001Everybody, welcome to the district number nine board of education meeting for Tuesday, November 12th, 2024. Uh, can we have our roll call and declaration of Vinnie here, Bradley here, Silva here, Curran here, Stacy absent, Noble absent, Linman here, Miss Cochram also absent. We have a quorum. All right. And yeah, I think I'm on. Okay. Um uh now for the pledge of allegiance uh followed by an invocation by pastor Stacy Wilson with GC First Assembly of God. Algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nationy andice for all. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the great day that you've given us. And we thank you for the opportunity to gather as a community and to hear the plans and to hear the thoughts that this board
002has come up with and is planning to execute. Lord, we just ask that you would give them wisdom, that you would lead and guide them to care for the families and students of our community as the priority, and that you would be with us as a district and bless our community. Amen. Thank you, pastor. And uh next, public comment, which I don't think we have any today. Um next, section five, the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of the board of education held on October 22nd, 2024. So moved. Second. Okay. Roll call. Bradley. I. Silva, hi Currin. Hi, Lynaman. Hi, Vinnie. I Okay. And up next, we have our reconfiguration presentation by Dr. Don Harris, our superintendent of schools. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Kern. Um, while Chris is setting up, Mr. Mitchell is
003setting up, I just want to say publicly thank you to all the administration and staff who helped prepare this. A lot of long hours have been put in. I appreciate everything. I am the spokesperson, but I am not the person who helped do all of this. So, they've done a great work on this. I appreciate their time. A lot of the input from uh buildings as well. So, um thank you very much for that, Mr. Mitchell. Are we ready? Okay. Thank you. Yes. District reconfiguration for the 2526 school year. First, why are we considering a restructuring of the elementary buildings? Well, as many of you are aware, uh, GCSD9 board members conducted a survey of the community, staff, and students within the Granite City School District regarding the restructuring of our elementary grade levels. The
004survey results revealed an interest in returning to a multi-grade level resembling a neighborhood school reconfiguration. Um, I can tell you as an administrator and a longtime resident here, I did have some concerns about that because I wondered how are we going to get to neighborhood schools, which with some of our neighborhoods no longer have a school there. Uh, so I was pleasantly surprised as you'll see when we started going through this, we were able to get to that. But we did want to first talk about our current district configuration uh which basically has Granite City High School serving students 9th through 12th, our coolage our junior high serving seventh and eighth grade students and Griggsby uh fifth and sixth grade center serving our fifth and sixth grade students. Do want to point out that all
005of those buildings currently serve the entire district. So there is one boundary uh throughout the entire Granite City School District for those buildings. Then we have our Mitchell and Frohart are our three four centers. Mville is and Wilson are our one two centers. And those four schools have two boundaries set up throughout the district. So they serve um basically the district is split in half where we only have two boundaries in in the community. And then Prather our prek K center again that's another full district boundary. And then we have Lake which is our alternative school and that is a full district boundary. Obviously that does not service necessarily by location. So currently we have four buildings serving the entire district with boundaries. We did want to put some of the pros and cons for
006the attendance centers that we currently have. Uh consistent implementation of curriculum across grade levels. That's a horizontal alignment. That's a pro. Uh most economical. We do not have to add any additional staff obviously because that's what we're currently how we're serving our students and our families. consistent class size across grade levels. With grade levels in one or two of the buildings, we're able to balance our class sizes. If students move within the uh consistent building for our transient students, if the students move within the Granite City School District, they're most likely to remain in the same class if they would move. Uh teacher collaboration again across the same grade levels. Greater greater flexibility for providing specialized services. So with students clustered at larger amounts uh services are provided easier within a specific building. Some of
