001All right, then let's turn our mics on. Yeah. All set. All right, we're all set. The June 16, 2025 board of education meeting will now come to order. Mrs. Mo, roll call, please. Miss Becker, Mrs. Butterrime, yes, here. Mr. Estes, here. Mrs. Hill, here. Mr. Lobach, here. Dr. Martelli here. Dr. Bruno here. Mr. Lobach, please lead us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The first up is uh the board has a obligation to hold a public hearing of the 2425 amended budget. The 2425 amended budget has been on file and conveniently available for public inspection beginning April 21st, 2025. The date to date the district
002has not received any verbal or written comments. Members of the public who wish to address the board on the topic of the amended budget should complete the sign-in sheet and indicate they wish to comment for the public hearing. Uh Mrs. Mo will then call your name when it is your turn to speak. Speakers are asked to maintain respectful decorum and limit their comments to three minutes. Mrs. Moch, is there anyone wishing to make public comment on the amended budget? All right. Hearing none, then the public hearing is closed. It is now 6:34 p.m. Um, oh, well, let May I have a motion to close the public hearing on the 2024 2025 amended budget? Motion. I need a second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. And now the hearing is closed. Okay. So,
003let's move into our regular agenda item items. And first up is a presentation on the school perceptions community survey report. And Jeff, you will introduce our speaker. Yes. Back in April, we sent a survey out to the entire community. We got the results back and Derek is going to present on the findings. That is correct. Here is the results of this community survey report that uh we conducted uh via school perceptions. My name is Derek Gotautly by the way uh representing the survey company. The way these presentations work, go through some background info very briefly, talk about the survey and respondent information, results and analysis and then uh take questions at the end. Our company's been around since 2002. We've done millions of staff, parent, student, and community surveys um for over a thousand school
004districts nationwide, but generally in the Midwest. So, this survey deadline of April 28th, 2025, there were 877 total respondents for a 7% response rate. Uh before you ask, that is a little bit lower than most of our community survey response rates. 12 to 14% is more normal, but most of the community uh surveys that we do are tied to some specific, you know, tax hike ask, which tends to boost those uh response rates. 877 is still a good enough number to make inferences from. Here's the age distribution of the people who responded in which municipality folks live. overwhelmingly the village of Glenn Ellen, uh various other municipalities in the area. Are you an employee of the district? 21% of respondents said yes. Do you have children attending a school in the district? 61% of respondents
005said yes, which is to say that the 877 respondents are these groups are over represented compared to what you would see in like a school board uh election. your most engaged uh folks are the ones who tended to respond to the survey. If you have school age children, what schools do they attend? Mark all that apply. Here you can see the distribution of those. How do you like to receive school district information? Parents love emails. This is true across districts. Uh non-staff non-parents really prefer hard copy newsletters. is just an interesting little bit of information. Brief thing on we're going to talk about the data uh in terms of how uh Glenn Ellen schools do in comparison to other similar districts. So here's what that comparison score means. We use the National Center for Education
006Statistics criteria for comparison, which is like we're we're looking at dis other districts that are similar in terms of total enrollment, similar student teacher ratios, similar proportion of students uh experience experiencing poverty, by which I mean eligibility for free and reduced lunch. Only results of surveys done from the past two years are pulled into this. So the average score for each item across all these surveys for the past two years from districts that are similar in these ways, that's what makes the comparison average that you will see. Uh there's somewhere between 600 and a thousand of those surveys that make up that go into those comparison scores. So the first section we're talking about an overall satisfaction scale uh 1 to4 scale you know poor fair good how is the district doing in each of
007the following areas percent great or good for delivering high quality education keeping the public informed building pride in the community managing funds appropriately for all of these 72% is the lowest that we see uh you can see the D41 average and the comparison average each one of these is uh significantly above the comparison average. What is the comparison? Sorry. What is a comparison average? So let me go back to the previous slide real quick. It's that stuff. The comparison average is we take every survey that we have done. Every survey who has answered that particular question for the past two years. It's like 600 or thousand similar districts. And that is the average that comparison average of 3.0 0 for delivering a high quality education is the overall average of all those like hundreds. Yeah,
008that's cool. That happens when people start talking about stats. I find uh the big picture and this is true throughout the presentation is like how's district 41 doing? Good, like real good and better than the comparison average on pretty much every item. So, this will be a running theme. On a scale of 0 to 10, how likely would you be to recommend the district to a f friend or family member? We the I when I'm looking at this slide, I'm looking at the eight nines and tens. Those are your like actual positive proactive advocates. And so when you see that more than 50% of folks who answer the survey fall into that category, that's a big deal. As you can see, the district score the district's overall average here is 7.91. The comparison average is
0097.17. better than average in these item by well this is the strategic plan refresh uh portion of this here we're on a fivepoint agreement scale uh there is no three it's still possible mathematically to get a three that's the part that people will zone through anyway fours and fives are good if you see an average score for yourself of four or above that means the average response is a green with the thing and that'll be uh important So this is this was the information that was included on the survey. The core purpose of our strategic plan is to accelerate academic growth, improve student learning outcomes, and close opportunity and achievement gaps. The following strategic goals are in service of that central focus. The following statements will establish a baseline from which we will measure our
010progress. Each item invites feedback on the current state of the district. All items begin with district 41, which means like district 41 has high expectations for students. When you see an NA in the comparison average, it's because those are C like some of the questions for that are specific to your strategic plan are custom and so we don't have comparison data on that. That's why there's no comparison score. But again, the way to interpret that is percent agreement is high. You know, average scores of four above means that the average person is agreeing at some level with what that is. So has high expectations, prepares students for high school and beyond, ensures all students have access to highquality instructional resources, provides rigorous coursework. Goal two, nurturing a culture of belonging. Again, just well above comparison
011averages. 92% say maintains a safe and secure schools and has the support of that community. We just don't see those levels very often. Optimize early learning facilities is meeting our uh D41 is meeting our community's kindergarten needs. 83% agree. Has the right level of preschool offering. 73% agree. Strengthening community connections. District 41 provides me with opportunities to offer feedback. Again, higher than average, 80 80% and up on each of these uh items. In terms of planning priorities, respondents were asked to choose up to four areas that they believe you should focus your planning efforts on. So these are broken down in colors that don't look as good on the big screen as they do on the small screen into staff, parents, and non-parents. So like there's broad agreement on some of these reading literacy achievement.
