Fenton High School Board of Education Meeting, July 23, 2025

001I'd like to call the July 23rd, 2025 regular board meeting of fifth community high school district 100 board. May I have a roll call? >> Matube >> here. >> McCullo >> here. >> Good >> here. >> Miller, >> yep. >> Lewis >> here. >> Rosinski >> here. >> Figuroa >> here. >> We have a court. Please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. Pledge algiance 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. >> Sam, please read our Fenton mission beliefs and bikes and way statements. >> Absolutely. Fenton mission statement. Cultivate successful, passionate, empowered learners through rigor, relevance, and relationships. Fenton belief statement. Successful, passionate, empowered learners thrive when we provide a safe, caring, and

002welcoming environment. Diversity, equity, and inclusion unify our community. School and home collaborate is one. We champion innovative teaching and engaged learning with state-of-the-art facilities. We infuse social emotional learning into academics and culture. We prepare students to fulfill their civic responsibility. We immerse students in authentic life experiences. The bison way students and adults at Fenton High School create a safe, caring, empathetic environment where we believe in each other, respect diversity, communicate openly, grow together, and hold each other to high expectations to become the leaders and innovators of the future. Our next item is recognitions. Kate. >> All right. Good evening. I'd like to call up Elizabeth Delgado and coach Dave Melo. [Applause] All right. A few of our athletic teams continue to compete into the early summer. Softball being one of them. And in June, Izzy

003Delgado was selected by the Illinois Softball Coaches Association for their all state third team. This is her second year in a row receiving all state recognition. Last year, Izzy was selected while filling in as catcher for a large portion of the season. And this year, she received an all-state honors while playing her natural outfield position. Being all state at two very different positions is a huge accomplishment and a testament to her athleticism. Uh this is also a bittersweet sweet moment for us because Izzy graduated in May. Um and so we're really proud she's going to be joining other Fenton alum at Triton College playing softball. She has left her mark here at Fenton in her four years. Izzy now ranks in the top four at all Fenton softball players in the following category hits, doubles,

004triples, runs scored, and runs batted in. So that is something. Um I also have to give a shout out to her cheering section who is always there to support her. And so you always know when the Delgato are up. Um here's a fun fact. This is actually the 17th consecutive year that one or more Fenton softball players have been awarded all state honors. So that's incredible. Um, here to tell us more about Izzy is Coach Melo. But before I turn it over to him, I want to tell you a little bit about Coach Melo, too. Uh, just before this 2025 season, the Illinois Softball Coaches Association also named Coach Melo as sectional number four coach of the year for last year's 2024 season. They praised Coach Melo for his long-term success at Fenton, including two

005conference champions, four regional championships, and the many all-state players he's developed, including Izzy. So, I'll turn it over to Coach Melo. Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Um, everything that she just read there about Izzy is what it's all about. The stuff about me is because of athletes like Izzy that I've been fortunate enough to coach uh while here. Um, first though, I'd like to thank the board for this wonderful recognition. It's great to be up here um just about every year as we do have a lot of all state athletes that I'm fortunate enough to coach. Uh, thank you to the administration for all the support in not only softball but basketball as well. Um, thank you to the Delgato family uh for blessing us with the chance to coach Izzy and then we have

006Bella coming up behind her. Um, and most importantly, um, on my behalf and my coaches, a thank you to Izzy for four amazing years, um, that she gave to us. And I know, uh, Principal Ward touched on a lot of the numbers, so I'm not going to go back to those. Um, but as coaches, it was an absolute pleasure to coach Izzy for four years. and her and I have talked about this a few times, but I still remember standing at the front door as she does live literally right across the street. So, she I was watching her walk uh to an open gym and I was standing there holding the door open and I had already known her through the basketball season and I just asked her, you know, hey, what are you looking

007to do in the spring for softball in terms of level? And she was like, I'm gonna play varsity. and that was before her freshman softball season. So, you love to have someone with that confidence that knew right away. Um, you know, one thing that wasn't mentioned that we really believe is a true measure of Izzy's character and her competitiveness is there's a lot of softball games every year, usually 35 to 37. And we do run a pretty disciplined program in terms of if you miss practice, then you're probably not going to play the next day. Obviously, if you're home from school, you cannot come to the game and play. Izzy is our first player in my 17 full seasons that we've been able to play that she played in every single game for four years.

008Never never missed a game. I don't believe she ever missed a practice. Even when there were times that we told her like, "Hey, it's okay if you take a day." she still showed up, which is a true testament uh to Izzy. Um and as I said, we were honored to have Izzy in our program. She will be missed greatly. Um one good thing is that she will be 10, 15 minutes away at Triton College and we can get out to see her play. And the other really good thing, and I have something here, um, for Izzy, is that every time our program, our team, the school, anybody goes out to our field, and I didn't want to open this yet. I probably should have, but anytime people go out to our field, they will see

009Izzy's number two jersey is retired now and it'll be hanging on the left field fence out there at our field. Very nice. So, all this will go on for the next year. >> And I will turn it over to uh Izzy if she'd like to say a few words. >> Yeah. >> Um Oh, wow. Okay. Um I really want to thank Coach Melo for everything he's done for me. From day one, I knew that he was going to be the coach that was going to get me through everything through life itself. And he's really been the coach for me. Everybody says how they like don't like their high school coaches and blah blah blah, but I can't say anything bad about mine. He is truly like the best person I know. And I hope these

010girls can see his potential and see like how he's going to coach the rest obviously. Um I also want to thank my travel coaches. They helped me work every day to get so much better than what I am today. And they've helped me through life situations. They've helped me through game situations. They always helped me get stronger. And I really owe most of my ability and skill to them. Um like sorry the next people I want to thank are all my teammates who have been there for me from day one. All of my seniors that have just graduated. They are all such sweet girls and we had a really good group from basketball going into softball. It was always just us and just having that reassurance that I have my people and it was just

011really nice to have them. And then lastly, I would like to thank my family obviously. They do everything for me. Um, they've got me through so much of this. They've got me through so much of this. They pay for everything. They they literally like support everything I do. All these people here go to every single one of my games. Like no matter what, they make a they make the chance and go there for me. And thank you. Um but yeah, I just wanted to say thank you to all of these people cuz without them, I don't know how I would get through this and I would how I would get through life and softball and everything I've been through. And I'm just really appreciative of them. Thank you. [Applause] >> Why don't we come up

012for a picture? >> Let's go there. Okay, that's easier. >> Instead of moving chairs, we're going that way. >> That's a good over here. probably >> everybody squeeze >> in. We want you to move to the side. >> All right. Here is the Instagram picture. Congratulations. >> See you in the fall. >> Thank you so much. >> Appreciate it. And I'll read you just blame the humidity. We got >> see no public comments. So, we'll move on next toformational items, Sam. >> Okay. Very good. As you can see, we have a wide uh variety of topics here this evening, but we're pleased to introduce representatives from HYA. Uh tonight, we're going to have anformational item uh about the selection of the superintendent search organization for the superintendent 2627 school year. Just a little recap for

013everybody. We did have a board of education special committee meeting on July the 8th to hear and review presentations from three prospective uh search organizations. The committee was tasked with recommending one organization to the full board and the committee voted unanimously for HYA or Hazard Young and Natia and Associates. And so there will be an action item later in the meeting, but we'd like to introduce Carrie Federo and Lynn Burks from HYA. may have a a short presentation and also there's a handout in your in your binder that uh has a little bit more information if so desired. >> Thank you. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> It's nice to be back. >> Um Lynn and I are are are very excited about the potential to work and partner with you to to select your

014your your next educational educational leader. Um, thank you for putting our our presentation up. Um, for the board members that were on the uh on the committee, my name is Carrie Krie Fderero. I'm a retired superintendent from from DuPage. I was superintendent of C63 for 15 15 years. Um, I retired um back in 2020. I'm at the higher ed level part-time as a as an adjunct and ed leadership department. I'm also a an HR specialist. Um, and I'll let Lynn introduce herself. >> Yes. Um, so nice to meet you. Um, an honor to be nominated. Um, I'm Lynn Burks. Um, I was a 24-year uh, school board member. Um, but then also in higher education. Um, so I was in the HR office as well. Um, and responsible for a uh, staff of 3,000. Um

015so um I also uh still do HR executive services at the proprietary sector as well. >> All right. Just we're not going to go through all the slides in detail like we did to the the committee. We're we're only going to talk for about five to five to seven minutes and then please if you have questions um um ask either during our our our five to seven minute presentation or at the or at the end. We compliment you for um looking seriously at us. We believe um we're a very comprehensive professional executive search firm. We've been in the business for a long time since 19 1987. Um I was just starting and Lynn was in first grade back back then. Um but um we are not an innerbase search firm. We have a brickandmortar building.

016We have a um people that answer the phones during the regular business um hours. We have an IT department. Um we are comprehensive um search search firm. So we compliment you for for for for looking at utilizing us in what we believe is your most important decision. And if you haven't had a chance, please go to our website. Um, you know, in addition to our our HOA by the numbers there, um, go to our website, hwayarch.com, um, and take a take a look to get to know our firm a little bit better. >> Um, we're also, um, we we've worked with,600 school districts across the country um, since 1987, and we're proud we have a 94% satisfaction rate. That is that is that is a long time. Um, we also have the longest longevity in

017in the business as well and and and and we're very proud of that. We'll um we we'll we'll just briefly go through our our signature search process. Um and then um what we really wanted to talk to the full board about was really the first stage, which is what we call the engage phase. And so Carrie and I are g I'm gonna park here. We're going to be regulars. um and we're really going to understand your needs. Um we're um we're hoping to be able to schedule a working meeting with the board very soon and through that working meeting will create a work plan. We'll play create a schedule. Um so so we'll we'll basically uh even uh schedule the first interviews and the second interviews so everything is on your calendar. This is wave

018one. you want to get started as soon as possible. So, you are in the best position. You are very proactive to be at this point. So, you want to take advantage of that. Um, so it's this working meeting and then we're going to meet with you. We're going to have you bring your calendars and Carrie and I are going to meet with each board member one-on-one. We'll also meet with any um staff, um, community members, anybody you would like us to have a one-on-one. We're going to have a survey that we're also going to deploy. Um, and then we're also going to have a series of focus groups. And at that working planning meeting with the board, we'll solidify all of those stakeholder groups. And it's fluid. You at some point you may you may

019want to include another community. Um, you may want us to go out into the community. I know you have um several populations that may not feel feel comfortable coming to the school or filling out a survey and we may need to go to them and Carrie and I will make those accommodations. And then really we're going to start recruiting as soon as possible. Uh because again we want to be able to leverage the the this wave one. We'll start recruiting in August. Um we'll talk a little bit about this leadership profile that that that uh we will be creating over the next month or so with you. Um and then we'll we'll engage in a six-month national search. Um we we have 6600 candidates in our system already. Um you'll be part of our newsletter.

