001Granite City School Board to order for June 28th, 2022. Roll call, please. Stacey here. Vinnie here. Here. Currin here. None here. McMasters here. All right. Wilms here. Let's rise for the pledge of allegiance followed by the invocation given tonight by Don Harris. I aliance 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. Thank you. Bow your heads with me, please. Heavenly Father, we just thank you for this this wonderful weather you've given us these last few days. Lord, I just pray that you've been with all the staff and students as summer school comes to a close. I thank you for watching them and their families, keeping everyone safe. Lord, I just pray for the students that
002are here tonight that we honor them and we show them our appreciation what they've done and the accomplishments that they've had. Lord, just please be with the business that's being done here tonight. Have your hand upon it and just watch over us in this upcoming Fourth of July. It's in your precious name that I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. It was like that was planned for a phenomenal job. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Uh any public comment tonight? Anybody here? Members of the public that want a comment? Okay, very good. And with that, we will move on to some really special recognitions tonight. Excited about zoom right up. I'm going to go right over here and I have it all. I love this part of the meeting. It's the best part. Okay.
003So, we are going to start with a recognition of our 2022 uh Granite City, Illinois Salis Post Dispatch Scholar athlete, Miss Ellis Stanic. Ella maintained a 5.6 GPA. That's incredible. While being a standout athlete on the volleyball, basketball, and softball team, she was also recognized on May 11, uh, 2022 at Bush Stadium, which I kind of want to hear about because you missed something else, right? You were went to that and there was something that night. Secondary honors something NHS. NHS. That's right. And I was like, but I mean, you were at Bush Stadium, right? I mean, that's pretty cool. So, I want you to come on up, Ella. There was a great article I know it's on our uh website on Ella that was uh put out. It was amazing. Look at that picture
004too. So the fact that do you don't you uh do you do any kind of work too on top of this? Like I do not know. I don't know how you could I'm just saying. So are you going to come over here? So uh we wanted to just recognize you as well through the board of education because when you have students like this that represent this level of commitment and dedication not only to academics but to sports. So, I just want to make sure that we hand it to you. I'm really proud of you. [Applause] Stephanie. Yes. Ellen, please tell us what our plans are in the future. Oh, yeah. That would be a great I know that I should ask you to tell it. Want to tell us what you're going to be doing?
005I haven't decided on a major yet, but I'm going to attend SA. You can do anything you want. Do you have any interest though? Which label area science, but I haven't narrowed it down yet. Don't do you. Wait till you figure out what you want to do. That's a good plan. Well, congratulations. Thank you. Also, we have a recognition of Grand City High School student Emily Sykes for her top 10 finish in the shot put at the IHSA indoor and outdoor stage tournaments. Miss Sykes placed third in the indoor tournament and seventh in the outdoor tournament. We are so proud of you. So come on up. We have been to a lot of indoor track meets, but I don't remember seeing shot put. So like where exactly do they do that at the indoor? They
006do it like in the middle of the track usually. Oh, are there people around like in case something goes crazy and get shot a little bit? I mean, is that ever a problem? Have you ever seen them do it? Good. That's good to know. We're really proud of you. Thank you. Great job. Great job everyone. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] That's pretty amazing. Okay. And now this is exciting. We have three Coolage Junior High School students um that finished uh at the IESA state tournament and went to the state tournament which is really cool all by itself. So, I really want to make sure that we recognize them tonight. We always hear about high school students. I don't think often we get to see what our junior high athletes are doing. So, I think it's really important.
007So, I need Landon Harris to come on up. Second in state in the mile, right? Okay. Antonio Dean, come on up. Fourth in state and high jump. And that is and Chloe Allen second in the state in hurdles. Is Chloe here? Hurdles are scary to watch. I always feel like you're going to fall. Every time you go over a hurdle, it makes me nervous. So, let's get your your very excited for you. Landon, there's yours. Antonio, here's yours. And let's smile for the camera now. Now you're smiling. That's fine. We can't wait to see what you do in the future. Okay. And is did uh Miss Mertz come tonight? No. Well, I have to talk about this because it's really cool. So, Miss Kim Antonovich Merch, who teaches at Mitchell, she is I think for
008if I'm not mistaken 18 years, she's been our green school coordinator, which is amazing. Um, this last year in a competition with Madison County Schools, they recycled 140 pounds of plastic bags, 393 pounds of soda tabs, amongst a lot more paper in that recycling, which we had would not have done otherwise. Um, even now they're looking at charging us for recycling, which is crazy. Um, that's why we kind of went to the bottle refillers and stuff, not just COVID, but to help with this. But she has really given her all and been a part of this Madison County competition for that many years. 2004 I think she started with the recycling. Um so she won the Madison County Green School Coordinator of the Year. So it really is a big deal. Um I already told
009her great job, but I just going to hold it up because I'm really proud of her and all the work she's done for this long. So good job Missovich Mertz really dedicated. I know that um Allison Downing also was recognized this year uh at Madison County. both at Mitchell for doing some tree planting and some birdhouses, which also I think is they just go above and beyond. So, I just wanted to make sure they got recognition. So, I think we're good. Uh, thanks everybody. Great job. Well done, Miss K. Thank you so much. I welcome and encourage all of you to remain for the rest of the meeting. Um, you can learn about being a school board member, about what it means to give back to your community, about what it means to to give
010a lot of your time without getting paid. Um, so you're you're welcome to stay, but I understand if all of you have something or Yeah, I understand if you all have something else to do. Give you a minute for those who'd love to go ahead and leave. We did it. [Music] Great job, guys. Where did they all go? I know how close it Mr. Thank you. Kind of. Now I'm in the front row and all the back row kids. It's like donut chair. It is our class, right? You know how Yes. Okay. So, uh minutes we have minutes from the April 26, 2022 board meeting were approved. So, move second. Motion in a second. Any discussion? Roll call. Vinnie, I can I Currin. Currin. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacey. Hi. And I uh consent
011agenda. We have a treasure report, bill list, and gifts. Um and I'm happy to pull any of those out and talk about them separately, but I know you want to say something about one of the gifts. I'd just like to to talk about the uh the pilot company. Um they run the Flying J. Um it's not just a gas station. This is amazing place uh over in Ponchoon Beach and they award local school districts. They have a program uh through their company that they help local school districts make grants. Um they awarded us a $5,000 grant to use towards like STEM technology or things like that. When I accepted that, I made sure to tell uh Tanya, Miss Tanya Green, that we are very appreciative that we have this new program at Coolage. We have
012two new STEM classes. She goes, "Well, let me get back to you." And then we found out that they were able to give us another $5,000. So, we $10,000 from the pilot company to use towards our new STEM program. So, I just and I asked them to be here tonight, but they're out of Tennessee. Couldn't get here. But, I think they're going to have a remodeling reopening out of the Flying J, I think, in September. And I think we'll go out and, you know, be there for that and and and thank them again in person. But I just think to have people, those kind of community sponsors who are willing to help the kids in the area where they have their business is just really cool. So I just wanted to thank you. [Applause] Uh
013so any items that you want to pull out, we certainly can. Otherwise, I will be happy to entertain a motion for approval of the consent agenda. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. No. I current none. I McMasters. I. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Hi. Um item 8A, retirements and resignations. Uh Mr. President of the board, it is recommended that the following retirements and resignations be accepted. Monica Brooks, special ed teacher. um retirement effective 9122. Uh Jada Baker, title one pair of professional throwart um effective 526 2022. Paige Evansson deaf interpreter parapro resignation end of 2122. Cara Urosti fifth grade teacher Griggsby as of 52622. Leila Matn kindergarten teacher Prather effective 53122. Rachel Bill, Secretary Kulage, effective 61022. And Christrista Griffith, kindergarten teacher Prather. Um, effective 61622. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Current. Hi.
