001We'll begin the meeting for the uh school board for Tuesday, February 22nd. Happy Tuesday. Right today, and we'll begin uh with a roll call, please. Stacy here. Vinnie here. Kenobyl here. Curran here. Nun here. McMasters here. Wilms here. Forbes here. We have a quorum. Thank you. And next is a pledge of allegiance followed by an invitation by Reverend Alan Eastern church. If you please stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Good evening and again, Pastor Boister from Hopees Lutheran Church. Thank you for the honor, privilege of uh leading the invocation tonight and also thank you to all of you for your dedication and work and your uh education efforts that you do. Um before
002the invocation though tonight um our dear Lord um in the last week or so has called home Landon Charles Wood 5-year-old here within Granite City in the schools who went to be with Jesus on Friday February 11th 2022 as I mentioned at the age of five. He was born July 24th, 2016 in Mville, the Ashlin Bishop of Granite City and to Richard Wood. And I'd ask us to take a moment of silence and respect for this. Thank you. And now we pray. Good and gracious God, thanksgiving and praise for you. As we look around this room tonight, we see the dedicated people that are here, the opportunities to be in education and to uh uh lead our young people in a direction that they would go. We thank you for those that are here that
003are dedicated to service to uh the education system and to do the things that they do. And we pray that you'd be with our students. First off, Lord, protect them. protect them from any violence, difficulties they have. Yes. Protect them from diseases, corona virus, and all of those things. But Lord, also uh continue to direct and mold them into being the young people you would want them to be to be in service to you and uh to our world that we live in uh making it a better place and bringing glory to you. Now be with us again this night in this evening in this uh meeting that takes place. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. With that, we will move on to public comment. Uh we
004may have folks here that want to speak tonight. I don't I don't know for sure. Uh if there are, uh we will limit you to five minutes. You're welcome to get up at that point. Uh but we'll get to that in a minute on the agenda. First, um, Miss K, I'd like to turn it over to you, please. Have some special recognitions tonight. This is always the best part of our meeting. We get to recognize all of you that have done some wonderful things. Uh, first, I would like to recognize two of our GC GCHS Warrior band members tonight for performing at the Illinois Education Association Allstate Festival. I would like to ask Miss Jada Brockman, assistant band director, to come up and help me with this honor. They come up to you, right? Yes.
005I'm sorry. Did you see this or are you good? Come on, guys. Is a big deal. It's a big deal, right? So, we have uh we have Connor and we have Lexi. They uh have been preparing some pretty difficult advanced high school solo pieces that kind of show off their their abilities on their instruments. They worked all summer and all fall leading up to October where they recorded themselves to be selected into the district festival where they spent a Saturday in November playing with musicians in the Metro East area and all of Southern Illinois. Their placements at that district festival qualified them for state. So they during like the last week of school with a bajillion tests and quizzes found time to put in some extra practice and re-record uh some some excerpts for placements
006in their respective uh band and orchestra at state. So the last weekend in January January we took them to Peoria where they p rehearsed all day Thursday, all night Thursday and all day Friday to put together some fantastic concerts. uh the last the last Saturday in January. And this is a huge honor for any any high school band member um to be selected for state once. The phenomenal thing about these two is they were selected all three years that they were eligible. [Applause] They definitely have a lot to be to be proud of for all of the hard work that they put in and we know that we're surely proud of them. Well, can I ask what they play? Play euphonium. Percussion. Okay. Well, we have some uh certificates for you, too. Hey, Bill, Connor,
007we're so proud. I mean, to represent us in this way is just amazing. Here we go. Great job. Couple more. I think mom's there too. Mom, you want to get in there? I got Are you senior? You are senior. I thought you were. Can you please tell the board what your plans are upon gradu? Uh, yeah. I plan to pursue profession performance for my bachelor's. Great. Well done. Great. I plan on doing mathematics and then um possibly minoring in music. Yeah. Not sure. Okay. Well, I'm sure it'll be some place where you'll impress them as as you have us. So, thank you so much. [Applause] Congratulations also to the parents because we know all the right times you've driven them to things and gone to things and stay up late right we know behind the