020you'll be part of our social media. Um, you know, our goal is to be able to find the best leader possible that fits your culture and it might it might be somebody right next door. It might be someone halfway across the country. Um, but we're we're going to aggressively recruit um to be able to bring um eventually a set of slate of candidates, a robust set of of candidates that we believe can do the job. Then the board will take that first slate and take it down to a final slate and hoping to have a leader somewhere around the end of the year uh to be able to start the transition process in January. >> Did I miss anything? >> No, you you you got a nice a nice summary summary with that. And once

021you select your new superintendent to start next July, July 1, you don't get rid of us. We're we're going to stick on you like glue and and and we're going to help set up a transition um for the six months um with the um existing superintendent and the and and the new super superintendent. And then we're going to provide a board workshop with the new superintendent and you to get a nice solid foundation. And then we're going to be there to support both you and the new super superintendent going into next next next year. Um because we want you and this person to be successful. Um and then if you go beyond the year um you still have our phone number and you still have our email and you call us two and a half

022years down the road and go and we have an issue we're dealing with. We are more than happy um to continue supporting you. Our goal is not to do a oneandone in Fenton. Our goal is to develop a relationship with you and give um you an opportunity to see how we can support a school district. So if you have future needs um whether it's workshops, whether it's um um consulting or or so on um you would consider us. And so you're our client um if you approve us and we would value that. and we're going to do everything we can um to exceed your expectations. >> Yeah. And this is a little about we will walk through the board. We will walk through this process with the board and we'll schedule this out. Uh so

023this is this is really our robust researchbased mixed method design. Um well we'll have the survey. We'll designate a point person with the board that Carrie and I can have direct contact with. will also uh um work with the board secretary to kind of work on some logistics, but this also will be central to the planning meeting um and and the board's input about how you want to go about engaging your stakeholders. And we spend a lot of time creating this plan and then Carrie and I spent a lot of time executing this plan because this is the most important part of the process. Okay. So, um what if you approve us, what we would need is a a meeting and that's our our nuts andbolts organizational uh meeting as soon as as soon as

024possible. A lot of boards tie it on to other meetings that they have. They have a committee of the whole or they do it before board meeting or at the end of the board board meeting. Um, we also, um, work virtually if that works best for for you. But that's what we would need for our first first step. >> Need about an hour and a half. About an hour and a half because we also want to make sure there's plenty of time for questions and everybody understands kind of the plan moving forward. So about 90 minutes. And then as you think about, we don't want to be too presumptuous. We know you have to vote formally. Um, but we also want to get your one-on-one interviews scheduled as soon as possible because we spend about

025an hour and a half, two hours with each board member. And that's all we have. And we're more than happy to answer questions, any questions you might have. >> Okay. Thank you very much >> and I'll reach out to you later this evening. So, >> thank you. It's good to see. >> It's nice meeting the full board. >> Very nice job recogn recognizing students. That was >> You like that? Yes, >> we we had tears in our eyes. >> Yeah, that was that was powerful for sure. I I wish I wish I had a group of people following me like she did. Geez, >> that's what it's all about. >> Yeah, that's right. What are we? >> Okay, Kate, level up. >> All right, so we have five weeks until the first day of school.

026A little bit over five weeks. Um, so we're kneedeep into preparation on a lot of different different levels, but I wanted to share with you our theme for the year is level up every day, every class, every bison. Um, so we felt like we had a really strong year last year and now it's time to even push things farther. So we're looking at this as obviously the addition of the STEM wing is leveling up. We want to level up our academics, attendance, extracurricular participation, pride, um student spirit. Uh I've already turned this uh over to our SEAL and our PBIS coordinators. Uh and they do a lot of student programming and they took this idea of level up and they want to do a lot of gamification, which we think the kids are really going

027to like. So different incentives and things like that. Um so playing off of some of like the old school video game stuff. So um I think that'll be fun. This is a packed schedule of events for our first two months and really August. We don't start till the 25th. So, you can see how many things we have starting right from the get-go. Uh, this was sent home to all of our parents in the registration packet so that all families have this. Um, and I'm just going to highlight a couple of things that we have coming up in the next couple of weeks. So, really where we start to see students coming into the building is on August 13th. That's our uh supply schedule pickup day. It used to be textbook pick textbook pickup, but there's

028really not as many textbooks anymore. Um, a couple, but it's really they come in um to get whatever they need. So, we're having it for one day from 8 to 3. We're going to try to get as many of our students in that day as possible. If they're on vacation or something like that, we're always open otherwise, but um we're moving it to a one-day event, which we think is going to work really well. Um, one of the things that we started last year, which was a huge success, was the bison sneak peak night. So, when we started this last year, it's it's an openhouse event where students can come before the first day of school. They can walk their schedule. They can go around the building. Um they can ask administrators questions. Last year,

029it was really focused more for the incoming freshmen. But this year, we're going to really blast it for all students because nobody really knows where they're going with the new STEM wing. So, this will really be the first opportunity for our students and families to really see the STEM wing. So, we're excited. We're really going to play this up. We're going to encourage as many kids to come so that they feel more at ease with this addition and figuring out where they're going to go and they're just going to be so excited when they see it. Um, so those are two things. Our freshmen come in. Freshman orientation is August 19th. Uh, we're really excited. So, we do a half-day freshman orientation to really set the stage with them, get them excited, make them feel

030comfortable, help them meet some new friends. And the stars of that show are really our Link Crew. And link crew is a group of upper classmen who serve as mentors. We are very excited. This year we have over 100 upper classmen who have volunteered to do that. This is record-breaking. Um so just showing again kind of that leveling up. We already have kids who are just so excited to get involved and serve as mentors. So we're excited about that. I'm going to turn it over to Steph to talk a little bit about teachers and staff. Okay. So we also have eight new certified staff members that we need to get used to the building and used to all of the Fenton ways of doing things. So the way that we run new teacher orientation is

031three half days. So it will be the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the two teacher institute days on Thursday and Friday. um these eight folks will come in and in the morning we have different sessions for them with different people in the building to try to get them information about here's how you do this and here are these people and just trying to get them acclimated to different aspects of the building and then um other things that they do that are maybe a little bit more fun than some of that. Um, we have some student led building tours that take place during that time, also led by link crew students, so they're big workh horses at the beginning of the year. Um, and then we help them with um, getting acclimated to technology. Um, we

032talk to them about professional development. Every new teacher is given a mentor. It's a veteran teacher who is somebody outside of their department typically that they can go to. Um, there are reciprocal observations that happen during that time where they go see their mentor teach. their mentor comes in and sees them teach just to have somebody kind of in your corner, somebody that you know that you can feel like you can talk to. So those people come on that day and we go to lunch after that and then um probably the biggest highlight, everybody raves about this every year. Um, we take the new teachers on a bus and we have a whole route of hot spots in Wooddale and Bensonville that we feel like they would benefit from seeing and typically, um, John Aguilar

033has done a really nice job of putting together a very detailed tour. Um, but his daughter Lita is moving in on that day to college. So Josh Payton, who is a Bensonville um, past resident and he's an alum of Fenton, will be running that bus tour this year. So, um those are the big the fun things, I guess. Okay. And then on Thursday and Friday that week, um on Thursday, we have certified staff only. So, that's teachers. Um and they come in basically they get a welcome. We're going to go over building priorities with them that apply to their teaching jobs. Um this year, we've narrowed it down to four things. Um but big things. Attendance and behavior. Our focus for our um cohorts. We typically have a different topic every year. This one probably

034will span two years. Um, we're imagining, but it's disciplinary literacy for the year. And then we will be kind of re-imagining what PLC time looks like a little bit. And we have some new ideas for EL student support that we will be running teachers through on that day. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Mike Manderino who is kind of a local expert in disciplinary literacy. He is a professor at NIU in the curriculum and instruction um department, but he's also kind of a fan favorite around here. There have been a lot of teachers who have attended a lot of sessions um over the years with him and there's already a lot of buyin uh with him. So, I think people are very excited to have him in. So, that's day one. Um >> yes, >> could

035you help me out again? Jacquine PLC, >> that's professional learning communities. So teachers are in PLC's usually by the core course that they teach. So in the English department, for example, there's an English one, an English 2, an English 3, and an English 4 PLC. And that's similar in every department. Um, so teachers belong to one or two of those, and it's a group they meet with during our Monday release time in the morning. Um, and all different types of things happen during that time. So, we're going to kind of structure that a little bit more than it's been structured in the past to kind of get some outcomes that we're looking for with the disciplinary literacy and uh some feedback cycles and things like that with teachers. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Um and

036then day two, that's everybody. That's when we have the full staff here. So, that's going to be support staff, bus drivers, everybody. And the teachers again. Um that'll be Sam's welcome on day two. Um there will be some district updates. We will do our staff, administrator, and student stories. That's become kind of a tradition at Fenton. Um I would say about 10 years, maybe a little longer even, but we always have a staff member, an administrator, and a story, and a student who tells their story, their personal story, and people have really come to enjoy this um time. So, we've got people lined up for that already. Um we have an all staff training because we've last year we did a in-person training and we've kind of decided that we would like to do that

037each year. So this year it's going to be legal considerations for student discipline and then finally that day will cap off with various union meetings. So that's what our first two days for teachers and staff will look like. >> We're hoping a lot of it can happen in the STEM way. >> Yeah. >> How long is the uh induction program for new teachers since you're bringing up new staff? >> Yeah, it's the entire year and then they have a second year program as well. And so second year they're involved with an instructional coach or supported in some way. >> Okay, very good. A lot of uh exciting events coming up. It's going to creep up on us here soon. Um okay, Brian is in the audience. Looks like the only person in the audience. That's

038Brian didn't know who he was. Um, we're really excited obviously about the STEM wing. We've been talking about it for a long time. It's really coming along, I would say, in this final stages. And I'd like to start out just by reminding everyone August the 14th, 5:00 p.m. we have our ribbon cutting ceremony. And obviously, you're all invited to attend. We'll have some light refreshments. we've been inviting uh other people and people are uh reserving for that event and so obviously it's going to be a joyous day when we anticipate everything will be done and cleaned and stuff like that. So with that we're going to turn it over to Brian to go through some more details on the stem wing >> and furnished >> huh >> furnished also furniture here. >> Yeah, the furniture

039is ordered in in the vicinity, right? Yeah. So Uh so I'm Brian Courtney, senior project manager with uh Gilbane Construction. Uh some upcoming activities to Sam's point right now. It's kind of in the final stages. So final cleaning um all the spaces um this coming Friday. Um actually I had punch luck. We're going to do that Tuesday with the architect after our um OAC meeting. Appliances are coming. Uh and then next week, uh Monday, final fire pump, uh inspection, booster pump inspection. Tuesday, we've got final fire marshall, fire alarm and building inspections. Um which is kind of the third party. Um and then Thursday of next week, final elevator inspection. And then ROE was, you know, basically the state, so the final final uh inspection scheduled for Wednesday, August 6th. Um then occupancy from there.

