001and Miss Mullen Beck, we're ready. Good evening everyone and welcome to this meeting of the board of education of Glen Brook High School District 225. Um, Miss Smith, could we please call the role? Mr. Downing, Mr. Glowaki present. Mrs. Hope here. Miss Mullenbeck here. Mr. O'Hara here. Mr. Shine here. Dr. Steinberg here. Six members present. Thank you. Uh, the next item on the agenda is approval of the agenda. Uh, Dr. Grall, have there been any changes to the agenda since it was circulated? There have been no changes. In that case, could I please have a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. This evening, it is with deep sadness that we pause to remember and honor the life of Mr. Lars Anderson, a beloved member of
002the Glen Brook South family who passed away on January 26th. Lars was a proud lifelong Titan. A member of the GBS class of 1988 and a dedicated instructional assistant since 2005. He spent nearly two decades serving students with compassion, patience, and heart. Lars supported hundreds of students in meaningful and unique ways, taking on many roles within our special education department across countless classrooms, most recently with our TLS students. His tall, steady presence was matched by a gentle spirit and a deep sense of care. For many Titans, Lars was a source of comfort, strength, and unwavering kindness, leaving a lasting impact on students, colleagues, and our entire school community. Please join me in observing a moment of silence to remember Mr. Anderson. We'll move on to the next item on the agenda which is the superintendent
003report. Dr. Bravel. Thank you so much, Miss Mullenbeck. And welcome to all of our students joining us from their civics class. U make sure when you get our picture that we're looking like extra like poised and focused. A little bit of humor there. Um uh today we have a few topics and we're going to start uh talking about the celebration of our master facility plan. So last uh last meeting uh shortly thereafter we created a new portion on our website devoted to the master facility plan. Here there are some opportunities for our community members to first access the complete list of projects. So, those are the same materials that we included in the board packet, but just nice and accessible right from the website and searchable uh links to all of those different slide presentations
004that we had offered to the finance and facilities committees uh over the last few months. Um, and we even uh kind of did a bit of a a snapshot of the board meeting recording. So, if any community member wanted to rewatch the board's uh discussion and the administration's presentation from the last meeting, uh it's a one-click access without having to fast forward or rewind anywhere. Um we're going to continue updating this portion of the website over the next few months and years. Our hope is that as we build this out, it might be a great roadmap for even the next 10-year plan uh that will happen after this. Um so we'll look forward to in the near future um highlighting different community engagement opportunities for individuals to come forward and and express recommendations for ideas
005for projects that we already have planned uh including those um uh you know tiny small projects of rebuilding our stadiums at Glenrook North and Glen South next summer. Um so we're looking forward to uh hopefully using this as as a great uh way of starting our information sharing. Um, I do want to thank um, Miss Smith for taking the time to also write a nice snapshot in the board notes. Uh, that was sent to all of our families, all of our staff members um, following the last board meeting. And we're going to continue to reiterate um, what we're doing on the facility plan through our parent associations, our booster organizations um, and really anyone who invites us in and says what's going on. It's pretty a major thing going on. Um, so getting it out
006there and continuing to gather feedback. Next, I wanted to take an opportunity and just acknowledge some challenges that we've been facing within our overall county and that is related to uh property tax delays. Um, right in this room uh about a week ago, Commissioner Britain met with uh our district team as well as superintendants from across his region or or district if you will. um that included superintendents and business officials where we identified the challenges of delayed property tax collections and ultimately uh them being passed on to taxing bodies such as school districts. Um, I will say that the conversation got a little technical all the way down to understanding when taxes were collected from taxpayers, were they being held in an interestbearing account and if it was in an interestbearing account, where are the
