001I cannot figure out >> here. >> Richtor. >> Hi. >> Johnson. I >> Huff. >> Hi. >> Isil. >> Hi. >> Brown. >> Hi. >> All right. Please join in our pledge of allegiance to the flag. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God. indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. And on our agenda, we've got quite a few things to go through tonight, including a basketball game at 8:25, but we've got personnel needs for the 2627 school year, facility projects for approval. Um quite a few new pro another new project for approval. Some goals for the 2627 school year uh preview of our summer school program our school counseling update and the financial audit. So >> all right,
002we're actually going to start with student recognition tonight. So I'm going to hand it over to Mr. Hawk. >> Thank you. We're going to start off with uh two winter sport athletes that play that got all state status over the winter season. So, we're going to we're going to pay honor to them tonight. We're going to start with senior Athena Martin. Come on up here, Athena. >> Athena placed fourth at the IHSA girls bowling state tournament on February 21st. The fourth place finish at state caps a fantastic bowling career here at OTHS. And on top of that, our girls overall team placed sixth in the state led by coach Kamarowski. Uh and so the team did awesome as well. So congratulations to Athena. >> Mr. Would you like to show me part of Ready? One,
003two. >> Our second athlete tonight is a sophomore Kira Thompson. Come on up, Kira. Congratulations to sophomore Cara Thompson. She finished fourth at the IHSA girls wrestling state tournament in Champagne on February 28th. This uh our first ever girls wrestling uh uh club STATE and for coach Everheart giving give coach a big shout out as well. Congratulations, Kira. We'll come up here for a picture as well. >> Come on up, coach. >> You're dressed apart. >> I know you guys are twinning. >> Get up there, Mom. One, two, three. >> Congratulations to both athletes and uh and we'll be back here next year hopefully. So, all right, back over Dr. >> Good evening. We will start tonight with our enrollment and sections that we have planned for next year. The board will have an opportunity
004to approve those sections later on in tonight's meeting. Um shout out to it's perfect that your the counseling presentation is tonight because Tiffany Lugie also oversees the master schedule process along with our department chairs and Mr. House. Um where we landed this year is artwork plus one section. And when we say one section, it means one hour of class, one semester. Okay. Um, in CTE business, we're up five sections. In ROC, up four. In CTE industrial tech, up one. Math, we are down two. Social studies, up two. Science, up two. Student support, and ACR, we're up five sections. And then in the areas of CTE, family and consumer science, health science, English, performing arts, PE, health, driver ed, special education, world language, we have no changes. that I did want to mention as well that
005at the Smiley campus this year we offer ACR which is our alternative classroom only three days a week. We do plan to extend that to five days a week um next year um as there is a need for that as well. Uh in terms of the students the number of students that have signed up for classes we are eight more students than last year at this time. So almost the exact same number which is the trend we've seen for several years. A quick facilities update. I know we've been talking about facilities a lot over the past year or so, but tonight board, you'll have an opportunity to approve bids on projects you've previously approved. Our smart uh smiley partial roof replacement, the south campus paving project, as well as our Milbourne security upgrades. All bids
006came in well below what we had approved. So, we're very happy to have that presented to you tonight. Also through consideration of approval is a smiley HVAC project. That's something we've been discussing in facilities for several months. However, we were putting it on hold until we had more of our plan in place. Um, we recognized that these HVAC units, it's eight HVAC units over the 300 hall area. Regardless of how we move forward, whether we stay at the Smiley campus, if we move everything to the Milbour campus, these need to be replaced before the time that we would make any kind of move. So, we're asking for your approval there. These are the units that were uh subject to storm damage. Also, so we did receive about I would say about 40% of this project
007will be covered through the insurance claim that we got from the hail damage. >> Are these in the 300 hallway too? >> Yes, in the 300 hallway. >> So, do they help with like humidity? >> Absolutely. Absolutely. Yep. >> And that's another re reason for the urgency of addressing it is that's been an area that's been identified as problems with moisture, humidity, things of the like. Um and then upcoming, no action on this tonight, but we talked about this a little bit at facilities as well as well as at the board retreat. Um we're looking at in our terms of our long-term plan, what are some things we can do now to alleviate some of our concerns before we would go and engage in really committing to the larger long-term plan. So, in the coming
008month, perhaps next month, uh you'll be seeing uh a possibility for an addition at Milbour that could open as early as fall of 28, which would include uh success and administrative center, but more to come through facilities committee and finance committee before that comes through the whole board. Something else we did at retreat, which was close to a month ago now, is the board reviewed goals. So, I'd like to review those. Not many changes. Thanks for your feedback on that. Some updates in the area of education, a focus to create and prioritize systems and programming to advance the academic achievement and career preparedness for all of our students. Continuous efforts toward improvement on the Illinois school report card. Continuous efforts to promote positive student behaviors as well as address severe gross misconduct and disciplinary interfactions
009without compromising district policy or principles. Approach programming and services with the whole child in mind and continuous efforts to improve attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism. And to give you some highlights about where we are halfway through the year on these goals, um we do have we just got numbers in. We have 28 students that are planning to attend the Collinsville area vocational center next year. Really a great move for expanding career opportunities for our students. We've also seen an increase in both AP and dual credit enrollment this year. um on our report card. Of course, we won't get that until well after the year is finished, but our grad rate in freshmen on track is exceeding the target that we have set for this year to date. In terms of student behavior, we do have
010a significant decrease in our ACR and suspension rates and also a decrease in our repeat suspension. In terms of the whole child, we expanded, as you know, our mentoring program this year. Attendance, we do have a decrease that's significant in our tardy infractions. We have a slight decrease in chronic absenteeism, but this is something that we need to continue to plan and seek effective interventions for because we really haven't moved the needle on that like we would like we would have liked to have seen. In the area of facilities, we just solidified this at last week's facilities meeting at retreat. We talked about facilities goals and and took it to the committee to kind of iron out the details. Not too many changes here either. ongoing development of the DRI district's long-term and short-term facilities
011plan with consideration of alignment to finance, ensuring the facilities support educational goals and priorities and then supporting the maintenance of the facilities and addressing beautifification efforts. Um the facilities plan we've obviously talked at length about and continues to develop. It is aligned with the goals and priorities that started with our stakeholder feedback and our best practices with FGM. And as you know, we have multiple projects that are either in process or approved. In the area of finance, the goals include exploring revenue sources for education and facility fund needs, maintaining a reserve balance of 15 to 20% of annual operating expenses at a minimum. That's standard board policy statewide. Maintaining is financial recognition, ongoing planning for the annual budget and five-year financial forecasting, and then providing regular transparent financial reporting. We're still looking to seek out
