001Okay, good evening everybody. We're going to go ahead and call this meeting to order this evening. Good evening everybody. This is the Community Consolidated School District 46 Board of Education meeting this evening, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 at 6 p.m. here at Frederick School. I need a call to order tonight for the board, including our two new student representatives for this evening. Welcome to Ella and Bennett. Thank you for sitting at the board table this evening. We're going to call to order with your attendance as well. >> Mac >> here. >> Braden >> here. >> Nash absent. >> Halverson >> here. >> Hun >> here. >> Miller here. >> Weedman absent. Nelson >> here >> and Peek >> here. >> Thank you. That's Corin. Please join me for the pledgece to the flag of the United
002States of America and to the stands one indivisible andice for all. Thank you. I need a motion to approve this evening's agenda, please. >> I'll move. I'll second. >> Okay. >> Miller. >> I. >> Mack. >> I. >> Halverson. >> I. >> Braden. >> I. >> And Hune. >> I. >> Okay. Thank you. The agenda is approved. Do we have any public comments signed up at the moment? No public comments. Okay. We're going to move right into the presentation this evening which is welcoming the Park campus leader of the pack. So I will hand it over. Thank you for being here tonight. Hello Dr. Beck, Dr. Glickman, board of education families. Thanks for coming tonight. My name is Jen Boss. I am the dean at Park Campus as well as a leader of the pack
003sponsor. Uh tonight we have several students here who would like to give you an update on what's going on at Park Campus. Leader of the pack are seventh and eighth grade students who continue to work hard and bring a sense of community to Park. Leader of the pack has been busy with many events at park. On February 21st, we will be going to Avon food pantry to help restock shelves, pack food bags, and distribute [music] to families in need. We have we have been hard at work filling paw print orders, paw print cafe orders. Students earn paw prints by following Wool's way and being safe, responsible, and respectful. Students then turn them in for prizes, and we fill the orders for our No Place for Haye campaign. Each grade level was assigned a children's book.
004We learned that all that we all are different, but together we all work together and celebrate each other. Here are from here are some pictures of students putting together their projects. We would like to thank the board of education, Dr. Glickman, Mrs. Gluck, Mr. Malamid, Miss Morales, and the D46 community for allowing us this time to introduce ourselves and given the opportunity to speak about what makes Park Campus such a wonderful place to be. We look forward to seeing you in April. [applause] >> Just have questions. Do you have any questions for our students tonight? >> Any questions from the board? >> Is it? Nope. But I know we'll probably get additional updates at the table as well. We're going to move to that, too. Yeah. >> Thank you for being here. That's wonderful. Yes.
005Thank you for being here. Okay, that does move us into the board report section of the evening, which is an opportunity for each board member to share any updates. I will start with our student representatives this evening. So, you are first up for your board reports. I can start with Ella and then we can kind of just move down the line. >> Our K through fourth teachers are hard at work, especially with the World Reading Day. First graders celebrated our fourth virtual virtual author visits. Students asked thoughtful questions, heard a story that won't be released until April, learned fun facts about groundhogs, connected with the author from Canada, and we learned how to treat others with disabil disabilities from the author who shared personal experiences. What an incredible day of learning and connection. In fourth
006grade, they did an economics store over the past few weeks. students made, advertised, and sold products they made, including squishies, Rainbow Loom, and notebooks, etc. Our fifth grade through 8ighth grade teachers are working hard with their students. Sixth grade students just finished their third essay on comparing two characters, overcoming differences. They are now working on book talks with their independent reading books. In science, students are working on creating climate models. During math, the sixth graders applying their knowledge of decimals and percents to real life applications. For example, the savings of electric versus gas cars. The seventh graders completed a mission to Mars research paper looking at different mediums for information and transferring that into an essay. In science, students are working starting a tur turtle box in incubation. More information to come at our next
007sport update. Our eighth graders just finished up their Holocaust choice projects. We learned a lot about the Holocaust. We had a Holocaust speaker come to park to discuss her experience. All classrooms have been working hard on their No Place for Hate notebooks. class discussions and other projects was it was a great experience understanding even though we are different we all share many same likes and dislikes. >> Thank you both for that update. I'll move down the line. Mrs. Halverson, >> I do have an update today. Um I wanted to circle back to the triple eye conference that the board attended. We all broke up into different groups and attended different seminars and lectures on various topics education related. And while there were a lot of events that I attended, I want to just zero in
008on one. I thought it was very interesting. So, I'm just going to share some of the things I learned. Uh the the seminar was called the surprising power of belonging in schools. Uh it was phenomenal and I really would love to share every single thing that the presenter shared, but I won't. um his name was Dr. Doug Bolton and he started by explaining that the core of our being is to belong whether it's just being a person or if you're in a classroom. Um so that was kind of the foundation of his of his talk. He said that um 65% of high school students feel like they're checked out and there's nothing they can do about it, which is kind of a staggering number. that's more than half of the kids just feel like they
009don't want to be at school. Um, so let me just pause to say that district 46 has done phenomenal work in the social social emotional and learning department to make sure that our students are feeling like they belong at school. So everything that I'm going to say is not it's not specific to our district. I think we're one step ahead and we're doing a really good job. So just want to add that disclaimer. This is nationwide statistics. Um he also said that 25% of students are chronically absent from schools in Illinois. That's a huge percentage of kids. Um he also said, so I'm going to give you all the bad stuff and then he also follows up with what we can do. So don't this is not all doom and gloom. Um he said that
010emergency room visits spike during school months. So during the summer, emergency room visits are very, very low. In September, they spike. They drop Thanksgiving week and then they go right back up and they increase till May. So our country is looking at a problem with how kids feel when they are at school. So what can we do about this? He said, "The good news is that we have the tools that we need right now. It doesn't take money. it doesn't need to crunch our budget and I think that's really reassuring because we do need to make sure that our students are wanting to be at school and that they feel like they belong. So he gave five strategies and I'm just going to pinpoint one. Um he said that if teachers can help students pause
011and ponder, it helps not only the students but also the teachers because during the school day, kids are busy. They're going from class to class. Teachers are busy. Students are coming in going out and there's very little downtime during the day. And he said if we can just build in a beginning, a middle, and an end to each class period. So this is for middle school and up. Then we get kind of a natural flow of expanding and contracting, which is a good rhythm that we all need to have in our lives. But students today are expanding and expanding and expanding with information, with social media. They just have a lot going on and they're not given the resources necessarily or the example of stepping back. So he said, and this was just one of
012his five strategies of things that we can be doing across the country, is when the kids come into the class, the teachers can do a like a welcome um what did he call it? A welcome ritual. So just take a quick minute while you're taking attendance. And I think many of our teachers are already doing this. I've done some subbing previously in the middle school and I know that that it's happening in this building and I can't think it's specific to just the middle school. I think our district is doing a nice job of this already. Um, but welcoming the students into the class, take a beat, just talk about what happened over your weekend, the glimmers and dimmers, like what was great about your weekend and what was not so great. And with 25
