001Okay, welcome to the board of education meeting for Tuesday, July 25th, 2023. Um, can we have a roll close call? Yeah, we're here. Stacy here. Currin here. Canobyl here. Lman here. Vinnie here. Hannah is not here. Silva here. Bradley here. Okay, we have a quorum. And if everyone please rise for the pledge of allegiance followed by the invocation by Daniel Mania of St. Gregiance 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. This is Father Tany Mikan of St. Gregory Church. Uh thank you for having me with you today. I will do the invocation. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Almighty Lord, we ask you to
002guide our reflection, action, and endeavors. And we ask you for your guidance in deliberation and all the decisions of this body because a strong, wise, healthy and visionary leadership is essential for the well-being of our schools in Granite City. Give us your wisdom, O Lord, to speak, do, and think all which is good in your sight, especially in all the decisions we are about to make today for the benefit of our school's district. Today with thanksgiving and praise we ask you Lord to bless this precious city especially the schools employees students and their families keeping them all away from visible and invisible enemies forever and ever. Amen. Thank you father. Okay open up the room for public comment. body has anything. You take it away. Okay. Have some exciting things to present tonight and to
003talk about. I would first love to call up our former student uh student advisory board member, Miss Kaitlyn. So, I'm going to have Caitlyn explain a little bit of this, but in June, how far after graduation? Not many days after graduation. Probably like three weeks out. You ventured to Phoenix for Why don't you explain exactly? I have it on here, but it probably be better coming for me. So, in roughly the middle of June, I was fortunate enough to compete at the National Speech and Debate Tournament in Phoenix, Arizona. Now, a lot of you will hear the name speech and debate and think that we're just going to argue about things and talk about pointless nonsense. Well, I'm a professional about talking about pointless nonsense. We here Yeah. We were competing against other people who
004have been doing this activity, some for many years. I've done it all four years throughout high school personally and in different categories. Some can be informative. That's what I competed in. I completed an expository which is an informative speech that's roughly five minutes long and you can write about anything you want as long as you don't use a visual aid. I personally decided to write about the color pink because you know who doesn't love the color pink just a little bit. And there's other forms of competition. I believe next month they'll be having Anna who also competed with me um and she'll probably explain her area of competition as well better than I can probably explain it. But it was a very great experience for me. I liked being able to meet tons of kids
005who are just like me from all around the country. And we all have this one love for this activity. Like personally, I love this activity. And you know, there's for some reason some high schoolers watching at home join speech and debate next year. And we have some great sponsors who weren't able to make it tonight. We have Miss Amy Penel Davis and Mr. Wesley Copper. Correct. They both accompanied them to We were able to send them I even facetimed them with a couple times to see how they were doing. I'm very excited about what was going on. And you were all over the place, right? There wasn't just one location. Like they went in, they were at different locations throughout Phoenix. It was very strenuous and you guys were pretty amazing. So, we wanted to
006at least recognize because you placed what out of how many eventually? Um 30 out of I believe roughly like 462 in my event. Right. AC. Yeah. She's up there with people she doesn't know with a group of I used to uh coach mock trial which was excruciatingly difficult to sit and watch um because you're just so nervous and it's amazing what what these young people can accomplish and you know watching you and hearing you Miss Penel just sent me a clip I don't think you know that but trying to uh see some of that. We're just so very proud of what you're going to be doing to She's a student that just This isn't all she did, okay? She was involved in so many different things. Band, student council, keep going. Theater theater. Yeah. Plays.
007If you watch the play, she was in both those major parts. What was your the person's name you were at in the last I was accent. And she had some interesting interesting parts. She nice southern accent, too. But anyway, this is an amazing accomplishment. We hate to see Caitlyn go. We're so looking forward to what she accomplishes in the next four years. So, this is for you. Um, placing top three of the nation for expository speaking. David, what are your future plans? Oh, yeah. Listen, tell this is exciting. Be attending Missou University of Missouri this fall. I'm going to be majoring in social studies, secondary education, so I'm hoping to be a teacher one day. I'm also majoring in journalism, and I'm hoping to minor in theater as well because I'm very passionate about it.