040Um, and then Thursday, August 7th, starting to install all the furniture. The furniture to Case Point's going to start getting delivered. They want to start delivering this week. We're just going to stage it uh offsite for right now until we get all the final cleaning done. Um, then ribbon cutting on uh August 14th at 5:00 p.m. And then obviously August 25th, first day of school. So, uh this is a uh drone video update from last Wednesday. Uh if you walk through again today, it's changed >> totally different >> a lot even since last Wednesday. So [Music] Let's [Music] get together. [Music] So, next I just threw some progress photos in, too. So, there's a shot from the the one on the left is the uh picture from the north looking south that has the balcony

041and the new uh entrance. And then uh the one on the right hand side is looking toward the stadium. That's the new uh where the new gate um is going. You can see the masonry peers and the ticket booth there. Um kind of move on. Uh and then the top left, that's a view from the balcony uh into the football stadium. Uh and then second picture over is a view from inside the first floor looking out uh toward that entrance. The far right picture um is the corridor going out toward door number three. Um on the right hand side you can see there's a display case there for the um um uh is that computer science. Yes. So they're going to have uh some display there. bottom left picture is the uh entrance coming when

042you come in the entrance u on the first floor from the north that's looking in toward the stem wing. Uh the middle picture on the bottom there that's one of the additional classrooms that we uh uh renovated on the first floor. Uh bottom right is when you walk in through door number three looking into the new stem wing. That's that corridor leading into the stem wing. And then obviously this is kind of the cudigra here. This uh this learning stere is uh just a beautiful space. So um obviously when when it's all cleaned up, it'll be beautiful as well, but uh it's a good one to look at. Um top left picture here, this is the computer science rooms 121 and 122. These uh rooms have a divisible partition that goes down the center. Uh

043top right picture, that's room 119. That's a um just a a standard uh science classroom. Um bottom left picture, that is the second floor. If you walked in off the balcony, that's the view that you'd see into the STEM wing and the existing second floor corridor. Bottom right picture, that is um walking if you're walking in from the stem wing into the second floor on the south side uh into the existing building. That's the new tie-in point. So, that that's where the major part of construction was over the summer was has been these tie-in points into the existing school. Uh, next thing I'm going to talk about um is bid release number five uh for RPZ and booster pump for the main water service. Um, this is going to be contracted direct with the district.

044Um, we've just done bid releases uh lately, so we just assisted with the whole bid process. Um so this involved plumbing work uh involves plumbing work and electrical work. Uh we did put this out for public bid. Uh we received three bids in each category. Um the the low um plumbing bid was um 108500 and the low electrical bid was 19,500. Um we went through we did scope reviews with them. Um the next page has the bid tabulation results. So three bids in each. Uh plumbing wise low bid again was uh 108. The next bid was 114 and there was another bid that was kind of in left field. Um and then uh electrically uh had a bid at 195, another one at 22. So obviously pretty close bids. There was nothing concerning there um

045from a dollar standpoint. So again, this is uh our recommendation to award to um Hill Mechanical on the plumbing side and Mimi Electric on the electrical side. And >> just a couple things to add. So this, if you recall, this is part of the school maintenance grant that that we approved a while back uh to apply for and received. So basically 50,000 uh dollars from the state. So, the project has to be over a h 100,000, which it is, to get that full $50,000 back. It's also part of the life safety audit that was done years ago that we're we're still plugging away with trying to uh address. So, this is part of that. Also, uh, next item, um, is an item, uh, uh, per, um, the district's request, uh, we're asked to price up

046the replacement of some existing galvanized water supply piping uh, that goes down the corridors just outside of the, um, stem wing addition. Um, obviously kind of an opportune time to do that while we have that area closed. This wouldn't be an additional cost. This is basically being applied to the would be applied to the project contingency which has a healthy surplus right now. Um so again this is uh would be through the contractor doing the current plumbing work um in the stem wing. They're familiar with all the the lines. Um so uh again just this would be something for approval. So this is an area that is flooded. It's in the ceiling flooded repeatedly over time. There's a lot of clamps on this piping. Um maybe 14 or 15. >> Yeah. Right. Um but it

047made sense we thought because obviously the stem wing has brand new piping and um also there's been some other areas by the auditorium. So it just made sense to try to at least get this stretch of piping consistent. And this is also part of the life safety uh projects as far as u replacing galvanized piping throughout the building. Although that this is obviously not going to take care of all that, but it will take care of a stretch that's now going to be consistent. >> Is that the original construction? >> Galvaniz. So this is on the first floor hallway. Am I visualizing this right? >> Yeah. Right down where the auditorium the auditorium basically towards the south and then part of the corridor outside the four or is it Yeah. 400 classrooms. >> Okay. >>

048Yeah. So it's all original building piping 1950s galvanized repaired multiple times >> and it's Yeah. It's it's you know we've had leaks during the course of construction too. So >> I imagine piping all over the building. Why this why this particular portion? Well, because right now it's uh isolated. It's closed off construction-wise. So, uh we, you know, we have ceilings open. It's kind of an opportunity. I guess it's and that area of uh piping we're tying into new like that. Uh there's new supply piping that's getting tied into that. So, it's kind of a good time to replace that at least that area of piping. So the short version of all this because you're already torn everything apart, you might as well do it >> that and yet I think there's also a surplus and

049contingency to on the project. So we have contingency funds that are available uh that could >> money to spend >> I mean and the >> available >> Yeah. And they're on site already. So that's one of the things that we heard from the board months ago was that they're here. They can give you favorable pricing. I mean, the ceiling's already torn out. It's already exposed. It'd be foolish not to replace it. No, >> I mean, why pay double? Like, I mean, >> it'd be much more difficult to do it later on. >> Do later on. And then to tie new pipe in old pipe, you got to different metals and Oh, do dialectrics and junk. >> Yeah, forget that. >> No, I I get it conceptually, but I was sometimes I'd like to get a

050little little more explanation. >> Okay, that's fair. Um, >> okay. So, again, that's that's going to be something that we'll vote on later in the meeting. >> And that just has the quote from the subcontractor. This this is basically uh uh showing the piping that's going to get replaced. >> Yeah, makes total sense. >> Uh, next item. >> Yeah, this is my item. So, thank you, Brian. Appreciate your your help. And, uh, Okay. Uh, so this is a question about we're calling it stemwing plaque. So for those of you that have been around large scale projects, typically there's some sort of a dedication plaque that is is put up. Um, in education, usually typically what you have with the plaque is you'll have the board members when the project was approved. So that would be

051back with with the with I'll just call it the old board. Um the superintendent at the time sometimes the principal and then like it would be like Gilbane and STR would be listed on there too. I wanted to bring this to the board and for some discussion and some guidance as far as uh you know what we're going to do in this situation. You know clearly it's a unique situation right? We have a brand new board with three new board members. Um, so that's and obviously we have a different superintendent. So basically I wanted to open it up for discussion to see do we go with what's typically done >> typically >> or typically done meaning >> typically done would mean the old the prior board uh when the project was approved Reed would be

052on the plaque >> and the superintendent >> when the project was approved >> the prior superintendent. >> All right. >> Okay. Um I clearly there's flexibility here. That's a mockup of the plaque whether you know board members, superintendent and on down the line. So I just going to open it up to get some feedback. We're not voting per se. It's not an action item, but >> my I can give you my opinion. Go ahead right off the top. As far as the superintendent goes, you've been here through the whole project from start to finish some capacity or one of some sort, right? >> Okay. Done. >> You know, I I've seen this done many ways in different places and I I I would like it started under one board, it's being finished under another board.

053It's not uncommon to see all the board members present and past listed and we all know the difficulties we've gone through and the feelings of the community. I would like to just see us put something on there. And thank you to all the administration, teachers, and staff members that contributed to the project because somebody's always forgotten. I always felt it was unfair just to name a single person because that person didn't do it all. >> And I I think it would be a much nicer statement to recognize all the administration, all the teachers, and all the staff that contributed. No one's left out. Nobody's slighted. Nobody can read into it something other than we're trying to thank everybody because you listen to all the committee meetings we've had, all the input we've had, and everybody

054else. I mean, I just think it would be a little nicer and a little fairer to have a statement like that. Thank you to all the administration, teachers, and staff that contributed to the project. Thank you to the community that supported the project. And this is the board that started it, and this is the board that saw it through the conclusion. I don't know. To me, >> you're getting a pretty big plaque there. >> It already is a big plaque and it doesn't we're okay. >> Nothing says we're dictating fund. I mean, we could trim down the words, but I do believe all the staff and all the administration and all the teachers that have contributed time and input and design. I don't feel it's fair to exclude them. I mean, I think we could

055come up with some simple wording. >> See, like go ahead. It's just that Latin for Edal everything else. >> John got it covered. >> John, I think you're I I agree with you and I I think it's a question of maybe reframing this to a um to a dedication as opposed to a plaque of recognition and dedicating the wing to the students, to the staff, to the teachers >> uh in support of their work and not not naming any specific individuals. No, I I think we should name all the staff. >> In fact, if we're going to name anybody, it should be the communities of Wooddale and Bensonville for their tax dollar. And >> and that's what I said. We should recognize the communities that supported it. You know, I I I don't think it's

056unfair to list the two boards that started it and that finished it. I think you all deserve as much recognition as the board that started it. There was a lot that went through, but I just think a simple statement, the communities, the community of Benville, the community of Wooddale, the the teacher, staff, and administration and supported the project, and this is the board that started it. This is the board that finished it. We could adjust the font, we could turn it. I'm sure they could make that fit without any problem. As far as far as the board members on the plaque, I mean, that was majority of of of this project was under that involved that board. I mean, so I don't know, no offense to the new board members, but they came around kind

057of late in the game. >> Well, you know, we could always list the board at the time of project and then the three board members that were added. I don't care. We could finesse this any way we want. I have seen boards with both. I have seen fire districts and village halls and the start of a project, the end of a project. I I just I just like the idea of recognizing the communities that supported us and all the staff and all the administration and all the teachers that had input into this. >> Is that something that can be discussed during the during the uh you know during the the presentation or Carrie's going to give give it talk about it. Right. >> Right. There'll there'll be a couple speaker like I'm sure Carrie will

058speak, I'll speak, um maybe a few other >> people. You >> It's a joke. >> Um so yeah, I mean I'm I'm I'm just trying to get a gather it all in. Any other new board members have? Yeah, >> I was just going to say I agree with John completely just recognizing everybody, but you don't have to be specific if you don't need to be. >> Yes. >> Okay. And I'm sure they can come up with a draft. I mean, I I don't think it's it needs to be an action item. I think we got to just give them direction because the pla's got to be done for a dedication. We can't really drag this out. We got to kind of make a decision here. >> Yeah. We could literally start working on it tomorrow.

