001quite a few things to go over tonight. Um, but we're going to reconvene motion to reconvene the regular meeting of the board of education and open session. >> Second roll call. >> H >> I loo >> I >> Johnson I Brown. >> Hi. >> All right. Everybody would please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance. 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. >> Okay. A few things to go through tonight. We'll start off with the budget hearing. Education wise, we have some KPIs to go over some course changes. We're going to talk a little bit about a new deal with the Collinsville area vocational school. We'll learn a little bit
002about that tonight. and then uh spend some time talking about e-learning this evening. So uh with that I will make a motion to temporarily adjourn the regular meeting of the board of education to hold our budget. >> So move second. >> Roll call. >> Isl >> Johnson I >> All right. All right, good evening everybody. We will be reviewing the 2526 budget this evening to go over some key dates. On September 2nd and September 4th, we had our required budget hearings. September 9th, we had our finance committee meeting where we reviewed the budget in detail. And then tonight, of course, we'll have our hearing and uh possible approval from our board of education to introduce you on how we work the budget in the school district. We use a modified cash basis for our accounting
003systems, which means that our revenues and expenditures are accounted for at the time we actually receive or spend the money. We do of course prepare a budget in compliance with the state requirements and we have regular financial reporting monthly in the board packets as well as on our our website. A reminder as we go through our budget that it's an estimate of what our revenues and expenditures are going to do do. We can't of course predict everything that's going to happen. We do budget conservatively at OTHS. So our revenues uh are lower than what we hope to receive and our expenditures are budgeted high. School code requires that school districts not go over budget in expenditures in any one fund. So that's your 10 education, 20 operations and maintenance and so on. So, we do
004prepare contingencies in several of our funds to ensure we maintain our compliance. Also, a reminder that as we go through tonight, we'll go through our beginning fund balances as of July 1st, the start of the fiscal year. Uh the audit is not complete. Therefore, this is tentative and will be until we receive our annual financial report. Okay. So, a school budget in Illinois consists of nine funds. Um our main fund is our education fund. It has the largest variety and is really the work that we do here in education. Our operation and maintenance fund is focused primarily on buildings and services related to that. Our debt service fund is our bond payments. Transportation fund is for the transfer of students. Our municipal retirement and social security fund are required benefits that we must pay for
005our employees. Capital projects for capital improvements. Our working cash fund works as our savings account, so to speak, um, and can be transferred into other funds as needed. Our tort immunity fund, uh, that's our insurance premiums and things related to liability. And then our fire prevention and safety fund is primarily used for capital projects, but it's related to uh, 10-year um, assessments that we have done by the regional office of education. It's a very restricted fund. Our fund categories are divi divided between operating funds and other governmental funds. Where most of our work occurs is in our operating funds. When we talk about reserves, what reserves do we have in the school district? We're talking about our operating funds because it's what we're using the most of and it's what we have the most latitude
006in in terms of how we appropriate those funds. So the operating funds include our ED fund, our operations and maintenance fund, transportation fund, and our working cash fund. The other funds include debt service, our retirement fund, capital projects, tort immunity, and fire prevention and safety. Before we get into the details of the budget, I want to go back to our district goals and talk a little bit about how the budget creation and the budget itself reflects those goals. So, two of the goals that you have are to maintain Illinois State Board of Education financial recognition and then of course ongoing planning for the annual budget. While this is a culminating moment tonight, the planning for next year started a month ago um and continues as we go through the school year and into the next
007summer. So, the ISBY financial profile uh designs a a a rating and assigns a rating to different school districts. Um it was just a way to show accountability and transparency for school district. So you can have four designations. Financial recognition is the highest designation, financial review followed by financial early warning and the lowest designation is financial watch. And just to give you some information um on what the state data looks like in terms of the recognition categories um for recognition um this year 90% of schools were in financial recognition 8.2 in review 1.4 in early warning and just8% in financial watch. Um, of the 762 districts out of a total of 851 districts that earned that recognition status statewide, 33 present percent of them are EVF or evidence-based funding tier one schools, and we are
