001We're live. Okay. Uh not scheduled yet. Uh, so they think Friday surgery tomorrow for six weeks. I was our only guy that does what he does. [Music] Yeah, they were rushing him, too. I keep trying to tell everybody I'm in agony and my we called Chicago my my kidney transplant. You know, they they they control everything and they're just We'll get back to you when we get back to you. I'm gonna come up there and snap your ankle off and see how you ready. Okay. Oh, yeah. Rough. Everybody ready to get started? Board of Education has been in closed executive session to conduct a student discipline expulsion hearing and discuss collective negotiating matters between the board and representatives of its employees. No action was taken during the closed executive session. I would now ask everyone
002to join me in the pledge 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. Thank appreciate that. Do we have a recommendation for tonight's agenda? Yes, we do. I recommend the board approve tonight's June 10th, 2025 open session board meeting agenda as presented. I make a motion. So move. Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed, same sign. Motion's carried. We'll now move on to our public participation. Miss Bradford. Okay. Um, board of education would like to note the following during public participation. Identify oneself and be brief. Comment should be limited to three minutes. Any public comments submitted to the board secretary will be included in the record. Please note that during
003any board of education meeting and public participation, board members do not respond and/or comment to public comments. All comments are referred to administration. Furthermore, the board refrains from referring to specific students or staff members by name and requests that public commenters refrain from doing so as well. The request that you omit names is made to protect you from allegations of liable or slander or from violations of the Illinois School Student Records Act. It is not intended to shield an employee from criticism. Miss Bradford, do we have anybody wishing to speak to the board? Caitlyn Gloss. Hello. Uh, hi DPS school board and administrators. My name is Dr. Caitlyn Glaus. I've met most of you at this point. Nice to see you. Um, I'm a DPS parent and employee and I'm here today to reiterate the
004importance of relaunching and recommitting to the district strategic planning through roadmap 2030. um a 10-year demographic and enrollment projection study from 2022 done by Business Information Services LLC uh stated, and I quote, "This is quite frankly one of the most convoluted districts the analyst has ever studied." End quote. And they go on to say that all the variations and special schools and differential grade distributions make it especially difficult to make good recommendations um and predictions for the future of our district. and addressing this issue in addition to some of our academic um standards and expectations is uh a major concern of roadmap 2030. So I would urge us to make sure that we don't lose the forward progress that we started this last year with the committee. Um, in particular, the district hired an architectural
005firm, Green Associates, that specializes in school districts, to assist us with assessing the health of our current buildings and district structures, as well as to provide recommendations in developing solutions for best utilizing current buildings through a cohesive district structure in support of grade level academic goals. And I really think we need to take their recommendations seriously, even if district and community members find it upsetting, which I think we saw last year a lot of people did. Um there is no solution though that I think is going to make everyone happy. Um but we got to make changes for the good of our students. And so I would urge you to prioritize moving strategic planning forward with the intention that all of us being able to share the burden of making the district more cohesive and
006organized and manageable. Um a cohesive district without fear of imminent building closures means the ability to focus on the learning needs of our students. Um, I just strongly encourage us that we can't continue with temporary patches and without long-term solutions. We still have kids in crumbling buildings and in temporary housing and we still have neighborhoods that just don't have schools. Um, so I urge you please to create and provide a timeline for the next steps for roadmap 2030. Thanks guys. Thank you. That's it. Okay. Thank you. As usual, the the board appreciates all those public comments and the input we rece we we receive from the public. I will move on to board discussion. Is there anything the board wants to discuss at this time? Uh last we last week we talked about uh co-oping
007at the high school level for especially for baseball. Um, I think the board ought to be on record as saying that between our two high schools, if there's ever a team that doesn't, if there's ever a school that doesn't have enough for a team, that we should say the policy here is that we will co-op that team with the other high school. Um, I know that there are some people who, you know, are not in favor of it. I know there's some coaches out there, I've been told, that are not in favor of it, but I think it's the board's responsibility to make sure that what is done is in the best interests of our students. And the fact that there's six boys from Eisenhower that couldn't pay play baseball this year hurts my heart.