014None. I Masters. Hi. Stacy. I. Penny. Hi. Canal. I. I. Item 8B. Request for leads of absence. Mr. President, the board has recommended the following request for lease of absences be approved. William Fim, custodian, Granite City High School, effective 51822 to 81022. Bonnie Swanson, first grade teacher, effective 81722 to 1323. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. None. I. McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I. Vinnie. I. Kenogal. I current I item 8 C extracurricular resignations for the 2223 school year. The administration is recommending the following extracurricular resignations be accepted for the 2223 school year. Aaron Wartz, GCHS head girls track coach and Gerard Moore, GCHS assistant boys track coach. So moved. Second. Motion second. Any discussion? Mr. school. Is it okay if I just ask for acclamation by all those voting I instead of roll call on
015each one of these? Well, because it does deal with money. People will not be paid. We do need a roll call. Okay. Thank you, sir. Roll call, please. McMasters. Hi, Stacey. I Vinnie, I can I Curran. Hi. None. I WSME. Hi. Item 8 D. Extracurricular assignments for the Koolage Junior High School for the 22 23 school year. Koolage Junior High School administration and the district administration is recommending the following extracurriculars for the 2223 school year. Chuck Nau for the rise up theater position at Koolage. Corey Bird, assistant football coach at Koolage. Jake Gregerson, assistant wrestling coach at Coolage. And Josh Palmer, yearbook adviser at Koolage. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Stacey. Hi, Vinnie. Hi, Kenobyl. Hi, Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Wire. Hi. Item 8E, extracurricular assignments for Granite City High
016School for the 223 school year. I'll run through these. The district and Gran City High School administration is recommending the following for the 2223 school year. Tom Miller, head boys track coach. Earl Clark, assistant girls track coach. Jake Janick, assistant floater track coach. Uh, Rafie Caribbean, head boys tennis coach. Justin Warren, head boys volleyball coach. Ginger Harrison, assistant boys volleyball coach. Ken Prasma, head girls soccer coach. Mary Grody, assistant girls soccer coach. Tim Henson, assistant girls soccer coach. Scott Smallley, head baseball coach. Jeff Rnar, assistant baseball coach. Mark Wilson, assistant baseball coach. Brandon Robinson, assistant baseball coach. Mike Bryant, assistant baseball coach. Tim Wilson, head softball coach. Okay. Ed Connelly, assistant softball coach. Bill Peasy, Bill Carpenter, and are also assistant softball coaches. Damon Dukes, assistant football coach, and Kendall Lions, assistant boys track coach.
017We appreciate all of their time and extracurricular. Second. Any discussion? I do. Okay. I have a question. Yes. Uh at the end of last year, we talked about and maybe they just it just hasn't happened yet, but we talked about possibly bringing back the assistant coaches for the tennis team and the golf team. So, is that I mean, is that something that we're working towards or uh am I just not seeing it yet? You know what I mean? There has been mention of that and we have looked into it. I think mostly we're trying to figure out if some of the other ones if they need as many because they don't they only have one person. So that's what I mean. They only have one. It's a safety issue I think. And so that is
018something that Mr. Parker and I have discussed like really recently. So I think that that's definitely um in the works for that. Okay. And then not to show nepotism, but with the emergence of girls wrestling that's become a little bit of a problem if you only have so many coaches because you have different um sorry let me correct myself. The emergence of girl wrestling is not a problem. the staffing, but the staffing numbers becomes an issue because I mean I personally volunteered and went over and I chaperoned a trip just because they needed a chapel or else they the girls couldn't have gone just qualify for state. Oh wow. So even if we have somebody who's available to do that. Yeah. Just Yeah. That's good because no one as the program grows. That's a good
019point. Yeah. Yeah. Because I think they sent three more girls for which is really exciting. Have to thank you for that. Not to get something for my husband. No, no, no. It's for the girls though. for title. That's something we have just discussed. It's just a matter of cost where it goes. But I think with the tennis and the golf, uh Eric makes a great point. You know, nowadays if something happens, you're over you take your team and leave or whatever. And so that's something and then there's so many other ones we need to so we're reevaluating looking at maybe some of the numbers of that and maybe because I think it's very important that they feel like they have someone with them. So we in fact I think we had this what's today? Tuesday
020I think Friday we had this discussion. I forget what day is it. So yeah I think we'll definitely see something um related to that July meeting. Okay. Okay. Thanks for bringing that up. Thank you for that. We do have a motion on a second I believe. Correct. Yes. Okay. Roll call please. Vinnie I. Kenobyl I. Currin I. None. I McMasters I. Stacy I. Plums. Hi. Item 8F, extracurricular assignments for the element for elementary for the 22 23 school year. We are recommending the following extracurricular for the 22 23 school year. Um, it's independent reading program at Wilson. It's Miss Katherine Delmore. So moved. Second. Motion to second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Iran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. I I item 8G certified and classified substitutes. We recommend the following applicant uh
021the board approved a substitute for the 21 should be 22. Elizabeth Darling uh for certified substitute. So move second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. It was 2122 for summer school then. I I suppose I apologize. Oh, so this was summer school, right? They'll have to reapply for Okay, thank you for that. Item 8H, employment for the 2223 school year. The administration is um we're requesting approval for the appointment of a new labor for the 222 school year. We do work through the laborers hall for these. They work well with us trying to find a good fit. So, um Mike Testerman is retiring July 5th. Um we contacted the business agent the laborers hall sent Jordan Asins. He has been a substant training with the district for approximately two months. We
022have spoken to the crafts personnel and they have been pleased with his performance. So, we are proposing an effective start date of July 6, 2022. So, move second. Motion second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Kenogal. Hi. Curran. Hi. Hi. Item 8, H2, district custodian. Uh, administration is seeking approval uh for the employment of Jacob Williams as a Wilson school custodian. There was an interview committee of Jim Parker, Eric Smith, and Jason Baker. Um they they all went him for the back position still in that building. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Kenoval. I. Curran. Hi. None. I item three is the sixth grade instructional resource special education teacher. The interview committee consisting of Mickey Watkins, Steve Matis, and Jody Batson
023held interviews uh for the 2223 school year. Uh the administration is recommending Morris Swift for the special education teacher position for the 2223 school year. So moved. Second motion to second. Any discussion? Roll call. Stacy I. Vinnie I. Kenobyl I. Currin I. None. I McMasters I. Item H4 is uh Koolage Junior High School secretary. The interview committee consisting of Dere Sherry Lamb, Mickey Watkins, and Steve Matthysse requests board approval for the following applicant to serve as Koolage Junior High Secretary for the 2223 school year pending the submission required paperwork for uh they are recommending Don Limon. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call. Denny I. Kenoval. I Currin. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi Stacy. Hi. WA. I item H5 special education records secretary. The interview committee consisting of Darren Dew, Sher Lamb, Mickey Watkins, and
024Steve Matthysse respectfully request board approval for the following applicant to serve as special ed transportation medical records secretary for the 22 23 school year pending the submission of the paperwork. Uh we are recommending Miss Lisa Dean. Summit. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Canobyl. I. Curran. I. None. I. McMasters. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. BMI. Hi. Item H6. Granite City High School registar secretary. The interview committee consisting of Darren Dew, Sharon Lamb, Mickey Watkins, and Steve Matthysse respectfully request board approval for the following applicant to serve as the high school register secretary for 2223 school year pending the submission and required paperwork. The administration is recommending Jennifer Senberg. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Curin. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I Benny. Hi, Kenobyl. Hi, Bonai. Hi. Item H7, Griggsby, fifth grade teacher. The interview committee consisting of