008a tier one school. We did earn financial recognition status for 2024, which is wonderful news. I do have the points laid out there for you as well. Our overall score was a 3.8 out of four. There are several different areas they look at when determining the score. The first is our fund balance to revenue a ratio which we scored a 4.0 on. Expenditures to revenue also scored a 4.0. Days cash on hand is something that we're working toward and you'll see that reflected in our budget tonight. um where we're hoping we can get our reserves up to where our days cash on hand tip over that 180day mark, which would award us full points. We're at 176 days, so we're very, very close. Uh percent of short-term borrowing maximum, we're at 100% on that. And
009then long-term debt margin, we're at a 3.0. You have to be above 75% to get the 4.0. And I think we're at 74.6. But these are the Milbourne bonds that we continue to pay off. I highlighted last month uh some of the highlights in this year's budget which I'll go into as we move through the budget. New grants, EBF of course, our salaries and benefits, our mandated categoricals from the state, vehicle purchases, our ongoing construction projects, transportation and changes in insurance costs. Program enhancements for this year. This is a slide full of DODIA. So we have several Department of Defense grants going. We're in year two of our client grant. This is really our first implementation year for that focused on career exploration. Year three of our collaboration grant. Year four of our world language
010grant. And we're in our final year of the CTE grant. We have not yet heard about funding for the grant we applied for this year. We also have ongoing construction projects. We do not have many new construction projects approved because we're going through our facilities analysis and we'll use that to drive where we choose to um spend our money. Um in the area of academics, we have our health sciences new this year. We expanded PE. We have another year of mandarin there. And we've also invested more in textbooks. Textbooks um the landscape has changed. It's become much more technology based where if I think back when I went to school, I would have a physical textbook, look at whose name was written in it the years before me. Um, and and and that textbook would
011get physically passed on year to year and it wouldn't change for several years. Most if not all textbooks now when you buy them new have a um a tech component, right? Because that's how we operate now. The tech components require renewal from the textbook companies. So just like we used to maybe go buy a movie at the store and we had that movie forever. Now we may subscribe to get that movie through a streaming service that you know textbooks are following that as well. So you're going to see more things related to purchase services in the area of textbooks because they are more than just a physical book. Now in transportation our minibus I believe is getting delivered. miss tomorrow. Tomorrow, the minibus that we ordered over a year ago will be delivered. That's wonderful
012news, but it will hit this year's budget. And we also have two driver vehicles in the budget. Our local revenues come from the list that you see listed there. Primarily for us, it's property taxes. also a little bit for us in CPPRT, any of our fees that we charge, our food service receipts, tuition that we receive for summer school, any rental income, and then of course interest from the state. Evidence-based funding is our primary source of revenue. We also have our categorical payments in the areas of special education and transportation. Our driver education reimbursement claim system, our grant revenues which is limited to CTE programming and our state free lunch program which is done through claims as well. For federal, we have our title funding titles one, two, and four. We were unsure about what
013that funding would look like this year and I believe it it was in title two. Is that correct, Mr. Graham? Title two, we had nothing and now we have something. So, we're thankful that we have that title funding continuing. Um, we also have IDA to support special education, impact aid for military connectedness, the national school lunch program, Medicaid, Perkins grant, which is again related to CTE programming, and the DODIA grants that I mentioned before. Our revenue highlights for this year, we did have an increase in our EAV, which in turn increased our levy. Um, we had a 12.7% increase, uh, which is going to give us about $2.7 million more in our operating fund. The good news is, uh, that our rate actually went down four cents from last year. Um, and we hope that
014it will continue to go down. It's gone down every year since the Milbourne bonds have been issued. Um, so where you see our gains there in revenue is because of the the EAB moving up. On the state level, we're seeing additional proration in our mandated categoricals. Specifically, where we'll feel the pain in that regard is in the area of transportation. Transportation continues to get more expensive every year. This year, for example, in year two of our transportation contract, we have 5% increase, but we're being told that the state is going to prorrate cut those prorations even deeper. So, we're going to see less money from the state. We've been fortunate today that we have not had to dip into our working cash fund to provide transportation. This year, we still should be in that scenario.
