001Okay, I'll call order. Roll call, please. Wilms here. Cook here. Kenogal here. Curran here. Nun here. McMasters. Jones here. We have Cororum and Kaylee McKinzy here. Very good. Very glad to have you here, Kay. We are Kayleie. Will you all please rise for the pledge of allegiance? Uh followed by the invocation given today by Reverend Mark Maynard with Calvary Life Church. 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. Let us pray. Our Lord, tonight we come before you and we ask for your guidance and blessing upon this gathering. We thank you for bringing our superintendent Stephanie to our district for this season and we thank you for blessing her in this position.
002We thank you for the board who has been elected to guide and lead and we pray your blessing upon them. Lord, thank you for our staff that daily serves to provide an education for our students. We pray for a spirit of cooperation and unity in this room that will enable our district to advance and utilize every opportunity set before us. May we reject every contentious and divisive attitude and spirit. And we pray that you would give us creative wisdom for all. We ask all of these things for your holy name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you so much. All right. I do not believe that we have any public comment. Correct. No, we do not. Okay. Very good. We'll move on to minutes. I need a motion for the approval of the minutes
003of the regular meeting of the board of education held on February 23rd, 2021. So move second. That was like perfectly they were. Is there any discussion on the minutes or not? Okay. Roll call. Cook I. Kenogal. I. Curran. Hi. None. I. McMasters. Hi. Wilms. Hi. And Jones. I. Motion carried. Moving on to the consent agenda. Mr. President, the board 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 any of the items be moved to section 7 for individual discussion and consideration. Can I? Sure. Um there were two gifts. I know that um there were some given the Calvary Life Church donated some coats. There were enough to even share with some of the other schools, but Mville School
004was the initial donor. And Miss Liz Signal um provided backpacks to some of the students at Mville School. We are very appreciative. Very good. I need a motion. So moved. Second. Any other discussion? Roll call. Kenobyl here. Currin I. None. Hi, McMaster. Hi, Wilms. Hi, Cook. I Jones. I motion carried. Recommendations and communications, human resources. Item A, retirements and resignations. Mr. President, the board, uh, it is recommended the following required retirements and resignations be accepted. Miss Emily Richards, uh, par profofessional at GCHS, uh, resignation beginning, uh, 2021 2022 school year. Lisa Shimwell, Secretary Administrative Office, retirement effective 68206. Tracy Moore, Secretary Administrative Office, retirement effective 9426. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Curran. Hi. None. I. McMasters. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Cook. I Kogal. I. Jones. I. Motion carried. Item B, leaves of absence. Mr.
005Mr. President, the board, it is recommended that the following leaves of absence be approved. Uh Terry Beaver, cafe at Kulage Medical for 3521 to 52821. Carrie Toth, teacher at Griggsby, medical 3121 to 52821. Austin Hawkins, teacher at Coolage, medical 41921 to 5721. Aaron Feldman, teacher, GCHS, medical effective 3821 to 53121. Nicole uh Harris Bond, account specialist, maternity 41521 to 7821. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. None. I. McMasters. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Cook. I. Kenogal. Hi. Curran. Hi. And Jones. Hi. Motion carried. Item C, extensions to leaves of absence. Mr. President, the board is recommending the following leaves of absence be approved. Jamie Kindle, teacher Wilson, medical effective 3421 to 6121. Renee Weedner, prepared professional prayer prek, medical 12920 to 62621. And Shannon McBride, teacher, UCHS, medical 4721 to 63021. [Music] Second. Dennis first. Any discussion? Roll
006call. McMaster. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Cook. I Kenogal. Hi. Currin. Hi. None. Hi. And Jones. Hi. Merry. Item D is extracurricular recommendations for elementary for the 2020 2021 school year. Mr. President, the board you have received detailed information about this item listed below. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold the discussion. Executive session. The elementary administration is recommending the following listed extracurriculars for the 2020 2021 school year. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Bloomsmeire. I Cook I Kenogal. I Curran. Hi. None. Hi. McMasters. Hi. Jones. I. Motion carry. Item E is extracurricular extracurricular volunteers for GCHS for the 20201 school year. Mr. President, the board, you've received detailed information listed below about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The administration respectfully requests board
007approval of the following volunteers for the 2021 school year. Jessica Gerber for a GCHS track coach and Tim Rosiski for a GCHS pet coach. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Cook I. Noble. I Curran. Hi. None. Hi. McMasters. Wilms. Hi, and Jones. I motion carried. And finally, item F is certified and classified substitutes. Mr. President, the board, you received detailed information about this item below. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold discussion in executive session. I'm very happy that almost every session we have had somebody step up for classified sub. So, thank you very much all of you who were who are helping us out. It is recommended that the following applicants to be board approved as substitutes for the 2021 school year certified Miss Ashlin Mars. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Kenogal. I
008Curran. Hi. None. Hi. McMasters. Hi. Bloomsmeire. I. Cook. I. And Jones. I. Motion carried. We have no old business. So we'll move on to new business. Item A is resend tabulation of Kulage Junior High School roof bid 7-21. Mr. President, the board please resend the bid that was presented at February 23rd board meeting. The bid tabulation submitted on February 23rd did not includes did not include policeback EPDM. Policeback EDPM increases protection to our roofs and provides a longer service life. It creates a thick durable sheath and an increased protection against foot traffic tears, punctures, hail and extreme weather. Approval of this addition is recommended. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call. Curran. I. None. I. McMasters. Hi. Holmes. Hi. Cook. I Kenogal. Hi. And Jones. I motion carry. Item B is the Koolage Junior High