007interest earnings ultimately going? It was there that we learned um that a lot of the resources um are in theory in an interestbearing account, but what had been shared with at least members of the um board of commissioners is that all of those expenses only pay for banking fees. Um and we were trying to understand again from a financial perspective how millions of potential in interest over 3 months only cover banking fees. So I I give that as an example of the level of technical discussion we were having. Um and Commissioner Britain was um very uh receptive, took incredible amount of notes and has committed to following back up with us on all of the questions presented. So as we get those answers, we will share them with the board and our community. um kind
008of looking in a forward direction. A lot of the software challenges that the county experience with their property tax assessment system is actually dated to an old mainframe. And here's the interesting element and and for I know at least Mr. Break, he can appreciate this from a Glen Brookke perspective. The county was down to less than two employees who could maintain uh the main frame. Um and by the time we got to uh last spring all of them had retired. Um and so there really was a sense of urgency to transition off the mainframe into a system. Unfortunately there was a variety of issues. Good news is a lot of the issues that were identified while there might have been workarounds put in place to get through the immediate needs a lot of those issues
009have been resolved. So, the treasur's office sent an email last week identifying that they anticipate on sending uh physical property tax bills on February 27th and they do not anticipate any delays in the first installment of collections. Very important for taxing bodies such as Glen Brook um that receives approximately 93 to 94% of their funding through local property taxes. So, uh good news on uh Ms. Tarver's front from a treasurer's perspective, but just wanted to share that update uh with the full board. One other topic I wanted to explore today was just recognizing that we did have um a small fire that took place at Glen Brook North on Tuesday, February 3rd. Um most importantly, everyone is safe. There was no one injured and I have to uh just publicly acknowledge the amazing response of
010the Northbrook Fire Department. Um their station is not too far from Glen Brook North, but they arrived in less than 5 minutes. Their immediate response as well as the support of our buildings and grounds team that were there to guide them in and get them exactly where they needed to be resulted in what could have been a much larger uh situation being contained to a single classroom. Um I do always uh um recognize that whenever you have um a fire situation while one space might be impacted primarily the odor and and smoke travels to other spaces. So on the first day on Wednesday we had some of that uh challenge in in different classrooms and we consciously decided where class would be held and where it wouldn't be. Um, but we've made good good work
011uh of of moving forward. And our restoration team was on site the same day. And by the same day, I mean at about 1 or 2 in the morning. I'm forgetting which hour. Um, already working to make sure that any of the water damage was addressed uh to be contained within the room instead of in the hallways. Um, and that uh the majority of of the challenge was kind of isolated to that one space. Um recognizing that we don't have many culinary labs over at Glenberch North. We have two. Um and the classroom is scheduled quite heavily. Uh it's a it's a very hotly requested elective area for us. Um we did identify that we're going to relocate classes to a temporary location which is going to be the GBN staff cafeteria. Um, our staff
012cafeteria will still be available uh this semester for staff to use it during the lunch hours, but on those non lunch hour blocks, we'll be using it for classes. Um, it was great to be able to work with not only our restoration company, but our teachers and um the operations team at North in order to get that area retrofitted. From a visual perspective, this is what the area now looks like after restoration has taken place. So, we've removed all of the flooring that was damaged. We removed the ceiling grid uh in areas that were damaged and also um a variety of pieces of equipment that were damaged. Um this will continue to be cleaned for the next about week, week and a half. Um, but just want to point out how quickly we've moved from
013incident all the way uh down to a restoration component along those lines. Oops. Um, some important steps. So, right after or on the the day following the fire, we already had a meeting scheduled with the district's architect, Archon, and we decided to repurpose part of that meeting to talk about um our culinary labs. For board members who may not recall, you know, the entire 10-year plan and the incremental projects happening, um about 2 to three years from now is when we had scheduled for the culinary labs to be renovated because one of the labs will require substantial rehabilitation. Um we've gone down to a situation where we're planning on making a recommendation to accelerate that project to this summer. that allows us uh for instance not to replace a ceiling grid or flooring with items
