001she see she's got this in here so that's when we go I check addresses for the so that's nor I won't do that but I yeah yeah I got you I like to have this over here yeah I'm going to move it cuz I all by the time we get to that I'll all well I don't even need you need it I need it's taking up a lot of space for me she's trying to give me more stuff like [Music] he know yeah it's over 30 years old it's over 30 years old stuff it was from maholic was there and Tim doesn't remember anybody using it forever so that's why I was going to pull the top one out so you guys get confused if somebody wants it we can give it to him or
002whatever but no one has reached out or anything so yeah we're not against that but it's I asked him I've asked him if he wanted to talk about speak to that all these are oh they're on okay ask here's what I have to file electronic all I do is put in the uh this number and it automatically populates this I've upload well these you don't have Facebook so these are except for Signature yeah can you just see that I got to go back and do it for you they don't they don't well and here I Johny go you better check with the him I'm like I said well I said I'm trying to saveing time did you real did you email me the signed resolution that's no that's what they're signing but I do have
003their electronic signatures so if they do sign them tonight I can do that as well put them in there and same as PDFs for you if you want if it's easier for [Music] that and then I upload as I file the [Music] appeal okay everybody thank you for coming to the Grand City Community Unit School District number N9 Board of Education meeting for Tuesday August 27th 2024 um can we have a roll call and Declaration of Quorum here here here here here here okay and we would also like to welcome Lily Rose as our uh student member so thank you very much it's your first meeting thank [Music] you and if everybody would please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance followed by an invitation by Pastor William hail with St John's Lutheran Church to the
004flag 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 I look around and I see an army raised up by our gracious God Army serve the isting through the options the budget the Alternatives often with encourag suspect a little bit of harsh words as well yet you are here today serving our community the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in and he gave them wonderful advice and I think as well the church part was a divided church and Paul said to them here's how you are to see yourselves you are a body one body composed of many parts yet you remain one body let us pray prous and awesome I thank you for your amazing grace that you have
005raised up these people today to serve our community in grandon city and I pray that you give each of them wisdom wisdom to sort through all that they are going to be facing today and in the months to come as they guide our school place where you see it to be more than that Lord I want you to a spirit of unity to hear each other see each listen to each other together ay body always keeping in Focus Glory that's really our city our city I ask pray name of your son our Lord Jesus Christ and for a moment I would like everyone silence believe2 thank you thank you thank you very much a bu thanks again Pastor thank you very much um at this time we are open for public comment I don't think
006we had any submissions but there's anybody okay um next we do need to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of the Board of Education held on July 23rd uh do we have a motion so moved second second second okay uh roll call Bradley hi Silva hi Curran I Stacy I SLE I linaman I Ben vny I okay next uh we do have the consent agenda which contains those items that are repetitive and routine in nature any member may make a motion to approve the consent agenda or request that any of the items be moved to section 7 for individual discussion and consideration do we have a motion I'm sorry go ahead I was getting ahead sorry that's all right second second all right uh roll call Silva I curan I Stacy I Nole I
007linaman I Vinnie I Bradley I okay and then do we highlight like before we go on I'd like to highlight all the donations that we received at the start of the school year uh Costco Paul Swanson of Costco Logistics uh their team donated 768 backpacks and $500 gift card uh to Costco uh total donation 44340 so that was very thoughtful of them Hope Lutheran Church um they have a Social Ministry project and they basically donated new clothes items valued at $500 so greatly appreciated First Student Bus company they donated uh school supplies and backpacks uh for $1,500 donation and then Edwards Jones donated 200 backpacks filled with supplies for the students and basically approximately $2 $2,500 so it was great and then we also had through the uh high school Renaissance program they received a
008bunch of different donations I'll go through these quickly uh washing go C wash Granite City Elks Guardian Savin Bank Midwest members uh Irwin Chapel Apple Tree Restaurant tally Chiropractic Albert's injury law James Lawn Care Hudson Auto Service and miniki Car Center all donated variety of things from um Tire gauges all the way up to uh Car Wash tickets and then a lot of uh monetary donations as well so thank you all we greatly appreciate it for our students in our district okay 8A resend retirements and resignations it's recommended that the following retirements and resignations listed below and on the district website uh be approved so move second okay roll call curan I Stacy I noogle I linaman I finny I Bradley I Silva I okay eight B retirements and resignations yes it's recommended the filing