008So, I'm excited for that. We are, too. Congratulations. Thank you so much for being here today. We wish you well, too. We'll have to see. You have to check in. An amazing career here at GCS. GCHS. She was an incredible student. Um, also tonight I wanted to welcome again uh we are very fortunate in this community to have an industry here that has our our city has grown around it. Uh many of our families have been directly touched uh by this industry. My own father worked for 43 years in accounting at Granite City US Steel. Um I know so many people here probably have someone who worked there. Um I think it's really incredible and commendable how much you give back to the schools. Um I know Miss Samson, Robin Samson, if you'd want to
009come up, Mr. Mike Patton. And we're fortunate enough tonight also to have Mr. Craig McCory also from the corporate. So if you guys could come on up, we'd really appreciate it. [Applause] Like I said, uh, so if you want to maybe introduce and say where where corporate is and explain some of that to us, maybe. Sure. Um, I'm Craig McClary from, uh, I'm director of employer relations for a couple different facilities. Um, but our corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I've worked at headquarters responsibilities and other plant responsibilities here in Granite, Minnesota, Indiana. are kind of all over. And so then you are our HR person here in Granite City, correct? The only one for all these people. So her job is and if you don't forget a couple months ago, we have the check
010that uh she does a lot of public service and what's philanthropy for US Steel. And so she won an award and she chose to give her her winnings to the district as well to help with reading instruction. So our reading interventionist got to utilize that money. They have some pictures of some of the stuff they brought that we'll have for you soon, too. So, we're so appreciative in this particular case. And Mike Patton, who is the plant manager? Doesn't sound like a general general general plant manager. That sounds better, right? I work for Robin. We graduated pretty close together, too. So, uh, so, um, they do such a good job taking care of. So, this particular time um they are um presenting us with $10,000 to help with our athletic department. Would like to have
011Mr. John Mode come up and Mr. Jim McHen have John Mo is our athletic director and Mr. Mcristian is the new high school principal. They're going to be the big recipient. Cool. This is John Christian. Nice to meet you. I think I didn't get the memo on the dark floor. So, um, John, like I said, we've been talking about this and there's just a lot of stuff right now. We had a some teams that need we have a rotation, but it goes a little thin and sometimes they'll get shirts, but not bottoms or so. Right now, I know funding is always needed. Uh, we know that in all our athletic uh teams and this is going to help tremendously, especially with PE with equipment that can enhance the PE department and uh it's going to
012be put to good use. our kids are going to uh be very pleased with the donation. Thank you very much. It's really great right now. We need some like ping pong tables and some uniforms. It's a really good timing of your part. So, um and and Mr. Christian, this is our new high school principal. So, um I think he's going to be happy to have this native. We'll excuse that. But uh we wanted to do something because this isn't the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth time that you guys have donated to our school district. And in my mind, uh that just means a lot to our communities as well. So we sort of wanted you to we have something we call the GCSD9 partner education. So we really wanted to present you with that
013is helping us with uh all this um stuff that you're giving us for today. All the money you've given us and all the support. I know they did a school drive with the steel workers as well. Every year there's something that they're doing for our students and our staff. So we are very appreciative. [Applause] He's going to go for stand. All right. Thank you. Thank you guys for what you do. Thank you so much. Appcate. Nice meeting you. That was pretty And from there move on to the approval of the minutes for June 27th. Second. Okay. We have to do roll call on this one. No. No. Okay. Okay. All those in favor? I those opposed. Okay. Um and then the consent agenda which is uh the items that are repetitive and routine in nature.
014Any member may make a motion to approve the consent agenda or request that any of the items be moved to section seven for individual discussion and consideration. This is the bill and generous we just received. Do I have a motion? Call on this one. Uh Stacey, I move on to Uh skip seven, we're on recommendations and communications for human resources. Uh resend uh 8A resend retirements and resignations. It is recommended that the following retirements and resignations be rescended. Cherry Collander Cafe GCHS effective 62824 Bruce Frank health and drivers ed teacher GCHS resend 2627 Aron Kinsey administrative assistant office. and any discussion call I No, I Silva. Hi, Bradley. Hi, Stacey. Hi. Okay. 8B, retirements and resignations. It is recommended that the following retirements and resignations be accepted. Maline Barski, kindergarten teacher, Prager, resignation effective 6:3023.
