001to order of June 26, 2022. Right, Bill? July. I'm sorry. July 26. I already looked at backwards again. July 26, 2022. Uh, we'll roll next week. Stacy here. Vinnie here. Curran here. None here. McMasters here. Will stand. Thank you, sir. followed by Mike Resiance 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. I got you. I ask you to bow your heads. Close your eyes. Loving and gracious God, you are the giver of all good gifts and we thank you today for all your blessings for the successful outcomes of this year's school event and for the upcoming school year itself. Lord, we thank you for the staff members, both teachers and support staff, as well as
002all the volunteers who come together to make it happen. We ask that you bless this board abundantly as they continue to seek your wisdom, guidance, courage, and strength. Be with them during their deliberations and help them to be wise in the decisions they make for the good of all those who have placed their trust and confidence in their leadership. Give them the insight and discernment to lead with integrity that their decisions may reflect what is right and good. Help them to make decisions that are good for the that are good for all. Dear Lord, grant them the humility to always seek your will in all ways of everything that they do and say. All glory be to you, our loving God. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much. So for the group here, we have Miss
003K in another room. She she didn't want to be with us this evening was feeling a little bit under the weather and and thought that it might be best to be a little bit separated. So thank you everyone. Thanks for being here tonight. U item number four, public comment. Is there anybody here with public comment tonight? I don't think we had anythingbody asked ahead of time, but that's all right. Public comment. Okay. With that though, I would like to ask Miss Kim Mer to come up please for a brief presentation. This is very exciting. So I wish Miss Cam was in the room here but she's not. So we're gonna I I'll try to do the best I can. Stephanie, I can talk about what she the award. Fantastic. That would be great. Thank you.
004Okay. Well, um, Kim has been a real warrior for environmental causes, our district for quite some time. Uh, it's pretty neat that she has been handpicked to be the Madison County Green School Coordinator of the year. And that's all of Madison County. A lot of schools have green school coordinators and so there's a large group they picked from. So in Bailey Le who's from the Madison County building and filming presented a $500 check and a trophy um to her at Mitchell school recognized all her recycling awards. Um she has just done so many things. She has a real passion for it. She started a sustainable recycling program. She holds public recycling days for electronics and shoes and tabs. She's she's promoted a lot of the collection programs. This year she had 140 pounds of plastic
005bags, 393 pounds of soda can tabs, 59 pairs of shoes, and 70 pairs of eyelasses and 15 pounds of thread markers, which we just threw away. I haven't even considered that. Um, so we won quick place and $100 for the Madison County plastic bag collection, which they recycle for playground equipment, which I also think is really cool. Um, and you know, our staff members are proud of her. We couldn't be any more proud of her. And I'm sorry, but I did So, congratulations. We're as a district. We're so proud of all your efforts. I think it's worth sharing certificate here. Certificate of recognition to Miss Kim Antennov Mertz, a fourth grade teacher at Mitchell 3 to four center, has been named the 2022 Madison County Green Schools Program Coordinator of the Year. She started the
006green schools coordinator in 20 as as the green schools coordinator in 2004 and has worked effortlessly to start a sustainable recycling program. She also holds a public recycling dates for electronics, shoes, tablets, and is currently overseeing a districtwide summer recycling program. 28th day of June 2022. Congratulations. Way to [Applause] go. All right, here we go. Talon, you're out. You're good. Looks good. Thank you. Thank you. And I'd have to know what do you do with old markers? What do you plastic? Yeah, we recycle it. Fantastic. Wonderful. Thank you so much. It's been a little hard recycling with CO because we even did more than that in the past with like we used to get hundreds of shoes not just 59 pairs but yeah co stopped a lot of it. That's neat. Very nice job and
007congratulations. Thank you again so much. All right. Um we are up to the minutes from the June 28th, 2022 board meeting. to approve. Thank you, ma'am. Second motion in a second. All those in favor? Those opposed? You guys have it. Item number six, consent agenda, and we're happy to pull anything off of here. We have a bills list, district activity, and memorial fund statement, and gifts. Uh I would like to say that we do have gifts that were given to Stephanie, you want to talk about those? Yeah, real quick. Um, so for our back to school celebration, uh, we reached out to Capri Sun and Craft and they donated 50 cases of product for the event, which we've always been able to count on them. They have been amazingly supportive. So, thank you to them
008for that. And we just found out that St. Gregory, the Illuminator Armenian Church, um, made a monetary donation as well to the event. So, we really wanted to thank them. Their new uh, minister, which I try to remember his name. Wonderful man. uh we had him do the last meeting. Uh he really stepped up and they they made a contribution. So we're really appreciative. Thank you. Anybody have any items there that they want to pull off the consent as is motion? Second. Thank you. Thank you. All those in favor say I. Those opposed. If you haven't guessed, we're kind of moving quickly tonight. So uh item number eight, recommendation and communications for human resources. 8A uh resend retirements resignations. We are recommending the following retirements resations be rescended. Tracy White Cotton, Secretary Administrative offices rescended
009July 5th, 2024. Mr. Tim Mar, Vocational Education and Safety Student Safety Coordinator effective 2425. motion on a second. Any discussion? Mr. He was set to retire, ready to retire, earned his retirement, and he's staying out of loyalty to our school district. uh he has an exciting new program with their vocational students and uh developing a safety program for the overall school district. And here's a guy that is well earned his retirement and worked his years, but he's staying on specifically putting off his retirement for our district. Thank you, Bill. That is so true. Well said, Bill. And we actually happen to have Mr. Moran in the room with us tonight. So, yes. I'm sorry I said all that. Well done. Well done. I do have a motion and a second on uh retirements and resignations.