025Jody Batson, Mickey Watkins, and Steve Matthysse, respectfully request board approval for the following applicant to serve as fifth grade teacher at Griggsby Intermediate School for the 223 school year pending the final submission and required paperwork. Administration is recommending Mr. Robert Demer. So move. Any discussion? Roll call. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Kenogal. Hi. Currin. Hi. Holmes. Hi. Item H8. Prair kindergarten teacher. The interview committee consisting of David Keel, Kristen Kverna, Nikki Watkins, and Jeannie Bratton respectfully request board approval for the following applicant to serve as kindergarten teacher for the 2223 school year pending the final submission of paperwork. Uh, administration is recommending Ashley Kerford. So move second. Motion a second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Penogle. Hi. Currin. Hi. None. I Wilms. Hi. Item H9. Vocational
026educational vocational education student and district safety coordinator. Um, I know you have received, Mr. President Bo, you received detailed information below about this item. Administration is prepared to make recommendations or to hold an executive session. The new administrative position will be dedicated to both our district vocational CTE program as well as developing a district-wide student safety process. Um, we are recommending Mr. Tom Tim Moran for this position. So, move second. I'll get to like figure out first, right? Any discussion? Roll call, please. Stacy, I. Vinnie, I. Kenogal. Hi. Curran. Hi. None. I. McMasters. Hi. Hi. Item 8 I, easy CBM benchmark and progress monitoring assessment. You're going to tell us all about CBM. I'm pretty excited about this actually. Um uh and Mickey can tell us probably more, but the authoration is requested for the
027purchase of ECCBM progress monitoring assessment and learning management system. I I think what's important about it, it's a researchbased learning intervention that gives us more data, more data points for us to help assess these kids throughout the year, not just like a test here and a test there. Mickey, do you want to say your input about you see how many? Yes, we can use it with benchmarking three times a year, but they can also do weekly progress monitoring. They can It's curriculum based measurements. So they can pinpoint, run reports, find out where the students are struggling with what specific area and then it'll give us more information to help us make our decisions on driving instruction and and interventions that need to be put in place. It'll also be used um as part of the
028triangulated data that we need for the special education referral process. Right? We're trying to pinpoint that and have a little more data for those those types of things. in Riverside Insights is the company through the program's purchase. The cost of the program for 3,500 students in grades K8 is 24,300, but we have the option of adding more students as the need arises. Additional cost would be 680 per student. Um, funding is provided through the CARES grant. Approval is recommended. Is that 100% funded through? Yes, it is. Plus, it's it's just something I think that we needed for a long time. I'm happy that we could put it there, but I do believe curriculum and benchmarking and progress monitoring is huge and there's been lacking a little bit in the district. So, I'm thrilled to be
029able to do this. Second motion a second. And since Zach made the motion, Zach, what does CBM stand for? Because it was mentioned by Miss Watkins, but I missed it. Based measurements, am I right? I had to write it down. I Okay, I could have said that, but I forget when you use I forget sometimes you use acronyms. You do need to I apologize for not saying that. I tried to do it in the other one, but any other discussion on this item? Roll call, please. Uh Vinnie, I can I Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Stacy. Immers. Hi. Item 8 J is policies. I believe these were all from last month policy meeting, right? A lot of stuff in here. Any recommendations? I make a motion that we accept. Thank you very Motion by Eric,
030second by Linda. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Hold on. Just to clarify for viewers at home, these are not like we're not doing anything crazy out of the box. These are all standard press policies we're approving that update that our normal routine items and I read through them all the I mean I read through them all and decide what we have to do what we don't have and a lot of the ones this time were very minor changes right and there were some co issue pandmic type things for and I read through all those because the laws change so they just reflect what's going on legally. So we're just following and just so the public knows there is the board does have a subcommittee which is the policy committee which member Linda can chairman of
031they have reviewed these and it was their recommendation that the full board accept these at their last meeting in May and she goes through them all the time. I answer questions and I think it's great. I like that people do that. Appreciate you saying that this so much. Thank you. We do have a motion and a second. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Kenobyl. I Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vainy. Hi. Hi. Item 9A. Old business. Gaggle purchase. Right. This was tabled on May 24th at the board meeting. Um we are purchasing this with e esser funds. I I can say that we can do it's a threeyear for a cheaper price, but you can do a one year. Um I even considered the idea of maybe having the student safety program
032director maybe now oversee this program maybe do a program evaluation every couple of months making sure that it's monitoring meeting with I would say the high school uh administration in particular um but I I think that I know that they think this is a good program as well to be able to try to find um issues that may arise and students that need help that's the main point we're not doing the therapy part of this is just strictly the safety net of monitoring our own student use of our own um equipment and programs. Brad, did I say that correctly? Correct. Do you have and and student accounts? So, it's not it's not any private student account. It's in the account that they would use through our school district. So, anything with gcsd9.net, right? It would
033not invade any of the other ones. So, it's just a content analysis that looks for uh defined concerns and student school issues. Um that's where I'm at. What's the pleasure of the board on this? And currently the proposal is for the three years, right? We can we can do we can reduce that to a one year with just it may be a small increase of cost. I asked uh the representative today so we can monitor the program. If we like it, we keep it. If we don't, we don't use it in the following years. I ask a question just a second. uh from Tom. I think my understanding is we don't necessarily marrying this, but we're just dating it. Uh if we want to go 30 days notice, we can suspend anyone working with the
034company. Right. That's not my understanding. I don't think it's a 30-day thing for three years. I thought on section seven and said with a 30-day written notice, we could opt out. Where's the That's at the end of the contract. That's that's at the end of the contract, Bill. That's a condition preceding to op not renewing. We had one that was a 30-day thing. What was it? Were you going to use something else that was a 30-day? I can't remember. But yeah, this one is a year. It would be a year. I just looked a year a correct. Since either party may terminate the services under this SLA at any time by providing 30-day written notice to intend to terminate. What page is that here? Page four of the SLA. That's what I thought. I just
035read that. Can we look at that? I did I did read that. I believe in 30 days we can get written notice. If we don't like it, we're out. Can I um Can I ask him? But if we have to There are there are a lot of questions I guess about the company. I see a lot of positives and I I I really admire because of the national news that we're trying to be proactive and look at something one more bullet in the belt there that can protect our students. I like that. But it's also companyensive and uh you know if we have this under our the new uh Tim Moran we just hired uh to oversee safety. We have this where in one semester he reports to us and we're getting good value for
036our dollar and he thinks this is an effective tool. It's not got a lot of community backlash or it's not too invasive then you know he may say yes we really want this part of our program but I do want to know I just my question really was we can opt out but 30 days. Well, Bill, I I'm looking at the gaggle terms and services and on page three 10 it says customer may terminate the services of this agreement at the end of any contract by providing 30 days notice and it's a three-year contract. Yeah. So, it's just I don't Well, but that is not the same. Yeah. I don't I don't think I have I just Yeah. I don't know. I don't know that we want to I mean I think we need to