008And I don't think I don't think there's an acceptable excuse for letting that happen. I'd like to second my colleagues motion. We've got to do something creatively as a board to ensure that every kid has access in some way to um schedule B athletics in this district. Um we've made an investment in our sports fields and I think we need to make an investment in our people, the kids that want to play sports in particularly um the spring sports. I think um by us going on record and getting a vote down that says we're going to co-op in those sports needs to be looked at and finalized so our coaches, our athletic directors, our administrators, and our community knows that we are committed to making sure every child has access to those things. So, um,
009I'll close it off there, but I' I'd also like to agree with my colleague in getting that on the record and in place. I think I think there's a procedure procedural issue here and uh our council is going to have to help me for just a minute, but I think given if we wanted to act on that, it would have to come back as an agenda item and it could come back at the next board meeting uh as an agenda item, but I don't think we can add one right now to take a vote. And you said this last meeting, okay, why wasn't it put on the agenda? I mean, We talked about this last last week. Sure. And I I'll own that one. So, it'll be on the agenda for the next board meeting.
010Yes. Okay. You Dr. Curry, you can discuss tonight. You can reach a consensus. You would not be able to vote on anything tonight. In terms of of any agenda item, you'll need to work with admin. There may be some uh IHSA wrinkles that have to be dealt with before the board votes. Uh you certainly could vote on a standard policy, but in that there still may be some sports specific requirements at the high school level that I'd defer to administration on what I was going to say timelines. Okay. Ask a question. We we'll have that at the next meeting with a report from staff, the pros and the cons uh about the whole the whole subject and I thought that's where we were headed at the last meeting and that didn't happen. So I'll own
011that one. So how does the dynamics look or do we just leave that up to the schools? Which school will be the home school? It's information that I will have to bring back to the board. So as you are asking questions, I'm getting answers to those questions. Yes, ma'am. So, if if you want to just shoot Melissa an email of your questions, I can get answers to all of that. Okay. Okay. I'm I'm not at all opposed to this, but I guess the question that comes to mind is in previous board policy discussions, you know, it's had gone through policy committee and follow that that that p that pathway. Um, and I've just Are we going to jump that? No. Uh, but I do want to know what the questions are because we haven't had
012time to sit down and even talk, you know, any further uh, with the coaches and those that supervise the coaches and their build building administrators. I don't want to come back to the board and not have done my due diligence. Yes, ma'am. I I had a conversation with Craig Bundy today and he and I told him I said, you know, where we stand on the co-op and he told me that there's there's coaches that are against this at MacArthur. There are administrative people at MacArthur that are against this. But I I I got the impression from him that it's the board's prerogative to say what we feel is important as far as co-oping is concerned. And yes, I don't agree that you do have a voice in in saying this is what you believe is
013best for the district. Um, but typically when we are doing a lot of this administrative work, I defer to our legal for assistance in this because I don't want to say this is something that you're going to do and you still don't get the outcome that you're looking for. Okay. Does that make sense? Yes. Okay. Anything else on that one? I just as an FYI for everybody, I think we need now that we have our new board seated, uh we need to begin to see activity in earnest on our superintendent search and we'll be getting uh that process underway very quickly. Um and also um concurrently with that uh very timely presentation on the road map 2030 uh that that's another important uh project that the district needs to re get re-engaged and get moving
014forward on. Dr. Clark, I skipped the whole piece. I'm next after her. I'm sorry. I skipped the whole section. So is there anything else board discussion right now? then we'll move on. So the 20 the 2030 program, we agreed to delay that until we had a new superintendent. Is that not correct? No, the new board. New board. Oh, the new board. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Didn't didn't want to leave that conversation around accountability. Didn't want to leave uh the decision at a um at a board that wasn't going to be there. Okay. Okay then. Yeah, I'm I'm right on with that proceeding on that 2030. Okay, seeing no more board discussion, the real person that should come up to the mic, Monica, I promise I'll be brief. Um, board of education, Dr. Clark, Miss Bradford, um,
