001We're just We Okay. Yeah. Okay. Um we're doing roll call on the approval of the minutes uh from the December 8th meeting. Cook I Kenogal I. Currin I. None. I McMasters I. Wilms I. Jones. I. Motion carried. Moving on to the consent agenda. Sorry. Mr. President, the board. Uh this is 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 request that any of the items be moved to section 7 for individual discussion and consideration. So then second um any discussion? Do we want to list the gifts? Yeah, sure. Okay. Um we will go through there are several gifts that have been made to the district. I I wanted to talk about um Jimmy John's has agreed again to
002support our student of the month program. I think that's wonderful. We do two students per building per month and they provide full meals to them. We wanted to give you a strong thanks uh to Jimmy John's for that. Uh Wells Fargo has made another classroom gift to Griggsby, a teacher at the Griggsby. And um there's something called the Samaritan's Feet that we they are going to uh donate 175 pairs of shoes to our district um for certain for certain children we've identified. So we're really really happy those people have found um a place that they could help and they can help the kids in our district. We're just thrilled with that. So I wanted to thank them all personally. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Roll call. See Kenogal. I Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi, Wilms
003Meyer. Hi, Cook. I Jones. Hi, Merry. Uh, moving on to recommendations and communications, human resources. Item A, retirements and resignations. Mr. President, the board, it is recommended that the following retirements and resignations be accepted. Mr. Michael Murphy, custodian, retired effective 1231 2025. So moved. Second. Any discussion or questions? Roll call. Curran. Hi. Done. I McMasters. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Cook. I. Kenogal. I Jones. I. Motion carried. Um, we probably should. Okay. So, item hold on. Item B is the is leaves of absence. I apologize. No, you're good. Mr. President, of the board, it is recommended that the following leaves of absences be approved. I hope I did this right. Tanya Thw um effective 1421 to 2521. Alejandro Cortez Ramirez uh effective 121520 to1821. Katherine Delmore uh 11921 to 4621. Mary Wright 11921 to 4621. Bonnie Swanson
004effective 11921 to 4621. Paula Hmel Wilder 11921 to 4621. Alice Bozart Downing 11921 to 4621. Carol Matious 11921 to 4621. Shannon McBride 11921 to 4621. Jill Schillinger 1421 to 521. Angela Wampler 11221 to 4621. It is recommended those for approval. Motion. So moved. Second. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call. Uh none. I. McMasters. I. Wilms. I. Cook. I. Kenogal. I Curran. Hi. And Jones. I. Motion carries. Moving on to item C. Creation of GCHS secondary honors coordinator for the 2020 2021 school year. Mr. Mr. President, the board, you have received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. Should I read the bottom part? Um, sure. Right. Uh, at the union's request, the secondary honors coordinator was put through the extracurricular rubric to
005review student participation related activities. As a result, the secondary honors coordinator could be created and placed at club level C on the extracurricular salary schedule effective for the 2021 school year. It is recommended for approval. So moved. second uh discussion. I'll just start. So, just to let everybody know, there there has been a secondary honors coordinator for decades. Um Amy Heath has typically filled that role, but that role was never a paid position. It was never she wasn't actually ever paid um on a stipen. So, that's what this is doing. It's putting that position on the stipen schedule through the extracurriculars. There's quite a bit of work that goes into that position that she has done on a volunteer basis for many many many years for which we are very grateful for all the absolutely
006work that MK continues to do. Um Parker, is there anything else you wanted to add or no? I think you guys just summed it up. Perfect. Okay, sounds good. Any other questions from the board? Okay, roll call. Uh McMasters I. Williamser. I Cook I Kogal. I Curran. Hi. None. Hi. Jones. I motion carried. Um item D, extracurricular assignments for elementary third quarter lunch duty 2020 to 2021. Mr. President, the board you have been received detailed information about this item below. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discuss in executive session. The elementary administration is recommending the following extracurricular assignments for the 2021 school year. There are a lot of them. They are listed in front of you. So move. Second. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call. Meer. I. Cook. I. Kenogos. I Curran.
007Hi. None. Hi. McMasters. I. Jones. I. Motion carried. Item E, employment of two first grade teachers for the 2021 2022 school year. Mr. President, members of the board, you have received detailed information about this item below. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. Due to two retirements, the tier one interviewing committee consisted of Mr. Marvel and Miss Lisa Whitaker recommended the following candidates for a tier 2 interview. From those, the recommended uh positions are for Joshua Pastel and Carly Valencia. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call. Cook I. Kenogal. I Curran. Hi, Dun. Hi, McMasters. Hi, Williams. Meme. Hi, and Jones. I motion carries. Um, item F is the tier 2 interviews for the supervisor of facilities management position. That will be hold held for executive session.