013kids on average in a classroom, um, eight periods a day and 180 days in the school year, that's a lot of time to connect, um, kids to kids. So they are even if you have a lone wolf who is really an introvert, they can still be part of that group and feel like they're coming to a place every day where they do belong. So um that's the beginning. Then you go into your content of whatever the teacher is going to be explaining. Um and that's you know the core of the class. But then also this is the most important part he said which so easily gets overlooked is when um the teachers have a lot of work that they need to convey a lot of information they need to convey to the students and then
014they just rush the kids out the classroom. Again not our district but this is happening in a lot of schools. So the kids are just being cranked through um the mill and he said if teachers can take a minute to pause at the end of the class recap and then that gives the teachers a chance to reset and it also gives the kids a chance to just take a break a breath which I'm not doing a good job of because I'm not used to speaking in front of groups like this. But um anyways I'll take a minute to contract. Um so I I loved the um the conference and I was really impressed. So that was my one thing I wanted to share. Thanks >> Dr. Mack. Before we move on to another board member,
015I I told our um student board members that there might be things that they wanted to comment on and I was watching you um while Mrs. Halverson was talking and I just wondered do either of you have any comments to make about what you just heard. No pressure. >> I do have one thing to say. Um, what was the reason why why like a lot of the students were absent? >> That's a really great question and [music] I wasn't part of the study that they did, but what I concluded from the presenter's explanation was that if kids are going to school and they don't really feel like they are part of a group, they're just kind of an ant in a giant antill, then why would they want to be there? So they don't have
016that motivation to get up in the morning and say, "I'm excited to go to school today and then go." They wake up and think, "I don't know. I could just go back to sleep." So that's a great question. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Albertson. Mrs. Hugh, >> thank you. Um, it's great to hear. You know, I'm also going to reflect on um sessions that I went to at that conference and just kind of hearing the variety of things that are possible um from something that's very important in terms of SEAL for that development. Um I focused on um elements that because as a relatively new board member um that I wanted to learn more about. So I went to sessions about strategic planning um and also policy because I sit on the policy committee
017um and I thought um a few things that were interesting is um like this idea of the strategic plan which we'll be taking on later this year. Uh and you know you have to really think about the future like 10 years into the future. What do you what do we want our community to say about us right now in terms of how we plan for that future? [music] And so it's it's daunting I think at any point, but right now there's a lot of instability um and uncertainty um just of you know what could happen this year, let alone 10 years from now. And so you know I take that very seriously and look forward to working um with my colleagues here to be able to help um be a part of that process. Uh
018and I will say that in all the sessions that I went to, I learned a lot. Um, but I was also greatly reassured that many of the things that they were suggesting to people are things that this board and this district already do. Um, and so for me that was it felt wonderful to to know that there's a great um great uh systems already in place here that we can build on um for the future. Um and just really just briefly um I also attended the policy and there's a lot of discussion that gave us some scenarios to look at in terms of like how you know are you uh you know are you um sort of compliant or are you competitive in terms of policy and I thought that was a really interesting way
019to think about it. Um, one of their recommendations was to use uh a uh press and press plus, which we do use uh to make sure that you're compliant, but how do we make sure that we're competitive um in making, you know, in being um for our community that we're have policies in place that are dealing with our current issues, but also anticipating what could be in the future. Um and so I thought one interesting scenario that they shared uh was with AI. Um, and I know that that's something that, uh, right now the district is gathering, um, information from stakeholders, from families, uh, staff, teachers, uh, and other people in the community to find out about their thoughts and concerns about AI. Uh, and it just I had jotted down in my notes and
020I literally don't know if it was a recommendation or something I thought of because it was a few months ago, but the idea of having um a student advisory panel to the board on AI, I thought was an interesting idea that um, is worth exploring. Thank you, Miss Hugh. Mrs. Nash. >> Good evening. So, um, for those of you who don't know, I was unable to attend triple I this year, but from what I've heard from my board colleagues thus far and your reports, I will say that, um, that rings familiar to me from prior years as well, where I feel like our district, um, is in a position of strength and [music] leadership when it comes to a lot of things that we see both in our macro and micro environments. and um that's
021really affirming for the work that we do here for D46 and our students, staff and community. So, thank you for sharing. >> Thank you, Mr. Hitch, Mrs. Breeden. >> Okay. Um I'm also going to share some highlights from my conference experience. um because we have a lot of activity and energy around um multilingual education in the district these days. Um I focused uh a lot of my time at the conference on that topic and wanted to highlight one session that I went to and I will preface it by saying I went to the session and it was great. and I soaked up all the ideas and I took all these notes because I wanted to talk to Miss Bowman about all these great ideas and then I turned around and of course she was there
022and she already knew the people who were speaking and was part of the consortium and I was like of course of course so it very much echoed my uh Miss Yun's experience of uh were on it which was great. Um that said, so everything I say here, um Miss Bowman already heard and um I know a lot of this is already um in motion, but a couple things I thought was and it was about barriers to low English proficiency parent participation in the district. So how do we welcome in families whose English is not their first language? And so a couple things I thought were interesting were um how do we best equip our staff to communicate with bilingual families? Um and they talked a bit about stipens for bilingual staff to assist in translation,
023you know, to be available and incentives uh for staff to get their EL endorsement as well. So, um, those were two interesting, you know, little pieces for, you know, maybe future contract negotiation with our with our, uh, certified staff. And then I know, um, the idea of instructional PD, um, you know, how do you actually build bridges between the two languages in specific domains of instruction? And I know um, they mentioned Adelante as a provider of that PD. And I know our district is already working with Adelante. So that that I know uh you shared that last time, but they had the district that um presented they had a um a PD for everyone that they called language and literacy for all. And I thought it was just a really interesting concept. It didn't necessarily
024just focus on English language learners, but instead this idea of how do we embed those instructional strategies for all students to to learn. Um, they talked about community partnerships and I wrote down, you know, our library. We have a great partnership with our library, but they also mentioned Latino-owned businesses and, um, we have a great organization, Mono Amano, in our community that we, you know, so I think, you know, further exploring partnerships would be great. And lastly, um, and and kudos because we're already in this, but there's an EL consortium that actually gathers data, um, to hopefully be able to aggregate what strategies are actually most effective um, in promoting learning. And I was excited to hear right afterwards that we're already part of that consortium and um, we'll be able to contribute to as