015I wanted to provide you with an update on our vacancies and our hiring efforts. Um, the last time I came before you was on April 22nd of 2025. At that time, uh, we went over our total vacancies and our DPS certified vacancy stood at the number 120 and that represents about a 22.7% vacancy rate. Um I am happy to report that as of today, June 10th, um we are now down to 54 DPS certified vacancies. So our vacancy rate has been decreased by 55%. Um and we have 66 vacancies that have been filled. So we are very happy to report that. [Applause] Of those vacancies filled, 44 are international teachers. out of the 83 teachers that we interviewed. And I want to give a special thank you to the TNL team who did who coordinated
016and did the majority of those interviews. Also to Sam Mills with DEA who also participated in the interview process. But I tell you that we interviewed 83 to make sure you understand that we were selective in that process. So we took the 44 best. Um, our vacancy rate uh went down from 22.7% to 10.2%. I also want to say that our principles are still working incredibly hard. They're conducting interviews. Um, and we have over 17 additional recommendations for hire in progress. So, the hiring continues. HR is onboarding. We're working diligently to ensure that our teachers and staff are ready to start in August. And we're going to continue to fill as many positions as possible. But I'm excited to report that when we have new educator week in August, we are on track to welcome
017over 70 new teachers to DPS this fall. So that is going to be really exciting. [Applause] Also want to report in the recruitment area that we have 14 new teacher ready participants who will be starting in July who've been accepted to the program. So thank you for voting to increase those slots by 25. We have 14 who will start um this July. As a reminder, this is for um a program for our long-term subs and um a few other approved staff members to pursue certification, teacher certification. Um we already have 25 staff members who are pursuing this endeavor. So that is a potential for 39 new teachers to DPS in the next um 6 to 18 months. So we will keep um delivering updates on that. We still have three people who are enrolled in
018our grow your own uh program that is for pair of professionals to pursue lensure. Um and that's a partnership with UIS. So we're going to keep those three on track and hope to expand that program. Um and then we have some other staff who are in other teacher certification programs, not necessarily our partners, but um there are some other universities that offer these programs. So uh we are welcoming 15 student teachers this fall. uh 13 from Milicanin or 16 I should say 13 from Milicanin, two from G Grand Canyon University and one from UIS. We're still trying to get our numbers from ISU and EIU. Um but we're also gearing up to host our first job fair um for July, July 9th from 11 to 2 here at the Kyle Administration building. So we are
019actively recruiting. Want to let you know that we are going to continue um our efforts and do as much as we can. Can I answer any questions? Uh, I had a a person email me today and he said he he thought this international teachers thing was a great thing and congratulations to you on the great job you're doing. Okay, you're doing an awesome job. But he his comment was he wanted to make sure that these international teachers that we that we were going to have control and making sure that there was no agendas involved with these teachers and that we had full control of our curriculum and and what's going to be taught. Absolutely. You comfortable there? Yes. Yes. And um I'll just kind of I'll say our TNL team, they are working really hard
020to put together um professional development and curriculum. They are going to make sure they understand the DPS way. They're going to understand our teaching methods. Um they're going to have monthly professional development not only with our TNL team, but also with the Peoria team. So there's a lot of training. We're going to keep them on track and we actually track them while they're here in the United States. Um and here with DPS they are highly vetted. Great. Thank you. Can you also can you speak to like the evaluation process because people don't understand that either. So these staff that we're bringing over our certified teachers they will be part of they will have the opportunity to be a part of our uh of the DEA. They will go through the same evaluation process that any
021firstear teacher would go through. So, they are not they're not going to be treated any differently than the 23 other new teachers that we're bringing on board right now. Great. Thank you. Okay, last part of my report. I wanted to bring up um Taikina Cole. She's the owner and CEO of Cole Counseling. I know that you heard a couple people that spoke in favor of renewing our um agreement with Cole Counseling. So, I wanted to provide Tyena with an opportunity to give you a service update from the past school year. And you'll also see on the agenda and roll call action item that it's coming up. Oh, I'm sorry. Is it later in the agenda? I'm sorry. Go ahead. Okay. Um, in the roll call action item, we're requesting that the board approve a new
022two-year contract renewal for cold counseling. So sorry. [Applause] Good evening. Um I am Taikina Cole. Cole Counseling Services. We have had this contract since 2020 2021 school year. Um from the numbers we have started. Let me I'm I'm nervous always when I come up here. So last year we serviced 165 staff of the district. When we first started we were only doing three hours a week times like maybe so 30 staff but we had 165 staff. Um as we ended the school year uh 74 hours of counseling per week came out of our office to you guys' staff, teachers and staff. um we increased that by four hours a week from the year before. So every year we've increased um and so when we sat down um Monica and I and talked I wanted to
