001[Music] ten [Music] officer stay radio we're gonna call the regular board school board meeting of May 28 2024 to session Silva here Bradley here St harison church too L here Vinnie here all right we have for uh we would stand for the Pledge of Allegiance followed by um our invocation by Pastor B Shephard with the Tri City Assembly of God aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all would you please pray with me our father we're thankful for this day it's a good day Lord we're thankful for the way that you've ordered and you put into place all the pieces for this meeting tonight Lord nothing has caught you by surprise nothing has caught
002you off guard we thank you for our superintendent Stephanie can Lord thank you for her efforts over these years I pray you bless her Lord as transition takes place in the days ahead guide her order her steps and help her uh to find the open door that you have we thank you for incoming superintendent Harris Lord I put your I pray your hand of blessing would be put upon him Lord as he guides and and leads our school system Lord we think of all that takes place all the moving Parts all the uh many different things that are happening all at once I pray Lord you give him wisdom let him know what to do surround him with people that will give Good Counsel and good support Lord I pray for our students especially those
003who have newly Meed diplomas Lord just a a few days old I pray that you guide them and keep them and order them Lord the students that will be returning in the fall Lord as they look at a summer ahead of them we pray you help us Lord some of our students face uh things that we can't imagine uh mountains that seem to be in their path Lord things that they can't figure out we pray you give them uh first of all protection and provision Lord Lord meet every need that our kids have we thank you for your help we thank you for your goodness you're are you're a good God you've helped us thus far we have every reason to believe you'll help us tomorrow as well thank you for all who are here
004tonight and what they represent many different venues and many different activities and happenings Lord we ask that your hand of blessing will be upon us give us the grace that we need to walk with you in the name of your son amen amen thank you thank you all right uh public comments I don't think we have any actually signed I sign no I'm sorry all right so with that we will start with b big Lin a great I think we're going to start with uh band director District band director Wy Roberts are you here don't see him we have okay Miss Brockman and could you come on up we as you know our band went to New York and performed at Carnegie Hall we talked gave you a little teaser I think at the last
005meeting correct but we didn't have the video so we were really excited to be able to share you might have to all turn around but we're going to share the video uh that he got from Carnegie Hall you want to add anything um so Carnegie Hall is very like they didn't allow any recording or pictures during the performance so you'll see a lot of pictures um of the kids sitting in Waiting before the performance as well as some some things that we did uh before the performance itself um but and I think maybe a couple of sneak shots from some parents in the audience um don't tell so are there any students band members here that went we have one over here some parents that went right you want over there yeah I me it
006was a pretty amazing experience and Miss Watkins was texting me the I can't take any pictures I can't take any pictures but it's really cool she didn't do anything illegal so we're okay okay so we'll go ahead Christ you want to start [Music] the e [Music] I don't know about you guys let to see that I don't know taking that how many students were there like between 80 85 I think I mean I took like 20 to Europe I can't imagine E5 and the parents taking him to York and making sure they made it there and everybody was okay they all got to the event at the right time and and played uh as pretty amaz you want to add some more things uh yeah so we were selected based on I I think something
007that's really cool is that we weren't they don't just let anybody perform in Carn Hall like this is something that a lot of professional musicians like they dream of playing so um to be selected um really is because the program has been built up um and the performance of alumni and some seniors um because we submitted a recording in some previous concerts that we had um we were the featured Ensemble for the only band that played to open up a nationwide choir concert um so only band yeah there yeah so we you know got to got to perform in a really cool venue and the kids got to experience something that a lot of uh professional musicians dream of so that's a super cool well this time last year uh Mr Roberts came to me
008and said okay here's the deal we can play at Carnegie Hall but it's going to be the week after spring break and we're worried about taking the kids out of school he goes if we don't do that we're going to play it's still cool at some place in New Jersey I'm like well this is not even a question so I told him we'll figure it out they were great I don't think they had any problems everybody had their homework and did what they were supposed to do I'm sure they all did on the bus right there in the back I'm sure everybody did that but uh from the pictures I saw the bus probably not but uh I just think that it it was such an honor to be chosen and uh we're going to
009try to get a picture um to hang up here at the board office to I know that that's in the works too so I just want to congratulate you and Mr Roberts for everything you do for the kids and Mr now also for contributing it it amazing program and we're just thrilled and really proud very well the kids work very hard [Applause] that was amazing okay um next is a very important honor I told her I wouldn't call her but I normally call her so I'll just introduce if Emily Sykes could come up even though she was the um May Queen just saying okay so I embarrassed you a little right um we went to recog in the coaches I have some coaches here too don't I yes I think your dad counts right no