010We have a motion second. All those in favor? I those opposed. Very good. Item 8B. Uh other retirements and resignations. Miss Camp. It is recommended that the following retirements resignations be accepted. Uh DAP Marov, second grade teacher, Mville, retirement effective 22526. Rachel Davis, PE teacher, Griggsby resignation June 30th, 22. Uh Patricia Deo, nurse at Coolage, retirement July 12th, 2022. Tracy White Cotton, secretary administrative offices retirement January 2nd, 2022. So move second. Motion to second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? Very good. Item 8, request for extension to leave of absence. I'm sorry. AC, we're good. I got it. I got it myself. It is recommended that the following request for release of absences be approved. Ronald Lever, custodian Crowart, effective 8422 at 10:2722. Andrea Hman, fifth grade teacher at Griggsby,
0118:22 to 11:2822. Harley Valencia for grade teacher Mville 8:22 2022 through 1111 2022. So there's a second motion with a second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I opposed. Item 8 D request for extension to leaves of absence. Is recommended that the following request for extension to lease of absence be approved. Teresa Mitchell, administrator admin offices, effective 7122 to 6:3023. Uh Terry to teacher Griggsby effective 8:1522 to 6:3023. So a motion by second by second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. Those opposed. Very good. Item 8. curricular resations for the 2223 school year. You have received detailed information about this item below. The administration is prepared to make res to make recommendations. We are recommending the following extracurricular recommendations be accepted for the 223 school year. Miss Rachel Davis, head girls
012volleyball cards coach high school. Just the bar first quarter Julia second by any discussion roll call. I'm sorry. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. The eyes have it. Item 8 F and 8G are both extracurricular assignments. I think we can pull those together and do those all at once. Okay. Perfect. Um you as president of the board, you all receive detailed information about these items. administration is the district administration high school administration is recommending the following extracurriculars for the 22 23 school year. Miss Grace Hurst, head volleyball coach, GCHS. Miss Terry Hill, assistant football coach, Mr. Terry Hill, assistant football coach High School. Um, Miss Sarah Riy, first quarter lunch student at Prayer. Approval is recommended. So move just so I don't feel left out. Second. I'll second. All right. Seconded by
013Erica. By Bill. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. Those opposed? No. Item 8H, substitute pay increase. Okay. Sorry, I had some issues on there. Um, you've received information about this item below and we are prepared to make recommendations, but you'll find the information was presented and approved at the April 9th, 2009 board meeting regarding substitute wage increases and minimum wage increases. But with the wage increases going on around us and the shorts of substitute employees, I really would recommend that we move to the 2425 substitute rates, move that to the 2223 school year. We'll continue to monitor the situation that Mr. Parker can speak to this. We just couldn't find ourselves. I we had to misadv school because of lack of subs and surrounding districts are doing uh rate increases as
014well in order to be even competitive trying to find um almost impossible people to do this um we are presenting this as um some kind of solution to see if we can enhance or entice more people to come to our district. So those wages are below I'm not sure I need to read those Mr. Jones there. Do I need to read these? It's not required. Okay. So, they're listed below because there's so many. It's just bringing them up to that 2425 that was already approved. It's just doing it for So, it's essentially accelerating the pay schedule is what I'm understanding correctly. I mean, it's not something that we really, you know, want to do, but to be competitive, I I don't see any way around it. Mr. uh Mr. Parker, do you have any other
015comments? I would basically just add to that that we've seen a reduction in subs with other job openings going on around us. Bus companies obviously increasing their wages. I was on Highway 111 earlier today and you see new warehouses going up and unless they're only going to employ one or no people, those people come from our sub pool. Also, um, we're also still excluding people because of CO. So, I'm real with CO still being around about going into the school district with a limited sub pool. So, I we're just trying to throw everything we can at it to try to increase it. Yeah. So, it looks like approximately $2 an hour increase. Fiscally, if you like, you know, account for all the subs budgetarily, are we okay with that this year? We check, but Zach,
016do you want to speak to that? I mean, I you've already talked about it, but for their benefit, do you uh we we can handle that. Move to approve. Second. A motion by Erica, seconded by Eric. Any discussion? Just one quick question. Um since this is like a scale and we're skipping to 2425, um after that, I'm assuming it'll at that rate unless we approve differently or is it going to keep going up from there like incrementally? That would be correct. Recommend we stay at that rate until we can evaluate further to see what the market's doing as far and the workforce. I mean to see it's hard to project at this point. Good question though. So would there be a need then to renegotiate their salary? Our contract should be up at that point.
