001We are a complete seven. We're a complete seven. Okay. I knew she was coming. So I was hoping if I just doawled a little bit. So well cuz I was all ready to walk out the door and the sirens were going for Nope. Not leaving the children because Gabe usually at 5:30 the bridge. uh in wherever else is going item parenting over. So this is how action item A takes up a full page there. Oh my god. Well, you know this is the time of the year. We are all I walked in right we are ready sir. Okay. Cool. So, um I would like to bring our uh regular meeting uh for the board of education to order at 6:02 on this Wednesday, March 19th, 2025. Um if we could start with a roll call,
002please. Sure. Dr. Michael Thomas, present. Lauren Dan, present. David Shepard, present. Rachel Maroqua, present. Denise Jones, present. Michael Miller present. All are present. Safe from the storm. If we could please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I 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. Thank you. um to my board if we could review the agenda. I'd like to make a motion to accept the agenda as presented. Okay. Second. Okay. Wait, wait. Give her a minute. You guys are on the ball. Hey. Okay. No time like the president. I know. And a roll call. So, right. David Shepard. Yes. Lauren Dow. Dr. Michael Thomas. Yes. Rachel Marqu, yes. Denise Jones, yes. Colleague Climac,
003yes. Motion pass. Excellent. And on to staff reports, please. Great. Thank you so much. My first update from this evening is from our student advisory board members. I'd like to introduce Marielle Scutter and Cameron Brennan. Thank you so much for coming. [Applause] Welcome. Here is our student advisory board update from uh Cameron Brennan and Mariel Scutter. About us. Hi, my name is Cameron Brennan. I'm a student advisory board member. I'm involved in project tree and volleyball and cross country at Central. I'm in seventh grade and I originally went to Northeast. Hi, my name is Marielle Scutter and I'm a student at Central Middle School. I am in seventh grade but I'm from Southeast Elementary School. I am in project tree classes and in student leadership NGHS and student principal and impact group and this student
004advisory is excellent. Thank you. The topic of project tree and why and why it is important. We're here today to talk about project tree or PG for short. We want to talk about changes we could make and the changes that have already been made. We bring this up because of the impact this has on students such as a loss of instructional time, miss specials, and limiting peer relationships because of the way project tree works. We also want to thank the board and administration for listening to our feedback and not using buses for project tree in the elementary schools anymore. Okay. Challenges with project. Some challenges with the way we used to operate projectry was students losing instructional time, missing fun school assemblies, and even not making it to specials or secondstep lessons, which are vital
005for students emotional growth. Another challenge that we noticed students facing was having to arrive to school early just for one class. While these classes challenge students, it can be difficult for them to be on time for school because of some families having commitments like jobs. Um, more challenges with Project Tree. Kids can struggle making peer relationships if they don't have any or little people from their school in Project Tree. For example, in our fifth grade project tree class, there's only one person from Northwest attending. Now, this person eventually did make friends, but having someone in Project Tree that you were close with by lessening the intimidation that comes with being in Project Tree. Um, another challenge is some kids are intimidated by Project Tree and some don't make it in. But a way we can
006solve this is by more publicly showing what the enrichment system is. In fourth grade, I was in these two classes called enrichment. It was basically extra and more advanced reading and math that will help students get into project tree. Most kids will not make it into project tree. However, some kids that don't shouldn't feel like they are not smart. This is where the enrichment system can come into play. It helps kids feel smart and get into project tree so they don't go through their early years of school being smart and not feeling smart enough. The system also solves kids feeling intimidated for project tree because as I said it prepares you for project tree. What we are looking forward to the enrichment program is again something that we are looking forward to. This is because
007we believe that this will prepare them for the project tree classes at middle school and allow more kids to have the opportunity to meet the requirements for project tree as well as expanding our project tree classes. Another exciting thing that we are looking forward to is the more opportunities students will have. This is because with having class at your own school, it will allow more people to make it into project tree classes. We are hopeful that the project tree and enrichment programs will give students in EP more opportunities. As I said in the title, we want our project tree and enrichment students to and enrichment to open opportunities for students in EP. By saying this, I'm saying that I want to include as many people as we can in these programs because like I said
008on my previous slide that we do not want imbalances of kids from different schools to have their project tree because it ends up hurting the students. This is why I bring attention to being hopeful about this because these new programs prepare kids to critically think later in life and even open up opportunities like college scholarships in the future. Conclusions. We are so excited for the opportunities that this new program holds. Thank you so much for applying our suggestions to make them into a reality and a better educational experience for future students. Oh, Cameron Brennan and Marielle Scutter. [Applause] Thank you so so much. I'm so impressed with your work on this. And they they literally did this all on them their own. And their ideas that they brought to me, we brought to Dr. Carlson
009and we have put some of them into action. So, I'm so pleased and I I just truly enjoy meeting with them too. I think the perspective from students who had been in the program before because you can really see I mean now even at central you don't have to travel like you you know enrichment is available for more and so so you see the benefits already and now you have impacted um all four elementary school buildings from I mean all of the students but definitely second on up. So that's awesome. Thank you both for being here. I know that it's hard sometimes, but you knocked it out of the park. So well done. Thank you so much. Great job. And there's cupcakes. Cupcakes. We always celebrate for our kiddos before I send them on their
010merry way. They were great. Yeah. All right. Thank you so much. Of course. Grab a cupcake. Absolutely. Love it. I just want to say how much I've enjoyed our student advisory board members to speak with us. They have shared really valuable insights on how our school district operates and how it can work better. You do a great job representing your peers. Yes. Thank you so so much. We're going to tackle technology next. Right. She's ready. I saw that face. Okay. She is ready. I love it. Thank you. All right. Next up on our agenda is our update from Precision Control Systems and we have Matt joining us again today and he is going to speak to our recommendations for Southwest Elementary School. Hi Matt. Hi. Welcome. Good to be back. I had a question. Is
011it that same guy coming? I said yeah that same guy. Same guy. Hback guy. So quick update on the work that was already approved. Uh so if you remember um it focuses on the 100 section of the building upgrading the controls. Uh so since that's been approved we've uh worked through and completed our design um and made purchases for all the equipment necessary for that project and we're lining up our schedule right now to complete that on a second shift and then um doing the majority of the work over the upcoming spring break. Um so the benefit of you guys having a little bit later than spring break actually really benefits us. gave us a little bit of an extra time period. Prepare for that. So, uh the wheels are in motion there and we
012should be working on that shortly. So, on the we're on the road there. So, the work that we proposed kind of as a a followup to the phase one highest priority stuff or what you might want to call it phase two would be uh the proposal that was included. Um that includes improving uh one of the biggest uh reasons why for the humidity problems in the school is air infiltration from the outside and that can be caused by negative pressurization in the building. So exhausting more air than it's being brought in through mechanical means. Uh so this proposal addresses that in a few ways. Adds a makeup air unit to the kitchen. Uh it replaces the rooftop unit in the 200 section. It adds a new rooftop unit to the 100 section where there previously
013wasn't one. Um, all those things bring in fresh air um in a controlled manner, dehumidifies that air, brings it into the building as opposed to where before it would just come in through door, open doors and cracks and windows and that type of thing. So, um, those are really three main things that are really going to improve the humidity across the entire building. And then a couple other the immediate needs were addressed in this proposal including upgrading the controls on the boiler plant and the front office. Uh as well as replacing the gym air handling unit which is one of the older pieces of equipment across the whole district. Um and it had kind of a long service history of things being continually wrong with it. Um so that addresses that that need as well.
