001e e e mode or in tablet or tent mode uh we reached out to a couple of vendors one of them being cdwg who we've worked with quite a bit in the past as well as uh purchasing our Chromebooks from them in years past they are part of the ilpp purchasing Cooperative which essentially does the bidding process for us upfront with vendors uh to ensure governmental organizations receive the most competitive pricing cdwg for the 335 devices with their accompanying four-year warranty uh will cost $167,800 of Title One funds will be used to cover the purchase I am bumping this up from years past typically it's a little bit later in the spring uh however with um uh potential tariffs a lot of our electronics manufacturers who manufacture overseas um are announcing price increases so we
002want to get this in before that starts to take effect any questions for Britney and just we will have an action item later in the agenda right on the Chromebooks correct correct okay right thank you Brittney yes we got one question oh sorry question no I I sorry just individually how much are these Lenovo 500o the Chromebooks cost uh individually for this quote it's $339 uh the the accompanying warranty is 126 per uh unit okay thank you thanks Britney if we could somehow get the slides on there otherwise I will adjust as we go to the next slide and that's okay well we're going to we're going to be fine the next agenda item kick your plug out was that you read did you um summer school dates and preview you ready for that Kate
003I'm ready okay all right go ahead all right it's February but we're thinking about summer already so we set our summer school dates um we're going to continue what we started last year where we have the two sessions uh we're going to frontload session one so that all of the in-person instruction is in June that worked out really well uh for teachers and students so so Monday June 2nd through Thursday June 26th if you remember our summer school model goes a Monday through Thursday which is also really great for um students we run 8:30 to 12:45 we'll have June 19th off um so like I said session one we'll have in-person classes and also Credit Recovery which is our online programming session two uh runs from Monday June 30th to Thursday July 24th that's a
004much smaller session that is just for credit recovery it's online it's a smaller group of students um we'll have July 3rd off it'll be that same time period uh but it also is going to work really well this year just coinciding with construction and things like that so kind of frontloading that so we're excited to be able to offer those two sessions again okay any questions on summer school I know it seems like it's a ways off but it's coming up quicker than you think okay next item Dr kand you don't need any slides right class of 2024 profile data good evening um annually we compile data on the graduating uh the previous year's graduating class the data we uh compile Rachel Geor jakus our college and career counselor has a meeting with the seniors
005in May and they fill out a um survey for us letting us know what their uh future plans are um we asked them a lot of questions about for ex example um first year college status or scholarship information and so on which is all detailed in the report so I have a few items here on the slides um uh that I'll talk through it's a lot of post-secondary plans then after they graduate in May the following winter which was just just this past winter we work with the national Clearing House data and we're able to kind of uh dig in a little bit and see what percentage of those students that reported to us where do they end up you know and kind of um what their postsecondary plans are so in this case U
006class of 2024 was 340 uh 304 graduating seniors that submitted a survey about their plans 38% um said they planned on going to a four-year institution 39% a community college to your institution 7% to trade school 3% starting an apprenticeship um 6% said they planned on beginning working in not attending school this year 2% joining the military and then 6% marked other um the national Clearing House report that we were able to reference indicated that 30% went to the fouryear institution 24% went to a two-year institution there are uh we talk about this in our office area a lot because the difference between 38 to 30 and 39 to 24 is significant and so we try to find out what we can about did the students take a year off did they go to trade
007school instead um did they join the military you know it it's sometimes hard to track that after they're gone but the national clearing uh student Clearing House only tracks uh postsecondary institutions and so we're able to know the four and the 2-year but anything else that they may have listed were we're not able to easily track so Rachel George jaus our College C counselor she's able sometimes to reach out to try and catch up and see and some students do stay in touch as well so we do talk about that data as well about you know what happened to their Journey or their plans um you know and and what what caused the change uh the class of 2024 is currently attending 55 different um institutions College of DuPage is the most at 108 uh
