001We're on. We're on. Okay. I'd like to call the open session board meeting to order. Can I have a motion? Second. Second. Any discussion? Miss Bradford, please call the role. Mr. Clevener, here. Mr. Mrs. Tyus here. Dr. Lorenson, here. Mr. Hail here. Mr. Joiner here, Mr. Reynolds here, and Mr. Wetszel here. Seven I zero nay all present. I'd like to ask everyone to join me for the pledge. Pledge allegiance 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. Do we have a recommendation for tonight's agenda? Yes, we do. I recommend the board approve tonight's June 24th, 2025 open session board meeting agenda as presented. Can I have a motion? Second. Any discussion? All in favor signify
002by saying I. I. Those opposed? Motion's carried. We'll now move on to public participation. Seeing no public participation tonight, we'll move on in our agenda. move on to board discussion. Are there any items that any individual board member would like to discuss at this point in time? Have we done anything about uh have we done anything about co-oping? Yes, I'm going to have you stepped away, but yes. So, we Yeah, Mike, we've met with some of the coaches already. Um, we still have a call out to IHSA if I'm not mistaken. We do have some more dates and parameters about that. Um, in a nutshell, um, we do have a time frame as to whether or not this when this takes place, and I'm gonna let Mike speak to that time frame because I don't
003want to make it mess it up, but I believe he told me it was November. The um the catch, if you want to call it that, is that if we do this, it's not just for one year, it's two years. So, let's say um one of the high schools actually get a team that next year, it won't matter. they will still have to be part of that cooperative. They would not be able to play separately. So, um, he's still working through a few of the kinks. I believe I hit all the highlights. Do we do we get to pick what sports we're co-oping in? I mean, we don't need to do basketball and football right now. You you asked about baseball. If this is something we're looking at districtwide, then we need to do a
004deeper dive. Yeah, Madam Superintendent. I just said spring sports would be would be the line for me. I I don't think fall sports. I wouldn't investigate it if I were you. The only thing that concerns me is, you know, baseball, golf, softball, anything in the spring was the motion I moved. So, if we could investigate that, that's where I'd like to at least uh hang our meat on right now. Yeah. So, we did do that. We we have that information for you. I'm trying to get like a drop dead uh time frame and then um I'll bring that information. And again, I just need to make the whole board aware that when we update these procedures, Thank you, Mike. Um when we update these procedures, once we sign that document, it's for two years. Go
005ahead and tell them what you learned, please. So, uh we're talking about co-op. Sorry, I was doing something upstairs. Uh so we had a meeting uh we did some conversation with the uh sta the the staff at MacArthur specifically the baseball coach specifically. The key is to not rush things because you've got some time. If you make a decision now and force a decision onto the school district now and then the school could have fielded a team, they won't have that opportunity. So, what uh what should happen and what um talking with the baseball coach, sorry to be so loud. Uh the baseball coach from MacArthur is he'll spend time in September, October reaching out, going and having meetings, getting numbers, seeing if he has numbers. He was hoping the the same thing will happen
006at Eisenhower. And if they have the numbers, they'll know. And if they if they're on the bubble, they'll know. Or if they have plenty of athletes for baseball, they'll know. Um, but if you co-op, if you were to decide to co-op today, we're locked into that for two years, um, versus giving Eisenhower a chance to recruit and create its own team. So, my recommendation, I know you're not looking for one, is to just kind of wait and see what the numbers look like. And give me that time frame again for us to pull the plug. October, November would be a good idea. It's right around right after Christmas. I don't have the date off top of my head. I'm sorry I didn't bring it down, but uh right after Christmas, you have to declare whether
007you're going to be in a co-op or not. Yes, Mike. Does Eisenhower even have coaches in place to do any recruiting? They do have a coach in place. They do have a coach in place. And as I understand it, again, it's been a while, but they thought they had the numbers and they did not. Right. So, this year the the focus should be, and I'm assuming Dr. Rodriguez will ensure that it is um trying to determine whether we have numbers of kids who are interested in playing baseball at Eisenhower before November. Wh why did we co-op in in girls soccer and have success with that? I mean, it seems to me were the benefits from that were fantastic. Would not I'm not understanding why there wouldn't be benefits in other I think depends on who
008you talk to. There's obviously positives and negatives. One of the positives would be um making sure that all kids had an opportunity to play, right? It would also could also grow your numbers because right now MacArthur doesn't have a junior varsity team, right? I grew up in the system where you had a JV team and a varsity team. Some places even had varsity JV team. So there's there's the benefit. Um as far as the the the co-op between the girls the girls soccer right now, I don't know how many are on each squad or how many from each school are on the squad. U whether it's heavily loaded to MacArthur or heavily loaded to Eisenhower. So, and I can't speak to their success either, but I can certainly get that information. Would uh I guess