012places where we can find new grant opportunities. Um, we did find another one or two this spring, but we're hoping to expand that. Our reserve balance does exceed 15 to 20% because a piece of the ISBY financial recognition part is that we have half a year, 180 days of cash on hand. Um, so it has to well exceed that 15 to 20% to maintain financial recognition. Later on tonight, you'll have an opportunity to uh approve the audit, and we do anticipate that we will maintain our ISB financial recognition for the upcoming year. We discussed our five-year financial forecasting at the board retreat last month, and every month you see regular transparent financial reporting that's not only visible to the board, but also to the public. In terms of communication, our goals improve uh include to
013continue to promote OTHS successes, identify and engage in opportunities to gather stakeholder feedback and perspective, identify opportunities to improve community engagement, and continue the development of a communication plan. I did get some numbers from Mr. Cox. We've had 14,000 visitors to our social media sites over the past year. In terms of subscribers to our website, we were at eight in August. We are now at 379. So significant improvement there. And then our December PTAC attendance or our community meeting um exceeded our target for attendance this year this this year. We're hoping that in the May PTAC meeting uh when it's more routine and that is heavily focused in one area facilities improvement that we can maintain that engagement. Personnel goals include improving the value of the district's health care benefits, cost, quality, and satisfaction. Recruiting
014and retaining the best candidates in all employment areas with proactive efforts to recruit candidates reflective of the diverse composition of the OTHS school community. Organized personnel resources to maximize operational excellence and system management and implementation. Developing a comprehensive onboarding and orientation process for all staff members. And then newly added as a result of retreat, the exploration of an incentive structure plan for employees. Uh insurance committee meetings are starting I believe as soon as next week. Uh we've also started this spring in participation in college recruitment fairs. Last year we tried something that was statewide for school support personnel and we realized that that really drew people around I80 or north. So that was not advantageous to us. However, we did have uh two of our assistant principles recently went up to the University of Illinois,
015Dr. Heavens and Mr. Koad. And I believe is it Mckendry that's coming up. Miss Daily >> is Mckendry the other recruitment fair that's coming up. I couldn't remember. >> No, it's I'm sorry. Thank you. And and coming up within the next month. Um in terms of retention, our target for teacher retention was 95%. We've exceeded that with 96% teacher retention on the most recent report card. The handbook and onboarding checklist is completed, but we still need more development in making it a more comprehensive program. Uh for our teachers, we have a a very structured program that occurs in July over two days, but um as the employment landscape changes, uh there's not always this cleancut. You start the school year, you end the school year. We're seeing uh pe people are are moving jobs more
016frequently than they did 5 10 years ago. So, we're really looking for something internally without a a two-day workshop where we can get people adequately prepared to be successful when they begin work with us. In terms of policy and governance, our goals include regularly reviewing and updating our board policies and ensuring our district practice aligns with that board policy. All of our policies are currently up to date. And our policy implementation for the most part is vetted through the regional office of education compliance process and they'll be here next week to give us feedback on those processes. And then finally, the special committee committee and community representation. The goals include collaborating with other ofen Shiloh school districts, providing opportunity for stakeholder feedback and collaboration and maintaining partnerships with local and community organizations. Uh we do
017have quarterly best meetings. The last one was cancelled because of a emergency snow day. However, the next one is scheduled sometime in April. In December, we had our PTAC meeting which was well attended. We also have quarterly city collaboration meetings with members of our board administration as well as the the the city uh representatives and the other school districts in Oallen. Every month we have a meeting with all of the Oalon superintendent and the city administrator Grant Litkin. And then we also have separate from that Oalen Shiloh superintendent meetings periodically usually around once a month sometimes more frequently depending on uh what's happening. Okay. And then the last thing that I have for you tonight, uh, we did this last year as well, but we had six students travel up to Springfield to participate in
018the student summit. And so we have them pictured there. Shout out to Miss Sedlar and Miss Randall who made this possible for those students. Um, Deja Robinson, I don't want to say the wrong name, actually led one of the roundt discussion tables there on college and career readiness. Students reported uh that the experience gave them great ideas that they could bring back to OTHS in the areas of college and career readiness, school culture, and chronic absenteeism. And it couldn't be timed more perfectly because the April communications meeting is the meeting where we will invite students to attend and we look forward to those students coming back and sharing some of that feedback with us then. And that is all I have for this evening. >> Thank you, Mr. >> Sorry. All right, good evening everybody.
019I just wanted to share a couple of programs about activities that have been happening over the last month um in the the field of curriculum and education. So um the first thing I want to share which I mentioned at our board retreat last month, we have a team of department chairs and administrators looking at the mission and vision of OTHS to see if it needs to be updated or revised or or written new. Um and so that team started this month. We're going to meet throughout March and April. will be reporting through the education committee uh the progress but I just wanted to share the protocol we're following um which is a protocol used by districts across the state to create these uh mission and vision statements. We started with an orientation just to get
020a feel for what a mission and vision is. We did an external review this week actually that was yesterday uh where we looked at 20 different school districts that have missions and visions and and compared what we liked from them, what was clear, what was concise, what was applicable to us. Um we're going to do an internal data review of ourselves and then we're going to do a strengths and weaknesses analysis and then we get into the drafting editing final product phase at the end. Um we'll do a couple of activities where we gather feedback from a wider group um to get ideas for what our vision for the future is. So I just wanted to update you on that. Yes. >> Just a real quick question. I mean stepping back maybe what what led
021to this? >> Yeah. So um we took a trip uh to Adi Stevenson High School in the Chicago suburbs. Um it was me, Mr. Koad and and three four department chairs. Um we were going there to look at some innovative programs they were doing and teacher collaboration. But when we got there we saw that everything they did and they did dozens of different programs and new ideas and cutting edge stuff. Um everything they did was tied to their mission and vision as a district and they talked about it throughout. Students were talking about it to us. And so we came back from that and thought if we want to start if we want to talk about teacher collaboration the first place to really start is making sure our mission and vision is shared by everyone
022so that what we want to implement is understood and it's easier to get buy in because people understand the mission and and they understand that the program we're implementing is going to help us reach our mission. And so we want to start there and then from there that'll tell us where to go next with with if we want to implement a collaboration program or something else. >> Thanks. >> Um another program that occurred uh over February and March are the Saturday scholars and medical explorer programs. Um so in Saturday, this is an annual event we have um with other schools. uh four Saturdays in February, we had 55 students um grade 10 through 12 attend three guest speaker sessions at Milburn in the auditorium and then one field trip to Slooh. Um we had awesome
