001Call the meeting to order of the September 27th uh regular school board meeting to order. Roll call, please. Next. Stacy here. Vinnie here. Here. Her here. None here. WMER here. Ler here. Fantastic. Thank you. Uh let's please stand for the pledge of allegiance followed by the invocation given by Pastor Jared Cororsine with Unity Baptist Church. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Like to invite you to bow your heads. God, we come to you tonight asking for guidance. And we ask for the guiding spirit that comes from you to gather opinions, Lord. That we pray for a spirit of listening and unity. And Lord, most of all, we pray that the
002business and the items taken care of here tonight would lead to greater encouragement of our our teachers, our faculty and staff, and especially Lord, most importantly for the betterment of our students. God, we thank you for every child, every teenager, and we pray that you would continue to strengthen our wonderful community through our school district. Please preside over everything tonight. In Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much. Thank you, Pastor, pastor. We appreciate it. Thank you so much for being here. Good to see you again. Item number four tonight is public comment. Do we have any members of the public here for public comment? Hearing none, I would ask uh Superintendent K to give a totally unrehearsed because we didn't talk about this. Um I'm okay. Would you mind giving a
003plug for the uh teachers subs and everything that we need right now, bus drivers, uh everything else out there in this community that if anybody is out there can help, we would appreciate it. I'm getting ready to do a pleading video tomorrow introducing a campaign that we're going to be doing trying to feature some of our amazing teachers, parapros, cooks, custodians, administrators just trying to get parents, our families in the area if they want to get involved with their student and with the school. There are so many ways to do so. uh we are so short on uh available people to help out when uh those positions aren't filled. It's becoming more and more difficult every day. Um it's a great job. Who doesn't want to work with kids? So, like I said, I'll have
004one out tomorrow and it'll also start with the listing positions, the pay, the flexibility, the hours, but I just can't tell you how much it would mean to have actual people from the community in there helping with our own students as well. It's just so vital to the growth and development of these kids. So, we would really appreciate it. So, that's my stay at home parent, grandparent, anybody. You You've heard the plea. So, please help us out. We would appreciate it. Thank you. Sorry for putting you on the spot. No, I'm going to do it again tomorrow. Item number five is approval of the minutes of the August 23rd, 2022 board meeting. So, moved. Second. Motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. The eyes have it. Uh consent agenda
005item number six. Uh you have items in front of you for the treasures report, bill list, and gifts. Uh you want to say anything about the gifts? I won't go through them all, but I was just overwhelmed. There are 13 of them. uh gifts from different organizations and and and people, churches throughout the community that have just given back either supplies um just um anything that we need or we ask for. Someone's always there in a monetary way or with some kind of supply. Once again, I'm just incredibly grateful for people that give back to the community. So, the proposal for the uh the baseball dugout and the bullpen right look amazing. I spent a lot of time hanging on the edge of that fence watching baseball. So, That would be really nice. So, thanks
006to the alumni association. The alumni association does an amazing I just had my 40th class reunion. Anyway, um but we encouraged everyone to join the the alumni association because they do give directly back to the school district. I mean, they do projects and things. Mr. Will does amazing job right now as president. So, we're really impressed with what they do, too. So, thanks Zach for bringing that up. Fantastic. Um under the bill list, I guess I just had one question. Um, Zach, and I sent a note earlier just there was a rebate that was given that was in the solar agreement that we would give that rebate over to them. I didn't want to just sign the check over. So, what I did was I deposited it and then cut them a check to keep
007the audit trail clear. So, somebody didn't say, "Why did you sign that check over?" So, that was that and the other one was just uh Premier Gy is our electricity supplier for some of those schools. Now, very good. Okay. Are there any other questions on any of these items or are we ready to approve the entire consent agenda as presented? So move. Second. Motion a second. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Canobyl. I. Curran. I. None. I Stacy I. Vinnie. Hi. I. Uh. Item 8A. We send retirements and resignations. Mr. President of the board. It is recommended that the following retirements and resignations be rescended. Shirley Lake Cafe GCHS effective 6:3024. So moved. Second. Um that's right. I have them on the sheet together. Oh, you do? I would have read them, but it was
008a I don't together. No, you didn't. We're sending water together. We'll just go one at a time. Okay. Um, we do another one. We have a motion to second on that. Roll call, please. Current. Hi. None. I. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Kenobyl. I. Hi. Item 8B, retirements and resignations. It is recommended that the following retirements and resignations be accepted. Antonio Dimma pair professional bricksy resignation effective 91522 and Shirley Lake Cafe Pulich um retiring 92022 can have it motion by Linda seconded by Erica any discussion roll call please none I Stacy I item 8 C request requests for leaves of absence. It is requested the following requests for leaves of absence be approved. Frank Kane's Monitor Lake School effective 9922 to 1222. Heather Hater teacher prayer prek effective 8722 to 11922. Lisa Dean secretary admin office
009effective 91922 to 92322. Eden Creek teacher at Wilson effective 9122 to 11:3022. Second motion a second. Any discussion? Roll call. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Canal. Hi. Curran. Hi. None. I Wire. I. Item 8 D. Requests for extension to leaves of absence. Sorry. It is recommended that the following requests for extension to lease absence be approved. Andrea Hileman, teacher Griggsby, effective 112922 to 41123. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Vinnie. Hi. Canal. I. Currin. Hi. None. I Stacy. I. Item 8E. Extracurricular resignations for the 223 school year. Mr. President, the board, you've received detailed information about the item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations for hope for discussion in executive session. We are recommending the following extracurricular resignations be accepted for the 2223 school year. Miss Denise Stout, first quarter lunch duty, Wilson School.