009my question would be would there have to be an intricate plan put in place, for example, for team selection like you if you were the coach, Mike, would you have to take nine Eisenhower kids and nine Macarthur? You understand what I'm saying? This could go down a very slippery slope. I mean, yeah, I was a baseball coach for 25 years. I'm going to play the best nine. I'm going to play the best nine. But I yet you also have to look at it as the the parents from the different schools. If if if it was flipped the other way, some Eisenhower kids that may have played if there were 12 kids available will have to sit now because there may be better folks coming over from MacArthur and or vice versa. But that is a
010that's a bridge that the coach is going to have to cross with the parents in that situation. Is there a way to h I mean I don't I don't know another word. Is there another way to have an emergency clause where if Eisenhower only has four kids this year, they could go over and play at MacArthur? If you don't put the co-op into place, then technically you're violating you wouldn't be able in the you wouldn't be able to participate in the um the regionals, etc. And so, you'd want to know ahead of time, but I don't think you need to know in June or July. I I think I think everyone's well aware that this board's position is we want to have opportunities for all the kids to play and I think everybody's going to
011start watching their numbers. Um MacArthur has enough. They started with I believe I may get it off by a few here but they started with like 23 and ended the season with 16 or 17. Um so that's not a huge program in itself, right? Um and then Eisenhower on the other hand thought they had at least I believe 11 or 12 and they ended up with you know I think it was six. So, um, there needs to be a really solid belief that you can field a team in the spring based on your numbers in the fall and your interest. Talking with coach Leapa, he starts what he would call and what I would call offseason workouts. And you can kind of get a gauge of how many kids are really committed based on who's
012coming to offseason workouts. Maybe that's the route Eisenhower will have to take, right? Thank you. Welcome. Any other questions? Thanks. We'll have more for you. Other discussion items? We got something kind of fun. Um, so I've had the privilege this summer of being the assistant coach uh for 10U girls softball. All 14 of the girls are currently students in DPS and so they are the only Decatur 10U softball team. And tonight they're playing their first playoff game uh at six o'clock and if they win they go straight to the championship because they're eight and two on the season and have the best uh record of the season. These girls have never played together and it's just uh wonderful to see them come together. I've never seen a team so supportive and they're just all DPS
013girls. So congratulations. [Applause] Okay. Um it was a few board members that were out and I wanted um Monica Wils to do a very brief overview of um Thank you. of our teachers that are coming on board. Thank you Dr. Clark. If I get off track, keep me on. Um I just wanted to cover some of the information that was shared at the last board meeting. Um it was an update on our vacancies and just kind of where we stand and how many new teachers we're bringing on board for the new school year. Um, so the last time we reported back in April, April 22nd, we had 120 certified teacher vacancies. Um, at the last board meeting on June 10th, we've reduced that number to 54 vacancies. And I'm happy to report that we've reduced
014it even further now to 47 vacancies. So, we've gone from [Applause] uh we've gone from a 22.7% vacancy rate um for our certified teaching staff down to an 8.9% vacancy rate. Um as many of you know that 44 of those new certified teachers are international teachers. um in our partnership with Peoria public schools um who is going to be their visa um host um we are the host school for them and so right now those candidates are going through the full vetting process they are having their embassy appointments they are preparing for their J1 visas to be issued they have all applied for their PELs here in Illinois and so all of those are pending review by ISBY um so they will all have their licensed teaching credentials here in the state of Illinois Um
015we've had some wonderful partners in our community who um we had a meeting um to put together a housing list for these candidates. So once they've been issued their visas, they can go to that housing list and they will reach out and contact um either these realtors or um these management organizations in order to sign leases and secure housing. um we're working with um the company that organizes the recruitment we dare to teach just to make sure that all of the boxes are checked and everything um is in order for them to transition here into the Decatur community. Um couple of things just to share about that. Just want to make sure everyone understand and is clear on the fact that these certified teachers are just like every other DEA certified teacher that's starting. They
016will attend our new education week or new educator week, I'm sorry. Um in the first week of August, they will go through all of the onboarding, all of the training, all of the professional development. Um there are no additional incentives for these folks. They operate very independently. They're going to find their own housing. They're going to sign their own leases. Um they're going to provide their own finances and and everything. That is not something that DPS provides for them. Um, we just like every other new teacher coming to the district, we want to try to help them transition into our DPS community, um, help them learn about our students, help them understand our process, our curriculum, our evaluation process, but they are on their own. They are independent adults. Um, and just like every other