023speakers this year. We had a neurosurgeon who brought brains to the to the auditorium and put them on a camera for everybody. Um we had a the Scott Air Force Base meteorologist >> and we had a a zoologologist from the St. Louis Zoo. So, it's a great great group of guest speakers. And then we took a field trip to Slooh for a forensics crime scene uh activity. Um and then we that's a giant program with there's actually 20 schools that do it. We host 10 of them and Edwardsville hosts 10 of them. Um and then medical explorers is a program that is just for OTHS students and they met in uh February and March and they went to St. Elizabeth's to um use the Da Vinci surgery robots that they use for uh like an
024ACL repair. Um so they got to got to actually use the real machine, not on a person, but they got to reuse the real machine and then they did some simulators. So um and that's 26 students in 11th through 12th grade. Um five essentials survey was done over February and March and I just wanted to share our response rates. Our parents respond rate was up. Um we did not hit our goal of 20% but we did increase a couple of points so we're heading the right direction. Uh teachers was at 59 which is slightly lower than last year um around the same area and then students were 95 which is our uh 95% is the number the state tells you to hit uh to get a a perfect score basically. So that's where we were
025at. We'll get those results in a couple of months and then um >> we do use a few questions in there. Yes. >> Why why do why why would the teacher be so low? Um, all I can do with the teacher survey is put it out there. Um, it can't be required by for anyone to do it. So, I I just advertise it throughout the year. I give some time during a couple of days um that are like early release days, maybe an hour in there to to do it, but >> it's an optional survey, >> but there there is enough time to get it done. >> Yes. >> I think the teacher survey is maybe 20 minutes. >> It takes 20 minutes. >> Is it the same as the parent? Pretty much >> parent
026one's even shorter >> because it's hard. the hardest to get. >> I think it took 10 minutes. >> Yeah. >> Have you got any feedback from any of the teachers on that do not do it live? >> I have no way of tracking who does and doesn't do it. Um the system is >> the only thing I can track is the students who do it and then I can find the ones who have it and bring them to the office and make them do it. >> But I can't do that with the adults. So I don't. Um, next for your approval tonight is a draft of the summer school 2026 flyer. So, our dates will be the first four weeks of June 1st through the 26th. We'll be offering driver's ed, tech essentials, PE, and
027credit recovery. Um, pending hiring teachers to do those. Um, those are the same offerings we uh offered last summer, though Tech Essentials did not uh make or we did not have somebody for that one. Um the only difference for this uh flyer is that fee waivers are available for students who qualify for a fee waver and that was not the case in previous summers and that's kind of just bringing us up to code basically um that we should be offering the fee waiver to to students with the fee waiver. Do we um driver is only in classroom is that normal I can't remember or do we normally do the driving also but we >> the driving takes place in the summer but it's just as the it's just scheduled through the the driving instructor but
028this is the classroom portion right yeah >> so the so that does take place >> yeah but it's not part of the um >> summer school >> this program exactly Exactly. It is in the summer, but it's not part of this. Okay. >> I guess is the answer. >> Um, and then for also for your approval tonight, just a couple of other items I wanted to explain. Uh, the Title One schoolwide plan and waiver is just a document we're required to do every year to allow us to use our Title One funds for all students instead of just a small group of students. And then the Collinsville area vocational center agreement update. The only change is the tuition billing date of moving from the 10th day of school to July 1st. And then just to
029share the numbers with you, we had 54 students accepted into the CAVC which was amazing. Um and we had 30 students who committed who are going to do it. So that's way beyond our expectation and our guess was like 10 students who get in and so >> that was amazing because the attendance cuto off to get in there is very high and we had 30 students who want to do it. So um that'll be awesome. Great opportunity for >> So how what will their day look like? Will they be going over in the morning? Um, we did give the students an option and whatever worked with their schedule because they had an AM and a PM session there. So, uh, most of the students, I believe, are in the PM session. They'll take two or
030three classes here depending on if they want to do early bird. Then they'll drive over or take a bus over >> and finish out the day. So, it's a half day program. >> It's both semesters or >> most of the courses are year-long. There's a couple that are a semester. The CNA program, the EMT, those are semester long. >> Okay. So we had f 50 accepted but only 30 actually are going to go through. Do we know why the other >> um once we got the list of accepted students counselors called them all back down and said okay we have these are the classes you picked the seven classes for for OTHS. Here's what your schedule would look like if we put this in here at this point. You got to commit because we have
031to make the master schedule. And so through those conversations, some people >> wanted to go with the seven because we made them pick a full schedule here too just in case they didn't make the because we didn't expect a lot of people to make uh the CABC. So um those convers through those conversations they found that 30 of them really wanted committed to doing it and 24 of them >> decided to go with their OTHS schedule. >> And then one more question. I'm sorry. I know we got time, but remind me what's the um tuition? >> Uh $2,750 per student. >> The district is paying, not the student. >> District pays. >> Yes. >> So, we're paying for 30 students. That's in our budget. >> Okay. >> Y just for your information, they're way behind
032on construction. So, yeah, we're taking a tour in a couple of weeks um to go to the new building. They did get delayed by the the snow, but um >> they still say that day one of August 8th, 2026, it'll be open. So, that's what they're saying now. >> We're going in end of the month. >> Yeah. And I guess one there's a cost to doing this, but I mean there would also be a cost to try to offer everything that they're able to participate in now all here. >> Correct. The cost to >> which would be huge. >> And what I'm using these numbers, these huge interest numbers for is to determine like what do we need to bring here? >> Right. >> If if we had 25 students sign up for CNA. >>
033Yeah. >> Can we bring that here? That's something that we could probably. We don't that that's not like a giant facility type program. Um automotive maybe harder to bring here, but that's what we're going to look at these numbers and determine what we should bring here. >> I would be interested in seeing what the break is going. >> Yeah, for sure. I can share that. All right. Anything else? Any other questions? All right. Thank you everybody. >> All right. Thank you. finance. >> Good evening. I am presenting numbers from February. Um the revenues for February, um we received $1.6 million in the month, which is 88% of the annual budget compared to $ 1.5 million in February of 2025. So, it's trending very closely. and expenses. We received this month, not last month, $2.7 million,
034which was 59% of the annual budget compared to $2.8 million um 60% in February 2025. So again, these numbers are very comparable to last year. Thank you. Okay, we're going to start off tonight and uh talk about some good news things. We're going to start off with our Model United Nations. On March 3rd and 4th, the OTHS model UN team went to Mckenry University and competed in the Model United Nations competition. 84 students wrote resolutions with the students in the Russian Federation winning the superior delegation award. Thanks, of course, to our sponsor, Miss Turner, who's here tonight, and Miss Hubler, who diligently prepared for months for these students to achieve success. And Miss Turner could probably comment on this. She wanted to get a picture of all the students, but there was a lot of
035rain, right? >> Yeah, there was a lot of rain. So, this is the best one we could get on this. >> So, did our students represent the Russian Federation? >> That's correct. Yes. >> We represented 19 different countries. Our lead delegation was Russia. Okay. >> So, it's our students that won the superior delegation award. >> Yes, that's right. >> And we have, of course, great success every year there um at the Mckendry Model United Nations competition every year. So, that's Miss Turner's uh of course credit to her. So, great job. Uh last week was Illinois Arts Education Week. That was March 9th through the 13th. And I want to give a shout out to our our arts education uh personnel here. Uh our art programs of course at OTHS has inspired creativity and provided tremendous