037be pretty sure if we're going to enter into a contract, you know. So, can I put you on the spot, Brad? Sure. So, currently or up until now, how are we monitoring devices? So, we do monitor all student activity through internet um because of SIPA. Um on campus only or from home as well. It's on or off. Anything that is on any device or any students account. So, how do you I don't think I don't think I think that was true. I I think quite honestly it's over Google. It's what we use on the Chromebook, but it's not phones, it's not Facebook, it's not Instagram, it's not any of anything with a school district account. Yeah. So, if they sign up, we're under the idea that all our students are monitor. It's only if they
038use their Chromebook basically and they're on our Microsoft 360 or the uh Google program. If they're using anything else, we're not monitoring it. It's anything using a school district account. So if you are logging in with a school only if they use that a if they students know that's being monitored use every other account. I'm just saying if they're investigating a subject and there's a hot button word. I I looked at the list of hot button words. One of them for example is gang and that could be a hot button word. Uh that could generate a question. Doing research on different topics. you know, if you're order ordering guns and fertilizer, I have concerns here. Uh, but basically, they have to be using the school site. Yes. And we are monitoring that, but it's a
039fairly expensive service. And I just wanted to know if if the opt out option was there, we could just have Tim come back in one semester evaluate and say, "This is so valuable." Or if we get a lot of community backlash and say, "This is so invasive." Uh, I know we're trying to do something very proactive here and it's good, but how it's going to be received and how effective it is, it's untried for us. And I just wanted to know that we can opt out with a 30-day written notice. Now, I didn't hear you exactly right, Tom. Was I right on that or not? No, I don't under the gangle services and terms and conditions that I see. It's a proposal for a three-year contract and under item 10, it says customer terminate the
040services under this agreement at the end of any contract by providing 30 days. We don't have to I think so in my opinion threeear contract doing one year. Yeah, you do. I want to ask one thing or is there so if we decide in the middle no we can do it one year then we're not out 97. Here's my here's my point. So Brad you say we monitor it how how well I mean do you who's doing that every day? So currently it's the technology department. myself and Beth um it's near impossible to for us to continually monitor that with all the other duties that we have to perform. What system do we use to do that? Is it like a bark or clever? So we use eyeballs for internet filtering but we also use
041managed methods in conjunction with that which does flag some things. um it can flag self harm. Um but there's nobody continuously monitoring that. So there's if if something happens. So you get a flag in probably like an email and then whenever you're checking all your emails and you got to go through Yeah. It's also not after hours. So there's there's nothing after hours. Um there's nothing weekends. Okay. Um so if someone is using our device and we are liable then if someone for example says on our one of our sites they're going to commit suicide and we we aren't taking any responsibility or making any effort to intervene or do we have a liability there? We I talked to Tom about that today. Like if we don't catch something and a student puts self harm
042on their Google Docs or whatever and it said they were going to do that and that person falls through, do the parents have any recourse? I would hate for anything to happen. I just there is a there's always the potential for that type of exposure bill and again any plaintiff lawyer that picks up that case and finds that information out has the right to file lawsuit against the school district. Now school districts do enjoy enjoy tort immunity to where The burden of proof against a school district would have to be willful and wanting misconduct. Did we purposely disregard that post to endanger the life of that student? That's a pretty high burden that that plaintiff would have to prove. And part of that comes down to have we I mean it sounds like we're taking
043steps here to try to find out fair it out any situations that might be out there taking extra steps over and above maybe what other school districts are doing. So I think uh coming back to Gaggle um I mean me personally I think I would feel more comfortable doing one year so that if we say you know in a month we go nope this isn't for us we're not out $97,000 or just out a smaller amount. So I can't I can tell you the the year amount is 357. There we go. Okay. Thank you. I was trying to do that. I was I comfortable with that also. I also feel like I know that there's there's concerns over privacy issues too and I think Zach's great that what I love about this board is that
044we do have different ways of looking at things. I think it's really important that we discuss all those factors. I mean I really do um I just I guess because I've been educationist long and I've unfortunately had to go through some uh student suicides and major self harm. I think that that I mean it probably because my lens is different, right? But I think that there's no expectation of privacy on Google Chrome and stuff. It's not like they're we're monitoring any of their their social media or anything. And I feel like even if I can find if we I Nikki might be a good person to talk to if you save one. Yeah. I think for me it's just really I I I agree with the need for the security and as an administrator that
045uses something comparable, I totally understand the value in it. I am however concerned. I don't know necessarily on the gaggle side, but I think this would be a time for us to maybe revisit our board policies regarding, you know, things that were shared with us regarding technology, privacy. I mean, and again, no fault anybody, but some of these haven't been updated since 2008. And so, if you're looking at like, will the parents sign their consent, the children know, there's no expectation of privacy. As we word it now, it's only talking about school networks. And I think we should elaborate on what that means because the school network has grown and also we talk a lot about emails which fine but you know we should be incorporating like the Google suite or you know other whatever
046you know I think we should update that the wording in that and be more deliberate in showing how we are really trying to protect people's privacy. So exactly, you know, so I I think if we take a articulate a stronger stance on that, especially given the current climate that we're in, even more so than last month, right, I I would feel better about that. So it's kind of two se two separate co-related issues. Well, I understand that need for security, but also looking at it from the lens of somebody else, we want to make sure that they're feeling secure. Exactly. And not anyone to feel uncomfortable. And can I ask Mr. Parker a question? Jim, are you there? I'm here. Okay. So, I have a question. My other qu I'm sorry, Stephanie. Go ahead. I'll
047ask another question after you're done. I just wanted to ask him as far as like do we have press policy updates on that or is that our board policy on technology? Do are we then we should be more diligent maybe on updating that or is that something that comes from press? I haven't I I feel badly but I will those do come from press and the technology policies covered in press but how long have maybe I need to and they are updated but a lot of the press policies follow federal law they have been passed that determine what these privacy protection rules are and these are all federal statutes that from which press then develops the policy and to answer your question yes they have not been updated since the early There's discussion in Congress
048right now about doing that. Yeah. So, unsurprisingly, I have like a good amount to say about this. Um, but I know we have a motion already, so I didn't know if we should because I know we're tossing around like a one-year contract, three-year contract. Should we do a motion and a second for whatever contract we want and then go and go to the Yeah. And to answer Bill's question, Bill, there is a just a 30-day termination period for the service level agreement, which is a subcontract of the service contract, which is a three-year agreement. That's what we answer your question. That's why the board needs to determine if they want to do this a threeyear or one year because it does make a difference for us to evaluate. But the service model agreement is a
049subcontract of the main service contract working. Sorry, I was going to answer that question. So Linda, let's let's get that part out of the way first. So Linda, your your uh motion was for a three-year because that's what was presented. Motion for a one year, we could motion the motion fail for lack of a second. Okay. Or if you want to resend the motion and redo for you, I mean, Robert, we would die for a lack of a second, but then you could and then we read motion. I like the way I like to look at it and evaluate it. Go ahead, Bill. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on, Bill. Wait a minute, Bill. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. I want to make a motion for the one year and how much was it? 35,000. 35,749.