007the cons uh longer bus routes longer b larger boundaries relate to the longer bus routes. I mentioned that earlier we have four buildings servicing our entire district. Uh more school transitions. At a minimum students are only in a building for two grade levels before moving to the next building. So, we're always moving up. Different school start times. Elementary buildings have various start times, and I'm going to get into the reason for that a little bit later. Uh, we currently service a three tier transportation model, and that's with our busing. Again, I'll explain that a little bit more later as well. And then limited after school activities. Because of the various start times and end times, it is difficult to provide after school activities uh for our students. So the three tier versus two-tier transportation model,
008if you're around a person that's dealt with transportation, you may hear them talk about this. And this for those of you that don't understand it, maybe a little foreign. And so currently we utilize a three- tier transportation model to service with families within our community. So three tier buses will run three total routes, both AM and PM time frames. For an example, bus X will pick up GCHS students, then Coolage students, and then Mitchell students in the AM, and then repeat the same in the afternoon. The opening and closing times will be staggered to enable one bus to handle several routes. More tiers equate to more divisions and start times. There would have to be at least three divisible start times, which means more staggered start times. under a two-tier model, which if you've been
009with our district for a while, previously, probably about five years ago, that's how we operated, but with the shortage of bus drivers, we had to move to the three tier. So, buses will run a total of two routes in both the AM and the PM time frames. An example, bus X will pick up GCHS students and then Mitchell students in the AM and then repeat for the departures. The open and closing times will be less staggered with only two routes. Less tiers equates to more consistent start times. boundaries have a huge impact on whether we can do this and again in our current model as I talked about we have four schools that currently serve the entire school district which means one big boundary okay if we look at the K4 configuration this is a
010a new example the one of the ones that we've looked at um you'll see we still through high schoolage and Griggsby they would remain the same high school would service students in grades 9 through 12age would service students in grades seventh and eighth. And then Griggsby again would be the intermediate school and service students in fifth and sixth. Again, keeping three schools with the full district boundary. Under this model, Mitchell, Froart, Mville, and Wilson would be K4 buildings. And so that would split boundaries up there where they would service students in grades K through 4. Uh Prather would remain our prek center and also service students in grades K through four as well. Lake would remain a fifth through 12th grade center. uh with the alternative school. Now, what you've all been waiting to see
011are our boundaries. And so, this is the K4 boundaries. And the colors are I'm going to try and say what they are. I know on the the screens they may look a little different from printed copy. Um we did as good as we could to try and make it again a neighborhood school. You can see some of the boundaries are bigger. That's just because where population is. We wanted to make sure that we balanced uh classrooms. To do this, we first off looked and if you've been listening to my updates, you know, we looked at our counted our buildings and made sure we have enough classrooms. Then we went through and made sure we have enough teachers to cover in the classrooms. And so that's what's led to then, okay, now we know and these
012boundaries will fit within our needs if we go to a K4 model. So Wilson is there in blue. And I know it's probably hard to tell what street you have, where you'll go. Just know at the end of this presentation we will have a a link where you can go on and look at the PDF you can find your street and then you could look it up to see if we go to a K4 model what uh K4 building you would attend. So Wilson is in blue uh and the little flag the blue flag there shows where the uh school is actually located. Frohart uh from here it looks like it's almost a pink but it I on my paper it looks orange. So that is uh the coral coral. There we go. We'll go
013with portal salmon. Yes. So, it's Yes, it's right there. That is the Froart boundaries. And then Prather is in the bright yellow and Prather is located over there where the where the blue flag is. And you can see the yellow boundaries for Prather. And then Mville, you can see that that does a big area again uh similar to I haven't said Mitchell yet, but that is the orange. So, all the way down into there, uh that is where the Mville boundaries go. And then Mitchell is there. It looks purple to me. Uh I have dark red on my paper. Uh but the again the Mitchell boundary is a very big boundary because there the population there of of families is not as great. Uh but it helps balance the building sizes to be the same.