036avenues for our students to develop their artistic talents led by our performing arts department chair Dr. Gustin and Hines and our art department chair Nikki Wilson as well as all the wonderful teachers in those departments and staff members who support them. And specifically here in the music programs, ours marching band, of course, the the amazing success they've had this year. I had a very eventful year, continue the brilliance this spring with so many different activities they're involved in. Dr. G, of course, we have Mr. Roose and Mr. Murphy are busy planning for next year's uh competitions as well. So, it never ends with them. Miss Heidi Plet, of course, leads our OTS choir through all the amazing performances of the year. Uh just again a shout out to our music personnel here. The art department
037is planning the OTHS art show which opens on April 20th and runs through May 1st. Awards and community reception is Wednesday, April 29th at Milbour and then on Thursday, April 30th here at the Smiley campus. Miss Wilson of course, Miss Raundi, Miss Gillespie, Miss Knap, and Mr. Brooks of course display their brilliance daily through their excellent teaching. And that's pictures of them there, of course, in in the art show that's going to be coming up. Then the spring musical, Little Mermaid, will perform on March 27th, 28th, and 29th at the Milbour Auditorium under the leadership of director Eve Kip. Please go see these talented students perform four different shows over these three days. So, our art department as well as our music department, it just leads a great group of students to tremendous success. And
038then last thing for me here are just our important dates coming up today. We had a very eventful day unfortunately, but uh we have our career fair in the dome and next month. I'll give a report on that. Coming up on March 25th, we have our preacct 9 testing and that's an early release day. And then we have spring break coming up April 1st through the 6 on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Monday of that week. Now on April 13th is our National Honor Society induction out at Melbourne. And then the big day is April 15th, our ACT testing. Uh very big day on that day that uh that of course our junior students and really all of our students are going to be doing, but juniors in particular. And then on April 27th is honors
039night. And that's my report. >> Thank you very much, Miss >> Oh, what's our number? >> I'm sorry. >> They give us our number. Oh, I did not do this. So, >> okay. >> Click. There we go. Sorry. All right. Well, thank you all for the opportunity to share an update on the school counseling department. Tonight, I'd like to highlight the progress we've made since last year's presentation, share a few key outcomes from this year, and discuss an area of continued growth as we look at how to better support students in planning for life after high school. First, I want to acknowledge our counseling team as shown on the screen. Our department serves students across both campuses. We are a team of seven counselors supporting students by alpha assignment as well as through specialized programming
040such as soore and rise and our south campus. In addition, each counselor at OTHS is responsible for a case load ranging from approximately 240 to 430 students from a highend to a lowend with an overall case average of about 350 students. While these numbers reflect each counselor's student case load, they do not fully capture the scope and complexity of responsibilities beyond direct student contact. This slide reflects the framework that drives our work as school counseling department. These four components ensure that we're supporting students proactively, responsively, in a structured and comprehensive way. Last year, I went into much more detail on these. So today, I'm going to keep this very high level and focus more on what this looks like in action. The next two slides highlight a snapshot of the programming and services currently coordinated
041through the school counseling office. This includes student facing support such as academic planning, course selection, graduation planning, master schedule, Illinois state scholar processing. As you can see, there's quite a few things on there. They also support some of the larger overall initiatives of the school such as our grad rate and our nth grade on track data. Um, in addition to these direct student services, counselors are also coordinating a wide range of events and meetings and individualized supports for students and families. These include FASA completion workshop, CEO facilitation. This is our second year of offering the CEO program. CABC coordination, as Mr. Graham alluded to, the CABC CABC or consulate area vocational center is highly concentrated in the counseling office. We work very closely with students to introduce them to the CABC programs and um make
042sure that those conversations are intentional. We had uh a speaker, our CABC director and counselor came in this year and presented to students that we coordinated and then we met individually with students on numerous occasions to provide them with information. This was an ongoing effort for the CABC programming which we're delighted by but it also is a heavy lift for our office. field trips, parent meeting meetings, just to name a few. In the next few slides, I'll revisit the goals we outlined in last year's presentation and share how that work has pre progressed over the past year. I'm sorry, Heather. Go ahead. >> Yeah, just going back. So, all those programming services since you're divided by um alphabet. So, that means that every single one of counselors has to be um fluent in each of
043these services. >> Correct. That's a really good point. Thank you for clarifying. So when we talk about our case load, right, that's just the individual students that we serve. And so that's our primary job is to meet with students and to work with them. Course selection, at risk student programming, new student course selection meetings, etc. On top of that are all of our supporting duties. So these would be the supporting duties. Many of them are indirect student services, many of them are responsive student services, etc. But yes, so these go above and beyond the direct student serviceing. So if they've got some of them in the alphabet that are seniors that they're doing the FAFSA and other ones that are working on, you know, something that's, you know, a student athlete, it could they need
044to know everything that's here. >> Correct. And, you know, also keep in keep in mind they have to be masters of our curriculum. So they have to have a very thorough understanding. Not only so, you know, I work with the department chairs to create the curriculum guide, but our our school counselors have to know all of the courses that we offer in great detail and be able to explain those to students and and also understand um the sequence of those classes as well. So, >> so are all seven counselors doing all of these support services or do you divide and conquer? >> So, yes and no. Um all counselors do some of them and some counselors do some of them, right? So uh for example course selection advising all counselors do when we talk about
045master schedule coordination and facilitation that's really just myself and Shannon Licken Brock. So you know so we do have some specific duties that relate to just certain counselors. Any other questions? >> Okay so this is the actually the last slide from last year and these were the goals that we had for this year. So, as I mentioned in the next few slides, I'm going to revisit the goals we outlined in last year's presentation and share how that work has progressed over the past year. One of the goals we shared last year was expanding access to post-secondary opportunities through our on-site admissions fair. I'm proud to report that we doubled participating colleges from 3 to six. If you remember, last year was the first year that we did this. This is a very centralized, small, intentional
046program. we uh work only with our uh we tried to work only with our in-state colleagues um to to meet with students that are not always your highest achieving students. We wanted to really capture students that were kind of within that 2.0 to 3.0 range. Um so we did double that. We increased from three to six colleges including our new colleges this year were Murray State um Southeast Missouri State and Western. And our student population or student increase from 70 to 12 participating students. That tells us that students are responding when opportunities are made accessible, personalized, and built into the school day. This also illustrates a good example of reducing barriers for students and bringing the college access process directly to them. An example is this year also marked the second year in a row