059The the the wording on it, you know, we've got we got Rick back there. We've got We could put our minds together. >> I bet you Rick's already got it done. >> I think okay. And all the other stuff John's talking about can be taken care of in the speech. What one one last question maybe with with the three new board members. Do you have a opinion one way or another whether you're listed on there or >> I do not care. >> I do not have an opinion about it. Okay. I just you can go either way and I'll be fine. >> Dr. McColl, >> I have a very strong opinion. >> Okay. What's that? >> Uh I don't think that any names should be listed. I think it should be as John referred to

060the community and I think that the teachers and students and staff should be acknowledged that this isn't um in support of their dedication and hard work and continuing um focus on exemplary teaching and learning. >> Okay. So, no board members, is that what you're >> I think John mentioned, correct me if I'm right. >> It was in addition to that, not necessarily either or. lead off with that statement thanking everybody and then list the board starting ending or or seated. I I do believe the board should be on the plaque for seeing this through in some way, shape or form. But I think the first statement should be thanking the communities of thanking the teachers, staff and administration and then not naming superintendents, principles, this person, that person and and then the board that that

061saw this through. The board should be on the plaque. I've never seen a board not listed, but I think we could begin it with just that thank you to everybody. And this is the board that started it. This is the board that finished it. This is just all the board members that were involved from start to finish. We don't have to list titles, just everybody's name. These were the board members that were on at some point during the project. Don't have to list who the president is, the vice president, secretary, just these were all the board members. And that evens it out, makes it easier. Just a flow of name. >> Right. But this is just part of this part of the speech you're talking about. No, I'm talking about >> No, on the plaque.

062This is this is plaque discussion. This is not about the speech. >> I was going to say with the first portion, we could put a little more emphasis on it, whether that's font choices or whatever. You could put just a little bit more if you would like to with the community >> with that. They could work their magic and and dictate and and finish the plaque. I just I just I always felt that people were slighted in the past. I think all the administration, all the staff, and all the teachers contributed to this acceleration. Yeah, it sounds like we we have consensus on on that on that >> couple of senses at the bottom or something like you know >> I think they they should be at the top. We think them first. It's their

063building. >> But it sounds like just if I could try to restate this thing turning into some kind of aiz monster. >> No, it's not. >> Well, we'll have to we'll be a brief statement recognizing everyone do all >> that can be crafted. >> So it's who it's dedicated to Bensonville Wooddale community. Thank you to the staff administrators, etc. Yeah, we can we we can work work on that. >> That makes sense. No individual administrative names. That that makes sense. >> I guess I I would like it seems like we got some differing views on >> on the board members. Before you finish, Sam >> um recognizing the board members who initiate well voted to to begin the project formally. Great. Um and John suggestion to begin off acknowledging the everyone else that somehow played

064a part, the administrators, the teachers and all community members and great um but yourself and our former superintendent spent 10 plus years working here to put the school put this district in a position to do not only the stem wing but also the uh storm water project in the back and the changes that had to be implemented to put us in that position to do 47 plus million dollars in construction here without raising taxes. the administrators. I don't I'm not sure how many administrators were here during that time, but I know you two were. And to not have not acknowledge the people who were upfront doing the work, putting the district in a position to do a project like this. That's the work that was done here on behalf of the students and this community.

065You guys, of course, there was a lot of unpopular probably decisions through that time, but you guys saw it through really. I mean, I was part of the board that initially, well, they voted on it to move forward with it, but I kind of feel Johnny come lately just like them. The groundwork was already laid. I just came at the right time. But you two were well upfront doing a lot of the work on behalf of the community and on behalf of the school district. And my opinion, you guys name should be up there for what you guys did and putting us in that position and being responsible with district and community resources over that period of time. I don't think that names need to be memorialized. I think that the support of teaching needs

066to be memorialized. And I take a little bit of offense to the comment about not raising taxes because that's not true. Every year the district increases its levy and levies a new round of taxes. So the reality is the taxes do go up every year. Whether or not they're allocated to a specific project may be a question of debate, but I do think that the focus needs to be on memorializing teaching and learning and not individuals. I don't want to get into semantics of taxes raised and what portion is for this and for that. But typically, it's the management of resources that got us here. Simply put, it's the management of resources. >> Then we should put Bruce name on it. Then we should put Bruce's name on it because he managed the allocations. We

067can't name every single individual. >> No, you can't. I agree with I agree with what you said >> and I don't think any superintendent or principal should be named on this plaque >> and if you want to strike the board members from it, I'm fine with that. We just make a dedication plaque. I'll I'll take that stance and I think we just have to have a thumbs up or thumbs down. What's the what's four of us feel and what's five of us feel? I I I'm sorry. I'm going to stand pat on my original statement. Thank you to the administration, the teachers, and the staff. And we're done there. No one's forgotten. Everyone's named. Okay. Well, let's put Bruce in there. He managed the budget. Let's put this person in there. Then we're gonna have

068a plaque that's the size of a piece of plywood and it's gonna mean nothing. And I'm not going to speak ill and I'm not going to say bad things. But there's been a lot of things that happened in this community in the last couple years. And I'm sorry. It's not the first time I've seen names left off of plaques because the end of the career was not the beginning of a career. And I'm only one and I'll respect the decisions. But if four of us say no then no it is. If four of us say yes I'll shut my mouth and we'll move on and I have a clean conscience. No, I think it's a good discussion, you know, on variety of >> it needs to be had, but I'm standing pat I understand. Anyone

069else change their view or same view or >> I think my me I think that's mostly okay except for the stuff you there's other acknowledging other people that's involved. If I understand your your suggestion was not to name presents or something. No, no superintendents, no principles, no no business administrator. Just the administration, the teachers, and the staff. No one's forgotten. No one's left out. Nobody's going to >> Well, I kind of I kind of get part of that, but I don't know about all of it. But anyway, I don't want to hold this up. >> I I defer to my other board members. I have fear of what the community will respond with if we put certain names and how students will respond. >> I concur. >> That's my main concern. >> I think less

070is more in this situation. >> And and I do believe the board members should be recognized if anybody does. And I we don't need titles. Just list all the board members. Every board member that served on this board from the start of the project to the end. Then that way it takes up less space. You don't have to put titles next to it. Just list us alphabetically. Every board member that was on the board from >> It might be okay because then you aren't you weren't addressing terms or anything like >> We don't need to. These are all people. You saw this through to fruition to to the conclusion. I I just I I I I do believe it's very rare you'll see a dedication plaque where there's not the elected officials listed. I don't

071plan for run for office. I want to be done in a couple of years. But you know what? It was a long term and we did a lot and we did it as much as as well as we could. We stayed within our budget. We stayed within our means. >> I know there's some disagreement on it. I agree with the levies. But anyway, >> I got I got a question. >> Yeah. >> Since this is still in motion a little bit. Is this something in a week or two? >> No, I think we should decide. >> They got to decide. They got to get the platform. It's going to go on the wall next month. So, when we're deciding, are we going to go deciding on a couple options or are you going to how

072you >> No, I think I No, I I just I'm what I'm what I'm hearing is we're not going to put individual administrators on there, which is fine with me, >> but there might be a couple of days to circulate a draft among the board. This is like >> Well, I I mean the time is sort of the essence. I mean, I think >> I I think we can have an opinion here tonight as board, not we, but you guys >> you guys as board members have opinions and I think we respect whatever the majority uh comes up with it. So, no individual administrative names. I think the dedication obviously to the communities. I I like that concept. This is dedicated to them. I think we could just put board of education members and >>

073alphabetically everybody >> list them alphabetically. >> Yeah. >> No titles, no terms and then you can just go right across. >> I don't think terms have went up. >> No, no, they didn't. But I've seen some weird ones. >> Yeah, we we have some flex. We could just put board all board members. Are we good with that? Or >> could we take a straw vote of board members who want names listed and board members who do not? >> Board members names or other. >> Right. It sounds like that's the debate now. >> That is right. >> Right. So I think we should go around the table and just disclose our opinion on that and and see where >> where it's at. Okay. >> Where do we where do we >> if board member board members

074names are going to be on the planet? No, no, no. Not board me. Others, right? >> My understanding was individual board members. >> We're at board members now. >> I think we're done with other. I mean, do we want a straw poll on on other? I mean, we can do a quick straw pole on other, but it seemed like a consensus was no others, just board members. >> Right. So, my that's where my question is. I'd like to go around and Yes. >> Okay. >> And then by board members, just to be clear, we're referring to past and present. >> Correct. Correct. Yes. >> Yep. past board current anybody who served on the board from conception to conclusion. >> Understood. >> I want us all on the same page too. >> I agree. >> Leo,

075can you start? >> Uh, you want me to start with me? I'm fine. Um, you know, Bensonville is being in the roots like a phantom Johnson and uh they were greatest. They were the greatest because they were this the sers in this community and uh we are really glad because we follow their their education their dreams we living their dreams. Their dream was probably you guys are not familiar the high school over here it was so small it was only two rooms but this guy it was dreaming high so it was Mr. Johnson they dream high and unfortunately they didn't see that but we are living their dreams and to me I believe is really necessary to name those who actually leave that situation over here. It was not easy. It was hard because we

076hear over here that we hear out of the streets and they were pointing at us. So I believe it's really necessarily to name those board members because they were heroes and whoever was involved in that. And we want our kids to live our dream because this is my dream. This is your dream and I believe the teachers are in the same p page. They want the dream for another kids because they are not living over here. Our kids they live it over here. But this is a moving village. Some of them are they are starting kindergarten. They don't finish high school. So let live our dream. Our dream is for better education. Go for it. >> I concur with what Leo just expressed. Um I think the names should be listed. >> Yeah, I I

