001oh she just she didn't mean it what are you doing here [Music] welcome everybody to the Board of Education meeting for Tuesday February 2024 um can we please have a roll call oh sorry that's me I forgot America tonight so sorry Silva here it is okay Silva here Bradley here Stacy here Curran here kogle here lenman here Vinny here and fors here we have a COR okay everybody would please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance followed by an invitation by our own Doctor Harris yes I Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all bow your heads with me please our most gracious Heavenly Father we thank you for this day this unseasonably warm weather
002we just appreciate it de Lord I just thank you for these students and their accomplishments that we on here tonight I pray that you're with us board as they make decisions that affect our community please keep your hand upon our students and our staff as we move forward to the rest of this week approaching your precious name and I pray [Music] comment is there anybody here com [Music] kind of exciting one to talk about tonight uh we are fortunate to have some amazing uh people that work for us uh they're contracted in in particular first student uh transportation services which we're uh really proud to have them and they've we've had some some really amazing people that really take action very quickly and so at this point I'd like to call up driver Monda Graham
003and safy [Applause] support very nice I can't help it I know so uh on the Prather kindergarten route um the am route to Prather a student began choking while she was on her bus with all the students uh she was they were unable to dislodge the objects she proceeded quickly quick thinking she was closed to Gateway Regional Medical Center she pulled into the ER they came out to help the student um and they were able to dis LGE that because he was choking physically choking other kids didn't know what to do but I think it was very uh astute of you to know that you were that close to something and you knew you couldn't leave the kids but they came out and they got the little boy and you're quick thinking you know could
004have easily saved that young man so we just really wanted to make sure that we thanked you for that thank you than [Music] [Applause] Michelle Davis is a safety director for S student if you'd like to say anything just that we're really proud of Mand and all of our drivers because we always put our students safety number one and she embodies that today we thank her for that so thank you [Applause] again you you ain't going me that fast is my li SC I'm a jokester thank you for [Music] Got You Know M okay so Mr Mitchell just brought to me this is the quote from the little guy while he was in the emergency room she is the best driver I bus driver I have ever had she saved my life I will tell
005you that the kids on the bus were very concerned and and they all do love her so it was just really nice so we really wanted to BR thank you so much again we appreciate you which is wonderful okay we're going to start with we have all these students here tonight which is always a good thing right in the front row we made you sit right here you love yeah right so uh we're going to start with recognizing the following students who qualified for the Illinois High School Association state speech tournament and we'll start with Miss penel Davis where's Miss penel Davis want to come on up [Applause] [Music] here we're very excited to have you here tonight and so we're going to talk about these kids she gives a lot of time for all
006this um we're going to start with the performance in the round actors but I'd like first if maybe I have some information but if you would like to explain the performance in the round you'd probably do a much better job than I would but it's a performance in the round there she goes so performance in the round is a play that takes place in a circle and we made it to State this year which was very exciting um we put together our show in about a week and a half yeah so I got the names from um Wesley copper our coach oh he's supposed to be up and um we then Wesley copper you're supposed to be up here I apologize come on [Applause] he presentation coming in just a few minutes which we make
007sense of that one so so Wesley gives us the names of the people who we can choose and these are the people in front of you so um the rest of them went on to do Regional sectionals and then state which was Anna so um we were very proud of these actors uh they worked very hard um in the sense that we had a quick turnaround and then once we got to sectionals they worked even harder and then we got to State and so each and every one of them you would be proud of who they are on the inside just as much as their performance um that they were able to show at state so we hope to see you guys at state for many many more years to come and um without any
008further Ado these are our stage actors here we go so we'll start with Brook billis she's not with us she's not with this time but I'm going to hand those to you yay [Music] Lily [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Booker he's not with us he's so do we [Music] [Applause] have Brian [Music] Callie play BR Charming oh well look at this outfit Ezra [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Finley Eva [Applause] gerardi Travis Lofton [Applause] Christopher [Applause] kov Lily [Applause] kinsky Kaya Hunter [Music] [Applause] [Music] Taisha [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Jackson Brianna [Applause] Moore Chloe nickel [Applause] [Music] Loren Robinson Brandon [Applause] Vogler is there one because last time I gave two wh Shelby White [Applause] and Alexi [Applause] wur so here they all are do we want to tell them a little bit about what play they did or
