001Oh man, I feel bad. She Oh goodness. Um Cy, do you want to maybe see if Billy could get a few more? Maybe not. You hold on. I might send um Hey Brad, would you mind really quick looking for Billy and see if we could grab a couple more chairs if there are any? Hi Mr. Depw. And look who's the last ones in play. It's just me and Larry's trying. We're trying to find chairs. We're trying to find chairs. Well, as soon as I get those acoustic panels, the gym seem [Music] That's what I miss. Do we find any more? Probably hard to decide. You want to do some [Music] last year? Well, from one year right there'll be here. Can I ask They do well. Definitely not. Mr. Can I ask you a super
002fast question? Super fast. Thought they were If I don't miss the three [Music] days, too. Okay, we'll call the Granite City School Board meeting of March 22nd, 2022 to order. Roll call, please. Mr. None. Stacy, here. Vinnie, here. Canal here. Curran here. None here. McMaster here and Forbes here. Thank you very much. Uh, first item on the agenda is pledge of allegiance followed by an invocation by pastor William Hail with St. John's Lutheran Church. If you'd please stand for me. 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. [Music] A little here. This is the This is the microphone. Why is it red? I moved it. It's red now. Sorry. middle one maybe. I think
003so. No, it didn't. Mr. Parker, can you hear us? We apologize. Sorry, Panther. [Music] Magic touch. I thought he said, "Can you hear us?" Yeah. You really have a connection. Yeah. Hold on. I apologize. You ready, Chris? Yeah. A reading from the Holy Word, the book of James, chapter 1, verse 5. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without fault, and it will be given to you. Loving and gracious God, giver of all good gifts, we approach you this evening with gratitude for the blessings you have bestowed and your grace upon these members of the school board of Granite City. Oh Lord, you know the difficulties and the troubles that have faced our schools these last several years. So we seek today your blessed gifts. Our prayer
004this evening is for your continued blessing and grant of wisdom, guidance, courage, and strength for each of them here today. And may by your gracious gift they be wise in the decisions they are make making here tonight. Grant them insight to lead with integrity that their decisions may reflect all that is right and good for the schools in this community. Grant them the grace to speak softly and to come to unity in all decisions to be discussed tonight. We thank you Lord for your presence here today and the gifts that you are giving in abundance. Keep all of them in your gracious hands. We ask this in the name of our almighty and gracious God. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you very much, pastor. Very nice. Mr. Parker, can you hear us? Okay, I can
005hear you, Chris. We still got That's good. All right, at this time, we'll open it up for public comment. Did we have anyone signed up ahead of time? Hello. Is there anyone here who needed to say anything before we get on to presentations of some wonderful students tonight? And thank you all for being here. I appreciate that. It's great to have a packed house. All right, with that, Miss K, I will turn it over to you for recognizing some students. Okay, this is the best part of this job, right? Very best for all of us. Okay, we are going to start tonight with recognition of some great city high school wrestlers and their coach uh who qualified for the IHSA state tournament. Uh coach Vinnie, do you want to come up as well? I also
006have coach uh coach Thompson, Coach Warfield also. Oh, can I bring them as well? I knew he was here, right? These uh I don't know how much you know of if your kids don't play on a sport or something that coaches give so much of themselves to help our students every day and it really makes a difference in in what the turnout is and how much they care about those kids. Thank you so much for all of your dedication to want to make sure I [Applause] So, it's kind of exciting that we have three high school wrestlers who qualify for the Illinois High School Association state tournament. I want to start with um a sophomore who is the first IHSA girls state qualifier in Grand City High School history. here. We are so incredibly proud
007of you. Um, great work. I know it had to be especially hard and we are thrilled to be able to well done. So, we'll see how we also have not nonetheless here we have incredible guys. Brendan Rail, I didn't want to say it incorrectly. Freshman uh state qualifier. We actually had the privilege of being in school here when Coach Smitty was coaching. So, uh he was an amazing man as well. So, great job. We're so proud of you. Thank you. Uh we also have last but not least, uh junior Dylan Boyd. This is just a It was a great year. Uh I went to a couple wrestling meets. It was really fun to watch and uh I even got one of my other former students as a coach at Collinsville, too. Got to see him
