001[Laughter] We're good. I shouldn't hit you. So, ready? >> All right. Here we go. Uh, we're going to call to order the Tuesday, September 23rd meeting of the Granite City School District number nine. Roll call. >> Vinnie here, Christy >> here, >> Bradley here, Stacy >> here, >> Silva >> here, >> Linamman >> absent, >> and Miss Minberg >> here. All right. >> All right. Uh if we could stand for the pledge of allegiance followed by an invocation from Pastor Alan Easter of the Hope Lutheran Church. >> I pledge alce >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Let me lead us in prayer. Good and gracious God, we look around this room this
002evening and there are so many blessings coming from you. We look and we see uh teachers, we see administrators, we see uh uh facilities, we see parents and and representing children and students and all of these things and we thank you for that. We thank you for the privilege, the honor, responsibility that you give to us. And may uh we go forward accordance with how you would have us to go. Be with the folks and the decisions that are made here this night that they would be pleasing and what is best for you and for the children. Be with this school district as we continue on. Keep us safe. Keep us uh together and go forward according as you would have planned. Again, Lord, thank you for these many blessings and be with this meeting
003here this evening. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you. Thank you, pastor. Thank you. >> That will take us to public comment. Is anybody Is anybody here for public comment? No, not everybody at once. All right. Uh we'll move along to the minutes. Approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of the board of education held on August 26, 2025. >> So moved. Second. Roll call. >> Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. Abstain. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. >> I. >> Silva. >> I. >> Vinnie. I. >> All right. Move to the consent agenda. Uh, contains those items that are repetitive and routine in nature. Any member may make a motion to approve the consent agenda or to request that any of the items be moved to section 7 for
004individual discussion. and consideration. Can I get a motion for the consent agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Before you vote, I would like to uh just thank some companies and some different people in our community for the nice things that they've done for our district. All the donations. I mean, it's it's actually reached outside of our community with other organizations uh that aren't even in our town, but we have people that work in our community from those organizations. So, I just want to say thank you for everything you've done. United States Steel, uh $5,000 they donated for student hygiene and anything else we need to use for to help our students for the 2526 school year. Granite City Moose Lodge, uh $700 worth of supplies for our students. Kay Rollins, she donated
005three uh sizes of gel packs for for our nurses in our district. And then, uh First Amendment America Credit Union, $500 worth of school supplies and student hygiene packs. uh Amazon Warehouse of Pontoon Beach again donated school supplies of collections that they did for their start of the school. And then thank you Randy and staff for that. Barnes Jewish Hospital um Molly Beck is one of our people that work that are live in our town and they helped collect uh things for Prather Elementary. So, thank you for that. Uh Unity Baptist Church donated school supplies and hygiene items to Wilson School. and then JJ's Barbecue and more uh donated shirts and then $15 gift certificates to uh Koolage High Junior High School. So, thank you so much for thinking of our district. We truly appreciate
006all of your generous gifts. >> All right, roll call. >> Bradley, >> I Stacy, >> hi. >> Turret, >> I >> Silva, I Vinnie, I Christy, >> I All right, section 8A, retirements and resignations. It's recommended that the following retirements and resignations uh listed below and on the GCSD9 website be accepted. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Second was that. >> Oh, second was right. >> Roll call. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. >> Hi. >> Silva. >> I. >> Vinnie. I Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> Hi. >> All right. Section 8B. Request for leaves of absences. It's recommend the following request for leaves of absences listed below and on the GCSD9 website be approved. [Applause] >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call. >> Currin. >> I. >>
007Silva. >> I. >> Vinnie. I. Christy. >> I. >> Bradley. >> I. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Section 8 C. Recommendations for Granite City High School student workers for the 2526 school year. >> You've received detailed information about this item. The administration prepared to make recommendations. Hold for discussion in executive session. The GCSD9 administration's recommend the following student worker co-ops for the 2526 school year listed below and on the GCSD9 website be approved. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call. >> Silva. >> I. Vinnie I Christy >> Hi >> Bradley I Stacy >> I >> section 8 D recommendation to rescend extracurricular assignment 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 administrators are
008recommending the following extracurricular assignment for the 2526 school year listed below and on the GCSD9 website be rescended So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call. >> Vinnie. I Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> Hi. >> Stacy. >> Hi. >> Hur. >> Hi. >> Silva. >> I. >> Section 8E. 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 is recommending the filing extracurricular resignations for the 2526 school year listed below and on the GCSD9 website be accepted. >> So move second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Christie >> I. >> Bradley >> I. >> Stacy >> I. >> Currin >> I. >> Silva >> I. >> Vinnie I. >> Section 8F
009extracurricular 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 has recommend the following extracurricular assignments for the 2526 school year listed below be approved. Approval is recommended pending the submission of the required paperwork. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Bradley. >> I. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. >> I. >> Silva. >> Hi. >> Vinnie. I Christie >> I >> section 8G extracurricular volunteer recommendations for the 2526 school year. >> You've received detailed information about the item administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion executive session. The GCSD9 administration has recommended the filing extracurricular volunteers for the 2526 school year listed below and on the website be approved. >> So moved.