025well as benefit from that data that's being collected. Um, so that was exciting and in inspiring as I thought about um the direction that we're heading as a district overall and um it was a great experience. Um I did have one other board update which was just a legislative update. So um we've all been advocating for uh not just school funding. So, um, if you're if you're new at the table and wondering how do we pay for all this great stuff you see going on in the district, it's a combination of our property taxes from the homeowners in our district. So, everyone who owns a house and um and businesses as well and then from our state. And um so we've been advocating our state legislators to basically fully fund the needs that the state
026has calculated that we should get. we don't get 100% of what the state says that we need. Um, so we've been advocating for more of that specifically around what's called mandated categoricals, which are things we have to do like transport everyone to school and pay for the buses and pay for special education. Very, very important. However, um those are mandated but not fully funded by the state. And so there are two bills that were introduced this week. um first to um fix that gap and end the proration of mandated categoricals as well as the second one um to keep the state on track with ensuring all districts are adequately funded by 2027. Um so just wanted to highlight I don't know where those will go they're new or how they'll evolve but um I'll keep
027my eyes on them for you. Thank you >> Mr. Weedman. Sorry, I was unaware that we were doing the reports on the trip, so I am not prepared to do that. Um, and that's why I have nothing for you. >> No worries, this is Miller. >> Um, so I tend to talk a little longer on these things, so I create slides to make it keep myself honest and quick. So I'm gonna just put them up. Um, so I too am so grateful for the opportunity to go to triple eye and always am inspired by what I hear and also um I try to go with a couple or at least three folky in mind when I go so that I don't get distracted. So, I focused on um safety and risk for our for the
028people in our district because we're a people first business, if you will, and the national context in which we're educating kids right now and also collaboration in general and how do other districts do that and what does that look like? So, similar to what um Mrs. Hume and Mrs. Braden talked about in terms of how do we partner with some other organizations, what does that look like? Um and um next slide, please, Darl. I also was am always grateful for recognizing that oh we're already doing that um in many many places. So this is just one small example. Um I was specifically focused on how do we know how healthy our district is and also maintain privacy like how can we monitor that? And they talked about a few different things. Um, they actually talked
029about boots and how important just uh adequate clothing is for our on&m staff because it's good for them because we care about them as people, but also it reduces costs, reduces workman's comp, and it focuses our attention on the environmental quality of our grounds and facilities, which prevents other injuries of students and other staff. They talked about training and I recognize that in our district we do deescalation training for our entire staff. I think that's true. Yeah. Which reduces costs associated with increasing rates of student aggression and behavior issues and then imp improves the learning environment and of course is just good for people. Um and then it talked about an experience modification factor. I don't I don't know if we track that, but I thought it was interesting because by tracking that it protects
030staff's well-being while keeping people meaningfully connected to their work and to their colleagues. It reduc also reduces costs associated with workman's comp and some other things too which you can read. And then it provides opportunities for community collaboration. So I'm not as familiar with the experience modification factor but they suggested that we track that. So those were some things that I was grateful for. Um, next slide please. So then the next area that I focused on was kind of the context. This was in November. So immigration was um and still is in the forefront of our news and then is relevant to our context in which our kids are learning. So they really talked about how federal legislation has now been codified in the state legislation and um as you know the state legislation and
031perhaps the federal too says that every student has the right to a free and appropriate education. Um so I'm regardless of immigration status and the federal they talked about how willfully disregarding this legislation can result in taxpayers paying damages. So we have to abide by our state legislation. And then it amplified the importance of training our front office staff so they know exactly how to protect their students and their sense not only physically but also the sense of safety. So again I was glad because I think we're already doing that which is fantastic. Um they talked about how the first this really is coming down to a conversation about the first and fourth amendments. And so uh they suggested we follow that and be really clear about our policy making sure that we have clear
032direction and that uh that that is a way to keep our students and staff physically and psychologically safe. Next slide please. So the next piece um that I was listening for was collaboration. So I'm going to back up. This is a graphic that we created um as part of a community cafe that we did several years ago and it is a little different than an org chart. In a traditional organizational or org chart, you've got power at the top and then it kind of um filters down and that's totally appropriate in an organization. In a community, I think it's a little bit different. So, if you take that piece of paper really and you wrap it around, it creates a circle because eventually the blue and the green connect. We have 33 I think percent
033of our staff are also residents. So they're also parents. So it's kind of this um this beautiful constellation of people working together to wrap arms, lock arms and protect our kids ability to learn. And so with that as context, that middle circle is we've talked a little bit about how it's a tongue and groove. We have a metaphor that says we work on the balcony and staff works on the dance floor and never the two shall meet. Um, in practice though, I think it's more that the superintendent, we want her to be on the balcony sometimes because she knows things that we don't know. And likewise, we want to be on the dance floor sometimes, not to dictate, but to understand how policy actually is implemented. So with that as context, that's the context you
034I go into when I go to triple and I was looking through at collaboration through that context. So if you could go to the next slide. Um, I attended a session that looked at well Met and Mr. M Dr. Mackey you and I were at the same one on this one and it was really interesting how will Matt works and I liked well met because they have neighborhood schools similar to the to what we have and they have an intergovernmental cooperation committee. This is a cost it focuses on cost sharing initiatives focused on and they picked their goals. It's not like you have to transfer everything, but they focus on sustainability, mental health, and civility. They meet every six weeks, two members from each of their boards, their library, their park district, their school boards,
035and their village board. And they work collaboratively to identify issues that impact residents. Um they also have a safety committee so that those it's a villagewide effort that includes administrative staff, elected officials, PTO, PTA members. They meet five times annually and they work to promote safety across the village because of course when our students are in the building they're safe but they leave the building and they transport you know they they travel between the buildings too. So it it's a comprehensive way of making sure that we're all on the same page or they're all on the same page. So I just thought that was interesting and something we might want to consider. And then that left me with Thank you, Darl. um just potential questions we might want to go into strategic planning with. So,
036what health indicators might we consider to inform our learner safety, not only our kids, but also our staff? Um what policies might we want to examine for clarity relative to safety specifically? And then how might we more effectively share information and leverage our taxpayers investment um for community safety and other other relevant topics that we could discern. So that was my takeaway from triple I and then the only other um board announce report that I had is that I um Dr. Mac and I both attended the village hearing about the supplement plan and wanted to thank the village board for making that plan available to us doing their best to disseminate it. And I am super excited about the plan and how it includes open space um to include connectivity by bike and pedestrian paths.