010Jennifer Randazzo, first quarter lunch duty, Wilson School. Second motion second. Roll call, please. I Curran. Hi. None. I Stacy I. Vinnie. I no I I'm sorry. Item 8F, extracurricular assignments for the 2223 school year. The GCSD9 administration has recommended the following extracurriculars for the 2223 school year. Carissa Warfield, assistant cheer advisor, Culage, Mason Baker, assistant wrestling coach, Grand City High School. Jennifer Randazzo, first quarter lunch, Judy Wilson. And Amy Daly, first quarter lunch, Judy Wilson. Second. Well, that was a tough crowd there. I just have a question. Yes. So, one of the names on here had just resigned from the same position prior. Yeah, I was wondering that as well. Yeah, she I think my understanding was she started it for a very very very short time and then but it says it it says
011that she's resigned here and then here she Is she taking it back up? Is she getting it again? Uh, no. We had to hire. My understanding was we had to hire her and then resign her because there was a big gap in between, but they're out of they're opposite order. Okay. So, Jim, do you have any any comment on that? Mr. Parker, she is not being approved for duty. She had put in, which is why I was on here, but then resigned. So, they're accepting the resignation. Technically, it should have been after the appointment, but either way, she's not doing it. Okay. Okay. That's We just wonder about the way order they were in. Thank you. Thanks for bringing it up. Good. All right. We've got a motion on second. Roll call, please. Karen, I
012none. I Stacy. I Vinnie. And staying because my husband's a wrestling coach. Kenoval. I item 8G. Certified and classified substitutes. Y sorry I had to say that first. It is recommended the following applicants be board approve the substitutes for the 22 23 school year. Certified Cara Denton Mendes, Amy Taplan, Deborah McMillan, Helen Thomas, and Karen Schwendman. Schwenderman. There we go. Classified Tiffany Vivven, Corey Lavart, Christina Warden, Laura Lemler, Donald O'Brien, Donna Watkins, Monica Leon, Melissa Ray, and Ava Aaron. Thank you. Thank you. Motion a second. Any discussion coming? Yeah. We are. We're trying. Roll call, please. None. I. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Canal. I. Currin. Hi. Hi. And item 8H, student workers. Okay. The administration is recommending the following student workers or co-ops for the 22 23 school year. I have to say we're very
013excited to be able to do this, too. So, um, I'm going to Dylan Alexander, Leonardo Verra Revels, Chico Vouhees, Valyriia Duka, Figero, I think. Figaro, uh, Maria Garcia Ayar. So move. Second. I love all those names. I know. And I tried really hard. I went to motion second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Stacey. I. Vinnie. Hi, Kenobyl. Hi, Karin. Hi. None. I Bloom. Hi. And one question on that. Do we know where they're going to be working? Yes. These are the ones that are working in tech if I miss Lockkins. Is that correct? Working with Chromebooks, I believe. So, which is which is really awesome. I know. It's been a long time since we've had co-ops. And it's nice because, you know, they want to do it. They're part of the community. It's nice. So,
014we're we're excited. Wonderful. Excellent. All right. Um employment under employment human resources and EDT item I um due to an increased interest in enrollment in the welding program which is fantastic by the way um an additional section is necessary to meet the demand. Permission is requested to approve the six-hour assignment for GCHS teacher Mark Jones to teach one section of welding for the fall 223 semester. So moved. Second. Any discussion? I will tell you that we offer two of the free classes. See if I get this right. Um that are necessary to get a welding certificate. Um and I know that Swick is offering a third one now and in the spring and they would already be able to work at some of the places. Uh meeting with her tomorrow. He's meeting pretty excited about
015it's good to see the the trade on the industrial side. I think we've got a motion on a second. We do. All right. Roll call, please. Vinnie. Hi, Kenobyl. I Curran. Hi. None. I Sey I WS I and item I two sixth hour assignment adaptive PE assignment. Permission is requested to approve the following sixth hour assignment for Daniel Robinson to teach the Grant City High School for the 22 23 school year. The number of students who require this accommodated class has grown exponentially also from moveins as well too not just within the district and requires the class to be split due to student need and safety concerns. Approval is recommended second. Any discussion? Roll call. I current. None. I Stacey I. Benny. Hi, I. Item I three, employment of high school business teacher. The interview
016committee consisting of Christy Mo, Stacy Miller, Tim Moran, Steve Matthysse request board approval to hire Miss Melanie Lman for the GCHS business teacher for the 2223 school year pending required paperwork. Are we not going? Approval is recommended. So move. Second. Motion in a second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. I. None. I. Stacy. I. Vinnie. I. Henogal. I. I. And item number four under I. Sixth hour assignment for ESSC Lake. Permission is requested to approve the following six-hour assignment for the alternative school lake educational support center. Driver safety is a requirement uh for graduation. So, this will meet that requirement for our high school students who attend Lake School. Approval is recommended for Jacob Jan to teach one section of driver safety for a 9-week period. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call? None. I Stacy
017I. Vinnie. Hi. Kenobyl. I. Currin. I. Item number nine, old business a the AIC contract approval. Okay. Um I'll give a little bit of this and then if you if my multi-grade level people would like to uh give a little bit on this as well. I know that um in fact if you just want to take it you want to take it from you. We've met as a committee for the multigraable schools Erica and Tyler and myself. Yep. So, we are um hoping to I mean obviously not rush things because whatever we decide we want to do it and do it well, but we've already begun meeting to explore options. And the next step is really to see what would be feasible, sustainable, and fiscally sound for us. And so, we're ready to move forward