010>> Second. >> Roll call. Stacy >> I >> Hearn >> I >> Silva >> I >> Vinnie I Christy >> I >> Bradley >> I >> section 8H certified and classified substitutes for 2526 school year >> it's recommended the following applicants listed below and on the GCSD9 website be approved board approved as substitutes for the 2526 school year approval is recommended >> so moved >> second >> roll call >> Currin >> I >> Silva I >> Vinnie I Christy >> I >> Bradley >> I >> Stacy >> I >> section 8 I1 employment of one 4-hour cafe worker for the 2526 school year >> you've received detailed information about the SI administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session the GCSD9 administration and interview committee are recommending the employment of
011Jessica Mitchell as a 4-hour cafe worker for the 2526 school year approval is recommended pending the submission have the required paperwork. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Um Curran. >> Hi. >> Silva. >> I. >> Vinnie. I Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> Hi. >> Stacy. >> Hi. >> We have no old business. We'll go to new business. Section 10A. GCSD9 school calendar for FY27. The GCSD9 administration provided two possible calendar opt op options listed below. Local 7043 teachers and certified staff local 98 custodial and classified and local 4956 secretaries have voted and recommended calendar A. Professional learning days will continue to be provided through a full day of learn of training as we have recently done in the past few years. It's our recommendation to adopt calendar A for the 2627
012school year. Approval is recommended. So moved. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Discussion. Roll call. >> Vinnie. I Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> I. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Hearn. >> Hi. >> Silva. >> I. >> Section 10B. Final site contract extension FY27 through FY29. GCSD9 administration requests permission to approve three-year extension with final site for hosting the www.gcsd9.net website and app. Approval is recommended. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Christie >> I. >> Bradley. >> I Stacy >> I. >> Currin. >> Hi. >> Silva. >> I. >> Vinnie I. So, we're going to go to section 10 C, which is the proposed 2526 GCSD9 budget. So, I'm going to need a motion to temporarily adjourn the meeting and open a public hearing. >> So, moved. >> Second.
013>> Roll call. >> Bradley. >> I. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. >> I. >> Silva. >> I. >> Vinnie. >> I. Christie. >> Hi. >> All right. We're in the public hearing. Um, we're gonna go with Zach Siri for his presentation. >> This is the uh 256 budget budget presentation. Sorry, I haven't needed a microphone ever in my life. >> It's for the Facebook people. >> Yeah, I know that, but I don't want to blow them out at home, too. So, anyway, um, basically, we're going to go over some stuff. If you guys have any questions, just kind of say, "Hey, I got something real quick." And I'm going to cover a few things. Uh Randy, I know this is your first one, so I'm going to try to hit some of the acronyms
014that I use and flow through fairly quickly and go over just some what stuff is. Um anyway, here we go. Did that move? Yes, it did. Good. Everything works. So, just a quick recap of this year's budget. Uh we saw an $859,000 increase in EBF. That's evidence-based funding. That is up uh we're at 75.1 of adequacy from the state. We were as high as 92 or 93% 2 years ago, but as local revenues have shifted, we have come down a little bit. That is just corporate personal property replacement tax. And basically that just es and flows. We really have zero control over that. It is just something that we get. Sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down, and sometimes we find out it's down at the end of the year. So anyway, that so we drop
015back down. We got additional EBF funding because of that. Uh CPPRT was flat from last year. It was about 11 almost 12 million and it's about 12 million this year. Uh local tax revenue, we saw a $3.6 million increase. uh for all our funds over for operating for local taxes. Um even though the rate I will say this the rate did drop our rate has dropped consistently but uh as EAVs go up and more warehouses and stuff we are capturing more money. So we saw an increase of about 3.6 million. Uh all these include competitive wage adjustments and increases for minimum wage and minimum teacher salary increases and sub rates. Uh we're doing a high school shingle roof. Uh that's coming out of fund 90. It's probably not going to be 1.8 million, but just