077think the board members names all of them should be listed. >> Yeah, I think that it's just a matter Yeah. how to format it. If alphabetical kind of levels the playing field and fine, >> we'll figure it out. >> Yeah. List the names alphabetically. >> I concur. >> And no. >> Okay. Okay. All right. I really appreciate the time and the thoughtful discussion on on that topic. So, we will take that and and move forward. Next topic, land cash donation IGA. So, uh, this was previewed, uh, at one of our finance facility meetings, but basically there's an apartment complex that's being developed in Wooddale. Uh, it's not projected to have many high school students. In fact, they project maybe three high school students. Uh, but at the same time, part of this agreement does guarantee

078some funds coming to Fenton from the developer. uh 21,000 just over $21,000. If we can get this approved tonight, we will see that money in August or or September. The project itself, you can see a depiction of it as well as uh they're going to break around in September. Completed in two years, it's about 150 units. The the other part of this is they we will get like an annual reimbursement based on the actual number of students. It's a it's smaller. It's not 21,000, but it's a small amount. Yes. >> Well, that was my I was looking at this agreement. Who wrote this thing? Is that was that was that >> Yeah. Or was it their guy? >> No, it was it was it was their guy. the the other district invol uh with the

079Wooddale district has has signed off on it. Um we ran it past our legal >> and we made some changes to it. The the main area where there were changes is we don't want any liability uh unless it's up to that amount of money that they they gave us. Like if heaven forbid some go long litigation of some sort, we obviously don't want to be involved in that. but maybe you know some of the funds that they provided to us. So it's been vetted by the attorneys there isn't a lot of wiggle room because there is uh like like they have guidelines as far as what they do in this type of situation in Wooddale. So it this was not a situation where I can bargain with them and say hey can we get some

080more money? I mean it's a pretty flat >> well this 21,000 would be based on some kind of a >> of a calculation standard calculation but this thing goes >> this term is I mean just I'm looking at this it starts with 12 months and then it goes for an additional 12 months and notice unless 60 days given a notice to any party to cease participation or until these land grants or you Well, I tell you from a layman's position, I I don't I don't get that. Does that mean they got to pay us 21,000 almost every year? >> No, it's a single time when it first starts. But let's say all of a sudden >> they're going to get dinged for property taxes anyway. >> Once the tiff is up, this is tiff. We're

081at least getting something. Otherwise, we have nothing. >> It's an undeveloped lot. >> Yeah. Right. And it's a tip. Customarily, you don't get anything. Right. We won't get anything for 18 20 years, but at least we're getting something which is better than a sharp stick. >> All right. So, you get $21,000 the first year and then what? >> Again, it's per pupil, so it depends. It's a It's not It's not a lot. Maybe >> what they'll pay in yours. >> Yep. >> Yeah, I think it comes out. >> I I don't >> I mean, who's phoning up the dough here? >> It's not our problem. As long Yeah. I mean, I'm interested in in knowing how this flows. This is a very could I don't want to say uh I could I could research that

082and get and send it out to the board. It I don't think that's a determining factor, but I understand your desire to understand who's >> I mean I think this looks like this is the attorneys have >> Well, this is between us and Wooddale. It's an intergovernmental agreement. >> No, no, no. I I understand that, but I the attorneys have looked at it, but I think then after that it's just been kind of pushed through the paperwork. Um, I get it in concept again, but we're going to get $21,000 the first year, which is fine, but the agreement goes forever, but it doesn't sound like we're getting any money beyond that. I'm just not sure how this thing works. >> Yeah, they think it's I don't know that it's going to hurt Fenton in any

083way. >> Beyond that, it's based actual on actual number of students enrolled. >> I'm sorry. >> There's a dollar figure put on the actual number of students enrolled. >> So, if we get 20 students, we get more money. If we get one student, we get less money. But at least >> So does that mean if if 10 people if 10 people come from that project, we go back and get more gas, send them a bill. >> They they we have their address. It's all figured in. They if their address is 372 North Wooddale Road, we have 10 students from there. That year we get money for 10. >> All right. So you send so you send the bill to Wooddale and they pay the difference. Is that what we're talking about? >> Nobody. >> No.

084No. I Well, hold on a second. We will get funds by the actual students that are enrolled here. It's not 21,000. It's a it's a smaller amount per pupil. I don't have that in front of me, but that is part of this agreement with Wooddale that we would get that 150 units total. More than half are studio and one bedroom. Now, I'm not an expert on apartments, but I know enough to know that typically you're not going to get a lot of high school students in a studio or onebedroom, and that's more than half of them. So, if it's like a threebedroom or, you know, you probably have a higher probability of >> of having more residents in a in a newly constructed luxury. And I they gave me that term. I don't know. I

085just >> what that is, but it's a luxury apartment building. >> You know, this is a clear to the benefit of Fenton and I I get that, but conceptually I think it's an agreement that hasn't been, you know, fully explained in its implications. That's really where my >> I I respect that and I don't trust attorneys. So, >> all right. I think well I think what we're what we would run into if we don't approve it is then we have to wait another month to and I I I believe there should be enough information to to make a decision on this. But I mean I'm just bringing it to the to the board. So any other questions? >> At least three students do not get enrolled. Do we have to pay back? No. >> No.

086It's good question. This money comes to us no matter what. >> So we could have we yeah we could have zero students for five years and they don't claw that back >> in any way. Doug, I know you're relatively new and I don't expect you to answer any of these right now, but can can you help me research exactly what that amount would be? >> Yes, I yeah. Okay. I don't feel that would be like a deciding factor for for this. >> No, it's better than nothing piece of land. We at least get something. >> Yeah. >> But but I think it's you know it's a it's a good question and I I don't have the exact answer. So I think I it probably mean after the fact, but at least I could clarify that

087>> maybe once you get it sent it out to the board as a whole. FYI, this is a dollar per student moving forward. >> Yeah, I can do that. >> That would be wonderful. >> Just in the uh weekly updates. >> Yeah, that'd be wonderful. Okay. So, we will vote on that later. Rick Campbick is now coming to the podium is annual community reports. It's that time of year where we send this out to the community. >> We have uh student achievements, staff achievements. We've got innovative programs going on in the classrooms and district updates that occur all throughout the year. It's a long school year, August to now, and we just recognized a student in July even though the school year ended in May. So every summer we put together kind of like a

088year in review. So we take all the accomplishments from throughout the year, package them together and give everybody a celebration all at the same time, recognize everybody, one last harra before the next school year starts. Uh we're anticipating it arriving in every residential house August 14th to kind of rev up for the next school year. It also makes for a great handout when we have guests or partners or any kind of public event that we just hand this out and say this is what we're capable of. This is what we believe in. This is what we're striving towards. You should be with us. Um, so we started last year making a Spanish version in association with the English version. So if you look at the front, this is English. Flip it over and it's upside

089down. But if you flip it over, you're reading left to right no matter what language you're in. So it ends in the middle. Once you get to a page where it's upside down, you know you're done. But that saves the cost and allows us to make sure that every residential home has English and Spanish. um and do it all at the same time. So, um we're going to go to the next slide. I'll give you a couple of examples because boy, there's a lot of great stuff that happened this year. I got a little cheat sheet here as well. I break down the pages based on academics, district updates, um staff achievements, student achievements, extracurriculars. So on this one, um, we've got new scholarship through our Fenton Foundation that we've done in partnership with the

090Bensonville Fire Protection District, Wooddale Fire Protection District, and the two firefighter uh, unions associated with them. And two students received scholarships uh, because they're studying emergency medicine, first responding, uh, public safety, and that's a great partnership for us to have with other stakeholders in the community for the benefit of our students. So, it's a great thing to tell the community that we've done and possibly recruit somebody else who may want to create a scholarship or a fund balance to benefit our students. Um, nope, go back. So, we also uh list all of our students who have state and national recognitions. Um, we feature some of our new programs like the future ready fenton day. So, the top left is an airplane. Uh that was a new program created by Michelle Papa Nicolau and Miss Julia

091Bray and and a lot of the other teachers where we got all of our testing done or most of our testing done in one day and then everybody else who wasn't testing got to go on a career track or go explore a college or university to kind of see a little firsthand what their futures could be. And that was a very innovative thing for us to do. And so why not brag about it? make sure our community knows that we're taking new steps and innovative steps to inspire our students and give them something new to strive towards. Uh we also had our incubator program that's the bottom right. Uh business leaders in the community came and uh donated money and then helped um critique and give feedback to our students who were learning how to

092make a business and then advocate for themselves and then possibly win money to create that business and operate it in real life. That's a very cool innovative idea. Let's brag about it. Let's showcase the students who won and hopefully collect some more donations in the future. Um, and then in the top right we have Miss Laura Vila Peterson who was featured on the floor of Congress back in January. She received a congressional commendation for her work that she does here at Fenton High School. We also had two teachers who were uh Golden Apple finalists. Uh, Coach Frell was recognized by the Chicago Bears for his work. Obviously, we just saw Coach Melo was a coach of the year for softball. Our basketball coach, Taft, got his 300th career win, which is a big deal. Um,

093and then on the next slide, our extracurriculars, our theater program continuing to rocket. We've got another state champion up top and a student who made it to fourth place. uh group interpretation got third place in state which was their best uh finish since 1979. Our contest drama got a state championship for the technical aspect of doing their play, all the lights, the microphones uh etc so forth like that. Our soccer team got their third regional championship in four years and Joselyn Wade way back in October we recognized her here at the board meeting uh for being an all-state runner for the second year in a row. So we've got a lot of great accomplishments that happen. tie it all together, send it out to the community, make sure everybody remembers, and get all the kids

094on the same page for one last harrah. So that'll be in all the homes approximately August 14th. [Music] >> Any questions? >> Great accomplishments. And I I want to ask a question that doesn't diminish the uh significance of what's been achieved, but I am curious. What is the printing expense and the postage expense of doing this? Printing is $9,000 and I think the postage was three. >> Okay. So about 12K >> approximately. Yeah. >> And it's a Is it a onepage flyer? Can you show us again, please? >> Yep. It's 12 pages. >> It's 12 pages. >> Mhm. >> Okay. So it's Okay. >> And it's all Fenton High School. So we have the every other month we partner with City of Wooddale and Village of Bensonville and that's like three pages for each of

095the municipalities altogether. And this one is all just Fenton High School. >> Do you have any idea how many homes will receive this that don't have students from Fenton or students who are in the pipeline to attend Fenton? >> I don't. But it would be all of them. >> Oh, so this is only going to homes that don't have students at Fton. >> No, this goes to every home. >> To every home? >> Yeah. They're paying taxes, too. They should know what what they're paying for. >> No, I understand. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. Anything else? Cool. All right. Thanks, Rick. Okay. The Dr. Douglas Wilds. >> Good evening. >> Budget. >> Good evening, Dr. Benson. >> Let me finish my intro is now upon us. Okay, now you can go. >> Very