018with an architectural firm um and get some rendering, some like preliminary things like they're not doing like super detailed things, but just to what could we do with these spaces? Um, it's still we're still in the very early stages, but we are operating with the hope and the goal to return to multi-grade level centers. Um, as long as it's now, okay, this won't me. I'm not trying to be an Aldi and have everybody show up neighborhood. We're looking into it. We're trying to do it, but this is going to be a multi-year process. And so, um, I think we're stepping in the right direction as a parent who lives right behind my child at school. I'm cautiously optimistic, but I'm also responsible and want to make sure that we do things right so that it's
019sustainable and can hold in the future after we secure funding of course too. Anything else you went through kind of a similar process I thought was interesting. Yes, we um as far as this architect, these are like 50% architectural drawings. So the idea is that we can get a basic overview of maybe which buildings need additions or or whatever may happen during this process so that we can move forward with hopefully something like neighborhood schools. You know, it's it's again we've got to go revisit that. It's not 40 or 50 years ago. We don't have the same number of buildings. So um but we're going to try to get as close as we can to that. I think we'll have something that that people will approve of. And um but the library did something similar
020when we renovated back in 2013 2014. And so it was spending money to get these architectural drawings so that we then had a plan. Now ours turned into we actually got some grant money off of that. But even if we had lost the grant, the idea was that okay, we've got a plan moving forward. We can attack this one. We can attack it. So anyway, I'm I'm highly optimistic on all of this. I think it's it's good. It's going to take, you know, few years, but um but we're not talking 10 years either. So, right. A lot of the idea is some kids in school will get to experience this once again. So, and I I appreciate the two of you taking this on in your committee because it's it's not an easy one. Um
021we've we've been where we are right now the learning center for a number of years uh under this current setup and it you're right it's just not like flipping a switch to jump back into multi-grade level buildings especially when we have fewer today than what we had years ago. So, um, and certain facilities, certain buildings are not geared for older students necessarily. And so, I think I think it's a very pragmatic approach here that that's being taken to to uh understand the buildings themselves, what those limitations are, what needs to be done to those in order to to see if this is even feasible. So, very good. So, the scope of the this contract with the the architects is just to evaluate the buildings to see if we move towards a multi-grade level what what
022schools would need what right? Do we have some to get those basic ideas and we get some idea what a budget looks like even with the cost of construction right now just so we have some feasibility some what are we looking at um to be able to get the funding to know what we need yeah we can't go after unless we know what we're unless you know you know you have a good ballpark figure on what you're going to need to spend and this this is not like detailed no engineering drawings or anything like that that's another level this is you know you'll get nice drawings you'll get uh some detailed information. This is dipping our toe in the water. That makes sense. And then anything we do have from them, if we do go
023with that, then we already have those plans that we can use too moving forward. And this does kind of lead into the next one we have to go through. So the discussion leads into the next one. Yeah. Any questions on this? This will still be able to address our parents who move quite a bit as well. This is we'll still have a on the particular families that seem to have that uh momentum of moving from one school to the other. We had that in the past when we did have our neighborhood school. Um and it was just as they moved from one school to another, the child's uh information uh went to that school. So there's always that nice tradeoff that we're going to still maintain that ability to keep track of kids, you know,
024and and know that their their information will follow them. Yeah, I think we have some ideas. We talk a lot. We do. We've been there late. Very good. I will need for this to move forward a motion and a second on this. Second. Second. Any additional discussion? Roll call, please. Stacy, I. Vinnie, I. Kenobyl. I. Curran. Hi. None. Imire. All right. Item 9B, Insight Education. Um, this item was tabled at the board meeting on August 23rd. We are seeking to approve um to enter into an agreement with Insight Education for the strategic planning uh for GCSD9. It's a five-year plan. It goes directly I think with what we were just talking about too. There's uh uh the amount of stakeholder organization that's involved. It's very transparent. It'll involve not just uh multi-grade level schools. It'll
025involve um anything we want to do with buildings and grounds. Uh just where we're going, what the vision is, and it involves everybody within uh stakeholders within the community. So um I've given you documents shared with you from my neighboring districts. You have those as well and their planning information. lucky to be able to know um people in that district. So um approval is recommended at this point. I like the idea that we do have people in the community community being involved in this. Oh, they will be able that is unique and we've already had some sharing from another district that has been involved in it. And I understand that there are like 24 school districts across four states that we can interact with and and find out what what works, what doesn't work, you
026know, what what things are the best. And I I just like that kind of holistic approach. And you said something about being able to use the public and having their kind of input in these different things. It's transparent third party. So they actually bring the people together. So there's someone else helping get this moving. So, yeah, I think Linda and I can and Stephanie as well can talk about the citizens advisory committee and how that ties into getting more public input on the strategic plan. So, and from there it'll be forming committees. It'll be having their input. So, I know people have been waiting, but this is the perfect opportunity to to get that going and then we develop all those things that that come out of this the strategic planning is how we move