047that an OTHS student earned the full tuition SIU um Carbondale Chancellor Scholarship. This scholarship is directly related to the number of students that metriculate to SIU Carbondale every year. So students have to have or schools must have I believe I I think it's seven applicants or pardon me students that attend SIU Carbondale to qualify for students to receive the SIU chancellor's scholarship. You I could be wrong on that number but it's like seven to 10 maybe. >> I think it's I think it's 10 and it's every 10 that you get you get a a full ride. So if we had 20 go we get two. >> Okay. So um this year we had This scholarship was offered to one of our students and they they always surprise the students in the office with it and
048their parents. So, it's it's pretty exciting. Um, a second area of focus was broadening students exposure to both college and career pathways. This included a first generation field trip to Mckendry with Mr. Hayes, a professional learning at SIOU with our with our full team. The future focus is really partnering with SIO on our firstgen student success. They have some great resources there. So that be that's uh something we're looking forward to next year. College representative speakers for our midterm grads and a renewed partnership work with council area vocational center as I mentioned for advisement registration and enrollment. The goal here is simple. We want to help students see multiple pathways and connect them to the supports needed to pursue those pathways successfully. As Mr. Hal mentioned um one example of that work is through our
049skilled trades and career fair that took place today even under the circumstances we were able to get that in. So we had two hours where we had over 35 vendors uh present that our juniors and seniors were able to connect and collaborate with. Um this is an important part of our mission which is helping students find the right fit for their future. We want students to leave OTHS with a plan whether that is college, military, trade school, apprenticeships or direct entry into the workforce. Another important development this year is that pathful has been secured for three years through project climb. So we did one of our goals last year was to collaborate with the DODIA grant um through the project climb um DODIA grant and we have done that. We've worked with Christina Beller to
050incorporate pathful into our curriculum. This expands our career readiness work in a meaningful way. So, Christina is coordinating uh career assessments and interest inventories with the advisories and students are completing career assessments and connecting those results directly to career clusters, careers and post-secondary programs. They can save their interests, they can build a plan, they can build a resume. So, it's much more of a comprehensive platform. And then for counselors, this also gives us better data. We will receive case load specific rosters that help us see student progress and interests. This will strengthen both senior meetings and course selection conversations. A fourth area of focus has been key student transitions. On the front end, we have strengthened our rising nth grade transition work through an enhanced eighth grade parent night presentation that occurred in January. A
051focused freshman orientation planning in collaboration with Mr. Graham and Mr. Prrenal and OTHS connects planning and presentations. These efforts are designed to make the transition into high school more structured, welcoming, and informative for students and families. At the same time, this slide also reflects an area of continued growth for us, support for post high school transitions. Currently, much of our college and career programming is being managed in addition to full counselor case load responsibilities. While we are very proud of what we've been able to provide, there is a clear opportunity to expand and formalize this work through a dedicated post-secary counselor position. This role could increase student and family programming through expanded financial aid and college planning workshops, a planned college fair, more skilled trades and apprentichip programming. I'd love to see that. Parent nights
052for both juniors and sophomores. It would also provide more direct student support for students in areas like applications, financial aid, scholarship, military and workforce advising, and career exploration. Currently, we have 75% of our student body that self-reports their desire to attend a two or four-year college after high school. So, I do think it's in the best interest of the district that we look at in the future, pursuing this as um as a goal for our department. It's certainly not about replacing the work that counselors do, but it's about building capacity so we could do more of it more intentionally and more consistently. The impact of that additional support would be felt in two major ways. Go ahead. Are you you still talking about the impact? How >> I'm I just cut you off. I don't
053I didn't mean to. Will the impact that you're talking about refer to um the council support? You were just mentioning impact. >> Okay. >> Was that a different subject? >> I think it's an extension of what she introduced. >> I I'm sorry, Donna. I'm not understanding your question. >> I didn't want to I want you to finish before I ask my question. Oh, impact is this slide. >> So, I I was moving forward. Go ahead. >> So, you're getting an intern. Will that intern help with the secondary? >> We do not have an intern. >> That's social work. >> Oh, social work is going to get an intern. Okay. I'm sorry. I thought I got it mixed up. Okay. >> That's okay. >> So, I think you were you were explaining an additional position could
054add a lot of um depth to your your initiatives. Yeah, I think that's a great way of of stating that we do we do a lot right now currently. I think that there are things that there are gaps in our college and career readiness and we see those gaps but we also are just very limited in our capacity to do those things right now. And so by having more of a targeted role that specifically focuses, as you saw earlier, our counselors have a comprehensive counseling um role in the building. And so college and career is just a small part of that. So if you have a dedicated person that can really focus on that, I think that we can really see an impact with that programming. >> Yeah. And it also aligns with the district's
055goals of of preparing students to be career ready and college ready that Dr. Shackleford spoke about earlier. >> You use in the past you have interns helping in the counseling area. >> We have done it but it is few and far between. We don't get them on a yearly basis such as social work there. Those are unpaid positions whereas social work interns do receive a stipend. um our last intern I believe was precoid so it has been a number of years and also some of the initiatives that I'm speaking of were things that we were able to do in a pre-COVID era where we did not see the level of atrisisk students that we see now that occupy and and take up a lot of our counselor's time >> is there any way for us
056to start getting interns or to help out in this Maybe looking at actual personnel. >> Well, yeah, I don't know. I don't know that it's organized. Social work is kind of organized that way. I don't know that departmentally. >> Can you go back? >> So, these are the things that an additional person would focus on, right? >> Correct. >> Which are fairly specialized, >> right? So >> really specializing question >> and oftentimes a post-secary counselor position is someone that maybe has had experience in post-secary right so maybe they're coming from college admissions for example um we are seeing this with area high schools for example Edwardsville High School this year has a post-secary counselor Collinsville High School has a post-secary counselor Belleville has had a post-secary counselor for a number of years obviously with the
057cave So these are area high schools that are seeing this as a need >> of similar sizes to us. How many counselors do they have total at each of those schools? Do you know? >> Um I would say maybe I I think six, seven, something like that. I think roughly around the same. >> Okay. >> Including the postsecary or excluded. You >> I don't I'm sorry. >> I think I I'm not sure. Okay. >> Yeah. I don't know the answer. Go ahead. >> Yeah. I was just going to say in regards to That may be a heavy lift for intern to try to drive that. >> Probably be more time spent trying to teach versus them taking and driving it, which is I'm sure what we need. >> Yeah, that's a really good point. >>