010not count you could probably give us more details about the events that why don't you kind of give us a little background introduce yourself I'm coach bur the grand city girls head coach um Emily here what can I say about her one of the best seniors I've had on this team um she's been the state what three years now in a row and basically this year what can I say the double medal at state is an amazing accomplishment she deserves a hand for that let's give it up for what she pulled off in The discus was an amazing thing where she shouldn't even medal and to come all the way up from what was seventh place to third place was a big accomplishment and another thing I can say was that I'm extremely proud of
011this young lady right here [Applause] what I wanted to talk about too with Emily is that we she actually also is a 2024 scholar athlete of the year um that is a huge deal right you're our only one uh this year um she's recognized at Bush Stadium on May 7th tell us a little bit about that um we got to meet one of the players and walk the field at like after we met him and it was really cool Who was the player we all want to know uh Ryan Fernandez I don't know who that is aiter so that's really so we do have a plaque for that so um in addition do you do they have a b didn't they do something else for this besides the Bush was there an article in the
012paper was there right there was some more stuff to I want to hand you that first some pictures of the we're supposed TOS us Dr har she got used to she got move around and you stay here cuz now we're going to do the other one too okay so then he was talking also about the 3A track and field state championship which you had two top three finishes do you want to talk about those two we didn't talk about her placing and all that did he say that I didn't hear that listen no I guess I was worried about the scholar athl like I did say she did get second and third place miss it one more time give it up for Emily overall like do like number like 15th in the entire State yes
013yes we got 15th out of 72 teams overall [Applause] thanks one of those team members up tooed any Emily what are your that's I was going to ask next Emily what do you what you go after school um I'm going to Eastern Illinois University to throw on a scholarship on a schar what do you want to do do you have any idea that's okay you'll find you'll figure all that out [Applause] really also related to track and contributing to that 15th Place win we would like to recognize gry High School freshman Landon Harris you want to come on up Landon I found out this I was on the phone with your dad so knowing how you did and all that stuff too so um so you qualified for ihsa 3A State track meet in a
0141600 meter run do you want to explain that for those of them that don't actually understand all this so you going to explain that event um I know it's 1600 me four laps around a track in your time as a freshman did you PR didn't you I ran 421 in the mile uh anything else you want to tell us about your state experience as a freshman um well it was like the second high school state me and I went to besides like CU I went to cross country state which is like a little bigger I guess but there's there's a lot of faster people in my race I was seated last in my race um and I didn't make out of prelims or anything but it was a good experience overall and the tracks I've
015never ran on a blue track the track's blue so that's so now he knows so next year watch out we're so proud of you so proud do great things in addition what's going on here I don't know you all right there we [Applause] go so I said all okay right now we'd like to recognize the members of the kol is Junior High boys 4x2 relay team who qualified the 2024 Illinois Elementary School Association state tournament where they Place 10th overall which is also amazing so let's have Tyrese Graham Jeremiah Martin Lamar Washington and Justin Wilson come forward [Applause] please which one we miss Lamar lar which one Lamar okay Lamar's on here he's out of town out of town he did ask if you could reschedule butes you want to come on up he did
016send me a point you introduced and then her shirt too look I did I wore ton um so they uh we actually not only had the 4X two team qualify the Tyrus also qualified in the 200 oh and uh Jeremiah qualified in the 100 so what were their times because that's crazy to qualify for State well we won't talk about that oh but they ran they both ran PRS that's all that matters and that was that was absolutely amazing because they were very very long days um out there it's hard to stay and Sun so it's hard it's hard to be out so they they did a great job I was very very proud of them this year I'm GNA miss them very very much they kind of my my leaders my ones that that
017despite not wanting to run oh they did he's like I not well it'll be good to have leaders next year for the team too you guys are planning on running aren't you job okay Justin Jeremiah and I right no Tyrus I'm sorry there's that okay so congratulations to all of you [Applause] all summer congratulations so much for here too good job parents I know how much work it is for you keep them on right very proud next year we're looking forward to that right good job [Music] guys okay um this is kind of an important thing that I've kind of been working on and sort of been a fan of the robotics Club since I got here with uh forbes's brother Max kind of was our student board member and got me really interested had
018me come in and see what they were doing watching them build the robots watching them do all the stuff so I really got involved with that I think it's an amazing program in fact Anna her freshman year was in the room if you remember I was in there and she was talking she I really like to take one of Mr Lake's classes but I have all these work hopefully we can work all that stuff out the fact that she was interested in um the vocational class too not only the handson with the coding and doing those she was interested in that part two and Max did tell me his freshman year when he went to Miss Missouri science and so we just called it R now it's science in right so he went there and
019he was the only member of his team in this class that actually knew how to build the actual robot he went into the area and actually with the team he had uh built the robot so I think our school really prepared him the vocational program I think it was real I thought that was really interesting so um so what I really they have kind of struggled we had early volunteers I know Mr Lok uh Mr Jones uh Miss Heath have volunteered their time and had these kids just working and competing all on their own and so we're you know with maybe not a lot of money and so this is makes me really excited to bring up um to bring up the representative from Bucy Bank do that come on up Mr Weber I also
