001e e and Mr dowy we are ready good evening welcome to the district 225 Board of Education meeting Madam Secretary would you please read the role Mr dowy here Mr glowaki present Miss Mullen Beck here Mr O'Hara miss siguan here oh sorry Mr shine present Dr Steinberg here six members present item two on our agenda is a motion to approve the agenda for the meeting so moved second all in favor I any opposed motion carries thank you for joining us this evening great to see a full house I know many of you are going to be recognized tonight so we're very excited for that they'll be coming in a couple of minutes our evening night tonight has a full agenda after we have our board and superintendent reports and recognitions uh we'll have Community comment
002followed by our consent agenda we have four items on our reg agenda the first are School operating budgets for the 2526 school year the second item are Staffing plans for the 2526 school year the third item will be our formation of our new board level Communications committee and the fourth will be a resolution to support Vision 20130 uh a project of many many Educators across the state of Illinois uh we will have closed session tonight and just for those of you who are not familiar uh generally we do everything we can in public to be as transparent as possible there's certain things uh that we have to keep confidential um we dealing with for example employees students uh individual matters litigation security measures uh and then sometimes we come back into Open Session and address
003some of them in Open Session but we try to do as much as we can in open uh that's going to happen tonight there are certain items that will be coming back uh possibly in after the Clos session but just to give you a sense of why we go into Clos session for those reasons uh item three on our agenda are the board and superintendent reports and recognitions and I believe we're going to begin with recognitions Dr Johns thank you Mr dowy uh I want to to give forewarn everyone we have quite a long list of recognitions tonight which we're all very proud of we have a distinguished group of students and staff who've really shown a great example of the wonderful things that we do in our district every day and we have a
004lot to be proud of before I kick off to the principles to uh help us see the great work of our students I do want to congratulate our glenor United uh Special Olympics teams who had tremendous success last weekend all four of our basketball teams qualified for state which is a record for our program want to give congratulations to the girls who won State gold in the top division once again and congrats to the blue gold and green boys teams for winning State bronze it's quite an incredible accomplishment want to thank Mr Paul Joshi who puts every ounce of his soul into this program and travels all the time working with these kids giving them experiences that they can thoroughly enjoy be a part of what is great about being a youth uh so way
005to go to our glenberg united wolves and they start on Tuesday with track and soccer uh so I'll start off with our principles which one of you is going first okay Miss Hughes would you give us an update of the wonderful things that have happened recently at Glenbrook North good evening we're gonna start by recognizing the Glenbrook North boys swimming and Diving who attended the state competition and had some successes at that um time so what our award winners and our coaches come on up for swimming and Diving sorry um I'm gonna speak first about um our one student who wasn't able to attend tonight Matthew Yuan who competed um in his second state diving championship and so he uh is our is a senior this year and he has been a conference a sectional
006Champion an all state and All-American diver and this has actually been his second state championship he took state in his sophomore year as well as this year so he's um in addition he set pool records in six different pools including um setting the CSL South Conference record and so we also have Jess Roby here who's the diving coach um to celebrate on his behalf so if we could just give Matthew a round of applause right and also we have Evan G levic who's from our um who earned our second team in all state and his accomplishments have included being a four-time state qualifier a two-time CSL All Conference he's a School record holder in the 110 breaststroke and this year he was the in 11th place at the 100 meter breaststroke so congratulations to Evan
007and then I don't know if do we want to do a picture all together at the end or um at the end okay at the end we'll so thank you thank you and then um we're also going to recognize our Glenbrook North uh wrestler who is here today so I have ariela and Scott so this is ariela dobin from class of 2027 she finished second place uh this year at the girls ihsa State wrest Ling meet in addition to finishing second place I wanted to also note some of her other accomplishments such as being a CSL conference Regional and sectional Champion the CSL South wrestler of the year and an Allstate wrestler she was fourth in the state as a freshman and this year second in the state so we have a bright future ahead
008and I'd also like to recognize coach Scott Taylor who's here today and next up is Dr George's to recognize achievement at South hi good evening and I'm just going to do a check-in no South swimmers right they're literally in the pool right now um so yes we'll bring our GBS South swim team uh for another week they're in the pool tonight preparing for another competition for their Club sport um but those gentlemen did a great job at state earning a combined 12 medals 10 of which were top 10 in the state so they did an extraordinary job um I also like to recognize our GBS Vex robotics team it's my honor to celebrate all right gentlemen I'm going to get it right ready 38535 C team AKA Tommy e did I get did I get
009it right excellent uh so the Tommy e team that won the Vex uh robotic state championship they have now qualified for the Vex worlds in Dallas Texas in addition our robotics teams were also awarded the virtual skills state champion title our 385 35a team has just been announced as a finalist for the online challenge for build instruction guide we will find out the winner on March 14th that will also qualify for vex Worlds the robotics program at GBS has had a stellar season wining winning numerous tournaments in addition to being acknowledged with recognitions for their innovation in design we are incredibly proud of their efforts and their achievements and I would be remiss to not also acknowledge the tremendous leadership of Mr Justin Zumo and our other CT teachers including Mr Mike Cindy who's here
010this evening who sponsor the team so tonight we have gentleman Stan we have Jake Milner Jude poly canol did I get it right JP excellent Aaron wil Matthew yam Philip young and Casey kissner thank you for your creativity and your Innovative Spirit we are so proud of your achievements and we cannot wait to see what what you do next okay you want to do the pictures okay so Gentlemen let's come in the center we'll do a [Music] picture yep you going first yeah sure I don't think this is in my job description but I'm doing well okay here we go over here one two three one more one two three thank you oh I'm sorry so you want doest first okay we'll do wrestling first Matthew's almost [Music] here okay thank you congratulations congratulations my
011swimmers okay and then you'll do the other later no swimmers Matthew is on oh perfect okay Dr georgees is that it for GBS we have the swimmer do we not nice young man swing so if I could I'd like to introduce Dr uh n adzy who has a few words about one of our very distinguished administrators yes this evening we have the privilege of recognizing an outstanding leader and advocate in the field of special education Dr Jennifer Pearson don't let me stand up here by myself on Thursday Fe 27th at the 25th anniversary for I which stands for Illinois Alliance of Administrators of special education winter conference in Champagne Illinois Dr Pearson was honored with her Regional one I Regional leadership award this award is given to an individual who has been a member of
012IAS for at least 5 years and exhibited strong leadership in administration of special education programs and two award recipients also demonstrate un wavering loyalty to their colleagues and Professional Organization while upholding the highest professional standard but the honor did not stop there on Friday morning in a moment of surprise and celebration Dr Pearson was awarded the David a Berto distinguished service award an award that recognizes a special education administrators who has made a lasting and significant impact on the field of an extended professional career given to only one recipient across the entire State and selected from all of the regional Award winners while announcing Dr Pearson's award region one co-chair Dr Jennifer sturen shared and I quote we are so lucky to have benefited from her expertise and leadership in region one I cannot think
013of a more qualified and deserving professional she exhibits all of the characteristics of a transformational leader who leads with her heart and makes a difference each and every day end of quote as Dr Pearson prepares for her upcoming retirement we know that her deep expertise leadership and passion for special education have positively influenced many students families and colleagues her impact reaches beyond our district touching the lives of countless individuals across the street I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations and gratitude please join me in celebrating Dr Dr Jennifer Pearson and the honors for our staff don't end there Miss Hughes would you continue all right so um we're going to recognize Dr Michael Greenstein for a a Lifetime Achievement Award and debate so Dr Greenstein would you please join me all right so I
014I was trying to come up with my own words but then uh I remembered that there was a really wonderfully um a one wonderful letter that I receive from the president of the Illinois debate coaches association that I think says it best so if you will forgive me for sharing these words um so at the state tournament this past weekend uh this was on March uh the previous weekend we had the privilege of honoring someone whose impact on debate in Illinois and Beyond cannot be overstated Dr Greenstein has not only Built a legacy of competitive competitive Excellence at glri North but has also shaped the very Foundation of our debate Community through his leadership service and an unwavering commitment to fairness and transparency over his incredible coaching career Dr Greenstein has coached 11 Illinois state
015champions four state Runners up and 10 top three finishes at Nationals an achievement few if any can match but his impact extends far beyond competitive success Michael Greenstein has dedicated himself to providing opportunities for debaters across the state possibly hosting more tournaments than the rest of the Illinois coaching Community combined in fact when a national debate tournament was on the brink of disappearing Dr Greenstein took the Reigns revitalized the competition and ensured that all proceeds were sent to Chicago's urban debate league expanding access to debate for scores of lowincome students his commitment to making debate accessible organized and competitive has been a Cornerstone of our community beyond the tournaments and trophies Michael Greenstein has been a true architect of Illinois debate as a founding board member of the Illinois debate coaches association past president and