015However, if those curations don't change, you'll see in the next few years that we'll have to use working cash funds to transfer over to our transportation fund to transport our students. And federal, our DODIA grants are most impactful on the revenue side. Uh I shared this with you last month. Our adequacy target, we're still at 73% adequacy. That is up from the 60s in previous years. And you'll see that our funding gap actually did go down significantly this year. Um, however, last year we received um over a million dollars in new tier funding. This year we'll see just $560,000. And that's because we're sharing that pot with Chicago Public who's also designated a tier one school this year. Our operating fund revenues, you can see most of our revenues come from local funding, 58% followed
016by the state, primarily evidence-based funding at 36% and 6% federal. Going into a little bit more detail in our education fund, which is one of our operating funds, we have 51% coming from local, 41% again, primarily EVF funding coming from the state, and 8% federal. On the right, I have listed what those sources are specifically. In our operations and maintenance fund, you can see this is funded locally. And when we're talking about our facilities, we have very limited revenue streams to help us improve them. So, we're really really relying on our property tax base to help us in the operations and maintenance fund. That state piece is a state maintenance grant that we're typically awarded annually that Tom Goodrich applies for in transportation fund. Again, 75% of that coming from local revenues. We do have
017that state component that state piece of the pie will likely continue to shrink unless they reverse where that um where those prorations go and and hearing what I'm hearing from the state uh we shouldn't be too optimistic about that because they continue to talk about how tight the budget is and that finance is going to be difficult on the state level in upcoming years. Our working cash fund is 100% funded by our property taxes and any interest we gain on our accounts. In summary, I have in our operating funds on the top this year as compared to last year. So you can see our direct revenues in our operating funds will be at 39.4 million this year compared to 36.4. So about $3 million more coming in for our operating funds this year. Our expenditure
018categories are divided between our salaries, benefits, purchase services, supplies and materials, capital outlay, and other items like dues, fees, tuition, and our contingencies. Our expenditure highlights include our compensation package increases. Um, for our teachers, we budgeted about a 5.2% increase. 4.5% of that is just salary schedule movement. We have over 20 lane changes, meaning a teacher was at bachelor's and moved to bachelor's 16 or was or moved over to masters, which is an increase in compensation. Um, we also had over 20 teachers in our severance track and that grants them 5.8% increase year-over-year. For our paraprofessionals, they're in year two of their contract. We had a 4% increase. Same for service workers, support staff, and the administrators. We saw a decrease just due to having new administrators um in our costs. Um we also have
019a $500,000 DODIA climb grant and we had applied also which I budgeted for a security grant which we still don't have word for but I don't think we're feeling as optimistic that we'll be receiving that. Nonetheless, it it's it's there if we do. Um, we also had additional personnel this year in the areas of health science, special education, pair of professionals, our DODIA project directors, AFJOTC insurance, we saw a 12.7% increase this year for health. And in our construction projects, we have 230,000 left from uh previous year in our fund 20. Uh, we have a million dollars in projects that will be paid out of fund 90. That's the health, life, safety for projects that have already been approved. We have $150,000 for auditorium repairs. And we have $1.4 million marked for additional projects that
020will be dependent on what direction the board decides to take when we finish our facilities assessment. Our direct expenditures and operating fund we expect to be just over 41 million. Primarily that's coming from our salaries and benefits. We're a people business, so you should always see it reflecting that. If we ever saw it not reflecting that, we would have a problem, right? Because the people are are are what is the most of what we do. You'll see that then followed by purchase services, supplies, capital outlay, and then other things such as tuition, fees, etc. In the education fund, you'll see that a little bit more heavily towards our salaries and benefits because our teachers, our pair of professionals, our administration, our secretaries and support services are all paid out of this fund. In our purchase
021services, we have things like the food service contract, our software leases, supplies, books, classroom material, IMC supplies, technology supplies, capital outlay in this fund is primarily dedicated to technology as well. And then we do have tuition, dues, fees, and our contingencies included there. For the operation and maintenance fund, um 31% of this is dedicated to our facilities projects. That's the capital outlay you see in the upper left. Um we have salary benefits for our service workers and facilities directors in this fund as well. In purchase services, we have things like water, sewer, telephone, sanitation, and repairs. Electricity and natural gas, however, are categorized as supplies with the state. So you'll see those in the supply budget and we have a contingency in operations and maintenance as well. Transportation funded expenditures. We don't do our own
022transportation in-house. We combine with the other districts and we contract with um Illinois Central. So you'll see primarily we're spending that money on purchase services which is our payment to the bus company. Um suppl are primarily fuel. Capital outlay represents vehicles that transport students such as the minibus. And then we have fees and contingency there as well. Our summary and our operating fund, we have direct expenditures at the top for this coming year as compared to last year. So it's about $2 million over what we were going to spend in our operating funds last year. That million dollar difference. So, we have we're hoping to have three million in more in revenue, 2 million more in um expenses, which hopefully will help us get toward that 180 days cash on hand that we're striving towards.
