001last monthsary [Music] okay welcome everybody to the Grand City Community Unit School District number n Board of Education meeting for January 23rd 20124 um can we have a roll call Silva here Bradley here Stacy here curan here Noble here L here Den here everybody um and if we would all please rise for pledge of allegiance followed by an invitation by Pastor William from St coun i al to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep stands indivisible andice for all Lord I uh come to you and we all come to you today with hearts of gratitude because you have raised up an army of people an army who are filled with passion for our youth for our community and for our school system grant them Vision grant them dreams Big Dreams
002Lord as they work to maintain and continue to make this school district a wonderful place to be a place for our youth to be nurtured encouraged and taught um our future neighbors our Future Leaders not only of our community but for all areas Beyond Lord I Thank You for Your Presence I bless them please with wisdom as they move forward today Lord I ask in the name of your son who is our Lord amen next is um okay then okay this is why we have such a great crowd um it's always wonderful when we can hand out things for the successes of our students and tonight the gr City School District n Board of Education Administration would like to recognize the following 13 student students named the 2425 Illinois State Scholars for their outstanding academic
003achievement as announced by the Illinois Student Assistance commission I am going to defer bit to miss Nikki Patrol to give to kind of make everybody understand how difficult this is to achieve this honor where did you go there you are so you want to give a little info for me um so at the conclusion of students sixth semester of high school so at the end of their junior year we submit to the Illinois Student Assistance commission uh to the state their ranking at that point and so um at the end of their junior year we submit their rankings to the state and they consider that along with their SAT score and so they're looking at students who finished in the top half of their class along with students who have earned the higher um SAT
004scores in the state and So based on a rubric that the state determines um they announce our Illinois State Scholars and so we're very proud of these these students thank you Mr TR is assistant principal high school so she was a little more knowledgeable about this so when I give that so now here we go I'm going to hopefully not make any mistakes I how to pronounce things we're gonna start with Leah bethl I see that right there she is coming up she gets to come up here let's hand you your certificate these are very nice too there's an extra piece of paper we're not sure that's stay here we're going to picture all together right sounds uh Michaela [Applause] bird congratulations a picture of her do you want are you he tells me what
005to do congratulations Aaron Brinker [Applause] congratulations Abigail [Applause] dickerman Lucas [Applause] hadex Anna ha [Applause] Austin H Hong [Applause] H Justin Hy here we go man wonderful Julian Haron I think I know him [Applause] Abigail Petrus should I say that correctly [Applause] no petus Abigail [Applause] petus Payton Robinson Robison I do it right she's congrat how do we how do I say I did say it good that's good uh Lucy Van [Applause] buer look at this an Applause all [Applause] of all the people to forget student board members and a Forbes you go dear let's get them in a place you wna so let's make let's make two rows can we do that yeah Abby you need to come oh wow Mr Christian there we go and then it's good okay I can only I
006miss K I cannot see you there you go can we see everybody all right here we go all right here we go one Mr mcran can you go that way a little bit there we go all right here we go one two three one two three one two three any parents want to take any for we're done I'm going to take another one here we go go to theer go ahead goad [Applause] we sure would love to see your smiling faces hang around but know you have we're not going to punish you for your great achievement this is the point where they [Music] congratulations almost almost I thought they were going to be done were trying to were like want to get through here I didn't even think about that thanks for St [Music] I
007came oh what for I uh went and watched one practice for minutes we [Music] for the minutes do we have a motion to approve the minutes of the December 12 2023 meeting so move second okay Bradley hi Stacy hian hi Noble hi lman hi Vinny I Silva hi okay and then uh consent agenda which is the items that are repres routine nature any member may make a motion to approve the consent agenda or request any items be move to section s for individual discussion and consideration do we have a motion yeah and uh any discussion great once again I love to talk about the gifts because there's always some which I still think is amazing every single time uh we had some amazing uh people in groups that helped out over Christmas um and with
008our students in need the night of Columbus in Bethalto uh with the guidance of Mr Joe golash anybody um they donated six boxes of jackets for the students and I think that came I think there were at least what were there like 10 in each box we had close to 60 codes and during that cold stretch I know lot of our social workers and principles were wonderful about letting us know students that needed those I just think that that's I know that ring anywhere um and the namok United Methodist women's group also did some really great stuff they did handsone stockings filled with items for the students of Mitchell Elementary education center um I just think that that is incredbly sweet as well and then again I mentioned this um December but the n i