014It's a nice way to put it. Any questions for Matt? Would this um project interfere with any upcoming projects we may have? Uh no. Um, so I I think kind of one of the back and forths that we had with uh the district and with uh DLA was trying to come up with a a group of projects that would improve the humidity conditions in the building and then also kind of come up with a long-term plan to you know without replacing all the equipment in the building but replacing the critical needs. So this touched the critical needs of the building. if there was any additional projects going forward, it wouldn't have to readress the stuff that we already done. So, we kind of we spent a lot of time going back and forth with the
015few meetings making sure that whatever the work we're going to do now, it's good for the next 20 to 30 years. It won't have to be touched again. Yep. Will any sections of the building that aren't currently climate controlled be climate controlled? And I'm thinking specifically of the gym at Southwest, which is very, very warm. Uh yes, this does. Um one of the might want to speak to this the So one of the things that's unique about this this opportunity to replace that air handling unit since it was so old um is that it it provides the ability to add air conditioning to that air handling unit and to that gym. So that you just made someone really happy. Yeah, that gym will have your as well. My youngest. You got a lot more time.
016I've got eight years there. That's great news. That's a good point. Really is. That's great news. There's no And I mean, it's it's internal. Every wall is internal wall in the gym, too. Like there's no venting to the outside unless it's Yeah, there's just two fans. You can either be hot or you can be here in that gym. You cannot do when those fans are going. Yeah. No, it's very loud. That's funny. Great question. Oh, that's exciting. Yes, super exciting. All right. Thank you so much, man. Good. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks for coming out. Yeah. Okay. Next, we have Jim Hennessy, and he's going to report up on our regarding our summer construction at Northwest School. I think you can tell what's been taking Jim Jim and Eric's time. Construction construction project. They're going to
017have a very busy summer. Awesome. We're going to start Northwest over spring break. Um we're trying to continue like we did at Northeast and Southeast with cosmetic upgrades, new flooring to paint. Um so starting over spring break, we are going to start removing some of the flooring at Northwest because there's a majority of the flooring at the school that um has asbestous underneath the tiles. So, we have to do abatement and then by doing some abatement over spring break once summer starts, this will give the flooring guys a whole section to start working on putting the new flooring down. Sure. And then they'll just follow along. So, um we got two bids on the um project. We took the the two lowest bids, but they're also very reputable companies. So, um, they'll be starting, like
018I said, over spring break. That actually the night of Good Friday is when they're starting. So, um, and they'll be working that whole week, packing it in. Okay. Um, and TEM Environmental, which is a company that we use, we've been using for years. They're overseeing the project, so they'll have their licensed IDPH um, representative there doing air samples all the time. And there's a a whole procedure on how they do it. And um then we'll be back the following weekend at spring break to put everything back. Wow. So um the new flooring will not be going down over spring break. Yeah. Just just so there will be a few weeks at Northwest where a couple classrooms and a couple offices have bare concrete floors. Obviously we're going to provide as many rugs as possible. Um
019sidewalk chalk. There you go. It's a good idea. Let the kids just I tell my kids all the time, I like the sidewalks too. They go outside. Suns and rainbows everywhere. Um we're also going to provide communication out to the staff and the community about the abatement because a lot of people have questions. Yes. Um it's very safe process. They've done it for us in other locations. There's really no need to worry, but I know some people when they hear asbestous get worried. Um, yeah, but we'll send out, we got communication from TEM, the people who are overseeing the whole project that we're going to send out to all the families and staff and everything. So, do you know I wrote that down and circled it air sampling because I would want to know if
020I was sending my kid back like absolutely and the staff and so they won't let anyone come back. No, that's really important. So, and that's we leave with that. It's going to be better and it's going to be safe. Right. By the time school starts in August, the building's gonna So exciting. Unfortunately, we won't be able to paint this summer because of the abatement. Oh, sure. Because we couldn't get it all on schedule. So, hopefully next summer we can go back in and finish the second half of the cosmetic upgrades by painting and um painting the lockers, giving them a fresh touchup and everything. Great. It really does a lot. We just had some tours of Northeast after the work that went on there and it just does so much to make the the building
021look new and fresh and just really came out great. So, I'm excited. We electrostatic painted the the lockers at Northeast and Southeast. It came out they look amazing. Awesome. Yeah. So, that's what we plan to do at Northwest, too. Um possibly before next summer maybe if we can find some time to get it squeeze it in but Christmas break. But yeah, I'm excited. It's going to be really busy between there southeast and southwest this summer. So, but that's good. Yeah, good thing. All good things. Yes, for sure. Anyone have any questions about the abatement process or anything? Are we also doing like pulling out the lockers and underneath of them or is that concrete already underneath? It's concrete under there. So, okay. Um there are there's one small section of um lockers by the prek
022area that we're going to take out because the flooring is underneath those, but the rest of the lockers we don't have to worry about. Excellent. So, thanks so much. Thanks. All right. Next up, we have an update from technology from Mr. Lee regarding our phone service. This is our current fix as well as upcoming recommendations for the April board meeting. I cheered when I got that email from you earlier this week. Not as loud as I did. I bet. Well, I T-Mobile. So, as you guys uh all received the uh the update um yesterday, uh we are confident uh as confident as we can be that the uh lines are cleared. Uh received no calls, no emails uh from any member of the community um after that email went out suggesting that uh there is
023still a outstanding issue. Um long process. Glad it's glad that part's done. Looking to the future, we're uh looking at phone system updates, upgrades. Uh our current system is incredibly outdated. Um the the release of uh call manager that we're using was released in uh 2014 and it received its last security update in 2019 or 20. um right in that break uh and it can no longer be uh updated in its current form or serviced. So, uh, moving forward, we need to, uh, for the safety and security of our students, replace the the system with something. Um, and, uh, after months, in fact, of research, we've, uh, I'm coming to you with a recommendation to, uh, move the district to, um, phone services by Rival 5. Um they are a um company that in the
024northern Illinois area has become very well known, well uh recommended by school districts. Um my the local tech director's group anytime we discuss phone systems, it is overwhelming positive um recommendation to move to Rival 5. Um uh once we spoke to Rival 5 and uh high school tech director um found out that we were talking to them uh he reached out to me and said, "Hey, let's talk about it and let's see if we agree u of the advantages that Rival 5 could could be and see what kind of partnership there might be available for us." Um, and they first came to uh my notice uh when uh we had COVID, they released some free options for communicating with uh families and allowing uh staff members to make phone calls from their um from their
025home and not publish their home numbers. Um um district I was with at the time didn't take advantage of it. that that was a um that was my first introduction and it went over really well amongst tech directors. Uh switching to the new to a new system um gives us some of the following. Um increasing uh safety um moving to a new call system allows us to uh improve our E911 capabilities to not just send an address uh when 911 is dialed but also the specific room number that is dialing. Um, we also have the ability with a new system to uh do all call pagings throughout the building integrating with the existing PA system, but also through the uh the installed phones and uh I let Dr. Woodland know she if if she really
026wanted to or needed to, she could do an all call across the district uh if if it came down to it. Um new system would increase our parent uh connectivity. Uh currently our AT&T system uh we max out at 22 lines. Um so we can across the district have 22 concurrent incoming outgoing calls. Um this new system we have 20 concurrent lines uh on a regular basis but they allow for um what they call bursting which would provide us with up to 60 at a time during those high call volume uh times mornings uh during during uh attendance time and of course things like that. Um the system would be um cloud-based um with some on premises hardware to do the integrations with the PA system for example. Um but having the cloud-based um with
027redundant connections to that um both with our internet redundancy and with their programming redundancy. Um and uh as I spoke uh one of the reasons Rival 5 is so highly recommended by tech directors is their customer service is phenomenal. Um if uh had we um been a customer of theirs when we started having this this uh recent issue, they would have been able to talk to the uh carriers where carriers won't talk to me because I'm not their customer. Um so with uh with that said um next board meeting uh we will be um recommending installation uh and per uh recommending uh a contract with Rival 5 uh for installation um this summer and for full implementation to be completed prior to this uh start of the school year. It's been a really busy summer.