016to cover anything that could come up, we budget it. That is not in an ed fund. That is healthike safety. Um and it's its own fund. Um, we have a playground at Griggsby and a playground at Frohart. We have some redistricting renovations. Again, I don't think that it's going to be 750,000. We just wanted to throw a little extra in there to make sure we didn't go over budget or went, "Oh my god." Um, the baseball field and all the work that would be done around it, possible other items was 4 million. We put 4 million in the budget just to cover any contingency as well. Uh we saw 1.9% increase to health insurance with Misfit. That is phenomenal. Um that really helps. And then uh we put 1,500 student devices that had been in
017ESSER and CARES money into the regular district budget. So that was a little difference as well. Um so real quick, this is just a recap. The the light blue is the 202425 budget. The 2024, the dark blue is 2425. And then the uh yellow orange. >> Can you advance? Sorry to interrupt. Can you advance your slide? >> Did we freeze? >> Oh no. >> Okay. Thank you. Sorry. >> I I'm doing two because I have my notes on this and not on that. So I'm sorry. I will remember that. Um so quick fund description. Uh fund 10 is the education fund. This is where most of everything happens. 20 is operations and maintenance. That basically covers Eric's department. Fund 30 is just bond and interest. That's where when we sold bonds that we they levy
018for those bonds from that fund and they're paid from that fund. Nothing else happens in that fund. 40 is transportation. Any and all things bus company is 40. 50 is IMRF, social security that we just levy for what we think we're going to expend. Um, I will tell you I'm usually a little high on my expenditures in there because I don't know whether some people who are coaches are going to be IMRF, Social Security, or TRS. So, I just kind of hedge my bets. Um, 60 is capital projects. If we were doing something in 60, like if we sold if we passed a referendum to build a new building, it would all run through 60. We do not, we have not done that. 70 is working cash. This is just our it's like our savings
019account. Uh, 80 is tort. that's where we pay uh insurance and legal expenses from. And 90 is health, life, safety. As you can see, most of the revenue is 10 and 20 and 40. Um, and when I talk about operating funds, that's 10, 20, and 40. That's what the state looks at for balancing the budget. It also includes your revenue from working cash. There's no expenditures from there. So, uh, real quick, fund 10, we budgeted 76.3 million of revenue. we got 79.5 million. Next year we're expecting about 75.2 million in revenue. Um I will tell you I usually hedge my bet a little lower on revenue and hedge my bet a little higher on expenditures. So I tend to inflate expenditures a little bit and reduce revenues just to make sure we're in pretty good.
020We don't have any surprises. Uh 20 uh last year was 13.6 million. uh revenue budgeted, we received 13.5 and uh next year we're expecting 10.9 million. And then finally, fund 40, we budgeted 7.3, we received 6.6 million, and uh next year we're expecting revenue of 8.1. Um, sometimes I mess with these a little bit to keep my balance in 10 just because that's the easiest place to distribute money if we need to from. So, if I start to say, hey, the the balance in 40 or 20 is okay, I will just dump a little bit of that extra revenue into uh 10 just because it's the easiest place to to put it. And then expenditure by fund. Um, you can see fund 10, the education fund, we expected uh 75.7 million of expenditures. We had
02173.8. Uh, next year we're expecting 78.8. Um, fund 20, we had 13, we budgeted 13.5 million. We came in at 12.9 last year. Next year we're expecting 14.8. Most of that is the baseball field. Um, fund 40, we expected 7.2. We came in at 7.3. Next year after the uh adjustments for transportation this year, we're going to be at 8.1. Total last year was 103 million of expenditures budgeted. We came in at 102 million. And then uh next year we're expecting 111 million. And just remember that includes stuff. There is stuff in there like bond and interest and stuff like that. So some of these you'll go, "Well, but my totals included everything." So revenue to this is budget revenue to expend budget revenue to expenditure history. Uh you can see we've had years where
022we've had a lot more uh revenue than expenditures, but this year last year we kind of got close and then this year we're kind of splitting. We kind of assumed uh we'd have a deficit this year with the baseball field. It was something that has been a planned capital improvement. We've had the money for it set aside. It's just taken us a while to get it completed. So, it's going to all hit in this year where we probably did not have the revenue to cover all of it, but it's kind of like a savings account. We've been saving for it. We got it. >> So, just to reiterate, we're not now now's not the launching point. We're going to start deficit spending every year. This is just this is explainable through that big. >> Yeah.