008that's for the current year Elmhurst University is at 16 the University of Illinois Chicago is 12 we also have about five or six students each at ISU NIU and Marquette and then the other uh between one and three are attending um the other the remaining institutions they're um in 105 different programs undecided is the biggest um indicator that we were given by students but the most common Majors nursing engineering biology and computer science so there's a a wide range um of uh interest in the students and their what their plans are for their postsecondary uh uh After High School of the applicants that applied 80% responded that they are a first generation college student and then for those attending college 65% said they will stay at home with family 30 will live on campus and
0095% will live off campus and not with families so they they the students do tell us a lot and we try to work with that information each successive school year as we're talking with students about their plans to see what sort of information we can do with them through School links and try to help them with their postsecondary planning for financial aid um they reported earning just over $2.9 million in scholarships which is a a tremendous number and um they uh they do this through the FAFSA program as well as applying for scholarships Sarah McDougall coordinates our scholarships um in our in our counseling office and so students you know were awarded and uh able to use a significant amount of money um most graduates file the FAFSA or the alternative application through ISAC and
01066% who did um qualified for the pel grant and 55% for the map Grant the pel grant is a Federal grant that helps subsidize uh second uh postsecondary education uh they use a formula through the FAFSA at the US Department of Education and then they award based on significant financial need sometimes those can be paid back sometimes they do not need to be paid back depends on the circumstances and then from there uh from the pel grant additional financial aid resources then stack on top of that to try and assist students um through their uh uh tuition and other expenses at their institutions then the map Grant is an Illinois based grant so along the same lines um that that's that's one of the ones that would stack onto the pel Grant and the map
011Grant oftentimes does also not need to be paid back because it is for significant financial assistance for students yeah how does the pel grant award like numbers compared to our reduced or pre lunch um numbers that's a very good question I don't I will see if I can dig into that and find um what that looks like and if I can match the students to those two things together that 66% that um that said they qualified for it I'll talk with Rachel and we'll see what we can put together from the system I don't have that at hand but I will I will map that out I just didn't know there was a correlation there so yeah I I will check that as well as the map to see thank you and then I could
012pass that along the board okay yeah just send it to Sam and he'll get it to us absolutely thank you um and our graduation profile so we do Trend um we do Trend data as well so this will be the last eight or so eight or so years nine years um again attending fouryear institution and two-year institution So currently for the class of 2024 what we've learned from the national clearing house is that 30% of our students are attending a four-year institution and 24% are at a 2-year institution that uh the four institution since 2020 has has kind of either stayed the same or Trend to downward a little bit from the co year and then same thing with the 2-year um so they're they're kind of in line with each other over five years
013uh but again um we we saw a drop from the covid point on and so again we we do discuss this we kind of talk about we ask the students a lot of questions about your post-secondary plans you want to go fouryear but we know that some you know a significant number don't at that point and so we are trying to understand more from the students about what it is they're looking to do and you know if they go to trade school they might do that and then go to the two-year institution to get a degree so we're trying to understand a little more about what the students overall plans are if they're not attending a 4 toy your institution because that may impact some of this data as well but again following up after
014they're gone um is is we can do it if they give us their email addresses but um sometimes we're just not able to track certain things down and again this is an annual report um the complete report is with you um we also share this information we break it down for Blackhawk and Wooddale jior high and then we share that information to them as well um all of this data does go to them what what institutions their students that came from there to us are attending and so on so we do share that information as well with our two Center districts so that they have that information from us thank you thanks all right this is back to me class rank discussion um so one of the things that I think you all have learned
015about Fenton and that I'm really proud of is that we're always examining our past practices and things that we've done for a long time um to make sure like they still serve a purpose they still are good for students um and that they make sense so this is something that was brought to us I believe before Co actually this conversation started and then Co happened and then we kind of just picked it back up but it came from the guidance Department um talking about the publishing of class rank so that's something that like has been going on at most schools for a long long time um and what we found is that most schools actually aren't really doing this anymore um and the major reason is that class rank is a marker that colleges aren't