014So that is the K4 boundaries. So with our K4, we have some potential start and end times with a three tier trans uh transportation model. With those three buildings with Granite City High School, Coolage, and Griggsby still servicing the entire district, we aren't able to cut back on our busing needs. So, we would still have to look at a three- tier model as we do this again as district-wide routes. Typically, just for your knowledge, it takes about 16 buses to run to run a district-wide route. So, we utilize 16 buses to to handle the Granny High School, then Coolage, and then Griggsby. So, if you'll notice there, their times are not much different to our current model that we currently have where you have Koolage going first uh at 7:30, then we have Griggsby, I'm
015sorry, high school going next at 8:15, and then again, Griggsby at 9:25. And if you look over at the end times, again, they are very similar to what we currently have. So, then the next thing we look at is so that's basically using half of our buses uh to to do that for that three tier route. So then we use some the other buses and you see Mitchell and um had a larger boundary. So we put that kind of by itself and so you're going to have basically Mitchell and um Prather since that's a larger school. The boundary is not as big but you have more population of students that can go there. Um they will work together on their buses where then in the the next round or the first round would be Froheart
016Mville and Wilson. And so we would link those buses together. That's why you'll see the the nine o'clock Mitchell start time, the Prather start time at nine o'clock. You see the prek at 9:15. Those are separate buses, but then you see the 8:15 for Fheart, Maryville, and Wilson. And again, uh the end times after that. And then our lake, uh again, separate situation, the alternative school, that's at 8 to 1:30, which is very similar to what we currently have. Some pros and cons for our K4 building model. Uh some pros, we get some vertical alignment uh of curriculum within the buildings. This is a similar structure to the previous K4 configuration. Before we went to the attendance centers that we're currently in, that was how we had serviced our families within the school district, which
017is approximately about a decade ago. Uh when you look back, so some of you may not have uh been a part of that at all. the least amount of student staff displacement when we compare that to a K6. Obviously, when we make a change, we draw new boundaries, we're going to have some displacement of staff and students. Uh we're going to have to move staff because they're going to probably be teaching a different grade level in a different building. And so, we will look at that. So, there's going to be some displacement there. And then it's less additional staff needed if we go to than if we would stay at a K6 or if we go to a K6. Some of the cons, it does require some additional staff compared to the current model. Uh
018limited after school activities with the various start and end times. After school activities are difficult to set up. Uh discrepancy between class sizes within the buildings. Uh with five buildings housing K4, class sizes are more difficult to balance. We'll have a slide later on. I'll kind of really talk about that uh as we as we go on through this presentation. Limited flexibility in in providing specialized services. Again, since we are split between five buildings, uh we aren't able to cluster our students together as much. And so, it's going to make it a our our services probably look a little different than what we currently uh provide. Uh again, we're only able to provide even though we're splitting up, we're still only be able to go to a three tier transportation uh model. And then this
019is something I've spoken about before is the the six-day enrollment. There'll probably be some staff movement as we look at our numbers and see where people have actually enrolled. Uh there could still be some staff moved around uh after six day enrollment. So the next is our K6 configuration. Um this is where we basically take it where we can look at the possibility of a two-tier model. Um because basically Coolage and High School will be the only schools now that service our entire district. And so we we've cut back, we've drawn more boundaries. So in this model, obviously high school will 912, Coolage will be 78. Um Griggsby, we will split our prek. Griggsby and Prather are our larger buildings. And so Griggsby would now house part of the prek program as well as Prather.
020So we would have a prek basically at both ends of our community to service some students that may not be being serviced. Now with limited busing provided for that, we now uh give families an opportunity to go to a closer location. Um then Mitchell, Froart, Mville, and Wilson would be K6 service students in grades K through six. Again, Prather would service students just like Griggsby in grades preK through sixth grade. And then Lake again would be the alternative center servicing students in grades 5 through 12. Okay. They are K6 boundaries. Uh they they we tried to get them as much as we could to neighborhood schools. There is one little area that I will talk about that you'll see it doesn't is why why doesn't it fit there? Um so just so you know when
021we first look at Prather that is in yellow. It looks somewhat similar to what we had before in the K4 model. Uh obviously it doesn't take as much up. So then when we look at Froheart again, it's the coral. Did we say coral or salmon? Okay, coral or salmon. Looks more salmon that that services those students there. If you notice, these boundaries are a little smaller than they were before, especially when you look at the Mville boundary. I know that's the last on the legend, but when you look at the Mville, how much smaller that is. Uh then when we look at Wilson, that is in blue. And Mr. Mitchell is pointing to that for us. So, you see how much closer these boundaries are, which cuts back on I don't want to get in
022my pros and cons too early, but it cuts back on route time, how long students are on buses, how many buses we possibly need. Um, so Mitchell up there at the top looks very similar that to the K4. When you look at them side by side though, you'll see that it is a lot smaller um because now we are able to utilize Griggsby as a um boundary. And so when you look at the Griggsby boundary, there's one little triangle that's out from it. So that is an area that has a large population of students that were going to have to be bust one way or another. Whether we bust them to Frart, whether we bust them to Prather, whether we bust them to Wilson, and to keep it where our boundaries where we would not
023necessarily have to bus where students could walk to school, we wanted to make sure that we were going to have to bust them somewhere, we had to look at where our larger buildings were. And so that is Griggsby. So, in the hope of still keeping a neighborhood together, that's where they're drawn. That neighborhood obviously would go by some other schools, but there still be a neighborhood to go to the same school. And so approximately that's about a hundred students in that triangle area that we would service through Griggsby. As time changes, we will obviously if this is the model we go with, we will look at that and make adjustments as we needed. Just so you know, these boundaries, these will annually be looked at to make changes where we need to to balance our
024building sizes. But that would be something we would definitely look at to see if we needed to uh make a change where maybe Frohart could take that or Wilson could take that on. But again at this point after two years of data we came up with the same conclusion that that bus that area needed to go to Griggsby. So that's the K6 boundaries. Okay. Um with the K6 we do have an example here of a two-tier transportation model. We we feel like this is the one configuration that gives us the best chance to be able to do that. Again, like I said, with Griggsby, I'm sorry, with the high school in Coolage servicing the entire district, we can basically use 16 buses to do that. Right now, our current runs, we have about 32 buses.