023see if we could just do an increase across the board. So the board members that were here last year, I think in the year before said, "Why aren't we doing every school? Why doesn't everyone have this access?" We do now want that. So, that's what we're asking for tonight is everyone can be um have access to it and we can increase um the contract for 10 more hours so that we can encompass all of the schools and add admin. So, admin never had access to this um program, but we now would like to add admin. So, um that is my uh report. Does anyone have any questions? What? Well, I appreciate your comp. Yes. I don't I don't have a question. I just have a compliment for you and for you, Madam Superintendent, for uh
024going for a two-year contract. I think it's very important that we take care of the people that take care of our children. And I really appreciate everything you do do. I personally have had friends that have benefited from you and what your people do. Uh, and I just wanted to compliment you for your hard work in trying to get this done. Yeah. And thank you, Tina. I I appreciate um the Superintendent Clark, too, because I asked for just at least two years. I did ask for three, but I understand the two, but it's hard every year to tell the um staff we might not get it. And so with um Superintendent Clark saying, "Let's go two years so we can ensure that we have that time and you guys can get used to us and
025hearing about our services since you're a new board." We appreciate that. I really do cuz when May comes, I'm I'm in my boots shaking like I don't know what we're going to happen, what's going to happen. So I do appreciate you guys um considering us for the two-year extension. Yep. Any other questions? No, just a comment. I think that uh as our staff and our our entire staff now uh what a nice benefit this is and a a significant investment in the mental health of of our staff going forward because this is not the only EAP we have. We have an EAP affiliated with our health insurance program. This is a supplement to that over and above. So, it's a significant investment in the future and the mental health of our our existing staff and
026future staff. You're exactly right, and I thank you for pointing that out because we're boots on the ground. Like, I'm homegrown. I've been educated and lived indicator my whole life. So, I actually know what's going on in our district. When we talk about EAP, those are people that may not know what the crisis are or the the demand is for our district or like we we needed subs or we needed teachers, right? And so they're not going to be able to understand as much as me and our therapists do because all of our therapists are from here and we're all working. So I appreciate that. Also, when crisis come, we come too. And so I think that a EAP would probably be less, you know, involved hands-on, but co- counseling services is hands-on and we're
027ready to help the district in any way we can. Thank you so much. Thank you. Yep. All right. Thank you. Now, Dr. Clark, you're up. Skipped the whole section there, so I apologize. Um, so as we discussed when we started expulsions, um, I said that I was going to come back to the board and talk about, um, how we got here and, um, the successes, if you can utilize that word, um, moving forward. Okay, I'm going too fast. Okay, I'm really going too fast. There you go. All right, so how did we get here? So, this is primarily for my new board members. Um, we were seeing a lot of aggressive behaviors in our schools. Um, we define it in our code of conduct as mob action/ganglike activities, meaning there are multiple kids fighting one
028individual. Um, we've had multiple fights taking place at the same time in the same building. Um, and the fights were just really horrific is the only word that I can use to describe it. And so those types of uh behaviors were causing us to go on soft lockdowns. We were having to call Decar PD to come and assist. Our own security was leaving other buildings to come and um help maintain order in those buildings. And it just got to the point to where it was becoming unacceptable. I mean, even our parents were showing up to fight our students. And it's just unacceptable. So, one of the things I did before I came to the board of education, I went back to our code of conduct and I started looking at what are we putting out
029there um to kind of help parents understands understand that there are other avenues that they can take uh to assist their child that are that's having problems in the school, in the community, where have you. Um and everything that stood out in terms of the responsibility of the parent, the student, the staff and administration all came down to a safe and orderly environment. So we started to do robocalls. The staff was meeting with the students. Um we were doing videos. I had central office staff um meaning my district leadership team going into the buildings. They were there during uh arrival. They were there doing dismissal. We hired more security. I think we tripled our security in one year. Um all of this and the fights were still continuing and getting more and more violent. So
