001Stop. Stop. Thank you everybody. Welcome to the board of education meeting for December 12th, 2023. Uh can we get a roll call and declaration? Silva here. Bradley here. Stacy here. No here. Litman here. Vinnie here. Scores here. Okay. Uh, if everybody would please rise for the pledge of allegiance followed by Stacy of the United States of America and the stand indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time to come and to celebrate the things that are happening in our community and to um to make the best decisions that can be made for the students and families of our community. God, we ask that you would provide wisdom and that you would provide the leader the leadership and the guidance that is needed and bless each of the board
002members as they serve the school district in your name. Amen. [Music] Um, this time I would like to introduce Dr. Donald Harris as the superintendent of schools for the 2425 school year. [Applause] Appreciate it. And uh just real quick, we had a meeting a couple weeks ago and we uh interviewed some great candidates and this is the man that came out on top. So we are thrilled to have him uh working alongside Dr. or setting hands this uh the remainder of this year and then taking over on July one. So again, yes. Um I'm truly humbled to be named superintendent of schools for the Grant City School District. Um, I just like to thank staff, students, community members, and family for all the texts, emails, phone calls with the words of encouragement I received over
003these last few weeks is truly appreciated. Um, please know that I look forward to partnering with staff as we work with community members to create a strong, thriving learning environment for the students within our school district. Thank you so much, and I'm so excited to get started. [Applause] We should get a family. Yeah, let's bring I mean, we basically hired you, too. So, you're in it with them. You want the whole The whole family get out. [Music] Miss Cororsine. Yeah. One. There we go. Here we go. One, two, three. Congratulations. [Applause] It's one of those exciting nights where you have a lot of good. After that, we still have Uh tonight we uh the board of education administration would like to recognize um some of the following teachers who won the first Mid American Credit
004Union grant for $250 to use in the classroom. But I'd like to call up CEO Alan Meyer. He's like incredibly generous to our district. I'm going to have him give a little explanation of this and maybe you can call up your other staff. Okay. So, with us tonight, we have Amber Scott who's our chief marketing officer, Martha Morris, who's our business development representative, and Andy Math, who's our community relations representative and stuff, and they're the ones that really head this whole process up and stuff. They're the ones that take care of it all and go through the process and look at the applications and things like that. I don't know if you guys want to talk because you're the ones that have looked at the the applications so you're probably a little Well, oh, I'm
005sorry. You need that. And again, we're always very impressed with the variety of applications that we get, the outstanding projects that the teachers are doing in the district. So, we're just happy that we can assist, you know, in those at all. Um this year we're gonna recognize Denise Stout for she's doing a horseshoe table for small group instructions and that's from Mville. Um Hannah Bone is doodle boards and Play-Doh for phonic lessons. Um Karen Fellows who I see can't be here tonight but she's um getting a grant for microphone ball for the music classes. I asked about that one. I think I want to come to class for that. See that one in. You can tell a little bit about the last one. And then we had another um grant application that really didn't fit
006the regular criteria for this, but we felt it was certainly very worthy of being um supported. wanted to support it and think it's a very very it's going to be a great project for your district and the the students to come in the future and a great way to honor um Sarah Shaw is um submitted an application for Rock Memory Garden for Jamie Kendall a former teacher which I'm sure you're all familiar with Jamie and her stories. So we'll call them all up now. So Hannah car Hannah Sarah and Denise come on up. [Applause] I'm just so proud that we always have somebody that people that submit and the things that they do and Julie had one I think last year. I think she did a scarf one with the muses as well. I think
007she did. So I mean like I think this is the one you're going to want to go to her class. Oh the other one you wanted to doodle. Oh, thank you. And Sarah, thank you for thinking of Jamie um in this way to honor. I think that that's really nice. And thank you for for including her. So that's very nice, too. So you want to go ahead and stand up there. You guys get in here and stop. So each of these grants will receive the $250 grant. So we've got the real check for all of them. She's really generous. I just want [Applause] to they are very very supportive of our district every year for multiple things. teacher appreciation week. Um the grants they're off they're also helping. We had a holiday trivia we just