017Yeah. Okay. Our contract. Yeah, it will be. Any other discussion? U this is a pay increase and change in what we've probably make sense and the motion can control the length. You guys can do it now for an indefinite period or you could do it to control the upcoming school year and then revert back. So you can amend your motion or keep the motion to state for what period of time or for what duration you intend for this change to take effect. So 2425 for example is that the intent? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. So I'll make my motion to say that I recommend going to the 2425 numbers now through the end of the school year 2425 to be reealated later. That good? Thank you Erica. We can still amend that later, right? Correct.
018Very good. Roll call, please. None. I McMasters I. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Canal. I. Curran. Immer. I. Item eight. I certified classified. We have a big list in front of us. Um we are recommending that these applicants be board approved this subs for the 22 23 school year but we are extremely grateful for the continued service that these people give to our district. It's they have to re uh certify every year and we have to approve them every year. So these are some very faithful people that that we really appreciate. I just wanted to point that out. So uh approval is definitely recommended for the certified and classified staff as well. So move second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I opposed. Uh item where are we? 8 employment for the 2223 school
019year. I think it's resend the junior high school secretary. Yes ma'am. Okay. Um due to Don Lman declining the offer of the 2223 coolage junior high school secretary position the administration has requested resending that recommendation. So moved second motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I know. The eyes have it. Item 8J2 filling that position. That is correct. The interview committee consisting of Nikki Watkins, Steve Matis, Darren Dew, and Sher Lamb respectfully requests board approval for Miss Kathy Goodwin to serve as the foolage junior high school secretary for the 2223 school year pending the submission of required paperwork. Summit. Second. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Vinnie, I. Kenogal. I. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Immer. I. Item eight. J3 the interview committee consisting of Jeannie Bratton, Mickey Watkins and
020Kristen held interviews for a title one teacher position for the 2223 school year. Uh they are recommending Shirley Lyn is ringing for the title one float teacher position for the 22 2223 school year. Second motion second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Hi, Curran. Hi. None. I Masters. Hi, Stacy. Hi, Vinnie. Hi, I. Item 8, J4, Title One teacher of the Prather Kindergarten Center. The interview committee consisting of Miss Genie Bratton, Miss Nikki Watkins, and Kristen Nelasa held interviews for title one teaching positions for the 223 preschool year and are recommending Katie, if I get this right, Napier for the title one teacher position at Fer Kindergarten Center for the 223 school year. So move second. Motion second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Curran. None. I Masters I. Stacy. I I Canal I item 8J5 pair
021of professionals the interview committee consisting on Mickey Watkins Steve Matthew Pal interviews for special education positions in order to meet the contractual obligation to hire fair professionals after being subs for 18 months. The following candidates are being recommended for employment in the district. Rhonda Conlin, Damon Dukes, Kayn Glenn, Michelle Hill, Alyssa Upshaw, Tammy Wick, and Christina Jerger. Approval is recommended. So move second. Motion second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. None. I Masters. Hi, Stacey. I Vinnie. Hi, Ken. Oog. I item 8 J6, employment of the Granite City High School special education teacher for the 22 23 school year. Interviewing committee consisting of Nikki Watkins, Christina West Verna, and Steve Matis held interviews for this position. They are recommending Brianna P for the high school special education teacher position for the 2223 school year. Some move.