015John Bashard, construction teacher, GCHS, retirement end of 2728. Sher Colander, Cafe, GCHS, retirement end of 83123. Rochelle Olri, second grade teacher, Margo, retirement end of 2324. Laura Evansson, library coolage, resignation end of 2223. Bruce Frank, health and drivers ed teacher, GCHS, retirement end of 2526. Erin Kinsey, administrative assistant admin office, retirement 21728. Megan Harton, prepare professional prayer, resignation 7523. Emma Lorton, eighth grade science teacher, cool junior high school resation 71023. Lisa Miller, GCHS English teacher, retirement in 2728. And a day of war, parent professional GCHS resation effective 7123. So any discussion roll I silva hi Bradley I Stacey I Okay 8C requests for leaves of absence. It is recommended that the following requests for leaves of absence be approved. Aaron Wter, sixth grade teacher, Britsby activate 1423 to 11623. Austin Pelazari, custodian bricksby 42423 to
01671723. Stacy Rollins, pair professional at GCHS effective 81423 to 11623 and Ron Weaver, custodian at Throwart effective 61323 through 9523. We have a motion. Second. Okay. Any discussion? And roll call. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. Stacey. Hi. Hi. Hi. And 8 D. Requests for extensions to leaves of absence. It is recommended that the following requests for extension to lease of absence be approved. Austin, custo to 1092. So move second discussion roll call Vinny I Silva I Stacy Hi hi Noble hi hi 8 extracurricular resignations for the 2324 school year have received detailed information about this item below the administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session the GCS CS9 administration is recommending that the following extracurricular resolutions for the 2324 school year be accepted. Scott Andre, assistant girls basketball coach.
017Max Kipper, assistant boys golf coach. And Emorten, assistant girls basketball coach. So move second. Any discussion? Call IC. I Um, we're on 8F extracurricular recommendations for the 2324 school year. The GCST9 administration is recommending that the following extracurricular assignments for the 2324 school year be approved. You've received detailed information about this item below. The administration is prepared to make the recommendations or hold. There are quite a few. They are lunch quarter duties and some uh sports positions. I don't know if you want to read those. You should probably read the coach. The coaches ready. Uh Danielle Dew, high school assistant girls volleyball coach. Linda Ames, high school student council. John Moan, high school athletic director, district athletic director. Eric Hill, GCS assistant athletic director. Tom Miller, GCHS head boys track coach. Kindle Lions, assistant boys
018track coach the high school. Corey Bird, GCHS head girls track coach. Earl Clark, GCHS assistant girls track coach. Jake Janet, GCHS assistant floer track coach. Rocky Caribbean, GCHS head boys tennis coach. Alex Boer, GCHS assistant boys tennis coach. Justin Warren, GCHS head boys volleyball coach. Ginger Harrison is GCHS assistant boys volleyball coach. Ken Prasma, GCHS head girls soccer coach. Barry Brody, GCHS assistant girls soccer coach. Tim Henson, GCHS assistant girls soccer coach. Scott Smallley, GCHS head baseball coach. Jeff Ren Rdenower, GCHS assistant baseball coach. Mark Wilson, GCHS assistant baseball coach. Brandon Robinson, assistant baseball coach. Mike Bryant, assistant baseball coach. Tim Wilson, GCHS head softball coach. Ed Connelly, GCHS assistant softball coach and Phily GC GCHS assistant soft coach Keith Boyd Coolage assistant basketball coach second any discussion roll call Bradley IC Hi. Hi. No.
019I HG extracurricular volunteers for the 2324 school year. I mean, there's detailed information about this item below. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or to hold the discussion in executive session. The administration is recommending the following extra curricular volunteers for the 2324 school year group. I kind of want to read them because they are volunteers. I think that says a lot. I just want to I just want to go over those. So Erin Miller, Greet Alliance, Amy Pel Davis, Tespian Club, Linda Ames, Renaissance sponsor. The rest of these people will be Renaissance sponsors. I'm not going to say Renaissance after all of them. Okay. So, uh, Amy Heath, Liz Sissio, Cindy Desper, Chris Harrison, Ginger Harrison, Jamie Pamat, Tracy Hill, Natalie Rushing, Ashley Richie, Samantha Hubard, Kelly Hutchkins, Chris Hutchkins, Sean Neville, and Amy
020Warren. Amber, oh, I'm so sorry. I know Amber. Also, Junior High School, Tim Wilson, and Lindsay D. So, we really appreciate them taking their time out and volunteering to help our students. Can we just explain just so we all understand uh Mr. Wilson and uh Mr. Dittle, they're softball coaches for and they're volunteers because it goes for so long, right? Yeah. New programs are for three years. They have new programs for three years. That's why they're volunteers. So, that's even more to approve. Any discussion? Roll call. Stacy. Hi. Hi. Noble. Hi. Hi. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. Okay. 8h. Granite City High School student workers co-ops for the 23 24 school year. This is a great program. We have received detailed information about the site. Administration is prepared to make recommendations open discussion executive session.