008did and they provided some gift cards for the winners. So we are always super appreciative of your philanthropy and people of our district. Can we have everyone take like a couple steps that way just so we're centered? Thank you. That's good. He was going like this. All right. Here we go. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. [Applause] Thank you again. Thank you so much for your support. [Applause] Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Okay, this is pretty exciting to you. We thought we had all this excitement. Yet there is more, right? There's more excitement and they're going to just add all kinds of excitement. So tonight, we would like to recognize the board of education and administration, the Koolage Junior High School 8th grade girls basketball [Applause] team. Coach Brady, Coach Rder, come on up here. They have their
009Look at all their little plaques and everything. This has been quite a run, right? Right. Quite a run. Uh, make sure I get all this right. They won the 2023. [Laughter] You guys are getting good at this photo stuff. Okay, stay where you are. Okay. So, the 2023 Illinois Elementary School Association ISA 8th grade class 4A girls basketball regional and sectional championship. Not one but two. Uh which advanced them to the state tournament on Saturday. They finished their season. This is crazy crazy. With an overall record of 20 wins and three losses. You know that [Applause] that's amazing. Um, I'm gonna have coach Mador come up and you want to say a few words. Oh gosh. Um, I have been honored to coach these girls now for two years. Um, last year we were undefeated.
010We went 20 and0. Um, so I knew that this was a special group right away and whenever the opportunity came to move up with them and coach them again, I knew right away that was what I wanted to do. Um, they're phenomenal basketball players but even better people. Um, I'm sad. Um, but I'm proud of you all. [Applause] Well, I'm going to hand out things. We have head coach Mallerie Meadow gets her own thing, [Applause] too. Thank you very much. Um Keith Boy was unable to be here tonight, but he's been an amazing part of this journey, too. [Applause] Tell me who's here and who's not here. Anna Taylor, [Applause] Martin, James [Applause] Aubrey [Applause] Bricks. [Applause] Congratulations. Good job, Jaylen Woods. Malone [Applause] Brady Ameilia [Applause] Hoppy Chloe Marco Paris Jackson Okay, here you
011go. Still give her hands. [Applause] Well, we are really proud. It could be I'm sorry I couldn't get sharing this in Chicago. I watched the game in Alton which was amazing. So, just seeing their teamwork and the coaching um we're just really proud. We're looking forward to next year, right? Thank you so much. Yeah. [Music] Another Are we all on? She's a matter. All right, here we go. One, two, three. Thank you. [Applause] Were you supposed to give her a hug? You got another shot. Real quick. Come on. Cover. All right. Congratulations. I'm going to go this way. Thank you. Hi guys. I mean all of you crowded in the last row. We have some seats up front. Yeah. Really? We don't ever check box. probably move second. All in favor? I I Okay. Um,
012now consent agenda which contains those items that are repetitive or repeated in nature and remember we make a motion to approve the consent agenda or request for any of the items. We move to section seven for individual discussion and consideration. Do we have a motion to approve? So move second. Okay. And roll call on this. Stacy. Hi, Curin. Hi, Noble. I lined it. This is a gift and it's a important part I think of the meeting to once again recognize how many people in this community give back to the school district. It's just amazing. Um so Amazon donation uh Christopher Pini works for Amazon warehouse and is the grandfather of prayer for student and they have the abundance of books donated over 105 bags and three large boxes of books from their partnership with ready
013readers uh to pray their was amazing. We talked about last time that those are all details. Uh Costco logistics Paul Swanson again has uh graciously donated backpacks to our students um in need to GCSD9. I think what's really interesting, he called me and said, "Well, I know it's beginning. It'll be a new semester and maybe no kids move again." He was really concerned that he couldn't do that. So, I thought that that was really nice that he remembered and offered those to us. So, thank you, Paul, for that. The holiday express with the social worker holiday express when I read it. I So, holiday express. Sorry. Sorry, Mr. Matthews. Um with the school social workers, the following businesses made great donations to help the south of Grand City Fire Union, Grand City High School Alumni
014Association, Sue's Corner, uh staff at Bricksby Intermediate, and Cook for Fellow Melvin Cook and Jones LLP. So once again, they they Do you want to Mr. Ris, do you want to give a little rundown of the Holiday Express? Uh Holiday Express is an event that's put on by my social workers in which we raise money at the school that stays at Griggsby. We do a change wars and then we get generous donations from our community and we enable those parents at Greek who are less fortunate than others to come and shop for Christmas. So it's a great event. It's nice to see all these people coming together. We had the high school students, we had police officers, we had firefighters. It's just nice to see everybody come together support the kids who get the most
