001It's too ready. No, my husband. Sorry, that was him. He's okay. Okay, but he wants me to pick up some medicine. Sorry about that. Okay, everybody. Welcome to the Granite City Community Unit School District number nine, Board of Education meeting for Tuesday, April 8th, 2025. Uh, can we have our roll call and declaration of quorum? Vinnie here, Bradley here, Silva here, Curran here, Stacy absent, here, Linman here, here. Alrighty. And then uh would everybody please rise for the pledge of allegiance and an invocation by Pastor Barry Shepard with Tri City Assembly of God. I pledge allegiance 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. Would you please join with me in prayer? Our father, we
002come to you today thankful for another day. This is the day that you have made and we're glad and we rejoice in it. Thank you for the purpose of this meeting, Lord, to do and conduct the business of our school district. Lord, we're grateful for these servants who put their effort, their time, their energies into this school district. Lord, we thank you for your help. We ask you for your help. Lord, you know the things that we need. We pray especially for our students. Lord, uh, as they come to the homestretch of another year, we pray that you would guide and direct, keep your strong hand upon them, Lord, keep them safe, give them blessing, Lord, help them to stay focused on the last few weeks here to get done what needs to be done.
003We thank you, Lord, for the help for so many of our students who seem to be uh maybe a little bit on the edge, some of our marginalized families. Lord, help us to help them. Lord, they're suffering, some of them in such a way that they really can't figure out what's happening. Lord, guide them, direct them, meet every need. We thank you, Lord, for the provision that we have. I pray your blessing on all of our proceedings here, all the things that happen, all the things that are said and done. We pray that you would receive glory and that everyone here would be encouraged and inspired. And we pray this in the name of your son. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, up next is public comment. I don't think we have anything for
004this moment. Um, so we will go ahead and move on to Well, I don't want to steal anybody's thunder here. Uh, okay. I uh I am very proud to present. Hey, Linda. Very proud to present uh a student uh Granite City School District 9 partnered with Madison County Employment and Training along with the STEP program out of the region office of education to bring the apprenticeship program to our students. This program gives our students an opportunity to real to have a realworld job experience with the intention that this will lead to fulltime employment. Granite city uh board of education and the administration are proud to recognize Granite City senior school senior Mary Phillips who is the first Granite City School District student to participate in and successfully complete the apprenticeship program. I'd like to have
005[Applause] I'd also like to ask Mrs. Watkins to come up and join. Oh, there you are. You just I'm looking at the group here. Thank you so much. Great job. Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. There you go. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Brooke Andrews from Madison County Employment and Training Department. As we begin, I need to apologize for our director, Tony Ferman, who wishes he could be in attendance this evening, but has a conflict with the Collinsville City Council meeting that he's a member of. In January of 2022, Madison County Employment and Training, the Madison County Regional Education, Collinsville Unit 10, and the city of Collinsville partnered on a newly developed apprenticeship program for high school students with disabilities. Since starting in Collinsville, the program has grown to five high schools and seven employers. Tonight,
006we recognize the first completion of this program, Mary Phillips. Mary was a trailblazer for this program, successfully completing all of the competencies required to earn her US Department of Labor registered apprenticeship as a safety department administrative assistant with Icon Mechanical. Mary's our first apprentice in this program to complete an apprenticeship as an administrative support position. With this apprenticeship certificate, Mary can go anywhere in the United States and her accomplishment will be recognized and a possible employer will know she is trained and has skills necessary to do the job. This apprenticeship certificate is recognized on the same level as any of the over a thousand apprentice US Department of Labor. I can talk loud too. And these events usually have the Department of Labor stating director for apprenticeships. Thank you. Deborah Kamine's Oh wow, this one's