022Second. Have a motion on a second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. McMasters, I. Stacy, I. Vinnie, I Noble, I none I and item 8 J7, employment of a school nurse for the 223 school year. The interview committee consisting of David Kees, Steve Matis, Julie Wilggas, and Mike Daddy respectfully request board approval for Miss Jane Whitehead to serve as a school nurse for the 22 23 school year pending the submission of fire paperwork. Approval is recommended. So move second. Any discussion? We do have a lot of great candidates for that. They just want to kind of tough, but she had previous Roll call, please. Stacy, I Vinnie, hi. Canal. Hi. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Hi. Item number nine, old business. Um, I didn't see it on the agenda, but we do have the gaggle
023purchase in three funds. There is a statement in here. Miss Candy, you want to address that? There's a there's a Maybe it's from last time. Yeah, very good. Never mind. Never mind a good item number 10, new business. A school improvement plans for the 22 23 school year. I am going to turn over some good news for Kristen to talk about this. There she is. Hi. And I won't my wall so I know she those of you that can see me. So, um I am submitting this for your approval tonight. So, due to the Illinois State Board of Education is the school designation and funding provided through title one part A section 10003 school improvement of the Every Child Student Succeeds Act ESSA Illinois Empower. The following schools are required to submit an annual school
024improvement plan SIP to our board of education. This report is to provide information to you, the board of education. So all the following schools listed below are either targeted or comprehensive and their cohort year is listed next to them and that was the year that they were targeted or comprehensive. Next to that is a amount of money that they received for being targeted or comprehensive. So the good news here is Briggsby has um they are now exemplary and they are they have all made a relative progress but due to the formula that is created for the designation requirement um it's just like kind of like slow but steady progress and also due to co so in 2019 the fall report cards came out so 2019 and 2020 whenever the spring testing came there was no
025accountability to be held because of co that was the year co hit so everybody was kind of like like stale so everybody was on um just like held on like pause kind of thing. So no assessment was taken in 2020 after that and so nothing was moved off the list. So 2021 we you know kind of become normalish and so the good news is everyone is making some sort of progress and I see that more will be moved off the list and so that's what our goal is. Griggsby, they started that win program that what I need program if you guys recall. I know that they spoke about it before Don came in in the past and told you about that. And that's what um targeted what the students needed and helped with interventions and
026worked with those students to get them off the designation list and move them from um comprehensive to exemplary. So it goes it the lowest would be comprehensive and then targeted and then exemplary. So those are the stages of how it works. And so we're very proud that we are moving in the right direction. So tonight this was just for you to see their school improvement plans and how they all plan to move towards their goals and move forward for that throughout the year. We're really proud of of the work that the wind program that Mr. Stratton started and Joey Batson's been continuing. We hope to see more improvements across the school district this year with some of the new programs we have going on postco hopefully. Yes. And all of our schools. Yes. And all
027of our schools have intervention plans in place that you will see in these plans. That's what I'm sharing with you. I just wanted to mention Griggsby because they came from the lowest of the low to the high. So they needed to, you know, be commended for that. Yes. Kristen, can I ask you just a question? When I was looking at all of that is there was uh math and English scores. Yes. And there was a nice improvement and then there was co and there's a projected that's actually lower and it's probably realistic. Yes. So, we're still coming off the list even though the projected it's sort of like we lost a year and all the improvement work they went made is still projected going to be lower. Yes. But we're still off the list. Yes,
028we're still off the list. So, yes. And and so what we got to do is we got to reset. So we can always we can always fluctuate our percentages to decide what we want to set as our goal. Okay. So our goals can be fluid and that can be set by our building leadership teams and our building leadership teams work really hard you know with our buildings with all of our teachers. They all work really hard to get our students moving in the right direction. Yes. So this just provides a map to where they want to move towards. The only thing I didn't see is it was really clear in in Griggsby and and one of the others, but those previous scores and then projected. I didn't see that uniformly with all the schools, right?
029That would have been a little more helpful to see that put into the report. It just it's easier to look at that way. I I missed that. I saw it in Griggsby. It was very helpful. Uh I didn't see it in all the others. And I think Margo projected like 65% that are exceeded grade level. Well, their scores wouldn't reflected 65% in math or whatever it is are meeting or exceeding standards, right? That doesn't it doesn't mean that, does it? Not necessarily. Okay. I didn't think so. So, I just had a little trouble with some of the numbers there a little bit. Yeah. No, I understand. Okay. I just think with a lot of the new hires, they they team's been great. Hired reading interventionist. I think we just have so many new things going
030on. I'm really looking forward to seeing some improvements across the board and Kristen and they've all been working very hard on with the principles and the new leaders leadership we have coming into uh to raise and help uh meet kids. I thought the plan was really exciting because it was more than a pandemic. It was an educational pandemic and and we see those teachers. If you look at a couple of years where that ground was gained, that was so hard fought for by teachers and uh to reset um hats off to the teachers for sure. Yes. No, definitely. Yes. They're really working hard and and you know and they've set a map and they've really got goals that they have set. So, you know, hats off for sure. Absolutely. Thank you, Chris. I appreciate that.