015this time of year. They can even wrap. So thank you. Can they wrap the presents there too? It includes everything so they can go home and they have wrapped. That's I just think that's a great one. I know it's let us know. All right. Well, thank you very much. Um 8A resend retirements and resations. Okay. It is recommend the following retirements and resations be rescended. Michelle Mueller second grade teacher Marville and the 2425 school year. So move. Second. Hi Bradley. Hi Stacy. Hi. Okay. And 8B retirements and res. It is recommended that the following retirements and resignations be accepted. Taylor Buchanan parent professional Wilson effective 12423. Michelle Mueller second grade teacher Mville 112825. So move second. Hi. Hi, Vinnie. Hi, Silva. Hi, Bradley. Hi, Stacey. Hi, I 8C. Request for leaves of absence. It is
016recommended the following request for leaves of absences be approved. Dana Kelting, death interpreter Mitchell, effective 12723 6 to 6124. Damon Ksky, custodian Mitchell, effective 11623 to 6324. Sarah Ry social worker prayer effective 12523 to 22724 Tanya Stewart paraly 1424 to 32824 terra Smith second grade teacher Wilson effective 22124 to 5324 Elizabeth OTAA Prather effective 4224 to 62524 and Dave Bres effective 112723 to 21924 I sil requests for extensions to leaves of absence. It is recommended that the following requests for extensions to leaves of absence be approved. Reneor effective 11523 July 1 5624 Vinny I Silva Hi Bradley I Stacy Hi I Okay, extracurricular resignations for the 2324 school year. Below you've received detailed information about this item. administration is prepared to make recommendations for to hold for discussion in executive session. The GCSDI administration is
017recommending the following extracurricular resations for the 2324 school year be accepted to the Lions GCHS assistant boys track coach and Jakeerson assistant wrestling coach. So move Bradley. Hi Stacy. Hi. Hi Noble. Hi Lindman. Hi Vinnie. Hi. Okay. 8 F. Extracurricular recommendations for the 2324 school year. Below you've received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in session. The GCS9 administration is recommending the following. curricular assignments for the 23 24 school be approved. Other than the lunch duty, there are three other ones I'm going to read. Nancy, elementary gifted coordinator GCHS assistant boys basketball coach and Kage assistant coach move. Second call. Bradley, Stacy, I lin Okay. 8G. Next forcurricular recommendations for the 2425 school. Hello. You received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared
018to make recommendations or hope for discussion executive sessions. The GCSD9 administration is recommending the following extracurricular assignments for the 2425 school year be approved. Mark Jones, GCHS robotics co-sponsor. Julie Shriber, GCHS science department chair. Julie Shriber, GCSH secondary honors sponsor. Approval is recommended and the submission required. So move second. Stacey. Hi. Curin. Hi. Noel. Hi. Lman. Hi. Vinny. Hi. Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. All right. Ah. Extracurricular recommendations for GCHS student workers co-ops for the 2324 school year. This is a wonderful program. We have our students. I've talked to one of them today. Um, you received information about this item below. Administration is prepared to make recommendations or hope for discussion in executive session. GCSD9 administration is recommending that the following student worker work position 232 school year be approved. Demarco day approval recommended the submission
019of second. Um, roll call. Hi Noble. Hi Lman. Hi Vinnie. I Silva. Hi Bradley. Hi Stacy. Hi. All right. I certified and classified substitute. You received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. It is recommended that the following applicants be board approved as substitutes for the 2324. Certified Taylor Buchanan, Rebecca Sedris and Baseline. Classified Ann Star Lindsay, Anna Yelli. Approval is recommended pending the submission required. So I lin I Silva. Hi Bradley. Hi Stacey. Hi. Hi. 8J. Policies. The policy committee is recommending the approval of following policies that were discussed and reviewed in the last policy meeting. This is mostly second roll. Hi. Hi. Silvo. Hi Bradley. Hi Stacey. Hi. Hi. Hi. Okay. 8K1, the employment of one title one profession pair of
020professional for the 2324 school year. Hello. You received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hope for discussion in executive session. This position will work within the parameters of the title one grant. There will be a part-time position and paid through the title one grant as well not to exceed 15 hours per week. So GCSD administration has recommended the employment of Lindsy. It's a title a for the 23 24 school year. The rates are $15 per hour for those non-deree title. Title one only work when students are in attendance. Approval was recommended pending the submission required. So move second discussion. Roll call. Vinnie I Silva. Hi Bradley. Hi Stacey. Hi. I Noble. I lin. Hi. Okay. 8K2, the employment of one safety, social, emotional, and behavioral monitor two for