025If we count our lake buses in there, we have 35 buses. And so, we know we can run the high school and coolage at the same time. Knowing that that's all in the same corner, we do not want to have students arriving all at the same time. I know uh that would be a cluster. So, we have a staggered start time for those two, but know that they're really on the same tier. So, then when we go down to Griggsby, uh Mitchell, Froart, Mville, Wilson, and Prather, we can then since we've cut boundaries and we now have six boundaries throughout the community, we can start and stop them all at the same time. which again, this gives us the best option to get to that two-tier model. So, you could see that we're starting at
026850 and getting out at 305. The other thing, if you go back, Brad, real quick, if you go back to the boundaries, you can see that when they do get out at 305, they're not going to have to go very far to then get home. So the amount of times students will be on buses will be cut a lot shorter as well which will also be in the same as the K4. Thank you Bre. So again for shorter routes. Now we do know that there could still be a possibility that we can't get to that. So we didn't want to not have an option if we had to go to um a three tier. So, similar to what we've had with the K4 in the current configuration, high school and Coolage would go back to
027their regular start times that they're on now. We would utilize those buses to service those students. And then basically our three tier would be with the uh Griggsby, Mitchell, Frohart, Mville, Wilson, and Prather buses where we would have to basically you'd have Prather and Frowart would be the first run and then the second run would be Griggsby and Mville because Mville would be a smaller area would not include as many buses and then the last run would be Mitchell and Wilson because Mitchell and again Mitchell and Griggsby would be our biggest boundaries. So we would then link them up with our smallest boundaries. So that would be a three tier and you can see it changes the start and end times again if we would have to go to that. But we did we didn't
028want to say we didn't even think about it. We wanted to have something prepared for that K6 building model. Pros vertical alignment of curriculum within the buildings. With the K6 instruction being provided in the same buildings, teachers will be able to communicate up and down grade levels. uh only option for possible two-tier busing with standardized building start and end times. With the six boundaries, not as many buses will be needed. Highest potential for afterchool enrichment and extracurricular opportunities. More accessible prek program uh for Griggsby and Prather. Again, we'll be offering at both ends of the district. Least amount of students transitions. Students in grades K through six remain in the same building as long as they don't move the entire uh their entire career. Some of the cons uh requires additional staff, discre discrepancy in
029class sizes between buildings, renovation cost, limits flexibility in provided specialized services, and again just similar to the K4 six-day enrollment staff movement. We anticipate that. And for those that were around for a while like myself, you remember those days when we had to move teacher and staff around. So I mentioned I would talk about class size discrepancies between buildings. Just as an example, uh here under our current model, if we look at Prather, uh they have 94, say they have 94 students enrolled in the kindergarten level. If we used four teachers, that'd make a class size that we can balance out to 24. If we were to look at a K4 or K6 in um either either building A or B. Um so if you look at A, we have 38 students as a kindergarten
030level. We utilize two teachers and now they have 19 students in the class. Whereas in building B, we have 56 students. We utilize two teachers and now that class has 28. So across the district, you might have some class sizes where one building has a much lower number uh compared to another and which is something we've dealt with in the past. And it's something I've spoken about as we went through on these updates, but just make you aware of that. Just a question or a clarification or a comment. I don't know what it is actually. I mean, if we're in a situation where we're having 28 in a class, it would it's not without outside the realm of possibility that we look at adding a teach for that grade level. Could be. Correct. Yes. So,
031it's not like you're It could be it could be looking at that or it could be looking at with those six day enrollments to where you have to move people. Yes. So that's why you look at all those different things because 19 versus 20 it's quite staggering and it's a possibility but it's not we're going to be like well that's how it is. No exactly we will try to we will try to address it to the best of our ability. Yeah and this next slide really speaks to what you're saying. Um so the discrepancies between grade levels in a current building and so say we have a fifth grade class that has 38 students. We utilize two teachers and we have 19. We look at the kindergarten class that is 56. We utilize two teachers