023Yes. Yes. I will uh so follow >> sorry >> we have a about an on paper $5.7 million deficit this year. Um about 4 to 4.5 million of that is the baseball field. Mhm. >> Um, most of the time my revenue, my expenditures come in at about 98, 96 to 98%. And I kind of shoot for my revenue to be about 102. >> Mhm. >> When you include fund 70, >> which is our savings account revenue, it would make us probably balanced next year. Uh, it's going to be close. >> Mhm. >> Um, we've seen a lot of shifts. uh in my areas of concern. I will kind of go into some of those shifts, but we're doing fairly well compared to most districts. I do know that. >> Yes, we are. >> Um we
024are not going to have another $4 million capital improvement project again. >> And also to keep in mind, rightfully so and very smartly on your part, you overestimate your expenditures and underestimate your revenue a little. Yeah, it I think my budgets are going to look slightly imbalanced for a minute. I think the end of the year is going to be better, but like I still don't know what the state's going to give us for category. >> Yes. >> I mean, I don't know what transportation how bad transportation's going to be prorated. I don't know how bad uh special ed private facility is going to be prrated. I I do not know that EBF I'm pretty confident on EBF and I'll be honest, I've seen CPPRT go from them telling me they were going to give
025me 15 million to getting 22 million and then them telling me I was going to get 24 million and got 18. >> It's like trying to predict the weather with only half of your instruments working. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> You do a pretty good job. You're pretty accurate each year. >> I try to do my best. >> Yeah. Um, so if if revenue and expenditures come in about where my norms are with my budgets, we should be pretty close to balanced, if not balanced, using uh the revenue from uh fund 70 to balance that. 10, 20, and 40 are probably going to be a million to two in the red without it probably. Um, and we're working on that. I kind of expected this next year, but with the COVID stuff and CPPRT, I
026was hoping it was going to hang around the 17 million mark and then it just crashed. And I I'm going to be honest, I was really scared this year it was going to go to 8 million and we were going to have massive problems, but it did not. >> Mhm. Okay. So, fund 10 revenue. This is just a I'm going to glaze over these. These are just a brief kind of a showing of where the revenue comes from. It is basically local B8 property taxes and EBF. The rest of it in there is in there. But you can see around over 55 about 55 million of the 75 million all come from this. Uh food service generates about four or five and then there's about 5 million of additional grants between IDEIDA and title one
027and title two and title three. But for the most part, EBF, local property taxes, and then the same for 20 property taxes, CPPRT. There's a little bit of local other from revenue from rent and a few other things that we do. There is no more ESSER. ESSER will come off this slide next year. And that's CARES or American Rescue Plan. It was a few different things. >> CO money. COVID money and then fund 40. Uh you can see as the state if the state drops their revenue regular ed and special ed uh the CPPRT has to go up. So I have to move I kind of move CPPRT between 20 10 and 40 to make stuff balanced. And I usually will carry it only carry a deficit in 10. I will balance 20 and 40
028and then carry the deficit in 10 even though we'd be looking for savings in 20 and 40 as well. I can move it into any pot. Expenditures again this is fund 10. Uh 100s are salaries, 200s are benefits, 300s are purchase services, 400s are supplies and materials, 500 is capital outlay, 600s are uh basically tuition dues and fees. It's basically private facility tuition. And then 700s are non- capital expenditures. Those are between 500 and 5,000 bucks. Uh we have some of those but as you can see most of our expenditures are people and benefits. That is just where it is. You the budget from last year you can see the light blue is last year's budget. The dark blue is the actual then the goldish color is what we're expecting what we're budgeting for next
029year. Um, it's all fairly similar to the year before. >> And just for people like don't understand school finance, this is going to that's how your grass would look in any district. Your bulk of your money is going to be on salaries and benefits. >> Any district you go to, this is what that graph is. >> Yeah. It's the same way with a lot of businesses. >> Yeah. A lot of it. Yeah. >> I just didn't want people started saying like, "Oh, Grid City is blowing all their money on raises." >> No, it it is going to look like that. We are a people business. >> Yeah, as we should. >> Fund 20 again, salaries, benefits, supplies and materials, purchase services, all within line. Nothing nothing radical. You can see a little spike in the