028Yeah. Yeah. Really busy. Yeah. Yeah. Uh Dr. Will told me I could hire a couple of uh uh aids for the temporary aids for the summer. Uh because we we also have a few projects going on. Do each of the classrooms currently have a phone? Each classroom has a phone. Uh this system would replace each of those phones with a a newer version um that would allow for that all calling to take place. Um all the classroom phones will be in an automatic do not disturb mode. Uh so so when the um teachers walk in in the morning if they want to hear the phone ring they unless it's an emergency which there are overrides but uh they'll have to hit the take it off and do not disturb. So no interruptions in the classroom
029for parents who are dialing in. So, it is our um potential recommendation to bring this to the board for approval in April. It is currently being reviewed by the board's attorney and they did have some suggestions for the contract as well. And then from there, um bring it to you for finalization and then we would purchase the equipment. The equipment would be installed and then we look to get this up and running by next fall. Any questions for me? I hadn't realized that there were only 20 lines at any given like that's not that hearing you say I was like okay first of all no clue like I you know I feel like I should have known that that doesn't seem like enough 7 a.m. in flu season like how the the saving grace for
030most school districts is those phone calls especially for attendance are usually call connect say you know speak for 30 seconds and then leave your message you know hit nine whatever okay but uh I the three districts that I've worked at where I've had this experience with the phone system 2024 is is right average he had me at no security update since It really it really really is. Um I like the idea that we could do an all call if you had to. Um I think we've talked about um in the uh construction updates that every building needs updated PA phone system like all of all of them. Right. So I guess I'm going to use the Denise question making sure that any changes that we make will remain going forward. um and then be then
031be able to be expanded then perhaps. Uh so the contract we're looking at is a five-year contract with Rival 5 that um they they will extend contracts uh you know should should we appreciate their service. Um one of the local school districts has been a customer of theirs for 10 years now. Uh so that is not an issue. Um expand or or contract our service based on our needs. Um we can do that at any time um is what I'm I'm being told by the sales guy. Um they and we can go over uh for short periods u you know up to the year um if we need to like if we you know we build a new new school building we find we need 15 additional phones for that building we can go over
032for a short period and then adjust for the next period. Got it. Okay. That makes sense. Um, yeah, like I said, hearing what we will be expanding to made me recognize more of our limitations and I appreciate you doing all the scout work and um knowing all of that for us. So, are there any other uh comparative systems? So, uh when you get to voiceover IP, uh there's a lot that are very similar. Um, this system, um, has the advantages of the service behind it, um, and, um, has a lot of the safety bells and whistles that would cost more with other systems. Um, that being able to tie in into our PA system and do an all call with all the phones, that's that's an added bon or an add-on for a lot of
033other systems. So, that's considered. And how often would the u uh Are they going to are will they continue with the system upgrades? Yes. Um with the five-year contract, what it come what it would come with is um they would maintain all the software and firmware updates for all the phones and for the backend system. Um it's their system that they sell to other schools. So it's just part of their their daily upkeep uh for keeping everything up to date. So no falling behind in uh in updates because years without reason X Y or Z. Yeah. Okay. I have to imagine technologies changed a lot in these years, right? 2014. Yeah. Years. There's a lot of new technology. I hope so. Right. Um, and I imagine it's nice to think that like if 231 uses
034it as well, if there was ever if there was ever ever something, you've got somebody that can answer questions for you right there. And, you know, someday if there needed to be a all six schools kind of, you know, like we don't want that to happen, but if there was ever to be that day, it seemed like it could be possible that way. Of course, added layer of support. Yeah, definitely. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Dan. Okay. Okay. Next up on the agenda is the school calendar, which is an action item on today's agenda for the 2526 school year. You have a paper copy in front of you, but I'm going to go through the highlights by each month. So, in August, our new staff will start August 13th, and we also have our
035D124 academy, which is for new teacher inductions. Teacher Institute Day will be three consecutive days um as typical. This is also recommended by our union and um Dr. Carlson for training purposes. Our first day of student attendance is August 21st. Jumping to September, we have only one observed holiday which is September 1st. In October, we have our institute day on the 10th and we have an observed holiday on October 13th. Our quarter 1 ends October 24th. This was recommended by our dirt committee to move our quarter one back one week and that was mainly to make each of our quarters um consistent in length um for grading purposes. In November, we have an observed holiday on November 11th. We and we have evening parent teacher conferences November 24th and morning parent teacher conferences November 25th.
036Um and that is during Thanksgiving week. Then when we jump to December, I love three full weeks of instruction. It makes me super happy before Christmas break. So winter break begins the week of December 22nd. And then in January we do return to classes. Um, we have institute day on the 6th and classes resume on the 7th. Quarter 2 ends January 16th and we have an observed holiday January 19th. We had quite a bit of discussion around not having attendance on the 5th. Um, with that being said, we did reach out to the high school and they also have Monday the 5th off. Um so we did follow their schedule as well which was board approved last month. In um February 26th we have an observed holiday. Oh that should say the 16th. Sorry typo.