030uh central office administrations uh we met, we decided we've done all that we can do. It was time for our level four infractions to meet level four consequences. Um and that is when we started referring the really major infractions of fighting to the board of education because keeping in mind this was just not a typical fight. Um they were causing injury to both staff and to other students. So what happened when we started expelling students? Well, of course we got a lot of push back. So we really hit heavy in the 23 24 school year. We ended up with a total of um and this is as of April because I'm trying to compare apples to apples. We had 39 expulsions expulsions by the end of April, 13 aggressive acts. Those are the the uh
031acts that I was just describing earlier and 2,739 district physical altercations. So, I really need to explain this big number. Anytime a student has a fight, they are going to um or any type of physical aggression, they're going to receive a referral. So even if I'm in kindergarten, if I push a kid down in a very physical manner, I'm going to get a referral. Okay? So of those acts, we had a total of 8,699 suspensions. This is all district-wide information, which means, and I'm using you as an example, Mark, you had a fight. You may have received three days, but your fight may have been even more aggressive. You could have received anywhere from 5 to 10. So, that's how these numbers grow. So, in the 2425 school year, the year that we are ending,
032we are starting to see the decrease because students are now understanding there are other ways to handle these differences. and we started hearing things like,"I not going to get expelled. Um, I'm just going to class. I'm minding my own business." And people were starting to feel more safe. And I was hearing that the climate and culture was changing. So this year we went from 39 to 22 um expulsions for these same types of um aggression, from 13 to seven aggressive acts, from 27 plus 100 to 21 plus 100 in district physical altercations and down to 7326 in the total number of suspensions. So, when you're looking at um whether or not the the step that we took helped, I'm going to say yes, it did because you can see the decrease in the number of
033expulsions that we've had to do uh thus far. At the end of the 23 24 school year, we had a total of 42 expulsions. At the end of the 2042 25 school year, we had a total of 22 plus one that was pending. And even with that one pending, there was a decrease in 48%. Now, am I saying expulsions is the ultimate answer? Absolutely not. Because we have to do more to be proactive to try to figure out how we can get our parents and our students talking to us more so we don't get to this point. So, no, we want to do more. We want to make sure um that our kids understand that there are other avenues, but we have to make sure that our kids can learn in a safe environment. Our
034teachers must feel safe coming to school. Our administrators must feel safe being in the building. So, as I've said, learning is important to us. So, the question started coming around about, hey, you are expelling these kids from school, you're just throwing away their academics. And that is far from the case. When a student is expelled from Decatur public schools, meaning that we are no longer educating them. Students have an opportunity to um apply for what is called life vest, which is a scholarship to have full um to have their academics paid for through Aselis with this which is an online partnership that we utilize and all of this is through private funding. um it is an accredited institution and those students that are on a cell they don't have to just be in their homes
035they can be anywhere because it's available to them 24/7 and I know that OKO is one of the locations that they've utilized I'm not for sure um but I have even spoken to sister girls and friends if they were ever um able to host students but students can go anywhere to be online with the sellers um The annual cost is $790 per year and again along with this scholarship families they don't have to pay for anything. Now one of the things that we are requiring in this application for life vest is that you have to take at least one session through our online provider of cartwheel um which is a social emotional learning platform. Um and that is just so families and students understand what has happened and how they can do things differently. So
036that is a requirement. Um this has been made available to all of our students that have been expelled without a stay from DPS. So what are we going to do moving forward? Well, we're going to continue our mental health services. We're going to continue to embed interventions at the building level. So, for those of you that don't know, we have behavior interventionists in all of our schools. Um, we're working to try to bring in more community and parent involvement. As you know, we were having uh parent universities and those were not successful. So, we're going to try another avenue to bring our parents and community to the table. Uh, we're going to continue to work with our building administrators. We want to uh help families understand that when they sign the student code of conduct,