007loud. Deborah Camine's rising in attendance. Due to the current federal travel ban, she's unable to attend this evening. Deborah did want me to pass along the following message. I wish we could come. These events are so special and needed to acknowledge the success that these individuals have worked so hard to accomplish. Pe please pass along our congratulations to the completing apprentice, Mary. We're very proud of her accomplishments as I'm sure her family and friends are as well. So joining us this evening to present the apprenticeship apprenticeship certificate are Paula with the director of special education regional office of education and Paige the career specialist with Madison County Employment and Training. Congratulations, Mary. I'll stand down here. Go and get in. [Applause] All right. At this time, we would like to ask our incredible high school
008speech and debate coaches, mentors, sponsors, come on up here, please. Miss Panel Davis and Mr. Collie, come on up. We'll call the kids up in just a second. Just you. You're always behind the scenes, so you get to step out in the spotlight for a second. Okay. So, they're going to help us recognize some incredibly talented, hardworking, deserving thespians speech or you know ortors. Okay, so um one second I have a question. Pronunciation's important to me, so I want to make sure I say things correctly. All right, so I also have Mr. Lindamman and Miss Silva here to help with us. So, first we'd like to recognize the following members of the Granite City High School speech and debate team who competed in the IHSA Speech, State, and NSDA national qualifier tournaments with GCHS senior
009Evan Peters. Come on up, [Applause] please. Evan advanced to the state tournament tournament in radio speaking. Congratulations. Also, um, one of my students, were you in the Outsiders Play? One of my students or children that I know said, "We saw Evan Peters. He's famous." I'm like, "Well, there is a famous Evan Peters." Not quite yet, but you'll be there. Um, from our junior class, we would uh like to have GCHS junior and debate team captain Haley Wise come up, please. Haley advanced to Octo. That sounds like a cage match kind of thing, right? At the varsity state debate tournament. She also qualified for nationals this June to compete in United States exempt. I have no idea what any of this means. What is United States exempt? Um it's a limited prep um event for public
010speaking. Contemporaneous speaking. Just like go for it. Awesome. All right. Um now we would like for junior Jay Banks to come up and join us, please. Jay qualified for national this June to compete in Lincoln Douglas debate. All right. So, is this the first picture and then we'll do another one? Okay. So, we're going to do a picture now. Hold on. Congratulations. [Applause] All right. Now, the Granite City Board of Education Administration would like to recognize the following Granite City High School drama series one act play cast and crew members who won first place at the IHSA sectional competition for their performance of the stage play Almost Maine. They finished the season with an 11th place place finish at the state tournament. We are so proud of all the very talented cast and crew. Babis,
011this is what I was trying to avoid. Babillis. Okay, start over. Would the following students please hold your applause to the end because we have a crew. Brooke Babillis. Did I do it right? You got it. Yay. All right. Wait, I said hold your applause to the end. I know I said her name right, but just wait. Joshua Barnett, Grant Daly, Gabrielle Finley, Gabriella Gutierrez, Corey Hickham, Canon Hol, Cana Hunter, Micaia Mitchell, Brianna Moore, Chloe Nickel, Dylan Patrick, Evan Peters, Lucy Roberts, Sophia Sierra. I probably should slow down, I guess. Sorry. Kind of already through the list almost, though. Payton Shipley, Hayden Taylor. All right, you guys are like good with drama, so you know like stage direction, so organize yourself in tall and short. Did I say Hayden Taylor yet? Hayden Taylor if I
012didn't. Ben Thomas, Aiden Viv, excuse me, Aiden Vivad, Brandon Vogler, Edie Wallace, and Haley Weise. You may clap [Applause] now. There we go. Want to do that? It's going to show up. Yes, you already mentioned another round of applause for them. They're amazing. Thank you. [Applause] All right, sectional champion Yeah. Do I do that to somebody else? They have sectional champion. All state cast. That now you gave them. All right. They already got their certificate. So, I probably should have announced this, but come on. Back up. IHSA 2025 drama sectional champions all sectional cast. Brooke Babillis, Canon Hol, Payton Shipley, Ben Thomas, Brandon Bogler. Yeah, come on back up. We'll do another picture. Why not? Uh Brandon Bogler, and Haley Wise, all state cast, Brooke Villis and Ben Thomas. [Applause] Thank you. Great job. [Applause]