037And then also I'm really looking forward to seeing how they're they're going to integrate the comments that they've requested about that plan. And that comment period is open until the 16th of this month. So I'd highly encourage any of you to take a look at that plan. It will impact schools. Um and again wanted to thank them for making it available to us so that we can talk about it. So the 16th. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller. Uh my uh triple I takeaway was unique this year because one of the things that the Illinois Association of School Boards does at this conference every year is puts together a panel of resolutions that they are recommending for school districts or school districts will recommend to them for discussion amongst the members of the conference, right? that
038can go into effect in the different school districts and each school district in the state of Illinois that attends the conference is responsible for selecting a delegate to attend the what's called the delegate assembly and review those resolutions discuss those resolutions. So there's, you know, couple hundred people in one large room looking over these resolutions, deciding on what is is good, what would be appropriate, and the IASP in a non-binding recommendation gives a resol gives a, you know, an approval saying yes, we do recommend this or no, we don't. And several of my colleagues have already um done this in past years. I never have. So it came to me this year. And in past years, there was usually, you know, 10 or 12 or 15 or more resolutions. And this year, the year that
039I go, there's one. So, it was uh easy in terms of resolution, but just for your information, the meeting still stretched for five hours because there was a consent agenda that they all argued about. And then we got to the resolution at the very end. So, it was fascinating to sit in that room, which was about 12 degrees uh Fahrenheit in there, and watch. And I think they do that on purpose. still lasted five hours but didn't work. Uh and and and they argued the consent agenda which we have a consent agenda too which we rarely argue about once in a while there's a comment on it but this time there was multiple board members from multiple districts around the state and it's fascinating to see the breadth of issues and breadth of comments that
040come across from all of the school districts in the state. I believe I I I think there's something along the lines of 6 or 700 um school districts in the state across the entire state. So you have a large large number of people at that event talking about it and and come, you know, conversing with it between three and 400. I wanted to do the six and seven thing, but we'll go down to the three to 400. I get one in every meet. See? See? I have one here. See? Right. I got one. Every time I work it into the meeting, it's good to go. Um, you did. You totally did. So, that that was the extent and I of course, you know, Mrs. Miller uh talked about the one that we jointly attended which
041was just as interesting and uh so I didn't have as many workshops this year because that particular delegate assembly and that meeting takes up the the bulk of the time that I'm downtown there. So, really a nice experience. And so now next year if somebody else wants to go when they have 12 or 15 resolutions to debate then you can take it back. I'll just do the one with one. Uh I also would like to uh once again this week extend our condolences from the board of education to the Williams family on the tragic loss of their son Jonathan uh in an accident in the past couple of weeks. He was a beloved and loved member of the district 46 community uh and of the district 127 community and uh of the CLC community. And
042we offer our condolences to the family and are keeping them close to our hearts. That concludes the board reports and I will hand it over to Dr. Glickman for the superintendent's report. >> Thank you Dr. Mack. Um I'm going to hand it over to Mrs. Gluck who's going to talk with us about the NAPE exam and um an institute day we have coming up this week. Thanks. [music] Uh good evening board. Uh I the first thing I want to talk about is NAPE. Um that is the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Uh it is given in grades 4, 8, and 12. Um the way that students take that is it is randomly selected across the nation. Randomly selected schools and students. We were lucky enough to be chosen um to have um 45 of our
043students who were randomly selected uh from GMS take the assessment. So uh 45 of our eighth graders took that on February 4th and uh they took the meeting the math test and the reading test. So um it was yeah it was a great experience and we look forward to seeing the results that'll be all the compiled results results from across the nation together from that. So um in addition to that uh we have no school for our students on Friday and that is because our staff will be participating in the Lake County February and I say that like that because they have like three Rs in the middle of it. um should stretch it out a little bit more. It's the Lake County Institute Day that's run by the regional office of education. Uh it
044will be at three sites this year. So Vernon Hills High School uh will house our prek through fifth grade staff as well as fine arts and librarians are our info specialists. Um Lake Zurich High School will have grades 612 because this is Lake County. So 68 for us but 612 and the deans and PE staff and then this year they are having a separate site for special education staff um that is focused solely on their needs and their learning and that will be at Grant High School. So we are spread across the county um and looking forward to it. It's a day that is broken up with a keynote both at the beginning of the day and the end of the day and then breakout sessions in between. Um, we have 17 of our D46
045staff that will be presenting that day. So, really excited. Um, and across all three sites, so I won't get to see them all, but I know that everyone will do an amazing job. >> Thank you. And I'll round it out by just talking for a moment about construction. So, board, as you know, we have a very busy construction summer this summer with um the um updates of four of our media centers. Today our administration met with um world architects or architects of record. You've all met them to start planning for the summer of 27. So we haven't hit summer of 26 yet, but we're already talking about 27. So we kind of did a a really great lessons learned meeting, thought about what the process we've been through over the past year and talked about
046any updates that we want to make to the to that process. and just in about a month um we're going to get the ball rolling on decision making regarding the final three media centers for the summer of 27. And to close the um superintendent report, I simply want to comment to our students and families in the room. We're thrilled that you're here. Um we have two students who are staying at the table. Those of you who are not staying at the table, if you weren't planning to stay for the rest of the meeting, we will understand and this would be a great time to go have your dinner, but um we'd love for you to stay. So, just mention it. I always, you know, give people that out, right? >> Yeah. There you go. >>
047Thank you very much, Dr. Glickman. I appreciate that. It won't be a five-hour meeting. I can guarantee you that if I have anything to say about it. And Mrs. luck. My daughter is one of the randomly selected students who was in the NAPE as well, and I can tell you that she does not believe for one minute that it was a random selection. She categorically blames me for putting her into the test. So, I'm just putting it out there so that I get blamed for everything. Just so you know, >> you can tell her it was random. >> I should I should [laughter] I should. All right, we're moving on to the consent agenda for us. I need a motion to approve this evening's consent agenda which includes the personnel addendum from earlier this evening.
048>> I'll move >> second. >> Okay. >> Braden >> I >> Nash >> I >> Hume >> I >> Halverson >> I >> Miller >> I >> and Weedman >> I Okay, great. We do have a few action items this evening to get through. Uh the first one I need a motion to approve the proposed 2026 2027 school calendar waving legal holidays as required under public act 096-0640 which include Veterans Day November 11th, President Lincoln's birthday February 12th and Kashmir Pilasky's birthday March 2nd in order to hold school. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. Okay. >> Weedman. >> Hi. >> Miller. >> I >> Mack. >> I >> Nash. >> I >> Braden. >> I. >> Hu. >> I. >> And Halverson. >> I. >> Motion carries. Next. I need a motion, please, to approve
049the contract award for the three rooftop units, the RTUs at Prairie View with Premisar that was presented to us. >> I'll move. I'll second. >> Okay. Any Hi >> Braden. >> Hi >> Halverson. >> I >> Miller >> I >> Mack >> I >> Weedman >> I >> and Nash >> I. >> Motion carries. Next I need to uh need a motion to approve the press plus policy updates 120 that we discussed at the last policy meeting. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> And I am before we take a vote I am going to pause and hand it back over to do to Mrs. Gluck. Yes. >> Yes. for just kind of a quick uh summary of what we're doing. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, there were two policies after policy committee that we said
050we were going to gather some more information and bring back to you. Um so, the first was a question about whether we could in uh policy 6:260 add district before community. Um we can add that as it makes it more clear. Um and and one thing just to remember is that in order this policy goes along with the uniform grievance proceeded and in order to file a complaint through that procedure uh one would have to show that their rights were violated. So it just makes it a little bit more clear. Um and then the other was about policy 660. Um and that was with curriculum content and we were gathering a little bit more information. And as you remember, there was a question at the end of that policy, and this has to do with
051Irish famine and adding Irish famine into the policy. Um, the question, as I'm getting back to it, the question asks about my computer's doing some weird things. You see that jumping weird? Um, so the question um was asking, remember the default was no. So that was where I'm going to give you a little bit more information, but the question itself says, "A district may include in its curriculum a unit of study, a unit of instruction studying the causes and effects of mass starvation in the mid in mid 19th century Ireland known as the Irish famine. uh if offered the board locally determines the minimum amount of instruction time and then it gives a resource related to Holocaust education and the question itself is does the board provide instruction saying studying the causes and effects of
052the Irish famine and as I said the default was no. Um we reached out to find out a little bit more information about why that default was no. The reason it is no is because it is a topic that we may include and as I shared we do already teach that. Um however the other topics that are in this policy are all policies that or are all instruction that is mandated that we shall instruct and this Irish famine is something that we may instruct. So that is why it is the default of no. So we can still teach it. So we can make it we can have it say no. I think that's right. We can have it we can check the no box so it's not required while while still continuing to teach it.
