001Okay, welcome everyone to the board of education meeting for community consolidated school district 46. It's Wednesday, June 18th. We are at Frederick School in Gra Lake and I would like a call to order and a roll call, please. Mac absent. Braden here. Nash absent. Halverson here. Hume here. Miller here. Weedman absent. All right. Think is this a quorum? You join me in for the pledge, please. Sorry about that. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Sorry about that. All right. Um, can I get a motion for the approval of tonight's agenda, please? I'll move. I'll second Miller I. Halverson I Braden I and Hume I All right. Um that brings us to public comment. Do we have any
002public comment say sorry I know we had you move and then Okay. Thanks. Thank you. All right. Uh, next on our agenda is a presentation about the Park Campus outdoor classroom. Hello. So, before we actually talk about um the outdoor classroom, I do want to introduce you to Annabelle um because this was her amazing idea to make this project come alive. Um, so in spring of 2024, when Annabelle was an eighth grader at park, um, she asked if she can work on our park outdoor classroom, she had an idea that she wanted to do for her Girl Scouts project. Um, and I was like, "Sure, let's let's see. Let's let's talk about all the amazingness you want to do." Um, but before I tell you about that classroom, um, I do think that it's very
003important to talk about Annabelle and who she is because it really talks about her, um, dedication, her experience, and also her maturess. So, Annabelle has been a Girl Scout for nine years. Is that correct? So, nine years. She also does numerous sports. She um, plays instruments. I know you told me you played the clarinet and she started playing at park which is great for her to continue that. Um and and she really does take the time to do a lot of volunteering um with her mom. I know she spends a lot of time with her mom to you know give back to the community and that just speaks to the wonderful work that she has done and even though she does a lot of these um extracurriculars um doing this project took a little bit
004longer than she expected. Right. Just a little. Just a little. But um more recently this spring, she um her and her mom reached out and said, "Hey, we want to finalize this project." And I was like, "Great. Let's let's talk about it." They came, we um she told me the great ideas and then I just went ahead and I called Jose and kudos to Jose and his ONM crew because they took that idea and they just made it happen super quick. So with no further ado, I will go ahead and pass it to Annabelle so she can tell you about this amazing project. Hi. So as you know, my name is Annabella Pel and I was part of the Park Campus class of 2024. As a kid, I always aspired to be a leader and
005role model to many. While these aspirations may have held me back in some situations, I now realize that it is my time to shine. This past year has been amazing getting the opportunity to work with the staff at Park Campus, most importantly Mr. Mammed and Miss Morales who have really stepped up and helped me turn my project into a reality. You may not know, but this past year I've been working on a project called a silver award, which is the second highest award to earn in Girl Scouts. As a part of this project, I was required to make sure it involves me taking leadership, having a root cause, is sustainable, large scale, and affects a community. So to fit these requirements, I came up with my project of restoring the amazing outdoor classroom. By doing
006this, my hope was to revive an area where I loved to learn when I was in elementary school at Park as well. Over the last year in creation of this project, I was able to create a large welcome sign to to draw new people and make the area more appealing which was six feet long and we got the wood from local wood cutters in the area I think. Um along with four stumps that I burned the Park campus logos on the side of to have as like chairs. That's one of the examples. And then two rock gardens which you could put like uplifting messages on rocks and stuff. And we actually got the planters off of Facebook Marketplace and we restored them and added legs so they're taller. And then uh in addition I led
007an inter mural club in which the kids were taught how to make situpons which are like outdoor cushions made of recycled and everyday materials. and we made over 80. So the kids were also to take one able to take one home each lake as well. Um and we also included smaller projects and painted rocks for the rock garden which were also donated to the school. And then as a part of my project I always include an inspirational quote that can connect to the overall goal. This year my quote was from Henry David Throw saying go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you have imagined. This quote has really encouraged me to keep going through all my years of Girl Scouts and really helped shape me to be the person I
008am today and what I have become which is also on the plaque. I mean on the sign that's on has a plaque. Um this project has really helped me learn many new skills including being involved in leadership opportunities throughout the community and helping to leave a positive impact on a place where I spent almost nine years of my life. I wanted to thank all of Park Campus's custodial staff, Mr. Malamid, Miss Morales, and Dr. Lynn Glickman for allowing my project to come to life. Also, thank you for the board to the board for allowing me to share my amazing accomplishment. [Applause] Any questions for Annabelle? I do. Um I am so excited to see this project. Thank you for sharing it and sharing your process. Um I I do have a question just out of
009curiosity. Were there things how did you decide on what you wanted to do? The stumps, the rock garden, the raised beds, like what what was your decision making process? just like overall I was kind of looking for like things that could kind of brighten up the area because at Park at Park there was an outdoor classroom there and it was like kind of like not very like high quality I guess you could say like it was there but no one really used it. So, I was trying to find like other things around the school that people have done. Like there was other rock gardens people created, which gave me that idea. And then my mom actually came up with the sign idea just to like kind of make it more appealing and people actually know