014that we don't know what we need right now and we would end up ripping up or or doing something else with later on. Um so Kim and Lauren are working through that right now. Um and we'll bring forward a formal proposal for the board in the next two months. The good news is because we have that um alternative location in the staff cafeteria, students won't be negatively impacted. They'll just be going to class in a different room uh for a period of time. One of the other questions that has come up is um was the area or why didn't the area have as much water damage um as we have had maybe in in prior incidents and um because of the age of this section of Glen Brook North. I just want to acknowledge that
015that portion of the building does not have a sprinkler system installed. Um, this is something that we dug into previously at Glenber South when we had a fire situation. We've worked to every time we modernize a space, we add sprinklers, but again, this was scheduled to be done in a few years. Um, now that the ceiling is ripped off, uh, and things of that nature, we'll be looking to add sprinkling, uh, into not only the impacted room, but the second culinary lab to address it as well, uh, which is normally part of our process. What's convenient about this particular summer is that we're already planning to replace the HVAC unit above. Um so with the ceiling removed, it gives us an opportunity to look at alignment of ventilation and we might be able to make
016some additional um efficiency changes uh to meet the needs of a modernized culinary lab space um as opposed to just uh what was there for many years. Um the other thing I wanted to call out is over at Glen Brook North, we have and at Glen Brook South, we do have uh periodic times when our alarms uh sound. Um we go through um anytime there's there's an alarm that goes off, the fire department comes out and then we also have our fire alarm provider which over at Glenberrook North is Johnson Controls. They come out and provide or perform maintenance on the system and and confirm exactly what happens. Um, what we've been seeing a little more often than we'd like across our multiple facilities is that some of our sensors get dust in them and
017that dust triggers a false alarm. So, we're working with our buildings and grounds team to uh review our maintenance approach and making sure that we're cleaning those sensors um and also making sure that um our alarms are fully uh uh upgraded and addressed with any concerns that they identify. So, we have multiple service contracts in. Again, they're always out. Uh we have no concerns, but whenever you have uh an incident or or a false alarm, it's important to pause, look at how everything is set up, and make sure if there are things that we could do to improve our experience and provide even safer facilities, uh that we certainly do that. Um so, that is that. One last item, then I'll open up for any questions. Oops. Um we had mentioned or Mr. Briag mentioned
018at the last board meeting that we were launching our climate survey to our families, our students, and our staff. The real important metric is from a state report card perspective is making sure that we hit a 95% response rate for our students. And as you can see from the chart above, we're at 88 to 89% response rate. Over the next few weeks, we will be reaching out to individual students who has not who have not taken the climate survey and working with them uh to provide them that opportunity and get our metrics up a little bit. Sometimes students were just out of school on the day that we took it and we just need to follow up with them. Um the same is true for our teachers which are separate from staff just because the
019types of surveys they take. Um and then also working with our families. So, we'll be sending reminders out to a variety of stakeholders. Um, and look forward to getting more feedback. Um, always as a reminder to our stakeholders, anonymous responses are, forgive me, survey responses are 100% anonymous. Um, so we really encourage um honest feedback so that we can continue um making our schools even better than they are today. And that was a whole lot of updates. So, I happy to answer any questions. Any questions from the board? Yes. Oh, outside of the areas around the GBN culinary labs that you just mentioned, how many spaces are there between all of our buildings that are grandfathered in and still unsprinklered? Yeah. So, we actually have maps. I can send them with the whole board so
020you can see exactly what the spaces look like. It's not a majority, but it's not only 5%. So, it's it's a blend based on the age of the buildings. So, could we also see then where in the 10-year plan we've scheduled in to update those with spring? Absolutely. Dr. Steinberg, quick question. I heard we have a goal for 90% for students. Do we have a goal for teacher and staff participation? It's a great question. From a state report card perspective, the metric is defined only from student responses. Internally, we're looking to see similar results to what we had last year. Not recalling those numbers off the top of my head, but I will get them and share them with the board and we can share an update once uh at the next board meeting. Mr.