008Um, we'll do interviews, then if if the board decides to hire, then we'll come back into open session and make that hiring. Um, so moving on to item G is the certified and classified substitute. Mr. President of the board, you have received detailed information below about this item. The administration is definitely prepared to make recommendations for hold for discussion in executive session. It is recommended that the following applicants be board approved as substitutes for the 2021 school year. Classified subs, Mr. Doug Morris and Miss Helen Thomas, classified Gerald Cochr. So second. Any discussion? Roll call. Curran. I. None. I. McMasters. Hi, Wilms Meyer. I Cook I Kenogal I Jones I motion carried. Um item H is the policies which you all should have in front of you. It's not under HR. It's under I mean
009it's under HR. Sorry. I apologize. No, that's okay. Okay. I'm going to read them all. I'm just going to read them. You don't have to read them at all. Oh, okay. Then just like um just u Mr. President the board the following policies the committee has reviewed the following policies and recommends the following amended policies. They are listed um in front of you. You have any questions? And those were the ones that were by the policy committee at the last meeting. That is correct. Um I wanted to ask the uh the ones that are in the print is in blue. Is that that's just the uh the link right to the That is correct. Yes. Yes. Yep. So, I do need a motion and a second to approve policy. So, moved. Second. Second. Bill. He's
010delayed. It's hard to get in. Is there any discussion or questions on the policies? Anybody? Okay. None. Hi, McMasters. Hi, Wilms. I Cook I Kogal. I current I and Jones I motion carried. There is no old business so we'll move on to new business. Item A is the spring evening academy assignments. Mr. President, the board you received detailed information about this item below. Administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The following teachers have been assigned the academy assignments. Kyle Poser, Kim Ligu, Aaron Wartz, Kristen Douglas, Lindsay Doolittle, Brian Delp, Liz Sissio, Peggy Wilson, Trina Ziggler, Scott Smallley, Christa Forester, Lisa Moore, Laura Sullivan, Doug Barlin, Chris Hutchkins, Christy Mode, Hen Scott. Due to holidays, there are more Tuesdays and Thursdays in the semester than Monday and Wednesdays. That is
011why some teachers may actually have more of a different stipen than another. Approval is recommended. Second. Any discussion or question? Roll call. McMasters. I. Williams Meyer. I. Cook. I. Kenogal. I. Currin. I. None. I. And Jones. I. Motion carried. Um. Item B is the South Seven Conference from 2023 to 2026. Mr. President, the board. Um, the athletic director, Mr. John Moan received an invitation on behalf of the South Southern Conference, extending an invitation to schedule Brandon City High School for a 4-year contract in football beginning in the 2023 season and extending it through 2026. These games will take place during weeks 2 through 8 at the of school year. At the end of the 2024 season, the South Seven Conference members will visit the idea of offering an invitation to both Collinsville and Grant City
012to become members of the South Seven Conference in football beginning in 2025. We currently don't have enough for schedules. This is a really nice invitation we received. Um John was very excited about it. So approval is recommended. This is fantastic. Is there a motion? So moved. Second. Any discussion or questions? Is there anybody on there who's either John or anybody? Yeah. I just like to ask the question if John's on which which other schools are involved in this? Oh, we have that. Do you have the invitation with you? That'd be great. There's actually six of them. I don't know why it's called the Southwest seven. There are six schools. Darren might know is is Mr. Depal. Hold on. Okay. Yeah, I think I know it's schools that are closer in in there's some that are
013far, but the only it's like not every year that you play them. So the distance isn't every year that you play them. Okay. Do you want me to read them out? Sure, please. Okay. We've got all Catholic, Coia, Carpondale, Centriia, Marian, and Mount Vernon. Yeah. Marian. Some of them were further, but they're not every year. And just to be a part of a a conference, I could be. Sure. Yeah. And I mean football specifically on a Friday night. The travel is much. Good point. Okay. Any other questions or thoughts? Roll call. Wilms Meyer. I Cook I Kogal. I Curran. Hi. None. Hi. McMasters. I. Jones. I. Motion carried. Um item C is the proposed change to the 2020 2021 school calendar. And I believe superintendent can you would like to table that? Right. So we
014have some more information from the state. Okay. So we're waiting on some info from ASBY before we vote on that. Tom, do we need to make a motion to table? Yes. Okay. I need a motion to table. So moved. Second. Any questions? Okay. Roll call. Cook. I Kenogal. I Curran. Hi. None. I. McMasters. I. Wilms Meyer. Hi. And Jones. I carried or sorry, tabled not carried. Um, okay. And then moving on to reports and other communications. Item A, Freedom of Information Act requests. Mr. present the board. Uh we have received one request under the Freedom of Information Act during the period of December 2nd, 2020 through January 5th, 2021. The request was received on December 14th, 2020 from Kazaron of Local Labs, which is the publisher of the Prairie State Wire, an online publication that
015reports on and informs the public about local governmental activities. He requested the following date on your elected boards and officials. Data on your elected boards and officials. Additionally requesting the name, term start date, term end date, salary, and email address of of the board. Um, this request was handled by administration. Did you give them our salary? Yeah, Christopher, cuz I want to raise. Did you give them our salary? Double 100%. You guys, I know. I mean, it's still a Okay. Well, thank you all used to tell us the check was in the mail. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Um, thank you, Superintendent Han. So, that takes us to executive session exceptions noted under five CS120-2, open meetings, the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the public body, 2C1, student disciplinary matters,
0162C9, the purchase or lease of real property for use by the public body or setting price thereof, 2C5 and six. collective bargaining matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives. 2C2 litigation when an action against, affecting, or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed is probable or eminent. 2C11 to discuss school building safety and security and security procedures 2C8 and student safety 2C8. Um, tonight we have tier 2 interviews for the supervisor of facilities management position which is being held under 2C1. Uh we also have another um conversation about social media district information that's under 2C1 and then potentially a collective bargaining um on the calendar to discuss which has been tabled until the next meeting. So um do I have a motion to go into executive session? Second.
017All in favor? Hi, we are in executive session.