009retirements and resignations listed below and on the district website be accepted so moved second roll call Stacy I kogle I linman I Vinny I Bradley I Silva I Curran I 8 C requests for leaves of absence it's recommended that the following requests for leave of absences be approved which are listed below and on the district website second roll call Nole I linman I Vinny I Bradley I Silva I Curran I Stacy I 8D requests for extensions to leaves of absence it's recommended the following requests for extensions of two leaves of absences be approved which are listed below and on the district website so move second roll call Benny I Bradley I Silva I Curran I Stacy I Nole I linman I 8e extracurricular resignations for the 2425 school year you've received detailed information about this
010item the administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion and executive session so moved second the the oh sorry that's okay that's all right uh gcsd9 Administration is recommending the following extracurricular resignations for the 2425 school year be accepted they are listed below and previously on the district website now I yes yes continue to move yes okay all right we're good roll call Bradley hi Silva I curan hi Stacy I kogle hi I linaman I Benny I 8f extracurricular recommendations for the 2425 school year you've received detailed information about this item the administration's prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session the gcsd9 administration is recommending that the following extracurricular assignments for the 2425 school year listed below and on the district website be approved second roll call Silva hi
011curan hi Stacy hi Nole I linaman I Benny I Bradley I mostly lunch duties yeah that kind of stuff just for people watching um 8G extracurricular volunteers for the 2425 school year yes you've received detailed information about this item the administration prepared to make recommendations are hold for discussion executive session the gcsd9 administration is recommending that the following extra curricular volunteers for the 2425 school year listed below and on the district website be approved so moved second roll call curan I Stacy I noogle I linaman I Vinny I Bradley I Silva I 8h recommendations for gchs student workers co-ops for the 2425 school year you've received detailed information about this item the administration is prepared to make recommendations or holding for discussion and executive session the gcsd9 administration is recommending that the following student workers
012co-ops for the 2425 school year which are listed below and on the district website be approved Mo second roll call hold on one second uh Stacy hi Nole I linaman I Vinnie I Bradley I Silva I cin I 8 I certified and classified substitutes it's recommend that the following applicants be board approved as substitutes for the 2425 school year which are listed below and on the district website so moved second roll call Bogle I linaman I Vinnie I Bradley hi Silva hi curan hi Stacy hi okay 8j policies yes the policy committee is recommending the approval for the following policies these were press policies that were up for review which were taken to the policy committee last month move second okay discussion roll call linaman I Vinnie I Bradley I Silva hi curan hi Stacy
013I no go I okay 8 K1 uh employment of par Professionals for the 2425 school year yes you've received detailed information about this item the administration prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion an executive session the gcsd9 administration and the interview committee consisting of Dr Adam Garrett Executive Director of Human Resources Steve matthys griggsby Intermediate School principal and Lisa cochrum human resource Specialists are recommending the employment of the filing candidates as pair of Professionals for the 2425 school year Taylor balis Lisa Brown Deanna Burke Charlene Evans Alysa Nash sales Anna pluma sandova Jennifer Reeves Alissa schulenberg Carrie Westbrook and Hannah Tomkin so moved second I have a question yep so are there with the provided we approve these which I think we will are we fully staff paril wise or do we still have
014openings yeah I was just asking so you know if we hire these what is that 10 are we fully staffed with parison or we still have openings [Music] yeah okay I'm just curious to see how we were doing I know Paras are hard to find thank you roll call Vinnie I Bradley I Silva I Curran I Stacy I Nole I linaman I 8 K2 employment of Lake essc Administrative Assistant for the 2425 school year you've received detailed information about this item the administration is prepared to make it recommendations are hold for discussion in executive session the gcsd9 administration and the interview committee consistent of Dr Adam Garrett Executive Director of Human Resources Mike dowy Lake essc principal and Christina Smith Administrative Assistant are recommending the employment of Tyra Jackson as the lake ESC essc Administrative