027forward with all that communication within the district. So, I hope there's a lot of energy out there that I went through the process that we're going to tap to make this happen. A lot of people hopefully. So move. Second. Any additional discussion? Roll call, please. Vinnie. Oh. Um I I current. None. I Stacy. I And item 9 CM Wilson. [Music] Um uh we are seeking the agreement. This is I'm going to have Tom refer to this a little bit. Um anytime we have a contract is standard um American Institute of Architects, right? AIA. Yes. Okay. There are standard contracts. This is for SM Wilson. We've discussed they've been helping us with project management. It's oversight for in particular this one for the softball field project. um to make sure all the subcontractors are together. They
028provide um they've actually gone through the bids that we just opened. We're not ready for any cost because we're still going through that. This is to approve their part as a as a project manager and their oversight. So that is what this particular contract of which Tom has looked through early. This one as well as the previous one looked at and pretty much the AIA contracts are standard in the industry. Um and this one is in particular to approve it. construction manager which SM Wilson would act as our eyes and ears on on the ground out there making sure that everything is built to spec and it's the terms are favorable uh they get 4% of the total project cost you know and we can use our people so there's not something Eric Smith says
029that his guys can do we have every right to do that come back top of the project cost but they're standard contracts and that is what Eric and I did today since we opened bids. We did look to see if maybe there's something that we can do trying to save some money here. That's that's why we're still in that process. We're not sure. It might at some point it might not be cheaper to do that, but because of the product, but we are looking into that. So moved. Second. Any discussion? That's a practice field. Practice. Thank you. I think we're going to keep the BM there so we can keep the balls and stuff going. Roll call, please. Canal. I Curran. Hi. None. I Stacy I. Vinnie. Hi. Hi. Item 10 under new business. A
030permission is requested for the continuation of the school resource officer SRO for the 222 school year. It is recommended the SRO remain on the assignment of Kulage Junior High School. Expenses provide for providing this program will be covered by the district. The costs are dependent upon the seller of the officer in this assignment and approval is recommended and we have a wonderful SR pool. So move out. Second. Any discussion and just so the board members know the new board new board members that haven't done this before these three the one for the high school as well as the saber officer. These are the same contracts that have been in place uh for a number of years. They've been developed. I think probably Eric helped me out. 18 years ago, maybe that's when we first brought
031him on board. But anyway, the reason before I came here, so yeah, the reason the lake school is not on here whenever we brought back and there were some fiscal issues, we entered into a 10year agreement with the city on the uh lake SRO. I think we're in what the second year of that. Yes. So that that one does not have to be renewed if anyone is wondering why it was not on here because the city wanted a a commitment from the school district for their budgeting purposes that we wouldn't just do away do away with it two years later. Right. Approval is recommended. We already got that. And Mr. Sulie, no reason that Eric cannot vote on these on these. Okay, very good. Just wanted to clarify that the only difference then is is
032the cost of the the uh the police officer salary, right? What he makes and what we have, right? So, so every policeman's going to make a little little bit different depending on how many years they've been here, depending on won't depend on the rank in this case because they're all patrolman. But, um, you know, Officer Maui's been here 20 some odd years. He's going to make just a little bit through longevity raises than, uh, Officer Penny who is, uh, only been with us a couple years. And and the driving force that caused these this type of intergovernmental agreement to come about was uh years ago we had a police officer that got injured while on the job at the high school and the issue came who bore the cost of the workers compensation. Was it
033the city or was it the school district? Uh so if in this agreement you'll note that there is a cap on the school district's exposure for those work comp claims and that cap is for a total of $50,000. So there is a serious injury in the city. Yeah. We we had an officer the last year I was in the school who got hurt in a fight and he was out Yeah. quite some time. and and the agreements have worked out really nice and both the city as well as the school district benefited from from these types of agreements and officer Penny is our newest that's why I called him out but we are so fortunate to have some amazing SRO in our school district and the students need that so badly they have good relationships
034I think it really helps roll call please I none I Denny Hi Kenobyl I I item 8B SRO for Granite City High School. Is that is that this one? I just know I don't know. It doesn't seem to be it's it's all the way through that contract. Yeah. Well, thank you because I don't Yeah, I have C. Okay. Um, permission is requested for the continuation of the school resource officer for the 2223 school year. It is recommended the SR remaining agreement at Grand City High School. Expenses for providing this program will be covered by the district. The costs are dependent upon the salary of the officer in this assignment. Approval is recommended. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. None. I Stacy I. Denny. Hi. Henogal. I item 10 C. Saber officer of Griggsby.
035Permission is requested for the continuation of the saber program for the 2223 school year. It is recommended the saber officer remains assignment at Griggsby immediate school expenses for providing this program will be covered by the district. The costs are dependent upon the salary of the officer of this assignment. Approval is recommended. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Stacy, I. Vinnie, hi. Kenobyl, I none I Item 10D, proposed TRS supplemental savings plan. Um, authorization is requested to adopt the following resolution to enter into the TRS supplemental savings plan. This is a new benefit offered to members. Mr. Shuri, would you care to offer? It's just a new benefit for retirees or people or new employees as kind of their tier three type thing. But we have to do this. What What does it allow them?