053And I think one of the things we talked about at our last meeting is that we have so many uh unfunded mandates that when there's something that's a suggestion, it's nice for us not to add it into our policy um so that it's becomes something that we absolutely must do. Dr. Mac, can I go ahead? >> No, if it's about the um ones that um Mrs. Glug spoke to. Go ahead because I I'm going to take us to a different policy. I want clarification. >> Okay. >> Go ahead, Mr. Um I had I wanted to um clarify the uh press language in um policy 510 under equal employment opportunity and minority recruitment. I have read the update six ways since Sunday and I'm just not understanding the addition of or use of district issued equipment
054to record such types of violence. So if anyone was in the the policy meeting can just share like the press rationale because I wasn't able to dig in enough but I'm not connecting. I see Dr. Woke. >> Yeah. So there is a citation at the end of that and that is um in response to the victim's economic security and safety act. >> Yeah. >> Vessa. Um so the change in law then requires a change in policy. why that may have been added. Had I known about this, I would have researched it a little bit more, but there was an update in a protections law. >> Okay. Yeah, I did look into Versa and I just didn't understand how it anchor back to that particular policy. So, um, but thank you. So, could we pull it
055out of the consent agenda and then just come back to it with more information or or do you not need that or want that? >> So, when um when does this policy have to be updated through press? February 28th. So, we do. Yeah. So, we can pull this one out um and come back with more information at the next board meeting. That's fine. >> Okay. This is 510. >> We're pulling out 510. >> No. >> Yes. 5 10. >> So I wanted to circle back to policy 2.150 and this is about committees. I wanted to suggest that we add policy 810, which is a community engagement policy, as a cross reference to codify our current commitment to cultivating community. And I can explain that now or we could pull this one out too and give
056everyone a chance to look at both of those and talk about at the next meeting. >> So it just be an addition to the footnotes. Yeah. The additional policies. >> Just cross referencing. just cross reference it and then on 810 cross reference this one 2150. I can explain why or we can talk about it next time. >> Why don't you explain why so that we know if there because we'll probably need to look into some things before we >> Yeah. >> Right. We'll probably want to vote next time. So yeah, why don't you >> Yeah. Okay. So if you have those policies up or when you look at them there's a very the top section talks about kind of the purpose of the policies. So the way I read it was the purpose of 2150
057which again is about committees. It says that all these committees assist, this is verbatim language, assist with the board's governance function. And then after that, it lists the specific board committees. There's special committees, but then the board committees are underneath that. It talks about um the policy committee, the finance committee, the parent teacher advisory committee, and the behavioral intervention committee. And it talks one of the the policy committee provides information and re recommendations to the board. The finance committee gives financial governance and oversight. The parent teacher advisor advisory committee develops student behavior policy and procedures. And then the behavior intervention committee develops and monitors procedures for behavioral interventions. In several of those it includes parents, teachers, a variety of different people. And I thought that was consistent with our cultivating community mission. And it also
058overlaps with policy 810. Thus the request to have it as a cross reference because 810 if you remember there was an optional part of that policy. If anyone wants to pull it up I can I mean you don't have to but I'm just So 810 starts again with a description. It talks about the superintendent's role as a public relations and it specifies that. And then underneath that is the community engagement piece. >> Yeah. Okay. And it suggests that the superintendent is responsible for developing community understanding of school operations among other things and that the board is responsible for involving diverse citizens in dialogue, deliberation, and collaborative thinking around common interests for the district's schools. So our committees do that already. So it wouldn't change the practice of anything. It would just codify. If we add
059810 to 2150 and we add 2150 to 810, it codifies that commitment to cultivating community without changing any practice. So that's >> I understand the ask and we'll just look into it a little bit and then we'll bring it back to the next meeting. >> So we'll pull that one out then. >> Yeah. >> Yep. Great. >> Which was 2150. I don't know if you want me to speak to that last policy with the the law. Um I happen to know >> Gemini it. >> Okay. I happen to know this fine. There's new law protecting victims of sexual domestic and other similar vi violence and family members of that. And it doesn't allow an employer to discriminate against an employee who uses school issued or district issued or system issued devices to record um evidence
060of that domestic violence or similar. So it's adding that language in there. Dr. W, is that what you >> Yeah. Uh so it uh oftentimes if you have your work computer or work cell phone um you're not having your personal phone it's not going to just we can't the district can't say well you record you vitalated um our AUP by using work devices to record violence. Um it removes that barrier that people can use any device even if it's a work device. It protects people who record a crime or violence using their work device. >> Okay. So that is helpful. Thank you. So then would this need to would we need to address anything with regards to like our technology policy to com? >> I mean that's a question for Miss Pulser, but I don't
061believe so. I don't think so because I think it it supersedes the acceptable use policy because it's saying it it is acceptable to use a device if that's the only thing available to you under >> Got it. >> Okay. Thank you guys. So we no longer need to pull out 510 for me. Thank you. >> Okay. >> We are only pulling out 2150, right? Okay. I'm going to revise the motion. Is that okay? Okay. We're going to [laughter] do that just so we're clear. And just for our student board members too, just just a kind of a recap, we share this regularly. The board operates under this policy manual. So when when when we vote on things, it's not in a vacuum and just random decisions that the board makes on things. These policies guide
062what we can and cannot do and help us make those decisions together. I'm going to revise the I'm going to call for a motion to approve the press plus policies. uh by and also taking out policy number two col150 for further consideration. >> I will move the amended move. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Halverson >> I >> Mac >> I >> Braden >> I >> Hume >> I >> Miller [music] >> I >> Nash >> I >> and Weedman >> I >> Okay, motion carries. Uh next up we have unfinished business on our list and the item we have tonight is the policy committee feedback. Mrs. Miller, is that something you're providing this evening with or was that okay? Just a quick um if you remember at the policy committee committee meeting we did a
063check-in question which is something we haven't done before. Um so I wanted just to pass on this. I'm still working through some of the the information the comments and that um just playing with how to do that. But one thing that's come across clear that I just wanted to check with you. The assumption I heard was that we're in alignment. All of us I think that press has fidelity. It's got there's a whole bunch of expertise behind it and we value that and generally follow it. Um we also are not opposed to changing adjusting policies a word here or there. So we we added district to whatever 6.20. Um so generally we agree that those policies as written that we want to follow those because they help us maintain compliance. Is that correct? Okay. Um
064with that is there anything further you guys wanted I didn't give you any heads up on this but if there's anything further you'd like to add to that check-in before the next policy meeting you have plenty of time. um tell me now or email me, but I can add that if you thought I don't know if you're like me, but a week later I go, "Oh, I wish I had sent that." So, just making space for additional comments. Okay, that's it. >> Okay, thank you, Mrs. Miller. Uh, next we're moving to the new business section of the agenda. We First up is the scale server environment purchase. Is that Miss Pel? Yep. >> All right. So, um, as a part of the maintaining excellence referendum plan, we are implementing intercoms, internal access control, and K4
065security cameras um to our environment this summer. Um, as a part of the intercom um project that um has already been approved, there was um $30,000 for servers to be added, one for each of the seven buildings to support these new um safety and security systems. So I at the same time um our current centralized server environment is set to be refreshed in a year or two. And so taking a step back from these projects and um knowing our current server environment um it makes sense um this proposal um to move to a scale computing server environment will create redundancy and more reliability for these critical new services that we're adding. um it will create an a server environment that is easier to maintain. So it's one server environment to be updated instead of two