015Assistant for the 2425 school year approval is recommended pining the submission of the required paperwork so move second discussion roll call Bradley I Silva I curan hi Stacy hi kogle I Laman I Vinnie I 10A Illinois Southwest Orthopedics and athletic training proposal the gcsd9 administration is recommending a collaboration with Dr zoo and Illinois Southwest edics to provide pro bono Sports Injury Clinic once a week and coverage at home football games Illinois Southwest Orthopedics also provide coverage for athletic Training Services as as needed approval is recommended so move second discussion I have a question y so is this in addition to us having a trainer or is this in lie of us having well we're still searching for a trainer so this was another Avenue that we could go to start to get some Services we
016have somebody covering right now but the position is still open okay sorry the one is it just one day a week that a trainer's at the school for therapies and stuff this would be one day a week for him currently right now we have a trainer that's coming at 3: to 7:00 and being there so this just gives us another Avenue to get somebody there okay yeah so but nobody during the day nobody's during the day till 3 o' okay okay are we still going to actively search or are we we are still actively pursuing yes roll call Silva I curan Stacy I kogle lman I Vinnie I Bradley I okay 10 y go ahead can I ask if we can turn the volume up on these because I can't hear some of people not
017the details of you want me to talk louder you could talk louder my teacher voice there we go okay can you hear me okay all right here we go is that better you asked for this remember that 10B coolage Arts Club proposal the gcsd9 administration and Patrick Curry coolage Junior High School principal requests approval of the proposed proposal for Arts Club at coolage Junior High School Mr Curry has submitted a propo new club proposal explain the benefits for this position below approval is recommended Silva gets it seconds discussion I love this idea I think this is going to be so cool really great sounds good okay roll call Curran hi Stacy hi kogle hi lenman hi Vinnie I Bradley Silva I there we go 10 C request to post an ESL bilingual Co-op for the
0182425 school year due to the increase of our elll population and newcomers to the district gcsd9 Administration request the approval to post an additional bilingual coposition to assist the instruction of non-english-speaking students to ensure their educational needs are met this also allowed students to connect with other students and feel comfortable in the school environment approval is recommended so moved second discussion so this is like an addition we already have yeah so this would bring us to eight co-ops cool thank you that's awesome okay roll call Stacy hi kogle hi linaman hi I Bradley I Silva I Curran I 10 D request to post an ESL bilingual par professional for the 2425 school year due to the increase of our elll population and newcomers of the District gcsd9 administration request the approval to post in additional
019bilingual paraprofessional positions to assist the instruction of non-english speaking students to ensure their educational needs are met again approval approval is recommended so discussion second I thought we had did we did you count a second yeah okay yeah okay think you had it roll call kogle hi linaman hi vny I Bradley hi Silva hi Curran hi Stacy hi uh 10 e gchs school resource office SRO agreement for the 2425 school year the gcsd9 administration requests to renew the agreement with the granite with the city of Granite City and the Granite City Police Department for the school resource officer at Granite City High School for the 2425 25 school year it is recommended that officer Elliot Brink Meer Remain the SRO in the assignment at Grant City High School approval is recommended so Mo second roll
020call L I Benny I Bradley I Silva I curan I Stacy I kogle I okay 10f kulage junior high school resource officer SRO agreement for the 2425 school year yes the gcsd9 administration requests to renew the agreement with the city of Granite City and the Granite City Police Department for the school resource officer at kulage Junior High School for the 2425 school year it is recommended that officer Scott peny Remain the SRO in the assignment at Co Junior High School expenses for providing this program will be covered by the gcsd9 the costs are dependent on upon the salary of the officer in this agreement approval is recommended so second roll call Vinnie I Bradley I Silva I curan I Stacy I Nole i linaman i 10 G GIS drug education program saber officer agreement for
021the 2425 school year the gcsd9 administr ation request to renew the agreement with the city of Granite City and the Granite City Police Department for the drug education program officer at griggsby Intermediate School for the 2425 school year it is recommended that officer Preston Brown Remain the saber officer in this assignment at griggsby Intermediate School approval is recommended so move second okay and then Bradley hi Silva hi curan hi Stacy I Nole I linman I Vinnie I okay uh 10 H the request to intervene in appeal proceedings seven at the property tax appeal board PAB the gcsd9 administration requests that the Board of Education approve the resolutions listed below and on the district website so the district attorney Tom schooly can intervene at the property tax appeal board with regard to the following appeal proced