036Uh it allows them to enter a supplemental savings plan a lot like the IMRF voluntary. It is a requirement though. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Vinnie. Hi, Kenobyl. Hi, Curran. Hi, Nun. I Stacy, I item 10E, adoption of the 2223 district number nine budget and somewhere Mr. Skoolie gave me instructions. There we go. Thank you. Um, so I think to uh we'll need a motion to temporarily adjourn the meeting. Second. And roll call. We just do it by acclamation. All All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Very good. Second. Who is the second? I think I think it Linda. Um, so we're opening the public hearing now. I'll ask for public comment associated with this. And there's no public comment on the the uh budget. had asked maybe Zach to highlight
037some other things. He said he would keep this to four hours or less. So, let me go. Hold on. I got to go get my 500page line item budget. I'm going to read it line by line. Thorough. I like All right, bud. So, this is just our budget presentation. Uh Chris, do you have a clicker? You want to just Just tell me I'll walk over there. Hold on. I can do this. So, real quick, this is just an overview. Uh, EBF increased by $650,000 this year. There is a slight change to that. EBF is evidence-based funding. That is our general thing. We had a unique situation this year. We moved from a tier one funded school, which is under 60% to a tier 2 funded school. Part of that is due to the next line
038in this where it said we had a $12 million increase to CPPRT. Now, that has been my archence since I've been here. It's up, it's down, it's all over the place. It unexpectedly doubled. Yes. And and for the viewers at home, CPRT is corporate personal property replacement tax. Thank you. Um, it unexpectedly doubled last year. They told us we were going to get $12 million. We got 24. So, but it's also slowed down all our projections on we were getting like 2.1 or $2.2 million of new EBF evidence-based funding every year. Now, we're not. So, we're throwing some of our long-term projections up and we're going to try to figure all this out and work through how we're going to do this. The thing that scares me the most about corporate personal property replacement tax
039is one year they told me I was going to get $13 million and I got seven. It just it fluctuates. And it's I had one year they told me they overpaid us and you had to pay it back. So, and because the CPPRT build it took us to tier 2 with EVF which yeah, yes. So, until everybody catches up and well I can do that at a different time that that could be a presentation for the funding formula. Um, we're using $12 million of American Recovery Plan in here. Uh, use for student and staff devices for remote learning, CO supplies, and retaining educational staff. Uh there's also some other things I'll go down as I go through the list. We had competitive wage adjustments for minimum wage increase and our minimum teacher salary increase that
040was already baked in to begin with with our collective baring agreements and our plan. Uh we put $1.5 million out of this year's budget into Griggsby's roof to complete that project. That carried over from last year. Uh the girls softball field will come from fund 20. That amount is still be determined as we're working on prices. I just didn't want to tell anybody what we were going to spend. Uh we did the football turf. 1.5 million is in this budget. Uh high school HVAC. Uh I'm working with Eric Smith. We're looking at redoing all the HVAC in the high school. uh with with SR3 or with SR3 money, we kind of were both talking and we go that's going to be a large amount of money and we have the ability to do it all
041at one fell swoop instead of trying to peace meal it with smaller amounts in years down the road. So when he asked, I go, "Yeah, I think we can do that." Uh we hired eight additional certified staff, including two CO interventionists with SR3 funds. We uh we had a good year. We only had a 1% increase to our health insurance overall cost. Uh we're looking at a camera system upgrade with SR3 funds for about a million bucks. Uh we did the front ofage on this in this budget for traffic solution and coolage which is 350,000. Uh we continued expansion of our summer school and after school programs. We'll offer extra sessions and after school tutoring with SR3 funds. Uh we put in driver's ed cars. the bolts are getting a little old and a little
042worn. Um, so the driver's ed department is looking at new cars and since it's taking forever sometimes to get a vehicle, we thought we'd try to get them going before we had a catastrophe. And then at the bottom of this, you can see additional increase in subpay. That was the the one up there was the 12 to 13. This is the $13 to $15. This was a $3 increase or $2 increase over what was projected. So those are some things that are highlighted in this budget. Um you can see revenue by fund. This is just showing the slide basically goes through you can see the how it works out. Most of our revenue goes into the ED fund and then the rest is into fund 20. Fund 10 is the ED fund. Fund 20 is
043on and m operations maintenance. And you can see that from the 2021 actual we're projecting a little more revenue than we received last year. expenditures by fund. Obviously the 22 23 budget we have a lot of expenditures popping into 20 for capital improvements. So that's why that is a dramatic increase. Um, and also just the increases in other things allowed by American Rescue Plan funds and some more additional funds with CPPRT, but decent increases. Uh, fund 10 revenue, you can see the the major change is down there in corporate personal property replacement tax. It went from about 2 million almost up to 10 million. Um, and we spread CPPRT out over a couple different funds. So, um, other than that, federal is the little uptick is we're spending a little more in American Rescue Plan
044funds. Everything else remained pretty stagnant. Fund 20 revenue, uh, we bumped up CPPRT in there as well as SR2 or SR3 funds. Sorry, I missed an three. Um, and that's accounts for the increase in revenue there. And I'm just going to highlight operating funds. Operating is ED, O andM, and transportation. That's pretty much where all the action happens. Uh, fund 40, same thing. We increased uh, CPPRT just in case we needed to cover some of our increased expenditures. Um, we haven't had a normal busing year in a while, so we're not quite sure where this is going to actually land when it does, but we wanted to be prepared. So, when we were we look back to pre- pandemic to come up with those numbers, fund 10 expenditures, obviously a slight uptick in salaries and
045benefits as um we've had some wage increases, trying to stay competitive with sub rates and other rates. Um everything else is pretty stagnant with incre few increased costs here or there drivers had cars but everything else is pretty much where it was last year. Fund 20 expenditures again slight uptick in salary and benefits. Uh the 300's shows down. Uh that's purchase services. They put uh in the grant they wanted us to move uh a capital improvement into there because of I don't know why it wouldn't have been where I put it but it's where they put it. They tell you where to put it and I did. But uh 400's about the same uh which is uh supplies and materials. And then 500 you can see that is way up. that is hopefully going to