008scene it's a lot of work it's a lot of work so thank you so much for coming tonight really appreciate um also tonight this is a different I really I've gotten to do this one time before was one of my former students when I was a high school teacher and I got to uh help him did his Eagle Scout for certain projects that we did when I was at a different high school. So, it's my pleasure tonight to recognize three young men for achieving their Eagle Stout status. I looked some things up. Eagle Stout scout is the highest rank a young person can reach in scouting. In fact, only about 5% of all scouts who join ever reach the Eagle rank, which was pretty impressive when you think about that, right? Uh the eagle it
009is a symbol of of the United States too, but they put in here the eagle represents an understanding of community and nation and a deep respect for the same. I thought that that was a a really profound thing when they talk about an Eagle Scout. So I'd like to introduce Mr. Nick Branding, assistant scout master for Troop 80046 to help us recognize this great accomplishment that these three young men have achieved. Is he here? Oh no, that's a problem. Is there a scout master here? He's at work. Okay. Is there So, okay, I'm just going to call him up and they would talk. I want him to come tell me about their project. Okay. So, Colin Connors, come on [Applause] up. Congratulations. You want to give us a little bit of what you did for
010your project and how you achieved your Eagle Scout status? Uh for my project, I uh re I um took down and put out a brand new horse training pan at the Happy Trails Farm. Oh, wow. We uh during the project, we were able to raise over $1,000 to donate them after the project was completed. Wow, that's fantastic. You did this over what time span? Uh took say about eight months. There's a lot of work involved, right, leading up to and you have to have a certain amount of merit things and right before you can even try. So that's pretty impressive. So that the happy trails people are happy. Thank you. You want to present this with you, Connor? Yeah. He has to help me. We're going to take a couple counter. Couple more. Thank you,
011Connor. And once again, as uh remember Vinnie mentioned, thank you to the parents. We know how much effort it is for you to to help them and to guide them in this path too. Now, do you get a college scholarship or something too associated? Isn't there something Eagle Scouts can apply for as well, right, for different schools? I know that there is. I know there is things there, but we are really proud of you and thank you for representing the district so Thank you so much. [Applause] Okay. Now we have Nicholas Ross branding. [Applause] You want to tell us a little bit about your project as well? Uh back in 2009. I had a I had a sister that was still born and uh we've always been involved in this movement uh Anderson Hospital group
012for parents that have lost uh children due to stillborn and miscarriages. I've always wanted to do something in remembrance of her. I ended up going with uh a beautifification project and installing lights at the Angel of Hope at uh Anderson Hospital America. [Applause] So, who are some of the people that helped you achieve that? Uh my fellow peers uh through the through our troop and uh family family friends. That's amazing. That's really amazing. Once again, we're really proud of you. whoever. Do you want to get one close? My husband's like trying to get here. This is like the best part of the meeting, right? Like this will make all kinds of time. This is what happens when you're right. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for representing us. Great job. Congrats. [Applause] We
013can have dad take a picture of me, please. Next we have is Mr. Logan Light. I met Logan the other day. Had no idea he was my Eagle Scout person I was going to talk to tonight. Do you want to give us a little bit about your project as well? Uh yeah, my project was over at the First United Presbyterian Church over on the corner of 22nd in Delmare. It's been a very dear like place to my heart. I love everyone there to death and really I wanted to do something for them. So I helped raise a little bit of money and I reworked their nursery which was way outdated at least by 20 years. And then I helped construct a new youth worship room on top of that for them because their youth is
014lacking. Wow. What kind of stuff did you do in the nursery? Uh we took down all the old wallpaper. We installed new shelving. We painted it. We took down this nasty guard rail chair rail. He's like he could have his own show now. Fix her upper or something, you know? Right. You have a future in this. We That was just amazing. Your trip helped you as well? Yes. That's phenomenal. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. One more. Okay. Great job. We're so proud of you. Thank you so much. Congrats. Thanks to everyone. Thank you for all your accomplishments and what you do. I have a question for the Eagle Scouts. Um, how old were you when you first started scouting? Uh, me, I started back in first grade. First grade? That's
015longer than I've been married. So, congrats. How about you? I've also been in since first grade. First grade as well. Wow. In first grade, did you all start together in the same? Oh, I love that. That's the best. Great. Congratulations. I know. Really impressive on things that you took on. That's a commitment. I know. Yes, it is. Thanks so much. And it's great that you have such good scout leaders that devote their time and their energy to do that. I was a Girl Scout myself and became a senior scout. And the wonderful women that took our troop year after year, I'll never forget. Thank you. Thanks to Mr. Nathan Branding who's the assistant scout master. Is there another scout master I need to mention? Okay, that's good. I just want to let him He got