012Just important to note that like non-parents, non- staff, so general community members are like yes do literacy. Uh whereas staff are only 37% think that this should be a focus probably because they are living with the reality that this is a focus already. Uh recruiting and recaining high quality staff, responsible technology use, student behavior, discipline, peer relationships. Here's one where like the staff are like that is a big uh priority and parents and non- staff non parents and non-parents non-staff see that as less of a priority which is just to say that like behavior stuff is not circulating. Uh mental health services for students broad agreement services for students who have difficulty learning 41% of staff see that as a big thing. math achievement again for non-parents non-staff non-parents non- staff are like academics please
013is the is the bottom line there and then you know a bunch of additional things top five planning priorities items by subgroups. So this slide is complicated to read. These are like we just broke down the top five things for each group and then the blue highlights are the ones that occur in each of the other groups top fives too. So these are the ones that have the biggest agreement. reading and literacy achievement. Even though it's only number five for staff and it's number one for parents and non-parents non-staff that counts as being in both. So, it's reading and literacy, mental health services, recruiting and retaining uh highquality staff are the three big areas of agreement in terms of district feedback. Back to a four-point scale. How satisfied with you are you with the job
014district 41 is doing maintaining an informative website involving community members in decision-making 68%. So we ask versions of this question. We don't do comparison data because it is a custom question but this and it would be statistically impermissible to offer those as comparisons but this is high for a community survey in terms of uh a measure of involving community members in decision-m that's most people feel much more excluded than that especially non-parents non- staff so FYI uh what topics are you interested in learning more about student achievements and success, how our district is performing compared to other districts. Noted district goals and plans, school finance and budgets, interesting school board changes and policy stuff, safety, extracurricular offerings. I can skip through that because we have one of these uh things again. What were in the
015top five for everybody? School safety and security, how our district compares to others, student achievements, and successes are the uh three big areas of agreement in terms of what people would like to hear more about from the district. Another fivepoint scale. I really should have organized this differently so that we weren't switching back and forth all the time. It doesn't matter. How satisfied are you with District 41 leadership? very satisfied above average above average the district is heading in the right direction 85% say this that it is 3.94 is the average so these are just right raw comparison like comparisons between raw averages but you should know that these are all like in in upwards of 90th percentile is your score the difference between that stuff it's you don't get 85% agreement on the district
016is heading in the right direction these days in general. I I find overall I'm satisfied with district 41. Obviously, that's a custom question, but 85% yes, 3.98 average. And then in the survey, if you said that you were a parent, you got uh an additional sheet that asked specifically about your experience with your child's school. And this allows for comparisons to again other schools and districts like that. I feel welcome in my child's school. I mean, you can see them all. All of these are above 90% agreement. If my child breaks a rule at school, they are treated fairly. 93% agreement. I'm satisfied with our school's efforts to address bullying. 79% agreement. Again, you can't like the the uh distribution, the percentile isn't being shown, but that is extraordinarily high. Bullying is like one of
017the big concerns. So even people who have like 58% agreement are in the 70th percentile uh on that uh there's a healthy culture at our school. Satisfied with how much my child is learning. This is the one place in which uh D41's average is below the comparison average. I'm comfortable contacting the principal. Good. D41 does a good job of meeting the needs of special education students. 73% agreement. D41 does a good job meeting the needs of English language learners. 90%. I have at least one school staff member I feel comfortable contacting when I have an idea. Again, that's remarkably high. I'm updated on how my child is doing at school. Another item in which D41's average is below the comparison average, but 77% agreement. School communication is both timely and transparent. The school provides opportunities
018for parental involvement. That's really high as you can see. What did we learn? Well, I didn't make a slide for that. This is the questions uh part of that. The the theme just before uh field in any questions that you might have where you saw so D41 is doing great on all these measures where parents feel uh a certain weakness tends to be in the academic offerings. There's uh these had open-ended our online surveys had open-ended comment places and in terms of the comment theme analysis that we did that also came up there. more extracurricular offerings, a lot of requests for more support for uh students at the high end of the achievement uh spectrum and just a general uh call for especially focusing on extracurriculars, additional uh advanced placement offerings, extension uh exercises. So,
019okay. Well, let's uh allow the board to first of all, Derek, thank you. Pleasure that for a lot of data presentation of survey data clear uh we could hear it and understand it. Uh so let's kind of just reach out and see uh if board members have any questions or uh comments. I do. No, really? I do. You I would. But I I can go less. Well, Jess, you know what? I think your colleagues are deferring to you to get us started. So, please uh well, first of all, congratulations to the staff uh for these results that they're outstanding. Fantastic. We should all be really proud. You should be proud of yourselves. Um and um I think this is a really good really good outcome. Uh, I do like to focus on where we have
020opportunities to improve. And to me, like my takeaway is anything under 80% is an opportunity for us to either make an improvement or maybe just communicate better, right? Because when I saw rigorous coursework on there, I was like, what? Like we have the highest standards in the nation for what we do. um in terms of our standards in Illinois. Um so I in our in our testing that we do. Um and and then you had said I also kind of bulked at involving community members in the decision making which you guys said was was high but it was below the 80%. So um so I guess there were eight of those items that were below the 80%. um two of them were rel in the 90th percentile even though they were low. So maybe maybe
021that's not as much of an opportunity. Um but I just would be curious to have um to want how you're going to address that because to me it's like let's line them up. Let's crosswalk them with the strategic plan and see are we planning to address those and how do we need to tighten anything up. Um, and I do think it's concerning that the ones that were below the average was the how much my child is learning and that I feel updated on how my child is doing at school. And I would love to see us dig into what those reasons are for those scores. Um, you know, like the updated on how my child is doing in school. I know personally I struggled a lot with that when I have a learner who isn't
022interested in telling me anything about their day. Um and and I'll just just as my this since this is my final meeting but last I really hate Skyward as a parent and a user been holding on to that for years. And so um if any if anybody wants to replace that with something from this century that would be fantastic um move forward in that communication piece. Anyway, just that was a lot, but um curious to hear your thoughts, Jeeoff, on what you do with this next. Why don't I go at the end because other people may have questions that you're asking Derek in terms of the collection, but then what does that mean? So, I'll I'll come back to that at the end. Sounds reasonable. I have a Jason counter question. One that kind of
023popped up to me and I'm sure it popped up to Eric, too. um was I was just surprised at the number the managing funds appropriately at 70% 72% say we did a good job um I was just surprised by that given the fact that the district has put itself in a position without a referendum to build a kindergarten center um I was surprised by that number. Um I also wanted to ask about the special education number. I know it was a um a specific question so we didn't have a comparison um since it was a D41 specific question but it was at 73 77 something that that that effect. What does that look like just if you took D41 out comparatively to other districts? So uh we don't ask that question very frequently of everybody