032and we have 28. Same type of thing. But just the footnote down there at the bottom. While district could add one teacher to the kindergarten grade level at the building to lower class sizes. If we would add one teacher to every grade to at every building K4, K6, it could be a cost of $480,000. Now, obviously, we wouldn't have to do every, but we're just showing those information out there. So as we make an informed decision uh with that but yeah that's why you look at um certifications six day look at certifications where people can move around and that's why we we will look at our boundaries again as well to redraw if we need to uh to address those needs as we start to see things. Okay, the uh tenative school boundaries by sheet,
033that's what I mentioned and this will be posted on our website. It it's on the website right now. So for those of you following live, if you want to go on there, you can you can do that. Click here. And so we basically have a potential street list by boundaries where you can pull up your street. If you notice something is off, please uh send us an email because I do know as those of you familiar with this community, we do have Wilson Street, Wilson Avenue as we try to diligently address all of those. If you notice something, let us know. Now, uh once the decision is made, if whatever reconfiguration we go to, we will then put a new program out uh after the December meeting to where you will be able to look
034it up. We will set a program. you can type your street in and then look it up. We just didn't want to do that for two possible uh configurations. We just wanted to be able to do that for one. So, we'll have a program out there where you can type in your street and it'll tell you what school you go to. And again, if you notice something looks off, let us know. We'd like to know now rather than the start of school year when we can we can address the busing now. So, that is the information. I know uh Mr. Mitchell has recorded this. It is going to be out there for Facebook live. Uh we will also start looking at an FAQ. If there's any questions that seem to keep coming up, we will
035put that on the district website for people to go out and look at and see to answer some of their questions. I know we've kind of already started compiling some stuff that we thought might be good questions. Tried to cover many of them in this presentation. Uh but just if you have anything, please reach out and let us know to try and answer. And then the next board meeting is the December 10th uh 2024 for the uh when we will when the board of education will vote on which configuration we're going to. Thank you. Questions? I just a comment. I this is a massive undertaking and I know the three of us have been involved in it for a while. Actually Talon was too in the beginning with me. Um so it cannot be understated
036how much or overstated I guess I would say how much work has gone into this already. let alone all the work that is to come. So, thank you to you and your administration and also all the input that we've collected over this last year for this. It's a huge change, but I've appreciated the emails that I've received from the public, from staff, just different things to think about that we've looked at. And so, it's been helpful. Yeah, just to piggyback on what Erica said, the amount of work is crazy. um you know we it's basically like looking at the administrators and saying hey you know all that stuff you do well now you need to do a little more because we want to do this and uh but I I think everybody on the board
037has has wanted to do this everyone has said you know this is something that we want to do and so that wouldn't have happened without the administration helping I think it's a perfect example of change is complex as we stated early on and I kept saying like a broken record but also that while It might not happen at the timeline that everyone wishes. It's important to involve as many players as possible and to do it the right way through collaborative work and I think that the administration has really modeled that and I appreciate that. That's how you affect change. Thank you. I do want to add this. I just had this handed me uh the email so we can put it all in the same area. information gcsd9.net. if you email that and we'll put
038that we'll add that to our uh presentation as well underneath where it says click here for your potential street list. That way it's all you're not trying to send it to myself, you're sending to Chris Mitchell's transportation. You can just put the your questions to information gcsd9.net. There'll be a number of us that have access to that email and then we can look to answer the questions through an FAQ. Thank you. Thank you very much. I know a lot of people were probably tuned in just for that. Um and uh which is part of the reason we did it so early. Uh next up is our consent agenda uh 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