096excited here. I apologize. Uh Dr. Benson, Mr. Lewis, and the rest of the board. Um here to present uh give a brief overview. Thank you. of the tenant budget for 2526. Um there's a a much more comprehensive u budget in the action items. It's a 27page document, but over um over the course of the next few slides, we'll we'll give some brief highlights of the tenant budget. Uh first and foremost, these there are some legal requirements um for through Isby that need to be adhered to. We need to make the budget available for public um inspection 30 days prior to the adoption. We have to publish that notice uh as a public hearing again uh 30 days prior. We then have to host a public hearing. Uh we'll do that at the beginning of the

097September 24th board meeting. Later in that board meeting, we will um have a vote to adopt the budget. Next, we have to by the end of September, we have to adopt the budget, post it to our website, and then by the end of October, um which would be done immediately after a budget adoption. We would need to submit this to ISBY as well as the ROE as our adopted budget for 2526. So these are just standard requirements every year for the budget. Um next item are a few of the factors that go into the 2526 budget and budgets every year. Uh the fund balances that are carried over from previous years are put in in place. revenues collected uh as we had talked about before, property taxes, uh student fees, state and federal government aid,

098um grant aid, local revenues, uh beyond what were just mentioned, CPPRT, which is the um personal property, uh reimbursement tax from corporations, uh interest earnings, etc. and then expenditures that are that are taken account for salaries, benefits, supplies, materials, equipment, capital improvement projects, etc. And then other factors such as long-term projections for student enrollment, uh collective bargaining agreements, u things of that nature. Uh as we continue to talk about additional capital improvements, and then also any trends that we're seeing in in terms of revenue and expenditures over an extended amount of time. a little bit about the accounting that goes into um state budgeting. Uh this is a standard operation throughout all school districts throughout the state. You have nine major fund groups. Um the fund groups that are highlighted and italicized are what are

099considered the operating funds. So fund 10 education, fund 20 operations and maintenance, fund 40 transportation, fund 50 IMRF and social security, and fund 70 working cash are considering the operating funds of a district. There are other fund groups such as debt services. Those are for payment back of of bonds that have been issued. So the district has four out outstanding bonds that that we will over the years pay back. Uh in addition, fund 60 is for capital improvement. So, a few years ago, we issued bond payments for the the stemwing edition. We're making those payments down. That's not typically considered in the operating funds because that's um year-toear sometimes we we do not levy into that particular unless we we issue a bond. Then fund 80 and 90 are tort and fire and life safety.

100We have historically not levied money into those two fund groups um because we've paid um for our tort we've paid for our fire safety those liabilities and those fire safety out of ED fund or on and m next for the accounting purposes we bucket all of our revenues into basically five major revenue groups 1000 is considered local sources things like our property taxes student fees other fees that we collect against these CPPRT interest will go into a 10,000 revenue account. We have a 2,00 flowth through um which is does not typically apply to us as well, but that would be a flow through from one district to another. Um 3,000 are state sources that would be EBF um evidence-based funding, state grants like such as CTE, driver's ed transportation. 4,000 are federal. That's typically from

101our federal grants like our national school lunch program. Our titles one, two, three, and four, Perkins and Medicaid. And then on occasion when we do need to transfer money from one fund to another, we use 7,000 for transfer of funds. Yes, sir. >> Quick question. the uh um the fund designations 10, 20, 30, 40, whatever. And then the u these are the uh yeah, write that. And then flip back then the the uh the account uh definitions. Those are okay. Those are all standard within school district, correct? That correct? >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, look at this right. >> This is just a visual representation of what our revenues look like on a a typical budget. And so this is our anticipated fiscal year 25 budget in terms of just a visual representation. So about

10290% of our revenues come from local sources. That would again be property taxes, fees, etc. And then we have about 6% of our revenue comes from state sources, once again, grants, uh, and things of that nature, transportation, drivers, education, reimbursements, and then about 3% comes from federal grants. So when when we're talking specifically about revenues, just remember about 90% of Fenton 100's revenues come from local sources. Next on the accounting side, we we budget or we in in terms of accounting, we bucket into what are called expenditure functions as well as expenditure objects. So we tie our expenditures into 10,000 which would be instruction 2,000 support services. Those are things such as counselors, social workers, administrators, people and supplies, materials, etc. that support learning. they're not directly in front of of um in in the

103classroom. 30,000 community service um things that we work with um outside of Fenton 100 with with other communities payments to other uh government or district groups. So these would be uh things like outside placements, TCD, uh NedSc, etc. debt services when you're paying back debt and then again u 8,000 when we're transferring money from a fund to another fund. Then you have a second layer with expenditures that are objects, salaries, benefits, purchase services. So we're when we're hiring people that are outside, not necessarily Fenton 100 employees um to provide us a service within the district. Um people such as our food vendors, etc. Supplies and materials that are are paid for for um providing either instructional or support services within the classroom or outside of the classroom. again, capital outlay, capital improvements, other objects that

104kind of don't fit into any of those uh object fund groups, non-c capitalized equipment, that is equipment that is between $500 and $5,000 individually, uh would fall into a 700 um object, and then any termination benefits that we would provide. Visually, uh this is just taking a look at how we would pay uh how we typically and historically. And then this uh with this anticipated budget how we would look at our expenditures just visually about 50% of our expenditures are tied to the classroom itself. So instructionally uh and then we have about 40% of our expenditures tied to support services for for our students. And then we have about 3.8 8 million or about 9% a little over 9% of our expenditures are paid to payments to others again such as outside services that that

105we would provide to our students and staff. Then when we break it down by object uh about 56 almost 57% of our expenditures are tied to salaries. Another 12.5% are tied to benefits. So all in about just under 70% of our salary and of our expenditures are tied to salary and benefits and then we have other breakdowns for purchase services, supplies, materials, capital improvements, etc. This is just tying back to I know that u Mr. Martin had had presented the sort of the end ofear budget for the 24-25 school year. As I mentioned earlier, this is something that factors into how we're going to budget for the 25 to 26 school year. Taking a look at sort of where we ended, we don't have a final audited budget from last year. We have annually in

106the fall, we have an outside group that audits all of our financials from the previous year and they give us an audited financial report. So later in the the school year, we'll have our auditing firm present our annual financial report that will show our full budget from the previous year. As Mr. Martin had presented at the end of June, we had a slight surplus um alto together when we tied down to the very bottom. Um if you notice, we had a a transfer of money from some of our surpluses into fund 30, which is our debt services to pay our initial bond payments in early July. just sort of the timing of how bond payments work. We pay bond payments twice a year, once early in July. Um and so we needed to move money

107from the ED fund where where we had surplus to just pay our July bond payments. That's a a typical thing that that will be done on a yearly basis. Yes, sir. >> Um [Music] got some questions. I don't have all the the details, but I remember at one time when we were looking at a budget that there was a a $500,000 or so shortfall. Okay. Now there was also some further conversation about that I recall having about you know trying to watch your expenses you know get under budget as far as expenses go try to mitigate that you know somehow um now what I'm going to be interested in at some point is if we were successful in mitigating whatever whatever the anticipated shortfall is going to be and some idea of when the time

108comes how we think we're going to do the next time around. So, I'll just leave those questions. I don't expect any answers at the moment, but I hope to, you know, follow up at a later time. >> Yes, understood. And with this next slide, >> may I I'm sorry. Absolutely. I I'd like to to share Reed's concern and one thing I would be interested in seeing is a three to a fiveyear forecast. Uh and then in addition to that, um because of the timing of the comment, I'll go ahead and ask this now if that's okay. Um is the district taking any proactive steps to prepare for a reduction in the 10% that's relied upon from both state and federal resources? um because you know regardless of where one falls in the political climate uh

109the reality is there is the potential for reduction there uh and some of that state money of course does come from federal money so there's 10% that we don't know what the future holds so what I encourage you all to be thinking about mitigating to the greatest extent the reliance upon that money >> if it's there great but if it goes away we need to be prepared >> yeah good point. Um we kind of have preliminary discussion on that. Much of that money is grantfunded like things that we do that there we value uh through grant funds. So then we basically have to look what are we doing through these grant funds and what are our essentials like we have to we have to continue and what perhaps make a value judgment on those. So

110I I I concur with what you're saying and we're prepared to do that based on being nimble and and what happens and what what we what we'll need to do. So it's a good point >> and then Mr. Goodrich to answer your question some of those factors and I'll present that in in the next couple slides taking a look at where we ended in 2425 made some adjustments for the 2526 budget >> uh and then Dr. Dr. McCulla, I can absolutely put together a three to five year sort of forecast of of where we look where we see ourselves in in in those next few years and I can put that as a a later presentation. >> Thank you very much. >> And and just so you know, PMA kind of gave us something um

111wi with the prior board so we could at least get that out to the new board members so they can see it and then you can continue to fine-tune it based on what you see also. >> Yep. And then Dr. McCulla, the last part of your your comments about the state and federal um grant support, you'll see that in our 2526 school year. We're we're anticipating with some of the climate of what's going on, we're anticipating a slight decrease in in those revenues and and you'll see that in in future slides. So again, just tying back a couple of the highlights from the 2520 uh the 2425 budget. Um we did again uh make a a transfer from the ED fund to fund 30 to pay down debt services from bond issuances for the stem

112wing. Uh we transferred 550,000 from working cash to transportation uh the transportation fund due to some of those rising transportation costs. Um of the project the stemwing project 21.7 million of it hit the 2425 year budget. We'll still have additional um expenditures that will hit the 2526 school year budget um which are projected in the 2526 budget. Um overall revenues were for local and state were slightly higher than expected and then as we Dr. McCulla had had mentioned federal federal revenues came in slightly lower than we had anticipated back in in the early part of the 2425 um fiscal year. On the expenditure side, sellers, benefits, purchase, services, supplies, materials, we're right at or or slightly above or I'm sorry, slightly under budget. So, we did a very nice job and and the student staff

113and and Dr. Martin or Mr. Martin did a great job with with managing all those. The one place where we did want to really focus um was on those rising transportation costs to try to mitigate those for the 2526 school year. So again, a few of those budget drivers for this this budget. We're projecting overall revenue increases to be about 3.4% with 4.6% in increase in local revenues through levy process. Uh again, that to what Dr. McCulla had mentioned, we're anticipating slightly decreases in state and federal aid. Um again, we're not quite sure what those will look like. We're we're doing a budget projection. We're not quite sure where where it'll come back, but again, if you do recall, 90% of our revenue comes from local sources, and we're only relying about 10% on state