020he and I his wife and I go way back his wife was one of my one of my sons teachers surprised they given away already yeah you all these other kids do so many outstanding things and here I just write a check yeah what a big check are doing great things and it's like I feel kind of no no this is amazing in fact what we're what we're doing tonight is uh we have people we call Partners in education uh we have some groups that continually um help our students out and give to the promotion and success of our students in the district it just means a lot to us I know it's just a little plaque but it means a lot for us that you would be willing to donate $5,000 to the robotics
021team we I have a a friend too and I said well we can um name the robot the Bucy vot so we think that that's appropriate right uh I think we can do a lot the $5,000 right Anna yeah yes so you're on the robotics team you want to what would this mean to the team uh $5,000 just for reference usually just to get our teams registered that's $750 and our robot usually runs like 2.5k a year and sometimes that can be more if we're doing two robots because a lot of times we have enough members to support two teams so this means that we can put a lot of our Focus on actually spending time to build a robot understand a new game for the year where a lot of times we also have
022to spend a lot of time fundraising so this will definitely take a lot of stress off of us and we'll definitely put it into good use as well as sometimes we like to go into the community and use our supplies as well to go out there and teach like elementary school kids or host workshops so that'll also be something that we can help with with that money exactly and I'd like Mr Jones and the two uh no robotic team members also to come up Hannah you want to come up too oh they have the robotic shirt he got a robotic shirt on Mr Jones is our welding teacher here at the high school come in and so do you guys want to talk anything about what this would mean to you to be able to
023have money for the program uh yes so we spend a lot on like getting food for us at like late nights at the school and for the meets their s we have lunch cuz the long PS during the meets and getting that would help us a lot with that and you compete at like SIU or some other places that you go for comption we do Mar Christian um we hosted I think we've been to Calia before I think this year we were we're at a middle school that was like a good hour and a half away so between Transportation costs and the cost of making sure that everyone has food over up there we don't want that to be a burden to anyone great so Anna Forbes is our student board member also member of
024the robotics team do you want to introduce yourselves uh I'm Luke Griffin I'm going to be a junior on the team next year and I'm mainly just coding and building main this a lot I'm Ryan I'm gonna be a junior and I help build the robot I'm Mr Jones I'm the Welling teacher I'm going to be one of the co-sponsors with Mr Lake because Miss he retired we're all happy for her but we're sad as well so we're happy to have Mr Jones on board though and I just want to congratulations thank you so [Laughter] much thank you for allk have more I love these nights we also want to recognize the grcity high school for being selected as the 2324 manison County Green Schools Green Team of the Year now in all manison County
025so think about that there's a lot of schools a lot of kids um so we let is there somebody here for that there we are come on up guys I'm sorry I didn't old everybody got dual purpose tonight hi I'm Kathy Conley science teacher science teacher at the high school and um started the environmental club with uh Payton um and Marina this year um pton couldn't be here sick uh Brian's part of the team too and and just you know they the uh co- uh coed yeah they co-founded it last year they came to the um school board meeting to actually try to get presentation yeah environmental club and it was a success this year we did a lot of great things and hopefully we're going to do a lot more sold pies we sold
026pies a p so what are the things some of the things you did uh we did a fundraiser with soda tabs and bottle caps and we had all the classes we have a thing called Warrior time and we had them compete and whoever got the most just got I guess like an award like a pizza party and we got over 300 lbs of that oh wow that would have otherwise not have been recycled right any other things you guys have done so far I know it's just starting yeah um plans well we plan to get a greenhouse eventually somewhere on the school grounds but I'm not sure where we going do that yet yeah and um actually starting a uh Garden of native plants right outside of the school um that's going to come the
027plants are coming in the fall so we're going to start that and we do have a school garden that we actually see you can see that right outside the drama door by the walkway and we did purchase with the funds we got this year recycle bins uh for the school so wow so we can start doing that CU they charge us for all those things we would like to do recycling but now even though it's right thing to do they charge kind of an absorbent amount at times I take my WS home so yeah that's what we're going to do oh that's fantastic thank you I mean there are all these other schools that are part of this too yeah because they've done fundraising they've been active in the school so I think that's what
028uh the people who decided that County there's a lady who runs Lisa sorry I think she does a good job so let's get a picture in we're very proud of you guys [Music] than oh gosh I missed it and knew what was happening too okay so Anna if you would please come forward I'm so sorry it's an emotional having a oh she's got her stuff okay all right come on over this has been passed down so this is an important uh piece of History here so we have to recognize our student advisory School Board member Miss Anna Forbes her brother also was a student advisory and I loved having both of them it's been amazing uh the trip has been great you have been a valuable asset to our you have been a valuable asset
029and amazing person um I'm so proud of you um she's head it off to Yale in the fall as well um I watched her do one of her what do you call this impromptu absolutely amazing how long do you get to do that again like two minutes or two minutes yeah and then she came out and spoke for like five minutes and it was amazing she even quoted lwoods from like and it fit perfectly like you like you're like wow that's the perfect quote for this so we have a new sadly that you're leaving we have a new wonderful uh student Bo next year if lyly Rose cooch could come up [Applause] please and you want to talk a little bit about this this torch I think it was started by Kay McKenzie yes it