016current Secretary he has helped shape the policies and structures that ensure fairness and Clarity in our activity his leadership during two major state tournament transitions from Illinois speech and theater Association to Illinois debate coaches association for the junior varsity and novice divisions and from ihsa to idca for the varsity competition was Guided by one principle transparency Dr Greenstein has always ensured that rules are clear policies are fair and decisions include the voices of those they impact the most it is with deepest respect and admiration that we recognize Michael Greenstein with this Lifetime Achievement Award his stewardship of glum North debate program and debate for the state of Illinois is truly unparalleled so on behalf of all of us here congratulations Dr greenin and Miss Hughes I think you'll finish our celebrations this evening with a
017new announcement I do have an announcement um so I am pleased to announce the appointment of our new instructional supervisor for Career and Technical education Mr Joseph Bruno Mr Bruno has been a dedicated educator at glbr North since 2014 beginning his career as a business teacher throughout his tenure he's also served as a traveling teacher between Glen North and gleni South his leadership contributions include mentoring new teachers serving on the International Education and final exam committees and playing a key role on the school Improvement team his passion for CTE stems from his own high school experiences where these courses helped him recognize the profound impact the field has on Student Self advocacy and well-being currently he is completing his dissertation on student motivation and CTE course selection Mr Bruno holds a Bachelor of Science and
018business administration with an emphasis in management and a double major in sociology from Caroll University he earned a master of arts and secondary teacher education from Roosevelt University and a master of science and educational Administration from Northern Illinois University and he's now in the final stages of completing his doctor of educational of education and educ ational leadership and policy studies at Northern Illinois University additionally Joe has been celebrated and encouraged by his colleagues within Glenbrook North and we are very pleased to congratulate him on his new role and we also thank Mrs kasag for her dedicated years of service to Glenbrook North congratulations Mr Bruno I have something uh and and we also have our diver has arrived and so I'm wondering if we can quickly take a picture with the gbn swim team so
019um congrat Matthew we read all about you and we clap so we can pull it up on the video so if we'll have all of our uh students and Coach come up hear we should hear about that should ask them stand close thank you Mama start congratul Mr that is it for our celebrations and acknowledgements this evening thank you do you have any school reports you want to follow with that's uh that's a heck of a report it's it's for proofing the pudding so yes that is it for this evening I'm sorry no no no I'm sorry we do have Dr Hughes no M Dr georgees okay all right so we have uh in addition to all of the successes that we highlighted tonight our spring Sports have started their practices and I have to
020say today's weather has made me even more excited for all of the upcoming uh spring Seasons as I'm sure many of you enjoyed that time outside so I wanted to mention the weather uh in terms of our activities our annual food drive Fooda paloa has begun students are collecting food items today until March 19th and we kicked off activities with special collections at Sunset and some other food stores this past weekend um this week we will feature a volleyball tournament and ALS and next week will be our annual Cannonball contest which I will be judging but not participating in just excellent that's what you think yeah that's right and uh actually and this past Friday um is one of the events that I look forward to the most um as a school leader so each
021year the north cook region of the Illinois principal Association hosts a student recognition breakfast and principls can nominate students for recognition for showing responsibility demonstrating Pride dignity and respect acting responsibly um exhibiting dedication and being overall positive people uh both Dr George's and I serve on the North cook region board and assist with this special event that took place last Friday in El grve so as our tra uh transition between us I'll announce our students uh from Glenbrook North we recognized is Patel who's a freshman sophomore Ryan Choy Junior yumna Nadim and Senior Josh Khan and then I am so incredibly proud of our Junior Samantha cisos and our senior Lucy Wills for being honored at the breakfast for upholding our Titan values at GBS and gbn we also had a lovely lovely evening this
022past weekend um of the combined choirs of GBS and gbn joining together with gso for the annual Glenbrook Festival of Music this year's guest clinician was Dr John Hughes and the students had an opportunity to prepare a combined program that included five languages and spanned several genres of coral music it was a phenomenal evening over in academics at GBS last week we hosted 30 students that were visiting from ritum Mori Yama High School woo that's a mouthful uh which is located on the main island of Japan near Kyoto our Glenbrook families hosted our exchange students and all of the students participated in Japanese celebration night where they had stations with a variety of cultural activities such as calligraphy anime teas ceremony games and food it was a wonderful wonderful experience both for our hosting families
023and our visiting exchange students from Japan last week GBS also hosted our annual job fair um for our students to be able to seek summer employment opportunities from local businesses in the area we had great attendance from our students and in addition to finding good summer jobs our students get something more important which is practical experience practicing important skills on how to communicate with potential employers so we're very grateful for all of our Community Partners who came out I would also like to give a shout out to Julie Smith and Jen Swanson for making this event a success um last week we also had the Glenbrook South math team hosted the 48th annual North sub bourbon Math League conference meet it's the eth year that GBS has hosted this event it brings over a thousand
024students from 54 schools culminating in the end of our conference season um during the evening the kids take a variety of tests that end in uh competition with an awards ceremony this is a massive undertaking and it would not be possible without the leadership of GBS Math teachers Ryan Southerland Katherine OWI Joe car lowski Brian cop and joelan fener and then next our Titan Debaters dominated the Illinois State Varsity debate championships this past weekend um no school in the state had more members placed than GBS so congratulations to our seniors Vivy Webb and Evan Blitz for their state runner up by placing second you didn't have it in your update you're getting do you want me to slide do you want me to slide that in there gbn took first you want me to throw
025that in there okay this is a District board meeting we can celebrate both and then finally enclosing again A District board meeting here is a photograph of GBS and gbn Chico bll students uh they hosted a very big event on Friday at gbn where over 200 students from area high schools attended to engage in team building and celebration the main Cho Bowl uh Cho college bowl competition will take place on Saturday April 26th at Highland Park so a lot going on between the schools thank you thank you those are wonderful updates thank you principles and now we are finished with this item on the agenda uh thank you very much uh Dr georgees and Miss Hughes uh it's great to hear all these accomplishments on top of the uh wonderful interaction we had with the
026recognitions board members anything you want to report comments Mr sh just want to make a comment what we just heard is the living embodiment of what it says on the wall up there our vision and our mission Arts activities and Athletics academics we that what we just witnessed was exactly what we say we are going to do that is the output the performance and the staff that make it happen make this a great place to work and a great place to go to school and I think it's important to sometimes remember the high level where it starts and it ends up right there that's my comment no thank you it's it's a wonderful comment and a great reminder of what we just saw any other comments or questions miss sein anything you want to add
027at this point yeah oh I'm sorry I'm sorry Miss melb just very quickly and I know a lot of people have already left but for all of you out there who are listening make sure that you fill out your five essential survey I just it's I think if if you've been following our our you know listening in to our board meetings you'll have heard that it really is a crucial bit um of information and is helpful for us in achieving the recognition that our schools deserve for the um very high level of performance that we have but if we don't get the surveys in we don't get the points for that so please it's really simple just go online and do it thank you thank you for that reminder Miss Zin anything at this point
028um no nothing for me at this point thank you okay okay wonderful um item four and our agenda is recognition of community visitors this is an up to 30 minute part of our meeting uh we always value the comments of our uh community members who join us um each Community member who is signed up is allowed up to two minutes to address the board we ask you to respect the two minute Mark uh we do have names I think uh and addresses of the two who have signed up for this evening we do remind uh people a number of items the board first of all does not respond generally we do listen carefully uh we keep it in mind uh that confidentiality and privacy are respected so we don't discuss individual employees or students we
029knowe the board does not control the topics raised in public comment uh we remind speakers they should direct their comments to the board and should they should relate to District business this is not a political form we also remind speakers that their comments are not automatically protected by any immunity or other legal protection and finally we ask everyone to maintain Civility and respect uh with that preface uh we have two uh people have signed up this evening to speak with us we'll start with U Miss Lisa Kane Miss Kane hello my name is Lisa Kae I am a counselor teacher and a parent of a District 34 and a district 225 student I'm also a candidate for the Glenbrook dist 225 School Board in the April 1 election I am excited to see that there
030is a new board Bo committee for communications I believe that strong clear communication is key to building trust and increasing Community engagement and I have a few suggestions for the committee the weekly School update email that we get is an excellent source of information uh but it could be doing a little bit more I would like to see board meetings and parent Association meetings listed as upcoming events we receive board notes after the meeting happened but including the board meeting date as an upcoming event might ENC encourage more parents to attend similarly I'd like to see the weekly School update email include a list of the home games happening that week post pandemic we've seen a decline in students attending events as Spectators and cheering on their fellow Spartans and Titans listing these events might