114and federal revenue. On the expenditure side, operating funds specifically, um we're seeing a decrease in our expenditures for the 2526 school year. Um we have a slight increase in salary and benefits, but to mitigate the the increase in salary and benefits, we we did have um some retirees. we did reduce our our teaching staff, our FTE, which was presented at the end of of the previous fiscal year. Um, so that was an offset of some of our operating expenditures. In addition, due to those transportation costs, we made some slight adjustments to our transportation and our bus routing to decrease a few of our routes to try to get those transportation costs down for the 2526 school year. Didn't Were we trying to get an agreement or did we get an agreement with with with uh

115District 2 about sharing routes or something like that, wasn't there? >> Yes, that's right. That is that's part of it. Actually, we're going to reduce four routes. >> Okay. >> Uh we did an efficiency survey and so we can reduce the routes which will save us some money. >> Yeah, that's good. >> Y >> in addition, we'll have some decreases in our purchase services, capital outlay, and equipment. We spent a considerable amount of money in the previous fiscal year on purchasing those for the stemwing edition. So, we'll have decreases in those for this fiscal year. And then finally, to help offset some of those um transportation costs, uh we'll be transferring money again from working cash into fund 40 uh to to mitigate those um those anticipated uh expenditures. So this is what the tenative

116budget for 2526 will look like in a in a a kind of a one visual uh summary. On the left hand side are the nine big fund groups and then at the bottom the bottom two rows are the total funds and then operating funds at at the very bottom. So on the left hand side we see fund 10 through 90 operating funds or total funds and operating funds. That lefth hand column is what we're anticipating to be our fund balances. sort of the leftover money in each of the various fund groups. So in fund 10 we have 17 we're anticipating about 17.1 million in positive fund balances there. Um and then as you continue to to go down you see the the remaining fund balances in each of the funds but typically we look at

117it in total operating funds. So we don't necessarily look at fund by fund. We certainly can, but to keep it uh sort of on on the high level, uh overall we have a a total operating fund balance of 25.4 million going into this fiscal year. So, we have very positive fund balances on a $40 million operating fund uh total budget with having 25.4 million, we're we're in a very good place in overall in terms of operating fund balances. Just I know you talked about some increases, some decreases on the other page, but I see revenues of 40 million 381 and some change and re expenditures at 41,229. Are we looking already at a at a at a deficit next year? Is that how do I read that? >> Right here. >> Well, that's too bad.

118Well, well, to your point, Reed, and we had this discussion last year that there was last year projected just over $900,000 deficit. So, it's pretty similar. >> So, it was it was about a 900 or a million thereabouts rounding. >> Yeah. Right. >> And then and then uh Bruce did a little accounting magic, moved some money around, got it down to 500, and that's the last number that I remember. >> Okay. If I recall right, I think that we ended up with a small surplus. >> A small surplus, right? We got a little bit of money there, right? Like on June the 30th, a little more than we thought. >> And so we did end with a a small surplus. So it's kind of the same concept. I think we continue to be fiscally responsible.

119We we obviously with our staffing plan that was we were down several teachers or staff. Um, we had some retirees. I think collective bargaining agreements are already in the books and and we have to obviously work with those. But I think we're I I feel like we're in a similar situation where we were last year that we were able to, you know, get close to even or even a slight surplus at the end where we thought we were going to have a slight deficit. So >> just I'm only passing my familiarity with fund accounting. So you have if you don't mind but uh so for instance uh we started out with a number similar to this last year just for the sake of example. >> Y >> Bruce moved some money around. Okay. And so

120the number that sticks in my mind is we were 500,000 short. Now, would you say when you had to come up with a surplus here at the end of the year, which is good news, all right, we clearly did something right in controlling our expenses, but is that based on the $500,000 number, or does that actually recover and repay some of the money that Bruce borrowed from the bank account or another fund? >> Yeah. I I don't think I can. >> You understand what I'm saying? >> Yes. Yes. The the hope is we we can't necessarily as a as a district, we can't necessarily control the revenue, right? But what we can do is try to mitigate some of those additional expenditures. >> No, because I'm trying to say, yeah, so if we came with

121a surplus, which is good news no matter, don't get me wrong. But does that just mean we beat the 500 number that we were left with? Correct. Or did we actually, you know, beat the the $900,000 number that we started with last year? >> Correct. And that's what I'm trying to >> I think I ain't going to say a thing if I'm correct I'll just plainly the projection well we they kept a hold or down of our expenses but as it turned out as the year went on we end up getting more than what we projected and we were >> ended up with a small surplus. >> So we could control our expenditures. >> We didn't have to draw on our resource. We didn't have to draw in other resources. >> So, we have >>

122Well, that means you didn't have to use that money that that uh Bruce plugged in there then at the end of last year. >> That's right. >> It was There's a difference between moving around and and Well, I'll let you explain >> the We had >> You know, you know where I'm going with this, right? >> Yes, I do. I do. And with towards the end of last fiscal year in June, we received a little bit more revenue than than we were anticipating. >> That lucky >> we we had some additional revenue that came in and with that additional revenue, we were able to transfer some of the money to pay down for example the the debt services and we pay down some of our bond debt. >> So anyway, okay. That's what I'm I'm

123trying to get a little bit feel for what happened last year. I know what I was told. I'm just trying to say if we were if we're ahead, which is good. But I'm just trying to figure out where we're we're ahead compared to what >> the hope is by by June of of 26, >> what we budgeted for revenue, >> we receive slightly more than the hope is we receive slightly more revenue than we anticipated we were getting. Um, and the hope is that for the budget expenditures were were slightly less than than those expenditures. And I'll kind of leave this comment where I actually similar to what I said last year about this the same process as >> I hope we're very careful about how we spend our money next year. >> Absolutely. >>

124So as as you see again um just going across the the the columns and I won't spend a lot of time here with this. Everybody could could see that we're anticipating the revenues uh coming in at the dollar amounts that that they're at. These are projections based upon again levies and p pro predictions of the revenue coming in on on state and federal aid as well as uh student fees etc etc as well as on the the column to the right for expenditures what we're projecting for our instructional and salary benefits supplies materials etc. And then that second to right column is the difference positive or negative. We're at this time our tenative budget shows a slight decrease in our operating funds of about8 $850,000. Um even if we do come in add that with

125revenue and expenditure we have positive fund balances um of almost 20.5 or a little over $24.5 million altogether. Um, and so I wanted to show this with with the board. Um, in addition, I wanted to tie the the next slide just showing u where our anticipated operating funds, our fund balances would be at the end of uh this fiscal year where we'd have about 70% of our fund balances tied into the ED fund. uh and again a little over just under 10% in operating maintenance and as well as in working cash and then a little more than 10% in our IMRF. So when we look at taking a look at the end of this fiscal year, if we start talking about the levy in in November and December for example, we have some excess some

126excess in the IMRF and and um social security fund. we could potentially levy a little bit less in that fund and we could steer some additional levy money towards something like transportation for example. So this is sort of the es and flows of the budgeting throughout the year. But these are factors that kind of go into when when we're we're presenting and preparing our budget for for the fiscal year. Next steps here are again if the board acts on this tenative budget, we will put it on display. We need to keep it on display uh for at least 30 days. And then at the September 24th board meeting, we'll hold a public hearing. Um after that public um hearing, we will then have later in that board meeting, uh the board the board will be

127presented the budget for approval. If the board approves it at that September 24th board meeting, we will then post it. We'll it'll be an adopted budget for for this fiscal year. We'll post it to our website and submit it to Isbam. >> Any questions? >> Questions, Doug? And you might not have them and I just thought of them, so I apologize. And you can get get this to me next month. Get it to Sam. Do we project any properties coming off of their tiff this year? I know we had some last year. Hey, that's big money if it happens. if the money developed because that could help us with a lot of our concerns and I can't remember when our next property comes off the tiff. I don't know if it's one year, two years,

12810 years. Um, and that was really my only question. I apologize. >> Yep. I can reach out to Wooddale and Bensonville and their their assessors. >> I think it's going to be Bensonville. I know we had one come off last year and that's part of why we had to do what we did because we were getting fresh new income. We didn't >> there was a remember there was a couple some >> right so and I can't remember because a lot of their stuff tiff at approximately the same time historically if I remember so I don't know if it's this year or next year the following year I mean because that's a fresh source of income depending on what it is just if you could take a look >> absolutely >> it's not earthshattering I just

129hope it is in 10 years >> by the by the levy again in November and December by we'll have that information for sure >> I'm just curious and I know you're new so I apologize for >> No that's not a question >> coupled to that. I think it's probably a good time I know I'd like to educate myself uh on enrollment and population growth or decline in the um district within the district boundaries. So, that's something we should probably look at um just in preparation. When I see a deficit, I don't like it. And I I think it's a good opportunity for for me to learn more about what's going on in our district. >> Every year with with the audit, we also get enrollment projections from actuarials and and so I'll have that information

130if if if it's okay. I can get that information within the next week or two. I can reach out to our actuary. If not, I can it'll be presented during the the AFR. >> That'd be great. Love to have it earlier. Okay. The two to three weeks if you don't mind. >> Not a problem. Sam, if you recall, um I guess before the new members came on, you guys did a projection of our future enrollment over the next 3 to five years and it was just it was expressed to us there was be expected decrease >> with each coming year over the next three to five years in students. >> Yes. Yeah. I know surrounding districts are having a decrease as well. >> Yeah, it's pretty common. >> So that's where the projection come from

131is based on you know the feed of districts. >> Yeah. And we we can get those actual numbers or perhaps updated numbers and we could share that with the whole board. >> Yep. >> So that presents a dilemma too and that not only the are the enrollment numbers important but so too are the number of residents and uh businesses within the boundaries for taxpaying purposes. >> Correct. So what's h we want to know what's happening there. Is there growth? Is there decline? >> Because then that 90% could be getting whittleled away a little bit too. >> Correct. >> I I believe businesses are not decreasing. It was just students because I was talking to some of the the fire guys in the past life and this comes up regularly especially for the fire districts. I

132don't think there was any real decrease in businesses. I think there was some increases in businesses but unfortunately those are in the fifth district. So, it's going to take time for us to get it, but that's a whole another >> right >> thing we could deal with, but at least you we know in the long run the businesses are up. I haven't seen a lot of vacance. I drive around a lot in the course of my job. I haven't seen a lot of vacance. I haven't seen a lot of for rents. I've seen some of the older buildings actually being redeveloped. These are all positives. So, I think on that 90% side, we're going to be okay. It's the enrollment that where that that downflow. It seems like we we if I remember, we historically

