you and if you're watching thank you also um I will share mine in Jen as a report Jenna our student board member is not here she's at a banquet tonight um but we um the board interviewed the incoming student board members and we selected uh Maria Elena Bella Rodriguez so we're very excited to do yeah she was fantastic and everyone who came if you're watching was fantastic um just really great to have so many interested folks but we went with Maria and her and I and Jenna will be doing some shadowing and meeting and training so I'm really excited about that and thank you to the board members for able to help with that process to all the students that also came to um interview
016it was definitely not an easy choice this year because we had a lot of students that came out to apply and a lot of them are very active and very involved in the mini board so it was a tough decision so thank you for making it tough for us uh because it was something to they they all did great so thank you for that and we hope that they continue to participate in the mini board so that they can continue to bring the ideas just as they have been throughout this past um year or no two years right that Jenna has been on the board now um with us so thank you for the work that they're doing and thank you for the continuous work that that they they do um any other board correspondents
017yeah right no I I went to the musical at Huntley and it was great so it was they did a really good job thank you thank you for sharing all right so next item is is approved consent uh items um so consent agenda it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the consent agenda items 5B through 5 I board minutes 43 33 2025 and 34 2025 Personnel action items purchase order requisition paper for February accounts payable for March Financial reports resolution author authorizing notice of non-renewal and dismissal of part-time teachers and the resolution authorizing notice for non-renewals and dismissal of temporary one-year service teachers as attached is there a motion so moved second roll call Davis yes Mariel Owens yes Bo yes D yes V bam yes Amanda harness yes thank you all right
018old business um uh item eight little Barb Academy proposal this is an action item it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the little Barb Academy proposal for the commence uh Amendment of the 2025 2026 school year is there a motion Roa Harel Owens yes Christopher Boy Yes St yes s b yes Amanda harness yes Fred Davis yes thank you Item B professional development requests impactful leadership this is an action item it is recommended that the Board of Education approved this request for professional development at the impactful leadership conference on April 16th through the 19 2025 is there a motion so moved second roll call Ariel ens yes Christopher boy yes St Ramirez yes Dante B yes Amanda harness yes BR Davis yes thank you item C 2025 2026 FTE F FTE request this
019is an action item it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the FTE request for 2025 2026 school year is there a motion I have one final question on that um in regards to the multilingual instructional coach now I understand they would be helping with the Dual language program I'm just hold on just let them come up so that they could answer you well first they could hear you and then they could answer appropriately I am just I guess the only thing I'm curious about in that regard since they'll be as an instructional coach if I'm not mistaken directly working with the teachers more than the students correct correct I guess why would are other currently employed instructional coaches not be able to take that on that's a good question it's a specialty position
020and with the two-way dual language rolling up it will assist with that but we'll also assist with the many instructional strategies that need to support the teachers in that programming and um help with some of the different managerial responsibilities and directly supporting classrooms so are they directly and everyday consistently working with students no but they are in and out of classrooms supporting modeling um modeling different strategies co- teing in some instances or maybe helping to facilitate some of the small group as modeling for the so I guess let me rephrase my question we've already got instructional coaches within the district I guess what I'm gearing towards is why is it necessary that it's a multilingual instructional coach which I am presuming comes at a higher price tag than a normal instructional assistant it would be
021the same it would be the same price tag cor so taking taking D Thunder out of that um portion of question but it then then your question is why not just have it absorbed by one of our other existing well part of the requirements for the position is they do need to be a dual language they do need to speak um for our responsibilities we'll need them to be teaching or excuse me speaking um Spanish and English to help support some of the the work that they do and then also why not absorbed by the positions that we already have we have four at the high school level two at the high school and then two at the middle school one instruct coach at each middle school they're also quite busy supporting all of the
022other different grade levels and curriculum content areas okay thank you thanks any other questions no all right okay let me read it again it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the FTE request for the 2025 2026 school year is there a motion so moved second roll call Christopher Boy Yes B Mayers yes V vam yes Amanda harness yes Fred Davis yes arens yes thank you we removing the what is the item G it g okay so we need to make a motion to do that right yes no we're just making a to uh are we still doing the motion Jackie to remove okay so um before we make the motion um is there anything that we would like to add to to that because we are making a motion to remove item G