016collecting because it's pretty meaningless actually when you look school to school like how a kid is doing at Fenton compared to like a nutrier or something like that so colleges don't look at it and what schools have found is like it's it really just increases unhealthy competition for kids at the school for something that's not very meaningful so that's something that we think um I have listed there a bunch of schools in the area that have already done away with uh publishing class rank what Our intention is is to phase this out so that starting with freshman year it will no longer be published on their transcripts or available for students um we will still have it in the background so that if there is any scholarship or anything um where students want to know
017what their class rank is but over overall um you know this is something that most college applications don't require anymore um so we think this is going to it decreases unhealthy competition between students and then this one's really important to me students are more likely to take rigorous classes they're interested in without worrying about like how's this going to affect something like rank um so to us to the guidance department and you know I think this is a pretty clear case we we agree with them that this is something that we can phase out uh are we going to have an impact then with also phasing out valedictorian soran and those things as well we don't so we already don't do that we already have the top 5% that will remain intact so we do
018think it's important to make sure that we're acknowledging kids who are performing really well so that will stay um so that won't have any impact on it okay MH any other questions okay all right let's keep moving thanks Kate yeah I think we're going to hand this off to Jose uh there's been quite a few meetings on furniture for the stem wi and we're excited that the stem wi is progressing nicely uh we saw the technology we're going to see a little more more technology here in a little bit but first just a preview of furniture uh that we're going to be looking at with the stem wi yes um so very exciting uh We've working with educational environments based in elro Village since October of last year um we did two site visits at
019their location with our administrative team and our district Architects Str Str to determine some options for the stem wi um Fenson also hosted educational environments in our community room uh last month in order to get feedback from our teaching staff and students on options that they preferred for the furniture in the stem wi uh we specifically are looking for seating for the science classrooms seating and tables for the learning areas and the hallways um seating for the computer science classrooms desk chairs and storage for our teachers and then uh desk and chairs for the vacated science classrooms as well um and then we hope to have finalized estimates for all the furniture uh ready for the board to review at the next meeting um so just wanted you guys to see you know this is
020for example the one on the right there uh presentation area that would be behind the learning the learning stairwell presentation area for students um Britney if you go to the next slide um some of these options would be in some of the the nooks and and open areas in the in the learning area um in the hallways so we'll have better better pictures for you guys next meeting but I just wanted you guys to see some some of the options that that they presented and you know know it was nice to get feedback from the students and the staff um because ultimately they're the ones going to be using it every day so I I know I'm not the best at like cordinating colors and things but are these the colors that were no sir
021to make sure yeah want to put that yeah we did get feedback we wanted they wanted darker colors to make sure you know they weren't try to you know in terms of like having stains and and and you know some of those markings on there and stuff so yes sir we are going to look at that question go ahead on the previous slide there was a an option do you know if a student chose that or a teacher the the the previous that which one the one on the right hand side yeah that one we looked at as an administrative team with them because this would be for um behind the stairwell um the one with the presentation area ma' yes ma'am on the right hand side yeah so that would be for the for
022the there's going to be a screen um for pres presenting and Avi will talk about that more in in a minute here but this is just an option for a small group to go out to the hallway and have you know another presentation done back back there I I guess I was just imagining students sitting in those seats and then students sitting in those chairs and those students with their backs to the students in those you know I just just was wondering who CH who yeah consider yeah we were looking at that I mean again you know we there's nothing definite so if that's something that we're concerned about we can go back and talk to them we actually um we currently have something like that that's been used in kid love it because it's
