001Okay, I call the meeting to order. Roll call, please. Wilms Meyer here. Cook I. Kenogal. I Curran. Hi. None. I. McMasters. Hi. Jones. Here. And Kelsey McKenzie is not. She's absent because she's at a competition and we wish her the best of luck. Absolutely. Good luck, Kelsey. We wish you good luck. We know we have a quorum. Very well. Will you all please rise for the pledge of allegiance followed by the invocation given tonight by Reverend Eddie Bradley with Life Point Church. If you do not wish to pray with us, you may step out at that time. I pledge algiance 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. Lord, we thank you for an opportunity
002to come to you and to seek your guidance and direction and wisdom. We ask that you would accomplish what no one else can. that you would bring us together uh despite of our differences uh for the common good uh of our community. Thank you for these who give their time, their energy, and their efforts. Ask your blessings on them. Give them wisdom in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Reverend Bradley, for being with us tonight. Thanks so much. Thank you so much. Take care. Thank you. Have a good night. Public comments. I don't believe we have any public comments. No, we do not. Okay. Very well. We'll move into the minutes. I need a motion for the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of the board of education held on January 12th,
0032021. So moved. Second. Any discussion on the minutes? Roll call. Alan, you seconded that, correct? I did. Okay. Cook I. Kenogal. I Curran. Hi. None. I. McMasters. I. Wilms. I. Jones. I carried. Uh, moving on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda. Mr. presenting the board 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 seven for individual discussion and consideration. Is there a motion? So second any discussion or questions on that? Do you want me to talk about the gifts real quick? Um actually well there's a there were gifts. Uh Cindy Desper gave a donation in the name of her father to the GCS basketball team and the Mid America Credit
004Union also gave a gift to the district as well. I just really want to appreciate the people that really go the extra mile there. Thank you very much. For sure. Um roll call. Kenogal I Curran I Nun I McMasters I whom Meyer I Cook I Jones I carried. Um recommendations and communications human resources item A leaves of absence. Mr. President, the board it is recommended the following leaves of absences be approved. Laura Marsaw s uh Mitchell effective 11821 to 41221. Britney Lindsy title one parapro at Griggsby 11921 to 528-21. Christy Dawson, social work for GCHS 11921 to 41321. And Tina Buck, teacher of Prather 12021 to 5321. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Curran. Hi. None. Hi. McMasters. Hi. WMER. I. Cook. I. Kenogal. I. And Joe. I. Motion carried. Item B, extracurricular recommendations for Koolage
005Junior High School for the 2021 2022 school year. Mr. President, the board you have received detailed information below about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold the discussion in the executive session. The junior school administrator high school administration is recommending the following extracurricular for the 2020 21-22 school year. Terry Coz for the science department chair. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. None. I. McMasters. I. Wilms. I. Cook. I. Kenogal. I. Curran. Hi. Jones. I carried. Item C. Extracurricular recommendations for Granite City High School for the 2020 2021 school year. Mr. President of the board, you have all received detailed information about this item below. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The high school administration is recommending the following extracurriculars for the 2020
0062021 school year. Miss Amy Heath for the secondary honors coordinator position at the high school. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. McMasters. I. Wilms. I. Cook. I. Kenogal. I. Nun. I. and Jones. I motion carried. Moving on to item D. Um D1, I guess. So, no, I think it's Yes. So, D. Yeah, just D. Okay. So, item D, the employment of one sixth grade special education teacher at Griggsby Intermediate School for the 2021 2022 school year. Okay. Mr. President, the board, you have again received detailed information about this item below. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive sessions. Due to Deanna Fer's retirement, the tier one committee uh which consisted of Don Stratton, Joey Batson, and Diana Fenture recommended the following candidates for an interview with the tier