024on a community survey. We ask it on uh staff surveys and it it varies a lot. The so the problem is like we ask it to to staff specifically and on our staff survey and the staff when the staff gets a series of questions about like I think our teachers do a good job of educating our students is one of the items like are the following like demographic chunks of students are getting the education that they need by like all genders all race special education students and those tend to be high because we're asking the people who are in charge of doing it really nobody like for in the opposite kind of case that's when where you get like 95% agreement on like we do a good job of educating our students and it's like
025in the 13th percentile or something like that so so which is just to say I don't have a good answer to that question because like we don't ask it in a comparable that's a good enough answer honestly I think that answers kind that actually answers the question I was getting to in a different way than I expected but all right that's what I have thank you Okay, everybody's like intently out based on what you're saying going back into the Yeah, we're just worried about Jess jumping in get the most out of her last meeting. Yeah. Yeah, the only other thing that I noticed because I, you know, noticed the same things that that Jess had commented on, but on slide 22 for future planning, there's just such a discrepancy between staff's perception and parental perception
026on student behavior, discipline, and peer relationships. um there's a 30 point difference between those two groups and how they reported it and relative to how all the other indicators fall out. That by far is the most discrepant piece on on this part of the survey. So I don't know what we do with that information, but I do find it interesting that our staff feel that discipline and student behavior seems to be something that might be actually impeding student learning. Whereas the parental perception is not in alignment with that at all. Speaking as a parent, I can't imagine why that would be. But you know, it's something to discuss. I saw that also and I didn't know what that question meant. Right. And what I mean by that is that from a staff perspective, given that
027we put the TOSA position in that we have some staff that's kind of involved in student behavior, does staff look at it from that perspective and was parents looking at it from a different perspective? So, I I saw that, but I was wondering if there was a different perspective look at that, but it's a solid point. Sorry, I didn't I don't mean to interrupt. The other thing to remember here is that it's a it's a question about which four areas you'd like to see the district focus on future planning. So, it's not quite as direct a reflection on like what do you see as the biggest problems here or how do you feel like the district is doing on these things. It could be for instance that uh staff are aware that like what I'm
028just making this up so the this is a purely hypothetical that like staff and are are aware that like things are handled differently from building to building and they would like something like a more comprehensive sort of uh management plan. So it's not necessarily it's a huge behavior issue. It's perhaps it's that like they feel like it takes up too much of their uh you know cognitive load every day in terms of teaching because they're sort of doing it all on their own rather than uh as part of a general district strategy. That's something that we see sometimes I but we haven't asked that question exactly. Derek, just thinking about the discrepancy that Chris points out, u to be clear, the 60% would represent uh in this case staff who listed student behavior amongst the
029top four or mentioned it amongst four, not even they're number one. If you go to the if you go two slides later, Bob, slide 24. Student behavior and discipline was staff's number one. Yeah. Future topic. It was number four. And it was number four for parents. Okay. The 60%. But the discrepancy between those two was more significant than others that fell in their top five. That's right. The 60% number refers to So they only got to choose four and they had that whole list. And so 60% of people listed that as one of their four. One of their four. Yeah. Um, what I was asked what I was trying to get at was they weren't asked to rank from one to four. That's right. And and and there could be a wide gap between one
030and four. Mhm. And depending on the numbers of the survey, you you you know, it might end up popping the way that it does, but in fact, the the number one or two priority is is is something that staff considers uh much more of a priority, but but but you get this statistical effect that shows us why. I mean Chris's larger point is something worth thinking about and examining. But um anyway, just a way sometime to explain because it's such an oddity. Mhm. It stands out as one of those like what is it about the noise in the data or something that could explain? Well, that's why I was wondering if it looked at there people were looking at that or staff specifically was looking at that from two different perspectives. Are we looking at
031behavioral issues inside a classroom or we looking at oh this is what the district is doing and but to address student behavior and I'd like to see more of that because I could see that from two different perspectives. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm not asking you to hire us again but we we do have staff and parent surveys that get much more into the weeds on this exact question. I bet uh other questions from other uh board members. Ted's doing some analysis, I think. Maybe. Any questions, Ted? No, no, no. Jess, did you have any additional one? Okay. Uh, well, could I Derek just draw attention that the uh the on the topics of interest, there was an alignment uh of staff and parents on the topic of interest. I don't I think that's what the
032slide is titled. I should have wrote down uh the number planning priorities. This one or the No, go to the next one. Oh, the interest in learning more. Yes. Keep going. That's what There you go. Yeah. Topics of interest. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, I got which Okay. There's a real alignment there. Uh non-parents were really interested in how the district compares and the architecture of the survey uh actually responds to that. That's right. You said anywhere from 600 to a,000. Yeah. So that's telling them I mean where you have the alignment of questions, right? Which was which was really good to to know. And and then there's two other things. I think you also mentioned it, Derek. When the questions are about the district uh more at large, yes, there's a very high agree strongly
033agree it's in the 70 to 80%. Certainly, we'd like to see everything 80% or better. Uh that's that's true. Uh but interesting, there's a what I'm calling a perceptual focus effect that happens when it shifts to the parents and now they're thinking about their own kids. Yes. Yeah. The numbers go even higher. Yeah. That's right. So when they're thinking about their own kids, right, when that focus shifts again, very high satisfaction, but it's even higher when they step back and they're and they just step and reflect broadly on institutions, then the number while still very high, isn't quite, you know, isn't quite as gay in that that 90%. And I think that's a pretty typical way in which we've seen people respond. Yeah. On education surveys. Um, I have a question and and this gets
034back. So, here's a second question. you were going to think you were going to respond to Jess's and it and and she may her question may be like the one that uh uh I had and that was when you Jeff when you looked at it all which were the maybe one or two most actionable items that emerged from the responses where you could see okay a plan action next steps align with the strategic plan so that may be similar to Jess's question. Okay, I'll I'll start with yours, Jess. I'll fold yours in. Like you, I look for the opportunities. I think I was pleasantly surprised how high these were in relation to the comparables. We specifically wanted Derek to list the comparables because, for example, when the state compares us to other schools in Illinois,