031encourage students to grab a couple of friends and taken a home game or a concert or an art show I'd also like to see a master calendar with all club meetings sporting events and activities listed the school calendar highlights some activities but certainly not all of them if we want more students to get involved and having a master calendar with all of the ways to get involved would be a great resource including a link to this calendar in the weekly School update could help families nudge their students into trying something new in a district of our size any help that we can give families especially families with freshman students to get involved is a plus along with these additions the weekly update email I'd also like to see the district utilize text messaging more to
032alert parents of upcoming events such as board meetings the homecoming game the college glum the five essential survey Etc we certainly can't and shouldn't use text for everything but emails can get varied and a text is front and center similarly we could use popup messages on the school website or on power school when there's something that's really time sensitive like the five EES that families need to know about right away um I do have lots more ideas than I can fit in these two minutes and I would be happy to discuss it further with you I know that board uh meetings are always in listening mode um but sometimes I wish that we were in conversation mod so we could better share ideas thank you thank you Miss K uh our second and final speaker
033this evening is Mr Julian Chang Mr Chang good evening my name is Julian Chang of Glen View and I appreciate the opportunity to speak tonight this past week I had the privil privilege of engaging with students from both schools thank you Dr Georges and Mrs Hughes for your leadership and great opportunities for our students at the gbn incubator I saw entrepreneurs showcase creativity resilience and well devel Vel business ideas thank you to Mary kasaro and Mindy ingersol for being positive role models especially for young women in business we look forward to the final presentations in a few weeks I also had the opportunity to judge an Illinois Junior Academy of Sciences at Stevenson High School where seven GBS students earn gold in advance to the state competition I witness firsthand the incredible talent and dedication
034of our broader academic Community thanks to all the students our congratulations to all the students Educators and mentors who contributed to the success and thank you to Jeff Rylander for coordinating additionally I'm grateful for the invitation to the GBS career fair where I had the chance to meet 71 students interested in opportunities at our Kuman Learning Center they along with hundreds of other students explored jobs with local businesses these bright motivated students will undoubtedly be valuable additions to our team helping younger Learners develop confidence in math and reading thank you to Julie Smith and the dedicated staff who made this event such a valuable experience one of the most meaningful moments for me there was connecting with special need students listening to their perspectives And discussing how businesses like ours can foster opportunities having worked
035with several of these students and being able to see them weekly in the community is such a great reminder of the positive impact our schools have made on these young men and women through Dr Pearson Dan Carpenter and the entire special education and Glenbrook transitions program finally I want to thank uh Dr grel for taking time to meet with me earlier today regarding the recent social media post RJ I appreciate your attentiveness and commitment to fostering a safer and more uplifting environment for all students I understand this issue will be addressed during the Strategic Communications discussion tonight we still ask GBS to please email the entire school and condemn this hurtful post as possibly hundreds of students have seen it or heard about it while this post was deeply hurtful to those targeted particularly the
036Latin American Asian-American and European American immigrant communities I hope we can still turn this into an opportunity for Learning and growth it is crucial that we protect and support all students both those who were targeted and those who made the post by postering Under understanding education and accountability let's continue to work together to eliminate hate protect vulnerable populations and create a school Community built on kindness respect and the uplifting of all students thank you thank you Mr Shen that concludes our public comment for the evening um and I just want to make sure we're clear uh about some comments we just heard uh there are um members of our community to Mr Chang referred who expressed some concerns about social media posts uh and uh we want first of all for people know that the
037Board of Education takes these sorts of instances and matters very seriously and they've requested I update a little bit tonight about this we've heard this at multiple meetings um as to the media posts that were at issue uh and to which Mr changen was referring the board in the administration became aware of those posts on February 6th uh the administration was first alerted uh through Anonymous report in the evening of February 6th and promptly began the investigation the next day as with any matter with students the investigative process and outcomes remain confidential due to state and federal privacy laws but we confirmed that the Deans met with students who reported the posting and were otherwise involved they also engaged a conversation with parents these actions all took place within 48 Hours the administration becoming aware
038as a school Community we are committed to ensuring that all students feel a sense of belonging and that our environment is one where everyone is treated with dignity and respect when concerns arise we rely on the partnership of our students staff and families to bring them forward so they can be addressed appropriately we appreciate those who have spoken up reinforcing the importance of see something say something that principle which allows us to respond to concerns in a timely manner if there are ever remaining concerns we encourage open communication and followup our administrative team remains available to listen provideed support and ensure that all members of our school Community feel heard and valued with that we'll move to item five on our agenda which is our consent agenda Dr John's do you have any changes in
039the agenda no there are no changes to the consent agenda okay I'll entertain a motion so moved second any questions or discussion on the motion hearing none M Mr GL Wy yes Miss mullenbach yes Miss uh Miss sein yes Mr shine yes Dr Steinberg yes Mr dowy yes six members voting yes we now move to item six on our agenda which are our regular discussion and action agenda we have four items this evening as I mentioned earlier we'll begin with our school operating budgets which is an annual item for us these are the ones for the 2526 school year Dr John thank you Mr Dy as you mentioned this is part of our annual process that is overseen by Dr gll and miss Tarver uh but incorporates the input from the entire administrative team as
040we use zerob based budgeting throughout the entire District including our Personnel decisions um to create this budget it's an important change that we've made several years ago that ensures that we have a budget that best meets the needs of our students and staff Dr gell you walk us through the high points certainly so as a followup to what Dr John just shared this is one of the building blocks of the overall budgeting process the first building block is when the board moves forward with approval of capital projects um that was done last October and finalized here in January then we move into the setting of student fees which the board recently did in the last month and now we're at a point where we're ultimately identifying the budget um which Mrs Hughes and Dr George's
041uh will utilize with their team in order to provide all those supplies that are directly with students a lot of items are provided for through the district budget um but those items that are specific uh and kind of driven by enrollment and overall department needs are paid for through this budget um each year we come together to identify those resources that are necessary in order to provide for all of those different expenses and Miss Tarver put together her recommendation which overall shows a a general increase of about 2.9% that's really tied to the overall cost of goods and services It's always important to remember that some of the expenses associated with this cooperating budget include field trips so transportation to and from athletic events as well as um academic field trips it also includes Personnel
042expenses tied to professional leave uh curriculum projects and other things of that nature so we um do need to always do an increase because those expenses directly uh increase each year and then this year Miss Tarver also identified some other items that we've identified in The District budget that should shift in terms of responsibility to the building budget and so there's a little adjustment for that um overall the next step in the budget building process will also be discussed this evening which is the largest expense and that's um the salaries and benefits for our employees through the Staffing plan U more than happy to talk about the budget building process in general or anything regarding the operating budget if there's any questions thank you Dr gell Dr johnes anything want to add nothing to add
043to that board members any questions Miss MB have one question um so in the chart that's attached to the memo and you had just mentioned R.J that um the overall increase is roughly 3% 2.9% but then um there is in the body of the memo references increase of 3.8% um so I'm not sure if there what accounts for discrepancy sure so one of the elements of this school operating budget ultimately comes down to changes in student enrollment so as uh student enrollment fluctuates um the 2.9% is applied to the per student factor and then also our overall uh budget Factor has kind of split between um as enrollment is going up in some schools and declining and others we'll see individual changes of budgets um the 2.9% has to do is inflation but I also
044mentioned that some expenses were shifted from The District budget to the building budget and that accounts for the difference got it okay thank you D Steinberg anything just a quick question just to share with everybody and for me but since we talk about book fees and everything else and now we see on the left of the day on the 25% of expenditures we see some items like books and instruction and test materials can you clarify how this differ from the ones that they are being paid by the students absolutely absolutely so the overall expense of textbooks is part of the District budget however there are still materials that need to be purchased by the schools a great example would be teacher copies of materials uh there are other times that we need classroom libraries or