066separate and actually eight separate server environments. Um and it also consolidates planned spending into a strategic um investment rather than splitting it across multiple different um overlapping purchases. So, this proposal um would remove $30,000 of servers from the intercom project. We would take that back and it would cost an additional $52,000 um to purchase the scale computing um server environment that would provide these extra um supports and would yeah make it make the environment better and safer. So, I just have to notice that behind you, like I have line of sight to Daryl, and as you're talking, he's nodding vigorously. [laughter] >> Thank you for noticing that. I wanted just to add one more piece of information to the board, which is that um when Mrs. Peler brought this to me first, one of the
067questions that I asked her was, is there room in the 2526 budget that you manage to cover this cost? And the answer to that was yes. >> Yes. Thank you for adding that. >> Yeah. >> And it sounds like um we're we're going a little early, but then it also saves us later because we don't have to pay for it in a year because we're going to pay for >> So it will it'll save us um from spending more now and later. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> You may not have an answer to this question, but do you have an estimate for the lifetime of the new server? >> Yeah, so we talked about a lot about that to make sure that this was the right investment. um servers typically last between five and seven
068years. Um but because of the way that this um the scale of computing works, it is something that we think we can maintain definitely through seven years. Miss Per, when you talked about the the redundancy, just to go a little uh deeper on it, um is there like um um like business continuity testing kind of built into that and and a cadence now since we're breaking it up from a centralized server space to you know now we can kind of roll over testing over seven or eight as opposed to just that centralized one where you have to take the system all the way down. >> Yeah. So the way scale computing works is it's kind of three separate nodes and so it's kind of like a team working together to balance the load of the
069work that needs to happen. Um it also allows for if you know if one team member is out sick or is having some issues. Um the other two team members can can carry that load and so we don't um lose critical services but um they're just adjusted based on need. So that's where the redundancy really comes in. Um, and we also back up our server environment too offsite so that we're secure in that way as well. I don't know if that's part of your question as well. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, >> thank you, Miss Pulzer. Uh, next up on the new business, we did add a the Graz Lake planning supplement discussion. Did you want to launch that, Mr. Miller? >> Sure. Y >> um I just wanted to make space for discussion about
070about the supplement if you've had time to look at it or parts of it. I just wanted to again ask just generally what stands out to you, what pops for you about that supplement. >> I'm going to jump in real quick and then I'll I'll hand it over. I did ask I did reach out to the board to to send me comments and stuff so that I could perhaps put together um you know kind of a cohesive response to share with the village from us as board. Obviously that doesn't preclude you sharing in the feedback that's due by February 16th. By all means go and do that as well, which I'm going to do as well. But then I'd also like to do a separate one that and so I've started to get some responses
071from everybody. So, if you're able to get those into me, you know, in the next couple days, I want to try and organize them, you know, maybe thematically, um, and fill out whatever form I need to fill out as as the district 46 board versus individually. Right. And we did go to the committee. We did go to the Christy and I did attend the hearing and um I'll I'll let everybody else speak to it now and then I'll I'll jump in after. >> Um, so Dr. Dr. Mac, I do owe you a response to the email, I think my thoughts I'm still kind of processing. I think um to answer your question, Mrs. Miller, one of the biggest things that jumps [music] out to me is is how intentional we've been um with like capping
072the size of Grace Lake as a community. um recognizing our capacity with all this acreage of of open space and land that we've protected, but at the same time we're um it it's like a six in one hand, half dozen in the other because then when you start talking about, you know, business growth and driving economic vitality and things like that, it's like, well, but we're capped here. I think the capacity could have been upwards of like 40 north of 40,000 people and we're somewhere about like half of that rate and intentionally so and so it's like well how do we reconcile um the needs of the community um where we're kind of cap you know people want to come here um we have all of this open space that we've protected do we look
073to consider rolling back some of that to make room for more development in my head I'm just trying to just understand like, you know, we're trying to drive business and growth here. And with business and growth comes families and the need for housing and school and education, and how do we do that when we've been very intentional about capping um our our residential living space? And so, I don't know how to quite articulate that to you yet, [laughter] Dr. Mac, but that that's what's been percolating through my head as I've read the um the supplement. Um, so I I sent I sent you mine, Dr. Max. So I had three things and definitely redundant with a lot of what's been said already. I think, you know, I one of the things I did notice was
074obviously it's a village document, so it's not about the schools. Um, but it didn't really talk about other essential infrastructure to the village. And I think um one of the things that I would like to see is that there be an explicit acknowledgement of schools as essential infrastructure for the community. Um you know, schools are a major decision point for whether or not families decide to live somewhere. And um I think in that sense just being acknowledged as as infrastructure partners and major stakeholders in growth and development decisions and maybe not just the school districts but other taxing bodies as well. Um the other one that I thought this is my you know we can decide if it rises to this is the statement from the board is um I think being clear that village
075don't assume that we're going to give you tax base abatements that our we do not have the financial capacity to be offering a bunch of incentives for new construction and so just maybe making that clear they do mention it um and we've talked about that many times before so I won't belabor it And then the third thing I think gets to what Miss Nash was alluding to um which is it talks a lot about like the economic and market benefits of residential development but what it doesn't address is the impact on schools and I think I would like us to really take the lessons of what's happening in our neighbors to the south as how can we avoid that? How can we avoid a municipality moving forward and saying yes to a huge residential development
076without aligning with the districts on what's actually needed financially to accommodate um building, you know, a massive new development and that a one-time use fee is not it [laughter] like those students and houses are going to be there forever. Um, and I think it's a good lesson that we could take in this village to say um, what what are the conversations that need to happen upfront um, for any planned uh, residential development? What is the impact? And it's not really about, you know, they talked about density and stuff, but it's really about the EAV for us. So, like, and Jim, you probably know this better than I do, but the idea that if you build a single family home and put four kids in it, your tax bill doesn't cover [laughter] what it costs to
077educate those four students in our district, right? So, it's a loss. It's a not loss for the district. And so just understanding, you know, what is the density of um the housing and how does that impact the EAV, which is really how we levy taxes. Um I don't know, I'm not sure how much the village understands those implications because they're not in here. Um, and then the other thing that came to mind was the idea that once once once a property is zoned, a lot of the decisions are made at the zoning level, not once you it's zoned and then like you're starting to develop, right? So I would also say that it would be great if the plan outlines the villages and I'm reading from my email commitment to and specifying the practice by
078which it will consult with affected school districts number one as part of any annexation or reasonzoning decisions because what we've seen in the past is the village going well it's zoned like it's zoned and now the property developer has the right to do what they want with the property. We can't actually change any of that. And so okay, at what point can we and and that's when I think it would be great for taxing bodies including schools to be included. Um and then so early during annexation or reasonzoning decisions and then during plan and neo planning and negotiation of residential or mixeduse developments especially in situations where enrollment to the district could rise without a proportional increase in EA. So those were my thoughts. Can I go? So, um, being this being a supplement to
079the original plan, right? Um, I I would ask everybody to take a l take take a lens of the old plan and see what has come to fruition since that one has happened. Not very much of it, okay? Especially when it comes down to residential. The plans for what they showed in the supplement up on Rollins Road, I've been hearing plans for that for 20 years. Um it's a lot of it is what the the property owner wants to do with it. Do they want to sell it and then what the village has in their comprehensive plan zone wise. um [clears throat] glass example and no the old fairgrounds isn't in our uh our school district for tax dollars but the that's been closed for 20 years and they've had people come through with plans
