001Pass the train. to officially call this special uh organizational meeting for the Evergreen Park Elementary School District 1.4 Board of Education to order at 5:33 p.m. on this Wednesday, April 30th. Uh with a roll call, please. Dr. Michael Thomas present. David Shepard present. Rachel Marqu present. Denise Jones. Yes. Michael Wower. All of our accounted for accounted for members for a few more minutes. If we could stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance 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. Okay. If my board would review the agenda in front of us and if there's no additions or deletions, if we could have a first motion to approve. Motion to approve the agenda. I knew
002it would be. And a second, please. Second. I knew that, too. And a roll call, please. Dr. Michael Thomas, yes. Michael Wall Miller, yay. Denise Jones, yes. Rachel Marquin, yes. David Shepard, yes. Lauren Dowin, yay. Cleac, yes. Motion passed. Excellent. And now, want me to do it? Do you want me to do it? One last time. Last time. One last time. Okay. Uh we are up on to our agenda item for public comments. I do not see any green sheets over on Sonia's desk. Okay. Uh pursuant to nope per board education policy 2230. A few reminders specifically about the logistics of the public comment portion of every meeting including this evening. As is posted on our agenda publicly for every meeting. To respect all of our stakeholders, our commenters, our board, our public. We adhere
003very closely to the three-minute limit for comments for everyone. We will set a timer and we expect everyone to respect their three minutes. In addition, we do not respond to public comments at board meetings, but we do hear them. We respect, we listen to, and we take into account all community member concerns. If there is a specific question that we can uh that comes up uh that we can respond to after the meeting, we will do so in a timely manner. Sonia, was I correct? There's no public comments. I do not have Excel. Thank you so much. Okay. Uh so we are then on to our action items. Um first is uh first motion. Excuse me. The first action is to approve the board minutes from the regular meeting of April 16, 2025. If I
004could have a first motion, please. I'll make a motion. And a second. Second. And a roll call. Rachel Maro, yes. Dr. Michael Thomas, yes. Lauren Der, yes. David Shepard, yes. Denise Jones, yes. Michael Miller, yay. Colleen Cleette, yes. Motion pass. Excellent. Um, item B is to approve the close session minutes from the regular meeting of April 16th, 2025. If I could have a first motion, please. Motion approve the close session minutes from the regular meeting of April 16th, 2025. So good. And a second. A second. Great. Thanks, David. And a roll call, please. Dr. Michael Thomas, yes. David Shepard, yes. Lauren Dow, yes. Rachel Mer, yes. Elise Jones, yes. Michael Miller, Colleen Clea, yes. Motion passed. Excellent. So, we are on to item seven, which is the appointment of our president, Prom, who will oversee
005the next few steps of our evening. Um, per our legal counsel, Denise Jones, as the longest tenur board of education member not included in the recent election cycle, should be appointed president prom to administer the oath of office and to preside over the officer appointments for this new board of education. May I have a first motion to appoint Denise Jones as president prom? Motion to appoint Denise Jones president proterm. And a second, please. Second. And a roll call, please. I love the enthusiasm. Dr. Michael Thomas, of course. Michael Miller, yay. Denise Jones, yes. Rachel Miraquin, yes. David Shepard, one vote, two, yes. Lauren Den, yay. Colin, yes. Motion pass. Okay, my friend. I am going to step out of my seat and that's okay. Um, I'm going to leave you the script for the rest
006of the meeting. And that's the way that works. Okay. So, I now have the honor to administer the oath of office to our newly um elected board members. We can all come up here to the [Laughter] Okay, I'm just this I add them in my context. Okay, is everyone ready? If you can just we all can just read the oath together. Okay. I Thomas do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully charge the duties of the office member of the board of education or board of school directors of the Evergreen Park Elementary State of Illinois and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of my ability. further swear or affirm that I shall respect taxpayer interest by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets. I shall encourage and
007respect the free expression of opinion my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees. I shall recognize that that board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by being a majority vote at a public meeting. I shall abide by my majority decisions of the board while maintaining the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels. As a part of the board of education or board of school directors as the case may be, I shall accept the responsibility for my role in the equitable and quality education of every student in the school district. I shall foster with the board extensive participation of the community, formulate goals, define outcomes, and set the course
008for Evergreen Park Elementary School District 124. I shall assist in establishing a structure and environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework. I shall strive to assure the continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law. I shall serve as the education's key advocate on behalf of students and our community school or schools to advance the vision for Ever Park Elementary School District 124. and I strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district towards fulfilling the vision the board has created fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship and personal development. Work that sounded really good on my end. It just took a little
009bit. I would like to congratulate you all and welcome Mr. Oil Gray to Evergreen Park District 124 school board. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] And I can't. Okay. Now the board and seated. I will now um we will now have the election of officers. Okay. Nominations are now in order for the office of president. I nominate Michael Aller. Second. Michael Miller is nominated. Are there any other nominations for the office of president? Hearing no further nominations, the nomination for the office of president is closed. Michael Will being the only candidate nominated for the office of president, the chair hereby declares him elected by acclamation and directs the secretary to sole record in the minutes. Michael Miller is now our president of the board. Turning of the um agenda over All right. Well, thank you. I
010appreciate the vote of confidence. All right. So, next we are going to be opening up the floor for nominations for the office of vice president. I would like to nominate Denise Jones. Are there any other nominations for the office of vice president? All right, the floor is closed and hearing no other nominations, it's my pleasure to declare Denise Jones to be the vice president by acclamation. [Applause] And finally, the office of secretary of the board. Are there any nominations for secretary of the board of education? I nominate Rachel for secretary. Rachel Marin is nominated for secretary. Are there any other nominations? Hearing no other nominations. The floor is closed. And by acclamation, Rachel Marquin is now secretary of board of education. [Applause] [Laughter] All right, moving on. The next order of business is to determine
011our dates, times, and location for the regular board meetings for the next calendar year. Everybody should have in front of them the draft of the tentative meeting set. I just have one idea to throw out there. December 16th, 2025 is a Tuesday. Traditionally, we hold that meeting on a Tuesday. I think it is entirely based on because that's usually the week that we go off for break and to just make it a little less cramped towards the end of the week. But if everybody's okay with it, I would like to suggest that to just keep it in line with Wednesdays, we move it to December 17th. I agree. Okay. So, we will amend the tentative schedule to reflect that December 17th, 2025 will be the December regular meeting for the board of education. Do I
012have a motion to accept the recently amended uh schedule of regular board meeting? Motion to accept the amended version of the schedule for regularly scheduled board of education meetings for the 2526 school year. Got a first. Do I have a second? O'Neal, you're you're new with us. Let's have a second. Second. Okay. All right. Like the hot corner over here. All right. So that way I'm getting in here. Too quick. Too quick. Too quick. That That was Michael. Dr. Michael Thomas. Um Oh, O'Neal. O'Neal Gray. Yes. David Shepard. Yes. Rachel Marquin. Yes. Denise Jones. Yes. Lauren Dowin. Yay. and Michael. Yeah, just passed. Look at that. I run over here though. I wasn't ready. All right. Being that there are no other items on the agenda for this evening, uh, do I have a motion
013to adjourn the meeting at 5:48 p.m.? Motion to adjurnn. Second. O'Neal's already seconds. All right. All right. I'll get this. I'll get it. I'll get it. Dr. Michael Thomas, O'Neal Gray, David Shepard, yes. Rachel Maroquin, yes. Lauren Dowin, yay. Um, Denise Jones, yes. Michael Al. Yay. I got it. Call me 548. Meeting of the board of education is adjourned. Yes.