058Just just the college application process on its own is very complex. >> We see students that have the means going and paying for this. >> Oh, yeah. Right. >> Absolutely. And that's wonderful if their family can do that, right? But we have many students that are falling through the gaps because they're not getting this um very specific and it is it's a very specific niche and you have to have the time to understand it and to research it and to work with these colleges in order to best serve your students because you're not just serving those students that um are at a 3.5 and above. We're really looking to serve all students in this capacity. >> Okay, >> thank you. >> So, this is my final slide and it really just talks about the impact
059for students and for counselors as well. The impact of that additional support would be felt in two major ways. First, students and families would gain expanded access to post-secary planning resources and more structured opportunities to prepare for life after graduation. Second, it would strengthen the academic counseling work already happening by giving counselors more time for graduation monitoring, at risk student support, and individualized planning. Ultimately, this move would move us closer to a more comp comprehensive counseling model, one that fully supports academic success, post-secondary planning, and workforce readiness for all students. In closing, I'm tremendously proud of the progress that our department has made and continues to do. I am their biggest cheerleader and advocate. They all work so incredibly hard and um honestly we I feel like are the heartbeat of the school. There's so
060much that goes through our office and there's so much that we do and we're always ready to take on new things but there is also a limit to what we can do and do well. There's no benefit in taking on new things if you really can't do it with efficacy. So we have expanded opportunities, increased student engagement and strengthened both college and career readiness supports. At the same time, we see a clear next step in continuing to build a counseling model that meets the evolving needs of our students. So, I just thank you for your continued support. And there's any questions, I'm happy to take them. >> Yes, >> I would just like to echo I've seen a improvement since I've been on the board uh feedback from the community on our counseling department and
061how well you all are doing. So, we truly appreciate it. um the community appreciate it and if there's any way that we can give you more support, I'm definitely in favor of that. >> Thank you, Donna. I appreciate that. >> And and I appreciate that you need more people, but you're clearly telling us what you would do with that person. >> Appreciate that. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um committees are up next. Uh communication, I don't think we had a communication meeting this this month. >> No, no. >> Okay. We did do education. Um >> education on the 10th of March was basically going over Sunday school and the vision. >> Is your keyboard making it hard to type? And the next uh next education committee is 12th of May at 4
062p.m. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Richtor facilities. >> Yes. Uh we met the 10th of March. Uh my reports attached. I have some bad news for you as I often do with this position. Um, our tennis courts that we we refinished last year have got some very significant cracks in them. We don't know whether it's from uh the extended co period that we had or uh maybe undermining or what have you. the uh people that are going to uh basically repair them uh need warm weather, a couple days of warm weather in Oro uh to repair them. So we won't know any but anything until that happens. And uh the cracks are like I said they're a good inch inch and a half wide. And what's significant about them is they're pretty deep. So, >>
063is it possibly a warranty thing or is that >> not with that? No. No. Uh, and then to top it off, we're uh posting sectionals this year. So, it's something we got to get done soon. So, >> so we believe it's environmental, nothing. Yes. Just the time of after we get it. >> You're exactly right. It's just >> weather, environmental, or location. >> Weather because if we think it's mind that that >> that's not ruled out, but >> ruled out, but not I'm not I'm just throwing that out. You know, the uh undermining uh that we have in this area. So, but there's maps that show where there's mines. I mean, everywhere, >> right? >> Exactly. >> And then also that she brings up a valid point that uh we made that drainage different uh
064during that project. So, that uh might have something to do with it as well. So, >> so it may be something that the construction did that can go back to them. and say cause problem >> because for it to happen all of a sudden it's very unusual. >> Yeah, it is. I guess are we seeing same similar damage at the park courts or the pickle ball courty? >> You check that out, right? Did you check? I don't believe the park's got anything like that, right? >> Correct. >> They do have a little bit got pickle ball courts. Uh what about pickle ball courts? I've not asked that. I did ask around to some other schools in area and and everybody has cracking >> so it's not uncommon. >> Okay. >> Um and really almost everybody
065in our conference and they all said yes, we have it. Um even coach mentioned that some of the schools in Chicago have them too. So it's not an uncommon thing. Our concern to the court is the thickness of of the crack. with it being within a year of the project. We got to make sure it's not workmanship and materials that >> I don't know. I did ask that question to some school that just got theirs finished the last I said it's not uncommon for within a year for that to happen you know. So I think it's the width of a slab as everybody has told me how big the slab is you know for tennis courts you know you have two to four courts side by side by side. >> Yeah. There's still sections in
066them like you have in concrete what have you. So it's just one huge slab. So >> yeah, we have two sets of four courts. >> So what I've heard is not in the last week. It is not crazy, but we are concerned about the thickness of two of the courts. There's three courts that have okay of the eights that are out there. The one on the northern side close to the uh to the Good news. >> I never have good news other than the fact our bids are under >> there. >> Yeah. I guess one of your projects is that new HBAC stuff. >> I guess the question probably everybody's got is that that fits in our budget. >> Yes, it does. It'll be part of next. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Uh finance is
067next, Mr. >> Yeah. So, uh our finance committee meeting two weeks ago about two weeks ago we went over the audit. Uh the audit had you know I don't know if you have good results with the audit but we didn't have any ad well we had advers finally but that's just because of how >> cash account basis stuff. So it's nothing bad. >> Every year we have it. It's just the way we're forced to do it for an Illinois school district and our accountant has to follow their rules and that's where the collision at. Other than that, everything looked really good. The one thing I was thinking of from that meeting I just want to bring up um that I was really proud of the whole board on and proud of this board as how
068the board was with the document, right? It would have been so easy to just say, "All right, well, whatever. Here's a 100 plus page document. You say it's fine. All right, good deal." I mean, I think every single person there conversations and maybe it kept us there a little longer. >> No, but it was it was I think the auditor was very impressed with the level of interest >> and so, you know, I think this board just really cares. Um, I've seen it over and over again. So, just kudos to you guys. I didn't say it in the meeting, but but I thought that was impressive. Thanks. Personnel I don't think there was >> no no personnel committee. I don't think there's policy either. >> There was not a policy meeting. Our last one was
069on pre February, but there are eight policies on second meeting that was from the third February um meeting. And if we have more updates, our next meeting is going to be the 7th of April at 4 p.m. And I think >> and then uh in special committees. We we didn't have any, but we have a city meeting coming up on May 7th at 9:00 a.m. That's going to be in city hall. Um best will be having a meeting on April 13th at 400 p.m. at the district 90 offices. Um I was going to ask conversation over coffee. Are we still >> I think we need we have not had none of the districts have had them this year, but we really liked last year that um combined that was on a weekday morning was probably