0072 committee consisting of Jim Parker, Mickey Watkins, and Don Stratton. of three interview one uh the top candidate took a job elsewhere offered and our choice tonight is Miss Emily Hensley and it's our recommendation that she be the hire for the Griggsby special education teacher move second any discussion roll call Wilms I Cook I Kogal I Curran I Dunn I McMasters I Jones I motion carries U moving on to item E, the employment of one life skills teacher at Kulage Junior High School for the 2021 2022 full year. Okay, Mr. President of the board, you have proceeded detailed information below. Considering this item, the administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold discussion in executive session. Due to Monica Brooks moving to Wilson, the tier one committee consisted of Pat Curry, Tony Dodd, and Gayla
008Bennett recommended the following of these candidates to tier two with Jim Parker, Mickey Watkins, and Pat Curry for the Coolage Life Skills position. We are recommending that Miss Kelsey Moo be hired for this position. So, second. Any discussion? Roll call. Cook I. Kenogal. I Curran. I. None. Hi. McMasters. Hi, Wilms. I Jones. I motion carried. And finally, item F is the certified and classified substitutes. This is exciting for people for subs. More subs. I know. Mr. Board and the president, Mr. President, the board, you've received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. It is recommended that the following applicants be board approved as substitutes for the 2020 2021 school year. classified Elizabeth Boyd, Lauren Russio, and Brienne Towner. Is there a motion? So
009moved. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Kenobyl. Iron. I. None. I. McMasters. I. Wilms. I. Jones. Hi. Motion carried. We do have one item that was um tabled at the last meeting. So that is under old business. Item A is the proposed change to the 2020 2021 school calendar. Uh Mr. President and the board, I am respectfully requesting that an adjustment be made to the approved 2021 school calendar. Election day was added to our calendar for Tuesday, November 3rd as a non-attendance day for students and staff. Due to the requirements for student attendance of 17 of 76 days, we had to add a day to the calendar to slice that. We are asking for CASM Pilaski Day uh Monday, March 1st to be changed for an attendance day for students and staff. It has been discussed and
010approved through the various unions that it affects. So moved. Second. Any discussion or questions? Roll call. Curran. Hi. None. I. McMasters. I. Wilms. I. Cook I. Kenogal. I Jones. I motion carried. Okay. New business. Um, item A is the bus contract extension for the 20212022 school year. Uh, Mr. President, the board, uh, the administration is seeking to extend the current bus contract for the 202122 school year. The terms in the extension are a 9% increase over the 2021 school year rates for the 2122 school year. Investigate temporary health routing position at the bus garage. Maintain a current fleet in place for the life of the contract. All their terms and conditions of original agreement will remain in place. This increase is to try to create a more competitive wage. I would Zach, do you have
011anything you'd like to add and explain why we're why we're um showing an increase? No, it it's just with minimum wage going up and they have a driver shortage, it's just something we're going to face. Brad Irvy, how uh how short are we on bus drivers now, even after today? Uh well, right now we're close to 30. So unfortunately every time we have an incident, you know, with a situation there where somebody might get on quarantine, we we keep losing more and more and they're just getting hard to find with Amazon opening up their warehouses and then right now in the area we're one of the lowest paying for bus for bus drivers. So they're going other places too and some of the other districts are seeing a larger percent raise. Are they not deck?