021the 2324 school. Hello. You received information about this item. Administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. Uh GCSDI administration, the interview committee consisting of Keel, Jim, Christian, Christy Mo, and P Anderson are recommending the employment of Mr. Bond as a safety, social emotional behavior two for the 23 24 approval is recommended pending the submission required paperwork. Silva I Stacy Iman I 8K3 the employment of three pair of professionals for the 2324 school year. You'll receive detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. GCS administration the interview committee consisting of Latin director of special ed director of K12 professional development curriculum and Joel supervisor of special education one are recommending the employment of the following candidates as pair of
022professionals for the 23 24 school year. Stephanie Deep, Raven Zler, and Jamie Henry. Approval is recommended pending the submission of all. So second just a question with hiring these three. Do we have any other vacancies for Paris? I'm sorry. We're hiring these three. How many vacancies remain? Well, we just had one open up tonight. So um that would leave us with um at least that one vacancies. The long-term subs that we have are typically for the 18month positions before we try to make them full. Thank you. Welcome Bradley. Hi Stacy. Hi Curin. Hi. Hi Lman. Hi Vinnie. I Silva. Hi. Okay. Nothing in old business. So we're on to new business. 10. The GCSD9 firewall replacement. Authorization is requested to replace the firewall and add a second firewall for redundancy. We are placing the device
023the same type of equipment from parallel but with a new model. This will allow us to keep the same configuration and transfer all the firewall policies and settings firewall. This equipment is important for the security of the school district network and the data across the network as well as our connection to the internet. The redundant firewall will allow for important security updates to be run while keeping the network running. With most programs being web based, this is very important for uptime. The second Firewall will also serve as a backup to the primary device if there is a problem getting there. The firewall is essential to everyday school district operations and functions. The equipment was included in the budget for the current fiscal year cost. The project is $11,830 which includes three years of subscriptions and
024support pen will be purchased from speed. Is there anything you want to add Mr. Smith? I think the agenda item basically covers it, but that this is our first line of defense um for cyber crime. um which in the last several years uh K through2 has been targeted um by hackers um because of more vulnerabilities that exist um within the K through 12 um environment. So um in order to keep current on our cyber insurance um and keep up with the different you know threats and stuff um I'd recommend replacing this Thank you. Approval is recommended. Second. Any more discussion? So, redundancy is a good thing. I'm sorry. I know redundancy is a good thing. That means that we can update the firewall while we take another one down and keep everything running. Always have
025redundant like I know it's nice to have as many things redundant as possible. Yeah. Completely different. I know. Stacey. Hi. Hi. No. Hi. Lman. Hi. Vinnie. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. All right. 10B. GCHS bleacher disposal. Uh GCSD9 administration requests permission to soccer bleachers that are in need of repair and not compliant with ADA. Anything to add, Mr. Smith? No, it's just that if we move these anywhere else or try to take them apart, we're going to be required to update them, uh, retrofit them, and it's just going to be too expensive. So, we'd be better off getting rid of them. Do they get recycled or We're going to end up recycling them. Yeah. And we may, there is a uh uh individual who works for us. They have a small hometown school. They want
026like uh maybe two sets of bleachers for like their sidelines or something. So if we can donate something like that or even not so much donate whenever we get rid of them whatever happens happens to them. So move second discussion roll call I All right. Uh 10 C Granite City High School Sports Lighting Project. Um, GCSD9 administration requests the approval of new code for the Granite City High School sports lighting project to replace the entire lighting system with a 25 guarantee. This will include new LED lights on the football field and soccer fields with a show lighting package. We are requesting the approval of $376,500. This will start the project in 2024 in the spring and be purchased through Source Cooperative Purchasing Consortiums approved for use of the state of Illinois. I wanted to point
027out that this kind of lighting at lower temperature. It has less maintenance. They have longer lifespans. They're also 50 to 80% more efficient than the traditional gas emitting lighting that we have. So, those are plus the show lighting. Yeah. The uh this is going to give us an opportunity to uh like if there's a soccer game, we can dim the football to 75% just have a low light there. There's a ball tracking for uh where there's a light that stays on the football on the uh football field. It has a little different uh stuff that it will do far as if a team comes out and it have like a little light show or something. Um but one thing that we really wanted to go with these LED lights for there's a 25-y year guarantee.