016credit. I wanted to make it. I wanted to make sure he got his name mentioned. So, thank you so much. And I just got to say to all the students here tonight, fantastic job. Thank you for representing Granite City the way you are and the high school and and just everybody else and parents. You have to be proud of them. That's just maybe they'll play their way. They should have had a little performance. I agree. Thank you, sir. Fantastic. Anybody here for public comment tonight that needed to say anything, wanted to say anything. I know Linda, you were on the thing. I just want to give opportunity here. If anybody was here, we did have one person sign up, but apparently they're not here, I guess. So, with that, Linda, I'll turn over. Okay. Well,
017thank you. Well, everything sounds so great when we have wonderful people like these gent young gentlemen coming in and telling us such work they did for our community and that's the community spirit. Uh, as a board member experiencing, as many have, these difficult and uncertain times, I remain confident in the leadership of our superintendent and those employees she has inspired at all levels in our district. Her decisions have always been carefully weighed and driven by the best interest of students, staff, and building safety and carried out in a carefully planned and orderly approach. She is a leader who is not afraid to lead. A communicator who not only is in touch with every aspect of the school district's operation, but also understands and can explain and direct each of its moving parts. Letters, videos, and
018website information explaining interruptions such as the schedule changes, the bus routes, and the e-learning days, etc. are are to keep parents and the public informed. all and I as as a board member I'm aware that all accurate information is prepared and issued only by her and is sent out at a time she has designated and only then her team has been a part of this and they are invaluable. Superintendent can encourages parents in the public to contact her office for any questions and concerns and to please leave their number so she can speak directly with them. She's eager to make herself available. The news media has always found her accessible for any interview when many other districts have not. The warmth and joy she experiences during visits with students in a building, a classroom, or
019or even during a school event are truly the most rewarding moments of her day. This is because she is grounded in her belief that all children can succeed if given encouragement, support, and respect. through years of her own personal experiences as a student and then as a highly successful and innovative educator, she knows what it takes to motivate and energize students in the classroom. Thank you, Superintendent Ken. And I needed to make this letter available to the public so that they knew how important I felt your work has been with our district, your belief in the future of our community, one successful student at a time. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. And Linda, I would add on to that she has been tremendous. Um, and really I I could have let you all
020know before this, but I I knew that uh Miss Kenogal was going to have some glowing remarks here for our superintendent. U it's tough. I will tell you for those young students who are out here today, think about those uh becoming a teacher. Think about becoming an administrator or a school board member someday. But it's tough. She's made a lot of decisions this year that you would have thought two years ago we'd have to be be in this place, right? There are a lot of distractions and she came in here before those distractions really started um with the intent and the idea of increasing the curriculum and making this a much better school system. She's done that through all these distractions and I just can't wait till we're past uh these certain things uh like
021co like a few other things that get moving forward and uh so I would echo everything you said there and she has we have her back in terms of what she's done here. So appreciate I appreciate the board being with kids is the best part of my day. Sometimes I have to escape sometimes too long. I was at the high school talked to them a long time. That is by far the best part of the job is to be able to connect with kids. Thank you. some of the other things you all and then I'm going to let you go if you but please stay if you want for the rest of the meeting. We'd really love to have you. I will tell you so Bill McMasters and I had the opportunity just before this
022meeting started to have a buildings and grounds committee. You're going to see some fantastic things uh that are now coming to fruition with construction uh improvements to the school buildings, all the school buildings across our campuses uh all across the city. And and I just uh am so pleased by that that the things that she is putting in place are moving forward now. Certainly appreciate that and appreciate your patience with getting those things moved forward. But it's it really it makes me proud as a granite city and makes me proud as a school to be getting where we are. So appreciate that nice scout master now too. I've heard he is in the building. Is he in the building? Yeah, we probably should be up and we'll come up. Our eagle scouts come forward, please.