030was which would have been the student board member three years ago and it's been passed down from member to member since then and I hope that it continues for many more years good so this means that you'll be responsible for finding for hiding this and then yes you have to have it next year not next year but it's a token of good luck and I know that you're GNA do [Music] [Applause] great I apologize for not doing but I'm I'm going to get a follow you too okay this is oh this is Cory did that noce Absolut beautiful Cory that's very nice so this one is for Anna fors uh to present student Advisory Board member turn that around too CHR was too early we weren ready now you can take pictures so we are
031very happy and we can't wait for you to come back and tell us all the amazing too and you can kind of fill her in and we'll be able to do that so thank you so much we appreciate you thanks welcome you thanks guys [Applause] have certificate superintendent school St can thank you for your serving our Granite City School District 9 students and community and thank you again and I have my own personal that's beautiful I want to thank you for giving all that you've given to our school district not only your heart but your love for our students you care about them 247 all the time and it's just wonderful that we have known you thank you well I will tell you this this isn't um it isn't just a job it's a commitment
032and that I going to try that commitment is to the students and the community and the teachers and my amazing Board office team and my administrative team and my teachers it wouldn't have I was so fortunate to work with such an amazing there's so many of them here amazing group of people um they're just incredible I just look at each one and I have connections and know certain things about each one of them and getting through Co felt a little bit like a a war I kind of feel like I'm being discharged from the Army on honorable mention let's just say that but it kind of feels like that and I think you make closer bonds I know so many of them are out in the hall my team but uh you do bond with
033people in difficult times and covid and buses and a lot of things that we went through uh but we came out and I know Dr Harris is going to do an amazing job continuing onto that path of success that we've already built and I'm very excited about that for him so I really really apprciate and uh and in the spirit of passing the torch since you broke it already um I think I would like now to pass the torch to Dr Don Harris [Applause] go to that side I I'm going to just check you want to leave hurt cried the first time a [Music] coups dad's get a photo right [Music] yes okay thank you everybody uh keep moving along towards uh three different minute approvals here um first 5A we need an approval of
034the minutes of the regular meeting of the Board of Education held on April 23rd 2024 so moved second roll call Bradley hi Stacy hi hi Noble Hi l Vinnie hi okay and next we need an approval of the minutes of the special meeting of the Board of Education held on May 1st 2024 move second call Stacy was it that one you that I need get the i l Vinnie I Silva I I okay um then the approval of the minutes of the special meeting of the Board of Education held on May 13 2020 soov seconding can i l i Vinny I Silva I Bradley I Stacy abstain okay next we move on to the consent agenda which contains those items that are repetitive and routine in nature any member may make a motion to approve
035the consent agenda or request that any of the items be mov to section seven for individual discussion and consideration do we have a motion second want to talk about the oh yeah we have the giftss teacher appreciation decision I have uh so we got some guest from First Mid America Credit Union just says donations it doesn't tell me what it is uh Midwest Members Credit Union chocolate coverage Creations um chunko and Manhattan and then we also had so those are all donations for teacher appreciation we oh and then for senior decision day yeah senior decision day we have a superintend superintendent stff you can firstman American Credit Union again Dukes Bakery Mr and Mrs Craig syon family uh gchs Athletics um Grand City Park District board the Grand City Police Department uh GCS D9 secretar
036secretarial Union uh gcsd9 teachers union Holy Family men's club district attorney uh Tom stoie energy Stars Heating and Cooling us steel and revedy credit we appreciate all Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy hi hi Noble hi okay up next we have section 8 a we sended retirement of res yes it's recommended the following retirements and resignations to be resed listed below we we read these off right yeah Christine gaset Administrative Assistant pray for 3K resend and Catherine Katherine dmore teacher title teacher will send as well so move second i l hi Benny I Silva Bradley hi Stacey hi hi okay and next we have 8B retirements and resignations okay it's recommended the following retirements and resignations be accepted they are listed below if you'd like I can read every one of them yeah go ahead okay
037all right okay Bailey Frank gchs math teacher resignation end of the 2324 school year Christina gasset Administrative Assistant cther PR retirement um 8726 Lindsay dittle English teacher GCS resignation 630 2024 Katherine Katherine dilmore TI one teacher Wilson retirement end of the 2829 school year Kayla brick first grade teacher at Wilson resignation end of the 23 24 school year Michelle Rosenberg second grade teacher marville retirement end of the 2728 school year William P pey math teacher gchs retirement end of the 2728 School Year Ronda Woodson Administrative Assistant griggsby retirement end of the 27-28 school year Shirley Newman 8ighth grade science teacher uh Co Junior High School retirement end of the 28 29 school year Daniel Robertson special education teacher gchs retirement end of the 28 29 school year Jeff Anderson special education teacher the high school