021The GCS9 administration has recommended the following student workers for the 23 20 24 school be approved. It's really nice I think that we can employ students within our district to help within our district. Some of these are male students as well to help. Yes, it really makes a big difference to the other students. So I just having said that I hope I pronounce all of these correctly. Milton Della Zedro Sebastian, Mia Leon, McKenzie Munz, and Marley Mara. Discussion. Hi. I Okay. Um, eight I certified and classified substitutes. And there are a bunch. I mean, I'd love to read them all, but we would like to do that here. I think there are 173. Yeah. So, it is recommended and we're very happy to recommend the following of applicants be for the substitute for the 232
022school year. These are ones that have done that before plus new, Mr. Parker, is that correct? Do you have any idea about how many managed to pull in this year? Anyway, they're all on here and we are super appreciative of all of them, but there are a lot to read about. So, Any discussion? Roll call. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Bradley. Hi. Stacey. Hi. Hi. Okay. HJ policies. The policy committee which will be Linda and girls. Who's else on there? Becky. Oh, Erica. Sorry. Was recommending approval of the following policies which you already discussed and they were from last time which is policy. So they are listed below for your preview. You had them a month ago. So yeah, a lot of the these are kind of updated for legal reasons to make sure that we're
023in compliance with state law. Anything that's changed that way, nothing exciting, just keeping everything nice and legal. I like the one about they really just laid it all out. They come from We have a two lawyers called press that oversees these and make sure compiance with any laws. Those have to be approved. Yeah. We have a motion. Second. Any more discussion? We approve both March and June at the same time. Have to have separate vote. Well, I mean, they're listed under policies. They were just delineated out March and June. I don't know if I The entire Oh yeah, they were listed as one group. I think one motion I Many I Silva. Hi Bradley. Hi Stacey. Hi Curin. Hi. Hi. Okay. 8K1 employment of title one aids two for the 23 24. You received information
024about this item below. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. This position will work with parameters of the title one grant. That's it sponsored. This will be a part-time position and pay for the title one grant not to exceed $15 per week. The GCSD9 administration and interview committee consista executive director of frequent professional development and Dr. Principal Marble Education Center are recommending the appointment of Miss De Mendoza and Autumn Sink as Title One a for the 2324 school year. Second discussion. Will they be at different schools? They're going to be at two different schools. Roll call. I Stacy. Hi. Hi. No. Hi. Hi. Okay. 8K2, the employment of four pair of professionals for the 2324 school year. Uh you received detailed information about this item below. We're prepared
025to make recommendations to hold the discussion in executive session. GCSD9 administration interview committee consisting of Miss Juliki, special education regimen supervisor, and Stephanie Byer, special education coordinator are recommending the employment of the following candidates as pair professionals for the 23 24 year. Miss Laura Carr, Miss Kimberly Jackson, Miss Ashton Richardson, and Miss Helen Thomas. Approval is recommended submission. Second discussion. Roll call. Silva. I Stacy. Hi. Hi. No. I Okay. 8K3. the employment of Kulage Junior High School 8th grade science teacher for the 23 24 school year. You have received detailed information on the item below as well. The administration has prepared make recommendations for hold discussion executive session. The GCS United administration and the interview committee consisting of Dr. David Keel, Mr. Pat Curry, principal High School, Miss Megan Letin, assistant principal High School, and
026Mr. Tony Dodd, science teacher at P Junior High School, are recommending the employment of Tina Pettis as the eighth grade science teacher at Junior High in the 2324 school year. Approval is recommended pending the submission of required paperwork. Second discussion call. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. I still Okay. 10 A the school improvement plans for fiscal year 24. Um you received the information below about this item. We are prepared to make recommendations or open for discussion executive session. U due to the Illinois State Board of Education, school designation and funding provided through title one part A section 10003 school improvement of the every child s student succeeds act Illinois power Wilson Mitchell and GCHS are required to submit an annual school improvement plan. It's called SIP to our board of education also included but are not
027required to report per guidelines or favor. You can see these reports under separate cover and approval is recommended. So second discussion not really pertaining to approval or not of these but I don't know the frequency but over the course of the year I'd like to hear updates on how these are going. Okay presentations and David rolly. Hi Curin. Hi Leman. Hi Vinnie. I hi Bradley. Hi. Okay. 10B title one aids for the 2324 school year. You have received information below about this item. We are prepared to make recommendations or discussion in executive session. A title one age for the 23 21st school year. The rates for the school year will be $15 per hour for those without a bachelor's degree and For those only title 8 works only on days when students are in attendance.