017teacher, they are DEA members. Um, and they are going to be treated um, and evaluated just like every other new teacher coming on board. Um, but we're excited because we're on track to have over 70 new teachers start with us here in the fall. Thank you so much. Um, can I ask you a question? Absolutely. Um, so I am a member of many community groups throughout Decar and a lot of them have been asking me questions about these international teachers and one of the questions they're asking is is there a meet and greet planned or anything where these community groups can meet with them and you know like church groups or other groups to like you know basically help them understand Decater so that these teachers understand our community. I'm so excited that you asked
018that question. Um yes, there is. We will um share that information here shortly. We'll send out invitations and we're sending it broadly to all of our community uh members and organizations. We want um to have a welcome back not only for our brand new teachers. So it will be associated with our new educators week. So um and I believe it's going to be the Thursday of that week, the Wednesday or Thursday. Um we're finalizing the planning, but we're going to have an event um kind of like a community block party where we're going to invite um all of our community organizations to come and set up tables to share resources. Um but we're going to invite all of our current teachers and staff to come and welcome all of our new educators back. So yes,
019we want our community to come out and welcome all of our new educators to DPS, but more information will be forthcoming. Thank you for asking. Anything else? Um, I had a question um for the board. Oh, for no board. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Um, so my question was um as far as the superintendent search goes, um, I was looking at all the information from the Illinois Association of School Boards and, um, I was looking at, you know, the executive searches. Um, one of the questions that I had um was when I I was looking at a document they had called um the superintendent evaluation process. So, actually I have two questions. One of my questions is where are we um in the process of either retooling or revamping our um superintendent evaluation process here at
020DPS because I think that that's really important as we're looking for a new superintendent. And then also um do we have a rough timeline? I can take a stab at both. Okay. The the the evaluation process I believe will weren't you involved? Uh you and Jason maybe were involved in that. Yeah. And um it's just something that got we got to the end of the time because of the statute. Uh uh we got to the end of the time frame. we were not able to get it to the whole board uh to make it happen, but that's something that definitely we need to move forward with as we look on bringing on a new superintendent. And more specifically, I'd also suggest that we look at uh as a board the superintendent job description because um
021there are misspellings in it and there are some other things that don't quite make sense for a executive level. So yes, both of those definitely need to be hammered out by the board before we hire a new superintendent. And and I think that's part of what the uh association in the materials that uh they provide. I think that's one of the things they talk about is clarity of expectation of the existing board and what you're looking for in a in a superintendent in an answer to a timeline. I don't think we have an exact timeline, but I do think that we need to get that process started very quickly. And I think we probably all could concur that that's probably the most important job we're going to have facing us uh for the next year
022and for the future of the district. So, we'll try to get that thing kickstarted here pretty quickly. Yeah, that was my my other question is is that and then um since I was not at the last meeting, but I watched it. Um there was a Dennis staff member that talked to the board about roadmap 2030 and when we were going to um kind of re-realize that plan. So I was wondering if there was any timeline for that. You want to address that one or you want me to take a stab at that one too? I'll let you take a stab at Okay, I'll take a stab at that one. I think we we've got two two things running concurrently here and probably the first one to kick off would be the superintendent search, but shortly
023shortly thereafter comes the road map 2030 and we need to get that re-energized as well because we had a number of community people we seem put a lot of time, effort and energy into that and we had some significant ideas on the table and we need to get that kick started again um ASAP. We had two representatives from the school board on that committee. Um Will and Jason were on that committee. And um I think Will, you might take another stab at where you kind of left off and how we need to re not how we need to re-energize, but that we do need to re-energize because we have a lot of big issues facing us. Absolutely. Um the last conversation that we had as a large group committee is about high leverage high leverage
024strategies which are the educational component the things that we can do um to improve education academics at DPS and it just uh between that and the superintendent search and um conversations within the community we felt that we needed to take a pause until we got the new board in and so the conversation definitely needs to happen uh to see how that's going to restart. Um and I don't really have an answer at this point, but we can get information to the new board members though about what was on that. Do you have it? Yeah, I mean I've read I've read it. Oh, okay. But yeah, my concern is the the whole reason it was paused was until the board was set and now the board's set. So, yeah. Well, now it's an issue too of