070probably the most well attended conversations over coffee so we can talk about that at best maybe getting one on the schedule >> try to get everybody a joint >> yeah it was really productive when we did that format so >> okay then we did do have an ISV event you want to share >> so we did have our southwest division meeting pretty well attended the topic there was cell phones um but currently and we talked about we talked to the school board pretty much the same policy that that we do similar how they implemented it and such. Um talked about legislation potentially coming down. So right now the current status of the law is pretty much local control as we saw that we passed you know we had our rules that we implemented this year
071that seem to be working okay. We haven't seen anybody at least for disciplinary hearings for cell phone violations. So take that as a win if I can expand on it. We saw Vinnie, they had a real good layout as far as it was actually comes to high school, but the the the bureaucracy that they went through in regarding to their plan was just mindboggling compared to way we did it. So that was I thought that was uh very impressive as far as what we did in that regard. So kudos to the administration, staff, what have you as far as that go. So >> we we definitely did more outreach to stakeholders to get input before making those rules. So they did discuss proposed legislation. This is one thing that is on the governor's um high
072interest item and he's proposing a bell to bell prohibition. ISB's position is let's keep as much local control as we can. So that's that's their going in is trying to keep local control as much as we can. If it passes the bell to bell, the implication to us is that our students will not be able to have cell phones in the building during school day period. But we'll see what we'll see what separately from IASB, they now have registration open for the board president's academy. Uh it's a full day of professional development for aspiring board presidents, vice presidents, but it's just good info for anybody who's interested in learning more about how to be a better board member. Two dates and two locations, June 13th in Neapville and June 20th in Champagne. And there's a
073link on the IASB web page to register. So we'll let it in was a good event. Um so recommend it. >> So that is all from >> Yeah. And we there were a couple awards. So um every year I as gives out awards for board members who uh are are involved and do a lot of training programs who uh attend events and things like that. So um and this particular one is a considered established board member. I think it's like 200 credits that you earn to receive this award. So, Miss Johnson. >> And then we have one other award. This and this one's kind of a big deal. Um, this is the uh ISB governance award. So, this award and we we can thank Mie. There's about a 20page application process to prove to them
074that you use good processes for developing strategy, developing goals, uh working with your superintendent, evaluating your superintendent. So really all the things that a school board should do, um they review you and and rate you on it. And less than 5% of schools in the state of Illinois achieve this award. So, we achieved it this year and it's good for two years and then in 2027 we would apply again for the next two years. >> And that's one that was formally awarded and was able to accept it on behalf of our board. We're the only one in the the Southwest Division, only one of 42 in the state. So, kudos to you guys for working real hard and getting all the policies updated. >> So, this is on behalf of our whole board. And you
075should get little pins to wear on your We like each other. >> Perfect. All right. Congratulations, guys. All right. Next is a public comment. Um is >> endowment meeting. >> Oh, sorry. Go ahead. >> Just give an update. The endowment meeting u we have it one supporter. It was delayed because of weather. So, we end up having it on the 24th of February. Just a couple of comments on the meeting or some things that the endowment committee was talking about. Um, uh, they're looking at a fundraiser, trying to do a music bingo sometime in the fall, no golf tournament this year. The endowment committee is very famous for doing his golf tournaments, but moving away from that. Um, they're going to continue with the parking raffle. They did extremely well with raising funds for the
076parking um raffle. So, they'll continue with that and it's going to actually start earlier this year than it did uh last year. Um also, they have grad tickets and uh and looking at improving the marketing and publicity. So looking at a dime and donate um type of event for for the teachers um doing that event and um uh the what uh what else do we talk about grants and scholarships that meeting will come happen in June time frame. Um and then looking at more student engagement seeing how they can do something with student engagement. So, and then updating the major donor's board. We're um going to get back on trying to update that board. Um did I forget anything significant that we wanted to bring up, Tiffany, or >> The only other thing I can
077that we talked about was moving the application electronically for teachers to apply. >> That' be nice. >> So, we're going to do that this year. >> Anything else? >> Okay. Uh, sure. >> So, I went to know you guys basketball. >> One and a half minutes. I can do it. Cos very interesting. Um, went to some panels on IIA curriculum facilities including green buildings for you, James. Funding, current legal issues, a lot of stuff. What stuck with me was one of the guest speakers um the biggest takeaway from that um made a point that hey the world feels less safe for kids. Is it really less safe for kids? We're seeing all this stuff and we're hearing that it's it's really worse for kids than it was back in the day. Right? He threw up
078some statistics. Um violence by children peaked in around 94 or so and it has plummeted. Violence against children peaked around the same time 95 96 and then plummeted. Drug use by children peaked again around the same time and has plummeted. So he points out that the world is not a more dangerous place. It just feels that way because of what we see. Um that and then coupled with we've kind of we've kind of bubble wrapped our students and don't want them to feel any stress. So everybody gets a medal, everybody wins, everybody gets A's and I know you know you don't get and the students going to go talk to the teacher. Why didn't I get an A? What can I do? Why didn't I have an A? Um he pointed out and he was,
079you know, neuroscience behind it. If you don't let students feel the stress, they don't learn the resilience to deal with the stress. And so then they go to life after high school and they feel stress and they can't deal with it. You know, that's part of the anxiety. So we recognized it is social media, but there's this other part of it as we try to keep our students too safe. they don't build the resilience that they need to deal with. So I found that very enlightening and he also pointed out that you remember those peak times were the mid 90s and then it it crashed. Rain development um between three and five is a high point and then your early teen years is a high point. Those are the individuals if you look at the
080average age of families age of people having families these now are the ages of our parents who are here. So they grew up when it was the most dangerous crime. And so that's their view as they start raing kids. Again, it's not true for everybody. This is just the statistics, just the data. I'm not saying it's true for everybody, but I found that very enlightening. I wanted to share that. And that took more than a minute and a half. Thank you for your indulgence. >> Interesting job. Thank you. >> All right. Uh next is public comment. Is there anybody that would like to address the board at this time? If not, we will move on to the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda items in their entirety, including but not
081looked into prior meeting minutes, financial reports, bills, information act request, the disposal of obsolete equipment. >> So, I do have a just quick question on a check invoice for Jay Hunt on here. It shouldn't be on there. >> So, you need to pull that out and then approve the bills with the exception of that invoice, right? >> Which one does that >> is it in the monthly bills? >> Yeah. >> 14. >> Yeah. >> So, so actually I'll just make motion. So approve the consent agenda with the exception of the item for Shay Hunt's payroll checks which is document 1 2 3 42 >> I >> Johnson I >> Hi >> Brown All right. Um, old business. We've got some um board policies to approve. So, I'll make a motion to approve policies as presented.