008that night. So, I'm just really proud that they're representing us so well. We have such great coaches. So, another round of applause. You guys want to come together? All right, here we go. We'll take a couple and then the parents can shoot away. Any parents want to take some photos? I got them. You should smile. I just got a board member insisted. All right, here we go. [Music] here. Face ID. What's his code? All right, here we go. [Applause] Thank you. Chinese. So, next uh um I we're going to talk about the recognition of the Grand City High School seniors that were awarded the um the Illinois State Scholar. They they achieve this by a combination of their class rank and their SAT score. We're thrilled to be able to have to be able to
009honor this many of them. Uh it's really exciting that we have this big list of of kids and we tried we just really wanted to make sure this year after everything we've gone through that we recognize the diligence, the hard work of all these kids. So I'm going to start reading and you can come up and get your your award, okay, your recognition. So I'm going to start with I think he might not be here but Griffin James. So, I want to make sure that we go ahead and clap. You guys I think these are all the people that aren't here, but we'll start with that. Uh Kayen Hibbitz, I think Connor Brewer. [Applause] Oh, Conor's here. And I was going to be able to do I apologize. We ran right over you. Okay. Well,
010come over here. Nice job. Congratulations. And stand that way and look at the camera. You know, you have to have the camera. Good job. Well done. Okay, I'm going to try with Mahir Baka. Did I say that right? Yes. Good job. We have Andrew Burge, Jason Connelly. [Applause] Okay. Sierra Cooper. [Applause] [Music] Congratulations. I'm so proud of you. Thank you so much. You got your your certificate. Thank you so much. Drake Crider. Oh, I need to stop telling us. Yeah, look at this one. Look right here. Mom and dad, [Applause] Brendan Eid, thank you so much. I feel proud of you. There's mom back there. Mom smiling. I think we're good. [Applause] Jonas Etcherson. [Applause] Thank you. I supposed to look back there. Yeah. It's like posing. It's sort of like the show. This reminds
011me of my high school teaching in school days, right? Of all these school awards I get together. Um, I do believe we know this man, Maxwell Forbes. Max is our student school board member. If any of you don't know that. So he's everyone. He's great. Mom and dad. Oh, Ann. I made that. Where's mom? There's Oh, yeah. I get you too confused [Applause] on Abigail Hadex. [Applause] There you go. I know. Now I have to do this. Is there somebody there? I should be smiling. Okay. Okay. Okay. Lexi Coons. [Applause] Okay. You know it. Okay. Thank you. Super Logan Light. [Applause] pictures. There you go. There you go. [Applause] Congratulations, Lily Reiki. I think [Applause] was great looking. No, that way. Well done. Alice to panic. [Applause] There we go. Dennis, I'm just I'm cropping
012cropping Dennis out there. Please over here. Oh, mom. Okay, mom. [Applause] Jaden Wing. Did I say Are we in the right spot? Mhm. Do we need to look that way? Y. Last but not least, Maina [Applause] Woods. I'm so proud. [Applause] all the hard work and the families who support them too. I [Applause] really Dr. Stacey Millet the high school has done a great job kind of helping with this and organizing the state scholars. I want to give her a hand too. She is really really uh a big proponent and supporter of all this. I just have um a couple more I want to talk about. When I was uh on break last week, u got some information from social media someone sent to me about one of our students at Koolage Junior High. Uh
013Ruben Murphy, are you a seventh or eighth grader? Eth grader at Koolage. I'm going to read this and you tell me if it's okay. Right. Okay. He pretty much uh is a super student. Okay. He ran into action when he was needed. He heard a man saying that he needed help and he didn't hesitate. He went to see where that was coming from, found the man, called 911. He had fallen off his ladder. He helped uh the man was bleeding. He helped put a tourniquet on, stayed with the man until the EMTs got there. Pretty much made a huge difference in the recovery of this man. And I really felt it was important that we recognized that kind of heroism and and care uh in our community. You see, you want to come on. [Applause]
014in this time when everybody wants to complain and about things not going well, negativity, it's just such an honor to be able to present something like that to a student who really just sprung into action. I'm just so proud. So, I just wanted to say that. So, thank you, Ruben. Um I I unfortunately tonight our hockey team is unavailable as is the next meeting and we're probably going to have some kind of virtual presentation, but I really wanted to say a little bit about them winning uh their thing. I'm just going to read kind of what I have because I didn't want to mess anything up, right? Um, the Grand City Warriors box Varsity Hockey Club won the Mississippi Valley Club Hockey Association Championship on Monday, February 28, 2022. I was there. It was exciting.