025do you wait for the new superintendent or do you move ahead with I I don't know but I'm saying that's been the back of my mind that I think one of the things that DPS has always done when they go and search for superintendent is finding someone someone who will come save us. I think that's one of the biggest problems indicator is we don't do a lot of self-saving and to be able to have a strategic plan to hand to superintendent and say hey this is the way that we want to go how are we going to make this happen will set us in a better situation than having someone come in and tell us what we need when they might not even be from here because I think that our frontline staff and our
026teachers and everyone involved in this uh group knows what has a good idea what Decater and DPS needs. I think we also have a significant amount of credibility on the table here too because we invested uh what 60 to 80 community members time, effort and energy in this process. And um to not take advantage of that process and set that plan in place um I I think would be uh I would I would venture to say it would be a disservice to all those individuals who put all that effort into it and previous boards who u encouraged that process, approved that process. And I I think this is an example for us to carry over from board to board to board because um I I would say to you being the old guy in the
027room that 17 superintendents, we can't keep changing the focus of the district every time that we're always waiting on a superintendent or waving goodbye to a superintendent. And that's no no criticism at this point in time, but it's something that we as a board need to be responsible for. And that's fostering an environment that creates uh a place where superintendents and staff want to come work and be, so to speak. So Karen Nancy, that was a long way around the barn, but I think we can safely say that we're going to get that kick started here pretty quick and we'll be looking to each and everyone in this room, too, to engage that process and get going. Okay. All right. Other thoughts. Seeing none, let's move on to the consent items. Does anyone have an
028item on the consent agenda they'd like pulled? Seeing none, Dr. Clark, I recommend the board of education approve the consent items as presented, which includes A. Minutes, open closed meetings June 10th, 2025. B. Financial conditions report. C. Treasurer's report. D. Schoolboard policies. A. Policy 7160, student appearance. B. Policy 7190, student behavior. C. Policy 8:30, visitors to and conduct on school property. And please note, if these policies on today's agenda are approved, communication will be sent out throughout the month of July up through the first day of attendance. E job description administrative assistant to the assistant superintendent. Thank you. Do I have a motion? So move. Second discussion. Miss Bradford, Mr. Reynolds. I Mr. Hail. I Mrs. Tyus. Hi. Mr. Wetszel. Hi. Mr. Cleer. Hi. Mr. Joiner. Hi. And Dr. Laoren. I. Seven. I zero nay.
029Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation to ratify or adopt the July 1st, 2025, June 30th, 2028 collective binging agreement between Decar Public School District 61 Board of Education and the Decatur Educational Support Personnel Despa? Yes. I recommend the board approve to ratify adopt the July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2028 collective bargaining agreement between the Decatur Public School District 61 Board of Education and Decatur Educational Support Personnel Association, DESPA, as presented. And after the motion and second, Monica Wils, director of human resources, will present information on this item. I hear a motion. So moved. Second. Miss Bradford, we have a presentation. We're gonna have a discussion here first. Okay. And thank you, Michelle Dixon as well. Thank you. All right. Good evening, board Dr. Clark and Miss Bradford. We are pleased to report that
030we have had um a successful bargaining um and negotiation process with DESPA. Um I would like to ask my colleague to introduce herself briefly. You got it. So my name is Michelle Dixon. I'm the president for DESPA. Um I am also a claims analyst in the business office here at Kyle. We're just going to offer a short presentation and kind of give you some of the highlights of the new negotiated agreement. Um, but first we want to acknowledge our negotiating teams. First, the Desperate team. So, on our team besides myself is Andrew Matthews, our UNISER director with IEA. Um, Robin Bruce is our bargaining chair. She is a secretary at MacArthur. Robin Miller, she's one of our building representatives and she's a secretary at student services. Um Samantha CHCH um she is our region 10
031representative and she is a secretary at South Shores. Teresa Tucker was a member of our bargaining team and she's a secretary in the school health department. And then Meg Stru is um an administrative assistant for IEA. She's kind of shadowing under um Andrew as maybe a potential future uniserve director. All right. So for the DPS negotiating team, um I as the HR director served as the chair. Uh David Braun was our attorney. Jason Dion, our former board member, participated. We also have our uh K12 director of teaching and learning, Mary Brady. Dr. Misty Rodriguez, principal at Eisenhower, Holly Kitson, principal at Parson's, um Travis Frederick, who is the assistant director of Make and Piatt special education, and Deianne Hillman um who was our oh complicated administrator transition and uh something special. Okay. Yep. For HR.