045larger sets uh to support students in in different capacities we have some students that require multiple copies of resources um so that's what's included here there's also some text especially when it comes to Choice titles where students have flexibility in what they need um as well as other materials that are within our school libraries that are not directly tied uh to specific course requirements so those are the types of items that would include here we consider that as part of the the per student allocation because the demand the need would be tied based on how many students that you have one more thank you for the clarification this is just curiosity because I'm assuming this has been this way but it's interesting to me that within this expenses there are Personnel expenses and I know
046we we talk about teacher stuffing separate but there's a large there not as large but there are two semi large groups included on this part of the budget why they are mixed personal expenses with everything else they are was there a reason to put it that way because it's different in terms of we need more supplies we need more things those are more proportional to the size of the school but if you talk about how many official custodial services or supervision that's more macro could be seen separate to understand at Le to understand when it grows and when it shrinks why that works instead of being lumped no sure things so two items to point out um Dr seinberg mentioned for example official services or super Vision um so that is uh tied to a
047lot of our in Scholastic um athletic events as well as different activities that happen after school and then custodial Services the lines here are not referring to full-time salaries it's overtime expenses that are attributed to the amount of activities that we're going um the reason why that is put not into the enrollment driven expenses but the general School kind of that that pot that in essence splits uh between schools is because if you look at the number of athletic teams we have as well as after school activities even though we have a different population of students we in essence are running both buildings until 10 o'clock each night and so it's it's it's much more equivalent there um but those expenses are not full-time salaries they're solely for overtime or extra Duty expenses where the
048building has discretion as to how much support they might need so the follow up I'm sorry sorry for too many questions to follow up to Mr Shin's comment earlier it maybe I'm oversimplifying it but it seems like the 75% supports a lot of the other A's that he was talking earlier services that support our Athletics our activities our Arts it while the other parts are more dedicated to our academic side of it is that is that is this the part of the budget that really reflects how much in terms of showing the community how much how we translate that support into a financial on the commitment or is somewhere else on the budget we or may I ask a variant of that question just to clarify what portion of our overall budget and what particular
049activities areas does this concentrate on so you wouldn't be able to attribute any one of these these expenses to one of the A's it it it's overall activities that are going on um if we go to um the Arts primarily most of our Arts are are co-curricular so they are directly tied to the academic side and tied to to full-time Staffing but also so many of our activities are tied to what we refer to as the differential responsibility schedule it's part of the uh collective bargaining agreement for our Teachers Association and all of those are not part of this the only salary expenses that would be tied here um from a stien perspective what we call um discretionary stiens and those sens some are are multi-year um in existence and other ones um they start
050as a discretionary and then they transition to a differential on the salary schedule um so um again it's it's a blend of all different activities going on here thank you Mr shine anything okay uh miss sewin any questions or comments yes sorry just getting my uh computer off mute um I can't recall if we've done this in the past for the operating budget but I see on the last um the last page how we have the per student um change right or there's a line there have we in the past put what we're spending per student on this um particular document like overall not on this document um those numbers are calculated by the Illinois State Board of Ed each year we certainly could add that if that would be helpful I think it might
051be helpful because I think if someone were just kind of you know looking at this from the public or you know parents or who whomever it might be nice to add that to that especially since we we've put the you know per student um you know change there for the year or something certainly I don't know how if that makes sense to everybody but I think it might be nice to have it there let me just add on Miss sein's Point that's that's a number that's used a lot just in regular educational parong so um I think that might be a useful Edition I'm Sorry Miss go ahead no that's okay that's all I had I just wanted to uh kind of just socialize that with the board and everybody and see if that was
052um felt felt good to put it on there we feel good that's good okay good Mr so RJ I guess and follow up to my previous question if you can give just a little bit more background based on F where does the op this operating budget fit into the overall budget what percentage because we actually have a $100 million annual budget this is one por 100 plus but if you could give a little bit of background because I think that's where some of the questions on the per student because this number here you know per student is focusing on this fol on this piece but not we actually spend more when it comes per student absolutely um so we I have two notes Here one is to add the per student expenditure amount um that's
053very easy to do and then also provide a little more context within narrative as to what percent of the overall operating budget does this portion reflect um and how does it combine with the other expend how does it fit in you know piece of the puzzle so it's very clear for every I mean we we do talk about it as building blocks of a budget so um we talk we have a nice description of that in the overall budget document we can take from that and put it in here be helpful thank you thank you Mr Kaki I just one quick question uh actually where Miss seun is looking the per student budget I'm not sure if the $10 uh line means anything here but the 36 the 296 to 316 is about a 6.8%
054increase and that's much higher than the other ones just curious what that is it's it doesn't it's not a lot of money in one regard but you multiply it by 5,000 students it starts to add I'm just curious what the Delta what the re reason isn't the Delta and maybe the $10 is part of that yeah I'll follow up with Miss Tarver on that I noticed that we did differentiate or distinguished the accounting adjustment in 2425 but we didn't in 2526 so um we will break out from the 316 the accounting adjustment that accounts for items that were identified being funded out of the District budget that should be funded in the building budget and so it's a shift from The District budget into the building budget and the mechanism to do that is an
055accounting adjustment that's totally and just to keep it sort of in the Apples to Apples if you put a percentage next to it uh even you need an asteris to explain that there's been a counting adjustment we've done that in the past I think that would be helpful just so that people could because people I you think about you get people in the media they look right at the percentage as they do with say property tax increases Mr Kaki sorry I had one other followup as we're going on the chart uh RJ the historical information that is here refresh my memory is those are actuals or is that the budgeted that we projected for those particular years this is the budget that's been set generally we're with we always spend the budget if not in
056different situations when unanticipated events happen there are times when we go over budget over and there have been times I know we went under because Co and some other things that certain activities were paused and everything so we incurred less so are these I guess the historical to answer my question are these actual or budgeted the historical is budgeted just the budgeted so okay fair enough um any other questions board members hearing so that uh Dr grael this will come back on consent with the adjustments to the memo yes thank you very much it than you 6.2 on our agenda uh regards Staffing plans for this coming school year 2526 Dr Johns well the budget is being worked on for the entire District at the same time we're building up we're using and putting together
057the process for Staffing our buildings and that begins in the fall when students start the process of Select selecting the courses they want for the next school year that data is accumulated and then the building administrative teams led by their principles but then cabinet works with them as well along with integrating the information that we learn about individual student indivi U individualized education plans enables us to have the information that we need to do what we call sectioning and that's the determination of which classes that we're going to run and the next step after that is to put together the Staffing this process is is largely run by the building principles uh we have refined a very good process over the past couple years uh it's it's a hard process particularly during times of declining
058enrollment um but we are presenting tonight the Staffing plan for next school year and it includes uh our general education our special education and our educational support Personnel so big feat because we used to spread these out over three meetings Dr gll you want to add some additional detail sure from a budgetary perspective this is the largest heart of our budget Foundation um salaries and benefits represent uh depending on the specific Year from audited numbers between 73 to 78% of the school district's overall expenditures um over the last few years we've hovered right around 74 75% the one important item that I feel it's important to call out if you will with respect to this year's Staffing plan is this is the final year when one of our largest program to support our students receiving
059special education services has uh uh will be operated by True North our educational Cooperative next year um the overwhelming majority of those students with the exception of some students that will be remaining with True North for their final year of instructional Services uh will be transitioning to our program as a result we are seeing a decrease in contractual Personnel um so those are individuals that were true north employees that ran the program and an increase in District employees so that's step one the other item is um as students are going through what we refer to as the articulation process so these are students that are currently eighth graders and Rising freshmen um we have identified a larger amount of students uh joining both Glenbrook South and Glenbrook North that do require as part of their