046be about $11 million of capital improvements throughout the district and some of that will go into the following year as well. Uh fund 40 expenditures. Um you can see where the actual was uh 300s is our purchase services. Everything we do is contractual with busing. So that all falls under purchase services. Um we budgeted a little. We came in under budget last year with some of the oddities that we've had in our transportation. It doesn't surprise me, but I just wanted to make sure we were covered for this year. So, I bumped that budget up a little bit just to just so we weren't surprised. And the uh 400 supplies of materials that has increased a little because fuel prices have increased. That's pretty much all gasoline or diesel. Uh items for consideration. When I
047did this budget, obviously staffing, staffing, and staffing. um maintaining competitive wages, doing what we need to do to make sure we keep attracting top level staff that we have been. That's number one on most people's mind down here all the time. Uh infrastructure concerns, capital improvements. Um I did a lot of budget presentations with no infrastructure or capital improvements. I'm actually feeling pretty good that we're getting some stuff done. You can see some progress. It has been very nice. Uh, I feel pretty good and we have some additional funds that if we had a catastrophic thing, we could fix or repair correctly, not just patch. Good. Uh, one sustainability. Um, at some point, um, when the American Rescue Plan money runs out, we're going to have to probably look at how we do our one
048to one, see, analyze what's working, what's not working, and then kind of figure out what we can afford, what we can't afford. Hopefully, we can keep it going for a long time. Uh scaling back after CARES and avoiding a financial cliff. We're in pretty good shape to do that right now. We will be able to back our way. We could take what we have from CARES that we can't just stop doing uh with staff or if something's working, we don't want to stop it. We can pull those people back onto the district's budget right now pretty easily and then analyze from there without having to do like a hard stop like, oh, nope. This position is just gone. So, we feel kind of really good. Um, and then I will update some projections based on
049tier 2 status. I'll probably do that when we do the levy. Um, just to further explain how that's going to play out. Um, it's a little odd to me. And then questions. [Music] I'm ready. It's balanced. Huh? Oh, it's balanced. It's balanced. Talk just a little bit if you would about the American Rescue Plan funding and and what you foresee of how this starts to dwindle or or phase out or or what? When as we've done these, we've tried to get it to where it was capital, but you have to we wanted to make sure we maintained low class sizes and that we provided additional learning opportunities for students after school and that we could help where we needed and add the supports we needed for our staff. Um, we've added duty teachers uh when
050they were eating in classrooms and stuff like that. We have done after school programs, reading clubs. Uh Koolage has done uh after school homework help. Um electives back. Yeah, we brought we brought electives back. We we have done all kinds of stuff with this. So, there's probably about, let's just say, $4 million of salaries that we have been able to flex up and provide lower class sizes and everything. Because of this, we've been able to buy devices. We've probably spent we I know the first 2 million bucks that we got from the American Rescue Plan one or the CARES one went to devices and staff devices because without it we wouldn't have had the Chromebooks and hotspots and hotspots. Uh that was the digital divide, right? But we still have um the second one um
051did a lot of networking stuff. It did more devices uh so we could rotate through and then about two and a half $3 million of salary and after school programs. Um we paid we paid for 18 teachers that we retained last year out of the cares too. Um we flex that up a little bit more this year. Um we're paying for about 38 staff members. So, we have shifted some stuff and it's kept class sizes lower and kept our building staffed which has allowed us to do other things with that money for capital projects and stuff. So, being able to put that money into salaries was very helpful for us to make upgrades and we foresee that for at least the future. We were able to retain our staff without having to reduce That also
052did that also include the training of the staff in the very beginning. Yes, there there's tech there's tech support in there. There was a lot of student support in there were the uh the tier one to tier two thing. I know you said CPRT is like pretty random. If it goes back down next year, do we automatically go back to tier one or is there like a number? Yes, we would. But here's my fear with that. We go up based upon corporate personal property replacement tax. If it's EBF, the evidence-based funding formula is designed to where you can't go backwards. So they promise you your amount of EBF next year and then once it increases, they promise it again. The problem with corporate personal property replacement tax is it's not guaranteed. If it goes down,
053then we would just be out that money. So, if we had $12 million of additional staff used with that money and it went away, we wouldn't have $12 million. And corporate and EBF wouldn't come up to meet that number. We'd go back to probably getting 2 million a year. So, it would take us five, six years to get back to that number. So, what I'm trying to do is just make sure we have enough if it if it goes back down, we have time with fund balances and reserves to where we're not making drastic cuts. Are there restrictions between the evidence-based funding and the corporate personal property placement tax as far as what the money can be spent on or otherwise? Nope. They're all considered general funds for us. Other questions? Just a comment. Two
054comments. One was a great presentation. Excellent overview. My little school finance brain was following everything you're saying. So, thanks for that. And two, as a longtime student and teacher here, especially when we were in our very lean times, I actually really enjoyed the budget presentation because it's good news and I it makes me feel very good as a citizen to know that we're being really smart and we're doing some really great things with what we have. I cut the first 20 years I was here. When I was in tech or finance, I cut for 20 years. The paper company should be paying us cuz we have cut paper so much. They should be paying us, but I have cut for 20 years. I don't ever want to do that again. It was brutal. Thank you.