023uh Dr gcia can you please uh clarify a little bit about why we're removing this item sure thank you for the opportunity um what we had provided the plan had been to provide both the YMCA and the boys and girls up an opportunity to uh share the features of each of their programs and talk about um opportunities of what the cost would be for both of those programs I think that uh really what we wanted to do was pass the mou at this time and then work together both with YMCA and uh boys and girls club to really figed out what that programming would look like at the schools Where the Boys and Girls Clubs would be um however that was unable we were unable to make make that happen and the boys and girls
024club has uh respectfully requested that we remove the item from the um agenda to give us time to review um the current programming that we have and be able to audit it and then determining based on what that looks like we can maybe move forward with them next year I will say that by doing this um we discovered that we had not been reviewing mou for the after school programming that we do currently have so this has now opened up that opportunity we will be meeting with all of our before and after school providers and um that work with us and our children with our either within the building or outside to ensure that the level of expectation of programming is there and then um we will continue on with requesting anou individually and then
025those M us will be done on a yearly basis did I get everything Mr lamon yes okay I'm in the process of doing that while obviously you know in regards to this I know that this is something that the board had requested for you to look into some time ago um is it possible if the conversations are to continue that we uh maybe provide the community with some of the distinctions between the programs because I know for a fact growing up as someone that grew up um outside of this community I know that the boys and girls club was a service that was provided in my community and I know that they they provided a lot of the similar uh services that that uh the white does currently provide but they did provide um um
026they also provided different ones so would it be possible for us to be provided with Clarity on what those look like in regards and maybe even data of what that looks like in regards to support that they offer our children absolutely I think that once we have the conversations with our current providers theer in what they are doing and where we want them to go next once we have that then I'd like to open that up for the whole public to see what those options are what I really want is for our families to decide what they want uh not just to offer one option but offer various options so that they can pick and choose what makes sense for their family so we will be doing that um I just need some time to
027be able to prepare that and share that um with the public I know that uh there were some I know I personally some emails uh with concerns in regards to some people uh feeling like this was going to replace things I want to make sure that it is clear that it is never to replace things but Al to add things it is always a matter about us wanting to add additional support or services to our families it is never to withdraw support but rather to add Services of support especially when it comes of free uh support to us um that is always a plus for us right so um there's it's not this or that but rather this and this right so I I want us to be you know um open to that idea
028especially when new uh people are trying to come into the community often we hear that it is important for us to talk about investment and people wanting to come to a community to invest into our community and when people are trying to invest into our communities it is it is it is important you know that we that we are open to having those conversations so that our children don't miss out on potential opportunities not only our children but our families and our community especially as we are seeing that are some um challenges or in regards to services that some of our um Community Services right now are struggling to provide to our families um that in regards to like I know that you know just again to add to what we had asked of you
029I know last year there were some challenges with you know even the park district not being able to offer you know the pool and things of that nature um and again anything that we can add to what we already offer is always a plus so um I want to thank you know you and your administrators for the work that has already been doing and I'm hopeful that collectively with the with the partners that we already have in the community that we can continue those conversations so I didn't want to interrupt you so that's fine thank you I'm good okay anything else anybody would like to add okay and with that um we would like to uh we will be doing a motion to remove uh I would like to make a motion to remove item
030G uh from this from the new business second okay uh R call Jackie yes Amanda harness yes Fred Davis yes Ariel Owens yes Christopher Boy Yes Dy Herz yes all right thank you next item is item a uh student discipline number 031 1825 this is an action item it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the expulsion uh with an advance of student number 03 1825 as presented is there a motion so moved second roll call J Ramirez yes Vante bam yes Vanda herness yes Fred Davis yes Ariel Owens yes Christopher Bo yes thank you Item B Northern Illinois Association service agreement 2025 2026 this is an information item brought To Us by Mr Kyle gtis right good evening Northwestern Illinois associ is a special education Cooperative that we as a district have been
031working with um since before I was a director so going back to 2020 uh they provide us with much needed U Services such as occupational therapy uh Physical Therapy uh vision and hearing services um de and heart of hearing services they also provide us different supervision opportunities for our staff in um loow incing such as autism or uh supporting our speech and language therapists and their growth and development through some supervision there um every year we come forward with our service agreement for the upcoming year um we've worked with NI over the last couple of months to calculate what our needs are for next school year based on the students we know now uh what we come up with is a projected amount Um this can fluctuate over the course of the next school year