037in the back of that student code of conduct is a large number of resources that they can look to in the community for help. Um and our student services department um is only a phone call away. So if it's not something that you see, we will find it for you to get you the resources that you need or at least point you in the right direction. And we're also looking at our alternative placements for those students that need um something outside of our traditional alternative placements. The key is being consistent. And even though it is hard for us sometimes, even though we want the best for all of our kids, consistency is key. And we have shown that by being consistent and what we said has been working. Any questions for me? What's the difference
038between Cartwell and Cole? Uh, so Kohl's is working with staff. Cartwell is working with the students. What is an aggressive act? Okay, let's say you had a fight. you were one-on-one with a student and you call for your friends and now all five or six or 10 of you are stomping, kicking, and beating this student that's lying on the ground. Let's say I jump in and I try to break it up and you're still kicking, stomping, and beating me and the student. That's an aggressive act. And when you say you, you mean a staff member? Meaning I'm on the ground with a staff member trying to break up a fight, and the students are jumping and kicking and punching me as well. Okay. Any other questions? I I would just say that between hiring probably
039the most teachers we've ever hired in a in a month and then seeing significant decreases in uh uh decreases in discipline. I think that we're starting to turn the ship. I think we are too. And I do want to give kudos to all the staff because it's not just central administration and the principles. It's the teachers, it's the TAs, it's the bus driver, it's security, it's the, you know, it's it's everyone. We're all wanting to do what's best for kids. So, we're trying to intervene as quickly as we can before it gets to that point. Any other questions? Okay. Ready to move right on into Do I just click on the next one and it come up? Oh, I thought it was the this your first readable the first read for uh 7190 is on
040there. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So, one of the things that we're going to be talking about is an addition to three of our policies here. Yep. Policy 7160, student appearance. 7190, student behavior. 830, visitors to and conduct on school property. I will start with 7 colon 160, student appearance. What has been added is that students that come to school that smell like marijuana or other offensive, distracting, and or noxious odors will be instructed to call home for a change in clothing or picked up from school so he or she could change clothes. The reason for this addition is because we are having a lot of nauseated smells come in from our children's clothing. Um that is very offensive and I have witnessed this myself to the point to even I had to leave
041the classroom because it was so strong. Um under 7190 we're adding the exact same language. 7190 addresses um student behavior and under A30 that language is being added. Um, but in addition to that, I've added the following language or requesting to add the following language. Effective July 1, 2025, individuals that visit our schools and smell of marijuana or other offensive, distracting, and or noxious odors will be asked to leave the premises. Marijuana has a odor that can cause or trigger allergic reactions, make others sick from long-term exposure, affect indoor air quality, and potentially have cancer-causing chemicals that put our students, staff, and others at risk. School age students that come to school that smell like marijuana or other offensive, distracting, and ornoxious odors will be asked to call home for a change in clothing or
042picked up from school so he or she could change clothes. When a student smells a marijuana or other offensive, distracting, and or noxious odors, it can be distracting for them and others in the classroom, which impedes learning. Our goal is and will continue to be providing an atmosphere that is safe and conducive to learning. So, those are the three add-ons that I'm putting in. I would like to put into three separate policies um in an attempt to bring a more conducive learning environment for our students. Any questions? So move. I'll second it. It's a first read. It's first read. It'll come back next meeting. Okay. Well, thank you for that. Okay. Okay. So, that will end our reports from administration at this time. Okay. Okay, we'll move on to our consent items. Does anyone want
043any items pulled from the consent agenda? Seeing none, Dr. Clark, I recommend the board of education approve the consent items as presented, which includes a minutes open close meetings May 27th, 2025. B. Freedom of information report. C. Bills. D. Release of June checks early. E. Resolution authorizing the release of district technology. President President Clever. I need to make a correction. Okay. It is only open minutes for May 27th. There was no close session. That's my error. So, let me repeat. I recommend the board of education approve the consent items as presented which includes A minutes open meetings May 27th 2025 B freedom of information report C bills D release of June checks early E resolution author authorizing the release of district technology okay now do I have a motion move second discussion Miss Bradford, Mr.