050And it's a funding. I have a motion on the floor. We have a second. Second. Second by Eric. Okay. Any discussion now? Yes. Okay. We're gonna get you, Bill. So, I have some brief things this motion to make it one year. Yes. Yes, it is. So, my discussion on that is I'm pro that because quite honestly, the technology is based on AI which will be changed by tomorrow afternoon. Uh it's a constantly evolving technology. Lots of companies coming out. and to basically what they have is somebody at $10 an hour minimum wage monitoring that and 38 hours a week so they don't have to pay benefits and I think there are other companies going to be coming out and we may or may not want to stay with this one. It may be the greatest
051thing since white bread. I don't know. But I I like not committing to anything more than one year. Really do. I do need to point out really quickly though that it's not they don't have any $10 employees anymore or at that that I confirm that with them and the better business the the minimum he told me today was like whatever that state minimum wage was just but just for the entry level not for the people who are assessing the stuff. So I wanted to let I wanted to let you know I checked that. Okay. Do they still work 38 hours a week like they're capped there? Do you know that? Uh I don't think so. I don't think so. Go ahead and start. Yeah. So, I mean, I I'll keep it like somewhat brief so
052people can respond. And I'm sure there's other sides to this, but the first point is just like Bill said that the Gaggle CEO admitted that they do explicitly flag the terms lesbian, gay, and transgender, which in Minneapolis led to a student being outed when he was talking to a friend over Google chat uh about his sexuality, and he was outed to his administration. Um, a Minneapolis student wrote a journal entry detailing his mental health struggle struggles and what helped him to get better. Even though his mental health was improving improving and that was the point of the journal, I was flagged by Gaggle and social workers called his mother. Um, in the article that was written by Slate, he said, "I was trying to be vulnerable with this teacher and be like, hey, here's something
053that's important to me because you asked. Now, when I've made that clear that I'm doing a lot better, the school is contacting my counselor and freaking out." That same student went on in the article to say that he's now much less likely to go to school officials with sensitive topics because he feels he can no longer trust them. Uh just and in Minneapolis just yesterday Minneapolis announced that they're ending their relationship with Gaggle. I know they cited budget issues as the main thing but they've had two years of a lot of public outlash about this and I think that I don't think Minneapolis public schools is going to come out and say we don't like gaggle. But I think it's I think that's definitely something that they considered when they ended this program. I think
054they tried it and I think they had a lot of backlash and I think now they're choosing to go a different direction. Um like that was mentioned. I think that you know whether they get paid $10 or minimum wage um employees have said that they are capped at 38 hours a week so that they don't get uh benefits. They're just contract workers. The level one people who see the um who flag things and flag the terms. They're just independent contract workers. Some of them even work remotely. In fact, the CEO of Gaggle, Jeff Patterson, acknowledged that moderators who work remotely with little supervision or oversight could easily save copies of students new photographs and share them on the dark web. That's the CEO of Gaggle admitted that he, you know, these are people who have
055came out and said that they are um they're, you know, getting paid minimum wage. They don't have any there's no qualifications. You don't have to have a psychology background, a counseling background to be one of these level one people. They're just subcontracted out and they're pretty much seeing child pornography and seeing kids at their most vulnerable times. Um, so that's like part of the labor issues that Gaggle has. A couple years ago in a deleted blog post on their website, Gaggle suggested that school districts could use their services to search terms such as health insurance or strike to prevent teacher work stoppages. uh that was on Gaggle's main website, but it's since been deleted since there was backlash about that as well. I think that there's just not enough independent research on the effectiveness of
056this. A lot of Gaggle's uh things about life saved and how many people they've saved is their definition of life safe. There hasn't been independent studies on the effectiveness of Gaggle itself or school surveillance in general. I think the business model, I know we're not doing the therapy, but a lot of the former employees talked about having a quota of having to flag 300 things per hour um and try to get numbers up because then they use those numbers to say that mental health problems are increasing. They use that to sell gaggle services and then they get a kickback if they u refer students into therapy, which is their other way of making money. So, I'm going to wrap up there. I just think the bottom line, I think like, you know, Gaggle is good.
057I think they have a good mission. I think there's uh I don't think anyone's bad for supporting it or bad for working for Gaggle. I just think it's going to do more harm than good. I think if you look at these articles and the former employees like taken individually, you can say, well, the article's biased or the employees are, you know, disgruntled. But I think taken together, I think it just paints a picture of something that I'm very uncomfortable with. I mean, it's mandatory 365 247 surveillance of students. And I just think for 97,000 or 37,000 I just think we can if we want to protect students I think there's a lot better ways to do that. Zach, thank you. Other discussion? I guess my only comment to that it is it is uh surveillance
058of students on school equipment. Yes. And school accounts. Yeah. Right. I do have a question. In the beginning, you said that uh uh I guess a kid was outed. Yes. Was he outed to like the entire community to just the no to just the administrators who he was outed to the to the gaggle person who did it who then told his administrator who had not previously known like a principal or something didn't know the s the student was gay before that and now he doesn't know. I'm curious why that was flagged. They flag those terms explicitly. They say that it's because those kids are more likely to get bullied like calling kids, you know, homophobic slurs and things like that. So they should flag, right? But they do flag the terms explicitly and that's something
059that the CEO of himself admitted and defended as to why they do it. Is it okay if I ask um one of the high school administrators to to give an opinion? I just feel that I think it they report it to the administration. It doesn't go it goes to the administration and if if you saw that it was something that wasn't if you could see that it wasn't I'll let you Mr. Trilla Mr. if you either either of you want to discuss this on how you think you would handle that if if those kind of things came to you. uh in regards to a student's sexuality that is not something that So I think I I think a more specific question is it's going to depend on like we we just kind of discussed is
060if this person if this kid says I am gay right tell somebody as opposed to somebody calling him gay as a racial slur or as as a slur homophobic slur you know I think you have I think the administrators um have to have the context of the of the conversation. Well, there's no reason for me as an administrator to pursue anything in regards to a student and their sexuality. Right. Exactly. So, there's no reason for me to follow up with that. And I know unless that would be causing that student some sort of distress at some level if they're in crisis in regards to what maybe another student has said to them or if it's something that they're dealing with in regards to a family member, then we would try to help that student. But
061not well I wouldn't be concerned about their sexuality whether they were you know gay, lesbian or transgender. That's not We're there to help those students, right? Um not to out them in any way. There would be no reason for us to do that. And I know you guys would never do that. Like that's not something I'm saying. But my point is like they're already outed at that point. I mean, principles know that they're gay, but they didn't know before. Well, that's true. So, I mean, that's something that's like extremely extremely personal to LGBTQ, especially you. So, that's that's knowing that they privacy. Well, the way we do it now, as as Brad's explained, I mean, they could be outed now, even without gaggle. The possibility exists that they find something, you know what I mean?
062I mean, they could be outed. They're monitoring the systems now. But if the sexuality is brought up, it's only in conjunction with another form that they reported to an administrator. It's not if it just said I'm gay, they're not going to report it to administrators, right? It's going to be if it's in conjunction with I'm really struggling with this. I'm considering self harm or someone's being horrible to me or there's a threat to me. I mean it's not going to be they don't report to administrators from what I can tell for anything I read. Well Zack your was reported to administrators. It was report to administrator but even in that example it's still just to say just getting I don't know the explic explicit details of it but this but there's always some professional judgment.