021shine. Um, since we have to do the sprinklers in the culinary lab, what about the adjacent spaces that sustain the smoke damage and whatever? I I I would assume that the adjacent spaces are also not sprinkled. If we go into the culinary spaces with sprinklers, will we extend those down the corridors to those other rooms instead of waiting for the future or is that not possible? Thank you. We will follow up and incorporate some options when we develop that plan that'll be presented to the board in the next month or two and we'll include that as an option for consideration. Mr. O'Hara. Uh, yeah. R.J., real quick, on the Cook County fella, you said he's going to be getting back to you. Do you give you a timeline or just uh uh when we spoke
022it was going to be about two to three weeks, so it should either be this week or next week. I just want to make sure I'm getting everything. I'm sharing um current status of sprinklers at both schools, the plan uh or where they fall within the 10-year plan, including staff target percentages uh for completion rate, which again will be based on prior years. and uh incorporating um additional sprinkling uh that would happen at that part of the building maybe capturing the whole hall for lack of better terms. Okay, Mr. Blowki, sorry I just had I guess related to the uh you referenced the smoke alarms and everything being tested by Johnson Controls and others as they issues. A few weeks ago we had another issue at GBN with a false alarm. Um, is there a
023schedule for how these are checked routinely outside of when there's an incident and how often is that? Yeah, so our district operations team met um last week uh to talk through how North um kind of reviews their system on an ongoing basis as well as how South um just trying to figure out if there's ways we can learn from each other. Um we are looking to institute a little more comprehensive of a sensor checking plan. The system itself is supervised um and that means that there's information always being communicated back and forth between the sensors that are in rooms and um the let's just call it the the headend system and then that information also communicates out. Both of the systems also have the ability to generate a report that sometimes can proactively identify areas
024where there might be uh dirty sensors. Um so we're looking to actually uh make sure that we have a plan in buildingwide on a monthly basis to address that and I can share a report out on that once it's finalized. That would be helpful. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you, Dr. Grall. Absolutely. Thank you all. Uh moving on from the superintendent report, we are now will have board reports and we will start with Dr. Steinberg reporting out from the finance committee. Good evening. Um so m Mr. Groaki and I went to the finance committee. We the committee discussed four items and interestingly Dr. Gravel mentioned about the 10-year facility plan. So the first item is related to that and as you may be aware when we do facility projects uh we need to
025subcontract an architectural firm that is the one that prepares the bids and all the specifications and then we have to contract another firm that is the one that manages the project. And as they were uh looking at all the projects, they realized that there are some projects where we may be able to supply the same type of service with an internal position instead of having to depend on external contractors that are attached to a specific percentage of the total amount. And in this particular case and we g they're going to share this with us next week but there are set of project in the first three years that in theory could give us a potential saving that projects will cost about $3 million for three years altogether. I'm sorry. This is three, six, almost eight,
026seven and a half million dollars. And when we look at the potential for payments for the architectural firm and the management firm, we're talking about almost a million dollars of expenditures that if we could manage differently could imply savings for the district. So we're going to be getting a proposal for a position that will be taking care of these these issues for projects that are not of a scale that need still to work with Archon and and the management firm. So this is coming to us next week. Um next meeting not next week. The second item it's a a proposal to look at the way we deal with facilities when we are not using the facilities. So rental of facilities as there seems to be some interest of of local teams or other other organizations
027to use our facilities. So there's a proposal coming to offer some of these facilities for rental at market price. So market rate so so what we collect for that could help us support the facilities and and and other other issues. And the last two are are I know we're going to talk in depth so I'm just going to briefly mention we got an update on on the school operating budget which is 15% of our total budget on on the proposed increase of that budget based on need and an update on student fees. Should I share something on there or just simply say we go and we'll be sharing a full report on student fees at the next meeting. So we can share that. So we will get those next meeting. Okay. Exactly. Thank you, Dr.