060iep's oneon-one assistance um so the numbers that you see reflected when the document um address the transition of the true north program as well as an increase in instructional um assistance uh based on their IEP needs um it's going to point out uh two other things overall um following student the student request process and the overall Staffing process and now I'll defer to Dr George's and Mrs Hughes in just a moment we are seeing an overall decrease of 4.2 on our license staff so that includes um anyone who requires um teacher certification uh and then we're seeing that increase of um educational support Personnel or uh individuals that do not require teacher lure of 16.9 and again that reflects um the additional students that are have higher needs as they're joining our district as well
061as an increase in our multilingual Services um adding um uh the recognition of an additional language that requires um more support based on our population with that shared Dr georgees uh and Mrs Hughes you would like to share anything about Staffing sure um the first thing I'd like to do is take a moment to just acknowledge the extraordinary work of our school counselors and the Staffing team at GBS gbn gbt and GB um this is an incredibly intensive process that takes place over a very very short time period um and our school counselors do an extraordinary job of individually connecting with every single student to make sure that their selections their requests are tied to not only their graduation requirements but their post-secondary goals um so I just want to uh communicate our deepest appreciation
062to our school counselors and our student services department for their work to quote get us the numbers um once we have the numbers as Dr John's indicated we go through uh a very fast and intensive sectioning process and we could not do that without an incredibly brilliant Staffing team uh that's comprised of bat members build the administrative team members at both GBS and gbn um so I'm grateful for those leaders for their time um for their thoughtful consideration of creating quality learning environments for their collaboration with all of the instructional supervisors to make sure that in the end what you see before you on a spreadsheet table is truly representing all of the needs of our students uh and doing so in an extraordinarily high quality manner um that takes a balance to make sure
063we're being fiscally responsible uh balanced against um the needs of some Niche programs at times uh as Dr grel referenced it declining enrollment particularly Glenbrook South um so as you see for GBS just quick summary of our Staffing report is we are finally finally experiencing declining enrollment um and we are doing so at a a good time in also the retirement of our staff so while you see a lot of reductions uh in Glenbrook South it is strategic matching to some departments that have impending retirements um so that is incredibly important to making sure that we're keeping our team members uh and their longevity with us you're also uh seeing on paper what we've been experiencing for years which is a significant change in the the composition of the student body at Glenbrook South uh
064we have a significant increase in multilingual needs we are now up to four bilingual languages uh so we now are required to provide bilingual service in Spanish Korean Mongolian and now Russian uh and we are only a a not even a handful less than a handful of students before we need Ukrainian um so you're seeing that represented in the Staffing plan along with an increase in students um who require a lot of intervention support um coming to us at Glenbrook South with needing uh additional support in reading and Mathematics and executive functioning another significant shift uh that you can see is a massive increase in stem interest in stem from our students uh science uh classes mathematics classes and our engineering program out of Career Tech ad has seen an incred increase we are equally
065seeing a pretty significant decrease in interest in our humanities and Fine Arts um so you see that equally represented um in the the numbers on the spreadsheet as Dr Graal alluded to on our educational support Personnel we are requesting um the additional one-on-one IAS to be able to to support our students um but overall I feel we are maintaining a very robust um uh uh curricular uh approach that is also taking into account some travel opportunities rather than decreasing options um so Miss Hughes and I had a pretty great partnership um to identify uh keeping some of these interests alive through travel opportunities uh and then I'll with that I'll turn it over to her building update yeah I I do want to say a a special word of thanks to Dr George's for teaching
066me this process and kind of helping me along in this first round of going through this um in my tenure in e l Brook north um the things that I wanted to call your attention to um just because I think the numbers alone don't really give the full picture with our new course guide that was aligned this year there were some shifts in the categorization to where our computer science classes at glener North specifically fell within the department so you will see what appears to be a decrease in our CTE but I will assure you that that is mostly recaptured in math um which aligns with where computer science courses were listed at Glenbrook South so now our two buildings are aligned in terms of where math courses and computer science Falls um and so
067that's one thing that I just want to reassure you that you'll see that decrease but you'll also see the increase in math and that is uh not a loss of people or programs um additionally I wanted to highlight that when we were aligning programs there are some specific uh programs for foundations of writing reading skill development that through their alignment within our course catalog have been um adjusted to be more in alignment with courses that we're offering at both schools the staff in English where it looks like it is a decrease have been recaptured under the teachers on special assignment for the work that they do in intervention so while I I just want to reassure you that it looks like it's losing kids but it is not and finally the last thing I wanted
068to just um highlight is that um we also have a a couple classes graduating classes within Glenbrook North that are significantly smaller than others and that has impacted some of the number of sections in in a couple of those core areas where it looks as though perhaps there's a problem there's there isn't uh there's just a smaller uh School of kids that are taking those classes as a result of of where they're falling so we've been double triple checking things to make sure we're not missing anybody um another um thing that we have really worked through is our backlog of driver Zed and we are finding that as we have worked through that um we have we have noticed that as well so all of these things per what Dr georgees has talked about are
069really being covered through retirements um and so we are we are also able to still maintain uh the robust programs that we have here I I just want to thank both principles this work having done it myself is really hard uh these are tough decisions that have to be made they're always very emotional uh we are all proud of the programs that we teach and Lead uh and any sort of reduction feels like a existential wound these are very hard conversations uh I'm grateful that we have the process largely put together by Dr George's who helped us put together a system uh but also that she as as Miss Hughes pointed out trained Miss Hughes and and helped her staff is we have changed over in administration we are fortunate that we now have a
070very concrete Staffing process that is carefully scripted out that we follow um to make sure that we we do this consistently year after year after year and most importantly we work to improve it every year as well so Dr George has led a cabinet for was it eight meetings maybe where we went through where were rough spots last year that we wanted to clarify for this year and I am confident that we'll do it again as we go through and we try to learn from our past experiences and continually improve uh we have come a long ways um but and it will never be easy um but at least we have the satisfaction of knowing that we have a carefully designed process that we follow consistently and fairly thank you Dr John's and thank you
071Dr georgees M Hughes uh this is an enormous amount of work and it's critical for our education it's for our students it's critical obviously to our budget and uh the dedication uh is tremendous and greatly appreciated uh board members I'll start with Dr Steinberg any questions or comments yeah first again thank you I know this is nobody I do this on the other side and it's not an easy job to do and I share with you I think from the teacher side see sometimes that enrollment fluctuates generates a lot of uncertainty and and and it it's never fair if there's such a thing about being fair not not fair but you know we have to we have to fill the classrooms that students go to now on that note I think I mentioned this a
072special meeting I I proba am the minority I like we all need to educate ourself and our community as well so so there are some courses some things that are are what people want to get right now so I I used to I am a mathematician so I used to fight with my friends that want to get calculus to in high school because I say get me one college that will let you skip calculus to because you took it in high school and then you go to college and you go to this great college and you take a course in art because you haven't taken it and you still need a general education requirement and you're are paying thousands of dollars for a course that you would have taken with your friends and with teachers
073that you enjoy and find some extra passions in your curiculum that will help you learn the job I don't know any doctor that doesn't have any or any professional doesn't have any other skills that attract you know people that interact with them and we as a society not as gbn or GBS we may be losing that focus and creating this very specifically trained very young adults and and the evidence shows that once they go to college 50% of them change majors and about 40% change Majors twice so why are we spending the money we parents now spending the money in college for a k children non children any longer keep switching Majors because they didn't have the opportunity to try these things when they were in high school I was free was within the families
074and within opportunity to learn different things there's always time to I know it's a it's a long fight and and as parents we are challenge because we wanted Sons and Daughters to make it to the best schools and we believe that the best schools would look at the better curricul but maybe there's something else on it where we offer seven different courses per year so there should be room to to excel in other things as well my second comment I'm sure this un question really I'm sure this is done but we're having all these changes on on special um special education and we need more resources are we having close relationship with our fed districts because unless you tell me most of the people are moving in and then we wake up to a surprise