044Hail, I Mr. Clevener, hi. Mr. Wetzel, I Mr. Joiner, I Mr. Reynolds, hi. Five, I zero nay, two absent. Motion carried. Thank you. Now we'll move on to our uh roll call action items. Uh do we have a recommendation on student 2425-000023 expulsion case? Yes. I recommend a board of education authorize the issuance of a decision in the expulsion case for student number 2425-000023 consistent with the findings from the hearing officer's report and that student number 2425-000023 be expelled from the Decatur Public School District all events, property, and activities of the district for the 2526 school year and a 2627 school year with the stay for alternative education. Please note, student number 2425-000023 can return to their home school the first day of the 2728 school year. Parents will be notified of the first day
045of school once the calendar for the 2728 school year is approved. Do I have a motion? Move. Second. Discussion. Miss Bradford. Mr. Wetszel. I. Mr. Hail I. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Mr. Joiner. Hi. And Mr. Clevenger. Hi. Five. I zero nay. Two absent. Motion carried. Do we 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 presented. Motion. Move. Second. Discussion. Miss. Bradford. Mr. Mr. Wetzel. Hi, Mr. Joiner. Hi, Mr. Clevener. Hi, Mr. Hail. I and Mr. Reynolds, hi. Five, Zay, two absent. Motion carried. Thank you. We have a recommendation for the athletic guides for middle and high schools for the 2025 2026 school year. Yes. I recommend the
046board of education approve the athletic guides for middle and high schools for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Do I have a motion? So move. Second. Discussion. Miss Bradford. Mr. Joiner. I. Mr. Cleer. Hi. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Mr. Wetszel. Hi. And Mr. Hail. Hi. Five. I zero nay. Two absent. Motion carried. Thank you. We have a recommendation for the Cole counseling services for 2025 2026 and 2026 2027 school years. Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the code counseling services for 2025 2026 and 2026 20227 school years as presented. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Second discussion. Mrs. Great. Miss Bradford. Mr. Reynolds. I. Mr. Hail. I. Mr. Wetszel. I. Mr. Clevenger. Hi. And Mr. Joiner. I. Five I zero nay. Two absent. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation
047for the solar agreement? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the solar agreement as presented. Motion move. Second. Sorry. Discussion. I think Mr. Schneider will be happy. I think Al's probably wishing he was here tonight. M. Bradford. Mr. Clevener. I. Mr. Wetszel. Hi. Mr. Joiner. Hi. Mr. Hail I. And Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Five I zero nay. Two absent. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation for the time clock plus agreement? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve time clock plus agreement as presented. Do I have a motion? Move. Second. Discussion. Miss Bradford. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Mr. Cleger. Hi. Mr. Hail. Hi. Mr. Wetszel. Hi. And Mr. Joiner. Hi. Five I zero nay two absent. Motion carried. Thank you. Do we have a recommendation for the purchase of open gate units? Yes. I recommend
048the board of education approve the purchase of open gate units as presented. Motion move. Second. Discussion. So these are replacing the metal detectors of the high school. Help me with that Mike. No, these are not replacing the ones at the high school. These are in addition to they'll be the plan was always to use the uh tort uh income this year to now fully implement um security options like this in the elementaryaries as well. So all all elementary will have multiple passroughs as well as the high schools. Okay. So all of our buildings uh all of our educational buildings. Correct. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. So Mike is this so this is in addition to the wands and yeah the wands are used by you know the guards to to help with overflow but this is
049just a quick pass through that's got designated techn technology dedicated to um large pieces of metal um and so forth. Same thing you would see at a ball game. Other discussion. Miss Bradford. Mr. Joiner I. Mr. Cleger. Hi. Mr. Wetszel. Hi. Mr. Hail I. And Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Five I zero nay. Two absent. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation for the property casualty insurance renewal? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the property casualty insurance renewal as presented. Have a motion. So move. Second. Any discussion? So what what does this cover? Go ahead. All of our stuff. So by that I mean just really all of the stuff but uh really the buildings the infrastructure of the district uh vehicles etc. Um but it's really the infrastructure right now that the the reason
050for the 21% increases both the bringing on the new Danby um and then just the the increasing costs of natural disasters and in inclement weather um for lack of a word disasters especially right now water infiltration is a huge problem across all districts in Illinois and all old buildings. And so we working on some other things. We've got these water pucks that can detect water so that we can get there sooner so we don't have another thing like what happened to Steven Decar a couple years ago. But it's really just the cost of fixing things is going up as well. Thank you. Any other discussion? Miss Bradford. Mr. Wetzel. Hi. Mr. Hail. Hi. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Mr. Joiner. Hi. And Mr. Clevenger. Hi. Five I zero nay. Two absent. Motion carried. Do we have a