009School roof bid 7-21. Mr. President of the board. The following is a tabulation of bibs that includes the police back EPDM for the roof at Kage Junior High School. We recommend Batty Roofing to complete this project with RMT, Inc. as the project manager due to our valued relationship with Batty Roofer. In 2020, Batty Roofing completed the school district's preference of an EPDM fleeceback roof system at Prather School. This roof system was installed as per plans and specifications with an overall successful project. We feel it is in the board's interest to go with baby roofing based on past practices performed at Fraser School and with RMT's recommendation of quality workmanship that baby provides. The three uh bids are Glant roofing [Music] $867,668, Batty Rouping $876,876,891, and Care Brothers1, $30,150. Board approval is to award the bid
010to Bat Roofing is respectfully requested. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call. None. I. McMasters. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Cook. I Kenobyl. Hi. Curran. Hi. And I motion carried. The next item has a has several different parts. So we'll start with the first one. Um C1 C is property tax appeal board resolution to intervene for the following warehouse addresses listed below. The first one is 27 to 29 Gateway Commerce Drive, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025. So moved. Second. Any discussion or questions? Roll call. McMasters. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Cook I Kenogal I Curran I none I Jones I motion carry the second address is 7 to2 Gateway Commerce Drive in Granite City Illinois 62040 second any discussion roll call Wilms Meyer I Cook I Kenobi I none I McMasters I Jones I motion carries the third address is 3101
011to 3111 11 Westway Drive, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025. So moved. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Cook I. Kenobyl. I. Currin. Hi. None. I. McMasters. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Jones. I. Motion carries. And then the last address is 3049 to 3059 Westway Drive in Edwardsville, Illinois 62025. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. And Kenogal. Hi. Curran. Hi. None. Hi. McMasters. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Cook. I Jones. Hi. Motion carried. The last new business item is a presentation by Chuck Sutton with MC Squared Energy Services LLC. Mr. Sutton, are you ready? Yes. Can everybody hear me? Okay. Yes, we can. Wonderful. Thank you, Superintendent Ken and members of the board for the opportunity to discuss how participation in the community solar program can reduce the electricity supply cost for the district. My name is Chuck Sutman and I'm president with MC Squared.
012We are an electricity retail electricity supplier licensed by the Illinois Commerce Commission for over 10 years. Chris, we serve close to 150,000 residential and commercial customers with electricity supply across the state of Illinois. Additionally, we work with community solar project owners, helping them find subscribers for their new community solar projects. At a high level, community solar projects are a result of the future energy jobs act or FIA legislation which was enacted by the state legislature over four years ago. The Fijia act included a number of new programs to be funded by the rateayers of the state's largest electric utilities including Amar, KMED, and Mid American, which include incentives to build new renewable energy resources across the state. For example, there are a number of incentives to promote new rooftop solar what's called behind the meter
013installation for both residential and commercial customers. Incentives for lowincome participation as well as funding for new job training programs across the state. The specific area of the Fijia legislation that we're focused on today is called community solar. Community solar projects are typically groundmounted solar arrays built in rural locations. Under the Illinois Shines Community Solar Program, which is administered by the Illinois Power Agency, community solar projects are a maximum of 2,000 kilowatts of capacity or 2 megawatt of generated capacity, which is equivalent to about 400 to 500 average single home single family homes annual consumption. Community solar projects allow uh both residential and commercial customers of Amarind to participate as subscribers. Subscribers to community solar projects receive the benefits of the electricity generated by the off-site project without having to install any solar panels or make
014any changes to the subscriber's premise. In other words, as a subscriber, you participate in the project on a virtual basis via net metering credits based on the size of your subscription as a function of the project's monthly generation. We represent a community solar project owner that is offering the district the opportunity to become a community solar subscriber that will save an estimated $30,000 over the next 2 years through a discounted subscription generation rate of 2 cents per kilowatt hour. The monthly net metering credits from the community solar project are metered by Amron and will reduce the amount of electricity that the district would otherwise purchase under your electricity supply program that's currently at close to 3.5 cents per kilowatt hour. There is no cost imposed by Amarind for this program. Lastly, this program is being
015offered on a first come first- serve basis. The project owner only has a limited amount of capacity available until the project is fully subscribed, which is anticipated by the end of this month. If the district decides that it wants to cancel their subscription during the 2-year term for any reason, we'll allow for that without an early termination penalty. I'll be happy to answer any questions and thank you for the opportunity to present this program. Thank you, Mr. S. We appreciate that. Does anything they have presented us with a contract that I've reviewed and everything that Mr. Stefen says is in the contract itself. There is the termination clauses with 30-day notice uh to the uh company uh in doing my research. I think Bill Bill and I sat in on a meeting Friday um all