055Great job. Thank you. Thank you very much. And again, I think this underscores the uh the importance of what's gotten done here in the last couple years from infrastructure perspective, capital improvement perspective, and everything else. So, the buildings are looking great, the district is looking great. So, we appreciate that. Any additional questions? All right. If not, I will need a motion to reconvene the regular board meeting. So move. Second. And roll call, please. Kenoval. I. Curran. I. None. I. Stacy. I. Denny. Hi. Hi. And now I will need a motion to adopt the resolution and the District 9 budget. So move. Second. And roll call, please. Kenoval. I. Curran. I. None. I Stacey. Hi, Vinnie. Hi, Hi. And Mr. Sulie, thank you for walking me through all that. I appreciate that. Uh, item 10F is
056the FY23 school maintenance project grant program. Yes. Uh, the administration is seeking authorization to apply for the school maintenance project grant program and to reserve $50,000 from operations and maintenance fund 20 for matching funds required for the application. The school maintenance project grant is a matching funds grant with awards up to $50,000. This year the grant will be used for door security hardware uh prox readers at all locations which we are in desperate need of. So we're happy that we're able to do that. Approval is recommended. So move second. Motion a second. I guess just one question if I understand there's a 50/50 grant. So we're putting up 50,000. It's truly a 50/50 because we're putting up 50,000 and we're getting 50,000. So very good. And it's allows me the locks and the the access
057just needs teaching. What is the prox Mr. Curran? Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Basically, what let you in the door? That's what I was going to say. One thing, too, is there's some people who are like, well, you don't really need those. You just get keys because blah blah blah. And it's like, well, here's the deal. If you lose a key to one of those doors, you don't know who picked it up. If you lose an access control card or or wristband or whatever you have, you just deactivate the card and you move on. You don't have to worry about rekeying everything because somebody misplaced a key. Then we can tell who's coming in and who's in the building and when. And plus when you're carrying all those bags, I don't have time to get a
058key out, you know. Yeah. I always have I every day. Who sees me? Every day I walk in. Yeah. She knows. It's a good swipe. Roll call, please. Karn. Hi. None. I Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Canal. I I item 10G contract with Chestnut Health Systems. This is a pretty neat thing. Uh counselors from Chestnut Health Services have provided services to students in the Grand School District for seven years. They do that around the area as well. They're great organization. They see students twice a week in Gran City High School, twice a week at Griggsby, and provide services at Kage one day a week. This year, Chesna Health Services asking for a $10,000 annual fee to help in continuing these services. But due to the extreme difficulty of finding a school social worker and counselor, we've
059had it posted for I think 12 10 months or something right now. Um we are recommending the board approve this agreement. Uh Mr. Skoolie has reviewed the attached contract. That really is a reasonable price for the amount of support we get from them for our kids. I don't think I could even put a price on what they do for our students. And not being able to find staff right now, this is just a a really nice uh thing for us to be able to do. So move second. Any discussion? Uh I know chestnut works with student council a lot. Oh, they do. And um I know that we like the outreach that they do, but I do know that a lot of stu students do not know what they do. At least like in my
060classes and stuff because chestnut has handed some like items out to raise awareness of what their mission is. And for the most part, their mission is like trying to stop teenage drinking and drug use. A lot of students don't know what that is. So like I hope that we're able to like put that mission out more and I know student councils have trouble putting it out too sometimes. So okay. Well then thank that's really good information because I'll make sure when they come in that there's more um talking about that and get that out. Maybe warrior time could even do a little talk on that too. Thank you. That's really good point. Out of curiosity, um, we have twice at high school, twice at once at Coolage. Is that based on like me or how
061is how are those frequencies determined? We know that they've done high school's always been twice, but I don't know why is one. Two social workers. In the past, we've had a referral system. Yeah. With them and and it was just based on need and how many hours we might need to reook at that they needed to be at the high school. And then one comment um just for people watching, our our difficulties finding social workers and counselors are not unique to this district. It's everywhere. So I don't feel like it's a granite city problem per se. I mean we feel it, but I feel like this is a a really great solution, you know, partnership with the community resource to fill in that gap. They are local. They help a lot of districts. But I
062love what you said. So we'll make sure we figure out how we can get the message out. And I I just want to mention I sitting parent teacher conference just recently with social worker and building principal and and teacher and it's absolutely incredible what can be accomplished when parents ask for a parent teacher conference even if it's not conference time. Uh it's it's just when you're noticing a problem, you have to do something about it. And the best way to do that is to contact your social worker at the school or the teacher at the in that room. So, uh, I'm I'm I was very pleased with the results of our meeting. They were wonderful. Very good. Thank you for the comments. We appreciate it. Zack, roll call, please. None. I, Stacy, I, Vinnie. I,
063Kenobyl. I, Curran. I abstain item eight, I'm sorry, 10H, additional duty assignment for K to 4. Okay. Um, we spent quite a bit of time, Dr. Ke and I looking at this and the rest of the ED team. We are asking for additional duty teacher each half hour, which we had during CO during the lunch recess hours at K4 buildings. Um, this first year really back from COVID. Students are eating at cafeteria rather than eating in the cafeteria and classrooms. First and second grade students have really never had a traditional lunch recess. Third graders haven't since they were in first grade ended in March of 2020. We are really seeing a need for additional supervision at this time. So we'd really like to add that position to those buildings. So move second. Any discussion? I