039items be moved to section 7 for individual discussion and consideration. Uh do we have a motion to approve? So move. Second. Second. Okay. And then for discussion, you want to Yes, I would. Uh we we've actually had a few things donated. Um first, US Steel donated uh some roll stock to the Grant City High School Vocational Program. So, thank you so much for that. And then it was it was really nice. Uh we had the wall of fame uh banquet where we honored some of our alumni and uh Detective James Rooney actually presented something to us and he was actually a few years behind me in school. So, I remembered him and he remembered me. Uh but he is a detective with the New York Police Department and he uh that he basically gave us
040presented it to the high school and and to myself at that night um a a flag that was flown on the grounds of the World Trade Center and so with a nice little plaque with that. So we're going to put that out for everybody to see. So I have that in my office right now and just figuring out exactly where we want to put that. So I just wanted to say thank you to him for that. Greatly appreciated. Yes. Thank you. And that that was actually the first uh wall of fame ceremony that I had been to and it was actually it was a really nice night. I liked it. It really was. Um up next we have Oh yeah, we do need to vote, don't we? Silva I Currin I Linaman I Vinnie I
041Bradley I All righty. Uh next is 8A retirements and resignations. It's recommended that the filing and retirements and resignations listed below and on the GCSD9 website be accepted. Do we have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Okay. Roll call. Uh Curran I. Linaman I. Vinnie I. Bradley I. Silva I. Okay. 8B requests for leaves of absence. It's recommended that the filing request for leaves of emphasises listed below and on the GCSD9 website be approved. So move second. Okay. Roll call. Linaman. I. Vinnie I. Bradley. I. Silva. I. Hurin. I 8 C. Requests for extensions to leaves of absence. It's recommended the filing request for extensions to leaves of absences be listed below and on the GCSD9 website be approved. So moved. Second. Okay. Roll call. Benny. I. Bradley. Hi. Silva. I. Currin. I. Lynman.
042I. And 8D. Extracurricular recommendations for the 2425 school year. You've received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to hold or make recommendations for discussion executive session. The GCSD9 administration is recommending the following extracurricular assignments for the 24-25 school year listed below and on the district website be approved. So move second. Okay. And just for people watching or listening, it's an assistant tennis coach position and the rest are all lunch duties for the second quarter. Roll call. Bradley. Hi. Silva. Hi. Currin. Hi. Lynaman. Hi. Vinnie. I Okay. 8E, certified and classified substitutes. It's recommended the filing applicants listed below and on the district website be approved as substitutes for the 2425 school year. So moved. Second. Roll call. Silva. I. Currin. I. Linaman. I. Vinnie I. Bradley. I. Okay. 8 F1. Rescend employment
043of 4hour union cafe worker for the 2425 school year. You've received detailed information about this item. Administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. The GCSD9 administration request approval to resend the recommendations of Jessica Bladic as a four-year union cafe worker for the 2425 school year due to lack of communication. So move. Second. Roll call. Currin. I. Linaman. I. Vinnie I. Bradley. I Silva I 8F2 employment of 4hour union cafe workers for the 2425 school year you've received detailed information about this item administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session the GCSD9 administration and interview committee consisting of Dr. Dr. Adam Garrett, executive director of human resources, Chris Mcola, food service supervisor, and Lisa Cochran, human resource specialist, are recommending the employment of Anna Hildrith
044of Anne Hilddrth as a 4-year union cafe worker for the 2425 school year. Approval is recommended pending the submission of required paperwork. Four, four hour. Yeah, four hour. Four hour. Fourh hour union pepe. What I say? Four year. Four year. Four hour. Sorry, it's a long shift. Sometimes it feels like a year. She's working for a long time. Uh, I move to approve. Second. Roll call. Linaman. I. Vinnie. I. Bradley. I. Silva. I. Currin. I. 8F3. Employment of special education paraprofessional for the 24-25 school year. You've received detailed information about the summ administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion executive session. The GCSD9 administration interview committee consisted of Dr. Adam Garrett, executive director of human resources, Mickey Watkins, executive director of special education, Steph Boyer, special education coordiner, and Steve Matthysse Griggsby,