016all of our questions were answered. So I believe to our satisfaction at that meeting last Friday and if the district is if the board is want wanting to do this I see no reason not not to p go ahead and pursue it and and recommendation by the board. Tom and I have both spent considerable time on the internet looking at the company. It's a real deal and this is this is company that will save us some projected good money. The only thing that's kind of difficult to board sometimes is the time frame. They really did need by the end of March here to have some kind of commitment. And our commitment really, my understanding is clear is that it required no more than 30 days. If we were done or had a problem, we could
017opt out. Is that right, Tom? Yes, that's correct. Yeah. So, it's a good company. It's a decent savings. I mean, it's not the savings that all the solar program is going to give us, but it's another savings. And so, so this works in conjunction with the solar program that we already have. Not not our solar project. No. There's solar projects, right, Mr. Sutton, that are in rural areas and the power that they make we can benefit from as a subscriber. Correct. That's correct. One of the things they're trying to do is go into communities and I I thought it would have been a nice thing if we could have had a lot of our alderman listen in on this because basically they take unused areas of land and put up most it's all on ground
018solar units and create energy that people can partner in. And there's really big savings for cities, but because it's a new idea, they're also struggling to get around and get people to opt in and in it. But I can think of a lot of dead property in our area that I told solar panels if I had the option. But it's something I told him down the road, you really should talk to our city council about. Uh there's some real opportunity for our city, too. But for us as a district, I think it's projection. came in and uh projected the first two-year term we could uh save up to $30,000. I think that's no small piece of money and there's no cost to us. All we do is get discounted power and and this agreement applies
019and Mr. Sutton, correct me if I'm wrong, applies at the high schoolage project only. It's not. That's correct. Okay. For the for the largest of your accounts. Yeah. Now, do you supply the protection around the grids, around the uh solar units as well that you put in if it were in? No, we're not doing any of that. They have them offsite like um maybe in a farm community in central Illinois. Fields, different places they put them up. Did you say that, Chuck, that they were somewhere in central Illinois? Yeah. Yes. This project is in uh eastern Illinois in Vermillion County in a village called Ridge Farm which is south of Danville. And it's in a rural location. It's um about 20 to 25 acres of land to to use for 2,000 kW of solar panels.
020It's kind of cool. So we don't even we just buy the power which is really cool. It's only a subscriber. So, you're getting the virtual value, the offset, if you will, the net metering credits from the project, but you don't put any panels on your roof. This is separate from a a project that you would put on your roof. Any other questions or comments? Tom, what do we need tonight in order to move forward with this? just uh just uh give the accept the uh agreement that's been proposed. Bill made a motion, right? Bill's made a motion to accept the it's called a community solar subscription agreement and we went through the terms and it revised um you did send a revised agreement last Friday afternoon, correct? Since you left it off, just created we
021just had that one issue about the areas addendum. I don't think it's Harry. Did he get that? Mr. Sutton, did you send the revised um addendum that Tom is referring to? You did. I think I saw it. Afternoon. Yeah, I'm sorry. I saw it. Okay. Okay. So, Bill Tom wanted adjusted. Yeah. Yeah. I added the language. Thank you. I saw Okay. Bill's made the motion. Dennis made a second. Any other questions or comments? Okay. Roll call. Wilms. I. Cook. Hi, Kenogal. Hi, Curran. Hi, Nun. Hi, McMasters. Hi, Jones. Hi, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Sun. We appreciate you. Thank you. Have a nice evening. Signatures will be a fixed and we'll send it to you, Chuck. Okay. Okay. Well, I'll Yes, I'll send you an email with it available by Docu Sign for just I'll do
022that tomorrow. Thank you. Okay. Thanks. Let me see. Okay. Um the last item that we have before executive session is the Freedom of Information Act request. Um Mr. President and the board, we received two requests under the Freedom of Information Act during the period of February 16th through March 2nd, 2021. The request was received on February 24th, 2021 from Kavan Mansour, reporter for the Bel News Democrat. He requested the following information. electronic copy of records reflecting the compensation page individual employees of the Grand City School District. These records should include the individual's first and last name, department, job title, annual salary, or wage rate, plus hours worked, any overtime or special sip, and the total paid to the individual during the past fiscal year or the calendar year 2020. This request was handled by the
023administration. All right. Thank you, Superintendent Cam. That takes us to executive session. Exceptions noted under five ILCS120-2 open meetings the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body 2C1 student disciplinary matters 2C9 the purchase or lease of a property for use by the public body or setting price thereof 2C5 and 6 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 have been filed is probable or imminent 2C1 11 to discuss school building safety and security and security procedures 2C8 and student safety 2C8. Um we have one item tonight and that is under student safety 2C8. Do I have a motion to go into executive session? So move second. All in
024favor? I. We are in executive session and the time is 5:26.