028Right now we have a a light pole that we're unable to get to once the concrete's poured for the new soccer field. we're not going to be able to get to it without having a heavy crane on top of it, possibly breaking it. Uh we we spend on our lights now about four to 6,000 a year just in routine maintenance and getting a crane out there to work on it. So, this will stop that, too. So, there's a lot of our concrete around the football complex that's already broken from this equipment that has to work on the lights. So, and you, correct me if I'm wrong, you you said that we've used this musto before. Yeah, they're actually they have our lighting on all of our fields now and uh they're very respons. Yeah. So,
029any more discussion? Roll call. Hi Linman. Hi Vinny. Hi Silva. Hi Bradley. Hi Stacy. Hi. Hi. Okay. 10D is the consideration of tax levy resolution truth and taxation hearing. Um so we need a motion here to temporarily adjourn the board of education meeting. Second. Okay. And uh then we need a vote on this one. Um SA Bradley. Hi Stacey. Hi. Hi. No. Hi. I Okay. And with that we are opening our public hearing. I can start with the presentation. One second. So I'll do we need to do a roll call for this. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. Do that. Silva here. Bradley here. Stacey here. And with that, we will open the public hearing over Zach. Sorry, our director of finance. No, I don't. I've never in my life. Uh, this is the 2023 2024
030tax levy presentation. Uh, we'll do some quick historical info. We'll go over the 2023 tax levy in comparison to the previous one and our current debt schedule. Uh, outline tax levy terms. We're going to go over some historical charts. Uh we're going to do the uh 2023 tax levy collected in 2024. A 2223 uh comparison levy comparison uh debt schedule and estimated 23 tax rate paid in 2024 on uh a standard home. Okay, there you go. Terms. When I talk about some of these it gets a little confusing, so I just like to throw these up here. The levy is what we're asking for. So when we say, "Hey, we're raising the levy 17% that we put in the newspaper," that's not what we're getting. That's simply what we're asking for based upon what we
031think equalized excess evaluation or the total prop total of all property value is going to do. We're not saying we're raising somebody's tax rate 17%. We're just saying we expect the total growth, the total of all property in Granite City to go up that much. We're not raising your tax rate. Period. Extension. That's what GC gets. GCSD9 gets after the limit limiting rates are applied. I will get to those a little bit later. Tax rate. That's how your property taxes are collected. Equalize assessed valuation. total of all property value and limiting rates are rates that cannot exceed a certain amount. Equalize assessed valuation history. You can see this goes back to 2011. This is where EAB has been since 2011. You can see in the past couple years it has gone up dramatically which is
032good for us. The problem is is as that EAV goes up we go up in tier funding for EVF which means we get less EVF money. That's what I found because they're expecting us to get that amount. So, if we don't collect in this pot, we also don't get it in EVF. We used to get about $2 million of EVF funding. We were a tier one school. We went to a tier three school. We got about $95,000 of new money in EBS and evidence-based funding last year. It's just how it works out. But we were also 94% funded. Everybody says presentation uh GCS9 total levy/extension history. This blue, the top blue line is what we have asked for. The light blue line is what we have received. As you can see there, we always ask
033for a little more than what we actually get. You can see last year that held true as well on right there. You can see that's what we asked for. That's what we got. So, we also had some more warehouses and property come up for new property that we wanted to make sure we captured all of to keep the tax rate as low as possible. So, that's why we went a little high, hoping to capture more funds and keep the tax rate lower. This is our GCSD9 tax rate history. As you can tell from the high of 517, we are projecting this year to be in the 415 416. Last year we were 423 422 range. So we have come down considerably from 2015 and if you go back to the 2015 14 era that is