030uh 500s for capital expenditures. That is for the baseball field. That number next year is probably not going to exceed 1.5 million. I mean, our capital expenditures are going to have to fall back in line to precoid numbers. I've already talked to Eric about that and we're working on it and we will build and say, "Hey, if we get a little extra here, a little extra there, we'll try to squeeze a few more projects in." But we are really going back to a precoid budget type environment. >> Thankfully, due to very smart stewardship of budgeting in the last few years though, we've taken care of a lot of those kinds of needs. >> Yes. And then fun 40 this is the bus the 400 supplies and materials are is is fuel. We pay for our
031own fuel and then the uh 300's is the purchase service of the bus company and it is all the bus company. It is basically just transportation. Um and you can see a slight increase. Uh we expect that to this year was a hit. next year and for the next four that ex% increase is not as much. So this is my really crappy slide that I keep using >> cuz I think that's a better way to do it. This shows where we budgeted where the budget came in and then the surplus. You can see those big numbers. One of those was a bond and two of those was corporate personal property replacement tax was nowhere near what they said I was going to get. So that is when people are like, "Oh, yep, it's there." But
032it also went back down. So it's nice. We've gotten some projects done. We've fixed roofs and air conditioners and all that. And it has been nice, but uh it is coming back to reality. Um last year we budgeted a small uh $629,000 surplus and we ended up with 7.6. Most of that is from a at the end of the CARES money, we were spending a whole lot of money before the CARES grant ran out and we expended it in the previous year, but we received it in this fiscal year to about 6 million bucks. So that's why that looks as good as it did. It was all spent in 2425, but we received the revenue in 2526. We are on a cash basis which means we record our expenses and our revenue. We don't do
033any acrruel accounting. It is all when it's when it actually happens. So this is a required slide that was put in by statute. I have to do the an this is our annual average operational expenditure report. Um you can see 22 23 23 24 and 2425. Um the light blue which is the majority of it is the ED fund. The dark blue is operations and maintenance and 40 is transportation which is the orange. Um you can see the average and then the proposed budget is slightly above the average. It will probably go down a little bit as I 22 23 to 24 25 are actuals. And then finally, I've got some items that I just want to talk about. This is kind of like what's going on in my brain. Uh EVF proration. I'm not
034very concerned. I'm not as concerned about that for this year, but next year I think that could be a possibility. They have talked about that. I have heard the whispers and the talk which if they start getting into prorating EBF then that is like prorating general state aid that hey we're going to give you 30 million say you're going to get 30 but you're only going to get 28 because we're paying you at you know 94%. Um CPPRT could go up or down. I'm still not confident that that's a solid number. I hope it goes way up. That would help us immensely. Um, and then categoricals. They are they are prorating those pretty hardcore. I'm I kind of went a little lower than what we got last year. Kind of crossing my fingers, but I'm
035not very confident. Um, and as those change, that will probably lead to other conversations that we're going to have to have with transportation or outplace facilities or anything like that. It will just it could change some dynamics. um scaling back after CARES slash avoiding a fiscal cliff. We've done fairly decent. Um we'll do okay. We just need to be mindful. We need to look for savings where we can. We've said yes a lot with CARES. It it's going to get it's been really easy to say, "Oh, yeah, we can do that." Or, "Oh, yeah, we can do that." We're going to have to start saying we got to think about it or we might not be able to do that. um and maintain a balanced budget. I will tell everybody next year is the end
036of our contract and we will in next year 2728 we'll be negotiating. So 26 27 is going to be a year of transition and a contract negotiations. uh redistricting costs. This is still on my mind a little bit as we find things we didn't think of or anything like that, but I'm I'm pretty comfortable anymore at this. Uh grants, title, prek, IDA, they're not keeping up with inflation. The the teacher they're just not I mean I some of them are getting a little out of out of whack. They're a little off. we're doing pretty good and everybody does a great job, but sometimes the teacher salaries are growing faster than that and they're going to. These grants have been flat pretty much the entire time I've been here, >> it's been the same. Um, and
037then finally, last thing, as we maintaining competitive wages, um, it this is my biggest concern. Um, it was my concern before CO, it's my concern after CO. It is going to be my concern because at some point we have to attract staff as well. >> So it is going to be a delicate balancing act. I just want to warn everyone. It is going to be a delicate balancing act between maintaining competitive wages and maintaining a balanced budget. It is >> it is not going to be as easy as it was. Um, that is all I have. Does anybody have any questions for me? >> I think so. >> All right. Now, >> always love your budget presentation. You put it in great language for people to understand >> because we had to take like full-on