009decid we decided to do a nine days of District kindness uh for our staff across all the schools not just the teachers just to try to do something uh in the middle of the year that showed us how much we appreciated them and their presence and what they do for kids every day so we have uh Pastor Mark mayard from Calvary Life Church uh Pastor Stacey Wilson Grant City First Assembly of God Pastor Jared Corine Unity Baptist Church Pastor Chris abas Second Baptist Church Pastor Barry Shephard CH of the Assembly of God Gateway Regional Medical Center stepped up to U Miss Don Stewart which is the um Communications stuff she's wonderful um Mr Tom schoolie from the schoolly law office Mr Keith Burton from rev Credit Union Miss Martha Morse from firstman America Credit Union
010and Mr Ben holl from duke Baker are all people who donated to that cause to help us get um objects of kindness to our staff every day and I want to appreciate um Cory IR Mary boss are helping me get that Distributing Chris Mulla Chris Mitchell I think everybody had a hand somewhere and helping us get everything that to everybody in the building so thank you very much we really appreciate it I'm not a pastor no he's not I was going to say Pastor Tom [Music] never know well yeah do we have a motion yeah we got the mo Vinny I Sila Bradley okay and then um 8 a resend retirements and resignations it is recommended that the following retirements and resignations be descended H Kim custodian gchs effective 63026 James Parker executive director of
011HR 715 2025 Christine Douglas math teacher gchs at the 2425 school year so MO C hi no Hi l hi Vinny I Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy hi okay 8B retirements and resignations it is recommended the following retirements and resignations be accepted pal Kim custodian gchs retirement effective 2224 Terry Manion custodian of crer retirement 8129 James Parker executive director HR retirement 71524 KH third grade teacher Mitchell retirement 9:30 27 Robert quick industrial teacher gchs retirement 6127 Christine Douglas math teacher GC gchs retirement June 2024 lean Aller title teacher pray their retirement end of 28 29th school year and W Proverbs being teacher gchs retirement end of I Bradley sty I I Okay C request for leas of absence it is recommended that the following Le of requests for leas of absence be approved AUM SP
012care professional JS 12 1923 to 3224 Pam Holton Cafe School effective 524 to 32924 K lamper kindergarten teacher pray for kindergarden effective 1324 to 32724 Shirley is ringen title one teacher Wilson effective 2924 to 5324 son Stewart mat teacher Co Junior High School effective 2224 to 42624 Larry Delano par professional cool Junior High schooled 13024 to roll l i Silva hi Bradley I Stacy I I Noble I okay 8D requests for extensions to leaves of absence it is recommended the following requests for extensions to leaves of absence be approved Cynthia desper special teacher G effective 11524 to 4824 K Glenn professional Wilson 12924 to loc Vinnie I Silva I Bradley I Stacey I I no 8 e extracurricular resignations for the 2324 school year Al you have received detailed information about this item the administration
013is prepared to make recommendations to for disc session ex this session GCS Administration is recommending the following extracurricular resignations for the 2324 school year be accepted car Presley Peart third quarter lunch Dy Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy hi hi Noble I okay 8 F extracurricular resignation for the 2425 school year below you have received detailed information about this item the administration is prepared to make recommendations or to hold for discussion in executive session gcsd9 Administration is recommending that the following extracurricular resignations for the 242 school year be accepted Miss Linda ases gchs par come sponsor second how many more times is L going to break up with us she does everything so it's just pie Bradley hi hi hi l vny i Silva okay 8G extracurricular recommendations for the 2324 school year you have received
014detailed information below about this item the administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session the gcsd9 administration is recommended the following extracurricular assignments for the 23 four school year approved Jen misar thank you Mich froh hard third quarter lunch duty Ashley Kiper prayther third quarter lunch duty and Stacy enre prayther third quarter lunch duty approval is recommended submission discussion roll call Stacey hi no i l v hi 8 extracurricular recommendations for the 2425 school year gcsd9 Administration is recommending that the following extracurricular assignments for the 2425 school year be approved well uh John Mo gchs athletic director Eric Hill gchs assistant athletic director Aaron WS gchs head cross country coach Bill py gchs assistant Cross Country Coach Melissa Kimble gchs dance team Coach Pat Baker gchs head football coach Jeff
015Ry now gchs head boys golf coach Greg vaugh gchs assistant boys golf coach Ginger Harrison gchs head girls golf coach Chris Harrison gchs assistant girls golf coach Ryan Reeds gchs head voicey soccer coach Barry Gro gchs assistant voice soccer coach Steve donnald gchs assistant voice soccer coach Julie shriber GCS head girls tennis coach Brian Ames gchs assistant girls tennis coach Grace Hurst gchs head girls volleyball coach Alexandria Miller gchs assistant girls volleyball coach and Danielle J gchs assistant girls volleyball coach approval is recommended pending the submission of all the required move discussion I have question I have two questions one is I I I mean I've noticed this for a long time but like in positions like these where it says approval is recommended pending submission what do they have to submit that we could