015It was very exciting. It was. They finished their season with a record of 211 and two. The Warriors hockey club is led by head coach Darren Kimble and assistant coach Kyle Watson. Four of the varsity players were part of the all-star team as well. Michael Atkins, goalie. Lawson Kimble, forward. Bobby Scott, forward. And Ethan Kenel, defense. Is that right? They just have abbreviations. I think I did that wrong. Just is designing their championship rings as we speak. It's pretty cool. Superintendent Oh, was it? Oh, it's on here. Superintendent Cam was in attendance, but I already told you that. The final game was a battle with a close with a close score, and there were no hat-ticks. Um, I do know that that means three goals. I don't know who typed this, but I I do
016know what that means because they were making fun of me earlier. Assistant coach K Watson won the championship under Darren in 1999, which is really cool. So, he's finally getting his ring. So, that makes it even more special. So, um there's uh I think that you know the the Drake Parker was on the team. We're just really proud of the whole hockey team and being there. I watched a couple games out of our ring too, but I just wanted to give them a hand even though we couldn't everyone tonight. Absolutely. Fine, kids. Okay. Well, thank thanks everyone for being here and for this occasion. It's great to be able to have these positive meetings, be able to, you know, to support our kids and and affirm them in such a way. So, thank you so
017much for being here. And I have been challenged by a fellow board member to see how many of you I can get to stay the rest of the meeting. So I want to let all the students know, all the recognized tonight, that you have won a free ticket to stay the rest of the evening if you'd like to. He's kidding. I feel responsible to say that. Okay. I feel like I should tell them that, right? You know, but it is totally your uh prerogative if you want to get up and leave. You won't offend us in any way. your homework. That's right. [Music] How are you? I like He looks the same. He's going to sit here back this year. She's got a great Hi, Don. How are you? Good. How are you? Hi. Hi,
018good. Thanks, guys. Jesse learned out of the house. Yeah, really. Okay, I'll call you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Back to business. I saw that growing up on back at it here. Next item on the agenda is approval of minutes from the February 22nd, 2022 meeting. So move second. Motion on a second. Roll call, please. A Noble I. Karen I. None. I Stacey. I. Vinnie. I. I. Uh. Next item number six is consent agenda and we're happy to move any of those items off the consent agenda and talk about them individually. Otherwise, I would accept a motion for approval of the consent agenda. Second. You got who that was? I didn't. It's kind of hard. It was Dr. McMasters and Tal. Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Current. Hi. None. I McMasters. Stacy. I Vinnie. I
019Item eight, recommendations and communications. Uh item 8A, rescend retirements. Mr. President of the board, it is recommended that the following retirements and resignations be rescended. Michael Testerman, Physician Crafts Administrative Offices, uh reason resention and effective 73123. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Canal. Hi. Curran. I I item 8B, retirements and resignations. The administration recommends that the following retirements and resignations be accepted. Kietta Miller, Cafeteria Griggsby, resignation effective 22322. Robert Gregonis, STEM teacher, Kulage Junior High School, resignation effective the 21 the end of the 2122 school year. Darren Mayhal, fourth grade teacher, Froart, retirement not until the end of 2627 school year. Thank goodness. Um, Michael Testerman, crafts and administrative offices, retirement effective 7622. And Teresa Copper, also uh, monitor at ESS Lake retirement the end of
0202526 school year. Not for a while, still too. So, so move second. Stacy. Yes. Any discussion? Roll call. McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Kenobyl. Hi. Curran. Hi. None. I Wilsmire I. Item 8 C request for leaves of absence. It is recommended that the following requests for leaves of absence be approved. Austin Pelazari, custodian at Griggsby, effective 21522 to 321-22. Megan Brooks, social worker at Griggsby 4522 to 628-22. David Wright, custodian, GCHS, effective 22822 to 52322. Sherry Lamb, Secretary Administrative offices, effective 31422 to 6622. John Bich, custodian Coolage, effective 31622 to 7222. Salute. Second. Is that Eric? Thank you. He's going to get That's right. Like a bidding. Got a motion and a second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Stacy, I. Penny I Curran I none I McMasters I item 8 D requests for extension
021to leaves of absence. The administration is recommending that the following requests for extensions to leaves of Athens be approved. Cheryl Murelli.