035we say, "Yeah, but we're not like most other schools in Illinois. We have phenomenal resources and um advantages and incredible students and families that we should be well above other schools in Illinois. How are we doing with districts like us? And the fact we have those comparables, that was nice to see that we outperform them in almost every single metric. So, it made me feel good that people don't just think we're a good district, they think we're a great district, but we're not great at everything. And to me, the things that we have opportunities for aligned with the things we've been hearing all year long. So Jason, special education, special education, I'm guessing in every survey you give is flagged on there. It's a very complex topic that people, we're talking about people's children um
036with needs that that's always going to get flagged, but that's something I've been hearing here for the last year. Next steps, we're going to talk about that in the superintendent report. Jeeoff, can I just jump in really quick? But one thing when when he answered his question, one thing that what I liked about his answer was one thing what he said was not every district asks parents and non-parents what do they think about how the district is doing with kids that that learn differently. Um and so that's what when you answer that I wasn't expecting that answer but I think it's a really important answer because if not every district is asking the question I'm super glad that we are. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why we asked that like that that's a big
037component. We've been hearing that in from focus groups to parent groups to the student and and uh community advisory councils we've had. We've been hearing that parents want to talk and engage about that. So, we're going to talk and engage about that. Preschool came up as another one that came up with us as a board as we're talking about preschool facilities offerings. Jeff, you guys need to figure this out and you got two years to do it. So that was flagged on here with people talking about that. I think Jess, I was looking at all the ones you two that were lower. Yes, they were above the average, but boy, we're at 72%. The first question I asked is why is that? Because it in some cases it could be a matter of perception. It
038could be a matter of reality, but perception is reality. And I think for me asking the questions why are we scoring low in these areas and what can we do to improve that? It might be communicating things that we're doing, might need to be changing what we're doing. So, we as a district are going to talk through as an administrative team about what we can do, but we'll be meeting with every principal individually about what does this look like at your building and which of these are things you'll work with your building leadership team on to improve the metrics. Some of these questions are on the metrics for our new strategic plan. So, parent satisfaction, community engagement, communication with the community, we're going to take those exact metrics and we're going to plop them as
039background data uh or sorry, baseline data that in two years we'll want to raise that. So, every one of these things that we rated lower on, we're going to talk about why might that be and what can we do about it. Again, I wasn't surprised by anything except Chris, I was surprised by what you mentioned except I thought the parents would rate it higher from from what what I've seen. Behavior is not just an issue here. I'm guessing every single district you survey student behavior discipline is one of the biggest topics. I think that aligns with mental health in education right now. The fact that parents rated that low, I I was surprised by that. But it also might be every teacher is dealing with behavior challenges, working through behavior challenges. I don't know that
040every parent realizes that. If it doesn't affect them directly, they might not know. And non u parents, community members who are nonparents might not have had students in school for a while. I was surprised that it was 22% 22 30% 30% for parents. I was surprised. I would have thought that would have been 50 60% right there, too. Um, but overall the themes that came out of this, I think for me it confirmed that we're on the right track. I too agree. I think we are on the right track. But as good as these results were overall, we have a lot of work to do because we don't just want to be good. We want to be the best in every single area and we've got some work to do on that. So Bob, my
041top areas on here that jumped out, a lot of it was confirming where we were going. Special education was one of the pieces. Um rigor that's a point where that has come up throughout the year that I have heard from parents firsthand. Um rigor at the top end for students who how are we challenging our highest achievers that has been a common strand we're going to talk through. Preschool is another one that jumped out. Communication always is I have to think every survey you're on we could always do better with communication. Erica, I think our whole team, we're doing a great job moving the needle, but there's always more we can do. We can do it differently. I saw that 68% for community engagement and I'm thinking, "Oh, I wanted that to be higher." I'm
042glad to hear, but I want the community, what can we do better to feel that the community bringing them in? This is your district. We're right here with you. It's going to take time to do that, but that's something I saw. I wanted that to be 95 like, "Yeah, we're in this with you." And we're not there yet, but so I I know I didn't give you just one or two. This is a treasure trove that in combination with we have the five essential survey that we sent to parents. Um we're going to use human X that we gave to staff. Five essentials. We also have students and staff on that too. So we have three data points c culture type data points to look at. This one though gave us that non-parents non- staff
043that we did not have. So throwing that into the hopper to see where we can do that to me is another data point as we look to move them the needle forward. And if I may digging into that 68% number that you referenced about uh feeling involved when you looked at the parental experience you saw that that number was like 92% I feel like I go. So that says to me that you're here like the the community is really the part once you disagregate it as you have the option to do with the dashboard you'll be able to really identify the specific areas where where that opportunity lies. Very good. Well um Derek thank you. We appreciate the community and staff providing us with this information. Um, and as Jess said, congratulations really to the
044to the district. Uh, and the board and the superintendent and district leadership are committed uh to raising uh performance in areas where we can see challenges. So, uh, Derek, thank you very much and give our best to to Bill. We'll do. Thank you for having me. Good night. All right. Okay, let's move on to public participation. Members of the public who wish to address the board should complete a form and submit it to Mrs. Moch. We ask that speakers respect that we are obligated to adhere to YouTube community guidelines and are asked to maintain respectful decorum. Limit comments to three minutes or less with about 30 seconds to go. I will politely remind you to wrap up your comments. Mrs. Moch, is there anyone wishing to make public comment tonight? Don Reese. Don. Yeah. Thank
045you. Come on up and do I make sure the button is green right below there. Just tap it and make sure it's green so you can be heard. Thank you. Um is there any way to get a waiver to have five minutes if I need five minutes? I think three minutes though. I will be um as brief as possible. Send your notes be emailed to us also. Okay. Um dear school board, it is nice to connect with you. I'm a parent of a soon to be second grader at Ben Franklin Elementary. I'm also a graduate of Ben Franklin Hadley and Glenard West. And after going to Indiana University, where I was a division one athlete and living out of state and in Chicago, I returned to Glennon to raise my family. I'm here today in
046the hopes of building a stronger, more collaborative bridge between parents and the school district because relationships matter. I'm here because of my son and other kids in this district who have developmental differences. It has taken now more than two years and three formal requests on my part as a parent to get an individual education plan in place. I've had to hire two advocates, including one from the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission. Prior to my son entering kindergarten, I've been Franklin for the 2023 2024 school year. I alerted the school district and the school that my son had been in early intervention for 18 months and I requested that my son receive an IEP. Mind you, we delayed kindergarten by a full year and he was at Westminster for four years. My son, who was a