023Yes, please. I don't have my scout master uniform. Uh yeah, the uniform you have on will do. I think it's okay. We tried. I was I was kind of stalling. Come on up, please. I'm glad you made it. Excuse my tardiness. I'm just getting off work. Well, I can I think we're okay with that. Yeah, I think so. I think I understand you said that. Okay. Thank you. Come up here. I know what they look like. Sure. She wants one. Press on. I've known these boys since they were little bitty. It's been kind of fun to watch this, right? Progression. Yes, it has been. No. Soing. Thanks, guys. Anything you want to say about them? Oh, now you're going to bump me up. I thought I through all that. You thought you were I have
024to go back and get my notes. I love you. These uh boys start out as Cub Scouts and through their long service with scouting since kindergarten basically all the way through achieving the rank of Eagle Scout has taken a long time commitment and I applaud their efforts. uh it's not an easy task, an easy path to do what they've accomplished and uh just extremely proud of them and I appreciate the opportunity for you for the school board to recognize them today. So, thank you for your efforts as well. Thank you. Thanks again. [Applause] I know you Great job, guys. Good job. Again, you all are welcome to stay. You don't have to look at this. Thank you all. Thank you so much. Don't forget your jacket. Oh, yes. I'll remember when I walk out. That's
025right. That way. Thank you. You guys can move up now, too. Just saying. We could make that a good motion and a second to do that. Next item on the agenda is approval of minutes of the meeting of February 25th, 2022. Second motion a second. Roll call, please. Vinnie, hi. Kenogal, hi. Currin, hi. None. I McMasters. Stacy. I Wilms. I uh consent agenda. You can remove anything there from the consent agenda or take it as it's presented. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Currin. Hi. None. I McMasters. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. I item 8 A resend retirement. Mr. President, the board is recommended that the following recent retirements be accepted. Brandon, special ed teacher prek and the 2122 school year. Amy, English teacher high school 21822 grade teacher and 2526 and this is the that's
026correct. Did I say that? So move second. Any discussion? Roll call. None. I McMaster. Hi. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Kenobyl. Hi. Curran. Hi Wilms. Hi. Item 8B is retirements and resations. Mr. President, the board is recommended that the following retirements and resations be accepted. The next special ed teacher prek resignation effective 12622. Stephanie Murphy, title one, ProAR professional resation effective 21722. Mission, English teacher, GCHS, resation effective 2122. Ray, case manager, administrative offices, retirement end of 2425 school year. And Carol, sixth grade teacher bricksby retirement effective end of 2122 school year. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Kenobyl. Hi. Currin. Hi. None. I Wsmire. Hi. Item 8 C. Request for leaves of absence. Mr. Mr. President, the board has recommended that the following lease be approved. Dana Simon, Language
027Arts, College Junior High School, effective 11822 to 4122. Olivia Salonic, Mitchell Professional, effective 2322 to 42822. Alex Schaw, special ed teacher, College Junior High School 13122 to 42522. Karen Kerart prayer professional effective 2722 to 522. Kevin Hian bricksby effective 122421 through 31822 Mary Wright special ed paral 41922 71222 so move second any discussion call Stacy I Vinnie Hi Kenobyl I Curran I none I McMasters Wilms I item 8 D employment of certified classified subst substitutes for the 2122 school year. Always an exciting topic. Mr. President of the board, it is recommended the following applicants be board approved as substitutes for the 2122 school year. Certified Andrew Campbell, classified Dakota Hall. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Vinnie. Hi. Kenogal. I. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Stacy. I. Wilms. I. Item eight. the employment of