051recommendation for the account provisioning software renewal? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the account provisioning software renewal as presented. Motion move. Second. Discussion. Miss Bradford. Mr. Wetszel. Hi. Mr. Joiner. Hi. Mr. Clevenger. Hi. Mr. Hail. Hi. And Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Five I zero. Two absent. Motion carried. Do you have a recommendation for the Duo multiffactor authentication MFA renewal? Yes. I recommend a board of education approve the Duo multiffactor authentication MFA renewal as presented. Motion. Second. Discussion. I have a question. Who Who's our duo? Maurice if you would come up please. Thank you. Hi Maurice. Thanks for being here. Uh, how do you talk to me about the sec the security this duo provides? Is it something you feel is doing a on a scale of one to five? Tell me the type of
052job you think it's doing. 10. 10. Okay. Because it's number one is our insurance carriers are requiring it. A lot of uh require insurance carriers are just wanting an extra layer of protection. So instead of just having the account password and username, you have to provide that additional code that's sent to a personal device. So um that's something that we implemented, but also just for general network security. If you have vendors that need to get into your network, you want an extra layer of security. I'm sure you've heard of things where vendors have access and they have been compromised, therefore the school districts have been compromised. So, we just want the extra layer of security for anyone that wants to get in our network as well as is required for any staff member that wants
053to access their email when outside of the DPS network. So, I think it's essential part of us keeping our network safe. That's what I wanted to know. All right. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Other comments, Miss Bradford. Mr. Clevener. Hi, Mr. Reynolds. Hi, Mr. Hail. Hi, Mr. Wetszel. Hi, and Mr. Joiner. I 5 I zero nay two absent. Motion carried. Do I have a recommendation of the teacher iPad upgrade? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the teacher iPad upgrade as presented. Have a motion. Move. Second. Discussion. Miss. Bradford. Mr. Hail. I. Mr. Cleger. Hi. Mr. Wetszel. Hi. Mr. Joiner. Hi. And Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Five. Zero. Nay. Two absent. Motion carried. Thank you. Do we have a recommendation for the JAF renewal? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the JAM
054renewal as presented. Motion. So move. Second. Discussion. Miss Bradford. Mr. Joiner. Hi. Mr. Clevenger. Hi. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Mr. Wetszel. Hi. And Mr. Hail. I. Five. I zero nay. Two absent. Motion carried. Do you have a recommendation for the Microsoft licensing renewal? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the Microsoft licensing renewal as presented. So move. Second. Discussion. Miss Bradford. Mr. Joiner. Hi. Mr. Wetszel. Hi. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Mr. Hail. Hi. And Mr. Cleger. Hi. Five. I zero nay. Two absent. Motion carried. Do we have a recommendation for the Integrated Systems Corporation ISC? Yes. I recommend the board of education approve the Integrated Integrated Systems Corp ISC as presented. Motion. Second discussion. Just a quick question. Maurice, sorry. Or somebody. Okay. Um, and sorry didn't send this in early, but this is a this
055is a requirement by Skyward for to use their thirdparty cloud. Yes, it's our cloud-based also provides redundancy back up and security. Um, and if there are issues, do they eat that cost for data or do we I would have to review that in detail. Uh, but they've been very responsive to any issues that we've had in troubleshooting with our staff. So, we're confident in the service. Thank you. That's it. Any other questions? Miss Bradford. Mr. Reynolds. Hi. Mr. Hail. Hi. Mr. Wetszel. Hi. Mr. Clevenger. I. And Mr. Joiner. I. Five. I zero Nate. Two absent. Motion carried. Uh, we're going to move on to announcements and Dr. Clark is going to handle the announcements section of our meeting tonight. The board of education and administration sends condolences to the families of Lori Crame who passed
056away Monday, June 2nd, 2025. Lori was the headcertified registered nurse health coordinator Indicator Public Schools. Lori would have always light up the room with her beautiful smile and caring spirit. Her wealth of medical knowledge and wellrespected advice were appreciated by those she came in contact with on a daily basis. She will be truly missed by the DPS family. Patricia Anne Harrison, who passed away Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025. Mrs. Harrison was the mother of Deianne Hillman, human resources transition and labor administrator, mother-in-law of Harl Hillman, retired special education teacher, and grandmother of Hannah Bird, kindergarten teacher at Parson's Elementary School. Important dates will pop up on the screen here soon. June 19th, Junth holiday, district offices are closed. June 25th, special close session meeting, 9:00 am at the K administration building. July 4th, Independence Day holiday,
057district offices are closed. Please note the K administration building summer hours will be 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, June 2nd, 2025 through August 1st, 2025. The Cow building will be closed to the public every Friday from June 6, 2025 through August 1st, 2025. The Cow building will reopen on Fridays to the public the week of August 4th, 2025. The public portion of the next regular meeting of the board of education will be at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 at the Cow Administration building. We have a motion for adjournment. I'll move second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I.