031Thanks to everyone. Thank you for the presentation, Kristen. We appreciate that. Um, so we do have it's a school improvement plan that that we do need approval for. Happy to take a motion, a second. Then we'll see if there's any additional discussion. [Music] Second motion. Second. Any discussion? Any additional questions for Kristen? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Hi Kenogal. I Curran. Hi Nun. I McMasters. I Stacy. I thank you very much Kristen. We appreciate it. Item uh 10B title one aids for the 2223 school year. M. Okay. Uh the following people to work within the parameters of the title grant. All these people will be part-time participants and paid through the title one grant we have in the district not to exceed 15 hours per week. So the range for the 22 23 school year
032will increase from $1.75 an hour to $15 an hour with those for those without a bachelor's degree from 14 to650 an hour. Yeah, for those bachelor's degree title a will work only on days where students are in attendance. Gloria Sharp at Mville, Lynette Cochran at Mitchell, Paul Ward at Prather, Lisa Mink at Mville, Jana Allen at Britney Lindsay at approval is recommended. So move Second motion a second. Any discussion? List of very loyal people have been doing this. Very loyal individuals. She said good. Appreciate it. Roll call please. Canal. I. Currin. Hi. None. I McMasters I. Stacy. I item 10 C. student interventionist for the 22 23 school year. Uh we need to approve uh the following person title one grant. Again, all parttime participants are paid for title one grant not to exceed 15
033hours a week. Um Melanie Lman started working with us as a student interventionist in the 1516 school year to assist homeless students and their families with materials they need to get to school, be successful at school. Her role is imperative as she does a lot of leg work, makes calls, and meets with students and families to make sure we as a district are meeting those needs. Uh she shops, organizes school supplies, purchases, dispenses, bus passes, gas carts, uh hygiene supplies, meaning needs, going out doing visits. She'll be working all those things within the parameters. The title grant will be a parttime participant in the program. She'll be paid through the granting $15 an hour at the rate of 1650 per hour. She holds degree her base will be at the board office where students advice
034will be stored is recommended. Melany's amazing. You meant 15 hours. 15 hours per week. Okay. Yes. All right. I'll second. Thank you very much, Zach. Uh motion on the second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Curran. Hi. None. I Masters. Hi. Stacy. I I thank you for your work, Melanie. We appreciate it. Item 10D, Skyward renewal upgrade for the 22 23 school year. Brad, are you able to to talk or Yes, I am. You sure? I can read it. No, no, no. Go ahead. He was on sick today, so I'll I'll I'll read it and then you ask questions. Thank you questions. Authorization is requested to renew the agreement for the 22 23 school year with Skyward which is the student information system use of the district. As of many of our software packages support agreement
035is required for all updates including state mandated changes and technical support. With this renewal we are migrating to a hosted solution that you might have to explain. The renewal has been budgeted for the 2223 school year at a cost of 106 481. Um, do you want to talk about the hosted solution real quick? Um, yeah. So, the the main thing is what we're talking about is this is it's an ever growing concern for us for privacy and when Skyward actually hosts the server, what actually happens is it it gives us a little bit more robust options for that. So, what they do is they'll do all the updates. They'll actually host everything so it's offsite. So if anything ever happens to our data, it's not on location. So if a tornado hits our area, it
036it doesn't affect our data, what's been backed up. So it just provides us better options for that for all the information that we store because we store a ton of student information. Okay, that's good. And approval is recommended. Move to approve. Thank you, Brad. Second. No problem. Motion by Erica, seconded by Linda. Any discussion or questions for Brad? Roll call, please. Thank you for being here, Brad. I McMasters. Hi Stacy. Hi Vinnie. Hi Kenobyl. Hi Curran. Hi. Hi. Get better. Item 10E. Moroi. I guess that's how you pronounce it. Camera bid. Did I get it right? Awesome. Yeah, that's that's correct. That's correct. Do you want to take that, Brad? Sure. So we we are uh seeking approval to purchase Cisco Maroy cameras. Um the new cameras will replace the current Cisco camera system which
037is was installed 15 years ago and will be end of life through Cisco as of July 2023. Um the current system contains 541 cameras both interior and exterior across all school district buildings. Uh the new cameras will replace all existing cameras and include a 10-year license. Uh due to supply chain delays, the device acquisition could take 6 to 8 months or longer. Um we receive bids from the vendors below. The selected vendors secure data technologies is in bold with asterisk. Um also note that the prices above include 541 cameras and a 10-year license approval as recommended. So the secure data technology bid was 883,46. Um the closest one CDWG was 8.86790. Uh child and style was 1.332,97 and utilitra 1 million71 1956. Very good. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion or additional