037And in March we have our lovely Kashmir Palaski day that everyone looks forward to. Your favorite holiday. It is. It's just this holiday that comes out of nowhere and I think everyone needs it. Nohere else celebrates this. But you're always not even in the surrounding. You need it, right? I grew up in Michigan. Indiana. My hometown has nobody. A lot of people don't know. Chicago has the highest Polish population outside of Warsaw. Yes. And so Casmir Pilaski is special here for that reason. I love it. Our newspaper. I'm like, what is that about? You scheduled meetings on that day. You didn't realize that kid. There you go. Um, quarter 3 ends March 20th. And then we have our half-day parent teacher conferences March 27th. And then jumping to April, our spring break Easter is much
038earlier. That was again a topic of conversation with our union. Um however, we are still recommending that we follow the same spring break as the high school um and also local um parochial schools. Um so we will have spring break starting April 3rd and then we will resume classes on the 13th. And that leads us to May. Our quarter um four ends May 29th. We have clerical day June 1st and our last day of student attendance is June 4th, which is pretty good to end the year on June 4th. I'll take it. Denise has a question. That's I guess Michael. That was Michael. I was just anticipating knowing wants to plan her summer vacations. I know she does. Oh my gosh. Knowing that we follow the high school spring break makes it a little easier
039for me because a lot of people have kids in both districts and you just don't the inconvenience that that can cause where you have like one parent's got to take off a week and the other one's back like we got to try and work with our with our families as well. So I get but I always feel the high school get take gets to take charge of that. Yeah. They're done earlier though too. Isn't that the same? Yeah, it's the same thing as the high school and then we're like, well, spring break, but we do it the same. Always have it the last March. The same week every Yeah, I think it's it's hard. Um, you know, this year I would say this next year it looks appropriate. I think early April's fine. Oh, yes.
040My administrative team is like we have five weeks until spring break, but we will make it. I promise. We have a little bit. You You'd like spring break and then you're done. Yeah. You've got May like that. My spring break's next week. The benefit is is hopefully there will be nicer weather here for people who are not is the dream, right? And storming. We're shaking our heads. You know, there's snow project. Let the record show that I do not. Oh, yeah. Tomorrow morning. Tomorrow. We can do a lot of things, but we can't predict the weather. So, that's okay. Any questions about the calendar? And just uh it has gone through dirt. So we had uh we had discussion um we have people present from every building. Yep. Um so they've uh it's um been
041reviewed and discussed and adjusted um per their requests as well already. So this is the um collective genius of a lot of folks already. So y all right. Next on the agenda is DuPage West Cook member district board discussion. Um so there is a resolution for board action tonight. I'm going to briefly speak to um that resolution. I'd like to call this just a transactional item that board work that we need to accomplish. But to give everyone context, the DuPage West board has been critical in developing programming for the needs of our deaf and heart of hearing and visually impaired students. Um, this resolution, just so you know, is coming directly from our AROW cooperative, which we are part of. But that board, DUP page West Board, is composed of 92 member districts and they
042support cooperatives and member districts in providing these supports to our deaf and heart of hearing students. Through the years, um, the board has transitioned from overseeing the daily operations of the programs to an advisoryformational board. um responsibility of the board includes directly overseeing these programs. They do not maintain any assets or liability and it does not collect assessments from its member districts and essentially we don't pay them anything directly. All of our funding goes directly to Arrow. Um committee member membership will continue to be composed of member district representatives and who sits on that board in our seat um would be Bill Roslin from the Arrow team. program will continue to be provided and no interruptions of services will will occur. Um but to speak generally what they're having a hard time with is they're
043not even getting a quorum to vote. 92 that's a lot. So many people really Yeah. They're not getting the people they're not getting a board to show up and so they're looking to transition it from like an acting governing board superintendent to show up on the same day a simple majority. Wow. Yes. Um, so essentially they'll still do all the work. They're just going to be an overseeing of advisory as opposed to like a voting board if that makes sense. And that's what the resolution speaks to. So as a member district, we need to take action on the resolution that resolves the proposed amendments um and agreement that's attached to the agenda for this evening. And you had provided four different documents, supporting documents uh in our email last week. Yep. I'm just saying that
044so I'm not going to read the three-page or the 23 page. No need. We'll just I just Yeah. Um so yeah, we've I was like 23 pages. Um that makes so much more sense. Yes. When that was provided last week, I'm like please explain this to me. I'm not understanding. So, okay, that makes so much more sense now. Thank you so much. Y So, we will be voting on that um in our consent agenda. Yeah. Questions? No, it makes sense now. Yeah, it I was fled. I know, right? Yeah. I was like, okay, I don't know what this means. Can you Yes. shed some light. So, great. Thank you. Okay. And last update, we have an IASB established board member leader recognition and that is to Miss Colleen Climsac. We have a frame for you
045today. I'm going to read a little blurb. So, congratulations, Colleen, on receiving the IASB board leader recognition certificate. IASB recog recognizes schoolboard members for individual time and effort devoted to learning and leadership activities provided by the association and for service to the public education community. Yes, you do all this for free. Wait, what? Um, so individuals that earn board leader recognition status are recognized at ISB during the spring division meeting. So, thank you so much for everything. Thank you. Congratulations. It's very shiny. Like I don't know what I did to do that, but I'm established now. Look at that. It only took seven and a half years. You have one regular left. But thank you. That is it's it's very I told I told Sonia I said we need to frame this. It's very I'm
046like, "Okay, this is pretty." Um No, that's awesome. Yes. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Yes. All right. Next up, we have Eric Fy. Hello there. We had two foyers last month. One from Smart Procure and one from the Chicago Land Labor District Council. Both those have been completed. Statement of expenditures, pretty consistent expenditures from other months. Salar benefits took up majority. Um looking to start seeing a lot less supplies, materials going forward towards the end of the school year. But also with the capital projects, expect for that to go up a little bit because we have the spring break project coming up. Statement of revenues, um, we started to receive some tax money that we were expecting to see this semester, which is good. Um, one thing that I did do to change this chart
047just so we could see the comparison from this year and last year is I took out the transfer in from the bond. It's just so and I highlighted in yellow. So that's just the working cash revenue outside the bond revenue just to show the percentages to show that at this moment at the end of February this year we're at 65% of our projected revenues and then at February of last year it's 62% because it was inflating. Yeah, it was at 82% with it. So I just wanted to I got you switch it back. Oh, that makes sense. So the money didn't disappear. No, it's just in in the transfer column without that money in we are at pace where we should be. Okay, that makes sense. Thanks. And as a result, the fund balance has
048gone up just slightly because we received the tax revenues. Any questions? No. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next, we have Dr. Muller coming up. Hello. Place of Dr. Carlson. That's why I was I know the role of Dr. Carlson. We be played by Dr. Mohler this evening. Yeah, but it's gradu grad graduation. Yep. So, we have a graduation update. So, that'll be Thursday, May 29th at 6 p.m. Still at the Shannon Center at St. Xavier. Um, we did our tour a couple weeks ago and I know last year we had like a special parking lot that we could park in. Um, they're no longer doing that. So, just so you know. We can still park in lot too, but they're not doing the special. Yeah. So, I didn't put that in here,
049but I just remembered that. I thought I should tell you that. Um, so eighth graders will receive five tickets like they did last year. Um, and they will receive those the day before graduation at graduation practice at Central. Um, students will arrive between 5 and 5:30 on May 29th. And then all guests will enter the Shannon Center at the south entrance and then doors will open for families at 5:15. And then um just because we know five tickets might not be enough for everyone, um Dan is so kindly setting up a live stream for us. So we will be able to have a link for families to be able to live stream for out of town guests or anyone who can't make it. Awesome. Any questions about graduation? Okay, I'm still up here for another