047full-term NICU baby, has permanent hearing loss in his cocar in both ears. He has ocular motor dysfunction, which means the neuropathways of his brain make words um watery on the page because of vision tracking. He also is profoundly dyslexic. It was something I recognized almost immediately because I was formally diagnosed with dyslexia in college. This is a miscon there is a misconception that dyslexia is simply not seeing things or a visual problem where a person reverses words or numbers. Instead, dyslexia results in funological processing which excuse me involves manipulating sounds and words. Dyslexia does not go away with a little tutoring. Your brain inherently functions differently. That's why Albert Einstein, Anderson Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Lonardo Duinci, Richard Branson, and even Jennifer Anston have dyslexia. For my son, it comes out with poor autom automated recall
048for words since he needs to sound out most of the words, making his reading slow, labored, and disfluent. According to the tutor we've had to privately hire, we've been very transparent with the school district. With so much documented medical history, it shouldn't have taken this long to get heard or frankly this traumatic to get something in place. And after being denied two IEP requests, we were given a 504. My son then entered first grade with tier 2 intervention, but we were simply told the teacher was working with him. Then when 30 seconds, my came son came home. It took more than 13 emails and four months to figure out what was going on with the school. and he also has something called mass cell activation syndrome which there's no cure affects nine organ systems. It's
049been a really frustrating traumatic process. We formed a parent group. We're talking with a superintendent. But there needs to be more communication. Part of the problem is how the school is documenting grades. First grades were not being documented for my son and so those second grades were being documenting. There also needs to be more communication. We begged for the teacher to have that. So I would request that there's more work to be done. Thank you. Great. Thank you very much, Don. Mrs. Moch, anyone else? That is it. All right, then we will move into reports and we will begin with the superintendent report. All right, I've got four things to talk about tonight. You can see them right there. And we're going to start with kindergarten. Um, we've got Sarah Rodriguez who will be the
050principal of the kindergarten center here. But this kindergarten update is not just about the kindergarten center. While the construction is moving along very nicely, we are on schedule there and we just gave a tour. Dr. Bruno, Dr. David Bruno, Eric Deorter just gave the staff a tour of that I want to say a week week or two ago. So, they got to see the spaces for the first time and see their faces light up light up. Um, I think Dave Scarardo is living out of the kindergarten center every day, popping in and out, making sure. Um, and Dave and that team with Eric, you guys have done a phenomenal job as, uh, to to see where we were last summer to where we are is incredible. And the building's almost ready. One of the things
051I want to mention to all kindergarten families, though, is that we have a new kindergarten screening process. I mentioned it at the last board meeting. And the screening is going to be August 27th through the 29th for half day, full day, and dual language. It's really a chance for staff to get to know your student individually, have them come in, work individually with staff members to hit the ground running on the first day of kindergarten, September 2nd. After that board meeting, I got a few questions from half-day parents who were wondering, Jeff, is that because the kindergarten center is not going to be ready that we have to push that back? It was a a viable question, but I emphatically said, "Nope, it has absolutely nothing to do. In fact, we're going to do screenings
052in the kindergarten center on the 27th." The two are completely disconnected. We're doing a new process that many other districts have a similar process to this. It happens that it's going to be during those first three days when we can have an all hands approach with staff, but it is not connected to the kindergarten center. I'm very excited that once we go through it with families, they're going to see the benefits of it. Um, I have firsthand seen this process in other places and it's fantastic. Title one, we have an annual report that is in the board packet. Every year the uh the building churchill is our title one school and for uh the general public title one are funds that we receive for economically disadvantaged families. We have one school in district 41 that
053qualifies that is Church Hill and the Church Hill administration. the the building leadership team, they come together to figure out what they want to use the funds for. We put together an annual report which we present to the board. That happened in the board packet today. But the big thing that I want to emphasize is a question I've gotten from the public is now that we have the kindergarten center built on the site of Church Hill, does that impact our title one status? And it does not. Kindergarten center is a completely different school. Church Hill will remain a title one school and that we shouldn't see any impact at all from the kindergarten center being right next door. Since this is the last board meeting of the school year, I wanted to take a moment
054to look back and then another moment to look forward. And as I look back on everything we've done this year, I think any one of these five topics, that would have been a year unto itself. And we've done all of those. And I because we are D41 is our motto. This has been a wei the strategic plan refresh taking a wonderful strategic plan um engaging with the community having the board having our administrative team come together to get really eight defined metrics of success of where we're going was a heavy lift and and we did that kindergarten in general not just the kindergarten center although that has been a tremendous effort but how do we figure out half day full day who's registering for what staffing all those pieces that wasn't all hands- on deck.
055I think that picture is from the committee of the whole that we had probably over hundred people in here. Dave was pulling out tables from the hallway so that we could fit everybody. And that fundamentally changed what we were doing with kindergarten. Pre-registration came out of this meeting. I can remember the table that said you got to you got to give us something so that we can figure out half or full day. And uh that was just to me a landmark meeting during the school year. Transportation has been a big issue this year. Um, anybody with a student on a bus knows that it's not something we've shied away from. It uh it it has improved, but it's not where we want it to be. Eric, I feel like we say this every time. It's
056not where we want it to be. And Eric has been working very closely with Safeway as we're preparing to bring on buses for kindergarten next year. Um, tightening up. They need to do better next year. They absolutely need to do better. So, while that is something we did not expect being as as difficult as it was this year, uh I'm proud of the way that we responded and held Safeway's feet to the fire and problem solved with them to make improvements along the way. Personal devices that came from all of you board. You brought that book uh to to our attention. The community obviously was very invested in that too as we had groups come and speak. we got that personal devices policy that came out of that that I I was really proud of
057how that came together, but I actually think the bigger piece is going to be on the next slide of of where we're going. And then lastly, I I'm very proud of the engagement that we all have done this year. I think we've taken a big step forward in how do we pull the community in, the staff in, parents and non-parents, and the board. And I I'm very proud of all of the efforts we've done this year, which makes me think, so what does next year look like? Well, the first one's a no-brainer. We're going to open that kindergarten center, and it's going to be absolutely incredible. Um, but the next two, special education and preschool planning, these are things looking ahead to next year of, okay, let's take a closer look. So, special education, as
058I mentioned, has been on my radar all year. I've heard from a number of parents and groups and again special education in general. It's a very complex topic that there was uh a review done I want to say 2017 and a refresh in 2020 20. I'd like to take a closer look. I'd like to work with uh an an outside consultant on this. I'd like to pull in stakeholder groups and figure out what are we doing well? What are some opportunities for improvement? Preschool planning. I don't know that I want to go the route of an out outside consultant, but I think we need to figure out with all of our different stakeholder groups. What are we doing with preschool from a facility stand point, from a programming standpoint? So, that will start next year.