038questions? So, no, go ahead. You're more expert. No, my question was, has there possibly an evaluation of any dead areas where additional cameras might be needed when making purchased? Um, before we have them set up, is it meeting all the needs or are there dead spots where where the kids are vaping? I don't know. So, so it is possible um to move these around. They they will be a higher image quality and uh better technology. So, you know, as long as we have the cabling to do it, uh which which we do, um we can move some cameras around and adjust things as needed. And that'd be good for like especially like Mr. I know is there can point out some of those areas maybe that need to have more cameras. Some of the exterior
039we may be looking into potentially down the road some more exterior cameras for safety, but that's not included in this. Yeah. Yes, that's correct. This is just to replace. Um but uh we we will be looking probably in the future to add more. So just to throw out there, this is all pending grant funding. Yes, that's great. Yes. Thank you. I forgot to say that. Thank you. I appreciate that. Are these uh cameras um like maybe the same one or two outdoor and indoor cameras or are there some cameras that like this area needed a 360 cam or uh you know zoom or anything like that. So there there are three different uh models that we're going with. Um an exterior bullet camera, an interior dome camera, and a exterior dome camera. So it the
040bullet cameras tend to be able to zoom in further um have a a higher resolution. Uh so we can kind of mix and match those where need be. Okay. Yes. And I was thinking of the cars that are parked maybe in the evening at the school for various things protection for those cars. You hear so much about the breakins. Yeah. some some of the current cameras are pointed at the parking lots, but honestly, um the resolution isn't good enough to see very far. Um it doesn't see license plates very well. So, um I think these newer ones will help out with some of those issues as well. And that's the area, Linda, we may be looking into or safety issues. Those might be addition. And and Brad, with the with the upgraded technology and the
041Will this allow we'll call it offsite monitoring like uh so the so the ability is there it's it's a cloudbased solution. Okay. Um so it's basically you just go to a website but we have to give people access to it. Um so yes, the ability to monitor um from outside of the school district is there and we can talk about that when we possibility which opens up a lot of good opportunities for us. Yes. Okay. Great questions. Uh any other questions or miss? Right. Roll call, please. McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I Vinnie I I Curran I none I Wire I item 10F actions of the region one board. The administration is requesting the ratification of the actions listed below of the region one board meeting held on July 1322. Um all the information is below for
042refusal and approval is recommended. So move second motion a second. Any discussion or questions? Roll call, please. Stacy, I Vinnie, hi. Kenogal, I Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Immark. I. Item eight. Uh, 10 G is evening academy assignments for the 22 23 school year. Mr. Jones, do I have to read all these names or can they see them and approve? You're asking, can the board approve the grants? No. This um under XG evening academy assignments. Do I need to read all those names? It would be useful to have the names in your record. You got it. Okay. Then permission is requested to approve the following evening academy assignments for the Grand High School to meet the fall semester needs. Miss De Garland, Miss Lisa Moore, Miss Laura Sullivan, Chandler Henson, Peggy Wilson, Liz Sissio, Kim
043Lel, Adria Johnson, Amy Heath, Trina Tigler, Aaron Feldman, Kyle Koser, Christine Douglas, Candace Parker, Scott Smallley, Laura Povic, Lindsay Dittle, and Christine Mode. Due to some holidays, there are more Tuesdays and Thursdays in the fall semester than Monday and Wednesdays. That's why some teachers teaching only one class to have altered excitement that you might see. So approval is recommended. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Vinnie Vinnie. Yes. Iran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I can I just add I don't know how many more things Amy Heath can do. She's amazing that she's going to do this. I just had to but I didn't see that until now. Super teacher and the whole evening academy. That's fantastic. Oh, it's great. 106th hour assignment. Permission is requested um to approve the following six hour assignments
044for the fall semester at Lake School, which will now be able to offer a work co-op class to high school students who are able to work. Um this is a really positive thing uh for these students. The additional compensation will be paid with the TF grant that Dr. Keel got additional funding for for the last call uh grant money. Um so we are recommending Candy Parker for the for local 743 contract section 28.1 and 28.2 and um her base salary multiplier listed below. So approval is recommended. So move. And David, do you have any comments about this at all? About how we're offering this to those students? Dr. Q. Yes. Um, so this is an opportunity for those students who have a job or who are looking for a job, they can uh when one