034when they were prorating [Music] uh average daily attendance state a historical new property. This is just a graph from 2009 to 22 of the historical new property. You can see there was a spike in 20 of new property which is probably attested to warehouses. These are our June 30th fund balances for each fund just for purposes of seeing. This is our This is the breakdown of those funds. This is the operating fund balance of the financial watch list. What it takes to become a four on the financial review for the state financial recognition score. We have a 4.0 score out of four. So the 2022 levy, you can see we asked for an additional 1.2 million in the ED fund. The limiting rate is 255. You cannot see it because Jod is still there in
035the corner. Um, special ed, we went up, we raised 15,000. This doesn't mean we're going to get it. It just means that we asked for that amount up to that limiting rate. We just wanted to make sure we got all of it. Um, tech lease levy went up 15. ON&M went up 200,000. It has a limiting rate of 050. debt services uh is holding steady. We will hold that steady this year. Um we anticipate that 30 cents to still be 30 cents. Transportation 50,000 limiting rate of 0.2 IMRF we made this is a no limit. So if we ballooned this the tax rate would spike up. We did not raise that at all. Social Security, we did not raise at all. Working cash, the same as special ed and tech lease went up 15,000. Health,
036life safety went up 45,000 with a limiting rate of 0.5 to get into the 385 range as well. It was or I'm sorry, it only went up 15. I have a typo. For a total of 1.8 million roughly, we have leashed the limiting rate in all our funds. We have hit the max. You can see here 2022 actual rate we were 42302. 2023 estimated rate at 761 million of EAV will be at 415 which is about 8 cents lower on the tax rate than last year. And then if it stays at about 655 million, we'll be at about 427. We'll adjust that to make sure it stays at 423. We do not anticipate that happening, Mr. Parker. Oh, there we go. Our current debt service schedule, we This is the last year. We will refinance
037that into the possible new bonds we may be doing which will keep that rate right at about 30 cents. And we only have one outstanding outstanding bond remaining. We right now are probably one of the few few school districts in Illinois that have really very little debt. As a reminder, it's good. It's it's not bad to be or it's not it's good to carry debt. Thank you. If we do not carry a certain amount of debt, if it comes to borrowing, if times ever go back to the 15 era, when we have to borrow money, we may not have access at a economical way to borrow that money to make sure we can meet our financial obligations, which would cost the taxpayers more down the road because we would have to borrow at higher interest
038rates or in a not as convenient way. How do I calculate my taxes? This is just a quick uh on your tax bill, look at taxable value and multiply by the school tax rate. So you can see if your fair market value of your house is about 75,000, it's acce it's assessed at 1/3 minus exemptions. I don't have any in here, but it'd be 25,000. You multiply that through by 4.3202% and your school taxes for that year would be $1,5755. [Music] Don't go too. So, how does the 2023 levy affect my taxes? You can see the 22 rate is over here. It's 1,57. If you do the same thing at 655 million at the 4274.277, you'd go up just a little about $1,69 from last year. But if it's the 761 million somewhere in there,
039you'd be around $1,39, which is less than your $1,5755 from the year before. So, hypothetically, if that if all that happens, you're paying less taxes on our rate than you were the year before. Disclaimer, this is just a general example. There are many different scenarios that can affect your property taxes. This is the most basic. So, There we go. What if my house value goes up? The 2022 rate, if you paid on a $75,000 house 15 or $1,57 on the 2023 rate at $655 million, let's say your home value goes up to $80,000, which represents a 6.6% increase. your taxes would go to 1,14050 because you're being taxed on the additional value of your house. We did not raise a tax rate. You have additional value to your house. Uh 2023 rate at $761 million
040of EAV would be $1,19, which is oh about 50 bucks higher than it was the year before with an additional home value. Sorry, that says 2022. This is the tax rates for all school districts in Madison County. One being the lowest, 12 being the highest. You can see that we are Granite City is the second lowest rate in Madison County. We're right under Roxanna. Uh Roxanna is under $4 is 394. We are 423. And we have moved down significantly. Maybe there you go. Please remember there are many factors that can determine how your property taxes are figured. These examples represent the most basic calculations or just the school district rate. Any questions? I've got more I I could I could talk for days about this. I say it every year, but finances is so crazily