050thing. So Okay. Um, and I will be um, now that we have that, the board always looks at the names ahead of time because we tend to invite people like if there was a family member or something from a past board member. So, I will be poking you a little for some information about that. And whatever you need from the board of education, please ask. You'll still be doing your speech, right? Well, because she will need that. I I will no longer be on the board as of May 29th. So it will be somebody else. Um I still have him like from years past that will be collectively decided and then Dr. Woodlin will speak. Yes. So there you go. So there will be a there will be a speech is Yes. So is the
051point but yeah not necessarily me. Um so we'll walk through and I'm just prefacing that. So, I'm going to be asking for things, but please know that you can absolutely ask for things as well. So, thanks. Great. Sure. Thanks. So, now I'm going to talk about fifth grade transition. Um, so in April, um, I'm going to send a letter directly to fifth grade families. um that shares more about central schedule, um expectations for parent communication, sports and clubs opportunities, a little bit more about our cool tools, live school, um and just especially if you've never had a middle schooler, it'll just essentially give you just a brief overview of everything to expect. Um in May, uh administration is still going to host um like presentations at all the elementarymentaries. So I'll coordinate with the other
052principles to push in to meet all the fifth grade students. Um and that is to introduce ourselves so we get facetime with the students, share more about central and then also we do a Q&A. So we any questions that they have um we answer. And then in May, we'll also share an amazing video that Ally Banks made last year where she interviewed um her former students that were current sixth graders last year that essentially shared more about um all the things they were thinking about when they were in fifth grade and like anything that fifth graders need to know. Um you know, like Central Middle School's pizza is really good. So all the important stuff data points. And then we're also going to share and this was Dr. Wooden's suggestion. We're going to share too
053with families the video that we shared um last month at the board meeting the um essentially like students sharing how they feel welcomed at school and thank you to staff. So then parents especially if they don't have kids at central or um haven't experienced us directly then they can see from the students perspective how they feel essentially at central and then in June um Elizabeth Rap worked hard on that last year answering like frequently asked questions that they get. So I'll share that on June. So, it'll kind of be like a slow roll out of everything. Oh, and then I forgot step up day. Sorry. So, that's important. That's a huge day. So, we'll be doing step up day again May 30th. So, that's going to be the half day. So, all the current fifth
054graders will come to CMS um and they'll come with their fifth grade teacher to essentially experience Central for the first time. And then our current sixth graders will step up to meet their seventh grade teachers. And then the current seventh graders will also step up to meet the um eighth grade teachers. So, it'll be a fun day all around. Um, last year we did get the fifth graders pizza in the cafeteria. So, we're going to do that again. And then last year on the last day of school, the students raised enough money to buy the water bottles because we did that walk-athon and we were able to buy enough for the incoming sixth grade class. So, they'll get some as well on step up day. That's awesome. Great. Yeah. We do such a good job.
055Um, we didn't Okay, I'm old. like my kids like they went there and they went like that was it. First day was first day. We do such a good job of onboarding our students and our families and that is just huge. Um thank you for all that you do. That's amazing. It's a team effort. It is. It is. But I appreciate the team. So that's good. It answers a lot of questions before which is I think is critical especially as kids are transitioning you know from one building to the next or grandmother to the next. just the the smoother it is, the less hiccups we had along the way. And the parents like it is scary if you've not had a a middle schooler before. Uh you know, if you if you aren't familiar, your
056kids might be like they might have been there for various events or something. But, you know, letting the parents feel more comfortable about it too, it just decreases anxiety and answers the whatifs. And I just think that's huge. So, I think I panicked uh when my daughter first went there because I didn't know what she was going to do after school. Oh, yeah. you know, and then because I think a thing that needs to be brought up to parents ahead of time is like homework haven, you know, doesn't start right away. Yeah. It starts a couple weeks later. And then also there's other places they could go like the library, you know, or the rec center, you know, those are things I had all figure out. You know, it would be nice like if the
057parents were informed like, hey, these are some places if you can't we can add it to the FAQ. Get your kids right away, you know. Yeah. Like because that was my big thing like, oh, what am I going to do? because I always send them to extend a day, right? You know, and there's no extended day after school at the middle school. There are activities, but it's just like days and I get it. But but there is the library, you know, and there's and like you said, you had to figure it out, wouldn't you? It would have been nice like to know because I started I think it probably bothered everyone like when does this happen? When does this start? Yeah, of course. You're not the only person who asks those questions. So, if we
058could add that to the list. Y. All right. Great. Thank you so much. Next, we have Miss Verir to talk about summer school. Good evening. Summer summer is coming and um Carrie and I are leading summer school. It's going to be at Northeast similar to what we've done the last few years. So June 10th to July 10th there are holidays in there. Junth um July 3rd and 4th are off. Staff hours are 8:15 to 11:45. Students hours are 8:30 to 11:30. Um teachers are currently completing recommendations for extended school year if you have an IEP or for summer school. Once we know um all of those recommendations, we then send invitation letters to all the families and once we kind of know the numbers for summer school, we then look at the staffing needs which
059we usually decide like the beginning of May. So that's the quick summer school update. Any questions? Great. Very efficient. Thank you. All right. Miss Terrell is going to report out on neurodeiversity spirit week. Hello. Hi. How are you? Doing all of our spring updates, spring and summer updates. So, we are doing neurodeiversity spirit week again. This time we are moving it to May opposed to last year we did in April. We're kind of wanting to align it with our special special Olympics culminating event. Um so again, we are doing lessons for all K through 8th grade students focusing on inclusion. Um elementary lessons are done by grade. They'll be done throughout the month of May and our assistant principles Katherine Casperitz and Megan Frankle will be doing those the north and south buildings. Um at
060CMS we have already started the sixth grade lessons. Um they are being done during advisory and class by class. So we started early because it takes longer. We'll move to seventh grade and then we'll move to eighth grade. Um those are being done by um Grace Havner, BCBA, Amanda Hatar, DEI coordinator and then Dean Johnson and Smith. Um we are also doing um spirit week with daily themes. So this is similar to last year our daily themes. Um Monday movement Monday. Um Tuesday is tie-dye Tuesday, Wednesday wear your passion Wednesday, Thursday thinking kept Thursday and Friday feel good Friday. Um that was pretty a pretty big hit and we had some really great pictures and passion Wednesday was really interesting um to see what people came up with. So those are daily themes and then
061we are also doing neurodeiversity um t-shirt. So this year we purchased the t-shirts from High-5 Heights. Um I'm not sure if anyone is familiar with High Five Heights, but they are um from school district 218. They're the adult transition program. So, they're in Palis Heights. So, we um partnered with them this year to create, you can't really see very well, but um it says celebrate neurodiversity and it has the EP family on the front and then in the back it says awareness, acceptance, inclusion. Um so, we're still last year we did put those out for families. We have staff shirts, but we are um coordinating to with them to see what it would look like if we put them out for um our families purchasing and whatnot. The logistics of that. So, we're still working