022seatings in Madison County Illinois approval is recommended so move second discussion roll call Silva I cin I Stacy I noogle I linaman I Vinnie I Bradley I 10 I disposal of CTE equipment gcsd9 Administration requests permission dispose of CTE equipment that is over 30 years old all the equipment from the graphic Communications room approval is recommended so moved second what kind of stuff is it okay yeah the historian me was just curious y that's something that some business in town might be able to use it's 30 years old over 30 years old right well I mean some of the printing things I they did a lot of printing for the high school okay um roll roll call yeah Curran hi Stacy hi kogle I linaman I Vinnie I Bradley I Silva I 10 J fy2
023per DM rates gcsd9 Administration recommends that the Board of Education approve the the district to follow the per DM rates for meals located on the US general Services Administration GSA website below are examples of the perdm rates for the FY 2520 fy2 school year on with the 62040 zip code just to give you an example again that is posted on the district website as well approval to file the per DM rates for the US general Services Administration website is recommended so move second discussion and roll call Stacy I kogle I linman I Vinnie I Bradley I Silva I curan I okay uh can we have a motion to temporarily adjourn this uh board meeting so we can talk about the region one budget so move second okay uh roll call please you're going to have
024to bear with me a second because I'm like handwriting this okay that's fine um Vinnie I Bradley hi Silva hi Curran hi Stacy hi kogle hi linman hi okay and we are now in the public hearing uh do we have anybody for public comment no um where is there he is Mr Sor budget um it Region's budget is balanced because of some timing things on how the state changing something they show a deficit this year there was Revenue received in last fiscal year that was expended out to the member district this year and they won't receive that money those monies again because they are going directly to the member districts otherwise they have a balanced budget except for that little timing issue and everything is good I will do a big presentation on the Grant
025City budget at the 27th meeting in September so it's 27th isn't it yeah 27 um so that will be the presentation anybody questions all right okay um we need a we close this public hearing and we need to reconvene the regular meeting so if we could have a motion to reconvene so mooved second second okay uh roll call please Bradley hi Silva hi curan hi Stacy hi kogle hi linman I Benny I okay and now with that can we have a motion to adopt the resolution and the 2425 region 1 special education budget so moved second second and roll call Silva I Curran hi Stacy I Nole I linman I Benny I Bradley I all right y okay uh 10K proposed FY 25 wait a minute hold on now let me get 1011 or 10
026L I should say here uh 6th hour assignment granted City High School permission is requested to approve the following sixth hour assignment for the fall semester at Grant City High School Shan Neville Mark Jones Lisa Miller and Dan Robertson approval is recommended so move second okay roll call linaman I Vinny I Bradley I Silva I curan I Stacy I kogle I 10m CEO administrative placement request you've received detailed information about the side and the administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session GCS D9 Administration received a parent request to send their daughter to the Center for educational opportunities CEO this is an alternative program that is offered by the regional Office of Education we have sent students to this program in the past however Illinois now requires administrative placements to
027alternative schools that are outside the students District be approved by their school board the parents are the parent is aware and they are waving their right to a hearing approval is recommended so moved second okay discussion roll call Vinnie I Bradley I Silva I Curran I Stacy I I Lan I 10 n contract renewal for visual itinerant teacher for the 2425 school year in order to be compliant with the federal and state mandates with regards to IEP Services we are requesting that we renew our contract with Ellen Nichols to provide vision services approval is recommended so move second discussion roll call Bradley I Silva I curan I Stacy I kobble I lenman I Vinny I okay uh 11a Freedom of Information Act requests yes wece received one request from on August 16 2024 from Owen
028Wang of Lake County Gazette he requested his request was handled by Administration okay I'm not too much okay yeah um next we have our uh gcsd9 reconfigure reconfiguration update and Dr Harris is going to tell us how it's going so it's been a few months since I've uh been here to talk normally I was standing over there I'm just going to go ahead and stay seated right here while I talk if no one Minds um preliminary boundaries have been drawn for both prek through 6 and prek through four models uh we plan to pull student information again to reevaluate the boundaries for any unforeseen changes most likely uh in October with the prek through six model prek will be split and housed into two separate schools Prather and griggsby this will enable the district to
029attract students from both ends of town to attend this will also allow for future growth with the program in the prek through six model as previously mentioned Prather and griggsby will house house students in prek through sixth grade froh har marville Mitchell and Wilson will house students in grades kindergarten through 6 the additional boundaries preliminarily indicate that we may be able to move to a two-tier busing system this will allow the prek through sixth grade students buildings to have the same start and ending times with the preliminary end times of 310 and a shorter bus routes we anticip busing to be completed prior to 4:00 we believe this will allow us to provide activity busing for prek through sixth grade buildings the hope is to set up an enrichment academic programs and extracurricular activities such