028Steinberg. Um we also have Mr. Glowaki reporting from his attendance at the Glen Brook North and Glen Brook South parent associations. Uh thank you. Uh so both groups very uh good turnouts. We had 20 some at the GBS uh parent association meeting and over almost 30 at the GBN. So little better showing at GBN going to guild some people but uh had good agendas. I'll start with the GBN one. It had Mr. Taran who spoke about activities and how did students get engaged working with uh parents to help them be aware of uh how that is. There was a great article he shared actually that a student wrote for the student paper about uh engagement and the courage to engage at things and how that generates your perspective. So I've been sharing it with everybody
029including people that work for me about how they make their world better around them and how they can do it and stuff because this was just a fresh quick read and stuff. So uh at both meetings at the GBS one that was actually focused on the facilities plan and update uh as part of the GBN one there was a moment where we do an update on what the various committees and everything and so Beth and I did one on the facilities that that was something being discussed and parents at both organizations are very excited to see but more details to contribute to to the process uh share their thoughts because they want to make sure that from their perspective that we do have the best facilities that and in the area that we can have
030and realize at the same time there's a budget there's limitation that we have to work through this together. So they're very eager to work with us uh on that and everything. So they're uh very excited to see about the upcoming dates. And that is it from both parent groups. one. Wonderful. Um, just to give a shout out again to we do have the nice new website that has all that information available. So, anyone who's listening and is interested, it's a one-stop shop for finding everything out that you want to about the master facilities plan except for the details on the culinary labs because that's going to be changing. But, okay. Um, okay, great. Uh, next item on the agenda is recognition of community visitors. I do not believe we have anyone signed up to speak
031tonight. Okay. So, we'll move on to our consent agenda. Um before we do that, I do want to encourage anyone who is not able to attend meetings but has ideas that they'd like to share with us to call us, shoot us an email, um you know, use Parent Square, any of those um ways to communicate with us, we would be happy to um to hear your ideas. Okay, that does take us now to our consent agenda. Um Dr. Grall, are there any changes to the consent agenda as circulated? There have been no changes. In that case, um, do we have any questions or comments on the consent agenda? Could I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved. Second. Mr. Glowaki. Yes. Mrs. Hope. Yes. Mr. O'Hara. Yes. Mr. Shine. Yes. Dr.
032Simberg. Yes. Miss Mullenbeck. Yes. Motion carries. 6 nothing. Thank you, Miss Smith. That takes us to our discussion action agenda and we have one item a mere one item on our discussion action agenda tonight that is the enrollment forecast update uh which is a perennial favorite. Uh thank you Miss Bonner. So good I get to do the favorite topic of the board. So since the 2014 2015 school year the district has performed two types of enrollment projections. the population forecast which is calculated by our external demographer Dr. McKibben and the cohort survival method which is calculated by our internal staff. These projections have become important tools for long range planning and budgeting purposes. These projections are updated annually using October 1st fall housing data. The population forecast is the most sophisticated and assesses the impact
033of factors such as fertility rates, housing patterns, mortgage rates, mortality rates, unemployment rates, and so on. This comprehensive approach leads lends itself to increased accuracy in long-term forecasts. The cohort survival method is performed internally and is strictly formuladriven and calculates ratios of students as they progress from one grade to the next. The ratios are then used to project future enrollment. This method has proven to be the most accurate over a 2 to threeyear period given the population forecast has a longerterm accuracy level. That's the one we use for budgeting and for planning purposes is the one I'll talk you through tonight. So this is table one. It compares this year's population forecast with last year's and shows the variance. Typically our variance is less than 1%. This year we had a slightly higher variance and
034you can see this year's actual enrollment at GBN is 36 students less than what was projected and at Glen Brook South 63 students less. The primary reason is being that there's a lower slower number and rate of existing home sales compared to last year. So according to our demographer empty nesters are actually holding on to their homes longer which is resulting in less homes on the market and less new younger families moving into our area. Overall, the 10-year projection is uneventful, which is good. It means relatively steady enrollment over the next 10 years. At Glen Brook North, enrollment is projected to decline slightly year-toear, but will remain within approximately 5% of current enrollment over the next 10 years. In fact, enrollment 10 years from now is projected to be within seven students of today's enrollment.