059Instructional technology, that that's going to be the beast. So, the personal technology device, I was really proud of our engagement, but instructional technology, there are so many different arms to this. The community is extremely invested in talking about this. Our staff wants to talk about this. I want to talk about this. So next year we are going to have uh picture what we did for the personal devices and 10x that. Next year instructional technology is going to be a major area of focus as we figure out what's going to be best for our kids here in D41. And then finally the metrics for the strategic plan. We did that refresh but they're not just numbers on a page. Next year, we're going to continue to revisit that to say, what are we doing to move
060toward that? Um, making sure that we're hitting those plans. We've got two years, but after next year, we're going to be creating another strategic plan. So, next year is going to be a big year to see how how do these metrics feel as we go about planning for the next five years after that. I need a break. It's been a it's been a busy year. So, I am uh I'm glad summer is here, but a wonderful one. I'm I'm just very grateful to be part of the D41 community. Jeff, thank you for the look back and the look ahead and really lots to be proud of, lots to be reflective on, and certainly lots to be excited uh about board. Any comments uh yes report? Okay, very good. Then let's throw it open to see
061if board members have any individual board reports. I do not have an individual board report per se, per se, but we do have I'm a new representative from the League of Women Voters that I'd just like to welcome to our board meeting. So, thanks for being here. Yes, it is nice to Oh, we got two actually. I can't see behind. So, we have a couple. Wonderful. Thank Thank you both for being here. All right. Uh, now the board does have a need to briefly I'll underscore briefly adjourn to a close session. May I have a motion to adjourn to close session to confidentially discuss section 2C1, the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees. Section 2C2, collective negotiating matters between the school board and its employees or their representatives. Section 2C8, emergency
062security procedures and the use of personnel and equipment to respond to actual danger to the safety of employees, student, staff, or public property through technology. And finally, section 2C14, discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed under the open meetings act. Uh whether for purposes of schoolboard approval of the minutes or semianual review of the minutes as required by the act. That may sound like it's going to take us a long time to get through that, but I'm I'm optimistic that it will not. Um, so I need I need a second. All right. Any discussion? Uh, Mrs. Bo, roll call, please. Mr. Estes, yes. Mrs. Hill, yes. Dr. Martelli, yes. Mrs. Butterr, yes. Mr. Lobach, yes. Dr. Bruno, yes. All right. The board is going to take a hopefully brief close session meeting. I'll hold them
063to it. It is It is now 7:46 p.m. and the board is back in open session. Mrs. smoke when you get yourself settled. Let's take another roll call just to make sure nobody slipped out here when I wasn't looking. Here Bruno here. Thank you. All right, we're going to move to our action items. Dr. Bruno, did we skip board reports? No, I actually gave one and I I welcome the new We didn't have any. I know. I must have missed that one. Yes, Jason just noted that we have two new observers from the League of Women Voters. Okay, so the consent agenda. Are there any items board members would like to be removed from the consent agenda to be considered separately? Hearing none. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda which includes
064the employment recommendations, resignations, terminations, and resignations with retirement as noted on the personnel report, donations and gifts, disposal of surplus property, freedom of information act report, investment schedule, monthly overview of the revenue and expenditure summary report, summary of bills and payroll, treasurer's report, resolution to authorize the payment of sub bills, board meeting minutes, May 19th. Regular and close session meeting minutes June 2nd special meeting and close session minutes motion second Mrs. Mo roll call Dr. Martelli yes Mr. Lach yes Hill yes Mr. Rusties yes Mrs. Butterrime yes Dr. Bruno. Yes. All right. We have a few recommendations. First up is the supplemental pay recommendation. May I have a motion to approve recommendations for supplemental pay activities for the 2526 school year as outlined in the report and funded with the district's supplemental pay budget? Motion.
065Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mrs. Moch. Mrs. Butterr. Yes. Mr. Resties. Yes. Mr. Lobach. Yes. Mrs. Hill. Yes. Yes. Dr. Martelli. Yes. Dr. Bruno. Yes. Motion passes. Second item is Hadley ESL curricular recommendation. May I have a motion to approve the recommendation to adopt adopt a six-year agreement with National Geographic for student materials and professional development for a total amount of $21,230 from the 2526 teaching and learning budget as presented. Motion. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Nancy. Dr. Martelli. Yes. Mrs. Butterr. Yes. Mrs. Hill, yes. Mr. Lobach, yes. Mr. Estes, yes. Dr. Berno, yes. Uh, motion passes. Third item is the student transportation contract amendment. May I have a motion to approve the addendum to the existing Safeway Transportation Services Corps contract which was originally signed on February 21, 2024 as presented. Motion. Second. Any
066discussion? Yeah. Quickly, um, I just want to thank Jeff, Eric, I'm sure others for their work on this. Um, I know that there's additional work regarding the kindergarten center that that's involved in this, but also just really tightening up penalties um for deformance issues I think is really important and I'm glad to see that work coming in into this contract. So, just good job on on getting that put in there. Very good. Mrs. Mo, please. Mrs. Bimemer, yes. Mrs. Hill, yes. Mr. Estes, yes. Dr. Martelli, yes. Dr. Mr. Lobach. Yes. Dr. Verono. Yes. Motion passes. A doctorate. Next item up um is a is on board member conference expenses. May I have a motion to approve attendance for board members Bob Bruno and Julie Hill to attend the federal advocacy conference and authorize related expenses
067in line with board policies estimated turning the pages here at $4,396 to be supported from the 2526 board conference meeting budget as outlined in the board report. Motion second. uh discussion uh by the way for um everyone's edification. You recall the discussion we had on federal advocacy. Julie put a a very strong letter together. We sent that out to the entire congressional delegation. Uh it went to the school board um uh Tony Sanders, the school board superintendent, and it also went to the executive director at ISB. that person responded uh uh uh uh to me, placed that letter on their statewide agenda meeting. The representative from DUP page, a delegate from DPI who was traveling to Springfield, reached out. We had a phone call to talk about the importance of federal advocacy and as part
068of the back and forth, it was strongly recommended uh that this district think about participating in that federal conference. Uh what was what was shared was that our district uh despite our size was really punching above our weight uh and was exceptional uh in actually drawing attention to the state association around federal advocacy um meaning what's coming out of the education department um and that it's going to become more and more of a focus uh of of of the state and that it would be wonderful if the district could be represented. So, that's what this is and where it came from. So, good work from the board. Uh, and hopefully our schedules will line up so that we're Julie and I are both able uh to go, but this gives us the authority uh to
069go uh when that time comes. So, all right, with that, Mrs. Mo, roll call. Mrs. Butterr. Yes. Mr. Estes. Yes. Mrs. Hill, should we vote on this? Yeah, because you're just approving the expense. It could be honestly be anyone. Okay. Yes, Mr. Lobach. Yes, Dr. Martelli. Yes, Dr. Berno. Yes. Next item. The motion passes. Next item. Approve the amended 2425 budget. Earlier in the evening, we held a public hearing related to the 2425 amended budget. Are there any final questions for administration? If not, may I have a motion to approve the 24 25 fiscal year amended budget as presented? Motion. Second. Sorry. I think can just do both. She could. Roll call. Nancy. Mr. Estes. Yes. Mrs. Hill. Yes. Dr. Martelli? Yes. Mrs. Butterm? Yes. Mr. Loba? Yes. Dr. Bruno? Yes. Chess, you take this