133had these es and flows. >> Yeah. the age out of the population and so forth. I mean, we're just in that downward trend at a bad time. >> And the county assessors will take a look at the EAB, the equalized assessed value. They'll take a look at tax rates and and they do a lot of that manipulation with with that information, but I can provide that as well. >> Please. And please keep us informed about that because I I don't want to I don't want to think about what's possible. I want to know what's happening. >> Understood. >> Yeah. And Dr. from a call. I do meet Wooddale and Bensonville with the the city leaders typically monthly so I can try to get a feel for how our business is doing. Are they growing? I'll

134occasionally hear like there's a new In-N-Out burger or something like that. But a more comprehensive assessment from them how how that's going. I could pass that along once we the meetings start uh occurring again. Grateful not bad news. >> Okay, I think we're moving on. Be good. >> Okay, I think we're moving on. Uh floss MOA. Uh this is going to come up again later in the meeting. Basically, uh we have been in having some discussions throughout the year with our floss group. So, basically, this is the union of of support staff. So if you think of teacher aids, uh clerical, those those types of uh staff members have a union and we had a collective bargaining agreement with them. And part of that was to have these periodic labor management meetings. And uh so

135that's what we did last school year. And what we've been talking through is the concept of when we hire someone for these positions, where do they start out at? And according to the contract that was that was ratified, we can go up to step six on the salary schedule. So the concept is you can't hire someone that's brand new at like step 20 uh even though they may have 20 years of experience. This is pretty common and we're basically doing this throughout all of our employee groups where where we watch this, but that's based on skills and prior experience. Prior experience is pretty easy to determine. Skills is a little bit different, but it it's so it's both of those. So, what we've been doing through these discussions and I I want to I want

136to thank Jose um because what he's been doing is meeting with the floss president or a representative and when we're about to hire someone, we will let them know this is the step that we're going to hire them at. So, we we basically been doing this process. It's an extra step, but what it does, it it's sort of that added communication that's been helpful because what would happen is without that communication, you may hire someone from the outside and maybe you give them x number of years experience. And what what happens is they find out quickly, you know, what did you do? how many years did you and then all of a sudden there's questions coming after the hire and it's like let's just have this discussion in advance. Not not here to say that

137every time it's going to be smooth but the last few Jose's worked through uh with the union president and there there's some mutual respect there on both sides. So um I would ask that the board signs this basically we've been following this. I told the floss group that uh it's not officially in effect until the board signs off on it, but I I believe it's a it's a good idea to my recommendation is to approve it later in the meeting. But that's really the main part of the agreement and we've attached the agreement to the board book if you have any other questions. Is there a formula for the um under step six how the skills and prior experiences are determined? >> Uh no, not really. You mean combining the two? >> Well, combining the

138two or >> I mean really it's it's primarily the experience. You know, you may find someone with quite a bit of education or or quite a bit of customer service type skills and how valuable is that for the position you're hiring for. And so the experience is the simpler part. The skills is something different. I think for the most part, Jose and Jose's discussion has been more about the actual experience and does the experience equate to the position that you're being hired for. You know, the classic example is security person. Now, not everyone is necessarily in security per se, but some are, and that's an easy one. If you hire a police officer that's in security, that's a pretty easy one to to to equate. Um, but there's no specific formula and when we work

139through this that that didn't didn't come up as a as an idea. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, sure. Okay. And then nothing is other. So we can continue with the consent agenda. [Music] May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? >> Can can can you please hold for just a moment? >> Yeah. [Music] >> Looking something up. [Music] Okay. Thank you. >> I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Yes. >> Figuro. >> Yes. >> Miller. >> Yes. >> Rosinski. >> Yes. >> Good. >> McCulla. >> Yes. Lewis. >> Yes. Motion pass. >> Okay. Come on. Hit the button. Uh let's move on to discussion action items. May I have a motion that the board of education approves HYA and Associates to run the superintendent search process

140for the 2026 2027 school year? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Uh yes. I just want to put on the record um that I do think that there are some other individuals within HYA that can be very beneficial to us as a school district and um I Sam I appreciate your willingness to to uh explore that. So thank you Dr. Benson. >> Roll call. >> Good. Rich this for A. >> This is for A. >> Yes. >> Mullo. Yes, >> Rosinski. >> Yes, >> Matug. >> Yes, >> Figureroa. >> Yes, >> Miller. >> Yes, >> Lewis. >> Yes. Motion passed. May I have a motion that the board of education approves the land cash IG in a government agreement between Fenton and the city of Wooddale? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion?

141Roll call. >> Miller, >> yes. >> Makulla, >> yes. >> Rzzinski, >> yes. >> Figureroa, >> yes. >> Matug, >> yes. >> Goodidge, >> abstain. >> Lewis, >> yes. Motion pass. May I have a motion to the board of education based on the bids received for the RPZ/backflow pre and booster pump bid release number five recommend awarding a contract to Hill Mechanical in the amount of $18,788 for the plumbing package and Mini Electric in the amount of $19,5 500 for the electrical package. The total recommended amount of the base bid for the pro for this project is $128,288. [Music] >> I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> McCulla. >> Abstain. >> Good. >> Yes. >> Rosinski. Yes. >> Figarov. >> Yes. >> Batug. >> Yes. >> Miller. >> Yes.

142>> Lewis. >> Yes. Motion pass. May I have a motion that the board of education approves Gil Bane owner change order number five. HP000028 replacement. Replace existing galvanized water supply piping and corridors. in the amount of $47,259. Motion >> second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Give me one moment. I'm so sorry. >> Okay. Figuroa. >> Yes. >> Rzinski. >> Yes. Miller, >> yes. >> Mako, >> abstain. >> Matuk, >> yes. >> Goodri, >> yes. >> Lewis, >> yes. Motion passed. May I have a motion that the board of education approve the 2025 2026 tenative budget as presented and placed on public display in the district office. It is further recommended that the board schedule a public hearing at 700 p.m. during the regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, September 24th, 2025 prior to adoption

143of the final budget. >> Motion second. >> Roll call. >> Miller. >> Yes. McCulla, >> yes. >> Goodidge, >> no. [Music] >> Matuk, >> yes. >> Rinski, >> yes. >> Figuroa, >> yes. >> Miller, >> yes. >> Lewis, >> yes. Motion passed. May I have a motion that the board of education approve the motion of floss memorandum of agreement as presented? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Yes. So, I'll just share with the board. I'm going to vote no on this because [Music] it puts both parties in a difficult situation having subjective decisions to be made about what qualifies for the various steps. And in the interest of protecting both sides, I think it's very important that there's some objective way of determining what experience is and what experiences fit. So, I just want

144you to know why I will be voting no. It's not out of the interest of trying to disadvantage anyone or that I don't trust somebody in being able to do this. It's simply because I think it puts both parties in a difficult situation potentially. [Music] >> Roll call. >> Miller. >> Yes. >> Mulla. >> No. >> Moo. >> Abstain. >> Rosinski. Yes. >> Figuroa. >> Yes. >> Good. >> Yes. >> Lewis. >> Yes. Motion pass. May I have a motion [Music] that the remaining April 2025 press policy updates as presented 6 235 7 270 41 120 6 310 5 100 6150 50 >> Is that it? Yes. >> I I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion? [Music] >> Roll call. >> Miller. >> Yes. >> Rosinski. >> Yes. >> Figureroa. >> Yes. >>

145Matug. >> Yes. >> Makulla. >> Yes. >> Goodri. >> Abstain. >> Lewis. >> Yes. Motion pass. >> And for those following along on the agenda, I wanted to say that there is an agenda item of disposal of assets. However, Jose, would you like to explain why we're going to skip that tonight? >> Yeah. So, next month we're going to provide a more comprehensive list of all the things that um we'd like to bring to the board. So, um as opposed to having multiple lists throughout a couple months, we're going to provide a more comprehensive list next month. So basically this is equipment or whatever that's obsolete that's >> been in storage that's been sitting there that has just been taken >> mean you're going to salvage it or you're going to put it up for

146internal sale or >> um >> we'll follow Yeah, it'll be a disposal process. >> Yes, you can. For for any items that might have u value, you can put them up for auction. Anybody that would like to purchase them, they can. And if if there's nobody that that >> I remember an old discussion like this there was an issue about old computers but the idea was they didn't want to sell them or get correct because next thing you know they were going to people were going to bring them back and say well >> it's not this or what's this or right right >> you know so there was some some decisions made in there >> it's all as is >> as is okay >> typically anything with student and staff information is not is not

147going to be resold it's going to be properly disposed of >> yeah yeah okay that that's Um, does anyone have any committee reports? >> Uh, Bensonville Foundation meets tomorrow. I believe Mike and I are both going to be there. There are several uh items on the docket for uh review and consideration. Um, actually, we just got four more the other day. So, uh, we'll be reviewing them and taking action tomorrow. >> Solid Foundation. >> I plan on attending also just the audience. Yeah, >> we're not worthy. [Laughter] Thank you. >> Sure. >> Make sure I put on a clean shirt. >> I got a tie, too, huh? >> Oh, hell no. >> Summer, no. Bite your tongue, sir. There is no Nedseack meeting in July. >> Okay. All right. Our next board meeting is Wednesday,

148August the 27th, 2025 at 7 p.m. with a tenative finance facility meeting scheduled at 6:00 p.m. prior to the regular meeting. Also, tenatively stem wing ribbon cutting is August the 14th at 5:00 pm. I believe that's a Thursday. Oh, yes. Thursday. Yes. May I have a motion and a second to go into close session for the following A. Five Illinois Cass 120/2C1. The appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of Fenton Community High School District 100. B 5 Illinois CS120/2C2 collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees. >> Motion >> second roll call. >> Who second it? I'm sorry. Second. Sorry. Thank you. Okay. Brzinski, >> yes. >> Matug, >> yes. >> Figuroya, >> yes.

149>> Makullo, >> yes. >> Miller, >> yes. >> Goodri. >> Close session. Reed. Yes. >> Close session. >> Close session. >> Yes or no? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Lewis. >> Yes. There will be no action items after close session. We're in close session. and a second to go back into open session. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call. >> Uh here >> don't play here. here. >> Good. >> Yes. Please. >> Yes. >> Here. >> We're back in open session. >> May I have a motion and a second to adjurnn? All in favor say a. >> Nay. >> Hay's happy.