023more of like um kind of like an office feel you know like when there's a presentation so you're kind of huddled together so kids actually really love presenting in those um what on the next slide if you can go back or to the next one the kids were really super interested in like the soft scening and things like that and uh the company we're working with has been really awesome um they took a lot of feedback and when we had them here it was great because even some of our maintenance staff uh and custodial staff came in and they were like oh you know one of the things that's really hard to keep clean and wrote it down and made adjustments so I feel like they've really listened teachers were worried we have mobile desks
024and some teachers were worried like when I'm wearing a skirt and I said like and they're putting a shield on so I mean like they've done just like a really excellent job of listening to everything so um yeah those colors aren't the same and everything but um it's like I the when looking at the furniture like looking at the pictures then seeing this I'm like oh man it's all starting to come together so but kids definitely had some input I like that you guys talked about the cleaning factor I looking at Fabric and thinking ice so hopefully cleaning our custodial staff talked about dragging it across floors because that's what happens and so like I think I don't I don't think we've left any stone unturned with us it's been a really great process collaborative
025just question yeah are these options all mutually exclusive it doesn't sound like it I'm I'm sorry I don't follow your question are these options mutually exclusive it doesn't sound like it you've got different for furniture for different areas yes right right right so there's classroom areas and there's a learning the open areas in the hallways right okay I think what we we just wanted to kind of let the board know we we can go more in depth next meeting we'll probably have a finance facility meeting but uh you know I don't know we can show desks and what what the rooms look like themselves I think we're just trying to demonstrate you know some non-traditional type seating more comfortable more types of environments we want to explore particularly in those open areas that's right well
026I kind of liked them all that would have been a shame if I had to pick yeah going be a little bit of everything you'll see it all yes so I I think the thing that's that's thrown myself and possibly rethrown you off there is we had like on the previous slide you had like option one option to I think that coming from like the slides that from this was actually taken from their um actual presentation and so I took some of the you know images from that um so so so ignore option one option two that's not like a choice these are the these are the chosen options yes okay yes that's that that helps but yeah but as we as we kind of bring this to conclusion I think the process was healthy
027and that students had an input I think it was a really well-rounded process where different stakeholders could have a say and have an opinion and I like that the company encouraged that so thank you for facilitating it that way rather than me sitting around with Bru and pick pick the colors right no we don't want that okay very good okay next one is stem Wing Avi technology discussion Britney's going to introduce our guest tonight hello again um I we're very excited to introduce you all to Kathleen and Tom from Avi systems we've been working very closely with them in the design of the AV Equipment in the various spaces in the new learning uh the new stem wi so I'll hand it off to both of them to kind of dig into the various equipment
028we'll have in those spaces thank youney hello I'm Kathleen santor I'm a senior account manager at Avi systems and this is Tom huk yep he's our sales engineer I pronounced his last name correct so that's awesome as I win tonight um do I just hit those through the next slide uh I'm not sure do you want us to drive or yeah do you want me to ask you just the big button on the thot you think you can hear our technology here I didn't want to go backward so we'll test to see what your abilities are well thank you for having us here we're very excited to be here to introduce ourselves um I'm here to introduce who Avi systems is introduce us um and then also share with you the design that we have
029developed with your technology department for the new stem Edition that you all are building um just to give you a little overview of who Avi systems is um we are a full K12 Solutions provider and we're an integrator um we have offices Coast the coast as you can see we have 41 offices across the United States which is pretty awesome we have a huge presence our Chicago office is actually right down the street we're 15 minutes from here in Arlington Heights we're right off at alanin road we have a beautiful experience Center so you're more than welcome to come by anytime you would like to just to see our space we'd be happy to give you an office tour anytime time um what's really exciting is our company our organization is growing um we'll be
030opening two new offices soon you can see highlighted green on the map up there we'll be opening San Antonio and Tampa so we're actually really excited about that so in the coming years you're going to see Avi systems as an organization continuing to grow especially in the K12 Market um I'm not going to go into too much on this side I'm just going to highlight a few things um if you're ever at an Avi event somewhere like an Avi live or an Avi connect you will see our leadership team spend a great deal of time on this slide this is our mission statement um we deliver better outcomes through the integration of human impact Systems and Technology basically we want technology to work for you technology shouldn't impede you to be able to do your