035At Glenrich South, enrollment is projected to decline modestly over the next several years, then stabilize and then trend upward slightly toward the end of the projection period. Overall, at Glenberg South, enrollment is projected to be 64 students less in 10 years than it is today. And tonight, we present this to you forformational purposes. So, just to add a few more comments. Um, we've known uh when I first got to Glenburg, I want to say Glen Brook South was at an enrollment closer to 3,300 uh with what we at the time referred to a bubble class. Um, we've seen um just simply smaller classes enroll in at the freshman level um which is why we're see starting to see that decline. But on the flip side, we are starting to see an increase in population projected
036uh from Glenberrook North. Uh one of the questions that actually came up at the parent association uh meeting was um you know will south always remain the larger school or will source uh north uh surpass? There's always a variety of factors there that we we don't control. Um for instance, is there going to be a large housing development that takes place in one of the villages that we weren't anticipating? Um the majority of developments taking place in both villages um really have been targeted. So, uh, for example, the Glen, uh, the village of Northbrook has a significant gap in their housing market that they've identified, which is, um, creating housing stock for empty nesters, um, individuals who are looking to downsize but remain in the community. Um over in Glen View, we do have a
037few more uh parcels of property that may not be age restricted per se or targeted towards age um but are limited in the number of bedroom counts that they have. So you wouldn't see um very large families moving in with multiple kids and sometimes that that controls um factors that the demographer takes into consideration. Um, on a low level, you'll notice that Glenrech South drops down to a low population in the 2700s. On the flip side, Glenrech North starts coming up into the 22 um 2200s getting in some projections as high as uh near 2,300, but there's still always going to be a gap. Um it it just comes down to um the number of units that are available in the municipalities, how they're being built, um and then individuals who are staying within the
038community um versus moving out. Um over at Glenchrook North, there was a possibility this trend could have substantially changed if the Green Acres Country Club was converted to a substantial residential area, um not just targeted for 55 and over community. um that uh size wouldn't have been the same size as the Glenn, but would have been a substantial uh game changer like the Glenn was for Glen View. Um we don't have anything on our horizon now that would greatly impact these uh numbers. Um but do know that things always change and that's why we do this every year. Um but happy to answer any questions from how this impacts and and how this compares to prior years. Uh Mr. Dr. Gwaki, any questions? Thank you. Uh, thank you for reminding me that this came up
039during the GBS uh, parent as the other I guess facet to this. If you could remind me of the physical limitations of both buildings and everything because while we because the suggestion was do we start reoing boundaries because population changes and I know there have been some discussions in the district about that over the years. Yeah. Um, I'll probably have to ask Mr. shine to recall because it was the year before I came. Uh or perhaps not. Um there were discussions. I'm I'm good. I remember those discussions. There there were some discussions of boundaries. Um and the decision at the time if I recall like a Packer Bear stadium. Yes. Right. Right. Right over there in the uh be good good in the lysum. Good good options there. Um the decision at the time was
040not to make any adjustments. Um if we the challenge on saying what the capacity is of each school is any demographer or or master scheduler will start looking at um specialized facilities. So back when we go or if we go back to 2013 2014 the district focused on the number of science labs uh that were available to meet the needs of students. Um general purpose classrooms candidly are just easier to to navigate through but science labs are limited um and number of stations and number of students you could educate. Um the secondary uh factor they were using if I recall was physical education space. Um, we know that Glenberg South as a facility can hold um in excess of 3,300 students. We know that because we've done it. Um, that does not necessarily come without
041challenges. On the flip side, um we and I'm forgetting the highest point in Glenchrook North history, but we're pretty comfortable with GBN from a space constraint uh hitting 24 to 2500 um without significant modifications. However, there are constraints with that. Um the number of electives that you offer, the number of specialized classes that you offer, when you need more space, it means you're going to have to condense down options. Um so there are some capacity challenges from that perspective. Um the only other comment on boundaries that I would offer is there are areas within the district that we uh sometimes refer to as choice. Um they're neighborhoods that um individual or students or families who live within there can choose between north or south. Um, I think based on where some of the developments are