080and fall apart and it's very difficult to get things done on a scale that big. Um, I think they when I look at that supplement, I look at kind of what their hope is that's going to happen. You know, um, take the 1908 property on Belvadier Road, right? It's a small piece of property and they want to put 15 houses in there. Well, that's just a fill in is how they're looking at it. If somebody wanted to do that, we could do that here, but that requires the person who owns the land to want to sell the land. And it would also require the not to come through and take some of it to wind the road if they ever get around to that. Right? So, there's a lot of things that can change the
081supplement. So, take it as a wish list for the village, not necessarily this is what's going to happen. Um, you know, the one thing I didn't see in their plan was at 83 in Sherwood. Um nothing really like residential wise there but they had they approved a sketch for 24 town homes on five acres of property up there right so their supplement's already out of date so it's it all depends on how the I know your question was how would we be impacted by you know 250 new students in five years it would take a long even if they started all those projects today It'd be more than five years before I think you would see 250 schools. >> Um by the time you get the infrastructure in the roads, the buildings, kids and grown
082up. Um so I just asked to take a lens of take it as a little bit of a grain of salt. This is the wish list of what they want to do. Doesn't mean we don't pay attention to it, but I think we also need to pay attention to the other villages that do have more land that can develop. you know, Round Lake Beach, >> Round Lake Park, um, Round Lake all have land out 120. Well, Round Lake and Raleigh Park have land out 120 that could impact our district. Um, so we should be paying attention to those as well. Um, the other thing I ask is and maybe it's time for us to have a conversation regarding our impact fees and get ahead of the curve to maybe have a conversation with the villages
083and say, "Hey, we would like to see about raising our impact fees." Because they're the ones that kind of set them. We didn't get a choice in them. The villages just come out, oh, we're going to give you, you know, $2,000 for a fourbedroom home and that's what we got. Um, so it might be time to have those conversations with those villages and say, "Hey, you know, these were set 25 years ago. We adjust them to 2026 or 2027 so that we can generate what kind of what the purpose was is kind of get through that first taxing year. Not necessarily pay for the schooling because one house does not pay for the children inside. It's the community that pays for everybody. Um regardless if there's kids in it or not. So, but if we
084can take some of that burden off a little bit for that first year with trying to get it raising and of the impact fees, I think that would go a long way to at least opening that conversation. >> That's all I got. Um, so I'll just add to that. Um, kind of piggybacking on what you were saying and what Mrs. Bru said too. I think it what was it what I was hearing was that we might want to consider creating or inviting the village to create a formal governance mechanism that supports our collective understanding of the impact of land use decisions on schools on police and fire on libraries park park districts similar to what we looked at Dr. Matthew and I saw that Watt does. So something where we have board members and staff
085members coming together and it's not um this has happened in Graves Lake before under Mayor Mayor Kerry. There was a gathering of board members from all the taxing districts and staff. So this isn't something that's new necessarily. It's just something that's effective. Um I too have concerns about the residential development because it's not just new kids in the district. It's busing routes. It's additional administrative staff that we desperately need that we additional student services that need to be required. All the things that you've already said. I also um think that open space drives property values up. It's actually a driver for economic development and so are schools. I sent this report to you already. The I think the title is telling. It says public investments in education can spur equitable growth, pay for themselves, and
086create jobs for a stronger economic recovery. So, I would love to bring that to the table so that we look at schools as not beneficiaries of businesses, certainly appreciate businesses, but we are drivers that attract businesses. And I think that needs to be part of the calculus as we talk about what happens next in Grace Lake. Um, we also have a lot of purchasing power and if we might be able to drive some innovation or some entrepreneurship over the long term, but also align our purchasing power when it makes sense and with our administrators uh recommendations, but perhaps that would help diversify the the businesses that are in Hometown Grace Lake because I believe I read that they are dependent on a few of them for the majority of the income that comes in. Um
087let's see. I also think that similar to I think what maybe I read into it but it would be great to have a mechanism to really look at what we've kind of like lessons learned from the past we have made land use decisions that have um not we but collectively as a community incentivized harder medline FedEx we have a landfill we have logistics center and now the data center is coming in I don't know how much revenue I know what revenue was projected to come in but I know how much actually came in and I think it would be good to kind of track that to see um so the landfill in particle was supposed to generate $25 million for libraries, parks and schools and I don't know did it come in um >> at
088this point we don't have any record from 2009 to 2014 of any intergovernmental agreements. So if it came in, how did it come in directly to the schools? And that's just an example. Um but again, what's the actual not just projected revenue? And then what's generally the return on investment of not only businesses but open space and schools and then the impact on innovation in local entrepreneurship over time. So again, I just think it it's an opportunity for us to develop a formal governance mechanism that we can talk in public so that our residents know um kind of what that looks like and how we track it and monitor it. Did you want to add to the land? >> Um I can just tell you through memory that yes, the money came in. Now did
089that whole dollar amount come in? I don't know because it had been extended at some point. Um, but like Frederick Lane as an example was built with that money. That road that we used to come in and out of the school and get back and forth for our buses, that was part of the what was built for the school district on their request at the time. Station two for the fire department was built by those funds. So, they did distribute those funds out um over that time frame. I don't remember what the park district got, but those are two that I remember the school district and the fire district both got. >> So, is that recorded somewhere that we could >> Oh, I'm sure it's recorded by the village somewhere, >> right? And we don't
090we don't have access to that. So, it' be great. >> So, technically technically station I can speak more to experience with our station too. That building itself is owned by the village of Graves Lake. The fire district does not own that. We occupy it. We rent it to them, rent it from them for like a dollar a year for 100 years, right? Because they couldn't, one taxing body cannot directly give money to another taxing body. So in order for them to do some of those projects, the village has to build it, own it, >> and no, we have to maintain it. That's part of the agreement. We maintain it, build it, own it, and then rent it out in order for that to work. They cannot do a direct dollar for dollar here. $2.5 million
091to build a new fire station. Do what you want with it. It has it had to be there was very stringent um ways for that to take care to be done. So I do know those funds have gone out over time. The exact dollar amount did all 25 million or whatever it was go out. No, the village should have record of it and that's easily voyable. >> Sure. I I don't think we want to spend taxpayer money on foyers when we when we're both but but it's available as your point and we can talk about it. Yeah. Okay. That's great. I just think it's a it's a good time to develop a formal mechanism for these conversations. >> Yeah. I don't I don't think I have anything earthshattering to add. I think I agree and
092concur with everybody and certainly with when we attended the hearing. my my largest concern and I see this just in a lot of the things and again I know that we are a school board so we're dealing with school issues but it's it's it's conspicuously or inconspicuously absent from village communications about the importance of schools in the community as a business driver as a driver for the community as a place that allows people to choose where to live you know even even at the hearing there's there's you know just Just anecdotally, there's not one mention of schools either for us or for district 127. And that's just a just a narrative concern that I have with that with that conversation. So, moving towards more intentional conversations where we are included as a driving force in
093a community rather than simply a receptacle for taxpayer money changes that narrative a little bit. So >> yeah, just one more thing I wanted to add, which this is napkin math borrowing Jim's phrase, but if we look at our school district as a business, just the business side of it, which we don't often, I mean, I think we're more interested in people and the kids and the learning environment. But if we do switch our lens and look at the business side of things, if we add the number of people that our district employs with the number of people that 127 employees with the number of people that CLC employs in the industry of education. That's 1,744 again math math jobs that this industry of education provides and that doesn't include our private or charter schools.