038classes about this and it's very hard. It's so complicated. >> It It is a extremely complicated process. >> Yeah. and and form. I mean, the budget form that you send out means nothing to 99.9% of the people you look at, you go, "This makes no sense." >> Nice to know what your concerns are, too. >> I have more, but >> maybe we don't want to know them all. >> All right. Is there any other public comment? Thank you, Zach. Uh then I need a motion to close the public hearing >> and reconvene the >> regular board second. >> All in favor has be a roll call. >> We have to do a roll. >> Oh yeah. Roll call. >> Um I lost where I was last. I don't know. Uh let's go with Bradley. >>
039I Stacy >> I. >> Currin. >> I. >> Silva. >> I. >> Vinnie. I Christie. >> I Right. We are now back in session and I need a motion to adopt the 2526 budget and secure all necessary signatures. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Currin. >> I. >> Silva. >> I. >> Vinnie. I. >> Christie. >> I. >> Bradley. >> I. >> All right. Section 10D. GCHS American Sign Language Club proposal. >> Yeah, there's a student interest at Granite High School to start a sign language club. The purpose of the sign American Sign Language Club is to create a welcome and inclusive space for students to learn about and practice ASL and foster a deeper understanding of deaf culture and the deaf community. The club will
040serve a valuable resource for students at all skill levels from complete beginners to students with prior experience. Approval is recommended. >> So moved. second love this >> discussion >> just that I love this >> I do have one question about this >> I do too >> is there a way that we can offer this as like a language class instead of a club like >> so that is actually being looked at yes that is that is definitely being looked at >> right >> um and it was actually approved I think through the curriculum committee a few years ago that that's actually it's now it's finding the staff to uh to fill that need >> well that was my question do we have This gets still but the volunteer. >> This would be a volunteer now.
041Yes. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> Roll call. >> Currin. >> Hi. >> Silva. >> Hi. >> Vinnie. I Christy. >> Hi. >> Bradley. >> Hi. >> Stacy. >> I. >> Section 10E. Memorandum of understanding with the Granite City Federation Educational Professionals. The GCSD9 administration and granite city federation of educational prof professionals have entered into a memorandum of understanding for two extra lunch duty positions at Griggsby Elementary School and prayer elementary school for the 2526 school year. The rationale for additional positions at these particular buildings is due to the number of students at each given lunch recess time to provide additional supervision at these buildings. Approval is recommended. So moved. >> Second. Second. Quick question to clarify. Is that two at each school or two between the two? >> So that's two at
042each school. That's for one for each half hour. >> Yep. >> So it'll be a total of four for for the district. >> Yep. Thank you. >> We have any other discussion? >> Yes. Um I think it's great. I'm I'm glad they're getting the extra duty teachers. I just want to know that it's going to be monitored so that if they should happen to need more in the future, we can be on this so that the staff is getting the support they need. >> Yeah, definitely. We're going to definitely be doing that. We actually met this morning and talked about that a little bit. And honestly, if if you're okay with it, if there's something we need to move forward with it sooner, that'd be something that I could sign if the board's okay with
043that moving forward. If we we don't need to wait till October, if we needed to add some more, if everybody's okay with that, >> that would be great. >> Okay. Yeah, >> cuz what we need to keep in mind is that these two elementaryaries are >> right. We're trying to monitor that. Like Zach said, we're not trying to give it away too much. We want to do a little bit at a time and see um but with that ability for me to sign that, we can move forward sooner than that. But Amy Cox and I have been talking about that as well. >> We just want everybody to be safe. Yep. Students and staff. >> Yep. >> All right. Anybody else? >> Roll call. >> Hold on. I got question. >> Sorry. I'll say this
044so everybody can hear. I was just asking like if we're giving you that like yeah do more if you need to like do we need to amend the motion or just stick with what we have. Okay, great. Okay, I'm ready. >> Roll call. >> Silva >> I. >> Vinnie I Christy. >> Hi >> Bradley. >> Hi >> Stacy. >> Hi. >> Currin >> I section 118 freedom of foyer request. We're just going to go with that. >> I'm going to follow suit there. The four requests listed below and on the GCSD9 website were handled by administration. >> All right. Thanks. >> So, setting of the agenda for meeting in the future October 28th. >> October 28th. >> Um, yeah. >> Should we wear Halloween costumes? >> Yes. >> What >> should we wear Halloween costumes?
045>> All in favor? >> No. So >> I want to roll call on that one. >> What we uh what we need now is a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I and we are ajourned.