038retirement end of the 28 29 school year Beth Voyer special education teacher kulage end of the 2829 School Year Ronda best Nolan second grade teacher Wilson retirement end of the 2829 school year Tim Moran District CTE and student safety coordinator retirement end of the 28 29 school year hi bny I Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy hi hi no hi okay um 8 C requests for absence did I say no you're good yes it's recommended the following request for lease of absence be approved Richard wild custodian Wilson effective 42224 through 71524 Teresa Willis gchs um 5924 and then 51424 through 51724 Kenneth Jackson math teacher gchs High School uh a224 through 11424 Greg Garcia crafts for the district effective 5624 through 8124 and Emily Perkins OA marville uh effective 1124 through 5125 second call I Silva
039hi Bradley hi Stacy hi hi Noble Hi l hi 8D requests for extensions to leaves of absence yes it's recommended the filing request for extensions for leaves of absence to be approved Pam Holman cafeteria effect of 32924 through 81624 roll before we do that I just wanted to say is she actually passed yes she and so I just want to send my condolences to her family and also my gratitude to her for her service to our district she also served for a long time as Mrs Claus in the Christmas parade and she was just a really wonderful kind lady and she will be missed Miss Mania on top I mean I've worked with Pam for the last years she was a remarkable lady um that really did care about every every student did a lot
040of things outside of school as well um and she she uh passed away she was uh she was battling cancer for a long time and she still worked while she was doing that she still wanted to be part of the children's lives and stuff and she did a remarkable job for us so um um tremendous lady that really cared about all the students of the community so really um it's really a sad sad time but um also um she's in a better place hope she's not as much pain as she she was so we're all lucky to have known her she we're very lucky she very very Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy Hi C hiy hi linman I 8 e extracurricular resignations for the 2425 yes you've received detailed information about this item Administration is
041prepared to make recommendations are hold for discuss discussion in executive session yeah we yeah okay please so the administration's recommending that the following extracurricular resignations for the 2425 school year be accepted biley Frank gchs assistant softball coach Mark Wilson gchs assistant baseball coach Lindy D gchs Spirit Club sponsor Lindsay d gchs h Hockey Club sponsor D little gchs yearbook sponsor and mallerie met cool Junior High School head girls basketball coach second Lo Bradley hi Stacy Hi C hi Noble Hi l hi venny I Sila hi ad extracurricular recommendations for the 2425 school year youve received detailed information about this item Administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session the administration is recommending that the following extra curricular assignments for the 24 25 school year be approved Jackson deer gchs assistant football
042coach Ian deani gchs assistant football coach ni Pat trillo gchs assistant football coach Jennifer Conley G s Hockey Club sponsor Ginger Harrison gchs Spirit Club sponsor the next are all with coolage that I read Mark Jones head volleyball coach Keith Boyd head girls basketball coach Whitney hakkens um assistant cheer coach Tony DOD department head special education Jody Jackal department head MAF Jennifer doco department head electives Terry K's department head science Laura thank you department head language arts Jennifer reli coolage department head social studies Chu n head band director Chu n band director fall Chuck now band director spring Terry sence Club seventh grade Terry science club 8th grade Terry science fair Terry Coon's student council Chu now rise up theater Terry cool Varsity Club Josh Palmer book Terry Young roll call sty Hi C hi
043no Hi l Vinnie I Sila hi Bradley hi okay and 8G extracurricular volunteers for the 2425 school school year youve received detail information about this item Administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion excutive session the gcsd9 administration is recommending following extracurricular volunteers for 24 school you'll be accepted Gayla Bennett rise up coolage rise up theater Megan Allen coolage rise up theater ran wesler coolage Scholastic roll yeah yes okay Vin I Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy hi ah Library Aid recommendations for coolage junior high school 24 to 25 school year you've received detail information about this item Administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in exec session the gcsd9 administration is recommending the following Library air recommendations for cool jior high school for the 2425 school year be approved John Weisler
044John Weiser second r i l Vinnie I Silva hi Bradley Stacy I I okay 8 I cafeteria Aid recommendations for coolage junior high school 2425 school year again you've received detail information about this item Administration prepared to make recommendations hold for executive session the gcsd9 administration is recommending the fing is this Library here cafeteria for liary that's why I um was Administration for the cafeteria Aid recommendation for school and Junior High School be approved April Rumley Linny I Silva I Bradley I Stacy I I I okay J certified and classified substitutes you've received detailed information Administration prepared to hold or you need to for discussion session is recommended the following applicants be board approved for substitutes for the 23 24 school year actually for the 24 25 school year R nimsky certified and classified are
045listed below second I Silva Bradley Stacy hi i l okay 8K policies the policy committee is recommending the approval of the following policies um and I believe these are mostly just press updates yes okay roll call Silva hi Bradley sty hi lny I and for those who don't know the Press updates is basically something that we subscribe to make sure that we're always compliance with the law such policy alwaysed on the can always okay um 8 L1 the employment of El education center assistant principal for the 2425 school year yes she receive detailed information about this item Administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion executive session gcsd9 Administration and interview committee consisting of superintendent of school Stephanie K executive director of K12 curriculum Christen NES kerna executive director of educational operations Dr David