031job it should be able to help you do your job more effectively and that is our mission statement um last year we were really proud to celebrate 50 years in business that was a huge milestone for us um and we are really proud to tell our clients that we work with that we are debt free so as an organization Avi systems we do not hold any debt which means we're able to work with you you know school districts corporations on projects of any size and be able to procure equipment without any delay which is pretty huge um we are the largest Global EV service provider so we we have huge Global footprint which doesn't really matter too much to education um but it's really cool to point out that we are in 50 countries 172
032cities and we have over 6,000 plus employee owners so at Avi systems we are employee owned which is huge because you have every single employee across our organization vetted into all the projects that we work with so at our Chicago office in Arlington Height we have over 70 employees working every single day to support your school district ensuring that the project they we're working on is smooth um I'm not going to really go into too much on the other side of this side that's more for corporations but it just shows that you know we have huge unified collaboration Services managed Services um and additional uh deliveries that we can reach um this is our basically this our resume our company profile I'm not going to read it word for word you're more than welcome to
033look at it in depth after the meeting um but just give you an overview of who I am so you know who I am I've been working with school districts for over 18 years I've been in the Ed Tech space for over 10 years I started my career in the education Market um at fallet school Solutions in Woodridge many years ago I um worked with school districts with um educational material and school libraries I saw a huge growing trend for technology so I wanted to be part of it so I joined tyranny um and I work with Tyne for over 10 years supporting school districts across Chicagoland area with um Technology Solutions instructional technology and I've been in Avi systems for over three years working with the same customer base that I've been working with
034for over 10 years um I'm local I've lived here my entire life I grew up in bing Brook went to mouth College for the last 17 years I live in Plano so I'm out in the cornfields um so that's where I live but it's not far to come out here so always happy to come out anytime so that's who I am in a nutshell and Avi systems um I'm going let Tom introduce himself and then he's going to walk you through the whole design for the stem Edition with all the AV Equipment that we've designed with your technology team yeah thanks um yeah like Kathleen said uh I'm a sales engineer for Avi Chicago I've worked with uh education whether it's higher ed or k through2 like my whole career um and particularly on large
035projects like this where we're working up front designing something building it later um you know new builds additions things like that um yeah so you know as you guys know you're building a relatively large addition onto the building and what you're seeing up here these different colors are classrooms and different areas where there are going to be integrated AV systems and the reason why I say integrated is because it's not just like a TV on the wall or a speaker it's a lot of different components all you know wired up together programmed to work as one cohesive system and so all the sort of purplish spaces that you see across the top there are stem classrooms on the first floor and the second floor across the new addition there is going to be 10 stem
036classrooms um um and then the Green Space you see there is a divisible uh sort of computer lab space um the blue circle that you see there is that presentation space that's behind the learning stair that we were just talking about the furniture you can kind of see that furniture in the background a little bit um and then the yellow that you see right there is the learning stair area which is obviously an area for students to congregate throughout different times of the day but it's also a large presentation space and event space in the building um and you can just kind of see the second floor there is more stem classrooms and then that uh learning stair you know sort of carries up through both levels here we go um yeah so the the
037stem classrooms this is you know really the the core of of this addition you know each of these rooms uh is going to be able to do a few different things it it'll have four different displays so it'll have two short throw projectors that are projecting onto whiteboards so you know content of any kind can be taken from a laptop or a mobile device and thrown up to those those whiteboards and then you know uh drawn on things like that and then there's also two displays that are suspended from the ceiling and so there's four uh displays within the room all of which can be individually addressed so you know you those can be content can be thrown up from a laptop from a mobile device but then also what's you know sort of in
