001Um, I don't think we have anybody signed up. Is there anybody who wants to say anything? >> Yeah, if you don't mind, I would just follow what Pastor Cororsine just said is, uh, it is National First Responders Day. So, just all the first responders, we'd just like to thank them for all that they do for our families and our students and everyone in our community. So, thank you. All right, that was well under your three minutes. So, uh, that'll move us to the minutes. Uh, so need [clears throat] to approve the minutes of our last board meeting. >> Can I get a motion for >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Christy, >> I. >> Bradley, I >> Stacy, >> I. >> Herrin, >> I. >> Vinnie, I >> Oh, I'm sorry. I
002was normally it's not that short. Um so, [laughter] uh that'll move us to the consent agenda. >> Do you like rip in between names? I could talk. >> Yeah. Yeah. Like [laughter] like maybe a long pause. Uh that'll move us to the consent agenda. Uh the consent agenda contains those items that are repetitive and routine in nature. Any member may make a motion to approve the consent agenda or request that any of the items be moved to section 7 for individual discussion and consideration. Move to approve. >> Second >> discussion. >> Yes, I would actually like to speak again and uh just thank Philip 66 uh for the opportunity for our teachers uh to apply for a grant. And so we actually had three teachers. I'd like to congratulate them. Sarah Shaw, Shelby Matt, and
003uh Kim Antonovich MS uh received some funds for that. So thank you Philip 66 and teachers. I hope you enjoy using that in your classroom. >> Good. Very good. Uh, roll call. >> Bradley, >> I Stacy, >> I >> Vinnie, I Christy, >> hi. >> All right. Uh, section 8A, rescend retirements and resignations. >> It's recommended the filing retirements and resignations listed below and on the GCSD9 website be rescended. >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Stacy. [snorts] >> I. >> Currin. >> I. >> Vinnie. I. Christie. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> I. All right. Section 8B, retirements and resignations. >> It's recommend the filing retirements and resignations listed below and on the GCSD9 website be accepted. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Curran. >> I. >> Vinnie. I Christy.
004>> Hi. >> Bradley. >> Hi. >> Stacy. >> I section 8 C request for leaves of absences. It's recommended the filing request for less of absences listed below and on the website be approved. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Vinnie I. Christie. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> Hi. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. >> Hi. >> All right. Uh section 8 D request for deduct to leave. >> It's recommend the filing request for employee deduct leave listed below and on the website be approved. So moved. Second. >> Roll call. >> Christie. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> Hi. >> Stacy. >> Hi. >> Hurin. >> I. >> Vinnie. I. >> Section 8E. Request for extensions to leaves of absence. >> It's recommend the following request for leaves of absences listed below and on
005the GCSD9 website be approved. >> So moved. Second. >> Roll call. >> Bradley. >> I. >> Stacy. >> I. Currin >> I, >> Benny I, Christie. >> All right. Section 8F, extracurricular resignations for the 2526 school year. >> You've received detailed information about this item. The administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The GCSD9 administration recommend the filing extracurricular resignation for the 2526 school year listed below and on the website be accepted. >> So moved. >> Second. Roll call. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. >> I. >> Vinnie. I. Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> I. >> Section 8G. Extracurricular recommendations for the 2526 school year. >> You've received detailed information about this item. The administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The GCSD9 administration
006is recommending the following extracurricular assignments for the 2525 school year listed below and on the website be approved. >> [clears throat] >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Curran. >> I. >> Vinnie. I. Christy. Hi. >> Bradley. >> I. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Section 8H. Extracurricular volunteer recommendations for the 2526 school year. >> You've received detailed information about this item. Administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The GCSD9 administration has recommended that filing extracurricular volunteers for the 2526 school year listed below and on the website be approved. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Vinnie I Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> I Stacy >> I. >> Currin. >> I section 8 I certified and classified substitutes for 2526. Peter recommended the following applicants listed
007below and on the GCSD9 website be board approved as substitutes for the 2526 school year. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Christy. >> I. >> Bradley. >> I. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Erin. >> I. >> Vinnie. I. >> Section 8J1. Employment of three GCSD9 custodians for the 2526 school year. You've received detailed information about this item of the administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The GCSD9 administration and interview committee are recommending the employment of Robert Kinsel, Andrew Ray, and Richard Thomas as GCSD9 custodians for the 2526 school year. Approval is recommended pending the submission of the required paperwork. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Bradley. I >> Stacy. I >> Vinnie >> I Christy [clears throat] >> I >> section 8J2 employment
008of one special education pair professional for the 2526 school year >> you've received detailed information about this item and the administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session the GCSD9 administration and the interview committee are recommending the employment of Melissa Gray as a special education prayer professional for the 2526 school here. Approval is recommended pending the submission of the required paperwork. >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. >> I. >> Vinnie. I >> Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> I. >> Section 8J3. Employment of two title one pair of professionals for the 2526 school year. >> You've received detailed information about this item. The administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The GCSD9 administration and interview committee are recommending