041complicated and I just value and appreciate your ability to boil it down to lay person and it's valid like accurate. So, thank you. That makes a lot of sense. Yes, I agree. We're just not raising taxes. Yeah. I I'd be the first to say, "Hey, this may cause your taxes to go up." We're not planning on that. They're things out of our control. Thank you so much, Zach. Do we have any other public comments? Okay. Uh we need a motion to reconvene the regular. One second. Okay. And so I Winnman I Noble I current Stacey I Bradley. We have returned. Uh do we have a motion to approve the 2023 school district tax resolution? something or something. Yeah, we have in the past. Okay, I noticed no worries. Vinnie, I hi Do we have to
042adopt the certificate of that goes along with your adopting the letter? [Music] I just want to make sure. Where do we have the That's coming up under E. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay, that's right. That was I was right over. Just trying to make sure. Okay. Um, so here's another one of those where we need another motion to temporarily adjourn the board of education. So move second. Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. Stacey. Hi. Hi. Noble I Okay. And uh I guess we do another Well, you go ahead and read the script here. Okay. Okay. I can just do that. Okay. Good. Um let's see. So, the reason for the proposed issuance called bonds. Go ahead and do a A, B, and C. Oh, okay. Well, then I'm calling the hearing. Okay. Cohen here you there it is.
043Okay. Silva here [Music] Benny we are all still here. All right. Now the reason for the proposed issuance of the bonds is to increase the working cash fund. Is there anything today? Okay. Um do we have any comments on Okay. Believe we have any we have no written testimony. Okay. Um are there any written or oral comments to the public? Okay. Um, all persons desiring to be heard have been given an opportunity to present oral and written testimony with respect to the proposed issuance of the bonds and ask I ask for a motion and a second to adjourn the public hearing followed by roll second. Roll call. Stacey. I hi mobile. Hi. Hi Silva. Hi Bradley. Hi. Okay. With that, then we need to go ahead and we need a motion uh to allow the
044board of education to issue education to sell you not yet. Not to exceed 29. Oh yeah. Yeah. Not to exceed 20 million working cash fund bonds for the purpose of increasing working cash fund of the district. Second discussion. Roll call. Vinnie. I Stacey. Hi. Hi. No. Hi. Hi. 20 million 20 million. Speak to 20,000. See what you do with it. All right. I think we're good. All right. 10 omitted service credit. We did last one. Okay. Sorry. The administration's requesting the approval to grant prior limited service credit for Paul Ward and Joey Nesbbit. Any comment Mr. Parker credit like this because they that is subtime that they have acred that they didn't get service credit for but have they yeah IMRF is kind of finicky on moving stuff in and out. We just want people
045to be made whole bold discussion hi I Silva. Hi, Bradley. Hi, Stacey. Hi. Okay. 10G. The board safety and security committee. The board of education will create a board safety and security committee. Board of Education President Tur appointed. Any discussion? Just a new committee we're creating. We didn't have 1% security and hopefully now. Take a vote. No vote. I lament. Hi, Vinny. I Silva. Hi, Bradley. Hi, Dy. Hi, Karen. Hi. Okay. Uh 10H, the evening academy assignments, spring of 2024. Um I'll just Tim Kim Lel, teacher. Luca Captain teacher. Laura Sullivan, teacher. teacher Wilson teacher teacher teacher Jamie teacher Parker teacher Koser teacher Christina Douglas teacher teacher teacher teacher teacher Annabelle teacher Hutchkins coordinator Johnson coordinator counselor coordin Tuesdays and Thursdays in the seme faster than Monday and Wednesdays. This is why some teachers have
046a different stip than others. The stipens are paid through the TF discussion and roll call. I tal to item 10 G, the board safety and security meeting. Y I mean board policy does state now that the committee is created by the board that per board policy you can go ahead and so just do that right now. Yeah, you can go ahead and name the idea was to have Eric Stacy as a delegate Donald and then just place myself as an alterate based on background with buildings and construction and that and mine with it. And it acts like any other committee. It makes recommendations to the full board of education. Thank you. And I uh sixth hour assignment for the spring semester ESSC late school. Permission is requested to approve the following six hour assignment for