016have a non-employee applying for one of the extracurriculars we may be waiting on a completion on their I just wondered I was like for coaches what what are we waiting on paper and then my second question is the does the as that means that they're that they're pending paperwork we're pending paperwork on him okay all right all right I'm done I'm done with my questions well we should have put the as asot it says approval ises who' been Coes ex mrak I think I think everyone else has done something in some roll call hi no I vny I Silva I Bradley sty I okay eight I extra curricular volunteers for the 2324 School the gcsd9 administration is recommending that the following extracurricular volunteers for the 2324 school year be accepted thank you uh Ginger Harrison
017cool as Junior High girls volleyball roll Bradley sty I um 8j recommendations for gchs student workers co-ops for the 23 24 school year I just have to make sure I pronounce everything so the GCS you have received information below about side the administration is prepared to make recommendations for the hold for discussion in the executive session gcsd9 Administration is recommending the following student worker Co-op for the 2324 school year be approved Alissa approval is recommended pending the submission of required silley okay 8K certified and classified substitutes you have received detailed information about this item Administration those recommendations or the hold for discussion in executive session it is recommended the following applicants be board approved to substitutes for the 23 24 school year classified Bren Dickerson Amber G Denise Smith and Vicky mission discussion roll call
018Bradley sty hi hi okay 8 L1 appointment of two par Professionals for the 2324 school year you have received detailed information about this item below the administration is prepared to make recommendations or to hope for discussion in an executive session gcsd9 Administration and the interview committee consisting of Mickey Watkins executive director of special ed Jill REI supervisor of special education and Stephanie Boer special education coordinator are recommended the employment of the following candidates as parir Professionals for 23 24 school year Amanda Patterson and denisea hi Bradley sty hi hi no Hi l hi I okay 8 L2 the employment of principal at essc Lake School for the 2425 school year you have received detailed information about this item below the administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion and executive session gcsd9 Administration
019the interview committee consisting of superintendent Stephanie K executive director of HR Jim Parker executive director of educational operations Dr David Keel and current princi principal of ESC Lake School Dr Don Harris are recommending the employment of Mr Mike dowy as the principal at essc Lake School for the 2425 school year Mr Dy will be placed in the category 4 step 10 on the administrative salary schedule approval is recommended tending congratulations [Music] [Laughter] roll Stacey Hi l vny i i i [Applause] congratulations sorry 10 a fiscal year 24 School District Library Grant pleased to inform me the Grand C Unit School District 9 has received the fy4 School District Library award in the amount of $4,888 the School District Library Grant provides support for the school district's library and media program to enhance student learning and
020academics Grant funds are typically used for the acquisition of Library materials to support reading for academics and enjoyment Library subscriptions to electronic resources or library library based technology to support student research thank you Dr ke for helping with this acceptance of this gr is recommended discussion roll call Stacey hi c i no i l i vny i Silva I Bradley I okay 10B 6th hour assignment for the spring semester gchs commission is requested to approve the following sixth hour assignment for the spring semester at gchs the assignment allows the release time necessary for the work experience coordinator due to the number of students being served approval is recommended it's Kelly H discussion hi Bradley j i okay 10c gchs football and soccer Press Box GCS night Administration request the approval of St Inc say that
021is that a typo think for a block work for the Granite City High School football and soccer Press Box Press Box will have a restroom and the dimensions are 21 fet uh tall by 24 ft wide by 12T deep with a 9ot viewing windows on each side we are requesting the approval of $1,350 the project will start in the spring of 2024 I do believe you all have received information on that prior so approval is recommended so move second discussion roll call no I L hi Benny I Sila hi Bradley hi Stacy hi hi okay uh 10d gchs soccer bleachers gcsd9 Administration requests the approval of GT Grand stands for the gr City High School soccer bleachers project to replace the bleachers in the soccer field this will be approximately 419 seats with five wheelchair
022spaces with companion seaing we are requesting the approval of $165,200 this project will start in Spring of 24 will be purchased through the tips Cooperative consortiums approved for use to the state of Illinois approval is recommended once again second discussion much needed much needed yes well you know just to Mr Smith could you speak for a moment on why we don't want to just retrofit the old existing the price difference between retrofitting and buying new is about $30,000 and then uh we still have old looking B up bleachers only thing we were going to get out of that is the toeboards and the kickboards um and some fencing around the outside and have them move that was the expense was definitely yes and we didn't we didn't have that before thank you very much roll