032so as students move in and out um they could go up or down or students no longer qualify for services they adjust their rate uh what they ultimately are charging us for services uh the majority of the um cost of this is paid through the individuals with disabilities and Education Act uh which is um a great use of that grant funding for these purposes uh because the services go right back to our kids um in total the total cost of the service agreement is 1,843 625 uh majority paid for using idea Grant funds supplemented as needed with local funds any questions about that do you know that percentage balance of what's what's funded for the grant and what's local funds uh currently currently or yes it to be determined is how I'm going to look
033at it moving forward so for example um this year the idea Grant was only funded at 85% of what it was funded the year before we didn't find that out until the fall so we do have to kind of fluctuate as we find out what those grand dollars are um you know historically I think we paid about 1.2 million or so plus or minus out of our grant uh for um ni any other questions I will add this they've been a phenomenal partner for us um and I'm not just saying that they're really responsive to any feedback we have their quality of service is really high um they're really dependable and I know that's something that um it's often sought after thank you for sharing that any other questions all right consensus to bring us
034back yes thank you K if you're up there next one's yours too okay item C school counselor and what uh summer coordinator summer hours for 2025 this is an information item brought To Us by Mr Kyle gtis right so this is another kind of annual uh ask to the board um and it's one that I honestly get a little excited about because it gives me the chance to talk about our web program which stands for um where everybody belongs um over a decade now both middle schools have implemented web which um and I'm going to totally oversimplify it but basically uh identifies some really strong role model eighth graders they go through a process to be um identified uh they have to apply they have to be accepted to be web leaders then that following
035year they are the mentors for our incoming sixth graders so all of our sixth graders are connected to a web leader um they have an orientation to start the year before school starts then they have different activities that um are scheduled throughout the year um it's it's been a really phenomenal program on two ways one it's the sixth graders having a point of contact and a good you know person to go to on the flip side of that what a great leadership ship opportunity for a lot of our eighth graders um so we do want to support the planning that goes into that over the summer so our web coordinators spend a lot of time sitting down planning not only the orientation to start the year that has to be done before kids come but
036also those activities throughout the year um couped that with our summer hours for school counselors so our uh secondary counselors so high school and middle school have historically requested summer hours um to basically fulfill a lot of the functions that need to happen over the summer to be prepared when students start in the fall so our high school counselors for example um would be available to um adjust you know U course schedules based on classes that were passed or not in the spring semester then again over summer school um they do tours with new students they meet with parents and families over the course of the summer for variety of reasons um our middle school counselors don't um require as many hours because they're not necessarily doing as many adjustments with credits and things like
037that but they are meeting with families doing tours um setting schedules before the start of the school year uh in addition to planning out some of the um mtssb supports that they would have for all students so in total when we look at the total estimated cost of this which would be paid out of local funds it would be $109,950 40 that's an estimate um meaning that if for some reason the total hours aren't spent or or used that would be the highest amount that we would uh be compensating over the summer any questions about that are school counselors unaffiliated are they a part of one of our bargaining units they're part of our dcta okay so they wouldn't be I guess an option without reopening the contract since they're working it sounds like most
038of the summer anyway to move them from a normal 10 months to 12 or I think any of like those conversations we would have to have with our dcta leadership uh to kind of um kind of navigate that um it's not a conversation that we've had up to this point I'll interject um our dcta contract is for 180 days for our staff so they don't work outside of that contract um that's why we do the additional days and we don't have a need for them year round it's really the summer work and picking up that load of closing out the current school year and then preparing to um scheduling and different things for the upcoming school year so I guess I'm just going to ask a potentially stupid question here no question is stupid if
039we don't need them outside of the school year but then we need them for the summer then we do need them for the year because we have the school year and then we have the summer we don't need all of them right right right and we like there's the spring break there's the winter break so that would we don't need them during those times it's really the closing of the school year and the opening of the new school year okay this is outside of the 180 that are already allocated that is correct and it is only for a certain amount of people that we need not necessarily for every it is and it's up to a certain number of days if they get their work done in X number of days and need all those