012That we're looking at that's a possibility, right? We're trying to get in at a lower if we we are similar. Yeah. No, we're on here. I'm sorry. We are similar to other districts that had a open contract this year as well. Okay. I just wanted within a percentage point of those as well. It's just becoming more and more difficult for us to obtain substitutes or drivers when there are these these warehouses and places around us and minimum wage going up for us to be competitive. They're for profit. We're not. So, it's becoming difficult for us to keep a fleet of drivers or keep substitutes and even teachers are going to be um an issue in this area too. I just wanted to and Zach, you you agree that doing it this way, this extension probably
013saving us money at least for this year compared to having to go back out for bid? I I absolutely believe that it will probably save us money. Um I'm hopeful that we don't have to have some kick back or kick in to try to make it more competitive on wages. I mean, um, I I'm worried about their staffing levels at this point and the ability to handle school next year if we don't see some increase in, uh, labor force for them. Right. I agree. Any other questions or comments from the board? No, it's just a plea all the time. We need substitute teachers and we need bus drivers. So, those folks who might be watching and listening. Oh, please. If you have any desires at all or know of anybody, please let us know. So
014for the kids and approval is recommended. Very well. Do we have a motion? So moved. Thanks. Second. Any other discussion? Roll call. None. I. McMasters. I. Williamser. I. Cook. I. Kenogal. I. Currin. I. Jones. I. Motion carried. U. Moving on to reports and other communications. Item A, Freedom of Information Act requests. Okay. Mr. President of the board, we have received two requests under the Freedom of Information Act during the period of January 621 through January 21st, 21. The first request was received by on January 7th, 2021 from Jod S. Cohen, ProPublica, and Jennifer Smith Richard, Chicago Tribune. They requested the following information. All contracts and their amendments, memorandums of understanding, intergovernmental service agreements, and any agreements of any sort entered into between the school district and or its schools and any law enforcement agencies. Please
015include all contracts and other agreements from 2015 to the present. All invoices, receipts, billing summaries, purchase orders, logs, and other payment records between the school district and or its schools and any law enforcement agencies from 2015 to the present. all records documenting the service the law enforcement agencies conducted at the district schools from 2015 to the present. The second request was received on January 8th, 2021 from Tanner F of K12 transportation research. He requested the following information. All the current transportation contract with Illinois Central School Bus for the 2021 school year. These requests were handled by the administration. Very good. Thank you, Superintendent Camp. Um items B and C are the district activity and memorial fund statements from November and December. Those are for information purposes only. That would take us to executive session. However,
016I don't believe we have anything to hold for this evening unless anybody knows of anything else. I have to thank somebody. You can go ahead and thank them. Okay. Right. Um today we had it was a national day of service across the country. the board administration here in the office along with some social workers uh under a direction of Chris Mitchell our communications director who's worked with the excuse me Chris Samar Samaritan's feet group um we met today and they brought 250 pairs of shoes for our students socks um masks and things that they need for the students we put them in bags we did that all in about an hour and a half uh I just think it's wonderful they're going to K6 prek six schools. We have some extras left over for our
017homeless area as well. So, I just wanted to thank Chris and Denise Blombberg Blomberg for coming all the way from North Dakota to help us with this project today and to get those shoes to our school. So, I really wanted to thank her. She was amazing today as well. And I'm really proud of our staff here in the board office for taking that seriously and really coming together for that. So, I just wanted to give a shout out to them. They're awesome. Um, okay. We do need to vote on the executive session minutes. So, I need a motion to approve the executive session minutes of the regular meeting of the board of education held on January 12th, 2021. Some move. Second. Um, any discussion on those minutes? Roll call. Cook I. Kenogal. I Curran. I.
018Nun. I. McMasters. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Hel. I. Motion carried. Um, we do have another meeting scheduled for February 9th, 2021. So, that will be our next board meeting unless something else comes up. Um, but we got to get back in tool. Everybody's excited. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to say thank you to I sent an email to the staff across the district because it truly was a collaborative effort. bus drivers, custodians, parapros, monitors, teachers, administrators, and I'm not saying there weren't some issues, but I saw so many kids so happy and teachers so happy to be back. Uh it was a great it was a great thing. Uh baby steps, but we're going to we're working on it and I think it's going to be great for the district. We'll just continue to see what
019we can do to bring more kids back. So, thanks to everyone for that. parents for your patience with transportation or any other thing, food service. But I think that that all went pretty well. If it didn't for some reason, let us know. We'll we'll deal with that. So, thank you. Very well. I need a Yeah, I need a motion for adjournment, please. So, moved. Second. All in favor? I we are journed.