045of the roles Candy will do is try to help them find a job if they don't have one. So they take a course and that's what Candy helps teach that course. They get a half a credit for that and then they also get credit for actually having the job. So, it's a great opportunity for them. This is something that the kids do at the at the high school day school also. So, for us to extend that to Blake is great for those students. I know Christy Mo did it uh last spring for those students. It was very successful. Uh Donnie Harris, I know, is very uh he was very impressed with it and the kids really enjoyed it. So, it's definitely something we're wanting to continue to do. I think it's great. Okay. Motion by
046Erica, seconded by Eric. Any additional discussion or questions? Roll call, please. Canal. I. Curran. Hi. None. I Masters. I. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Bones. Hi. Item 11A, facilities report by Eric Smith. But Eric is not here. He is on vacation with no signal. So, we have a quick PowerPoint. I did a video. You saw that some try to go out and show everybody what's going on. Miss Eric is on the Zoom, I think. Oh, really? He wasn't supposed to be. He didn't He didn't have We have a Powerway. So, we could show that he wants to comment, you know, about what's going on if we want to pull that up. And then Eric, are you gone now? He's gone now. [Music] Poor guy. So Chris is gonna pull up just some pictures. Um some new
047ones I had kind of go out today. Okay. So we have just been I don't know if you know but I did the video but then a couple other uh local papers have picked up all of our improvements that we've been doing and uh talked about our back to school celebration. And so we it's been really nice to see all the work going on across the district. So we can go to the next slide. Chris, give me one second. I'm just setting up for our friends watching online. Oh, okay. You're good. Okay. Next. How do I go to the next slide? So you are seeing uh the green bathroom floor slide. No, I don't see I don't see that. All I see is summer improvements. Can I click? I don't know what school because I
048need to see the slide to see the school, right? Is that better? No, I just see summer improvements. Hold me a second. There we go. Okay, there we go. So, um, but you know what school is that? I don't Is that Mville? Yes. Well, hold on. Okay. All right. Okay. So, um the floors had tile that was just um kind of awful and kind of just falling a little bit apart. So, what we did, there's a coating that they can use um that's antibacterial, much easier to clean, plus it looks nice. So, the walls have been painted, the floors have been painted, all the bathrooms at Mville. Um doesn't seem like it takes a long time, but it does. So, that's one. And then the next one is which school is that also? Mville, I
049think. That's still Mville, right Chris? Yes. Yes. Okay, next one. So, it just looks I mean I if you saw them before I should have done before and after pictures. I'm just having the white paint and it's more of a a gloss so it wipes off easily. The floors have antibacterial stuff in them. Soap dispensers. It just all looks very nice uh in the restrooms. Next one. Okay. Well, there was some rain, but coolage um is that you can't really tell, can you with all the water? Um there's coolage is looks amazing there. If anybody's been able to go by, there's black top for all the buses to pull in. Now, we have what do you call those bulld through through a door, which we're planning on all all schools. um just being able to
050get those buses off of uh Namoki Road and and not having that traffic there will be huge and we then we have cars and emergency vehicles can still then access the circle drive in front so it isn't blocking any access to the school. So that's just been amazing and uh to get that done over the summer was a huge uh huge project and they did such an amazing job. So we're really thrilled that that's done. Up next, Griggsby. Okay, Griggsby. I mean, talk about just a total total rehab. I've been in and out of that pretty often this summer. Uh they just have so much to do. They're just replacing all the HVAC. You can see all the pictures. Um some of the windows, roofs, um in in in classroom, HVAC system, unit vents, all
051being replaced. Um right now we're looking at doing um a lot of the cleanup. They're finishing the roof systems. There's new there's Is there a picture of that big air the big cooler that they set on the side by the office? If you go by there, there's it's just uh amazing. So, to be able to get that up and going, we're working very hard. I know all of our custodians are out there this week making sure we can get everything cleaned up in time for uh teachers to come back. We're pretty excited about having that brand new HBAC system with better air quality. Um that that system there was was pretty aged and not in the best condition. So, I'm really happy about that. This is Mville's parking lot. Oh, yeah. Mary'sville parking lot, which