040days they don't have to come in and as a parent of a child that was a web leader years ago um it was definitely a great program not only for the students that are um obviously receiving the mentoring but also for the ones that are mentoring them as well so it definitely develops their skills and you know it allows for them to continue that some of the those leadership opportunities or the desire to become leaders at the high school level so it's definitely an opening of that opportunity so it's great to see that it continues and that it's been that people find it beneficial yeah we've had great stability with the program over the years because the people who are doing the work with the kids believe in it um they yeah and some of
041that mentorship too started when you know my daughter started at at Hy when she was in sixth grade it was during Co so that transition was very beneficial especially you know as they were transitioning but then it continued on um that mentorship continues even when that that student that was her web leader is now in high school right and she's my daughter's a sophomore and so forth so like it continues to that connection continues so those children definitely continued their leadership involvement throughout our high school as they they continue their Journey throughout our district so it's it's exciting to hear that it continues and that people find it a success all right any other questions all right consensus to bring this back yes yes thank you all right item d Nation Association of of School
042nurses um conference June 26 through the 2025 um this is also an item brought To Us by Mr Kyle gtis all right last one so we have the opportunity to send um three four people our health services manager and then three of our certified School nurses to the National Association of School nurses conference in Texas later in June um just a couple of highlights you go to a conference there's a lot you can do and take away from obviously it's professional learning um but the networking and collaboration U learning about how to advocate for Community Based mental health things around schools and uh overall improving student outcomes are some of the objectives that they expect to kind of um take away different things from and bring them back to our district um we do plan
043on uh the estimated cost in total for registration ground travel airfare is uh 9,561 paid for using title one uh Grant funds any question questions any questions no consensus to bring this back yes thank you thank you all right item eou uh Network for college uh success uh University of Chicago freshman on track PD this is an information item brought To Us by Miss Sarah Montgomery just miss Sarah Montgomery hello this should look familiar this is a continuation of our partnership with the University of Chicago as you know from our data presentations and the school Improvement plans they have done a tremendous amount of work with our high school this supports the teaching staff and the administrative teams at the high school this year I'm also proud to announce that we'll be sending teams of
044Administrators from both our middle schools to go to the PLC professional development which is the foundation of so much of the work that can move the needle for our Student Success so this is extensive and ongoing professional development that will go on throughout um the remainder of next year hopefully rounding out our needed partnership with them and this will be paid for out of title 2 which is earmarked for professional development any questions about that um I guess I just actually want to make a quick comment because I know when you look at thatou you're probably like oh wow like that's a big amount for professional development I will say one thing that we always talk about is making sure that we're impacting in the classroom and helping student outcomes and I mean if there
045is one program that we have started here at this District that has made demonstrable changes and the outcomes we've seen from our students is the Freshman on track so I guess I just want to come out and say that this is a program that has my full endorsement within our district because it has done phenomenal work to help our students out at the high school thank you it's helped a lot with um our attendance rates The Freshman on track and our graduation rates as well and then so much within our classrooms and as a parent again of a sophomore who who was particip Will participated last year she was a cohort the pilot cohort last year I've seen it firsthand um the immediate response that comes from that um in receiving updates on grades and
046attendance and you name it I mean behavioral um and even tardies everything it's reported immediately and it allows at least the parents to know and be aware of how to work collectively with administrators if needed um to obviously provide the child with the additional the support needed if there was to be a need right thankfully it's definitely I can see it you know I've heard great things about it so thank you um I appreciate that and thank you to Dr Garcia Sanchez she's the one who apped us to this organization that they may be able to provide support for us so thank you again for that I just I just got to throw the thing I did um I am challenging the high school to get us at 95% graduation rate by the year of
047J 2028 you turned it off oh I turned it off June 2028 um my challenge is that we have a 95% graduation rate um based on what I'm seeing right now and where we're going I see the trajectory being right on you'd have to is rising yes I I think that that's going to happen so um I have to trust that it happens thank you thank you so much Sarah thank you for all the work that goes in again and thank you for the leadership that you bring to to obviously to our administrators in sharing these opportunities because you know we don't know what we don't know but once we know it's always awesome to be able to provide those services or opportunities to our staff and to our administrators so thank you for that