009anything about that at all yeah so they did a fairy tale Fractured Fairy Tale Cinderella is seriously so annoying so it it broke the idea but our our students will be able to see us and they've been writing Fractured Fairy Tales and Children's Theater to go go along with these guys so our children's theater students will get to perform with these state qualifiers so that's very exciting so that everyone will get to perform [Applause] together the tournament so let's have two rows like tall in the back shorter in the front there we go even so front row go that way a little bit there you go all right back row you're good all right this will work all right here we go one two three one two three one two three thank you I know
010I've got I've got him all in order should I go out of order while he's here while you're here you know right so uh Mr Wesley copper also we'd like to recognize him for winning the Southern Illinois speech and acting a coach of the year how exciting is that that [Music] well I know my mom's excited well I know his mother is an amazing person that works for us at coolage who I don't know she might be the mom of the school I think she tries she's wonderful so we appreciate you Mr copper thank you so much so now not last but not least here we'll start with Miss Anna Forbes would you like to come up Miss [Applause] build she not by herself okay I thought I got first I want to talk about
011that uh she called she went first state do you want to tell them about the impromptu speaking category that you that you perform yeah I do a speech event called improptu speaking it's basically where I go into a room they Handi an envelope it has new prompts in it um they're either like quotations from someone their Proverbs or their phrases like clear as mud or something like that and from there I have two minutes to prepare to give a six minute speech wow and I see what I can do which one did what was the one the last one you had to do uh the last it was a French proverb it was um I would put her on the spot All The Treasure of the Earth can never bring back one moment oh wow
012she was wonderful love a lot with that I just saw that well we went this first one is for uh first place in impromptu speaking in sectionals which sent you to state so we'll start [Applause] that and then so from there you qualified there and then when you went up I saw some video where they it was kind of neat the way they did this when they announced who was moving on they did like Scrolls that came down like they counted down oh yeah is that right and they said who made because it was only 10 people correct yeah so there's six sectionals and three people qualify to stay from each sectional and from those 18 that qualify only the top six there can be seven if there's a tie or something only the top
013six make it to the very final round and you don't know who gets there until they put a poster on the wall and they unroll it it's like a moment it's really cool and then you could hear her going oh I made it so so when you think about it went down to that six people out of all the students in the state that phenomenal I just you [Applause] know of she finished third place in her impromptu speaking so we are so incredibly proud of you here's your second one job good [Applause] job I have a nickname for Anna I call her my Fearless One because I really I mean to get to hand something to you and you have two minutes to get up and but she's not afraid you do Congress which is
014also amazing she comes with the things that she's just not afraid to tackle anything um and I'm just so proud of her [Applause] so you got W that thank you very much we're so proud of all of them this is a relatively new event that these two have put together M Davis penel and Mr Hopper and just to see the success of these young people and how much they put into it and how quickly they learn and what they do and how well they represent us so we're very proud of all of [Applause] you forg uh you would like to leave now you we' love for you to stay are stanie [Music] good Ohi the front okay with that we can uh move on to the approval of the minutes of meeting of the Board
015of Education February Bradley I Stacy I Curran IO I wman hi Benny hi Silva hi okay and uh next is consent agenda which contains those items that are repetive in the routine and nature any member may make a motion to approve the consent agenda or request that any of the items move to section seven for individual discussion and consideration discussion go ahead I'm going to talk about gifts because I love that we have this every single time uh this one's a little different I'm kind of sad that this pel Davis left that she wrote something for me we had a group The American Musical and dramatic Academy the College of Performing Arts uh and speech team and Coach Amy pel Davis they worked with our students they actually came here with our students on February
01620th they gave a complimentary workshops in acting and auditioning techniques they've extended the opportunity for our Juniors and seniors which is really cool to audition for them at school here as well so this is an opportunity opens the doors for students to pursue a career in theater or film Anna did you take part in this as well no I didn't think so but I want to make but I think it was amazing that they donated their time to come do this and to come here so our students don't have to travel there for those auditions and I just think that that's a great opportun we wanted to thank them for that as well and then Carl and Laura stratman uh they donated a really nice guitar to the gchs band which was was really kind