062that out. We have a little time. Um but I just wanted to kind of review some of the the lessons that we're creating. You can go ahead. Sorry. So, the K through2 lesson is inclusion is for everyone. This is just Okay. So, um the lesson is just the agenda is kind of what is inclusion? Um discussing how they can include others. They're going to read can I play too? And then they do a story discussion. Um then they do listen and reflect. So there's going to be some scenarios kind of how how would you feel in a little brief scenario like you know Tommy was the only one not invited to the party. Turn and talk to your to your peers. um and a share out and then they're going to do an activity, draw
063a picture, write a situation where you have included another person and then a wrapup. So that's the K through two lesson um inclusion and neuro diversity, the three through five lesson. So they are going to review what new neurodeiversity is. They are going to read the book included. Um they're going to discuss how to include others and then their inclusion activities. Each student will get an in um gets a colorful handprint, writes one way to include others, and then they can make the infinity symbol on the wall in the school hallway. And just a quick review um just a quick note, they we do purchase the the books too for each of the I think a couple of the books for each of the li school libraries as well. So um and then the sixth
064grade lesson is um the same as the m what the middle school did last year. So, neurodeiversity, love minds of all kinds. Um, so again, the lessons are about 15 to 20 minutes. They're done during advisory. The goal of the lesson is to introduce the concept of neurodiversity, give students tools um to give others grace and understanding. So, this is um the last one is where they watch the float Disney clip um which talk about the purpose of the presentation. They do a self assessment. So the seventh and eighth graders will have a different one this year which is neurodeiversity and inclusion. Um so again they're going to define neurodeiversity define define diversity define neurodeiversity um talk about examples and they're going to watch a TED talk the future of um the future is neurode
065divergent um the power of kindness and inclusion and then they are going to do an activity like how to promote inclusion in their school and community um drawing or writing it on um a sticky note how they can practice that in their school or community. The goal is to have each grade have their own um lesson. So, next year we'll have second, fifth, and eighth grade will have their own lesson and then obviously this year um we'll have these lessons too. So, the goal is to everyone will have their own. So, recycling some new for others is also we're very excited about it. It's usually a very colorful week. Nice. Anyone have any questions? Great. Thank you so much. I was just explaining neurodiversity to a young adult because they didn't have that when they
066were in school, right? And how they missed us. So, so grateful. Thank you so much. Okay, I have things to say. Okay. So, we are on to public comments. Um, per board of education policy 2230, a few reminders specifically about the logistics for 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 very 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 them. We listen to and we take into account all community member concerns. If there is a specific
067question that comes up that we can respond to after the meeting, we will do so in a timely manner. And we do have a public comment and um so Miss Peele. Yes. Would you like to approach or do you can do it from there too? Okay. Wherever you're comfortable. So um we do stick with the I can't wait to hear what you want to know and I don't think I have the answers for it but I'm going to get them for you. Okay. So I just wanted to like put Eric on the spot so he can answer. Yeah. Um, I have received one of these in the mail. Almost didn't pay attention to it, but then I saw uh saving peak taxpayers. So, I did a little research. I saw that Mayor Burke and Senator
068Cunningham were instrumental in trying to pass legislation for it. So, I attended the meeting Monday uh with the village and so I asked that question to Mayor Burke. She explained to me that yes, we were instrumental in it, but I couldn't really give you any numbers. I really can't answer the question. So, she said, you know, you would have to get that information from district 124. So, I've never been, this is my first meeting. So, um, I explained to her, I said, "Well, I don't know about everyone else, but you know, my taxes were 4500 for six months." So, then that means I'm going have to pay it again in another six months. And, you know, to me, that's pretty high. And I could read the room when I said that Monday, and I could
069tell everyone in the room was like, "That's a lot." I could just tell everybody no one else was really paying that. And so I'm like, "Okay, someone suggested, well, you need to put in your homeowner exemption." I said, "That is what the homeowner exemption is." So when I saw this information, I said, "Okay, I really want to know exactly how this works." And that's what Mayor Burke, she said. I I really couldn't tell you. You have to get that from district 124. So I really want to know exactly know some detailed information how this works. I saw something about abatement. I saw something like I think maybe district 24 had I think it was like six million and maybe the high school had 11 million but I don't know exactly how it works and I
070want to know what kind of impact it is actually going to have on my real estate taxes because they're really getting high and if you're saying that it's going to decrease I want to know how fair enough. Can I applaud and appreciate you for going to a village board meeting and for coming here to ask your questions. Um, I really really appreciate all of that. Um, and I said my part about not responding, but we do often have that information. So, what do you think? I think we should schedule a meeting to actually give her the detailed information that she needs. And I also think because if you're asking, other people are as well, that we will also put that out in some of our communications to not just families in with children in the
071district, but to EP, right? So, we need to be better in the district. I know that. And so, we need to be better about making that public for everyone. Um, because again, if you are asking the question, other people are as well. And it means we haven't communicated that well enough. So, so I can I have your number. Would you mind um maybe after or if you don't want to stick around, that's fine, too. If I may have your cell phone number and um we can Yeah, she can give it to Sonia. Oh, that'd be great. Yeah, if you if we could set that up. Dr. Woodland would be happy to set that up. We can make sheets just offered um so it's not going to be exactly a phone call. just be a phone
072call setting up a meeting so I can come in or I can call you directly whatever works best for you probably in person well really help if I could have some transparency like some documents so I can see exactly you know where the money is going how it's going to affect you know I know we affect me so I would I would like to see yes of course we have discussed it at past board meetings um so it's in our minutes but it still might be a description versus the actual document ments. So again, if if you are asking the question, other people are as well. And so we need to be better about sharing that out. So So thank you so much. I really do appreciate that. Do we have any other Okay. Awesome.
073Okay, we are on to board reports. Yes, Miss Jones. Sure. Yeah, sure. Very light um arrow for meeting on Monday. Um they still have several job openings. Um um they approved the um 2025 2026 school calendar. Um and that's really it. Not a lot. Um, Rachel mentioned something about a library. Did anyone know that Arrow does not have a library? Oh. Oh my gosh. No. What? Did anyone recognize that? No. Seriously. There is no Even though school is huge. We've taken so many tours. Wow. I And we were there. We were there several times. Like multiple times. I'm there all the time. And no library. Wow. Do they have something like the med like central has you know the the media center versus the library? No. No. No library. I could they designed the school
074without incorporating the library. So one of the teachers Oh my goodness. one of the teachers uh came up and she brought a lot of books to the school and and she asked for a lot of donation asked for donations and it's so funny because she told the whole story. My mouth is open. I I can't I guess because they never put two and two together either. They just develop they just used they developed a system a library shelving system with crates out of crates and okay it started off and so they build from and build you know and they have a little library they have a they call it a they call it a not so secret library that's clever it's a not so secret library that has grown to over 4,000 books books. Oh
075my gosh. To them. They have a system that and uh that was made uh a processing system and procedure for scanning the books and they have student library workers to help the students to come to the I I just don't understand where this where that was missing. I'm calling it a mobile library because there's no set room for it and so it's like they put the shelving together in the hallway and then move it back into whatever room and they do that Tuesday through Friday night. I mean it's really great. It is. But that's how we learned that Arrow doesn't have I mean it's K to 12. Like that is a broad range of of reading. Wow. Yes. Right. Like but they are the teachers are doing a very good job with structuring it. Yeah.