038the top left there is a uh exhaust hood and under that exhaust Hood there's a camera to where you can capture what is happening in that exhaust hood and send it up to those displays so students you know it's not practical to get you know 253 students all around that exhaust Hood to see what's going on so you know you're able to throw that content up um there's also ceiling speakers you know you know so we can play back audio within the space um you know be it from from content or uh you know or a mobile device um and then yeah there will be a touchcreen on the wall uh that has a you know intuitive interface that all the classroom instructors can understand so turning the system on selecting what the video source
039is and selecting where that source is going to go to adjusting the volume level all those kind of things so this is happening throughout 10 different classrooms within the space um and then also in that divisible room that I mentioned earlier so the divisible room uh I don't have a separate side on that and that is because the divisible room is just two of these rooms with a dividing wall and when you remove that wall it's able to function as one large AV system with eight displays and speakers and you can throw content up wherever you want to that's a computer science room yeah um and then the learning stair area um this is you know a multi-purpose space it's going to have a large video wall um on the uh wall that you see
040sort of towards the south of the plan here um and that video wall during the day can be used for digital signage promoting activities happening within the building and then for events uh you'll have the ability for a presenter to throw up you know any kind of content up there be it a video PowerPoint presentation Etc um there's also uh two loudspeaker arrays that are on those walls so because this room is very large very reverberant um you've all probably been in a church before where it was maybe hard to hear what someone was saying as it was coming out of the loudspeakers so these speakers are specifically designed for large reverberant spaces and they're focused on speech so the idea is that students can be sitting up those stairs they can be up on
041the uh second level around the sort of balcony area and everyone will be able to hear uh a presenter speaking through it um there's also these you know you see some red squares sort of up at the top there those are connection plates for someone to sit with a mixer um or a uh video recording device and just like how you know Britney and team are doing today they can sit in there for a larger presentations let say you had a panel discussion with four people you know two mics for audience questions there could be someone sitting up there on the stair monitoring that adjusting levels just like how we're doing today um and then there is also a a camera system in here so you can record the presentations that are happening there's wireless
042mics um and then there's also a hardware recorder device that you know just allows you to to you know do a simple video and audio recording of events happening in the space and just like in the classrooms there is a touchcreen on the wall uh that provides some simple presentation capabilities we might have times where there's just one person with a laptop and a wireless mic you know we probably don't need full staff for that to run that event and then when there's larger events uh there's basically a setting on the touch screen that allows everything to run through a mixer and and stuff like that um yeah and that touch screen just before anybody ask can have a password on it since this is in a public space so students aren't just getting in
043and throwing up whatever YouTube video they want on the video wall so uh and then finally we we talked a little bit about this uh Corridor sort of collaboration space um so there's there's going to be this circular furniture and then there is a curved you know sort of half circle wall that is all whiteboard material um and there will be a projector that is a short throw projector that is you know projecting a screen onto that whiteboard and so it can function as a whiteboard surface but then also students can come in they can connect a laptop or a mobile device share their screen up there whether they're giving a presentation or having a discussion about a project um and it's in kind of a nice you know sort of semiopen area within the
044within the building so it's it will be kind of cool in my mind at least to walk walk through that area and see students in a class or whatever presenting or having a discussion um sort of in this non-traditional space yeah and now I'll talk about the audit uh no so uh yes I think that's our portion I don't know how to go back there we go uh yeah um questions so uh you know in light of everything being managed on the Cloud mhm and recent uh you know education systems being compromised on set Cloud it I to expect that all of your control systems are not in house but they're remotely managed is that correct so yeah all all of these controlled systems are actually not on your network at least at the moment
045it's all localized there's a small control processor um they almost f f function more like appliances than like a computer um and there is the ability for uh Fenton to put all of that equipment on their Network at some point in time if they would like to uh later on but at least at the moment that we've designed it all these spaces are Standalone and don't run any risk of um you know any sort of uh infiltration into into your network um so we're not going to have an Amazon tet West one go down and suddenly all of our displays stop working oh yeah no that and that that yeah that's definitely not uh uh not something that would happen within these systems they're all Standalone and that's that's actually a basic sort of concept