028Um these are the recommended title for 24 school year. Miss Dana Allen Cochran Cheryl Lindsy Lisa Minkait second just that there are lots of names that have been on here for years. It's really great isn't it? I think Kristen can attest to that. I think she's always happy and they do a great job. So, thank you. Hi, Noble. Hi, Lynon. Hi, Vinnie. I Silva. Hi, Bradley. Hi, Stacey. Hi. Okay, I'm just saying that because uh 10 C fiscal year 23 school district library grant. It's great that we get this up. I am pleased to inform you the greatest city community school district has received the FY23 school district library grant in the award of $4,867.94. The school district library grant provides supplementary support for school district's library media program to enhance student learning and academics.
029Grant funds are typically used for the acquisition of library materials to support reading for academics and enjoyment. Library subscriptions to electronic resources or library based technology to support student research. Acceptance of this grant is respectfully requested. So discussion I did have a question who now I know I noticed residing. Do we have a librarian? is the high school for for she was at Koolage. Yeah. Um I don't So the other are we going to have anybody to replace her or just teachers going to take their classes? Just interested. Pat's looking for someone now. Yeah, they'll they'll replace her if they can replace her. But yeah, it's pretty exciting especially with the new technology. We appreciate And if you're sad that you can't use the school library, you can always [Music] 2001. Not that he knows
030anything about Oh, we have the first So, any more discussion? Roll call. Iman. Hi. Vinnie. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Current. Hi. Uh 10 D sixth hour assignment ESSC Lake School. You have received detailed information about this item below. We are prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. Permission is requested to approve the following six-hour assignment for the fall semester at Essex Lake School, ECC, ESSC Lake School. This assignment allows us to make the opportunities equitable to Grand City High School. The additional compensation will be paid with TF grant monies. David, do you want to explain why we did this and what a great opportunity this is for those kids in LA? Yes. And we started off with Christy mode in that position because she was the one who
031actually taught work co-op at the uh Virginia at the high school. And then when she became an administrator, Candace Parker became the um teacher for work co-op. And so we moved uh we took her six-hour assignment, which is her first hour of the day. She goes to Lake uh during her first hour, and she teaches a work co-op class to the students there who have jobs. She finds jobs, helps finds jobs for students there also. And they get a credit for that course. They get a half a credit for the course, but then they get a credit each semester for having a job. So it kind of takes the place of two electives and that's always been a huge benefit at the Grand City High School. So now Dr. Harris and myself u two years
032ago brought uh Christy mode over for that and started that program there. Very equitable. I mean it makes that grow for those kids too and I think that's very important. It helps them get credit earlier and we talked about that at that last presentation with that as well and um I don't know probably in another nine weeks or so Nick and I have already been talking about it patrol about uh we have driver safety. We'll do a a six-hour assignment for driver safety also. So, we want to make sure that those students at at Lake, those high school students, that they're getting, you know, as much as they possibly can some of the same benefits that uh that they would get at the Grand High School. So, I'm sorry. For local 743 contact contract, we
033are recommending that Candace Parker have the $46. Roll call. Hi, Benny. I suffer. Hi, Noble. Hi. Okay. Uh 10E GCSD9 handbooks for fiscal year 24. Uh the building administrative teams have aligned the student handbooks with the Illinois principles association model student handbook as well as any new programs that have been approved by the board of education. The IPA model handbook is attorney drafted and fully aligned with press used for policy as well. The Illinois Association of School Board School District Policy Service as well as state, federal, and case law that change on a frequent basis. We have updated the language as necessary. Um, copies were emailed to the board of educ board of education on Thursday for review. I think that we use the Illinois principles association model handbook because it makes sure we're in
034compliance in so many different ways and doesn't open up the district to liability. Um, it has a It's been incredibly helpful to all the administrators in this building to be able to follow that. So, Dr. Ke sent those out on July 20th. Move to approve. Second discussion. Vinny I Silva. Hi Bradley. Hi Stacy. Hi. Hi 10 to 10 evening academy assignments for fall 23 24. Okay. Permission is requested to approve the following evening academy assignments for Grand Ry High School to meet the fall semester needs. As you know, we talked about the evening academy before. It's a great opportunity for some of our kids that maybe can't be successful in the regular day format. So, it's a great program I think that we have also gives an equitable approach to kids that may not be