063I mean like again things I get flagged for I will get like bullying violence and it's like a kid's biology now you know like I mean so you look at it it's annoying but you look at it you have a professional judgement on that we had a chance to talk about it a little bit after it was presented at the last meeting and I you know this kind of information isn't um something that doesn't come to us already um but I think you know the the mode that it comes to us now it may be you know we don't we don't get it electronically we don't get flagged whatever whatever, but any information that we have in addition to, you know, the norm is is helps us help students. And so I guess from that
064perspective, I think like, you know, trust your administrators to handle the the information that's given us to use to to help students because we, you know, I feel like it's on student accounts. I guess that's my big thing. It'd be different if we were doing any kind of there is no expectation of privacy. Correct, Mr. School. Yeah, we explicitly say I know that's true, but I mean just because we can do something doesn't mean that we should do something. I can but I think often the kids know um I'm using a district, you know, device. And so oftent times I feel like when they're presenting that information to a teacher or on a school district device, it's it's often a cry for help. They want someone to know to to, you know, not that we
065have to act explicitly on that information, but just in the in the interest of a conversation. You know, our social workers are fabulous, our guidance counselors are fabulous in helping students deal with some of those times that are difficult, confusing, you know, struggles. So, can I ask what what happens to the perpetrator? I mean, is there any is there anything that can be done to halt or stop or to to with with the person who is perpetrating these these are you speaking in a bullying situation just exactly that bully that would be school that would be reported I mean even if you catch one absolutely person who's threatening to the school I mean to get that ahead of time I guess I was just weighing privacy against student safety and life and I'm not trying
066to be argumentative I don't believe they are mutually exclusive, right? But I think we need to be very careful on both ends of that of how we because one person's security is another person's threat, right? I would say we thoroughly investigate instance that comes to like any one issue can become two days of investigating you know easily and um so if if I have any concerns about it it is the onset of the number of sheer numbers of kids that we know are struggling I mean it's nationwide it's you can open any newspaper and find that our kids are struggling right now so so a slightly different question, but can you talk to me about like, you know, like the homework that's been done? I don't know of other programs similar. They've connected with I
067boss. I know that. Can I go and I boss? Because I'm kind of in the boat with because, you know, in Zach's, as Zach said earlier, like it's, you know, kind of the totality of it. And it reminds me of the question I asked last meeting was, you know, like, okay, here you are now. You're going to grow too much. You know, that sounds to me like that's what's happening. You know, like you have all these people, you're doing you searching all this, which is great, but now what's the oversight look like? That's very concerning to me. If you, no offense, but you just got some random people that applied for the job and now they're the job. Well, they are background checks. Huge background checks. I checked that, you know. What about these quotas?
068You know, like just that kind of stuff. Like that's a little scary to me. It sounds to me like they do have extensive background checks for employees to the company putting pressure on them to increase their salaries and working conditions. I mean this was this is a perfect example of that. I mean they you know they've been in operation you know since the late 1990s. Um there are some issues. I just keep thinking privacy. I I just and it's only on school stuff and and I think we look at it and I feel a lot better if we have a student safety person looking over it all the time. Talking with the administrators to see is it overwhelming? Are the things coming in? You know, we talk to them. We train them. Here's what this
069is. Here's what you shouldn't be getting. Please let us know if something seems wrong. I think that any safety net I can throw out and if it isn't what we think or it is somehow invading privacy to an extent I think then we say no. Stephanie I one of the things I really like the idea of being very proactive here. I mean everybody's very nervous about shootings around the country but we're also even more nervous about suicides. Uh we have ignored issues like pornography which uh objectifies women. Uh it is harmful. It's not a harmless vice but there are so many other things that can that need to be monitored at that young age. And we also have a community and we have tried and tried in the district to enlist parental support whether it's
070helping tutor their own kids or help support their kids. And we have such a large population because of income that's decline of kids that are basically not getting that kind of support at home. And so I see what you're looking at here is very positive. What I didn't like necessarily was that commitment to three years. I I I could certainly support a year going and trying a program. I think with technology anything in a year will be outdated and there'll be new and better programs out there or different companies. Uh I would have preferred a semester but uh I don't see this as a bad thing because uh but I do see it as another little invasion of privacy. Uh and there may not be necessarily wellreceived but I'm sure students don't like the idea
071that we can search their lockers either. But at this point in life, we're teaching them to be good. Uh and uh that there are rules and they have consequences. And that's all part of the educational process growing adults. They're good citizens and knowing that there are consequences if you do certain things. I don't see that as necessarily bad. I did not like three years. I thought that was way too much commitment for a company. Uh but I don't object to one year, I don't think. Stephanie, you had a question. You have a question for Brad. So we have iBoss now. Yep. What's really the difference? Are they are they flagging these words and things? So I I boss is internet filtering. So it's that it does flag the words, but it just puts it on
072a dashboard and we have to go in there, right? But it's still flagging the words, but it's consumption versus production, but it's still flagging it. They're still seeing it. Correct. Yes. But it's what they're seeing and consuming versus what they're saying and producing, right? I I just feel like it's still going to be flagged and not by someone who can, you know, when So if I'm in a Google doc, I'm a student and I write I'm gay or whatever. Does that flag you to you? It does not right now. Okay. Unless there's something connected to it that says self harm. It does. It does. Right now we don't we don't have flags for Gmail or Google Docs. So we currently have still for consumption but not production. So that's that's kind of scary that we
073have nothing then. Okay, we've got a motion and a second and this is great discussion. Great discussion. I hate to cut it off but we could be here all night. Um so we do have a motion and a second on the floor for a one-year contract with Gaggle uh to move forward. Um roll call, please. Current you there? [Music] No, he's not on here anymore. Just keep going. Yeah. Okay. None. No. McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. No. Penogal. Hi. And Wilmark. Hi. I didn't count though, but I think we got it. Yes. Yes. Very good. It's 32 right now. As we monitor the progress of this over time, can we also see some presentation or information on other companies that provide comparable services kind of like a side by side and like particularly with privacy
074expectations for employees? Like all these questions that have been brought up maybe like I'm picturing like a chart or something that kind of you know like you know Best Buy or Amazon you select and you compare across. Yeah, sure we could do that. That would be helpful. Thank you. All right. Item number 10A, District 9 budget for the 2223 uh year resolution of publication notice in the newspaper. So, this is just to put the notice in, right? Zach, are you there? Mr. Shur, are you there? You'll fall asleep during our discussion. I don't see him anymore. Zack. Yes. This is to put This is to put that there will be so move right. There you go. Second. Thank you both. Yes. Can I go? All those in favor here, Tom. I think so. Yeah. Okay.