070last motion. Okay. Next up is the but hold for just a second. approval of the July 1, 2025, June 30th, 2029 teachers collective bargaining agreement. Uh I am I am pleased to announce that the board and GIA representatives have reached a tenative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement beginning July 1, 2025 and running through June 30th, 2029. The agreement will supersede the current July 1, 2022 through June 30th, agreement. The agreement continues to provide for consumer price based increases with a minimum increase of 1.75% and a maximum increase of 5%. Increases and adjustments and extra duty pay and limitations on retirement benefits will also agreed upon as well as minor updating changes. The GIA membership approved the contract on June 3rd, 2025 and board approval is recommended uh this evening. We are very pleased
071with the positive and cooperative relationship that the board and association have developed. Our shared respect for the collective work we do continues to drive the meaningful ways we educate children in district 41. Now, with that, may I have a motion to approve the July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2029 teachers agreement between the Board of Education and the Glenn Ellen Education Association substantially in the form ratified by the association and recommended by the board's representatives and to authorize the president and secretary to sign the agreement after signature by the association's co-presidents with such agreement to supersede the July 1, 2022 through June 30th, 2020 26 agreement as presented. I need a motion. Motion second. And Jason is in a second. Any discussion? Yeah, I just think this is, you know, we we start this meeting
072and and we see that school perceptions report and we see the numbers coming in from our staff. Um, and then what we see in surveys, we're seeing in actions both from our administration and our staff. in this in in this situation being our teaching staff under GIA and and just to see that collaborative relationship but in all honesty that real that want to between both the administration and our district staff here again our teaching staff is just phenomenal to see so great job all around well done Mrs. Mil roll call Mr. Estes yes Mrs. Hill yes Dr. Martelli yes Mrs. Bimer yes Mr. Lobach. Yes. Dr. Bruno. Yes. And motion passes. All right. We'll then move on uh to our board governance which um is how we learn together. And um we do have a
073board member recognition to uh address. I think this is the third meeting in a row that a very valued and wellrespected board member has bit us a do said goodbye. Um and today um we will repeat that sort of bittersweet activity with Jessica Butimer. And Jess, I wanted before we turn to your colleagues, uh I wanted to give you the floor if you had some thoughts that you wanted to share with us. Just a couple. Okay. Um so it is hard to put into so many words what it's meant to serve this community. Before I joined this board, I spent two years attending meetings just to listen and learn. I volunteered with the Lincoln PTA, PTA Council, D41 Kids Foundation, and the PEP board, all while raising two daughters who experienced District 41 kindergarten through
0748th grade. And over these past six years, uh we've been through quite a bit together. Uh we've navigated a pandemic. didn't see that one coming. Uh we welcomed new leadership twice. Uh we made some big forwardlooking decisions like launching full day kindergarten. Finally, finally, finally, finally, I thought when we moved here in 2006 that my kids would experience full day kindergarten, but not quite. They just just minced it by nine so years. Um, as a board we found our way back to thoughtful, respectful discussion even when topics were hard and we worked to make board meetings more manageable for its members, the staff and our community. And I'm really proud of all of those things. Um, through it all, I've tried to stay focused on what's best for all kids. And tonight, um, I'll be
075stepping down from my board position a little earlier than planned. It wasn't a decision I took lightly. Um, lot of conversation with my therapist. Um, but it is the right one for my family for right now. As uh, our family looks ahead to high school and beyond. I want to be fully present for this next chapter. I am so very grateful for the opportunity to have served with all of you. Thank you to my fellow board members who've become friends. Um to our incredible staff and educators and to this entire community. Um who has sometimes given me a really hard time but for the most part really lifted me up. You've taught me so much and you've shown me how to be a better person and I'll carry that with me forever. It really has
076been a true honor. So, thank you. Thank you, Jess. So, I'm going to turn to uh your colleagues and give them an opportunity to say a few words before we move on. Um, I'll say Jess, my kids are probably thrilled because the minute the meetings are probably be five minutes shorter from your board reports perhaps. Yeah. Well, you bring a perspective and you you you came to this board bringing a data-driven perspective and and and you've maintained that and that perspective has been different than anyone else at at this table and I think that's something that's going to be sorely missed. Um, I've always appreciated your energy and your passion. We didn't always agree in that, but that was actually kind of the fun part about it was that I think a lot of times
077we could show that the basis behind that disagreement was the love of the desire to push this district forward. Um, and so I've always appreciated that and I love what you brought to the table and and you will be missed. But I think what you say above talk and all just as a bigger picture, just thinking about your family as a whole and just what that the time commitment is that this position is. Um, I think it's really healthy to recognize that I and I honestly truly applaud you for that. Thank you. So, Jess, you had commented about how our school boards our our conversations are thoughtful. And the two words that come to mind when I think of you would be thoughtful and persistent. And both are great qualities. And I've learned a lot
078from you. and I just can't thank you enough for how much you have committed uh to the school board and to our community because we are all in a much better place because of of your efforts. So, thank you very much. Thank you. It's very kind Ted. So I I keep thinking back six years ago we we were standing in the driveway day before the election 2019 and you said what are we going to do if we don't win. Luckily we didn't have to figure that out. I um we've been through a lot. We've been through two campaigns together. Um first one was really intense. Um, and we've been through, as you point out, an awful lot of stuff on the board. I've really enjoyed our our time together and and uh talking about, you
079know, it's it's funny how you have very different perspectives on things sometimes where I'm coming in, I'm like, Jess is gonna think this and I talk to you, oh, I guessed wrong. Right. But I um I I really appreciate all the all the energy and um persistence um that you you brought to the table. Thanks for our time together. Julie. Aha. Jess, we uh Jess and I used to chat at the park when our big kids were tiny kids at Main Street. And I knew her face and I knew which children were hers. I don't know that I knew your name. back in those days and then somehow we found our way to campaigning together and we've been through all the things that we've been through. Um, and I feel emotional about this. Um, and
080you are a force of nature in this community and I think it would be lost without you. Um, I appre appreciate your thoughtfulness and all your questions that I never think to ask and I was like, "Oh man, such a good question. I wish I'd have thought of that myself. Um, and I know it's sort of a running joke, but it it is truly valuable and I don't want you to think it was a joke because I think it added so much to any conversation we ever had at this table. Um, and I genuinely appreciate your friendship and I think I owe you a coffee. Um, so we need to do that soon. But, um, you know where to find me. I know where to find you. Don't be a stranger. Thank you for all