048thank you um okay the next it oh actually let me go back consensus to bring this back yes thank you all right the next item is item F uh PD requests uh argument driven inquiry this is uh I a July 14 through the 17 uh this is an information item brought To Us by Mr S Montgomery ADI as you said is argument driven inquiry and we utilize the strategies and the resources within our science classrooms we have provided professional development within our district for many years that predates me and this will allow us to do a train the trainer model so we will send Sarah Schaefer and Amy broadc Corb our two managers that oversee the Steam and stem um resources and professional this will save us a lot of money on the back end
049so then they can go in and train people when we bring Adi in a couple years ago it was about $6,000 a pop so this will save us dividends on the back end this will also be paid for out of title two which is earmarked for um professional development and just for clarity purposes uh Sarah steam stands for science technology engineering art art and math correct okay thank you all right any questions about that all right consensus to bring this back thank yes thank you all right and with that we have superintendent report I love my new front row here thank you for moving up um good evening everyone first I'm going to uh just again repeat what two of our board members and those of you have attended um the Willy Wonka Musical that
050occurred over the weekend that both Clinton rosette and Huntley put on together amazing nothing but great things being said I hope that we continue to provide performances like that for all of our kids and that they continue to collaborate uh because when we work together we can there's there's nothing we can do that we cannot do so I really appreciate that teamwork uh across the administrators the teachers the staff and of course our students great job guys second thing I know you know on my favorite sport the decal Middle School wrestling team Co-op came came in second place Statewide out of 173 teams I think that's amazing um again our children are having an opportunity to both uh compete academically and compete athletically and in performances um the stronger we build them the the more
051that we nurture them in different areas we sharpen their saw so they become stronger and better for all of us so I'm really excited about about that I I know I I make fun of myself regarding wrestling but I if it does something for the kids and it makes them feel really good then I feel good about that just don't make me watch okay thank you for that um the other thing I just um I just want to say uh you know I grapple with a lot of things uh notice I use the word grapple and it's it's a wrestling term for those of you okay so I I grapple with some things and one of the things that I grapple with a lot and I talk to staff about often is you know that
052uh we're in this business and this industry for kids so we're not in this industry for anything other than making sure that our our children are stronger they're better they get what they need whether they can get it somewhere else outside of our walls maybe but if we can provide it for them to make them better than I I want to that means that we as grown-ups have to learn how to be collaborative how to give and take and how to share and I think for me it's it's really important that as we move forward regardless of who's where um because I know the you know board members will be leaving and new board members will be joining us at the end of the day this job isn't for the adults this work that we
053do it's for students so um I just want us to make sure that we keep that in mind anytime that you work with us that will be the first thing that we lay out my team will tell you they do a great job but the one thing I said if it doesn't do something for kids you better figure out a different way you know if it's going to hurt kids we're not even touching it our children deserve the very best and that's what we're going to give them always a class not cclass not third class A Class number one because our staff can provide it we can lead it and we are going to do that for our families so those of you that want to partner with us are going to have to live
054up to those expectations thank you and have a great evening cuz I'm done I'm going to pass it back to her and that means we get to go home well you all get to go home we have to go back to we have to go back to um close session so Jackie we make a motion then to close Ur this session and then go back to just you just make a motion to go back in the close session and then read the exception for what you're going back in for okay so with that it is now 7:49 and we will adjourn to close session it is recommended that the Board of Education adjourn to close session for the purpose of collective Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or the rep their
055representatives or deliberation concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a part recreational or educational setting or specific volunteers of the public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testimony and a complaint against an employee a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreation or educational setting or a volunteer of the public body or against legal councel for the public body to determine its validity however a meeting to consider an increase in compensation to a specific employee of a public body that is subject to the local government which increased transparency act may not be closed and shall be opened to the public and posted and held in
056accordance with this act is there a motion so moved second roll call chrisopher boys yes yes D yes bam Yesa harness FR Davis Ariel Owens yes thank you everyone have a great night I just want to double check uh the doors we'll leave the doors open for people to leave I'm not sure how long you'll be here should we close open the outdoors