023lman hi Vinny hi Sila hi Bradley sty hi hi no hi okay 10 e gchs football bleachers gcsd9 Administration requests the approval of GT Grand stands for the Granite City High School football bleachers project to add bleachers to the football field next to the soccer field this will be approximately 815 seats with 11 wheelchair spaces with a companion seating this provides much needed seating for gains and events such as graduation we are requesting the approval of $278,400 through the tips Cooperative consortiums approve approv for use through the state of Illinois approval is recommended so move discussion are we filling in the places on like the visitor side now that one bleachers is ear in the other way over here yes they'll all be connected and that will now be the home side will be and
024that will be home hi Bradley hi Stacey hi hi no Hi l hi okay 10 F moroi network switch bid we are seeking approval to purchase Cisco maroi switches these switches control the backbone for the entire School District Network in all buildings the new switches will replace 68 current did I say right Mor okay switches that were installed in the 2016 17 school year the current switches will be end of life through Cisco Mor between March and July 24 the cost is part of the current budget with 85% of the cost being reimbursed by eate funding we receive bids from the vendors below the selected vendor secure data Technologies is the recommendation secure data Technologies $323,400 [Music] 70 power Technology Solutions which didn't bid the what we needed correct Mr Smith correct right so uh
025was 8,638 but not the right switches did so the the option was in the bid to bid like switching um if they could if they could prove that it was compatible with moroi which they they really didn't teally yeah but they really didn't provide the documentation that um that it needed so to [Music] approve second discussion roll hiy sty hi 10 G resolution providing for the issue of not to exceed 20 million taxable General obligation school bond series 2024 of community Unit School District number n manison County Illinois for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of said School District providing the levy of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the principal and interest on said bonds and authorizing the sale of said bonds to Steel Nicholas and Company incorporate so do we
026motion motion okay motion to pass the resolution pass that resolution Mo second okay discussion roll call Bradley [Music] 108 curricul committee recommendation on November 29th 23 the curricul commit the committee understands that they cannot hire additional staff how can they Implement new programs approval the following items are unanimously by the district for on November 29th 23 there have also been um further conversations um involving people with the board Administration the superintendent gchs Administration so that we can make these changes import to what T for kids in the future as well so we have uh recommending the approval of classes ad& which is Wind Ensemble a an accelerated version introduction to cyber security and CTE and business law and CTE and those are um recomend to approve second discussion I just have to say because I
027had a question too about these because we didn't have like really what the class consisted of and so for so when I saw that I was quite impressed they look like really good classes one thing my son was on the original committee when they went to Summa so he was asking me too about it when I I asked him I said you know how did we do this how many classes did we have and so forth because you know when you add new classes then you have more it kind of throws things off and he says mom that was like 2006 he says I think it's about time maybe they kind of updated this so I think that might be something that Anna your generation needs to look at maybe updating that whole system group
028who's looking over these things from all the areas that we can come up with a a group consensus as to we move forward I'm always a fan of adding cyber secur yeah he can be a guest speaker um roll I Bradley okay um 111a request to appeal alternative education plac I don't think there's any need to take any action on that okay the parents wanted to speak that they declined the show then 112 uh the Freedom of Information Act we received a six request under the Freedom of Information Act During the period of December 6 23rd to January 16 24 you have information about that they were all handled uh by Administration thank you Mr Mitchell and all the information is and um let's see now we have some uh administrative reports and updates uh
029beginning with the community advisory Council report from Brad yes we uh we are having our second CAC Community advisory committee uh on Wednesday tomorrow at 5:45 uh and we all all of the guests have been have been re have received their invitation we're hoping for a good and uh from our last meeting that we had we had really great responses from parents and Community uh of on any of the uh questions that we asked and their their uh answers were very uh complete in many cases we were just very well uh they they they really received the program very well and I think they gave us a lot to think about so we're looking forward to the same program same type our program will be uh a speaker our Tim Tim Moran will be our