047the spring semester at ESSC late school. This assignment allows us to offer a work co-op class to high school students who are able to work. is additional compensation when we pay TF grand. I will say that it's nice that it gives them an equitable approach to allowing them to have the code as well for local 743 contract section approval recommended for Candace Parker to take this summer. So second discussion I Stacy Hi hi Noble I hi okay um 111A freedom of information act request we receive one request of the freedom of information act during the period of number 823 to December 5th 23 the requests were all handled by administration thank you Mr. Uh 111B the curriculum committee have a quick Musa. Do you want to handle that one? Sure. It is just for information
048purposes. It was a curriculum committee that occurred the meeting occurred on November 29th and the committee it you know it is just simply for um is to report to the board of education on things that are needed. Um we are going to have another discussion on January 3rd of stakeholders will be involved in this meeting. Um and then we will bring it back to you. These items here we will discuss again with the stakeholders and then we'll bring it back to you for a consideration of a vote of the full board and one of the January meetings. So this is just for your information right now. Okay. Thank you. 111C, the community advisory council report by uh yes, I simply want to let the community know and the board know that January 24th, uh on
049a Wednesday, we will have our next CAC meeting. uh and those uh invitations will go out during the period prior to the to the meeting. Um that was really all the information was giving and we will send that out as an opportunity for people to to sign up. So yeah, and we're going to use the data from that survey in the first one to to answer those questions and to address those issues that came up during that survey. have another survey from that as we go on so people can have their input and let us know what their concerns are. Okay. And then 111D it's your show again for the delegate report. Uh there were actually it's a an advocacy ambassador is what the term is but it had there were two resolutions that were
050approved by IASB. Um 417 delegates approved it. It was a measure to request the Illinois legislature consider legislation providing educational funding to all school districts to offset the cost of school resource officers. uh and it was approved. So, we'll see what happens uh as it moves into uh the the uh legislator legislators. Yes. Uh also uh there was an approved uh resolution for IASB to support changes to regulations uh to allow local training and testing for school buses, bus drivers, and that would include also transportation reimbursement for those for those efforts. So, those are the two that have passed IASB's uh committee and we'll see what happens uh during the process when it goes to Springfield. Yes. Okay. And that's it. All right. Well, thank you. Um and after that we have 11 uh onee
051the multi-grade level schools committee update by Eric a short update but we're making progress so we will meet um next Monday right the 19th the 19th that's a Tuesday May and the n okay next Tuesday we're going to meet with Dr. Paris and we're also in communication with Miss K to share the results of the staff survey about um multigrade level centers. We will discuss data, look at some trends that we're seeing in it and then determine some next steps which will include reaching out to community families to gather their input as well um and continuing to look at feasibility of different scenarios as we move forward. Anything else? Okay. Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't have executive session today. The agenda. Yeah, we don't think we do. Okay. Um, okay. Uh,
052with that, we will approve any executive session from November in the next board meeting. Yeah, that's just and um so uh setting of the agenda. Uh our next meeting will be uh January 23rd. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Um January 23rd, 2023 right here, 6 p.m. With that, do we have a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Second. Okay. Roll call. Zinny. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. Stacey. Hi. Hi. No. I lin. Okay, we are out at 703.