010what it is because half of my friends, even though we were in the same place for nine years, half of them did not know it was there. So, it was just kind of one of those things of just like finding smaller like ideas and activities and just kind of putting it all together as like a passion, I guess. I have a comment, not a question. Um, and just congratulations. Uh, I know you mentioned at the beginning that leadership was something that you were aspiring to and to begin a project and then after you've left the school to come back shows true leadership. Um, I mean the creativity was your work, you know, your that you were fulfilling um something you had started last year. And we were just so impressed. It was I mean it
011was very inviting. Um the stumps were very purposeful um to create that outdoor space but then you know make it comfortable for people to learn there. And so I just want I'd like just to say thank you for for the follow through on that. It really shows um a just a great leadership. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, after you. No, after you. Um, so Annabelle, we have been throughout our school district trying so hard to come up with ways to enhance our outdoor spaces. So, thank you so much for bringing this to us and for your efforts. Thank you very much, Mrs. Morales, for your efforts in this area as well. Um, this is going to make a huge for our students and our staff. And before I hand this over back
012over to Mrs. Braden, I also wanted to make a comment about public speaking for a moment, which is this. I don't even You're you're laughing. I don't know if you know what I'm going to say. You're a wonderful public speaker that's very clear. Specifically though, you did something that people rarely do, which is have a presentation going, have your own piece that you're going to be talking about where you're not just reading from the slides. And all you know, all the advice that we ever get about public speaking is to do exactly what you just did. And we don't always do that very well. So, thank you for for modeling that for us because that was great. Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much. And um I was surprised that Miss Miller didn't mention this,
013so I'll throw it in, which is um the sustainability elements of what you did were really great. And I think, you know, as we're always looking for ways to be more sustainable and to model um how we can I know there's five Rs now, but I can only remember three because of my age. Um yeah, but what a great example of building this in a sustainable way and reusing materials. Um that's fantastic. And um yeah, I'll echo what Miss Yan said as well, which is um this is great leadership and great community and civic service. And I can't wait to see what you do next. Thank you. Keep us posted. Definitely will. [Applause] All right. Uh, next on the agenda is board reports. And I'll start to my right. I do not have anything. Um,
014I just have one which is uh we had a great as usual pride parade on June feels like a month ago. Um, beautiful day, bigger crowd than ever, great turnout from our district uh D46 community. So for everyone who took who both were uh donated their creative uh endeavors uh to making us look amazing and I'm I'm speaking to our uh resident artist and sign maker and button maker um to to staff who um came on a Sunday to Grae Lake to to be with us. Um it was very moving. There were some very moving moments as students saw staff and realized they had allies. It's really really powerful. So, thanks for everybody came out to that. I do not have any. All right. Oh, I think I think Dr. Yeah, that was my guess.
015And now it's next. The superintendent report. Sounds good. And I will talk about Junth. That sounds like a good plan. Tomorrow is Junth. Um that means all of our offices are closed tomorrow uh in observance of this holiday and there will be a wonderful um celebration and event and learning walk tomorrow. Um you can go right to the Grace Lake Public Library at 5 o'clock. It's a short walk. It ends at the Heritage Center. There'll be learning along the way. I'm excited to be one of the the sign readers and we'll be there um helping spread information about this important holiday. Um there will be food and music at the end and it should be a really great time. So come on out. Um I'm going to hand it over to Dr. Lorenzo to talk
016about our summer school programs. Good evening. Thank you. Um I'm just sharing that as of June 9th. Am I too loud? Um, we started out our summer programming which included bridges, advante and our ESY programming which is extended school year for students with IEP services. And we had excitement all around. We had district personnel and administrative um leaders come over to get us kicked off on day one. Um and students were excited to be there even those days after um departing from the school year and we ran into very little to no problems. Everything's been great and we're really excited for the programming going on over at Park School this summer. Thank you, Heather. I was able to get there I think it was Monday and um it's really nice to have all of the
017programs under one roof this year and just lots of really positive energy. So, thank you for that. And then I just wanted to talk for a moment about the fact that it's summer and yes, maybe there's a little bit more of a relaxed vibe, but also we're incredibly busy. Um, and I shared with our cabinet that I would just tell this very quick story. You know, we we as administrators, we often hear from people who aren't in our world, oh, what do you do this summer? The kids aren't there. you must, you know, just all be relaxing and taking long lunches. No, I know I started by saying it's more relaxed, but it's barely more relaxed. And in fact, um I think it was at last week's cabinet meeting and board remember that's all the
018administrators that sit around this table, right? Um we we started as we always do with what we call our whipound. Our whipound is we just literally whip around the table and everyone shares what they what they're working on that they think other people in cabinet really should know about what might affect other people and we try to limit it to 20 minutes and as cabinet knows I can be like really kind of strict about that like let's go let's go it's got to be right I've got people laughing um this last week's that went for at least 45 minutes and I didn't try to stop it because everybody was truly sharing this really important work that they were doing to get us up and running for the fall. So, just wanted to make sure you