030speaker on safety and uh we know that that is going to be really interesting and and well received by the community so I'm sure they'll have a lot to uh respond to so thank you so much Tim and we look forward to it so part of it will also be we did a survey we don't want know the first time so I'll be responding to like the concerns and questions from each of the comments in the survey during that presentation we'll place um that presentation online afterwards as well and there'll be another survey so people at this one can also um voice concerns and questions which we'll respond to again we used the reason Mr Mar's coming is because we probably had the most questions and concerns about safety and also in build your future
031on CTE so he's going to be referring to both those issues and there's even pizza and cookies double attendance right thanks okay thank you um and then uh the iasb liaison report from Linda can okay well um we have uh received or they have passed the uh the request for uh legislation consideration on the cost of a resource officer and it was approved in the uh in the resolution at the advocacy program and we are the delegate assembly and they also are going to be sending to the legislature uh the training the local training and the testing for bus driver candidates which will be given to handed over to the districts and the increase that goes along with it for the transportation reimbursement so that sounds really very helpful for uh all of our local
032school districts the uh the other report I have is from the uh program that we have uh that we had in uh the early part of uh October November U the encouragement is that whenever we send a group of people or individuals to the uh uh the the uh Pro yeah the program we have the joint annual conference we would appreciate uh responding to the kinds of things that you were able to see and do uh some of the classes that you attended it would give the it would give the public and our and our uh Administration an idea of how well uh those joint annual conferences are doing and how much they appeal to the needs that we have that we see here in our district um the next thing is uh in January
033there will be another division dinner which uh we hope to attend as well um Don is on that committee uh for division division dinners and they have a wonderful program he wasn't able to attend the last one but I went there on uh as an alternate and uh it was a great meeting great people at uh kokia Middle School wonderful program they're they're struggling with the effects of C and that it's had on their kids and uh and the learning loss that has has occurred so uh I was just very very impressed with the effort that that whole staff is is doing so thank you thank you um and finally the multi-grade level schools committee update with Eric venny and Becky gr I'm still any chime in As You Wish sound good okay so um
034we completed our staff survey data which I mentioned last time our parent survey is currently open our family survey is currently open uh we have currently 354 responses to just went up in the last five minutes so thank you for those um that's open through Monday at 5 o'clock and then in February I'm not going to commit to which February meeting yet because once you start digging into the data sometimes it takes a bit to process um but I will be giving we will be giving a presentation of General data findings for both staff and the family surveys we are nearing a point where we're going to be working in collaboration with superintendent can and Dr Harris to narrow down some things and make some recommendations and get moving on some things um prior to
035that Mrs Bradley and I would like to meet with students we've heard from lots of adults and adults are cool and all but really I want to hear from the kids and so I'll be reaching out to principales high school down through third grade Miss Bradley and I would like to take a day and come and talk to some kids and just pick their brains on some stuff it doesn't need to be a very disruptive thing but we want to come and hear what the kids say a good smattering of kids too all kinds of them give me your High Flyers your frequent flyers all the Flyers talk to them and hear what they have to say anything else to add I don't remember if I I don't think so trying to keep it concise
036because my next presentation will be longer all righty um next we have 13A the executive session minutes Tom we have to do these individually yeah yeah okay um so do we have a motion to approve the executive session minutes of the regular board meeting held on Tuesday November 14th 2023 second wa I have to make my own stuff okay so this is for what one um November 14th 11:14 Stacey and okay okay call Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy hi curan hi Nole Hi l Vinnie I okay okay and now for the approval of the executive session minutes of the special meeting that was held on November Monday November 27 2023 Lo Bradley hi Stacey hi hi no Hi l Vinnie I Silva hi okay and now the approval of the executive session minutes of the
037special meeting of the Board of Education held on Tuesday November 28th Z second okay roll call kogle hi linan hi Vinnie I Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy hi I and finally the approval of the executive session minutes of the special meeting of the Board of Education held on Wednesday November 29th 2020 L Vinnie I Silva I Bradley Stacey I I okay and we session today um that the next board meeting will be February 13 2024 right here in this room and with that do we have a motion to adjourn second all those in favor okay we are out