042happening, uh, specifically along Willow Road, um, there might be more of those areas, um, that the board can consider. Um, but right now it has not been an active uh, review by the administration. Thank you, Dr. Steinberg. I wonder this may be small but as we look at the outflow versus the inflow not not people that graduate but you know freshman to sophomore sophomore to junior and junior to senior is this significant non-significant that's this you know we're talking about 90 students so is there an impact that we losing students either because they're moving out or because they decide that for whatever reason they cannot continue Laura can Remind me our mobility rate in general in and out which generally matches. Is it around 200 a year? Correct. It it pretty much balances itself out
043though between those that wind up transferring out and then are new transfer in. Um yes, I would say right around 200. So I wouldn't say there's any rale except families moving in and moving out. just there's no causation that we're aware. That's what I was asking if there if that's the case that's great. But if that's not the case or if we have more people, we don't know if everybody moves out. We may assume that some people decide to I don't know do homeschooling or do something else. So that's where idea it could be significant or not. If it's two or three, if you say we get 200 new people out of mobility and we get 200 people out of mobility, is that the people that left is just because their parents decided to move
044or they had to move, not because somebody wasn't too happy or thinking that this school district. So, I take it on a positive way. It would be great to say that 99% of our students decide to stay in school. Yeah, we we definitely we've never tracked specifically transition to home school or transition to private school, but the m historically the majority of our families that choose to go private do so after 8th grade, not mid high school. There's always individuals who might be making different family choices at times, but there's no significant trend that I'm aware of. That's great. Thank you, Mr. Shine. Uh, two questions. The Green Acres site you mentioned is that is anything happening with that? So the Greenacre site was a um fascinating case study. Um it was acquired by the
045DuPage Water Reclamation District as a pathway to connect to Lake Michigan and no longer buy water from um the city of Chicago. So they are looking to leverage that connection to Michigan uh the lake um and then pipe it all the way to DuPage. Mr. O'Hare is consulting a map right now. But you are you're speaking present tense, past tense. Um the deal was I'm forgetting my dates. I think the deal was closed almost two years ago. They were going to do it. Yes. So they're putting a water production plant there. No. They are what what was explained to me is they are connecting a pipe that they also bought some more property that connects on the other side. Uh yes. Um and they there's not going to be treatment happening at the Green Acre
046site. Um they're going to they bought the whole uh parcel recognizing that they didn't have the full plan yet. And then once they have it all set up, it's like I say a fascinating case study in 10 to 20 years, then they would reallocate parcel that they didn't need. Okay. And then the project that's going on on the corner up here at Willow. Yes. Can you speak to the student number of students we expect to come out of because it out of there because that to me would seem a natural one to flip over to north. That would be a great example potentially, but I don't know if it's if it's even family housing. So, uh, so it is family housing. Um, if you'll give me a moment, I will pull up the student yield
047report on that. As Dr. John's mentioned, it was very low. Thank somebody for What kind of housing stock is it? Uh town houses. Okay. So, young families primarily. Okay. Does anyone recall what the name of the neighborhood was? The will the it's called the Willows. I don't need an answer right now. Just it was a small number. Small yield. It was small. Yeah. primarily young families if any families at all. I will get it for you. Any other? Oh, thank you. U Miss Hope, Mr. O'Hara. No. Um I had two questions. Okay. Um one is do we know anything about North Court? Is that just North Code Court is a secondary case study? could be anything. Um, Northbrook C Court continues to um evaluate plans. Um, I I'm cautious to comment on it because I
048recall a plan, but then the plan has changed multiple times. Um, but so it's just a wild card. The goal was the goal was it's it will be a future mixeduse development that will likely have some residential component. inkling of a framework. Okay, great. Um my other question was with regard to our feeder districts um when we do this sort of um uh population growth, you know, gainsmanship. Um do we are we in any way like um reaching out to them to see if our estimates are similar or you know do we do okay. Um, so in order for us to do our work um on the cohort survival or the population forecast, we require all of their enrollment by grade level. We go a step further. It's the report I was pulling from Mr.