032Sorry about that. Um she'll laugh at me tomorrow. Okay. Um, I also want to acknowledge although he wasn't a former formal member of the team, he played a really important role. Dr. Mike Curry, our CFO. Um, we couldn't have done it without him running the numbers and making sure we were on track with everything. Okay, so just a few highlights. Um, we started with language items. Um, and so essentially we agreed on a three-year agreement effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. Um, this affects 81 Despa positions and I believe 78 of those positions are currently filled. Um, we clarified language in a few areas of working conditions, but one that was particularly important was around the procedures for the handling of money. We added bereavement leave, which is just according to federal and
033state law. Just wanted to make sure it was included contractually in the language. Um and we also established a work group to address secretary pre pre-employment testing and new higher placement on the salary schedule. Our goal with that group is to work collaboratively and to come together with anou. Um our anticipated goal is October of 2025. financial um we increased the vacation allocation for all three classifications in the first 10 years and we also added a new allocation line for the first one to three years. There was a net wage increase um for the next three years which is approximately 6% in each year. Um and there were no changes to the health insurance plans. So, here's one of my highlights that I'm I'm very proud of. Um, this bargaining and how it came out.
034When we had our ratification meeting, all of our members that were there, it it was a unanimous decision. Everybody voted for this. Wow. Pretty cool. So, tonight um before you, we're in our roll call action item and we are asking you to approve the new uh negotiated contract. Can we take any questions? first. That's amazing. Like, I don't even remember if I was here ever before when 100% approved it. So, congrats to you both. Um, I did just want to say a big thank you to the board, to Miss Wilks, um to David Braun, and to the rest of the district's negotiating team. I've been here in the district um as DPS employee for 21 and a half years and a member of DESPA for that whole time. This is the first time um that
035I think we've ever settled a contract this quickly, but most importantly this efficiently. Um we appreciate everyone for being willing to come to the table to work together, make decisions, and do what's in the best interest of our members, schools, and families. Thank you. Congratulations. Yeah, we we appreciate all that you do for our students and our schools. So, thank you so much. Thank you, Miss Bradford. Mr. Hail, abstain. Mr. Clevener, I Mr. Wetszel. I Mrs. Tyus. Hi, Dr. Laorenson. Hi, Mr. Reynolds. Hi, and Mr. Joiner. Hi, Six. I zero nay one abstain. Motion carried. Thank you. You have a recommendation for the personnel action items. Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the personnel action items listed in the memo from Monica Wils, director of human resources and the human resources department as
036presented. Do I have a motion? So move. Second. Any discussion? Miss Bradford. Dr. Laoren. I. Mr. Hail. I. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Mr. Joiner. Hi, Mr. Clevenger. Hi, Mrs. Tyus. Hi. And Mr. Wetzel. Hi. Seven. Zero8. Motion carried. Thank you. We have a recommendation for the Decatur Public Schools Foundation coord coordinators contract for the Jerry J. Dawson Civic Leadership Institute. Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the Decar public schools foundation coordinator, Dr. Wanita Morris contract for the Jerry J. Dawson Civic Leadership Institute as presented. Do I have a motion? Second. Discussion. Um, I know this gets asked every year, but I I was asked this again. Um, why do we uh for this and the executive director? Why do we ratify those? If you want to help just a little bit, but it's kind
037of like we're the agent for them too, just like we have for the Mon Payet School District. So, we are on the foundation board. We decide the um the inc what the salaries are going to be the raises and all of that and then it comes to us for ratification but the the money comes from that foundation. So essentially the board sets their salaries but they run their funds through our accounting system. So technically you and that's why you approve it and so their nonprofit board selects and pays and pays and then we we just approve that. We Yes. and we take care of the tax piece and the the payroll, the 26 pay piece. All that is handled through our office and it's the same every year. Correct. Correct. Other discussion. Miss Bradford, Mrs.