017as well wanted to make sure we talked about that too so thanks again to everyone that thinks of the school district we really appreciate it yes thank you very much I keep looking toward says yeah go ahead and do roll call please Stacy hi Curran hi Noble hi lamman hi Benny hi Silva hi and Bradley hi okay and then after that nothing removed so yeah um 6 A1 the N that's let's go 8 a requests for leaves of absence okay right um it is recommended the following requests for leaves of absences be approved Karen Robertson principal fart effective 32524 to 61724 Sandra Angley cther effective 22024 to Second roll call Curran hi kogo hi lamman hi Vinnie hi Silva hi Bradley hi and Stacy hi all right eight B extracurricular volunteers for the 23 24
018school year you've received detailed information about this item below the administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session gcsd9 Administration is recommending that the following extracurricular volunteers for the 2324 school year be accepted then Dell gchs baseball coach and Vince Willer GS kogle hi Lyon hi Benny hi Silva hi Bradley I Stacy I and current I okay 8 C extracurricular recommendations for the 23 24 school year these are all for lunch duty you have received DET I could yeah receive detailed information about this item below the administration is prepared to make recommendations or for hold for discussion executive session gcsd9 Administration is recommending the following extracurricular assignments for the 23 for school year be approved and they all are brart griggy marville Mitchell cther Andy we do appreciate those teachers
019for taking that move to approve call lenman hi Benny hi Sila hi Bradley hi Stacy hi Curran Hi and kogo hi okay 8D extracurricular recommendations for the 2425 school year okay you have received detailed information uh below about this item the administration is prepared to make recommendations or home for discussion in second session gcsd9 Administration is recommending that the following extracurricular assignments for the 2425 school year be approved Jamie pamatat Varsity Club sponsor Steve ruso gchs assistant football coach and Kyle Thompson gchs football coach so mov discussion roll call Benny hi Silva hi Bradley hi Daisy hi Curran hi kogle Hi and linman hi okay 8e certified and classified substitutes once again you've received detailed information about this item below the administration is prepared to make recommendations through a hold for discussion executive session it
020is recommended the following applicants be board approved as substitutes for the 23 24 school year certified is Jamie Mills classified Edward lemon Heather pero Christina mall and Andrew White approve it was recommended and the submission of the required second roll call Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy hi curan hi kogle hi lenman hi and Benny hi okay uh 88 F1 employment of one gcsd9 school psychologist for the 2425 school year yes you have received detailed information below about this item the administration is prepared to make recommendations or to hold for discussion in executive session the gcsd9 administration and the interview committee consisting of Mickey Watkins Jill reliy and Christy Le better are recommending the employment of Amy Burman as a school psychologist for the 2425 school year approval is recommended putting the submission of required paperwork
021no move second discussion roll call Stacy hi curan hi kogle hi glenan hi Benny hi Sila hi hi and Bradley hi okay 10 a lake essc and K through seventh grade summer school prop permission is requested to offer a K7 grade school grade summer school program kindergarten through third grade classes will be housed at fre through Elementary education center and fourth through seventh grade classes will be housed at Lake students attending the alternative school program at Lake essc will be offered summer school also all programs will be Monday through Friday student hours are 8: a.m. to 12: p.m. students will receive a breakfast and a lunch daily summer school is May 29th 2024 through June 26th 2024 all classes are in person and busing will be offered approval is recommended some move second discussion roll
022call curan hi kogle hi lamman hi Benny hi Silva hi Bradley hi and Stacy hi okay 10B Grand City High School summer school proposal permission is requested to offer a Grand City High School summer school program the cost will be $100 per class which will be reduced which I really like to $50 per class after the successful completion of the course summer school is May 29 2024 through June 26 2024 inperson and online courses will be offered courses will also be offered to incoming freshman there will be no Transportation provided by the district approval is recommended discussion is it the reason for that is there is L of them Drive yes that's mainly we've never offered Transportation understand why that would be a question though and I think generally it's because most of them can
023drive yes most High scho kids kogle hi lenan hi Benny hi Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy hiur I and uh can see replacement devices bid I'm going to read this to I'm going to ask U Mr Smith to give a little more information uh gcsd9 Administration requests authorization to purchase 475 laptops that replacement for teachers and support staff the current laptops were deployed in 2020 with new devices we are looking to extend our current foure replacement plan 25 sixe notation due to availability and supply chain delays we are requesting devices as soon as possible the price does include the device the license the forri your Exel damage warranty and a white glove services to pre and roll unbox Place ass tags and Vol Shi devices uh we are recommending trur and the prices there Mr