046Keel and jeie brat and prayther Elementary education center principal are recommending the employment of Sarah Corine as the assistant principal at Prather Elementary education center for the 2425 school year so Mo Bradley I Stacy i c i i l i Vin I Silva I [Music] [Applause] congratulations thank you 8 L2 the employment of ES C Lake School 7th and eth grade teacher for the 2425 school year yes you've received detailed information about this item Administration prepar recommendations are hold in discussion for executive session the gcsd9 administration and interview committee consisted of Dr David keil executive director of operations Mike dowy Lake essc principal and Aly Roy essc Lake teacher are recommending employment of Tiffany wiy as the seventh eighth grade teacher at Lake ESC for the 4 25 school year so move second Stacy I
047I no i l i Benny I Silva I Bradley I 8 L3 employment of special education emotional disability teacher for the 2425 school year yes you've received detailed information about the side Administration prepared to make recommendations are hold for discussion in executive session the gcsd9 Administration and interview committee consisting of Mickey Watkins executive director of special education Steph Boyer special education coordinator and Steve mattisse Greek the Intermediate School principal are recommending the employment of Jo of Josie sford as the special education emotional disabilities teacher for the 24 25 school year second roll call I Noble i l vny i Silva I Bradley Stacy okay 10A uh theou contract extension salary Insurance 2024 yes the gcsd9 administration is recommending the approval of the attached mou for all our Union groups as well as all other un
048represented groups including the administrators HR Specialists accounting specialist executive secretary technology staff try and athletic trainer all the unions have approved and signed extension approval as recommended move second roll l i Benny I Silva I Bradley I Stacy I I Noble I okay 10 B Panorama education contract renewal the gcsd9 administration requests board approval for the attached contract renewal of Panorama education approval is recommended um I can tell you this is a new program that we brought in last year Stephanie brought it in and I know B basically it takes everything that we have from a lot of our programs put puts it all in one area where we can pull a bunch of data I know a lot of building that I know I use visil principle so I would definitely recommend so it
049ties into other software packages and pulls that all together makes yes to approve I Silva I Bradley hi Stacey Hi C hi no all right okay 10c Grand the City High School tennis court yes the gcsd9 administration request the approval of of Chris Brothers Asphalt for the new asphalt pavement for six tennis courts for 100, $174,800 this will include the Rock subgrade and Grading for water drainage around the Newports approval is repr so move second and discussion just real quick were they I guess they better yes Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy I I Noble i l i Vinny I uh 10d Grand City High School tennis court fence yeah we're going to follow along saying these next few items up gcsd9 Administration request the approval of Collins and Herman to install new tennis court fence
050cost of $37,800 having previously collaborated with her Collins and hermans on various defencing projects across the district we have consistently been impressed with the quality of work uh and the professionalism approval is recommended okay so move second this is the same kind of fence that they have yes at the other it all be black also so it matches everything didc as well uh they did yes all of our new fencing they have done roll Bradley hi Stacey Hi C hi Noble Hi l Vinnie I Silva hi okay 10 e Grand City High School tennis court service gcsd9 Administration request the approval of all weather court for the six new tennis courts this will include striping for two pickle ball overlays uh per tennis court and two pickle ball Max portable pickle ball system per court
051for a total of 12 um pickle ball courts on the T Courts for $153,000 discussion be could be that's that's what we're doing it Stacy hi Hi V Silva hi Bradley hi okay 10 F interactive whiteboard purchase bid number 11-24 with title the gcsd9 administration request the authorization of a purchase of the 340 new new line 75 interactive White forbs with Esser and Title One of the devices 167 will be purchased with eser Esther funds for the 7th through 12th graders and 173 will be purchased with title funds uh these devices will create an interactive environment for GR 12 students with the ability to use digital whitew and a combination of wir and wireless with teacher and student devices it's a seven-year replacement warant and then listed below is the total cost you see there
052little bit 000 is toal purchase we now boards or something no there there's very few uh the ones right now are in the math department they're over 10 years old um so that's maybe 10 boards so that's it and their software has become obsolete yeah yeah it's it's completely absolete and even the new Promethean software it makes the other software obsolete so so the math will be getting new boards correct I know out at late we were looking for something along this lines for this is exciting know I know how diligent you are with betting everything but there shouldn't be any kind of transition issue from what they're currently using you know like I don't want to like training set up correct correct there's there's PD involved with with this to approve move second well
053and you know 75 in boards like 10 years ago what 10 grand oh yeah yeah this pretty good deal yeah so these were 1950 $1,950 a piece um man you remember when I used to teach Spanish and you always had to change my projection Bowl those days are going to go away look how far we've come y these these will be in by stars 3 no they they won't be installed in all the classrooms by the way so I mean well not even install will they we have at least oh we yeah we can we can have yeah okay I was just curious yeah um hi Hi l Vinnie I Silva hi Bradley Stacy hi okay 10g Finance Personnel system renal my vision cs9 Administration requested the authorization review the agreement for the 2425 school