009the employment of Jamie Clemens and Susan Lasher as title one prayer professionals for the 2526 school year. The positions are up to 15 hours per week and there are no benefits. Approval is recommended pinning the submission of the required paperwork. [clears throat] >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Currin I. >> Vinnie I. Christie. I >> Bradley [snorts] I Stacy >> I. >> All right. There is no old business, so we'll move to new business. Section 10A, Diligent Board governance software. >> The GCSD9 administration has reviewed the diligent software and would like to recommend it to the board of education for consideration. The software would streamline the internal process for building the board agenda and increase accessibility. As a board, the platform will increase the functionality and transparency of the meeting by allowing
010live streaming of the agenda, voting, and video with all one platform. The additional information and pricing was previously shared with the board of education. The total cost is $13,50 annually. The goal for implementation will be to target the January 27th, 2026 board of education meeting for the first meeting utilizing the new software. Approval is recommended. >> So moved. >> Second. discussion. >> Roll call. >> I do have a question. Okay. Okay. >> Do we currently use anything that's So we don't right now there's no >> No, the way we live stream right now is is Yeah. There's no expenses right now. Right now what we use is Facebook Live. >> Facebook Live. >> Yeah. And so this gives a this enables us to record that. I I know right now with Facebook, don't you have
011to go back and download it right off the bat? Um >> it enables us to transcribe. Um enables to share it with you guys a little sooner as well. uh relying on Facebook essentially. >> So right now we're relying on Facebook essentially. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> For the for the live stream. >> For the live stream. But this helps the processes with this as well where you're going to get that as you're voting. It could put that on there. It's going to stream that for Erica helping her a little bit easier where she's having to keep all the stuff. It's it's pretty good software. >> Yeah. It's kind of like just one-stop shopping for board stuff, especially on the the public side of it too for people. >> We can utilize it with our
012policy meetings as well. There's a number of things we look at. So, Adam and I uh looked at it and then we brought it to the whole central office group and they looked at it as well. So, we've all had a chance to look at it. >> So, accessibility for the public, how will they access? Will they still go to Facebook for live streaming or do we put that like on YouTube or a different platform or would this be the platform? >> So, we could do that a few ways. Obviously, the platform would we could put it on our website, but if we wanted to put out Facebook where they put on Facebook where they could then click on that web, >> link to it. Yeah. To >> barely be through our website now. >>
013Yeah. Yeah. >> Tied into that. Okay. >> All right. Roll call. >> Vinnie. I. Christie. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> Hi. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Current. >> I. >> Section 10B. FY2025 region one audit. >> GCSD9 recommends that the board of education approve the attached FY2025 audits for region one. Approval is recommended. >> Some moved. >> Second. Any discussion? Roll call. >> Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> Hi. >> Stacy. >> Hi. >> Curin. >> I. >> Vinnie. I >> section 10 C title one aid pay adjustment. >> GCSD9 recommends that the board of education approve the title one reading aid pay at$,750 an hour from 1625 and make the adjustment retroactive for the 2526 school year. Approval is recommended. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call. >> Bradley. >> I.
014>> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. >> I. >> Vinnie. I >> Christie. >> Hi. >> Section 10D. Uh FY26 School Maintenance Project Grant Program. GCS9 administration is seeking authorization to apply for the school maintenance project grant program to receive $50,000 from operations and maintenance fund 20 for matching funds required for application. The school maintenance project grant is matching funds grant with award up to $50,000. The grant will be used for the playground at Wilson School. Approval is recommended. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. I >> Vinnie I Christie. >> Hi >> Bradley. >> I >> section 10E. Mville parking lot extension bid number 03-26. >> GCSD9 administration requests the approval to contract with Chris Brothers Asphalt for new parking lot extension project at Mville
015Elementary School. A mandatory pre-bid meeting was held on September 9th, 2025 at Mville Elementary School with two contractors in attendance, Stoultz Excavating and Chris Brothers Asphalt. The project will include excavation and installation of rock subgrade followed by new asphalt paving. Extension will provide an on-site drop off and pickup area eliminating the need to use the church parking lot uh pedestrian traffic across from Marville Road. Chris Brothers uh with a $358,450 approval is recommended. >> So moved. >> Second. >> So will this look kind of like what we did at Wilson like build that out front or what? It's behind. >> It's behind it. Okay. >> And Chris Brothers was the only even though there were two of them, they were the only ones who bid. >> Who bid? So, >> yes. >> So, I know
016that in the construction committee we talked [clears throat] I think it'd probably be important to explain why we're doing it. >> Yeah. >> I think that's the most important thing. Currently, we use the parking lot across the street at the church. Correct. >> Yeah. >> And that's a very dangerous road. I can I can tell you uh at the police department we get requests all the time because people come through and run the red light or speed through or what what have you and you can sit out there 10 days in a row and on day 11 when you're not there they're right back at it. Um u and I know custodians u my son having been a guy who in the past has stood out there with that stop sign has almost been hit