075this Pro is coming to the pipeline and and we need to figure out a way to address our capacity because it looks like I understand the true north difference but but it keeps growing and I understand we have more needs but maybe we can coord we are doing the sessions maybe we can but but figure out a way to which way this goes because it it's great that we can support it I always think somebody said schools that don't have the resources that we have and sometimes they have larger numbers how are they doing this so so it would be important for us to learn not just simply how we are adding resources but what other ways we can do to support this growth of special needs along the same line and then that would
076be my last commment question is with bilingual education same story I I remember one of your one of the instructors mentioned that we are having this program where students can take the first class I can't remember in what subjects where they can take the first class as a bilingual class with the goal that after passing that class they can move forward now if these students are coming already beyond the district for five years or six years are there any ways that we can shift some of these to the middle schools I know it's out of our perview so when they come to a kid that my kids are Binga and they took Spanish for the first time in in ninth grade but if they if they take some of if they have some ability or
077possibilities to improve on their bilingual skills in in middle school then maybe there wouldn't be that much pressure once they move to high schools yeah I can absolutely answer those questions so F the first uh thing related to Partnerships with the middle schools we have extraordinary strong Partnerships with all of our sunders school districts um we meet with them regularly they've actually been the ones that are communicating to us that the needs of the student population are changing uh and they're they're sharing with us all of their attempts uh to try and close gaps as much as they can before the students come to us many of the students that are receiving that bilingual uh education they're not necessarily coming from our feeder schools they're recent transfers to the district so we're receiving them fresh
078from other districts um and and it's coming from everywhere all over the world all over the country um it it's not necessarily just coming from within our community um but we do have wonderful Partnerships with them I think uh I speak to springman and AA the most I think they're doing extraordinary work there particularly in mathematics and literacy trying to ensure that before students uh walk in our Hallet Halls at GBS they are as close to reading its grade level as possible when they're equally receiving students that are are struggling significantly but wonderful Partnerships we just met with them a couple weeks ago that's great thank you thank you Dr stavber Mr shine um yes could would it be possible to update this memo with um dollar figures so the FTE translates into some cost
079and we're adding 16.9 FTE total let me see if that's for both yeah so we're taking four off the top group and we're adding the 16.9 on the bottom page and then we also have the offset of what I think that we're not paying true north but that may not they that may actually not be accurate yet so uh first and foremost we certainly can add the average cost of an instructional assistant onto here and we can quantify that out that's not a problem at all uh we can also indicate the cost we are currently paying for True North uh on a tuition basis uh per student and the amount will have savings on that for next year is it accurate RJ could we also add the amount that we're paying for services in this
080case the IAS that were replacing okay what what what do you mean he had mentioned tuition and so Oh you mean out of District tuition yes yeah that would help the balance coming down this is going up certainly so this is are there any oh no it's all of the custodial staff would not be reflected here I'm just trying to think so you said 72 to 74 whatever percent um is the budget which we've known I always just use 75 in my own mind is there anybody not reflected on this in this sheet that that is really a great question um oh about two years ago we tried to put everything on one piece of paper um we did identify this year that um not with respect to full-time employees everyone was on the paper
081but we did identify that we have other contracted services for example um the bookstore we have contracted personnel with the bookstore we have uh the school resource officers contracted personnel there so we have added that in all services are all here yep so things like that where are they they would be so if we look at table three Browns and yep stuff down there contracted non-licensed um that's where they're located Contra okay so we tried to give you one all in so you have these like average numbers for an FTE however for this year we know the real numbers so it's not it's not an you we're projecting for next year based on an average cost per FTE that's what you do but for current we know the real numbers yes so I mean I
082think that would be helpful I mean I know it's easier to use this like average number and and maybe this pool is big enough that the average number doesn't really push it much one way or the other like like it's accurate enough so if you were to if you were to do this and take the average FTE the way you do it and then when it's when you're done at the end of the year say okay let me compare that to my actuals these are my salaries and benefits I imagine they're relatively close they should be yes um we certainly can provide the overall spend on a licensed staff member basis and non-licensed or are you looking I want to look at total I mean we are we're not spending on a licensed person we
083are spending on hundreds of licensed persons so I would just like to know we have a budget of 20 approximately $180 million thank you MH of that 75% give or take a couple percent is on this page understood no so we're I was just making sure I when I put the table in I know what you're looking for so teacher salaries support staff salaries but in aggregate I'm not that interested in the average cost I mean I am but I mean for this purpose absolutely it's like I'm not looking for the average cost of a of a CTE teacher or a math teacher it's just like you know if you want to break down to certified non-certified yeah contracted fine but just to see because we don't pay not not to sound like an idiot
084we don't pay our taxes in FTE we pay them in dollars and so when people look at this you could say oh there's all that increase what does it really mean because we we've got these there's pluses and minuses going on here and we actually have a chart that answers exactly that in the budget we're going to put that right in here too can I add one quick followup to yes Dr so to to Mr Shin's request um the other thing that doesn't translate with ft is the other cost of personnel health insurance and other things that we pay attached to Personnel because it's not the same if you pay somebody over time which doesn't change the cost of health insurance or doesn't change other cost that if you hire somebody else now you have
085a second person that have health insurance and so forth I'm not saying this we need to make decisions based on the cost but if you're going to put to the request dollar amounts through these we would show both we would show salaries and all related benefits employer employer taxes contributions all of that but when you talk about the cost of an FTE it's fully burdened right I mean it's all those Lo it's not just the salary it's it's its benefits and all the other pieces we yeah okay absolutely Miss miluk um I just had a question I see and understand I think how you had mentioned Dr grael that with the the change over from True North that we've moved some contracted Services into employees um and I see that under the the glum transition
086yes but I do see also on um the second Table Three the the non-licensed Personnel um that we're we have seeing a large increase in Personal Care IA that's the one-on ones that's the one-on ones that are in the buildings then that are not involved in the transition correct so we have a large we have a large uh number of students um enrolling at Glenbrook North and Glenbrook South that are rising freshmen uh that will be in our TLS classrooms not transition but the TLs CL okay because it's significant increase doubling it looks like at gbn yeah typically what we would see is an increase and a decrease we do not have have um we don't have any withdrawals or or transfers to transition next year and then this is just I I'm assuming this
087is a typo I don't think there's a reason why we would do this separately but on the on table three the district office numbers are for 24 versus 25 instead of 25 versus 26 it's just a typo okay that's all I thank you miss m Miss Seguin any questions or comments um actually Sandra beat me to it that was the question I was gonna ask all right y thanks thank you Mr Kaki well first I appreciate everyone's work on the shifts to ensure that we continue the plethora of programs that we have and can follow the bouncing ball you know as we went through and changed the curriculum now that this is all matching and everything else but then at the same time we were able to look at resources and everything but some of
088these comments that my colleagues made are where does this all fit so we can continue to offer this diverse curriculum um which is well beyond anything that we're required to offer that's the other thing I think a lot of folks forget you know we're required to offer very basic multilingual math science English not at all the different levels not all the different programming courses and everything else and that's going back to my colleague earlier when he mentioned look at the back of the wall look at everything we've achieved this is what makes the glum bricks different um so so appreciate that so thank you guys for that uh Miss Balck asked my I have a follow-up question to the personal care so I'm assuming the personal care that we're adding here is not a onetoone
089correlation with what we're losing we weren't paying for that service within True North necessarily you have a onetoone correlation under the Glenbrook transition facility so 11 out 11 in but at glener North and South it's based on in Rome increasing those are increas enrollment so that answered that question so um and then I do echo my colleague's comment about if you can again as earlier where does this fit into the overall what piece of the pie is this and everything I almost feel like every document needs like a little indicator on the footer here's the full pie this is the red sliver I mean truly this is the most important and the largest section of the budget and I feel every year we make our documents better um and this is this is a great
090addition because it provides a much more holistic understanding which is why we spend fabul getting it down to this and these are just don't take them the wrong way these are just ways to even make this much easier for those of us that don't live and breed this every day absolutely thank you thank you m thank you Mr gaki just one question Dr gell um I think it's on the the the last line on page four which is Table Three it's the aquatics program which I know is its own program with which you're familiar there are three full-time employees listed in the district office is this still and I'm not trying to get too far into this self-funded yes um so first and foremost the reason why you see them in district office is because