019know we are going to be off tomorrow for Junth. It's true. But otherwise, the work really is continuing here in school district 46 on behalf of our students. And that's the end of the superintendent report. Thanks, Dr. Glickman. Um, with that, we will move to our consent agenda. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda including the personnel addendum that was shared with us this afternoon? So moved. I'll second. Braden I Hume I Halverson I and Miller I. Thank you. We'll now move to our action items. The first is a motion to approve the Ford Edge contract renewal. I'll move for that. A second. Any questions or discussion? Miller. I Braden I Hume I and Halverson I right passes. The next motion is to approve the revised board meeting calendar. I'll move. I'll
020second. Hun I Braden I Halerson I and Miller I. Okay. Motion passes. The next motion is a motion to approve the condensing unit and coil at Park Campus. I'll make that motion. I'll second. Halverson. I Braden I Hume I. Miller. I twice. I I really approve. We love our condensing units and coils here in district 46. Motion passes. All right. Uh the last is a motion to improve to approve the fiscal year 202526 tentative budget and publish a legal notice for the public hearing. I'll move. I'll second. Braden I Halverson I Miller I and Hume I. All right. Thank you. That concludes our action items. Uh we have no unfinished business to discuss tonight. We do have one new business topic which is uh update on board policy. So I will hand it over to
021Dr. Thank you. At five o'clock tonight, the policy committee met and talked through the details of all of the revisions that have been recommended for for these policies. Um, all of these policies are either um a five-year review, I think there were two that were just five-year reviews, or changes in law that we have to follow. Um, so all of these are recommended for adoption. I will share although it looks like a very long list, many of these come from two policy changes that affect other changes. The first one that I'm actually going to have Dr. Lorenzo talk about is policy 7255, which is a new proposed policy called students who are parents, expectant parents or victims of domestic or sexual violence. So Dr. if you can talk about that one that would be helpful.
022Yes, thank you. Um there is new law effective July 1st of 2025 so in two weeks. um that is influencing the need for this policy. And it really it provides a lot of it informs other policies to include elements around um accommodations and supports for students um who are categorized under being parents, expected parents or victims of domestic or sexual violence. Um additionally identifying uh appropriate personnel for uh resources and access and support with in each building um and reporting procedures related to harassment or bullying or other issues or alleged incidents of um domestic or sexual violence and I was just going to say that all um there are both personnel related policies that are connected to that as well as student related policies. Thank you. So that new law finds its way into a
023variety of the existing policies and so many of the policy changes are related to that one. Thank you. And the other one is around Title Nine. So, board, I'm going to remind you that in back in November, um, November 2024 and January of 2025, we updated our Title 9 policies to, um, to reflect changes that had gone into effect by law in 2024. So, we had new regulations. We had to update uh, update our policy, all of our policies that have to do with Title N at that time. However, we knew that it was likely that there would be more changes coming. Um, in early 2025, um, a US district court struck down the 2024 Title 9 sex discrimination regulations that had gone into effect the prior August. And so now, all of those policies
024that we had just updated are being updated again. and they're actually reverting back to what they were prior to November and January. So, a big batch of policies just have some small name changes all related to that change in law. Um, or do you have any questions about any of these specific policies? Anything you want to talk through? Okay. and we'll bring these back to you for um voting at the next board meeting. All right. Uh the next item is topics for future agenda items. Speaking of which, yeah. All right. Um so July 16th will be our next board meeting. Um board, we do not need to have a five o'lock policy meeting that night. We got through all of our policies this evening. So, no need for that. But we will be doing policy
025approvals. Um, we will be doing a strategic plan update for you that evening. So, we will talk about the work that we did in the this past year along with the work that we're planning for the 2526 school year. We have our architect of record world coming in to do a media center update that night. Um, and then we expect two approvals. the um GFT contract approval um along with administrator compensation approval. So that's what we have for July 16th. Um the next one after that is on August 13th, which I want to remind you is also the first day of school. Uh we have an early start this year. Why again do we have an early start this year? because of construction in 26 uh summer of 26. I just keep reminding people that's
026why it's an early start. Um so we might be a little tired when we get to that board meeting, but we'll we'll pull through. So August 13th, we have the first day of school. Um we are going to be having a presentation from performance services um doing a solar energy update. I think uh Mr. Wildman talked about that last time. And then the next meeting, September 3rd, we'll do some updates of our summer work. So, we'll do summer facilities updates and a summer technology projects update. And that's as far as I have at this time. Um, I would like to comment that unless somebody has um a way that you wish to stretch out this meeting, it will be significantly shorter than that cabinet meeting whipound was that I was talking about earlier. Okay. Once
027a year whether we need it or not. Yeah. All right. Assuming we have no additional public comment. Um, and so at this time I will ask for a motion for uh the board to move into close session for the this is when I say it in the big font for the purposes of uh act 5CS1 C1 the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body or legal counsel for the public bodyclud including testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee of the public body or against legal counel for the public body to determine its ability. Can I get a motion? So moved. I'll second. Hume I. Miller I. Halverson I and Braden. Hi. Right. Uh thank you everyone. And we do not uh expect to take action after our
028close session. So we will being directly from the close session this evening.