017by cars and everything else. So, it's good to move to the other side. >> And we'll still have the crossing guard for the walkers, but it won't be near the amount of foot traffic going across there. >> And then we currently we either provide some sort of financial payment to the church to help keep their lot maintained. Correct. >> Or >> we have not at this point. >> Okay. We have not. >> They just let us use it out of the tennis. They're hard. >> We would have to. Yeah. because we have much more parking now since we've since we went back to a K6 setting because there's not as many students riding the buses. There's not as many buses there. So, yeah. >> All right. Anybody else? No. Roll call. >> Currin. >> Hi,
018>> Vinnie. I Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. I >> Stacy. >> I. >> Section 10F. Uh, GCSD9 board pro I'm sorry, board programs approval. Uh, we're going to be tableabling this. So, I need a motion to table this. >> So, moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call. >> Okay. Vinnie, I Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> Hi. >> Stacy. >> Hi. >> Currin. >> Hi. Got to get up here. Section 10G. Gateway Commerce Center Enterprise Zone. Please see the attached resolution regarding the intention to of applying for the joint enterprise zone designation for a portion of the territory. The territory lies within unincorporated Madison County and the municipalities of Eversville and Patum Beach which would be named the Gateway Commerce Center Enterprise Zone. Approval is recommended. >> So moved. Second. >> Any discussion? >>
019Roll call. >> Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> I Stacy. I >> hern >> I >> Denny I >> section 10H property tax abatement within southwestern Madison County Enterprise Zone. >> Please see the attach resol resolution authorizing the property tax abatement within the southwestern Madison County Enterprise Zone. Approval is recommended. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Bradley I. >> Stacy I. >> Currin. >> I. >> Vinnie I. Christie. Hi. Section 10 I, Granite City Saber Committee School Dances. >> Granite City Saber Committee would like to request the renewal of the agreement to use Griggsby Elementary School, Prather Elementary School, and Kulage Junior High School Gymnasium for the Saber School Dances. Requested dates for the 2526 school year are uh dance one, Friday, October 24th, dance 2, January 16th, and
020then dance 3 April 10th. And they do have makeup dates the following Fridays for each one of those. Uh, proof of insurance will be provided prior to the first dance. They also request permission to circulate flyers prior to the dance. Approval is recommended. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Discussion. >> We just had one, right? >> What? >> Didn't we just have one? >> Yeah, we just had one on Friday. >> Um, so what you'll what you'll see is [laughter] >> my daughter went. >> Uh, what what the one difference is that they're going to move from a couple different schools. They always were at >> Griggsby. When I took over as the saber officer, they were at Coolage all the time. Um, so >> I think it's either this time since fifth grade, fifth
021and sixth graders are at >> multiple schools now. It it a move to give everybody the opportunity >> and those schools all have big gyms to be able to accommodate it. The some of the other elementary schools, the gyms aren't near as big, so it' be difficult. >> And proof of insurance was >> was provided. >> Yeah, it was. >> Uh, roll call. Stacy >> I >> Currin >> I >> Vinnie I Christy >> Hi >> Bradley >> I >> section 10 J Swick Running Start contract renewal. >> We'd like to continue to offer the Running Start program with Southern Illinois University. Since the 20134 school year, the board has approved ongoing student participation with the dual cut credit program at the parents expense. Swick has a proposed to continue the program agreement with a
022rate of $4,550 per student per school year. This is at an increase from $232 from last year's price. Eligible students would participate in their junior and senior years of high school and would have the opportunity to earn a high school diploma and an associate degree simultaneously. We're seeking approval to continue to participate in the dual credit program and enter into an intergovernmental agreement where the parents will pay the full tuition rate, provide their children with this opportunity while the district accepts the responsibility to manage the program with swick. Approval is recommended. >> So moved. Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Currin. >> I. >> Vinnie I. Christie. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> I. >> Stacy >> I. Section 111A. Curriculum Committee report for October 15th. >> The curriculum committee met during the first
023quarter on October 15, 2025 to re review the ongoing curriculum initiatives and discuss updates to district instructional priorities. Recommendations from the committee will guide continued curriculum development and instructional planning for the 2526 school year. New course proposals were unanimously approved by the committee. Supporting documents were provided under separate cover. Approval of the curriculum committee recommendations is recommended. So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Vinnie I. Christie. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> I. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. >> I. >> Section 111B. Freedom of Freedom of Information Act requests. >> The Freedom of Information Act requests listed below and on the GCSD9 website were handled by administration. All right, that move. We have no executive session tonight. So that take us to section 13, executive session minutes. Uh I need approval
024of the exe executive session minutes of the special meeting of the board of education held on October 14th, 2025. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. >> Hi. >> Vinnie. I Christie. >> Hi, >> Bradley. I >> All right. Uh, so setting of the agenda. Uh, our next meeting is November 18th, 2025. Same time, same place. Um, so, uh, I just need a motion to adjourn. >> So move second. >> All in favor? I I >> And that and we are done.