035able to attend day helps them. So, I just want to read the teachers off. Um, Kim Lnel, Lisa Moore, Laura Selvin, Natalie Boyd, Peggy Wilson, Trina, Beth Darling, Cavis Parker, Kyle Koser, Christine Douglas, Laura Duca, Scott Smallley, Aaron Feldman, Deb Garland, Kelly Hutchkins, Adrienne Johnson, and Eric Mitchell. Uh, due to the holidays, there are more Tuesdays and Thursdays in the fall semester than Monday and Wednesdays as some of the teachers, as you can see, for board members of different Approval is recommended. So move second discussion. Another great. Yeah, I know. All right. Roll call. Silva. I Stacey. Hi. Hi. No. Hi. Hi. Hi. 10G. Paper supplies bid. Uh number one. Oh 24. Yeah. The following vendors were sent invitations to the paper supply bids. I The bid includes all paper, white, color for the 2324
036school year. The tabulations have been completed and listed below. The recommended vendor is CPG contract paper group um paper 101 at 76,82251 Midland payment at 7457010 CPG 6625305 Veritative 72044 and no bid received from Saunders. So approval for CPG is recommended. I'll second discussion. Out of curiosity, is this the same? Yes, this is for the old, right? We are looking to try to maybe the little ones we get, but as they get older, I think we've seen a little reduction in this. Roll call. Bradley. Hi, Stacy. I 10H, region one, consent agenda items. Um, you've received this information about item below. Administration is prepared to make recommendations or open discussion. Um, do you want to explain why we're doing this now? Typically, we have the region one board meeting and then we have you approve
037the actions of the region one board. Um, the region one board meeting had to be pushed back due to some health concerns. We weren't able to reach quorum. Um, in order for us to move forward with the school year, we need to go ahead and have the consent agenda items approved. there are annual contracts um so that we can get those in. Um so Granite City is our um basically our governing body anyway. So having the Granite City board approve them for us and we will ratify them at our next board meeting which is actually this Thursday. So I just wanted to understand that there was a read administration is requesting approval of those following Agenda items. Hi. Illinois uh Alliance of Administrators of Special Education, Illinois Association of School Business Officials, Region Three Aiology,
038Vision, Itiner, and Orientation and Mobility Service Contractual Agreement, Vision Services Contractual Agreement, Illinois Center for Autism, Region One Satellite Contractual Agreement, Inter Agency Head Start, Family Services Agreement, Secondary Transitional Experience Program Contractual Agreement, Regional Arts Education, Maxim Healthcare Services, Dev Inc. Parquad and Depway interpreting service contracts, Embrace Contractual Agreement, Integra Therapy Services, Legal Counsel, and Shaunie Behavioral Services Ernity. Those are all people that we use regular regular regularly occurring contracts that we have. Discussion. Roll call. Stacy. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. Okay. 10 I the board of education meeting schedule for fiscal year 24. At the board of education meeting on June 27 and 23, the board of education discussed the possibility of having two meals a month versus our current schedule at lower the proposed changes. Although do that work in January. Yeah, there's a
039couple that you want me to just read these and then say Tom, how should I do that? Read them and then say how some have to change a few of them. Yes. Well, the board members obviously need a copy of this, right? Right. I mean, we don't need to read them. Don't need to read them. If the board is aware of what they are, they have it in front of them. Okay. But do I need to say anything about the J? Can we make later at that time? She said first need a right. Can we I don't know can we can we table this for to look at it because I've got some notations here January difficulty with that I just have a question Tom uh if we have a scheduled meeting and there's a
040conflict especially like staff it's out is it possible like in the November meeting or something to say we're going to move that meeting to a different date we can adjust that and there's a requirement is that we have to provide all the news outlets with the amended schedule but So what can change to avoid meeting? Okay. So have we have we looked at each at each month to see if the second is the second Tuesday is going to be viable. I mean I I understand that January 2nd that the week or 10 days leading up to that there is nobody here. central office is closed. That date could be sure a difficult date to get board meeting documents prepared. We can make adjustments as going close for the date. Yeah, we can always make adjustments
041to Are you saying the second Tuesday in January or January? Is it not January? Tuesday. [Music] Like I thought all of these were for the second Tuesday, right? Okay. I read it this I read it. Yeah. So there is Yeah. Well, I was I was wondering too, but if we're ready to discuss this, there needs to be a motion. Do we have a motion to move? Second. Okay. Discussion. Here we go. So, in the past, we have always always circle the second month or the second week of a month for any possible need for a special meeting. So, we've always had it that way. This seems like uh you know, it seems a little redundant if we have if we've already got this plan in the past. We can just continue always looking there's a