054year with tile Technologies for the infinite Visions Finance Personnel system an annual support agreement is required for updates including statement mandated changes and Technical Support the software is used by Administration and administrative assistance for finance and H processes all staff members also have online access to pay time off and contract information the renewal has been budgeted for the 2425 a cost of [Music] 107,000 yeah3 I like they have so second quick question I know front line we we bought purchas we're using a just for Subs right now not for HR times of things like even can track a time off and all that it'll have to be kept in two systems no matter what we just duplicated work okay because the leave for people to put in will go through there but all of the
055leave for deduct has to run for payroll got thank you wel hi Vinnie I Silva hi Bradley Stacy hi hi 10 H Gaggle renewal with Esser funding gcsd9 Administration request the authorization of the new G program has proven useful and helping to deal with f and prevent students from mental health issues including self harm violence and drug and alcohol abuse the software uses content analysis machine learning technology ref flag concerns and students School issued Google accounts and is reviewed by response team at gagle gagle Response Team immediately notified the school district including billing principal social workers SRO and other administrat if there's any issue that needs to be address one year renewal cost cost $34,000 $34,500 and it was paid with second discuss what kind of data do we have to show our use of
056this so that that would the principles the SRO the everybody that is at the schools they would actually be able to talk better about that myself so I don't have the numbers um because I don't actually get into the system that's people out in the buildings obviously my numbers weren't as large at late but I probably would say one I would find something out on obviously our numbers are a lot smaller but I would have I would get something I know there's been a history about questioning about you know privacy issues with this company and I'm still not convinced that they're the only company we should go with so I would like to table this for the next meeting and have a presentation comparison shopping about why is this better than everyone else and how
057the privacy concerns been addressed and then maybe we could also get some administrative numbers to support that's okay everyone thank you do you have to vote to table we should vote because there's already been a motion in second approve it so I okay so we vote the motion sorry we vote the motion we vote the motion you guys want vot the motion down then a motion to table okay go ahead do aoll Lan hi Vinny no Silva no Bradley no Stacy no C no kle no who was the second I had one okay thank you all right and then I mooved to table the approval of gag for the next meeting okay second Lan hi Vinnie I Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy Hi C hi Erica with that do you want the administration to next
058meeting come up with other principles as to what data they have on that and perhaps look at other service providers for this type of so that's I mean it doesn't have to be like a huge building presentation or anything if anybody just I'm just curious like how often administrators use it if they find it effective or not and then again something from The District administration telling us why gag is better than all the other ones that are options how many other options there are yeah 10 I Chromebook purchase bid number 8-24 with us funding gcsd9 Administration request authorization to purchase 1500 uh Chromebooks for students with Esser funding for the 2425 school year these devices are necessary to keep us on our fouryear replacement cycle and to continue the one to one delivery for students
059prices include device Chromebook license fouryear um accidental damage warranty and white glove service to pre-enroll UNI box and bul ship devices the selected vendor was Farah 9 per device for500 devices for a total of $463,500 approval second I'd like to point out to $39 per device for something that comes with a foure accidental damage warranty it's Prett it also comes with white gloves so they set them up and we can deploy them so yeah that's all like Pro Management yep and everything roll call Vinnie I Sil Bradley Stacy no 10j approval of additional days for special education coordinator during summer months you've received detailed information about the side Administration prepared to make recommendations hold for discussion executive session gc9 Administration is asking up to an additional 20 days during the summer months to utilize a
060special education coordinator as needed I should be noted special education Administration is also attaining a conference this summer which is included uh in requested today approval is recommended I me don't we do this every yeah is it I don't know to Ure their contracts and everything but if we do it every year we just add another month that's what I was thinking we do this every year or is there a reason why we don't I'm sure there is a reason why we don't I don't know conversations will start okay just if we're doing it every year all right thank you Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy hi curan hi Noble Hi l i vny i okay 10K designation of depositories yes a resolution visiting depositories for Grant C School District resolution should be each year so
061that the district's Administration May deposit or invest District funds with and through a variety of Institutions to obtain the highest mon monetary return the district's Investments consistent with the Investments authorized by it is recommended that the board adopt the resolutions authorizing Investments of District funds and region One funds as presented and authorize the necessary signatures the standard annual thing too right no surprises nothing me to change every year no l Vin I believe the next one is is information only uh the 111a curriculum committee report on May 2nd 2024 the curricul committee held a meeting the committee understands that they cannot hire additional staff nor can they Implement new programs without board approval this report has provided you information to you theard of Education 111b was just uh the four fory year requests that we
062had uh sorry can we go back I just have questions about so under new business computer design the motion by Brat and second with beir so like did we pass that or does it did it fail or it was already on the books it was an old old like class that needed to come back so that was just motion to bring it back into the circulation and then for foundation of Education motion Bratton second fair so that also pass so that is um through a grant that timaran has written it's a four-year Grant and it's just a sixth hour assignment that um they have scheduled so they get $50,000 from the state for that so yes okay and then same for the ASL so for that that's a um an addition for a foreign language