075All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Can you hear me now? Now we can we can hear you now. We already Now we're on the second part. Item 10B is joint agreement for the 2223 tenative budget resolution and publication of notices. Is this for region one? Oh, region one. Yeah. So again, just putting it in the paper. Putting it in the paper. This is just setting the hearing and putting it in the paper. So moved. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Very good. Uh, item 10 C, auditor extension. Zach, do you want to do that one? I can just read this. If you want to just read it here real quick. Sure. Authorization is He's home. Authorization is requested to extend the agreement with uh Sha Walter
076Jabori Professional Council for auditing services for the three-year period. Um cost is uh 2023 40,300 2024 42,700 and 2025 43 45,300 approval is recommended. So move second. Any discussion? Is this something that like usually is like goes out for bid for other firms or Zack sometimes that's that's one of them that's exempted under the we can bid it. Zach, do we have a reason why we use this uh firm? I know you told me this already, but for word, can you say why we're extending? Um they they do mostly major districts around us. So, we always have extra people. They are a very large auditing firm. They have done us um as far back as 1986 that I could tell. Uh they do a good job. They work very well with my staff. Uh they
077just do and we've been very happy with it. And they just mostly do schools. That's their thing, right? Yes, I get that they're like familiar, but is there any benefit to to switching auditors? Like I mean, I feel like if we did, they would it would take my staff about triple the time because the these people could come in, they have access to our system, so they can look, they know what to look for, they know exactly what to ask for. Um, all they are doing is just confirming what we put in the system and looking over our federal funds and then they work with the state of Illinois as well and prepare our AFR. I don't know if you know this, but do other districts just use the same one over and over? I
078had to ask that. The other school districts around us use them for equal the amount of time or longer. Do we always have the same I know you said they have a lot of people. Do we always have the same person or does that We've met some different people. There is there is some good things with familiarity. But I met the new guy today. There was a new guy today. Yeah. But they've switched out. I They have new leadership. Try retired after last year and he had been there uh all 20 of my years. Um and then Christina, we've had Christina's been there for about 10. Um they provide us a lot of information throughout the year. we can give them a call and work with them when we have a coding question or how
079to handle a situation and we've always liked the responses we've gotten and uh their service and Zach part of their job as well when they do the audit that that if they see an internal deficiency in the accounting system they bring that to your attention don't they? Absolutely. And they and they make suggestions on how to correct that. That's that's what we pay for to keep us in line with the regulations and guidelines for proper auditing of public like an assessor that comes first to make sure in line their reputation is on the line as well. They're not going to break the law or do anything like that over our contract because they service a lot of school districts. And Zach, uh, you remember that, you know, when Dennis and I met with you, uh,
080it was because they kept pinpointing, uh, an area that was of concern. That's right. That they wouldn't correct it. That's why we got year after year after year and we kept telling us we got we got it done because we addressed the issue and we've got it. Wasn't that the situation where they told us we need activity fund and the Well, we needed a new payroll person. They told us that for like four years in a row. So, Exactly. Right. So, they've done a good job. This doesn't influence my vote, but just out of curiosity, like, you know, it makes sense that each year things get a little more expensive. So, it looks like 2,000 give or take a few hundred. Is that on par with how it's all how it's been? Is that those?
081Uh, yes. Listen, they're for they're in the lean times. They froze their rates for probably a good four or five years. Okay. So, They have been fair. Okay. Do we have a motion on the second one? Yes. Okay. Appreciate that. Uh let's go. Just for just for clarity real quick, if I thought that there was anything that was out of place or not appropriate, I would recommend a different auditor. He would. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you, Zach. Roll call, please. Stacy, I Kenobyl. I uh Curran. No. Oh, welcome back. He's back. Back. He's back. Welcome back. You missed the technology though. I heard my name. I We got you. Okay. Very good. Uh item 10D, breakfast after the bell hearing. So, I think I need to temporarily journ the board of education meeting. Where's
082your little move? Second. Got a motion, a second. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Okay. We are temporarily temporarily adjourned the regular board of education meeting to go to a fiscal report by Zach. Yes, we're we're actually in public hearing. Thank you. Zack, are you ready? Opening the public hearing. Yeah, the fiscal report was distributed last board meeting, which was about a month ago. It's usually two weeks was um but uh it's basically just it went over the cost outlines and uh it is very expensive for us to do this after the bell and also it would cut into some instructional time and cause a whole mess of other things. So that's why we just opt out of this. We have done it for oh at least five or six years at
083this point that I can remember. Plus, we have free breakfast for all kids anyway and they have time in the morning. I've been in districts when I used to supervise and watch this fiasco would be the best word. Any comments, by the way, since we have others here, any comments on this item? Teachers are ready to not Everybody eats. That's And it is interrupt. It's the same class every day. So, they would lose. Everybody eats. comment basically was you'd rather not have this after the bill because of what's in the food in the room. We did the desk clean the things that we found in desks. But we are opting out due to financial hardship. Yes, got it. Okay. Any other questions from anybody? Okay. Uh then we'll close the public hearing. I have a
084a motion to close that public hearing, please. And I knew Eric was second. I think Motion by Eric. Yes. Second by Linda. All those in favor? I I those opposed. Very good. We're back into uh the regular board of education meeting. And now I need a motion to approve the resolution to opt out of the breakfast after the bell due to financial hardship. Second. Motion. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Uh, Vinnie, hi. Kenobyl, I. Curran, hi. None. I, McMasters, Stacy, hi. Winsmire, I. Item 10E, Koolage athletic worker. This is just um the authorization is requested to increase the Koolage athletic uh worker rate to 3750 from 27.50 per event. that would match than the GCHS athletic worker pay. We were having trouble finding people to do that. They're there like two hours minimum. Yeah,
085it's the same work. It's so make it equitable. Second. Motion in a second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. I Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. I Stacey. I Vinnie. Hi. Hmire. Hi. Item 10F, uh, trust agreement with UC Bank. Attached is a copy of the trust agreement. Uh, below, our auditor requires us to deposit all summer checks for annualized staff on the direct deposit into a trust account. The auditor does not require us to deposit all payroll amounts because checks will be written for those not on direct deposit. The checks are held in the vault until each payday. The payday's bank will transfer funds from the trust to our payroll account to cover the amount of the direct deposit for that payroll unless we either have checks written or deposited into the trust account. The amount
086of summer payroll for annualized staff is reflected in our ending balances for the current year. This amount would artificially inflate those balances. It would appear that we have more than we actually do. Does that make sense? He had to explain this. It's all about aligning with the fiscal year. Yes. He had to explain it to me. Some second motion second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Currin. Hi. None. I McMasters. I. Stacy. Hi, Penny. Hi, Kenobyl. Hi, Hi. Item 10 G, C grant renewal. We're going to learn about C and what that means. Oh, too far here. Okay. Uh, Mr. McCulla, are you there? Mr. McCulla, Chris, are you there? Yep. Okay. I'm going to have him help with this because I wanted to uh the state this is just to review our our uh C
087the community eligibility provision grant to uh ensure because of our percentage of uh poverty in our district to to ensure that we get free breakfastes and lunch because of the percentage of low income um in our district. So we we it's just the grant that pays for that. So that's what this is. We just want to acceptance of the grant. Got it. Happy to entertain a motion. So move by Eric seconded by Linda and that C stands for community eligibility program. I wrote it I wrote it down just in case there was a quiz at the end of this one. Program or provision. Quick community. Oh, you were right. I stick a sticker. I've been like calling a program for years. I'm I'm glad that that was all right. Thank you for that. Um let's
088vote on it. Roll call, please. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I. Vinnie. I. Canal. I. Currin. Hi. I. Item 10H. Request intervene and appeal proceeding at Celely Lake View Corporate Drive. We're requesting the approval of the test resolution. But I'm going to have uh Mr. Skoolie. Yeah, for both H and I, these are the warehouses on Pon Beach where the warehouses are appealing to the property tax appeal board their assessment. These are repeats from 2021. We we already have appraisals for the warehouses on this and this is just formality so that we can inter. We appreciate that because it does save the district money. So, thank you. Thank you. Motion do need a motion. Thank you. Second. Second, Erica. A lot of you guys know. Um, roll call, please. Item for each. Okay. McMasters. Hi,