042problem with a meeting date, we have always got the second week or this or the next the opportunity to use that as a as a possibility for having another meeting. I'm just I'm just saying it looks like to me that uh some of these are are going to be difficult to operate under. I also concerned about what again what the purpose is to have this so locked in. I don't know if you know we've always been able to move our meetings to uh satisfy the need to communicate with the public on everything. Um, I'm just I'm just uh I was happy with the original way we were working and I just don't see that we have to have this locked in stone. So I don't know what other opinion other people have but anybody else
043want to go like we had lengthy discussion at the last Yeah we we pretty well discussed it last time but I would second that. I mean I think we owe it to the community when when three of us candidates walked the campaign trail and talked to the public. The majority of the public came to us and said I've talked to some teachers people school district. Um, since our last meeting, I've heard same things. People were happy to go back to two meetings. I see it. It's a it's a big commitment we do owe to the public. Um, it's it's just part of our job. So, I believe that we should establish making sure that we So, so this all goes to the issue of transparency, part of it. Yes. And or is it just that
044they want to see the school board doing more in each month. Is that it? What? I'm I'm trying to figure it out. I think getting I think trying to get issues solved a little bit quicker. Um you know, I again I've talked to those issues may not be ready to be solved in in a short period of two weeks. So I don't know. I'm just saying I just think just to reiterate for I mean I'm not going to do a discussion because it has been played out but um just to reiterate my point of view on this. Um I do believe in education there's a thing called best practices and best practices clearly state that it's a monthly meeting. Um I have not seen any districts doing the two a month that are flabberated or
045that do it. Um, I think that from what I've heard, people I've spoken with, they're like, "Just stick with the monthly meetings." I worry about tying up district and building administrators when they should be running schools and looking out after our children versus doing paperwork getting ready for this meeting and I just don't really see a reason for it. I think we do have a transparency and communication issue that's ongoing. It's been going on and will continue to be ongoing and we have other avenues to address that than going to another community. and those avenues as you mentioned we have committees that are going to be active and those committees can't possibly complete the job that they're starting in two weeks or even have completed the the focus that they have um to present to
046the to the public. Also, we are going to be inviting the public uh to sit on some of those committees. So we have uh we have a lot of things that are going on in committees that people can uh participate in uh and also have them as open meetings. Is that right Tom? Yeah. Each each meeting you have to have when you have three board members you have to have it open. Yes. If there would be three board members or they then they would it would be an open meeting. If it's just two then it would be the meeting with the people present. Uh what I've seen uh we've had in the schoolboard uh committees uh policy we have three mandated committees and that is the board the board policy committee and the parent teacher
047advisory committee and the behavioral interventions committee. So what we've done is we've gone to committees. We can simply uh look at what's in policy and adapt some of that to our our existing committees. Um I had something that I wanted to present which I don't I did not prepare for this meeting but I certainly will have it for the next and uh I would like to share the time on on discussing that and planning it with uh Lori because she and I have quite a few committees together and I think that would be I think that would be a nice way to get started on this. But in my way of thinking we interested parties, interested people. We want to make sure that uh we can invite them. Uh we do need uh formal invitations
048and we do need RSVPs. So, we're we're looking at making our committees very accessible. same thing that last time. My my whole thing was I'm still on board once a month and then if we even think we need a second meeting schedule, but um do it. That was my opinion on that. Anyway, um we're discussion so we want to do roll call. Karen, no. No. Liman, yes. Vinnie, no. Silva, yes. Bradley, yes. Stacy, yes. Okay, that one carries. So, we will have two meetings a month uh going forward in not next month. September, October, November, December. No, September, October. Not in November, not in December due to the holidays. January, February, March, April, and May. March. Right. And then we did say like at the end of this year, you would revisit it. Okay. How
049will we measure if it works? Yeah. So, yeah, I think you could look to see what's on the I mean, that would probably be the best way. Yeah. Look at the agendas and see what the second meeting would even argue that. So, yeah. And also, how many people are going to meet? Yeah. Do you have data that you pull on that for like I think 43. So you have like past data so we can look at trends what's happened since like we went to No obviously they're all stored so a lot of people go back and watch them numbers like today um 11A citizens advisory committee okay this is um we've had a lot of questions ask about when are you going to start the citizens advisory committee. Um this the committee uh will consist