063that would count as a twoe two years of World Language and so you have to have a world language on your books so that would count as they wanted to offer it just because they offer it doesn't mean that they'll have any takers but it was another language that they could offer cool thank you you're welcome so on not just question says do not currently have teachers that just mean it's not being taught right like we have to find teachers before we can offer them right okay so then that would have to come to you to say hey we're going to need this then so they're approved we just have to wait find teachers okay right so right as of right now Just for information just yeah 111b Freedom of Information Act requests we received
064five requests under the free of Information Act During the period of April 12th 2024 through May 21st 2024 uh the requests were handed by Administration and 111c breakfast after the bell cost analysis that's for information only if anybody has any questions it's similar to last year's and the year before and the year before so if you have any questions feel free to call okay um and with that everybody eats yes the 111 uh for reports and other Communications we have administrative uh we have iasb liaison report and ADV advocacy information from Linda canola okay well this is getting down to the end of the legislative uh task force and so uh everything just came rushing in I picked out some of things I wanted so as quickly as possible um the uh FAFSA waivers have
065been given to students this year because of an error in the in the program uh delivery the students will go ahead and graduate from high school and they can fill out their fastest forms uh at a later time but they do have to get them completed um I thought that was a pretty important area because we have a lot of our students that have they have their parents filling it out as well as uh required uh for s for swick um we have expand HB 520 expanding dual credit access this bill was created to help expand access to dual credit opportunities uh creating a framework for school districts to for strong consistent Partnerships as uh we are very interested in this uh and as like you said as we approach the end of the legislative
066session is important that Senators be contacted to encourage uh our ability to not only have the Dual credit but also have dual credit teachers the other areas that I received um student discipline this is a this is kind of a very very delicate area because um the sponsor was in was wanting to scale back a lot of student discipline uh activities that have been used in the past um and isby is wanting to get more information from uh the um from the uh area areas of of discipline as well as learning more about how to collaborate with parent teacher advisory committees which uh they are encouraging us to all districts to do uh to have those available so it's something that we probably want to think about we're also interested in making sure that these
067uh discipline programs how that whatever is evolving is something that is going to be flexible for uh and and uniform across the areas of districts so that was that was one that is still on the books driver ed um wanted they wanted to include uh bicycle and pedestrian safety in driver ed program uh this is being looked at uh to make sure that uh not only that it's not it doesn't become a man mandated program but that there's a way that the uh Secretary of State who who had uh introduced it uh that it will be looked at carefully so we don't add more things to something that can be done uh in a in a simpler more uniform way uh ai ai billing bullying uh as it is a big concern cyber bullying is
068with with us today and this is a very important uh area as well as uh needing further discussion and being encouraged it is still being discussed uh I believe every Everybody uh has uh a great interest in in stopping and encouraging uh a better system for finding these particular people who do this uh career and teched uh is also uh part of the uh program for giving access to a career and teched teacher ten tenure giving access to tenure for that uh that was passed 7 to zero in the house we have Financial Ed this one was a little bit difficult at first because it would have consumed a full semester uh required by a student in order to satisfy this standard uh it's being looked at carefully now um ISB would like to see
069uh if there' be a way in fact it's been uh considered uh that social science class could incorporate these these uh this program of financial educ ucation and we wouldn't require the student to go uh and lose a lot of time in uh in terms of graduation so that's about it for right now but there was like U 25 to 30 different uh Senate board senate senate and and house uh committee uh going through these so I try to figure I tried to pick out the ones that I thought were something that we would be very interested in listening to so if anybody on the board would like to have access to the audio version it's only six minutes long for each of these house bills and Senate bills so it's really fast and it
070it's quite worthwhile gives us an idea of what's what is going on in our legisl thank you thank you very much um we have no executive session tonight um for the executive session minutes we have three to approve I'm going to jump in this is something we don't get ahead of the board meetings because of the the rules behind executive session minutes so I showed up late so you saw me walk in late so I didn't have time to look at them so I'm going to abstain on all these votes um but um so the approval of the executive session minutes of the regular meeting of Board of Education held on April 23rd 24 2024 we have a motion second r i l i Vinnie I Silva I Bradley Stacy I Cain okay uh the
071approval of the executive session minutes of the special meeting of the Board of Education held on May 1st 2022 so move welome lman hi Vinnie I Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy Cain and I okay and the approval of the executive session minutes of the special meeting of the Board of Education held on May 15 2023 second R Vinnie I Silva hi Bradley hi Stacy abstain curan abstain hi lman hi okay um well the next board meeting will be June 5 2024 a month from now and uh do we have a motion to adjourn second okay all those in favor I I and we are