030as inter murals band programs for our students we can then utilize the buses to transport the students home once the after school programs are finished with the prek through six model we anticipate an additional three to five staff members to make this program work with prek through four model prek will remain at Prather with its current structure in the prek through four model um again prayr will be prek through fourth grade froh har marville Mitchell and Wilson will house the kindergarten through fourth grade students griggsby will remain the same a fifth and sixth grade intermediate Center since griggsby will continue to serve the entire Community we will need to continue a tier three busing system this means that our prek4 schools will not be able to start at the same times with prek through 4
031model we anticipate additional one to three staff members after school programs for the prek through four model are still a hope but we send they will probably center around griggsby at the five six intermediate students next steps we're going to re-evaluate the boundaries as I preious previously mentioned we will also finalize area program structures for special ed students and elll students we hope to have a final reconfiguration presentation to the Board of Education in late November or early December for the board to adopt prior to the start of the second semester once the decision is made we will start the restructure process to prepare for the start of the 25 26 school year thank you any questions not a question just a comment I'm very impressed with all the work that's been done and thankful
032um to see how serious it's being taken and all the thought that's going into it and I feel pretty optimistic about the changes that could happen so I think this is great yeah our the the admin central office administration has been great they've been great to work they've put in a lot of time with it I appreciate principles have given us some input as well with some different things and we've actually reached out to other programs that we know this is going to affect uh our Band program our Athletics program we've just got some of their input as well so it's been a a group effort thank you U I do have one question too uh looking at the K4 or the k6 do either of them include a lot of uh construction are on
033any of the buildings so Eric Smith asked me along this actually it was probably I want to say November this past year so I asked him I said when do we need to start planning when do you need to know that we're going to make a change and he said I need to know now I go okay we'll plan for a change we're going to make a change so he's already started looking at some things with that uh looking at playgrounds looking at different things where we might put stuff and so that's why if we can get it set decided what we're going to go with before some of those things can already start in the next semester especially the outside things good okay soon as possible awesome thank you very much I know a
034lot of people have been wanting to hear a little more detail on that so there'll be a little more coming in November or December yes um next we have our iasb liaison report from board Treasurer Linda kogle ah yes thank you um legislative events will happen in the fall locations and times will be included on the iasb website this is an excellent opportunity for or board members to be able to ask your legislators your state legislators questions that are important to your District the government relations team uh has been working uh the 2024 end of session report and the digest of bills which uh are posted on the iasb website is available to you the Press issue 116 arrived and the policy committee will announce recommendations at the next board meeting on September 10th that's
035it okay thank you very much hey Talon yeah can I go Rogue for a second and ask Lily Rose a couple questions and she's new here go for it how's your school year starting off Aly tell us what you been up to I'm really excited to be a senior I'm doing Co-op this year what are you doing for Co-Op I'm doing ESL prek so that's you have one of our ESL co-ops right here that's great I'm also the president for my photography club so I enjoy going to meetings and taking pictures and things like that but other than that I just do this and I work out and I do I mean it's not just you have a lot going on well yes but all right well welcome again and we're really excited to have
036you and we can't wait to hear your perspective on some things awesome thank you so much very good thank you um up next we're going to kick everybody out cuz we've got to go we're going to leave oh yeah we're leaving you guys can stay that's right we don't uh so yeah executive session the exceptions are noted under 5 ilcs uh 120/2 open meetings and tonight we are here for 2c1 the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body and 2c8 which is to discuss school building safety security and uh and security and security procedures uh in student the safety so do we have a motion to enter executive session so move second okay and roll call Silva I Curran I Stacy I Nole I lman I Benny all
037Bradley okay yep uh yep that's what I've got