094So when we think about for just our employees, a third of our employees live in Grace Lake, more than that live in the six other communities that we serve. It makes a circular investment. We pay them. They pay taxes which allows us to pay them. There's something wise, I think, about having more conversation about that. So just wanted to add that in. >> Okay. Thank you. All right, that brings us to topics for future agenda items. Dr. Woodman. >> Yes. Um well, at our uh February 25th board meeting, we'll go back to two topics from this evening. So, we'll bring you that scale server environment action item from today's uh meeting along with coming back to policy 2150 with the request to cross reference it to 810. So, we'll come back with more information about
095that and you can vote on that policy. Then, um then there are some uh new topics for that evening. The first one is I'd like to bring to the board a I would say a first round of conversation or maybe another round of conversation about strategic planning. So, um in order to explain that, let me just roll forward to the future a little bit. On April 8th, we intend to bring you some facilitators to talk to, right? And facilitators to give presentations to you. In preparation for that, um I have sent requests out to actually nine different strategic planning facilitators, all who have been recommended by local school districts, um and ask them for proposals. Um, of those nine, seven have said that they're sending proposals and I already have three of them. Um, so
096what I want to do for you board is to put those together in the future into folders for you to review and ultimately give input to decide who you want, I'm imagining maybe three, three or four, right, to come to the board meeting on April 8th to um, and then you can hear from them and then ultimately make a decision as to who you want to work with next year for strategic planning. So, in order to get ready for that conversation and get ready to give that input, my intent was that on February 25th, we could have some discussion. And I was planning to just pose two questions which I'm just going to give to you now so you can be thinking about them. One is what do you think is important in the final
097project product regarding strategic planning? And so by that I mean um here's a sentence starter. We need a strategic plan that is fill in the blank. So something um be thinking about that. And then what do you think is important in the process? So those were the two questions that I was planning to give to you, but I guess I'm I'm going to think I'm going to ask you to think about other questions that you might have. Send them to me because I can put it all together just to guide that conversation. Um, and then once that conversation has been had and we have all of the uh, strategic planning proposals, I'll share them out with you all electronically along with Dr. Carmona and members of our um, cabinet and give you a chance to
098read them all and then do some kind of like a polling so for you to let me know what who who it is you want to see on April 8th. Any questions or comments about that process? >> Just thank you for making it easy and doing the leg work for us. >> Yeah, absolutely. That's I that's kind of been my pleasure to be behind the scenes like I I'll gather all this together. You decide. But [laughter] um but it's I I'm happy to do it. So, you're welcome. Um also at the next board meeting, we'll be bringing forth a Chromebook purchase discussion. >> [music] >> um it will be time to purchase new Chromebooks for our students and so um Linda Pelster will be bringing forth discussion on that. Yes. >> Um I think we
099were gonna ask if we wanted to have a discussion. >> Oh, that's right. Thank you. Thank you. In that we must purchase new Chromebooks and that um Mrs. Peler is entrusted with finding us the best possible cost. Would you be open to not just having discussion at the next meeting, but actually having an action item because we do have to do it? Is that okay? Thanks for the reminder. All right, great. So, we'll do that action. Good. Um and then um let me just fix this. Okay. Um then we'll bring forth also a um light lighting project, LED project for GMS. That's a discussion next time. So that's all the next meeting. Um on March 18th, we'll be doing a staffing update. So that'll actually be a finance committee meeting. So we'll be bringing in
100a staffing update and recommendation. Um and we will already done the Chromebook purchase, so we can get rid of that. Um and then potentially a GMS lighting project LED action item. Um, on April 8th, our GMF GMS Panthers will be back presenting to us and at the table. Um, and that's the evening that I intend to bring you those strategic planning consultants. Um, and that's as far as I've got at the moment, except to say that uh, April 22nd, the PC wolves will be back that night, too. >> Okay. >> Thank you, Dr. Glickman. And just a quick reminder for the board, April 15th is the ISB learning dinner. If you have not let Sue know of your attendance, please do so. That's This is the one that is um I don't remember the speaker
101at the moment off the top of my head, but I will find that out, but just get it on your calendars. >> Yeah. Yes. Bennett. >> Um when is the next board meeting? >> Ah, good question. The next board meeting is in two weeks. Um, so that'll be on February 25th, right? February 25th. Um, and although we won't have you at the table that time, you are welcome to come to the meeting or to stream it online. >> Watch the live stream in your January. >> Excellent. You can stream it online. Thanks for asking. >> We had a whole six viewers tonight on the YouTube channel. So, we're >> seven. We're rocking the viralness. Yeah. >> Do we have Yes. >> Do our students have any questions? >> That's just what I was gonna ask.
102Yes. >> Yeah. >> No, go ahead. Go ahead. >> Nothing else. >> Okay. Okay. Do we have any public comments signed up at the But no public comments. Okay. All right. I would like to thank Ella and Bennett for being at the board table tonight for their wonderful uh board updates and for being part of the governance process of the board. So, I'd like to share a round of applause for our student board members this evening. And like I always say, I do hope that you run for one of these seats one of these days and you could make a big impact. So, thank you for being here tonight. Uh with that with that said, we do have a close session this evening. I need a motion to enter into close session in accordance with
103public act 5 ILCS120/2 paragraph C1 the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testimony [clears throat] excuse me on a complaint lodge against an employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity. I'll move >> second. >> Okay. And we do not anticipate any further business after the close session. So we will adjourn directly from there. >> Okay. >> Hun >> I >> Nash >> I >> Miller >> I >> Mac >> I >> Halverson >> I >> Weedman >> I >> Braden >> I >> Peek >> I >> and Nelson >> Hi. >> Wonderful. Thank you and thank you for being here everybody. Good night. Have a good evening.