076And you know having a check out system. The important thing is kids are still going to have access to books. Absolutely. And so now they are in the process of uh the uh coming up with a procedure where they could just go to push the books that the students may be looking you know for like popular books. Oh sure push it via cart to every room so the kids can choose that way. But yeah there's no li there is now. There is there is now there's now a not so secret a not secret library. That's amazing. That's great. Yes. There's soundproof rooms. There's light therapy. Water. They have a library. Oops. Oh, and none of us realized it. They did the presentation. No, we like we didn't question it. Like where's the library? Okay. There's
077a library. Yeah. Yeah. Did her have a library before? I'm not sure. It doesn't sound like they weren't either. They were individual um schools, right? Yeah, they were. They did have like an an arrow center. Yeah, they had an arrow center. I don't recall if they had a library in it or not. I don't feel like they did. Yeah. Yeah. Because otherwise you would have and you at least have the books, right? That was my thought is what happened to the old books? But maybe there were I don't know if they missed that. I love that it was compelling enough that we needed to have a library that the teachers that they made it happen like that is they are making it happening very good. Yeah. I'm just amazed because my my son at home
078he got a he must have like 4,000 books right now. It's ridiculous. But he has bookshelves and bookshelves and bookshelves and they're on the the Dogman series or whatever it is. Everybody loves this. I bought 15 Dog Man books and literally or whatever. He enjoys reading or someone reading to him. So I'm just amazed that it's not maybe classrooms had in their classroom. Yeah. Maybe maybe mobile. Yeah. Well, now now it's you know they they're you know trying to come up with a mobile system which is good. Amazing. Okay, that is not worth it. Thank you for sharing that. Uh, okay. District review team, February 24th. That was me. We actually did have a dirt meeting that month because we were discussing the calendar. I don't know if we would have had a well, we
079had one other item on there, too. So, Dr. Woodland has shared the calendar. um that was the main topic of conversation at that meeting. Um and so you've already gotten that information. I always like dirt. Um I like the celebrations from each of the buildings. That's always kind of cool. And then there was one topic that was discussed and that was the role of interventionist and instructional coaches at each of the buildings. And so um the question was how are the roles uh determined? Are there district expectations for instructional coaches or do the individual schools determine how much time is spent on interventions and instructional coaching? And the answer is yes. There is obviously a job description and expectation for the instructional coaches. Um, and both can be true. Each building also uses the instructional
080coaches how they're needed for the staff and students in that building. Mhm. So there's a, you know, a basic understanding um and and we all come from the same place, but each of the buildings might need um help in different areas. And so um that is the answer. So job description, but responsibilities and roles vary per building based on needs of students and staff. So there we go. And our next meeting should be next Monday, but I haven't heard Monday, but I haven't received anything. So maybe we don't have enough. I do not know. I could tell you tomorrow, but I do not know today. Um so yeah, there we go. Um insurance committee extremely functional meeting. Awesome. I think everybody came in, sat down, Eric shared some information, everyone walked away happy. Um, essentially
081there was the uh true Bluec Cross Blue Shields HMO Illinois no longer is working with Advocate Medical Group which would cause some local families to have issues. Eric did all the leg work with Gemma and they found out that there's a Blue Advantage HMO plan um which includes Advocate. Everything's going to be the same between the two plans. So, they're going to open an open enrollment period. So families who want to switch over because they use Advocate can do that. Um everybody said, "Well, that's it." And we went home. That is highly functional. Yeah, it was great. I was like, wasn't for that training been done three and a half minutes earlier. That would have been a big deal though. I mean, that is that's a really That would have been a really big deal.
082Oh yeah. I will say walking again like hats off to you too for like taking care of that where I mean there was no questions like oh you guys already figured out the solution. Easy. That's nice. It's why we're here. Awesome. Yep. Solutions. Now everyone wants to know what kind of insurance they have. Just going in our pocket like Oh, I know. I went and questioned right away when I found that out, but we have we have the one you guys switched to. Yeah. Good. All right. I will have that one soon. Okay. Um Okay. So, thank you. Um Mulcron's scholarship update and be board of education be evergreen contribution whatever word. It's a long name. It's a long name. So, um you all I shared what Dan shared with me. We had uh seven
083total students um apply for we had six apply for Mcronone and one apply for the be ever be evergreen. Um I highly greatly enjoyed reading through everybody's application. You gave them the option, David Shepard. You gave them the option of doing a video and not one of them took them up. I said I'm like people are still going to want to write and but I was looking forward to getting videos actually. I said oh I was kind of hoping we have a video. I know. So you get you try. We try. You gave them the option. We'll keep trying. I keep you know as technology keeps going they're going to right right easier and easier. So um so be ever evergreen we heard from um Nolan Yakabelli. I don't want to ruin that last name.