091if we added another set of columns it would be very small so we kept them all in this one format um those with challenged eyesight much appreciate so you're your words um uh in terms of the glamber qus program it is 100% self-sufficient and for the last three years it has been profitable so in terms of these numbers and I realize three is not a huge part of that number that's in its own category correct and when we say self-sufficient just to Mr Shin's Point earlier they are self-sufficient to every dollar that's spent all benefits all retirement contributions all of that okay thank you very much uh any if not any other questions then this will come back next meeting which is next Monday is that correct correct okay Dr John's anything you want to
092add as always I want to thought do thank Dr grael for um the work that goes behind this after the principles get their work done uh it is a massive amount of work and we are fortunate that we can be in this position to have great leaders that put together this sort of plan with such that give us confidence so we can go into the next year um feeling good and ready to go excellent item 6.3 on our agenda is the communications committee formation now we have a memo about this this something that uh we raised uh during our special Communications meeting that was uh on Saturday the 1st um before I say anything else did you want to add something at this point Dr John well um you know so this is this one
093is not necessarily administrative uh recommend but the administration we don't we're in favor of it I'm not saying it's not a a plan put forward by the administration came from really very organic conversation that we had on March 1st when we talked about communication as a district uh so the administration we put together some background information to both put together the foundation for which uh the board can put together a board committee for Communications in the process that is needed for that to happen uh as you know uh in the fall we began a superintendent Communications committee that involved a large number of community members and several administrators or staff members on our team and they did great work and they poured over data they poured over wording on some key documents that we use
094and their impact was very real and had a real impact um really changed some of the things that we were doing later in the school year after their work since then and and taking advantage of their momentum we began to see or feel some interest in a board Committee in which just like finance and Facilities we would meet we'd have a standing committee uh and in this particular case we would continue to keep those members of the superintendent committee those that are volunteers community members and invite them onto the community as offic into the committee as official guest uh so they can continue to provide the feedback we put a lot of time into training them up I think they have valuable insights that we want to capture as the committee moves forward uh and
095this is I think a great next chapter for this District I think as we've put more and more focus on communication um this is as a way that we can really add another layer of quality governance to how we run this District so uh I have the supporting information so that the board can proceed with creating this committee so uh thank you for that synopsis let me to supplement a little bit here um this has been an important topic that this board T up for years and it's really gone up in the last several years um and greatly appreciated my colleagues whove been pushing on this and the subcommittee has done great work already as Dr John's mentioned um I know that U Miss melck and Mr Kaki have been serving on it uh and
096uh as we mentioned at our special Communications Retreat which that board meeting was was outstanding uh it's many many levels all so it's time we think to go ahead with going forming this committee which by board policy uh frankly a I can just appoint um and I think there's support for that uh and it will be just like any other of the committees as Dr Johns mentioned so what I would like to do uh is go ahead and appoint the committee unless there folks who otherwise uh don't agree uh and that will get moving I'll ask the administration uh to make the appropriate changes to reflect three board committees for example on our website uh and undertake any other actions to establish a meeting schedule the appropriate administrators uh to be part of that committee
097and as Dr John's mentioned as we do with other committees we sometimes have ad hoc members who are extremely important supportive uh and in this case we've had that support already at the superintendent committee level and we'd like to invite them there's no requirement they continue but it's incredibly valuable input to have stakeholders across our community to help us with this all important work so um I believe that Dr Steinberg you've uh volunteered to be the third member generally our board committees have three members um there will be when we do the transition to the new board uh that at that point committees may move around as they normally do but for the moment that's how we're going to start this up um and I have to say it's exciting for us generally about the
098communications and then even a larger level one of the things we've been trying to do uh the last uh year or two particularly is push more and more of our incredibly difficult and and detailed work down to the committee level before it hits the board table uh that's made us more efficient in facilities more efficient in finance and I believe that's also going to um make us more efficient uh with Communications work which has been tremendous already so that's the plan uh and I'd like to go forward with it if there any comments or questions about it of course I'll entertain them Mr Ki yeah so first of all thank you to everyone for the wonderful discussions on March 1 and Dr John's especially For You initiating this task force to begin with um it
099brought a lot of different perspectives you board members were focused on policy and making sure their resources there but it was good to hear from students parents teachers all involved in what was most effective and it was interesting debates taking place as well too like I want in this way and then another I want it this way and then oh wait don't give me too much get it the way I want it and so that with that are costs as well too what are those so you don't create a lot of noise for someone to go through and the committee is working on that next on what is what's going to be most effective so a lot of the ideas that were shared today I know the committee has raised different ideas and it's now
100a question of getting those resources to move those forward and everything so this puts the importance on it to make sure that this is supported by the board going forward and more as being a public meeting now much more advertised as well too that more can participate through it so really appreciate the ongoing support on this excellent uh Miss book and you've been on the the superintendent committee anything you want to add at this point other than I'm guessing you're in favor of this I think it's great um I do think uh Mr Kaki makes an important point that um having it at as a board um committee will raise the profile I think people this is something people have been asking for is for the board and the district to focus more on its
101Communications um and I we've had wonderful participation from students and families and staff on the standing committee um but this will hopefully um provide an outlet for folks who maybe they AR on the committee but they would like to come to a meeting and make you know have a forum to discuss these specific issues which I know at least have been expressed to me I know to other board members by community members is top of mind for a lot of people so I think that's excellent excellent um and you know at this point um it's a pretty big committee but you know we may also want to um consider um going back out to see if there if there's an opportunity to have more people join because this may not have been a very public
102Venture and people might not have known that there was an opportunity for them to be involved at this level um and certainly you know as U Mr Dy pointed out you know you do have um turnover with people moving to different committees we just want to make sure that we're always um being receptive to the idea of having more not less you know different not fewer um opinions um so I think this is terrific thank you very much Mr GL I'm sorry I just also had a follow I know during the last discussions in March we also reference maybe a community outreach relations the in light of where we stand now and that this was born I appreciate that we're taking this first step and but to your point that at some point we may
103restructure again that's right and Dr sber I think you're the one who raised that at our at our special meeting of possible community community relations uh piece which is in many Municipal uh and and governmental areas so we're going to be looking at as an excellent adjunct uh to this kind of concept did you want to add I think this is great and and probably it's also a confirmation of the good work done by the current committee and that it's not just as everybody understanding the need but I don't know who was there but clearly the work that was put there I mean I know that two board members were there but the rest of the people that were there was significant enough to to raise to being near um I just have a question
104because the way the policy is written it only mentions one side of the communication line but I believe based on what Sandra just said that there were other members of the committee and I don't know what's the what's the figure to include the other members or if if to make reading the policy says three members of the board appropriate administrators and the current superintendence oh and the current superintendent communication committee members sing at hog yes I I just want to give the impression that we load the committee with one side of the communication and we I know the we the the actual committee doesn't do that but just no it has to be consistent with our policies and how we have guests and all the other ones so this is drafted in that same context
105as facilities and we want to make sure the communication about Communications particularly is clear so I appreciate the clarification question Mr shine any questions or comments okay miss sein anything you want to add at this point no I think just um you know echoing some of the other com comments from my colleagues I know this was a a really important uh an important Focus area for us I know as a board for many years so uh I'm just glad that the the committee has been formed because I do think that will add a lot of value overall to the conversation and um no I just say thank you to everybody who put this together well thank you um and and I want to give special recognition to to Miss Smith I know this has been