038Tyus, I Mr. Wetszel, I. Mr. Joiner, I Mr. Clevener, I Dr. Laoren, I Mr. Reynolds, hi. And Mr. Hail, I seven I zero nay. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation for the Decar Public Schools Foundation Executive Director's Contract? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the Decatur Public Schools Foundation Executive Director Zack Shields contract as presented. Do I have a motion? So move. Second. Discussion. Miss Bradford. Mr. Joiner. Hi. Dr. Laoren. Hi. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Mrs. Tyus. Hi. Mr. Cleger. Hi. Mr. Hail. Hi. And Mr. Mr. Wetszel I 7 I zero nay. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation for the intergovernmental agreement for FY26 between Decar public school district 61 and the regional office of education number 39 alternative learning opportunity program? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the intergovernmental
039agreement for FY26 between Decar public school district 61 and the regional office of education 39 alternative learning opportunity program ALOP as presented. Do I have a motion? So move second discussion Miss Bradford Mr. Reynolds I Mr. Hail I Mrs. Tyus Hi Mr. Wetszel Hi Mr. Cleger Hi Dr. Lorenson. Hi. And Mr. Joiner. I 7 I zero. Nay. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation for the frontline education absence and substitute management renewal agreement for 2025 2026? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the frontline education absence and substitute management renewal agreement 2025 through 2026 as presented. A motion. So move. Second. discussion. This is our system for finding subs. They use that. They use it for um to put in their vacation time, all of that. All that stuff. Okay. Miss Bradford, Mr. Clevenger.
040Hi, Dr. Lorenson. Hi, Mr. Wetzel. Hi, Mr. Joiner. Hi, Mr. Hail. Hi, Mr. Reynolds. Hi, and Mrs. Tyus. Hi, Seven. I zero nay. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation for the student code of conduct and parent handbook for the 2025 20226 school year? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the student code of conduct and parent handbook for the 2526 school year as presented. Also, as a reminder to the listening audience, the new policies that were approved will be in the code of conduct this school year as well. Thank you. Do I have a motion? So move second. Any discussion? Is there any any big changes here that you wanted to highlight or anything major? I'm I'm sorry I did not read the whole thing. Um thank you Elden. Any highlights? It's not
041it's not a um most of the major changes I shared with you during the first read at the prior board meeting. Um it was 90% of the changes this year were because of changes in legislation and the way things were written. Um there was quite a few changes in the bullying section and um a hefty amount in special ed and it was all because of legislation changes. Other than that, since it came to you for the first read, the only addition are the policies which addresses, you know, the noxious smells and things like that that may come into schools. Can I ask you a quick question? Yeah. Um, a kid that has an a marijuana smell, are they they're allowed to go home, change clothes, and come back? So, answer that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
042No, I just want to be clear because I I know what you're going to say, but I want to say it for my listening audience. So, high schoolers will be allowed to go home and change. We're still going to call parents. Okay? My grade schoolers, we're going to call parents, but we don't want we're not penalizing anybody. If you notice, nobody has come before the board for suspensions or expulsions or anything like that because of a smell. This is strictly to address what is happening in the classroom to allow kids to be able to function. Thank you for that clarification. Yep. And Dr. Lesby and I met today and we're going to continue to meet after the next executive cabinet um and update that and that information will be rolled out to principles at our
043district leadership institute. Um, so we're looking at ways to do that where it's more uh interventionbased than punitive so that we can hopefully avoid situations like that in the future um and not have the same students repetitively doing doing or coming in smelling like that. Okay. Thank you. Anything else? Other discussion, Miss Bradford. Mr. Joiner. I. Mr. Clevenger. Hi. Mrs. Tyus. Hi. Dr. Lorenson. Hi. Mr. Hail. Hi. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. And Mr. Wetszel I 7 I zero nay. Motion carried. Okay, we have a little change here. Uh for the listening audience and the board roll call item H kev Kev Group School Cash software three-year agreement has been pulled from the June 20242 board of education open session. We'll come back uh hopefully in the next meeting or if not then in the next couple