013Okay, with that, if any of you would like to take this moment to back door, you're more than welcome. The front door. Moving on to more of the regular business, but we'd love to have you, but you know, whatever you want to do. Thank you. Okay. And next, if uh we need well, we need to do the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of our board of education held on March 25th, 2025. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second. Okay. A roll call. Bradley. I. Silva. I. Perin I Noble I Lynaman I Vinnie I Okay. And then next is consent agenda which contains those items that are repetitive and routine in nature. Any member may make a motion to approve the consent agenda or request that any of the items be moved
014to section seven for individual discussion and consideration. So move second. Second and discussion. Yes. Yes, I would just like to uh thank the Grant City Fire Department. They donated $5001 to Griggsby Intermediate School for students in need. Uh thank you for your continued support to Grant City School District Union. Fires Fire Department Union. Yes, definitely. Um and then we also like to thank the Pam Holton Scholarship Fund. Uh Kay Rollins graciously started the fund in honor of her sister Pam Holton. Pam dedicated many years of service to serving the students and our community of Granite City School District. The inaugural scholarship was given to the following teachers at $500 each to use in their classroom. We we greatly appreciate it and so do uh Deborah Mills, Stacy Rollins, an Sykes, and Emily Gilly. So, thank
015you again for thinking of us. Yes, very much. Okay, roll call. Silva, I Currin, I linen. I Vinnie I Bradley I Okay and 8A rescend retirements and resignations. It's a recommended that the filing retirements and resignations listed below and on the GCSD9 website be rescended. So move second. Roll call. Currin I. Noble I. Linaman I. Vinnie I. Bradley I. Silva I. Okay. 8B. Retirements and resignations. It's recommended the filing retirements and resignations listed below and on the GCSD9 website be accepted. So move second. Roll call. Uh Kenogal I. Linnaman I. Vinnie I. Bradley I. Silva I. Currin I. And 8 C. Requests for leaves of absence. It's recommended the following request for leaves of absences listed below and on the GCSD9 website be approved. So moved. Second. Roll call. Linaman. I. Vinnie. I. Bradley. Hi.
016Silva. I. Currin. I. Kenobyl. I 8 D. Requests for extensions to leaves of absence. It's recommended the filing request for extensions to leaves of absences be listed below and on the GCSD9 website be approved. So move. Second. Roll call. Vinnie. I. Bradley. I. Silva I uh Kenogal I Linman I Okay 8E extracurricular resignations for the 2526 school year. You've received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations are hold for discussion in executive session. The GCSD9 administration is recommending the following extracurricular resignations for the 2526 school year listed below and on the GCSD9 website be approved. So move second. Roll call. Bradley. I Silva. I Purin. I. Kenogal. I. Linamman. I. Benny. I. Okay. 8F. Extracurricular recommendations for the 2526 school year. You've received detailed information about this item. The administration
017is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The GCSD9 administration is recommending the filing extracurricular assignments for the 2526 school year listed below and on the GCSD9 website be approved. So moved. Second. Roll call. Silva. I Linman. Hi. Benny. I Bradley I. Okay. 8G. Certified and classified substitutes. It's recommend the following applicants listed below and on the GCSD9 website be board approved as substitutes for the 2425 school year. Second. Roll call. Currin. I Linaman. Hi. Vinnie. I Bradley. Hi. Silva. I. Okay. 8H1 rescend employment of alternative education pair professional for the 24-25 school year. You've received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations are hold for discussion in executive session. The GCSD9 administration requests the approval to resend the recommendation of Allison Conway as an alternative
018education pair professional for the 2425 school year due to her decline in the offer. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Roll call. I linen I. Vinnie I. Bradley I. Silva I. Currin I. Okay. Uh 10A, Board Office Marquee. The GCSD9 administration requests the approval for Aerrow Custom Signs to install lettering on the James J. Greenwald Administration building. The installation cost is $750 and option five is what we are recommended for uh $1,140. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Roll call. Linamman. Hi, Vinnie. I Bradley. Hi, Silva. Hi, Curran. I All righty. Option five. Um, 10. Yep. 10B. Koolage Junior High Parking lot extension. GCSD9 administration requests the approval of Chris Brothers Asphalt for new asphalt parking lot extension. This will include excavation and rock subgrade. Uh the bids winner was Chris Brothers asphalt for $119,540.
019Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Um just a question. Uh that's going to take it out further towards the fields, right? Correct. Make it longer. Okay. Are the high school students still getting to park there as well? They were before and I didn't know if they still had some parking there. that even I don't know. It would make more room. Mr. Curry, you still got some high schoolers parking in your lot. Mhm. I know. When they drop kids off, they go around all the parked cars and come back. So, that's going to make it longer. Yeah. They're still parking there. Yeah, he's still got some parking there. Yeah. Yeah. So, just just curious about that. Did you say before this adds about 30 spaces? Okay. Roll call. Vinnie I. Bradley. I. Silva. I. Noble. I.
020Linnamman. I. Okay. 10 C. Kulage Junior High School Athletic Directorou. GCSD9 administration recommends that the Grant City School District Board of Education approve the memorandum of understanding with the Granite City Federation of Education Professionals Local 743 regarding the establishment of a stipen for a junior high athletic director. The district has recognized the growing need for dedicated administrative support for our junior high athletics program. A dedicated individual will ensure consistent and efficient management of junior high athletics, including scheduling, communication, and compliance with district policies. The athletic director will serve as a resource for junior high coaches, facilitating communication and providing administrative support. The junior high athletic director will receive two stipens at club sponsor B, column six rate. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Okay. Uh, roll call. Bradley I. Silva. I. Currin. I. Noble. I.
021Linaman. I. Benny. I. Okay. Uh 10D, sale of vacant lot at 1703 and 1709 Pontoon Road. GCSD9 administration request that the board of education adopt the attached resolution to list the vacant lots located at 1703 and 1709 Pontoon Road with a real estate broker. These are empty lots that the district is not able to use. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Roll call. Silva I. Currin I. Uh, noble. I linen I Vinnie I Bradley I Okay 10E building trades open bid approval. GCSD9 administration request approval to post in the bevel news Democrat paper and open bid scheduled for April 27th 2025. This will be posted for three consecutive weeks for the building trades house lot 195 in the Donolin subdivision located at 4825 Bailey Drive. All sealed bids will be due by Friday, June 6,
0222025 at 10:00 a.m. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Roll call. Currin. I. Noel. I. Linnaman. I. Vinnie. I. Bradley. I. Silda. I. 10F. Breakfast after the bell. Opt out hearing authorization. GCSD9 administration is seeking authorization to notify the state board of education and publish on the district's website notification of a public hearing on June 24th at 6:00 p. p.m. for the regular education board of board meeting regarding the Granite City School District adopting out of the breakfast after the bell mandate for physical hardship reasons. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. This is something we do every year. I don't know if you want to say your uh short paragraph. items. So doing exactly what we're doing. The main thing is everybody gets to eat no matter what time they come in. Right. Correct. Mhm.