106your area speciic particularly and You instrumental and pering our our special meeting and all the work on this committee so thank you for all of your effort in particular so with that we will proceed the administration will proceed uh as as laid out um and and very exciting uh development for us final uh regular agenda item is 6.4 regards the resolution uh about Vision 2030 thank you Mr dowy uh Vision 2030 is a Statewide effort of many of or most of the uh leadership groups and education in the state of Illinois uh the superintendent organization the regional Office of Education superintendent organization iasbo that's the school business officials organization and I'm probably missing one uh Dr gal and I were very fortunate to be members um the school board uh organization uh Dr gal and
107I were very fortunate to be members of of this particular group uh it was a year-long effort that um brought together superintendents and board members and other leaders from across the entire state to really spend a lot of time talking about the goals for our state uh building off of the success that we had with vision 2020 10 years ago uh there are three broad goal areas for vision 2030 and and these are goals for our state so these would be policies uh Statewide policies or directions that we as leaders in education of the state would encourage our legislature to go in uh they fall into three areas one is future focused learning the second is shared account ability and the third is uh predictable funding underneath future focused Learners that's about College and Career
108and expanding on college career opportunities for our students the second under that category is safety the third is developing an educator profile and the last one is curricular instructional flexibility that meets the needs of local communities back to underneath shared accountability there are goals underneath local flexibility for accountability reforming the the Statewide assessment system so it's oriented towards growth and then reform on mandates and then a final category about funding is continued funding of evidence-based funding pension reform and then Equitable funding and flexibility for different districts across the state these are principles that fortunately are already beginning to be worked on right now in the state legislature learned uh today for my Ed rad board meeting there are over 800 bills related to education that have been proposed so far this legislative um session um
109many of these are talking about these very topics so there's plenty about safety mandate reform uh there's great work being proposed on our um dual credit programs so these are are things that are really starting to take shape there's almost some irony in that the work for these goals are being um are taking off really before we have districts all across the state signing on an improvement uh signing on support So What uh I'm asking today but I'm presenting today to be voted on in consent next week is that the board take a close look at these and see these as and and then offer our support as this is the direction we hope to go in as a state this is a policy document we're not bound by any action underneath this although pretty
110much step by step we agree with it so um I ask that that we sign on with our support at our next meeting thank you for uh the summary uh and thank you Dr gal and Dr Johns for your work on this committee um it's a huge issue in Illinois and these are Big challenges and we're trying to look forward I do note that there's a number of things in this that reflect our strategic planning and so I felt consistent with that but uh it's a big document so we want our board members to take a time with it if you questions tonight uh any points that's be fine uh it will come back on consent but if there's further discussion we can take it off consent next time and put it on regular Dy
111I'm going to start with this moment but any questions or comments at this point Dr Steinberg anything two comments all right do it work yeah there you go first something that we always talk about which is our district taking a position of leadership so I appreciate your time and effort and Dr gravel's effort on being part of this and and it this is a huge State and districts are very different and and I think we have to recognize that there are different voices and needs but if we are top District which I believe we are we need to be represented at the table so just thanking both of you for for putting the effort some time if I can mention just an anecdote that I thought was that just shows how different our state is
112so right now coming up in a couple years is a two-year requirement for World languages at high school and most of our students take that and more and I was talking to a superintendent who had only offers Spanish one and and he said if I have to meet this requirement I have to cut my Spanish enrollment down I said 'w no you just hire another Spanish teacher right I mean it's simple goes no you don't get it I can't find a Spanish teacher there's one it it's not something like you just go to a hiring fair and hire another Spanish teacher there's one within driving distance of my district and it just shows the disparity that we have in this District where I personally interviewed probably four Spanish teachers who want to come to the
113glenbrooks and I'm not even sure we have an opening for Spanish we don't so um and that was just me out of hundreds that we interviewed on Saturday um and this poor guy can't find a second one uh and it just shows where we're at as a state and and if I can use that anecdote to say why we need some some work here because an educator pipeline might be the solution for him thank you Mr Shan in general it's hard not to support the concepts in here um I always worry about mandates coming from the state and these things getting altered from what is seems like good ideas here to kind of push Downs that incur extra costs or simply have requirements that really won't benefit our students and families and I think we
114should be vigilant uh in that regard thank you now it's a really important point it's one of the things that we're aware of when we go to the triple I conference and they have the assemblies which I'm guessing you've participated in a number of times back in the day that uh those resolutions people vote on them but they become just a voice it's not a mandate but we have to be vigilant that it doesn't get used in the wrong way of course I I completely agree one of the strongest things I know I heard in every session I participated and I think Dr grell's group even spoke of it more is is the need for mandate relief and and that's written across all three of those pillars that we have to do something about those
115constant turn of additional mandates um and and then to give flexibility to local needs um which we're fortunate again that we we can attend to a lot of needs um but I think as a state we we need some relief from these and you know the difficulty is I just mentioned there's 850 bills uh on education right now sitting at Springfield typically every one of those is a mandate yeah yeah uh miss mbuk anything to comment on no Mr no just take a detailed look at it but for my colleagues uh point and everything know there's a lot of mandates a lot of things so whatever we can do to kind of keep it focused with what is best students always appreciate appreciate that miss sein any comments or questions no none at this time
116thank you okay thank you thank you again uh Dr G Dr chn for your efforts in this particular regard item seven on our agenda is a summary of the meeting we had uh beginning with a a tremendous number of recognitions of uh athletic accomplishment in in diving and swimming and in wrestling uh we had a state robotics Champion uh we had special recognitions of Dr Pearson and Dr Greenstein uh as well as the introduction of our new administrator uh Joseph Bruno all very exciting developments uh across the uh spectrum of uh the 4as uh that uh Mr shine rightly pointed out we also heard in our reports about the food drive uh and a cannonball competition uh student recognition breakfast combined choirs coming together uh under the direction of director Hughes um Japanese student exchange
117a math meet debate uh uh I guess North and South uh at at the top of the debate ladder again in a tremendous tradition The Cho choal chall Bowl uh and then we also had uh the uh recognition of community visitors we had two people uh join us tonight uh as before talking about Communications as well as uh interacting with students uh in in their career work and incubator work uh and raising uh questions about making sure we're treating our students fairly and with respect and dignity uh in terms of social media our we then had our consent agenda which uh passed without change and then our regular agenda we had school operating budgets which will come back with a couple of annotations uh on consent next Monday our staffing plans uh going forward which
118also I Believe come back next Monday uh then we talked about the formation of our board uh committee on Communications uh which will uh be now put into motion uh growing from its uh superintendent status and now up to a full board committee uh the administration would working to make that go forward and then we'll also come back uh on consent unless people want to talk about it more uh regarding the resolution to support the uh Illinois Vision 2030 item eight on our agenda are possible topics for future board uh please let uh me or Dr John's know any of those and finally uh before we uh break we uh have item nine which is we do have closed session to consider the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of the
119public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or the representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees student disciplinary cases and litigation when an action against affecting or on behalf of the particular particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting pursuing to sections 2 C 1 2 and 11 of the open me act so moved
120all in favor I I any opposed motion carries thank you we will take a 10-minute break till 10 of N and come back and close session e e e and Mr dowy we are back at 9 32 p.m. excellent is Miss sein going to rejoin us at this point I know she's out Miss sein just joined there's Miss sein complete my video no longer all right uh we're back in Open Session item 10 is possible action regarding topics discussed and closed we have three actions this evening 10.1 regards a resignation agreement for a licensed employee do uh Mr Kaki yeah I move that the board approve and direct the president to sign the resonation agreement with Mr Silka based on the ter discussed and closed second any discussion on the motion hearing none Missin yes
121Mr shine yes Dr Steinberg yes Mr glowaki yes Miss Mullen Beck Mr dowy yes six members voting yes item 10.2 regards the dismissal of a non-union non-licensed employee Mr clar I move that the board uh proceed with the dismissal of Miss Evans as discussed and closed any discussion on the motion hearing none Miss siguan yes Mr shine yes Dr Steinberg yes Mr glowaki yes Miss Mullen Beck yes Mr dowy yes six members voting yes our final item is 10.3 regards nonunion group salary schedules for 2025 2026 Mr Kari I move that the board adopt the non-union salary schedules as discussed and close for the 2526 school year second any discussion on the motion here none Mr shine yes Dr Steinberg yes Mr glowaki yes Miss Mullen Beck yes Miss Seguin yes Mr Dy yes six
122members voting yes that concludes that portion of the meeting item 11 is Ajman I'll entertain a motion so moved second all in favor I oh sorry any opposed motion carries we're adjourned thank you very much thank you Mr even have a good one Michelle