044meetings. So, do you have a recommendation for the purchase of unled fuel for 20 FY26? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the purchase of unled fuel for the FY26 as presented. Motion. So move. Second. Any discussion? Miss Bradford. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Mr. Cleger. Hi. Mr. Hail. I Mr. Wetszel. Hi, Mrs. Tyus. Hi, Mr. Joiner. I and Dr. Laorenson. I seven I zero nay. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation for the student pictures three-year contract? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the student pictures three-year contract as presented. Motion move. Second. Any discussion? Miss Bradford. Mrs. Tyus. Hi. Mr. Wetszel. Hi, Mr. Joiner. Hi, Mr. Clevener. Hi, Mr. Hail. Hi, Dr. Laorenson. Hi, and Mr. Reynolds. Hi, Seven. I zero. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation for the fluid coolers for
045Eisenhower High School? Wait a minute. No, I just skipped. Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the fluid coolers for Eisenhower High School as presented. Have a motion. So move. Second. Discussion. Is this a permanent fix? Is a permanent fix. Okay. For the listening audience, Dr. Curry, could you just briefly run through where we are and why we need to do this? The there's so the both high schools are geothermal. Um there's some issues with the geothermal loop at Eisenhower. Could be a design flaw. could be wasn't deep enough, wasn't big enough. It could also have something to do with the fact that we haven't had some really cold winters over the last several years and the the ground which is designed to cool the water that goes through the system isn't cooling the
046water. We tried to run this through health safety u and healthife safety denied it at the state level. They would they would approve a whole new field which is extremely expensive versus the fix that we have in place where there'll be an outside machine that Floyd can maybe expand on a little bit better. But it's going to cool above ground and then send it back into the ground a little bit cooler than it was before. And we're really excited. I know it sounds like a lot, but we're really excited. We were ballparking 800,000 and so it came in much less. Other discussion. Miss Bradford. Mr. Clevenger. Hi. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Mrs. Tyus. Hi. Dr. Lorenson. Hi. Mr. Wetzel. Hi, Mr. Joiner. I and Mr. Hail. I. Seven. Zero. Nay. Motion carried. Do we have a
047recommendation for the excess workers compensation renewal? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the excess workers compensation renewal as presented. Do I have a motion? So move. Second. Any discussion? Miss Bradford. Mr. Hail. Hi. Dr. Laorenson. Hi. Mr. Wetszel. Hi. Mrs. Tyus. Hi. Mr. Joiner. Hi. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. And Mr. Clevenger. I. Seven. I zero. Nay. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation for the District 61 school improvement plans? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the District 61 school improvement plans as presented. Got a motion. Mhm. Second. Any discussion? Miss Bradford. Mr. Joiner. Hi, Mr. Clevenger. Hi, Dr. Laorenson. Hi, Mrs. Tyus. Hi, Mr. Wetszel. Hi, Mr. Hail. Hi, and Mr. Reynolds. Hi. 7 I zero nay. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation for the decision ed group inc renewal for
048FY26? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the decision ed grouping re renewal for FY26 as presented a motion so move second discussion Miss Bradford Dr. Lorenson I Mr. Joiner I Mr. Wetzel I Mr. Reynolds hi Mr. Hail I Mr. Cleger hi and Mrs. Tyus I 7 I zero nay motion carried okay we move on to the announcements and upcoming dates um some of those will be be coming up on the screen uh we'd like to send our condolences to the family the Reverend Donald Eugene Hath who passed away Wednesday June 11th Mr. Horath was the father-in-law of Kathy Horath, director of Mon Piatt Special Education District. Our sincere condolences, Kathy. Uh June 25th, special close session meeting 900 a.m. Kyle administration building. Uh July 1st, school registration open in Skyward for the 2025
0492026 school year. Uh parents and families, please log in, register your students for the upcoming school year, which would be the 2025 2026 school year. July 4th, uh our upcoming boy, it's hard to believe that we've already reached uh I guess the technical term, the middle of the summer. Um Independence Day, the district offices will be closed on the 4th of July. Uh July 11th, Decatur Public Schools job fair from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Kyle Administration building. Uh, please be reminded the Kyle Administration building summer hours 8:00 am to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Uh, the building's closed every Friday to the public, but staff will also be somebody will be available if there's an issue uh to address that issue for the public. Uh, the public portion of the next regular board meeting
050will be 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15th. Just a reminder, there's one meeting in July. July 15th will be that meeting Kyle administration building. Okay, it's time now we'll move into executive session. The board of education will meet in closed executive session to conduct an employee hearing, discuss the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body and collective negotiating matters between the board and representatives of its employees. Can I get a motion? So move. Second discussion. Miss Bradford, Mr. Wetszel. I Mr. Hail. Hi. Mr. Reynolds. Hi, Dr. Laoren. Hi, Mr. Clevener. Hi, Mrs. Tyus. Hi, and Mr. Jer. Hi. 7 I zero nay. Okay, we're now