046with any classroom design right is I I've seen from other folks throughout my career that you know someone designs a school right with 20 classrooms and it's all relying on One processor and if that processor goes down all 20 classrooms uh don't work and that is absolutely the opposite of how we Design Systems of each room is Standalone so if one room goes down as Tech techology does sometimes you're just down one room and you're not down your entire school if that's sort of what you're getting at yeah no just more of concern with like I said with most things nowadays you don't have self-hosting everything's hosted on the cloud so the connect you know cameras and everything is connecting to remote resources that you guys control and manage remotely that was the concern then
047there was going to be the add-on question of what happens if you go out of business tomorrow yeah and continuity and the usage of the product but if it's all self-contained that's yeah Sol yeah okay any other questions thank you very much appreciate you coming out tonight all right thank you guys luck driving out west okay Bruce all right nice graphic Bruce yeah yeah thank you I uh have a couple people assisted me with that so uh anyhow um so to sum up our district information items tonight uh the district has used its current auditing Firm LA book and Aman since fiscal year 2020 uh their initial agreement went through 2022 uh a second agreement was approved by the board that goes through this fiscal year 2025 uh we did request them to submit a
048a proposal to further extend our current contract by an additional two years and then so this would cover this year which the pricing would remain the same that we've already agreed to uh the 2026 year and the 20 27 year so the fees are are mentioned there uh the fee for 2025 wouldn't be would be unchanged uh the 26 fee would be go up 4.9% and then 5.4% for the final year um they did average so that's a little bit up from what it's been uh in the previous years but it's still I think uh in a in a reasonable range um what it's been in the past um we do recommend entering into so this would be even though it's for two additional years it really is a new threee agreement and that's how
049they had to structure it uh with the firm um again as I said the 25 fee this year is is unchanged from previous uh previous agreement um and as a reminder uh the acceptance of this proposal would only secure the fee scheduled with the board but would uh be subject to annual renewal or cancellation um they've continued to be appr proven and solid working partner with the district and they have been responsive And Timely with the reporting requirements uh part of my concern I guess or recommendation to move this forward now is the financial auditing firms for public school districts is shrinking there's been two firms that I'm aware of that have gone out in the past 3 four years uh it's getting more specialized more difficult for firms to come into uh enter it
050uh or stay within it and you some of you may recall our previous La uh legal auditing firm excuse me pulled out of the uh School accounting business allog together um we just don't want to kind of get in that predicament um they've done a nice job we'd like to continue the relationship with them and and uh have a inexperienced auditing firm uh prepare the financial audit for for us so we'll ask the board um to act on this later on this evening but I'll certainly answer any questions that you may have now okay thanks thanks Bruce and as you point out will'll be an action item later for this there also be an action item item on the uh Avi technology approval that you just witnessed okay next we have boas yes both of
051these have been resolved um thank you thanks that's it for the informational items next item consent gender I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as Pres second uh roll call Rego yes hay yes figuroa yes kovc yes razinski yes Goodridge abstain Lewis yes motion passed okay then as we move along we just have a couple slides first off I want to highlight you know I think there were four donations uh this month it's such a giving community that we live in I just want to thank those people that are looking for opportunities to support some of our programing um one of the main areas has been the incubator program uh which we talked about several months ago that that growing program for entrepreneurial kids with entrepreneurial Spirit um so we want to thank
052the bensville Community Foundation uh for Their donation and of course John Kent kobak who serve on that committee and then also uh Jimmy AOA uh for his donation for the incubator program he came in and visited with the kids and sat with them you know like for example he's someone that grew up at Fenton high school and he wants to get back and it it's just a tremendous opportunity where he can sit with kids and they can go through this is my project and get some some feedback from someone that um is actually out there in the real world and and can provide Insight so we're thankful for these Partnerships as they develop this is the uh UPS on Urban Park right yes yep okay may I have a motion that the Board of Education