024Smith do you want to give a little information on how we got to this point so traera um we've worked with them quite a bit in the past on uh different Chromebooks and stuff but it did go out for bid it went to other um vendors as well um the only invitations to bid that were returned as a bid were from trer um so that's who we went with uh they have been the lowest costs in the past um there also who we purchased the 3,000 Chromebooks through for um covid when that happened so uh very pleased to go with traera um and have a long working relationship with them is it normal for nobody to return bids like that I it can happen yeah in the food side we've had it happen as well
025really um they used to be called Firefly computers which was located out of Minnesota um but they were acquired by another company and then they changed their name to traera so I think it's still Minnesota but I'm not really sh that so they're 980 per device with the total of 45,500 discuss roll Lan hi Benny hi SAA hi Bradley hi Stacy hi Curran Hi and kogo hi 10d Wilson School roof bid I'm going to do the beginning of this and also Mr for further information GCS Administration requested approval for their placement on the Wilson School Ro following our bid opening on February 21st receive proposals from three dinners Lakeside Roofing barge Roofing and bab Roofing upon review is found that bar Roofing of the lowest bid at 909 99737 Lakeside ring B came in at
02648924 do you want to explain Mr Smith reasoning for yeah you read it yeah I read it then I'll then I'll explain we would like to draw attention to the significant price difference of $1 49,4 between B Roofing bab Roofing and Lakeside Roofing additionally it was noted that Pages 5.1 5.2 and 5.3 for the were omitted from B ring B raising concerns regarding the completeness of their submission furthermore we have received a recommendation from Tom warley of rmt ring uh who is responsible for over overseeing and inspecting our roof installations he has done a very good job Mr Worley does not recommend Mar ripping based on his assessment it's important to know that we have had a positive working relationship with ad Roofing and we have been satisfied with the quality of their work in
027the past considering these factors we believe it is the best interest of wion school in gcsd9 to proceed leing for the replacement project yes one one thing that was left out of the bid that's really questionable is if there's any bad metal that they did not they pulled that sheet out or it was misplaced but every time there's a piece of bad metal there supposed to give us a square footage price that was not in there so we would be on the hook for no telling how much at whatever price they they uh give and then far his leg side goes with it there's about a $9,000 difference um I also looked at the timeline of the um the roof project uh Lakeside Roofing there were one two three four five six six different sections
028of roof um batty and bch had close uh numbers of days to complete each one of those sections lakeside's roof bit was 9 days per section so I don't know if it was a typo but we'd still be on the hook if we sign anything so so with that and with batty we've had really good luck with batty uh far as the roofings go uh they've done extra stuff for us covering up roof Vents and did other things very satisfied with the work I know you noted the uh theal um it says uh the pages 51 52 53 is that does that cover everything that they that they kind of left out yes yeah it's all in case they find something wrong we have no price per square foot okay that makes sense and when
029was the when was the last time that Wilson was replaced I mean is it has it been on there a long time uh 20 over I'd say 20 years or better yeah yeah and what do you think the life I mean well the the life expectancy is probably right at 20 years it's right at its life but one thing about Lake it has a lightweight concrete that is on top of the metal so it's it creates a sponge if it gets wet so with all the roof leaks that we've had you mean Wilson or Wilson I'm sorry um all the roof leaks that we've had at Wilson that lightweight concrete in some areas are wet so that roof there will be some issues with some metal so will this replace that yes yes yes all
030right so approval is discuss call Vinnie hi SAA hi Bradley hi Stacy hi Curran hi canolo Hi and lenan hi okay um 111a is a Freedom of Information we have received as of this point three requests of the freedom information act During the period of February 7th through February 20th the first requests of they were handled by gcsd9 Administration thank you Mr um and then believe we have a gchs sports complex update from do you you want speaker Mr Mitchell ready yes sir all right a lot of things at the sports field uh is a result of volunteer work Don and from and also donations from the Hall of Fame to the baseball concession stand bathrooms brick walkway the Jean Baker Archway the Steeler statue the old Press Box and all all the Landscaping that
031is out there this is the time when the school is heavily invested in the sports fields and in the sports complex with Renovations including changes to the homite of the football field installation of new Lighting in addition to the new sports fields and bleachers the pre and also a Press Box while the new parts of the complex will stand out one area that needs attention is the entrance to the fields where shrubs and Landscaping and other amenities need to be removed here you can see the entrance of the walkway where we did have some volunteer signs uh that were white with red lettering they those have been replaced with some bronze uh and it's a nice addition to the entrance of the uh complex here is where there was a bunch of landscaping you can