028secondary science teacher at Lake School for the 2223 school year. Mr. President, the board, the interview committee is recommending Miss Jameus Shrum for the secondary science teacher at Lake School for the 223 school year. So second. Any discussion? Roll call. Kenobyl. I. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Wire. Hi. Congratulations, Miss Schro. Fantastic. Uh, item 8F, employment of science teacher at Koolage Junior High School for the 22 23 school year. Mr. President, the board, the interview committee is recommending Miss Emma Lorton for the Koolage Junior High School science teacher position for the 2223 school year. So, move like exactly the same time. Roll call, please. Uh, Curran, hi. None. I, McMasters, Stacy, I. Vinnie, hi. Kenobyl. Hi, Wilms. Hi. Item 8G, employment of English teacher at Granite City High School for the
0292122 school year. Mr. President, the board, the interview committee is recommending Andrew Campbell for the English teacher position for the GCHS 2122 school year. So, second. Congratulations, Mr. Any discussions? Roll call. None. I. McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Kenobyl. Hi. Currin. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Item 8H. Employment of special education life skills teacher at Granite City High School for the 22 23 school year. Mr. President, the board committee below is recommending Amy Ne park for the special education life skills teacher position for GCHS for the 2223 school year. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Kenobyl. I. Curran. Hi. None. I. Wsmar. I. Congratulations. Absolutely. Uh item 8 I. Employment of special education teacher at Granite City High School for the 2223 school year. Mr. President the board the
030interview committee below is recommending Andrea Keller for the special education teacher position at Granite City High School for the 22 23 school year. Second motion second. Any discussion? Roll call please. Stacy I. Vinnie I. Kenobyl I. Currin I. None. I McMasters War I. Uh item 8J, employment of fifth, sixth grade special education teacher, I'm sorry, special ed par professional at Griggsby intermed inter intermediate school for the 2122 school year. Mr. President, the board of the interview committee listed below is recommending Sarah Herren for the fifth sixth grade special education ED par professional position at Griggsby Intermediate School for the 2122 school year. Some move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Vinnie. Hi. Kenobyl. I. Curran. Hi. None. I. McMasters. Stacy. I. Wilms. I. Item 8K. Employment of Prather PreK special education teacher for the 2223 school
031year. Mr. President the board committee listed below is recommending Ashley Schaeer as the prek creator prek special education teacher for the 2223 school year. So moved there was a motion and a second in that. There's a second. I'll second. Any discussion? Roll call. Kenobyl. Hi. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi Wilms. Hi. Mr. um yes on 8 L. Do I read all that information? No. Okay. So, uh congratulations to all our teachers. I was going to say the same thing that we're getting a new crowd coming in. Some great subject areas and some great candidates. It wasn't an easy choice. I know. I talked to the interview committee and they had multiple incredible candidates. So, I mean that's wonderful to have to make it a difficult decision is what we want, right?
032So, I'm really confident in all their decisions. They went through them all, did a great job. Very good. I appreciate everybody on that that whole team there, the interview teams. That's a lot of work. Item 8 L is dismissal of first and second year probationary teachers. Below you would receive detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations on the motion below. Hold for discussion in executive session. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Kenogal. Hi. Wsmar. Hi. Item 8 M is Granite City High School Extracurricular resignations for the 2122 school year. Mr. President the board. The administration is recommending the following extracurricular resignations be accepted. Brandon Owens, GCHS, assistant girls track coach. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. None. I McMasters. Stacy.
033Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Kenobyl. Hi. Currin. Hi. War. Hi. Zack. You're getting your work out tonight. I know. Uh item 8N is Granite City High School extracurriculars for the 2122 school year and the 2223 school year. And Mr. President, the board, the Gran City High School administration along with the district administration is recommending the following applicants for the GCHS extracurriculars for the second semester of 2122. Um name uh Sheila Alexander sixhour assignment science. Jamie Pamat 6th hour assignment science. Julie Shriber six hour assignment science. Also uh the high school administration is recommending the following extracurriculars for the 223 school year. Aaron Wart, head cross country coach. Kindle Lions head football coach. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Kenogal. Hi. Curran. Hi. None. I Wsmar. I. Item 8 is elementary extracurriculars
034for the 2122 school year. Mr. President and the board. The elementary administration and district administration is recommending the following applicants for elementary extracurriculars for the second semester of the 2122 school year. They are listed below and we are recommending we are recommending approval. There's a they're mostly lunch duty which is required for supervision if that helps explain that with some of the social distancings and things we had a larger amount of lunch duties this year for grant and we did that for grant. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call. Stacy. I. Vinnie. I. Kenobyl. I. Curran. Hi. None. I. McMasters. Wsmar. I. Item 8P is employment of Koolage Junior High School secretary for the 2223 school year. Mr. President, the board the interview committee below is recommending Rachel Lu. I think that's right. The Koolage
035Junior High Secretary position for the 2223 school year. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Vinnie. Hi. Kenobyl. I. Curran. Hi. None. I. McMasters. Stacy. Hi. Wire. I. Item 8 Q. Employment of Wilson Elementary School principal for the 223 school year. I'm going to read a little more. The interview committee consisting of Stephanie K, superintendent. Kristen Natas Kaberna, director of K12 professional development curriculum. David Keel, Dr. David Ke, executive director of educational operations. Mrs. Watkins, executive director, special ed, Steve Matis, coalition and innovation coordinator, interviewed several candidates, five actually. Um, and we are recommending that Jason Baker um be hired for the Wilson Elementary principal position for the 2223 school year. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call. Kenogal I. Curin I. None. I McMasters Stacy. Hi Zinny. Hi Lun. Hi. Item nine is old
036business. We have no old business. Item 10 is new business. Granite city community unit school district 9 petition to intervene an appeal proceeding at the property tax appeal board for one gateway commerce center direct. Sounds like a lawyer. Well done. Mr. President and the board. The administration is requesting approval for the attached resolution so that the attorney Mr. can intervene at the property tax appeal board with regard to one gateway commerce drive Edwardsville if Mr. would like to speak to this or no this is the second year we've done this with this particular warehouse we already have the appraisal from last year so it's just a continuation of what's already been instituted a year ago but each year we have to intervene move second motion second any discussion and Mr. just a question so uh
037the the appraisal still is valid even though we've had rising rates and everything. We're still uh yes in fact u the warehouse attorney is using her 2020 appraisal as well. Okay. And that will save us money. Absolutely. Roll call, please. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Canobyl. I woman's fire. I item 8B is the I'm presuming that's a wide area network. I'm looking over at Talon on this one. Actually, there's a local. You can call it a W. I didn't know if it's a W or a WAN, but it's a land and a land, right? Local land. I'm going to read this, but then I'm going to let Brad speak to it. Brad Brad Smith real quickly, our tech director. So, uh, Mr. Mr. President, the board the following vendors inquired about
038bidding for the WAN. Internet bid number 422. The bid includes the internet connection and the WAN connection. There it is right there. Internet interconnections between buildings in our server room which provides fiber for the entire network. Below is the monthly cost from each vendor. A 5-year contract for both WAN and internet. Authorization is requested to award the WAN internet bid to AT&T for both WAN and internet. Selected vendor is in both gold with asterisk. Mr. Do you want to address the the different vendors? So, yes, we we had uh five different vendors um inquire about this. Um and and this is done through a a process with -ate. Um we post it online. Um that way vendors can see our RFP um as well as in the newspaper. Um so Charter, WANRA, ClearWave, AT&T and
039Bureau Fiber Networks um were the five vendors and the three uh so WAN rack, AT&T and Bureau Fiber Networks all um put bids in for the WAN uh which is a 10 gig connection. Uh this will be for five years and these are the monthly cost. Uh and then below you see the internet um charter, LANRA, clearwave, AT&T and VO fiber networks. Um most of them did not bid uh because Wanrack, Clearwave, and Vure Fiber Networks are all basically just WAN companies. Um they don't they don't really do the internet. Um some of them can, but they don't. Um, so that's that's why you only see one bid from AT&T. Charter did not bid. Um, so if there's any questions, uh, feel free. Uh, but the the WAN and internet is vital to our everyday