050of citizens that represent a cross-section the Grant City School District the community and the steering committee members uh of which I was a part and talent as well. The goal is to broaden communication between the Grand City School District 9 Board of Education and its stakeholders and to utilize the priorities developed from the strategic plan to advance these goals. So we're you we're going to be uh using uh those areas of the and this is all in the agenda. So the steering committee focus and their their strategic plan uh will be included in our steering committee which was never included before but because of the committee that we finished and may be starting up again. Right. So we're we're going to be getting a lot of feedback from uh where we're going. Uh I think
051the interest again in uh some of these areas are going to help us get give a goal and and a focus on where we go. We will still continue to be very close with SWIC which was one of the very hot topics uh of the old committee and then again um our speaker sessions will be a new added item u using many of the people uh right here in our own district. So that was really kind of covered it. So they should be looking out for hopefully September. meeting dates and locations and times. Exactly. That's great. Welcome. Um the 11B Freedom of Information Act FOYA request. I tell I don't have to read this. There were three received three requests on the Freedom of Information Act during the period of June 1623 through July 1823.
052They are listed below. Mr. which will handle them all kind of slowly. And uh and the only change we have on number two, we did not send current board members date of birth. We never do that. That is and Eric, we had that same request last year that we did. Right. Right. I remember. We can't. We're not supposed to just steal my identity. Go ahead. So that never goes out. Yeah. These are basically just requests for statistics. And there's a two. Okay. Yeah. Member Bradley and I both are on the same committee. So um multi-grade level schools committee. We met with we continue to meet with district administrators. Um we're going to have another meeting before with district administration before our um August meeting so we can have a more substantial update for that. But
053we are moving around options. We've also been discussing like how we continue to move forward and keep the momentum going. Not rushing to where we're negligent, but I don't feel like given the thoughtful conversations we've had that we are rushing to anything, but we want to keep the momentum moving. So, after meeting with district administration, our next best steps will be to include building administrators to get their perspectives and insights on different options, needs, wants, financial uh well, finance part administration. And then on, you know, then as time goes on, we'll be looking at, you know, teacher input, other staff input, bringing community stakeholders and parents. The other committee that Miss Bradley and I are on is the evaluation committee. Um, we're working kind of on two pieces right now. One is streamlining um the
054superintendent evaluation. There's no reflection directly on our current superintendent. It's just a process and I'm a process person. Bringing it more in alignment with She still has goals and standards but bring it more in alignment with like how we evaluate other educators in our district. And then the second piece um Stephanie shared with us and we attended a zoom the other day where we were we're learning about different softwares that make that really user friendly. And as an evaluator who has my whole system set up in a Google Drive, I would love to um go to a system like this. So currently Stephanie's collecting some quotes to see what you know finances will allow but it looks like it is something wonderful to do. It doesn't necessarily it doesn't change the content or how people
055are evaluated. That's really honestly just having a good place to store it that is user friendly for all involved. They can upload. Yeah. For evaluator and evaluator the only district and it's something that's ongoing that should be going on. Yes. You can add as you go easy to to put okay here we are in the process and allows teachers to upload. We'll do that. Yeah. It really holds true to the the foundational principle that evaluation is not something that's done to somebody. It's something that's collaborated with to do with somebody and it's all geared toward professional growth. So they're holding agency in that and not just receiving a sheet of paper that says they're good or bad. That whole idea has to be turned around. It's it's been a long time coming to start thinking
056about evaluation being a positive thing and not a negative. So we do not have executive session tonight. Um, our uh next meeting is for Tuesday, August 22nd after school starts. After school starts. Yeah. Um, and that will be at 6 p.m. again right here. It's on the under cover. It's 11 executive sessions. Yeah. Any discussion? Yeah, we can do this. Yes. All those in favor? I opposed. Okay. And then uh you did announce August 22nd is the next meeting. Do we have a motion to move? Okay. All those in favor? I All those closed. And as approved, we are