032see the Steeler statue and uh the Jean Baker Archway all of these items here's another picture of Jean Baker Archway it uh and here here is a good picture you can see everywhere where there's Rock there's going to be concrete this is going to be the main entrance for the the home side from soccer and also the football bleachers here's a look at it from the where the soccer bleachers would go back towards you can just see how large of an area this is going to be for congregating uh possible additions to bleachers and whatever else is needed the Steeler statue the the Jee Baker plaque and uh the archway we're looking to relocate in different areas of the complex uh also one area that we've we've looked at and we're really having some issues
033with far as fading as the brick walkway you can see some of the bricks here they're really in poor shape and it's none it's no one's problem or no one's uh fault except just the weather itself from Sun fading and actually trying to clean it one thing kind of looking at is a possibility of a wall like a memorial wall a a wall of fame and with this wall would go similar to to the uh yellow line this wall would be constructed of blocks the same block that's on the sofball field um uh dugouts and also it's going to be the future Press Box one thing I've been looking at um and was brought to my uh attention also is the the Billy lck with the machine shop may be able to make this make
034some of these uh for um a possible fundraiser for the school and we can do these plaques and put them on in different sizes in different areas of that wall this is all potential uh this is similar to what it would look like not quite but uh you can kind of get the idea of what a wall would look like with some plaques and different things on there I think it would be better suited for weather and uh longevity and if there ever was a future to where a wall would have to be added uh the the soft or the um soccer field comes almost to where that yellow line is you could always have a sidewalk there and have a wall addition here's some uh pictures of the complex now this is the homeside
035football bleacher pad um that is poured there's another picture of the softball or the I keep saying softball of the soccer field walkway where the rock is is where the soccer leachers will go here's another picture of the soccer field and that walk wi and right now they are looking to complete the rock probably this week lights are going to start March 18th and the Press Box the Press Box block will it should start really at any time we're kind of waiting on manufacturing of the block so once it comes in we'll start it immediately I have one question um there's only one entrance for the public right the main entrance there and how close is that to the softball I mean the um yeah softball field once this soccer Field's finished is it going
036to be a little bit bigger than it was are we still at the same size it was the main entrance where all the concrete no no no I I me I that was a different question my other question is how how close do softball field soer is it going to be any bigger than it was or the same size Bach it's pretty much the uh the soccer bleachers are going to be the same amount of seating um it is going to be a little closer it goes right up to um the scoreboard the soccer field does it's right up next to it one thing we're kind of looking at for possible future growth is a concession stand bathroom between the softball field and soccer field okay which would be accessed past the bleachers for the
037soccer field and go out that and then the soccer and then the softball field would also be able to access that curious about that yeah uh we did uh put a sewer in there will be a single use bathroom mainly for the people that are in the Press Box uh there'll be a bathroom in the bottom of that so that they can uh use the use the facilities instead of going completely out and going up to the Public's stat and they're just being moved the statue the Ste they just being moved kind of looking at areas again kind of looking what footprint we have to work with the Steeler statue maybe move it more towards the Hall of Fame up against that wall that we're and depending on where that wall is maybe do a
038Steeler area you know with that statue where Steeler plaques can go behind there this is all in kind of thought where it's going to go the Jean Baker Archway kind of looking depending on how the bleacher set and the view maybe put that behind the player's benches so if you're setting in the uh bleachers you're looking at an archway that that will be lit that says Jean Baker field and then all of those bricks that we did remove and that's what I talked to Mr Lok about um he was going to going to come up with some ideas either a Arro head type uh plaque but something that his class can possibly make either out of brass bronze or whatever metals that he can come up with and we're going to keep that and then
039just put the names on it but those names once we get this completed we'll probably put those since we did remove those bricks we'll probably put those on the wall with all the plaques that are on the archway somebody could get Memorial little brass plaque yeah yeah that's what we're looking for instead of trying to replace the brick because right now there's every time um a brick manufacturer goes out of business it's a different size of brick and it's a different color right now we have several different colors out there and we have some bricks that you cannot even see in my you know those are donations you know those were originally donated uh I have a brick out there and the brick that I that I purchased from my uh grandfather is it's you
040can't even see it anymore yeah right we do have some trip hazards and we did did have someone fall pretty good uh this last season so trying to alleviate the trips do not have executive session and we do not have executive session meeting minutes from the February 13th meeting so with that um we will meet here again on March 12 2024 and do we have a motion so now my open is over it's all done all those in favor okay in we're out 6:45