052really needed to be done. If you had gone through there, some of you parents that are listening, there were potholes. It just wasn't done. Um, they're still going to do some striping, but that looks amazing as well. And of course, we have the the field, which is really zooming along. Um, we were worried a little bit that uh there was some issues with the rubber they need to make turf. Uh we were worried there may be some delays, but so far, cross your fingers, everything is going according to plan. Also, drainage around. Uh they're having to redrain to make sure that uh the track doesn't flood, the field doesn't flood. So, that's all part of it. It's not as easy as just putting turf down. They're actually going in and creating drainage systems and hooking
053them to these storm waters and sewers and uh doing all that work. and it's timeconuming but they have been going at lightning speed. So we're really thrilled with that as well. This is Wilson. I think it almost looks like a brand new school. Our painters are amazing. The door the doors and the entry to the doors have all been painted. Um you can't really Is there another picture of that where you can see the windows around? Yeah, there we go. And the interior they did contrast walls with the same paint. Uh did black the univvents. I mean it looks they look like brand new classrooms. It's really impressive. Uh the painters did an amazing job. They went in into the whole school. So it looks fantastic. The hallways are all painted in new, too. Their
054bathroom floors were done the year before. Um you can get an idea there. It just looks really nice. Uh we're really happy with that, too. Um that's also at Wilson. That's what I thought. That's the back playground at Wilson. Um that took you all asphalt there, too. I don't think I didn't have him go out there and I don't think it's done yet. They're also doing some playground painting uh that um Principal Robertson wanted to do. It's kind of exciting like game things she found. So gonna be some painting there too, which we may be doing at the other buildings as well. So I just wanted to to commend uh Mr. Smith and our amazing crafts and custodians that we have at this district. Seriously, they they save us a lot because they're so talented.
055Uh they can do a lot of the work themselves. It allows us to do upgrades that maybe we wouldn't normally we'd have to put out for more money. And I'm just always impressed to see how well they do and how quickly and how expertly everything is done and how wonderful it looks. So, I just wanted to make sure we did a uh presentation of some of those upgrades. That's beautiful. I'm pretty impressed. Yay. [Applause] Thank you for that, Miss K. Um, yeah, I'm sorry. Eric couldn't have been able to join us today, but uh because he deserves a lot of credit and the entire team, they just do a phenomenal job. And that's only that's only a part of it. All the all the things that have been done at the high school this year
056with the tuck pointing and other things just getting ready to go, too. Prager's having some improvements to the to the entry areas. They're getting ready to start that once we finish. Uh, Griggsby, yeah, the tuck pointing, just painting everywhere. I mean, Eric is literally balancing, juggling all kinds of walls at one time and and managing to not drop any. So, uh, he's really incredible. Really lucky to have him crew. Great job all around. And the facilities look fantastic and the parents and everyone, honestly, everyone should be very proud of what these these buildings look like. Yes, we are. Uh, all right. Uh item 11A, Freedom of Information Act requests. We received four requests under the Freedom of Information Act during the period of June 21st, 22 through July 15,22. The first request was received on
057June 27 from Roy Granger. She requested the following information. Full contract with First Student Union, all payments already made to First Student, yearly contract increase amount. The second request was received on July 1st from Elmo Retired Teachers Association. request the following information. Please provide the name and email addresses of any certified staff, teachers, administrators, nurses, counselors, etc. who announced their retirement for any date or year of the future. Please include the year they plan to retire. The third request was received on July 12th. Granger requests the following information. A list of 176 student attendance, school days paid per year listed in the school bus transportation service agreement. The force request was also received on July 12th. Lorie Granger who requested the following information. A list of 176 student attended school days. They've agreed to pay
058to the contractor per student for transportation. These requests were handled by administration. Uh we appreciate all the efforts. Thanks for doing it. I know this can be very timeconuming. Uh and that is therefore information only. So we don't need a motion or any approval on that. And then item 11 C district activity and memorial fund statements through June 30th and through July 21st are there for your information. And if anybody has any questions on those or otherwise we're happy to take those or Mr. Sep therefore again for information. And then that brings us up to item uh 12 which is executive session and uh we do have executive session tonight under exception uh 2C8 which is student safety and I will entertain a motion to go into executive at this time second to the two
059of you please none I masters you still there All right, I Okay, I and we are in executive session. The time is 6:55 p.m. And thank you all for being here. We appreciate that tonight.