082>> Second. >> All in favor? >> Motion passes. Um, let's see. New business. Uh, we've got the employee personnel sheet. So, make a motion to approve the appointment, compensation, discipline, performance. personnel items as presented. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> H. >> I >> Richtor. >> Hi. >> Johnson. I >> Brown. >> Hi. >> Um, next is contractor pay for uh construction projects. I'll make a motion to approve. >> Don't think we have any. That was just a placeholder. >> Um, we ended up not receiving any this month. All >> right. So, we'll skip to item 93, which is bids for the partial roof replacement project. Make a motion to approve the bid received for the smiley partial roof replacement project as presented. >> So, move second. Roll >> call. Is >>
083I >> Richtor? >> I >> Johnson I Huff >> I >> and Brown. >> Hi. U next is bids that we've received for the south campus paving project. So motion to approve the base bid received for the south campus paving project as presented. So move >> second >> I richtor >> I >> Johnson I >> H >> I next is the Milburn security upgrades. So a motion to approve the bid received for the Milburn security upgrades project as presented. >> So moved. >> Second. And Keith, this is what this they're fixing. >> This is the correction of last year's VAS. Okay. >> And it's well under the target. >> Now it is. Yeah. >> Well, it's even even under revis. So All right. So, we get a second. >> We did. >> So, roll call.
084>> Rtor. >> Isl. All right. Next is the Smiley HBAC project. So, we're approving that project as a as a project to add to our list. Motion to approve the Smiley HBAC project in the amount,000 by the facilities committee. >> So move second. >> Huff. >> Hi >> Mloo. >> Hi >> Richtor. >> I >> Johnson I >> Brown >> I. And then um next is the full-time employees for the 26 27th school year. So, a motion to approve certified full-time employment changes for the 26 27 school year. >> Just to be clear, because we're losing two math sections, we're not laying anyone off. >> Correct. There there's no actual personnel impact in terms of anyone being reduced in any way. >> Okay. >> But the incremental we need >> the overall is 1.8 8
085FTE increase and that's the sections less the four ROC sections because we have the two instructors regardless of number of sections um and then plus um moving ACR from 3 to 5 days a week is the equivalent of a point4 so the 18 sections and it is also is 1.8 FTE because there's a wash of less in ROC personnel wise and more in ACR. >> And I I guess I should have asked this before, but our current budget supports this addition. >> It does. I mean, we still have a lot of unknowns for next year um in terms of uh from the compensation side, but yes. >> And we have that many students joining ROC >> enough to support many more sections. Yes. But there won't be a personal cost to that part. Their enrollment
086has increased. >> That's good. >> It's been a great year. >> That's great. >> Second on that. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, roll >> Richtor. >> Hi, >> Johnson. >> I Ha. >> Hi, >> Brown. >> Hi. >> Um, next is our audit for the uh for the past school year. So motion to approve the audit for a fallen township high school district 20 3 for the fiscal year ended June 30th 2025 as conducted by Dennis Rose Associates. >> So moved second. >> Roll call. >> Leblau. >> Hi >> Richtor. >> I >> Johnson I >> H >> I >> Brown >> I and then a motion trips. So motion to approve trips in excess of 200 miles. So moved. >> Second. >> RTOR. >> I >> Johnson. >> I Huff. >> Hi. >> He
087is. >> Hi. >> LeBlue. >> Hi. >> Brown. >> Hi. >> I know that you got to us, but friendly reminder to everyone doing trips. Get out of time. >> Next is goals. Motion to approve district goals for the 2627 school year using previous roll call. >> So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? I I motion passes. Uh and then summer school motion to approve summer school offering for the summer of 2026. >> Second roll call. >> H >> I >> Richtor. >> Hi >> Johnson. >> Hi Brown. >> Hi. >> And uh that's a title one's applications. waiver. Motion to approve the ESSA title one schoolwide application waiver using previous roll. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Motion passes. Motion to approve the ESA title one schoolwide plan using
088previous roll. >> So move second. >> All in favor? >> Motion passes. Uh motion to approve the IHSA membership renewal. So >> second >> I >> Johnson I Huff >> Hi >> Brown. >> Hi Glad you know us to keep Never mind. Go ahead. >> Motion to approve board member expenses. So move second. Roll call. >> Richtor. >> Hi. >> Johnson. I >> H >> I >> St. Brown. >> I motion to approve the revised intergovernmental agreement with the Cville Area Vocational Center using previous roll call. Before we do, can we get uh what what changed? >> They changed the tuition billing days um which previously was the 10th day of school. Um it's now July 1st because they budget their teacher sections and they can't have it. >> They can't have a bunch of
089students drop and not be able to pay their teacher. >> So the cost is just when you pay. >> It's when you pay. Well, the cost would the cost will be who's committed in July, which may be different than who attends on August 20th on the 10th day of school. So, >> okay, >> we want all 30 who committed to go, which is why we extra meetings with them to make sure they're really committed. >> So, if they don't go, we lose their money. >> As long as they >> if they don't go after July 1, >> after July, >> they change their mind after July 1st, we would have to pay. And can we send a sub or an alternate? >> They will do that. Yes. If we have somebody on the wait list,
090which we do have some weight lists, they will try to swap out. So, >> they have to be studied the same thing that students have to go. >> But other schools could have drops and so it doesn't have to be the same. >> And we just we sent the letter and the parents acknowledge they understand that this is a commitment that they need to make sure. >> We have a letter that's going to go out uh Okay. very soon >> before July 1. >> Absolutely. >> Yes. >> All right. We're not really changing money here. So using previous roll call. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Motion passes. And then there are no new board policies to read this month. Um so our next board meeting will be April 23rd here at
091Smiley. And then we've got important dates. Spring release on the 25th, spring musical 27th 29th, uh spring break the 1st through the 6, honor society inductions on the 13th, and then an early release on the 15th. And that wraps our wraps it up. >> So I'll make a motion to adjourn. So, I've got a few things to say. >> Second the motion to >> All in favor.