040operations. Uh, everything we do relies on this even more heavily now during COVID times than it has before. So, thank you, Mr. I do have a question. Yes. Um and so so I noticed that AT&T uh is who we chose for both of them um was our choice of AT&T because I noticed at the top they're not necessarily below us bidder but they are the only ones who bid internet also. Is that what kind of drove us to just take AT&T? Well we we are able to pick different vendors for u WAN and internet. Um I I will tell you there's a there was a decision matrix um that I went through as far as you know how how hard the transition would be um future pricing um and and other things that that went
041into factor um as far as picking AT&T for the for the plan. Okay. And and we are currently with AT&T as well. So the transition um it it just makes sense right now. and just dealing with different vendors down the road. Right. Well, that's and that's kind of what I was getting at. Just so a good question. People people see that not necessarily the lowest bidder, but they're the best. They're the best for the district. So, do you have did you have something? I was just Did Charter or Spectrum give you a reason as to why they didn't bid? They did not. Um I had been in communications with them for several months before the bid went out. Um, and then we we put the bid out and they were notified and they had a
042couple questions uh during the process and then they did not submit a formal bid. And uh how much of this is covered by uh so last year we were at 90%. That's that's that's a good point. Um so these costs are what we pay upfront. Um and then I apply for rate every year and we are 90% it's based upon our uh C rating. Um so at the end of the year then we get reimbursed. So basically we're paying 10% of this um after after the end of the year. So I should have Thank you for bringing that up. I should thank you Mr. Smith. Any other questions? Mr. Smith, I will tell you when I was in high school here, uh, all the words that you used in your presentation weren't even thought of
043it. Very younger than me. Oh my gosh. Throw that in there. Amazing technology. Okay. Uh, so we have a motion. So move. I was excited once I heard the word matrix. Good movie. Second. Any other discussions? Roll call, please. Uh, none. I, McMasters. I Stacy I Vinnie I Kenogal I Curran I uh item 10 C ARP idea consolidation grant yes Mr. President the board the administration is requesting to accept the following grant pending Illinois State Board of Education approval and to proceed with any necessary amendments. Sometimes we get things backed uh it's the American Rescue Plan IDEA consolidated grant. Miss Watkins, can you tell me again what IDE stands? I'm sorry. Can you say IDEDA? I don't remember what it's individuals with disabilities education act. Thank you. So, the program provides supplemental funds to ensure
044that all children with disabilities ages 3 through 21 receive a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment. Funds are used to support salaries or staff that provide services or special education students. This may also include teachers, aids, administrative staff, and other personnel such as social workers, psychologists, physical therapist, training, specialized instructions, and also instructional supplies, materials, and equipment. It helps the district immensely. So move second motion on a second. Any discussion and it looks like $65,000 roughly and we will pay a proportionate share of that. What it is is um sorry, the money is on top of uh the grant that we already received there. It's an additional allocation. Um where it says proportionate proportionate share that is the amount of money that we are um allotting to the parochial schools and
045for um our out of district students for that. Um so we have some additional money on top of that we need to spend on our additional grants. So, we're looking at um doing some construction and some ADA um making some things more ABA compliant with some of those dollars. Wonderful. I know it's been she's really done a great job, I think, with trying to find ways to improve conditions for students potentially disabilities and being able to utilize the grant. We appreciate your work on it. Roll call, please. McMasters. Hi. Stacy, hi. Vinnie, hi Kenogal. I Curran. Hi. None. I WMAR. Hi. Item 8 D. Continue the HBAC. That's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. Replacement project at Griggsby Intermediate School. He's on. Mr. President, the board. The following tabulation is for the HVAC. Replacement projected project
046at Griggsby Intermediate School. I'm gonna turn this over to Eric Smith, our facilities director. Mr. Smith. Give him a second. You have the information below, Mr. Smith. Well, there are Senpro Services, the base bids, Midwest Service Group, and Thornberg. Those were base bids for the Greensby Intermediate School for all the HVAC um replacement. Uh the cost estimate with air sampling and consultant services from environmental consultants LLC along with the base bid from Thornboro is 16540448. Um we'd like to award the bid to Thorn to proceed. They also recommended that group by the environmental consultants group which are experts in that field. So they will be overseeing that project as well. It's really second. Any discussion? Roll call. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Kenogal. Hi. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Wumzar. I. Item 10. E. School resource