049Shine our student yield report where we actually gather all student addresses and the number of students by grade level to determine in a neighborhood based on a product type, a three-bedroom house, a two-bedroom house, how many students are are netted from it. Um, and we share all of that information with each other. So, they'll use our numbers, we'll use their numbers. Okay. And then actually another question just came up when we were talking about transfer students and you had mentioned that um we don't typically see a lot of movement from private to public midstream. It would happen if we were to have students that were in the assuming like let's say district 34 but decided to go to Loyola for example that would happen at 8th grade. Correct. Um do we see the same thing
050happening where we have students coming from private schools to the district at the same time? Do you want to talk about some of the trends you've seen? Absolutely. Um, so it it kind of depends on the year. Um, with no real prediction in terms of how many are going to be attending South or North versus attending, let's say, St. Norbert's or OPH. Um, a lot of it depends on enrollment and who gets accepted to those schools. Most of them will start the pre-registration process with us and then are hesitant to do the registration process because it's really around the same time that they start finding out whether or not they'll get accepted. This year happens to be a high percentage um being accepted into some of the private schools. Um it just varies depending on
051the year though. Okay. So it's hard for us to predict. Yep. Okay. Um those are my Mr. shine. The number of students for Charlie Court, grade eight. Um, uh, eight high school students. I put a picture out in my backyard, right? Eight. Um, overall student yield, um, elementary would have, uh, six at the middle grades and 12 at the, uh, early childhood through fifth grade. Let me contrast that. The last proposal, which was very long ago, for North Brook court, estimated a yield of 172 high school kids. So, that's not on the books anymore, but it gives you an idea of of different things you have to monitor. Um, another example would be the Pearson property, Scott Forestman property, um, which is in development now, and that has a projection of 16 high school students.
052So just to give some illustrations, but I'll share the report too with the board so you can look at the Men Bay neighborhood. Oh, Mr. Glowi. Sorry. Actually a comment and question you made uh Miss Mullen that remind me of something. Uh R.J. regarding I guess the feeder districts and everything as we're discussing these population numbers with them and stuff. I recall last time there was a one of the strong arguments that were being made by the feeder districts and some of the families was keeping the cohorts together as they came into it from a social development perspective and everything. And I would just encourage I guess as we're talking to the feeder districts to explore that again with them if there's been changes from their perspective in families where they want to keep we
053have a number of feeders districts that split and they'll split the classes. Some go to south, some go to north, and some of the smaller ones were making arguments we should try to keep these kids together so they have a social support network. So Mr. Glock to your comment and also what Mr. Shine was asking. Um the residences at Charlie Court um would be a great example. That's a Northbrook Glen View District 30 uh boundary. Um and so that is is one of our districts that has the most splitting that happens. So, uh, we will follow up with, um, the superintendent just to have a little understanding on their thought on it. Um, I think, um, my my daughter herself has lived through the process of being in a school that was split four ways.
054Um, and there are some certainly, um, realistic challenges that happen there. So, let's see uh, what they uh, share and I'll bring that back to the board. Yeah, the benefits and uh, I guess challenges both ways. So curious what their take is now as they've had some time to Yep. examine it. We'll bring it to Did any board members have any other questions? Okay. Um thank you Dr. Grall and Miss Bonner for that report. The next item on our agenda is possible topics for future board meetings. And I see that we have two items um that will be scheduled it looks like for our next board meeting on February 23rd. Um one um ensuring postsecary success for all students. So this will be a presentation from the college counselors. Yes. So Dr. Cummings is pulling
055it together. It will most certainly highlight our college counseling services. It will also provide uh some more background on the role of the school counselor in general which is really important with respect to um goal one of the strategic plan which is those personalized learning plans. Um and so it'll be a presentation of information but also opportunity to ask questions um and uh we'll probably have some follow-ups uh from that presentation as well. And I know that this was a a subject of um some interest to some board members. So, I'd encourage them if they had anything in particular that they wanted to have addressed to maybe um shoot Dr. Cummings an email just to let her know what he'd like to home in on. Okay. Um and then we also will be having an
056overview of the Glen Brook Academy of International Studies at the same board meeting. Yeah. It's probably been 15 to 20 years since the board has learned about the academy. Um, and now with our new instructional supervisor of the Glen Academy and Advanced Studies, um, uh, Mrs. Debbie Cohen will be here, share with you an update on where they're at, some great progress they've made, um, and, uh, the future for what the academy will hold. It'll be a great conversation. Excellent. Um, that brings us then to item 10, which is our closed session, and we will be having a closed session this evening to consider the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint launched against an
057employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity. And that's section 2C1 of the Open Meeting Act. Um, could I please have a motion to take us into closed? Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Well, look at that. It's only 7:50. We can go right into closed, I think. Unless you guys would like to take a I don't know, a half hour break. We'll go right into close. Mr. Shine would like a half hour.