081of this. Um, congratulations on everything that is yet to come. Um, and we will we will see you around town. I'll be around. Thank you. Thank you. Boy, following my colleagues, it's kind of difficult to to say things um that haven't been expressed. But I I've been thinking about this moment actually for a while, Jess. And what I want to say publicly and directly to you is that you made me um and our colleagues more reflective. You made us more attuned to detail. You know, we are that the community has said that. But we've helped each other get there and sometimes we take the lead in doing it. And you did it many times. Uh probably sometimes feeling some some burden and then and stress while doing it. U but you're courageous and and and
082you you carried on. Um it always felt good to listen to your questions. Um, I know when we joked a lot about it, but before you joined the board, I I recalled having a long list of questions and then Jess joined the board and I prepared questions and go, "Well, no, because she just asked it. She just asked it. We're not supposed to be asking the same question." And sure enough, there it was. Uh, there was that question. So, you really did stretch. I think you helped us to stretch, right? Um, kind of push our limits. uh and in that way you made us all better. And you know I I think that teams are are best when the whole is greater than the sums of the parts and you helped us to become more
083whole and for that I'm deeply grateful my friend and I'm going to miss you on the board. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Jeff. Now you gotta go. Now you got to give him a go. Our time has been short. Yeah, it's only been a year, but apparently you asked questions. Is that But your questions have been thoughtful. They have been rooted in data. But one of the things I didn't hear as much as when I think of your questions, I think of you're trying to get at what's best for kids. Your questions were always, how can our organization do what's best for kids? And I've really appreciated that thoughtfulness and just trying to get to maybe it's what you think, maybe it's what we think, but what do we need to do for our kids
084and I appreciate that. So, thank you for your service to the board, to the community. We really appreciate it and we have a little something for you, Dr. Bruno. Oh, can do the handoff here. Thank you, sir. On behalf of the board and district, thank you for your service. [Applause] Okay. Now, just as we say goodbye to someone, uh it's appropriate to say uh hello uh to someone. Yes, there certainly is I'm I don't want you singing that song right now. You can do it privately later. Uh so, just a reminder, earlier this month during a board special meeting, the board took action appointing Mrs. Katie Liddal to the board to fill the the seat of Jessica Butterm who will be stepping down after tonight's meeting. So Katie will officially begin tomorrow. And I would
085like to invite uh Katie to come up here in front of the board and we're going to uh take the oath of office. Okay. Okay. To avoid how this can be trying here. I'm going to get us started by simply saying I and then I'm going to let you take over and read through the oath and you can just speak to Oh, I'm not I'm not being heard. Yes. Okay. Well, here comes the important stuff anyway. All right. Ready, Katie? Here we go. I I Katie Liddo do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of member of the board of education Glenn Ellen School District 41 in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and the laws of the state of Illinois
086to the best of my ability. I further swear that I shall respect taxpayer interests by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets. I shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees. I shall recognize that a board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a public board meeting. I shall abide by majority decisions of the board while retaining the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels. As part of the board of education, I shall accept the responsibility for my role in the equitable and quality education of every student in the school district.
087I shall foster with the board extensive participation of the community, formulate goals, define outcomes, and set the course for Glenn Ellen School District 41. I shall assist in establishing a structure and an environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework. I shall strive to ensure a continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law. I shall serve as education's key advocate on behalf of students and our community school to advance the vision for Glenn Ellen School District 41. And I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision the board has created fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship,
088and personal development. Katie Liddal, welcome to the District 41 School Board. Thank you. And I do want to uh point out that Katie's husband and children are here. Katie, would you like to just introduce them? Sure. Yes. So, this is my husband, Andy. And then these are our twins, Marvin and Nora. They are 11 um about to be 12 in August and they're starting at Hadley this fall. This is their future school and they told me how to get to the library. So I Dad helped. So So kids, is this cool to see mom do this? Oh, you like this? This is showing. This is real good. It is super cool. Wait till you watch her on TV. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for coming here to celebrate. with your
089month. Thank you, sir, for the support. All right. We appreciate it very much. All right. Uh the the last item under board governance, I just wanted to um um just note uh for the record the appointments to uh committees. Um, I had uh send communication to uh to everyone uh about this uh and and I believe we're all in agreement uh on the appointments. If you have some questions afterwards, please see me uh personally, but uh just to announce them on our policy committee, Dr. Chris Martelli uh will join returning board member Ted Essies. The finance and facilities committee uh will include Ted uh and myself and I look forward to serving with TED. The Illinois Association of School Board rep continues to be Julie Hill. Our Legislative Education Network of DuPage rep, otherwise known
090as LENDL len is Julie Hill. Uh our partnership for educational progress rep is our new school board member Katie Liddal. Our District 41 Kids Foundation rep is Amy Becker. It says Amy on this one. I know I changed it. Okay. Well, we just did not update. I I didn't I didn't have time to update that, but I got some good information. Okay, that's fine about the need to to change. See what it's going to be like here. Are you sure you want to do it? You want to give the gift back? That's right. We got to make sure Bob's like reading correctly. The continuous improvement team, CIT, uh I will continue to serve on that as board president. The supplemental pay committee will be Amy Becker and then calendar committee will also be uh Miss
091Katie Liddal. And then we have four U strategic plan committees after the refresh of the strategic plan and there'll be one school board member who will serve on each of those. The academic excellence will uh include Dr. Chris Martelli, early learning facilities, Julie Hill, culture of belonging, Jason Lobach, and then community connections, Amy Becker. Again, if anybody has some second thoughts about that, you know, see me personally and we'll we'll address them. Okay. Um, anything else? All right, then. There are some up we don't, you know, it's kind of odd to say upcoming meetings, right? We want to say school year's over, we get a break. There are no upcoming meetings. Well, uh close on July 23rd, 2025, there is a special board professional development workshop meeting at 6:30 at CSO and then we will
092get back to the regular business schedule with the new academic year uh on Monday, August 18th um at 6:30 here at Hadley. Any items board members wish to present for consideration to a future agenda? Then we do not have a reason to go uh into close session. Before then uh closing this meeting, I want to remind board members to complete their board meeting evaluation before leaving for the evening. The link is in the board link. It is now 8:15 p.m. May I have Jess? May I have a mo Oh, he's right. May I have a motion to adjourn the June 16, 2025 regular meeting? Motion by Jess Butterrime. Second by Jason Lobach. U I know there's not any discussion here. Um all in favor say I. I. Meeting adjourned. Have a wonderful summer everyone. Thank
093you all.