047officer for Sorry, I had to ask a question for Mr. President. The administration is recommending entering into an interative intergovernmental agreement with the city of city for the participant of a student resource officer at foolish junior high school. This agreement would be identical to the SRO agreement with the district currently in place at the Granite City High School Lake School and the same with the Grizzby dare. It's not really dable officer chief school business official Mr. Zach has confirmed funding is available to enter into this agreement. The city has also advocated for willingness to participate in the agreement as well as well as the grants of the police department too. We are very grateful to their assistance. So, Second motion on a second. Yeah, it's a Talon. Any discussion? And I think we had this
048before. This is putting this back in place. Yes, it's cuts. I was the last one. He was the last one. See, closed it out. I did. It couldn't get any better. So, we just said, "Oh, yeah. It's kind it's we're looking for someone also, not just a social emotional support for those students as well. We're not just there for someone to patrol around. It's all about helping with those children, too. So, have to remember to be Mr. Stacy coming classroom talking um giving out information about other questions that aren't taught in the classroom and definitely as a role model in the school to look to. Thank you, Max. That was so nice. Thank you, Max. That was a great thing to say. Very nice. I think we had a motion. Second. Roll call, please. Vinnie,
049I. Kenobyl. I. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Stacy. Hi. Wumsmire. I. Item 10F is a curriculum committee report. Um, it sort of got misplaced a little bit. It's actually this is only an information item only, but it's good that it's listed here. So the curriculum committee is recommending they had a commit the curriculum committee report. Do you want to like speak a little bit to this? Curriculum committee meets twice a year and so this was one of our meetings for the year and so this is information for you to just know where we are and so I provided in your packet you should have received everything that we discussed at the meeting. So you are just up to date on everything that we're doing currently. Um, and if you have any questions, I'll be happy
050to answer. So, it's just really a report for you to see what is going on. Um, kind of a bird's idea of what's current. How many are on that committee? There are 14 for what's to come. Preview what's to come. Mr. We're doing a little he's doing a little research on potentially some how it looks for um what's wrong with extra classes. Extra no electives. Electives. Thank you. I have all these things in my head. He's looking into electives and and actually getting student inputs. We're going to have that presentation coming up and he's diving into the data. I think it's going to be really interesting to see maybe he'll be talking with his logistics. preview sneak peek and he's been very thorough about it. Oh, it's been fun. We've been meeting we've been meeting
051a little bit about Has there ever been any thought to having a a student? I don't know if there already is, but a student as a permanent member of the curriculum committee. I like that idea, Miss at least like maybe start for each year for senior senior or maybe a junior. Yeah. I like that thought. Anyone? Yeah, I'll be just a comment. As a high school teacher, I'm very excited to see offerings that are opening up at the high school. Very very expanding. That's great. They're definitely putting um their coursework on paper so you can see what's going on. Awesome. So, no action on that. No, sorry. [Laughter] Got a break. Yeah, I can do it anyway. Uh item 11, reports and other communications. That would be item A is foyer. That is correct. Instead
052of going through all these, I'll clear some time. There were 12 foyer requests made to the district dating from January 24th through February 11th. They were all handled by administration and in particular Mr. Chris Mitchell and Mr. Tomy who's not administration, but we really appreciate all your hard work. Uh, thank you very much. I know they can be very timeconuming. Oh my goodness. Foya is freedom of information request. That is terrific. blaring your acronyms. I know. Uh item 11B, grant city. Well, actually, so we have the rest of the items there. Activity fund statement from January 2022. Uh the bank reconciliation statement from the same month, the memorial fund statement, and the activity account statements, all from January 2022. there for your and with that brings us up to approval of the executive session. We
053don't have executive session. How about that? I know. Good night. I know. What all are you going to do with your extra time today? Uh approval of the executive session minutes of January 25th, 2022. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. McMasters. Hi Stacy. Hi Vinnie. Hi Kenogal. Hi Curran. Hi Nun. I WMA. Hi. Setting the of the agenda for the next regular board meeting which will be held on March 22nd 2022. 22. It's the 22nd. February. Nothing at all. burning. We are buddies tomorrow. Tomorrow weather a weekly tradition every anything else to bring to the board. We'll let you all get out of here. Uh we motion to adjourn. So move. Second. All in favor? I I time is 6:53 p.m.