089Stacey. Hi, Vinnie. Hi, Kenogal. I Curran. Hi. None. I I item eight. I the same thing. Yep. This is for WP. Do we have this motion? Is this is this motion 10 I? 10 I. Yes, 10 I. Okay. You said eight. So, just wanted to make sure uh so where did that come from? I don't know. Second. Thank you. Motion on a second. Uh roll call, please. Stacy, I. Vinnie, hi. Canal. I Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. I item 10J. Finance personnel system renewal. I'm just going to read this and then if Brad has a comment, please do so. Mr. Smith. Okay. Authorization is requested to renew the agreement for the 2223 school year with Tyler Technologies for the Infinite Visions. Is that the right word? Infinite I visions finance personnel system and annual support
090agreement is required for updates including statemandated changes and technical support. This software is used by all administration and secretaries for finance and HR processes as well as staff members for pay, time off, and contract information. The renewal has been budgeted for the 2223 school year at a cost of $96,14 and approval is recommended. It couldn't function. Yeah, I was going to say it's it's impossible to Yes. to function without this. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Second. Vinnie, I Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I was I item 10K, Microsoft license renewal. This is interesting, too, Brad. I'm going to read it. Let's say something else. Authorization is requested to renew a Microsoft license for the three-year agreement starting with the 2223 school year. The agreement will take us through the 2425
091school year. This contract includes Microsoft Windows operating systems, Microsoft Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft SharePoint. The software is used by all staff members on laptops and computers. The software is also used in all servers and for all processes including but not limited to items such as payroll, phone, Skyward, HVAC controls, human resources, and staff and student network access. The selected vendor is involved with the Aster. Good job on locking in a three-year agreement because I'm sure that price would go up. So, we had Acropolis at 52,54982 and utilitar uh 46,31265 locked in for three years. Approval is recommended. So thank you. Any discussion? Question. So we're Google like how much office is actually used throughout the So Google is basically students. Um so staff aren't really staff are on Windows laptops. Um as
092well as like like it says all the servers and everything that run in the background that runs the network. I was just saying in terms of office specific like we use Gmail now. Yeah. So so use Google apps right or or not. Correct. Correct. But the teachers still use Windows laptops. So you have to have a license. I was just the office card that popped out. Right. Thank you. Very good. Um thank you. Roll call, please. Canalle. I Curran. I none. I McMasters. I Stacy. I Penny. I um item 10L resolution to sell Building Trades House 4833 Bailey Drive. Good news here. Very good news. At the May 24th, 2022 board meeting, approval was given to place the above mentioned property in the paper for open bids. Bids were due on Friday, June 24th at
09310 a.m. The following bids were received. Will they accept the bid from Philip Warren for $280,000? Superintendent, we do have Mr. Warren with us tonight. Oh, awesome. Oh, that's so wonderful. The house is really cool. Am I so approval is recommended to the highest bid with houses being sold as per previously passed resolutions. I think after going through it, it's it it's really nice. So, very nice. Thank you. Mr. Lauren is a product of the school district. I've known you for many many years. There you go. We we He likes you. My sister Pam Cook and Justin Justin Warren. And so that's great. We're coming back. I was raised on Warog Street right there beside it. And so I'm coming back home. Fantastic. It's a beautiful house. It really is. My wife is so excited,
094but she's not more excited than me. See, show up at a board meeting. Congratulations. Congratulations. [Applause] Doesn't get better than that. And a mortgage. Congratulations. Second. Second by Zack. Thank you so much. Um and board president just just so new board members are aware because we did do it by sealed bid, right? Uh the procedure from here is that Bill and I, Mr. Moran and Mr. Bashard will get together and we will actually prepare a real estate contract and then that will be forwarded to a title company here in town and we'll actually have the closing mutually agreeable date uh have a title company so the closing's insured if something would go wrong there's insurance that sort of thing but we'll be working on that to to get that here in the next four to
095six weeks excited thank you dream come True. It really is. It really is. I'm not just saying the quality of the bill is excellent. And your staff uh that showed us this around talk to us did a phenomenal job. We should be very proud. We are. We are. Appreciate that. Thank you very much. All right. Congratulations. We do have a motion, a second on the floor. Zack, roll call, please. Curran. I. None. I. McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I Penny. Hi, Kenogal. I thank you, Mr. Thank you for being here. Congrats. Appreciate it. We're going to have a tour open house. Item 10M, athletic master plan. Okay. At the May 24th, 2022 board meeting, approvals given to place the above mentioned property. No, wrong one. Sorry, I apologize. placing the attached contracts with Paragon Architecture LLC for
096the athletic master plan and softball field 22-730. Mr. Skoolie uh has gone extensively through these with Paragon 2. Um he is fine with those. We have been in a pretty regular contract with them. We're pretty really happy with with the contract and so they are attached. These are form contracts from the from there. I do need a motion for approval. So moved. Second and second. Any discussion? Just curiosity. Do we have Sorry, I'm almost Do we have a date on when the soft Well, they're already doing a a which is and they're actually they really gave us a good deal. They're doing the entire athletic survey which has never been done from what I've heard. Um and they should be able to break down. We want it for spring play. Okay. So be ready for
097That's why we're zooming along right now. That's exciting. We're excited about that. Roll call, please. None. I Masters. Hi. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. I. Currin. I. Item 11 A, Freedom of Information Act requests. Okay. Uh, we received three requests under the Freedom of Information Act during the period of May 18th, 22 through June 2022. The first request received on May 31st, 22 from Danielle Debose. uh requested the following name and of textbook or instructional materials adopted for 68 English language arts and the year adopted. Second request was on June 22nd or June 2nd 2022 from Karen Garcia. She requested the following information. Name, first, last name, position, department, phone number, business cell, email address, office address of whom I'm trying I was like is that everybody? I don't really It's not very complete. I I
098apologize. I read that and didn't No. Is that for the whole district? Do we know? Mr. Mitchell, are you by any chance on the on the line for administrator? He's not. He's not. Yeah. I I will let you know that. Okay. The third request. Jesse, what was that? I'm just trying to on the FOYA. Number two on the FOYA. We just didn't know who who following your information on who's whose name whose names whose name every staff member they do this every year. Okay. Okay. But there's no personal information and we use the generic district number 618 the 4515800. Okay. We we get it every year. Thank you for clarifying because it was mine. I appreciate that. Third request was received on June 4th from Zoe Ya. Uh requested the following. any and all purchasing
099records from 10621 to the current. Specific information requested is purchase order numbers and if they are not used in comparable substitute, purchase dates, uh line item details, line item quantity, line item price, vendor ID number, address, contact person, email address. That's a whole lot of time. Requests were handed by the administration. Good job. Y is there for reporting only. And item 11B is district activity and memorial fund statements. And uh there again forformational purposes. If anybody has any questions, happy to discuss those. Hearing none, we will move on to item 12, which is executive session. Um no executive session scheduled for tonight. Item 13, executive session minutes from May 24th, 2022 are in your packet. Second. Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Vinnie, I Curran. Hi. None. I. McMaster. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Clones. Hi.
100Item 14, setting the agenda for the July 26, 2022 board meeting. I do know uh Mr. Stacy had asked about in and this many also about softball and tennis. tennis and golf. I wrote that down because that's definitely might might be there on the agenda for that. It's also my 36th wedding anniversary. Just want to point that out. Any other items for that agenda we can think of at this point? We had one thing. Oh, I was gonna I will probably do a presentation on strategic planning a company for strategic planning. So, insight. So, I'm gonna talk about that. That was hiring people, right? There's hires, too. We're still looking for a social worker or counselor. Throw that out. If you're interested professionals, the speech debate recognition. Oh, right. The speech. Um maybe maybe there's
101quite a few but more like um just information um CDP if you already Yeah. Okay. Very good. Um no other items to come before the board. I will entertain a motion for adjournment. So move second. All those in favor? I. Very good. time 7:27 p.m.