053approves the net secc lease agreement as presented so mov second any discussion roll call Rego yes hay yes figuro yes KC yes rinsky good richin Lewis yes motion pass may I have a motion that the Board of Education approve the 2025 2026 school calendar as presented so moved second roll call Rego yes hay yes Figaroa yes kovc yes Goodridge Yes Lewis yes motion passed may I have a motion that the Board of Education give authority to the fent and administration to proceed with the e-learning renewal for the 2025 26 School school year which would extend until the end of the 2027 2028 school year for a period of three years total so moveed second any discussion roll call Rego yes hay yes figuro yes kovak yes razinski yes goodr yes Lewis yes motion passed may
054I have a motion that the Board of Education approves the fiscal year 2025 Proposal with Avi systems for the AV technology design and installation in the new stem Wing Edition for the total cost of [Music] 58700 gosh 826 so move second any discussion uh what is the uh over under on the budgeted amount for this versus where we came in that's within budget yeah we the budget was about 550 so we're right we're right there fantastic thank you it was it was competitively bid out I assume it's uh Cooperative pricing so it's it's been bid similar to what we talked about earlier with some other uh purchases what we make all right roll call R go yes hay yes figuro yes kovak yes razinski yes goodr yes Lewis yes motion passed may I have a
055motion to the Board of Education approves the fiscal year purchase of 335 Leno 500 E Gen4 Chromebook computers for the class of 2029 from CDW G for the amount of $167,800 of which $ 51,59714 rinsky Yes goodr Yes Lewis yes motion [Applause] passed may have a motion that the Board of Education accepts the three-year pricing proposal from labach in amen LLP to complete the financial audit for the fiscal years ending June 30th 2025 through June 30th 2027 with the reservation reservation to renew and extend or terminate annually so moved second any discussion roll call Rego yes paade yes Figaroa yes kovak yes rinsky yes Goodrich Yes Lewis yes motion passed does anyone have any committee reports um the next meeting of the bville foundation will be on March 27 uh as uh was reported earlier
056the grant for the incubator was approved at the uh highest amount requested $5,000 the presentations by our students and staff and their attendance was uh well received so those it's things are going well um we tabled two items we approved several others were within budget and they have their take donation from Subaru so things are moving along fantastic well I attend to nask back in February 10th uh we got the operational board meeting uh we got the monthly Financial reports the project Insurance of course the transportation bids and uh like every year the policy the policy manual revisions and update for the Strategic plan uh the articles of agreement from son of the vendors and uh everybody's welcome to attend the next board meeting on the new TLC building on March 10 is right here
057in Bensonville nothing on the financing facilities this month or policy yeah there's Noy should be yeah our next board meeting will be Wednesday February oops I'm sorry that's a typle oops March what 266 March 26th 2025 at 7:00 p.m. with attenda a finance facility committee meeting at 600 p.m. prior to the regular board meeting may I have a motion in a second to go into close session for the following a five illino Cs 120/2 C1 the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals who serve as independent contractors and a park recreational or educational setting or specific volunteers of the public public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testimony on a complaint loded against an employee a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a
058park recreational or educational setting will volunteer of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity however a meeting to consider an increase in compensation to a specific employee of a public body that is subject to the local government wage increased transparency act may not be closed and shall be open to the public and posted and held in accordance with this act B 5 Illinois 120 2 C3 the selection of a person to fill a public office as defined in this act including a vacancy in a public office when the public body is given power to appoint under law or ordinance or the discipline performance or removal of the occupant of a public office when the public body is given power to remove the OCC the occupant under law
059or ordinance and C 5 Illinois cs102 c121 discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed under the open meetings Act whether for purposes of approval by the body of the minutes or semiannual review of the minutes ask mandated by section 2.06 so moved second R call Rego yes hay yes Figaroa yes kovc yes rinsky yes goodr yes Lewis yes we in close session okay e e e back into Open Session moved second roll call read right there oh okay hold on you guys went a little bit too fast Rego here hay here Figaroa here kovak present razinski Yes goodr Yes Lewis here here may I have a motion that the Board of Education fing Community High School District 100 approve the amended employment and release agreement for James un tanko so moved second roll call Rego
060yes hay yes figuroa yes kovak yes razinski yes Goodrich Yes Lewis yes motion passed may I have a motion and a second to adjourn all in favor a I I thank you and good night thank you great I'll see you