064know that during lunch uh there's you know there's less structure because they're sitting side by side and this is when kids sometimes get in trouble and it can be it can be improved if they have more obvision from someone that is watching over the whole room. Yeah, it's it's that unstructured time that really causes a problem. Roll call, please. Stacy. Hi, Vinnie. Hi, Kenobyl. I Curran. Hi. None. I item 10. I emergent learning. I'm going to go through this quickly, but I might refer to um Mrs. Watkins. We respectfully request the approval to extend the scope of the contract with Dr. Mark Dixon, his group called Emergent Learning. It includes contracting of three behavior technicians. These specialists will potentially be utilized in classrooms at Prather, Mayorville, and Griggsby. the need for the classroom support has
065exceeded that's an understatement um of our current staffing capabilities. So once again we're having to try to find resources outside the district because we can't find people to apply. By adding these behavior technicians who are trained really well in these types of behaviors to um to specific classrooms we'll be able to provide the needed support for our teachers to keep them both students and staff safe. Um the cost of contracting is 35 per hour. Do you want to add anything to that? Um, um, yes. So, um, Dr. Dixon came to the district with me and we went around to the different schools, made some observations. Um, I know I had mentioned three schools, but we may need to switch one of those out, so we need a little flexibility with that. Um, he offered u
066some of his behavior technicians. Um, this is something that they're starting to do in another school district that's local. Um, it's working well for them. Um the behavior technicians would be in the classroom to be an extra set of hands, but also to specifically target um maybe some negative behaviors that are happening and to also educate our staff and how to manage some of those long term. Um with this contract, they are asking for a one school year commitment um to keep the people on on staff with us for the for for the school year. And we don't have our own people to replace our pair of pro subs are zero. We're we're operating in classrooms without proper staff. We continue to look for parapros. This is not replacing any type of pair of professional
067position. We talked about that last year when we extended our contract with Maxim to be able to um contract with them for par profofessional support. I reached out to them and they are actively recruiting for us. they have no one on staff currently able to fill those position needs either. Um I've also now reached out to um the Division of Rehab Services, Vocational Rehab. Um and so I'm giving them information about applying uh to our district to be par professionals or to work as custodians or to work in the cafeteria. It doesn't have to just be in special education. Um so they will be um actively recruiting for us as well and we're looking at mer goodwill is another they will partner with the division and our unions are aware so we've already spoken with
068them too like said we're not replacing anyone we just it's not replacing it's it's absolutely and if we can get someone in who applies then that's filling a position right they're still taking now is this just in the classroom or in the hallways in the cafeteria everywhere this is for pair profession this theh behavior technician will be assigned specifically to a classroom, okay, to deal with that. And then if we see that we've made growth in that classroom, um then maybe we can look and see where our next situation is and we can rotate from there. Um because once we have them for a one-year school commitment, then we can use somewhere where where they are needed. Thank you. Approval is recommended. Yeah, I think we need a motion on a second. [Music] I'm sorry.
069I was I was lost there for a minute. So be it. So are we giving that to Eric? Yeah, we are. Fine. [Music] All right. Any additional discussion? Roll call, please. Vinnie, I none. I Stacy I item 10J is for the possible appointment of a new board member. We um I guess maybe to kind of fill everybody in there, we've um have a vacancy on the board. We had numerous applicants, which is fantastic. great applicants that that did apply for this. Uh we've been going through a process. Uh tonight we started u kind of cold it down tonight. We had interviews. We are not yet ready to make an announcement. Um so we will be talking about that further in executive session uh at the conclusion of this meeting. We will make an announcement tonight
070uh following this uh executive session. So I know you all don't want to wait up too late, but uh we'll we will come back on at some point. I don't know what time that's going to be. We do have a couple of other items in executive session tonight. So, do we need a vote to table this or we just we just hold it for executive session. And again, I want to thank everybody who did apply. We got great just phenomenal candidates for this. It was wonderful to see that much interest and being a school board member it's got to be the page. Yeah, it's got Okay. Item number 11, reports and other communication uh FOYA requests. Uh we received two requests under the freedom of information act during the period of August 17 through September
07120th 22. First request was received on August 25th 22 from Annie Ma. Uh she requested the following information. Data regarding the number of student expulsions held in obeyance or any other term used to describe student expulsions which have been temporarily suspended contingent on student compliance with the behavior contract, alternative school or program etc. in the district for each school year between 2016 and 2021, including raw total raw data by race, white, black, African, American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, Native, Hawaiian, or the Pacific Islander, American Indian, Alaskan, Native, two or more races, raw data by gender, male, female, other, raw data for students with an IEP and nonie. Raw data for students by grade in school, pre-K to 12, and raw data for students placed in alternate educational program. copies of any policies or standard agreements
072or expulsions held in advance contingent upon placement in alternative educational program or any other similar term or practice. The second request was received on September 16th, 2022 from Jennifer Richards. She requested the following information. Records sufficient to show the number of incidents of all student referrals to law enforcement for each of the 2018 1919 1920 2021 2122 school years. Records sufficient to show the number of instance of student arrest by law enforcement by each of the 2018-19 1920 2021 2122 school years. Records sufficient to show the number of instance in which a student was cited or ticketed by law enforcement for an ordinance violation for each of 1819 1920 2021 21-22. These requests were all handled by the administration. Very specific and straightforward. So thank you. Appreciate that. Um, at this time I will entertain
073a motion to go into executive session for um exceptions under 2C1 employment and appointment and employee discipline. I said second by all in favor say I. Those opposed. Very good. We are in position.