023Nobody's nobody's denied. Roll call. Kenogal. I Linnaman. I Benny. I Bradley. Hi. Silva. I 10G. Curriculum committee report. On March 28th, 2025, the curriculum committee held a meeting. The meeting the committee understands they cannot hire additional staff nor can they implement new programs without board approval. The committee recommended all the items as presented to the committee and now submit to the board of education for approval. Approval is recommended to move. Do we have a second? Any discussion? Roll call. Penogal. I Linaman. Hi, Vinnie. I Bradley. Hi, Silva. Hi, Currin. I 10H. Instructional coach coaches job description. You've received detailed information about this item. The administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The instructional coaches position was created due to the evolution of additional programs and practices and using data to
024drive our instruction. Synopsis. Three coaches would be designated among six K through six elementary buildings. Provide ongoing and practical support for teachers, often through co-eing, co-planning, modeling, effective strategies, and engaging in reflective conversation and data analysis. This will analyze student data to identify areas for improvement in instruction and work with teachers to address student needs as well as provide support for teachers regarding curriculum and instructional practices. This will require these individuals to work collaborative in collaboration with the executive director of K12 curriculum, principles, MTSS coordinator, other instructional coaches, title teachers, classroom teachers, staff, students, and parents. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Roll call. Linaman. I. Benny. I. Bradley. I. Silva. I. Currin. I. Kenobyl. I. 10. I. MTSS coordinator. Job description. You've received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make
025recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The MTSS coordinator position will be responsible organizing and leading instructional coaches to collect, analyze, and use data to improve instruction and learning outcomes for students. This will include coordinating MTSS services in consistent manner throughout the district. They will also provide instructional coaching to ensure that instructional technology is used in a way that best supports that best support teachers and learners. currently in the instructional technology coordinator is filling this role in a dual capacity as the district has shifted to utilize student data as the primary focus to drive district instructional programs. We are requesting that this job description MTSS coordinator position replace the instructional technology coordinator position at this time. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Roll call. Vinnie I. Bradley I. Silva I. Curin I. Noble I
026Linman I Okay 10J special education coordinator month you've received detailed information about this item the administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The special education administration is requesting the approval to transition the 10-month special education coordinator position to a 12-month special education supervisor beginning July 1st, 2025. Since the summer of 2021, Special Education Administration has requested and been granted by the board additional days in the summer for coordinating to continue working as the job duties assigned to this position do not end with the end of the school year. The request for additional days started with asking for 10 days for summer school of 2021, 10 days for the summer of 2022, 10 days for the summer of 2023, and 20 days for the summer of 2024. Current assignments include
027fifth grade through 12th grade, including outplacements and private facilities at and night school. With the upcoming district recon reconfiguration, job duties will include all secondary students, night school, and an increase in private day schools to oversee. The management of student and private day schools goes through the summer months as those students attend school year round. This position will also needed during summer months for the training, assisting and oversight of ISBY compliance and procedures and assisting with the coordination of special education curriculum and development with the special education director. Transitioning from 10 months to 12 months would better align this position with the job duties that are assigned. The transition would have movement on the administrative pay scale from column 5 to column 4. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Roll call. Bradley. I Silva. Hi.
028Curin. Ial. I. Linaman. Hi. Vinnie. I. Okay. 111A. Freedom of information act requests. The Freedom of Information Act requests listed below and on the GCSD9 website were handled by administration. And then uh 111B, our Illinois Association of School Boards liaison report with our treasurer, Linda Kenogal. Yes, get it. Okay. with the new board members uh that will be coming into schools. Uh the IASB offers resource offers resources and the required training online for the role of these board members and also webinars and numerous topics that the board members will find very helpful and available. The uh 2025 joint annual conference will be open uh June 2nd and information will be available through IASB. And last the sometime in April press policy uh press plus issue 118 will be released. This will be a large and
029complex issue. Be the webinar that will explain the changes will be available and very helpful. If you are unable to make that webinar, it will be available for later viewing via the archived webinars. And that's it. All right. Um, related to the ISB resources, I have a request of Dr. Harris and also of the board with the seating of the new board and the organization of the new board. I think it would be really great to have their field representative come and meet with us again regarding governance. He gives an excellent training and presentation. I think it's a good review for all of us plus the new person coming on. Yeah, it's very helpful for everybody. Yeah, definitely refresher. Patrick Allen, is that what you're Patrick Allen? I couldn't remember his name. Thank you. Okay,
030thank you Linda. You're welcome. And up next, we do have executive session tonight, uh, noted under five ILCS120 open meetings. And tonight we are going in for 2C1, the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the public body. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second. Okay. Roll call. Bradley. I. Silva. I. Currin. I. Noble. I. Linaman. I. Vinnie. I. Okay.