084And then for the MRone scholarship, we had Todd Harris, Dinari Jones, uh Jane Mutter, Chisum Nuo, Jaden Nelson, and Aaron Pineo. Perfect. So, um and they had a range of I mean, you guys all saw those too. So, we had everything from EP football, we had um basketball. Yeah, we had basketball, we had art camp, we had um another EP football, Macaui volleyball, Southside shooters, and um D124 sports camp, elite volleyball, other soccer camps. We got some overachievers at Central like sheesh. Um and yes, Dr. Woodland. I asked her multiple times to blast your families at Central Middle School and students with that the application and things like that. So, if they felt heranged, I apologize. Um, so what are we thinking? There was only one that was over the 500 limit. Um, and that
085was 600. So, um, I mean, we set 500 and I'm comfortable with sticking with 500. Yeah. Because that's what we said. Y, but otherwise wishes granted. Oh, absolutely. That's what I said. I love this game. Amazing. Okay, neat. That's the most fun email we get to write all year. Congratulations. We will be happy to. And Sonia, I imag imagine that we'll do it the same way we did it last year. And they register and then send you the information for um reimbursement. Okay. Oh, is the as the limit as the So on the application it says 500 because last year we had 12 and we also added you know another fund. So we just wanted to um so yeah on the application we said 500 and I again I think only one of the students
086asked for it was and it was still just 600. So um but if you're comfortable with that I will send those out tomorrow and make some famil family's days. So thank you guys for that and next year we'll just be ready to there were I think we in the meeting before the meeting. So we were discussing that we had two parents do the application process because we were sending the information to parents and students. Um and so we'll add a option on the pull down menu of self and teacher and parent like that seems only fair. And your young man wrote a very nice application. Did a good job. Okay. You know, he did a good job. It was in I like getting it in their voices, too, you know. So, awesome. Okay. So, I
087believe we have a um approve. Yeah. So, item F on the uh consent agenda is to approve the Mulcrone and um the B the contributions. So, all right. And then um okay, item F is discussion of seating the new board meeting date. Um so elections are April 1st open uh early voting has already begun in Oaklan. So there you go. Um so how it works is the the uh election day is Tuesday, April 1st. Um we have not we uh Cook County um board of elections takes 21 days to confirm the election results and then we have three weeks after that to seat the new board. So I have a few dates that I can recommend if y'all can check your calendars. Um so possible dates are Tuesday, April 29th, which is Yeah. So Tuesday,
088Wednesday, April 30th, which was a strategic plan meeting. Um, Monday the 5th or Tuesday the 6th. Those are my suggestions. Does anybody have a problem? I can't do the fifth. You can't do the fifth. Okay. I was going to say it's easier to tell me who has a problem with them versus who's okay with them. I would not recommend the sixth because we have elementary registration that night. For some reason, I'm thinking the 30th is a no. Well, the 30th was a no. Strategic plan. It was supposed to be strategic plan. Now it's not. So now it's not that's just kidding. Right. So maybe you were available on the We were available on the 30th already. So I was going to that was a strong suggestion and that's a short meeting. It's a Wednesday which
089I like the consistency. Oh, that's true. That's true. All right. Change the title on that. Well, yes, we'll change that. That's pretty funny. Um and then I'll walk through the like the organ. there's um oaths and things like that, but that will be much closer to that date. So, cool. That was easy. All right. So, Wednesday the 30th, we'll do um can we pick a start time for the meeting? Yeah. 5 6 5 4:30 on here. Oh. Oh. Strategic one says 4:30. Strategic was earlier. I'd rather later. Okay. and the 4:30. Okay. Um, for regular 5:30. Okay, that was easy. That was the least official uh vote ever. I'm really sorry. Okay, you can vote however you want as long as it implies your answer. So, thumbs up words. Well, we didn't actually uh Yeah,
090we didn't. It's not a there's not an action item on there. So, okay. So, calendar 5:30. Yep. Okay, cool. All right, we'll do that. Thank you. And we talked about that. Okay, so we are now on to our consent agenda if there's nothing further. So, um action items. Consent agenda item A is to one, approve the monthly transaction reports for February of 2025. Number two is to approve the fund balance reports for February of 2025. Item three is to approve expenditure report and projected payroll report for March of 2025. Number four is to approve the board minutes for the regular meeting of February 19th, 2025. Number five is to approve the closed session minutes from the regular meeting of February 19th, 2025. Number six is to approve the destruction of closed session tapes from November
091of 2020. And number seven is personnel recommendations um as listed on our agenda um additions FMLA resignations. We do have other action items regarding those as well, but those are later on. So if I could have um a first motion to approve consent agenda item A, please. Motion approve consent agenda item A. Excellent. And a second. Second. Thank you. And a roll call, please. Dr. Michael Thomas. Yay. Michael Miller, yes. Jones, yes. Rachel Marqu, yes. Shepard, yes. Yay. Yes. Excellent. Um, item B is to approve Precision Control Systems, Inc. proposal for Southwest School HBAC upgrades that we had in our packet and we also heard from Matt regarding this evening. um in the amount of $918,000. If I could have a first motion, please to approve that proposal. Motion to approve agenda item B. Thank
092you. And second. Enthusiastically second. And a roll call, please. Dr. Michael, yes. Mike Wall Miller, yes. Jones, yes. Rachel Maroqu, yes. David Shepard, yes. Lauren Der, yay. Colleen Cleac, yes. Motion passed. Excellent. Item C is to approve DLA's architect's bid recommendation for the 2025 flooring replacement project. Thank you, Jim Hennessy. At Northwest of total contract amount, including the base bid and alternate number one and award the project to Diversify Pro, Inc. for the combined total amount of $399,000 323. If I could have a first motion, please to approve agenda item C. Thank you. And a second. Second. Thank you. And a roll call. Dr. Michael Thomas. Yes. Michael W. Miller. Yay. Denise Jones. Yes. Rachel Maro. Yes. David Shepard. Yes. Lauren Dow. Yay. Colleen Clemson. Yes. Motion passed. Awesome. Item D is to approve the
093school calendar as reviewed um for the 2526 school year as presented. A first motion, please. I'll make the motion. And a second. Second. And a roll call. Richard Marquin, yes. Dr. Michael Thomas, yes. Lauren Dow, yay. David Shepard, yes. Denise Jones, yes. Michael Waller, y Colleen Climz, yes. Motion pass. Excellent. Item E is to approve the resolution uh approving proposed amendments to the Depage West Cooperative as intergovernmental agreement as discussed. I'll make the motion. Thank you. And a second. Second. And a roll call. Denise Jones, yes. Dr. Michael Thomas, yes. Lauren Dowen, yay. David Shepard, yes. Rachel Marort, yes. Michael Miller, yay. Colleen Climz, yes. Great. I see that there's both listed here. I thought they were together. Um, item F is to approve our Judy Mulcron scholarship recipients time six. If I could have
094a first motion, please. I'll make the motion and a second. Second. And a roll call. Rachel Marqu, yes. Dr. Michael Thomas, yes. Amy Shepard, yes. Lauren Dow, Denise Jones, yes. Mike Waller, yay. Colleen Clea, yes. Motion pass. Great. Item G is to approve our newly formed B. Evergreen board of education contribution award recipient. If I could have a first motion, please. I'll make the motion. Great. And a second. Second. And yes. Dr. Michael Thomas. Yes. Lauren Den. David Shepard. Yes. Denise Jones. Yes. Mike Wer. Colleague Cleac. Yes. Motion passed. Great. Thank you. Page three. Uh um if I could have a first mo sorry. So item H is to approve the board of education donation to Evergreen Reads not to exceed 2450 for the purchase of The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. I read that
095book. It's so good. Right. It's so good. Oh, it was delightful. Um and I have a friend who's working on the movie, so I'm like, how do I somehow make that? Like he's out in LA. I was like, how do I make that work? Um, and Eric provided that we spent $2,312.75 on the Evergreen Reads initiative. So, um, if I could have a first motion to approve not to exceed $2450 for the purchase of those books, please. Motion to approve item H. Thank you. And a second. A second. And a roll call. Dr. Michael Thomas. Yes. Rachel Maroquith, yes. Shepard, yes. Lauren Den, yay. Denise Jones, yes. Mike Weler, Colleen Clea, yes. Motion passed. Excellent. Okay. Uh, next we will recess to close session to discuss the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of
096specific employees of the district or legal counsel for the district, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee or against legal counsel for the district to determine its validity pursuant to oh, the open meetings act. I'm just going to do it that way. Um, we do take action after our um, close session, but I have no idea how long that may be and how late that may be. And we will not be resuming the live stream at that point. So, um, make a motion to recess to close session. Thank you. Excellent. And a Does anyone object to the previous role? Excellent. All right. Motion passed. Well done. favorite personal that you learn.