045intermediate school principal, are recommending the employment of Jakis Tippet as the special education prayer professional for the 24-25 school year. Approval is recommended pending the submission of the required paperwork. So moved. Second. Roll call. Vinnie I. Bradley, I Silva, Irin, I. Lynman I Okay. 8F4 employment of two GCSD9 custodians for the 2425 school year. You've received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion executive session. The GCSD9 administration interview committee consisting of Dr. Adam Garrett, executive director of human resources, Eric Smith, supervisor of facilities management, and Lisa Cochram, human resources specialists, are recommending the employment of Jonathan Britt and Deborah Sack as the custodians for the 2425 school year. Approval is recommended pinning the submission of the required paperwork. So moved. Second. Roll call. Bradley, I. Silva,
046I. Currin, I. Linaman, I. Vinnie, I Okay. 8 F5. Um and is this what we want to hold this one? Okay. Um this is the employment of GCH GCHS uh guidance department administrative assistant for the 2425 school year and we're going to hold this for executive session under 2C1. So with that uh we jump ahead to 10A the uh FY25 school maintenance project grant. The GCSD9 administration is requesting requesting authorization to pay to apply for the school maintenance project grant to reserve 50,000 from operations and maintenance fund 20 for matching funds required for application. The school maintenance project grant is a matching funds grant that rewards up to $50,000. The grant will be used for parking lot renovations at Griggsby. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Roll call. Currin. I. Linamman. I.
047Vinnie. I. Bradley. Hi. Silva. I. Okay. Uh 10B. The estimated tax levy resolution for the 2024 taxes collected in 2025. Yes. I'm going to go over three things here that the board of education will need to do. Adopt a tax levy resolution for the 2024 taxes collected in 2025. If the proposed resolution is computed on an 18% in assessed evaluation, this would result in a tax rate of 4.0375, which would be uh 1.061 less.1.161 less than last year's uh 4.1436. Two, authorized publication of notice of proposed property tax increase for the Grant City School District 9 and Truth and Taxation certification. Copies attached. These are required anytime you exceed 5%. To set December 10th, 2024 at 6 PM in the boardroom as the time and place for a public hearing on the 2024 levy. So
048just a tenative taxation. So, yep. So, I will make a motion to adopt the estimated tax levy resolution for the 2024 taxes collected in 25. Authorize the publication of the notice of proposed property tax uh increase for the Granite City Community Unit School District number nine and truth and taxation certificate and to set the December 10th, 2024 uh at 6 meeting at 6 p.m. in the boardroom as the time and place for the public hearing on the 24 levy. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Uh, any more discussion? Roll call. Linaman. I. Vinnie. I. Bradley. I. Silva. I. Currin. I. Okay. Um, and I think after that one, make sure I got everything. Yes. Um 111A the GCHS student discipline for two-year expulsion recommendation. You've received detailed information about this item. Administration is prepared
049to make recommendations or hold for discuss in executive session. The administration is re recommending a two-year expulsion for student named under separate cover with services if available. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Roll call. Vinnie I. Bradley. Hi, Silva. Hi, Curran. Hi, Linaman. Hi. Okay. Um 112A is our Freedom of Information Act requests. Yes, the Freedom Information uh acts requests are listed below and on the district website. They were handled by administration. Okay. And uh 112B is our Illinois Association of School Boards liaison report from Lorie Silva, one of our board members. Yes, I have it. Okay. Uh the school board, anybody that is a school board candidate for the April 1st, 2025 election, just please be aware that you must turn in your signed nomination uh petitions this week, starting today through next Monday
050at the county clerk's office. That's anybody interested in running for the school board. And also the IA is IASB webinars are available online for anyone who is interested. That's IASB. That's it. All right. Thank you very much. And with that we are at uh section number 11 for executive session which we did choose to hold 8 F5 for executive under 2C1 the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body. Uh, do we have a motion to enter executive session? So moved. Second. Second. Okay. Roll call. Vinnie. I. Bradley. I. Silva. Hi. Hearn. Hi. Linaman. Hi. Okay. Handle 641.