023Uh statute does permit us to complete inter fund transfers. I have listed what those are um what what is permitted. Uh we only use them as needed in the budget this year. We do have an inter fund transfer into our operations and maintenance fund for facilities projects as part of the budget. However, as we process through the year, we will not move that from working cash. We'll keep it in working cash unless it's needed. Last year, for example, we had this budgeted and we did not move it over because we're still paying for those projects from last year. They didn't hit last year's budget. Considering the inter fund transfers, you'll see that $2 million in operations and maintenance. On the second column, uh third line down, it shows then what our direct revenues are in
024each of the operating funds, what our direct expenditures are expected to be, the total, if it's in parentheses, it's a deficit, the inner fund transfer to operations and maintenance, and then what we expect our overall surplus and deficit to be in each fund. The bottom right hand quarter is the is the significant piece. So we're looking at 1.9 million in deficit spending contingencies. Uh we are fortunate in that because uh the district has been financially responsible. Those contingencies are built in every single year because we can't predict everything that's going to happen throughout the year. So we have them in several of our funds. This chart now shows you the same thing. our operating revenues and expenditures. And also, if you look at the second lines in the bottom, it's our budgeted contingency. So, we
025have $500,000 in the education fund, $400,000 in operations and maintenance, $200,000 in transportation for a total of $1.1 million in contingency. We hope not to spend our contingency. We usually do not. So, that number on the lower right hand corner now changes. It was a larger deficit, but Now, that decreases once we take that 1.1 million out, which we may spend, but we hope not to, to around $850,000. So, the summary for our operating funds. Um, now you'll see both of those pictures put together. Each of the funds, again, focusing on that right hand side, bottom right hand corner, where we expect to land is with a deficit of around $850,000. other governmental funds. These are highly restricted, so we don't go to it into as much detail with these. These are your HLS projects,
026things like our HVAC projects, our flooring projects, anything else that the ROE would identify, it could be used. Um, so in our debt service, IMR, social security, capital projects, stays with nothing, TOR and health, life safety. Uh, the revenues are at the top followed by the expenditures. Then just like with the operating funds, our deficit or surplus, which we don't have any surpluses here, we do have a budgeted contingency in debt service to health, life safety for a total of just over $500,000. And we expect to end around $550,000 in deficit. That is planned and primarily due to the HLS projects we have in motion. I do want to mention too that the deficit in IMRF social security is also intentional because with that it's it's completely prescriptive. We have a percentage we have to
027pay for social security for IMR and we need to levy for what we need only right in all the funds but we had a reserve balance in that fund that was very high and it does not need to be that high. So you'll see that 30 $150,000 is is not a bad thing. It's to put us at a responsible levy level to make sure that we're holding on to just what we need for IMRF and Social Security. Our budget summary of all of our funds, operating funds in column one, our other funds in column two, and then the total, we're looking again at that bottom right hand corner. We do expect to be at a deficit at about $1.4 million total fund balances. So our starting and ending points this is for our operation our
028operating funds. You can see the beginning fund balances for education operations and maintenance transportation and working cash. What we expect our surplus or deficit to be in each of those followed by the inner fund transfer coming in coming out of working cash and into operations and maintenance. And where we expect to end again recognizing this is unodit unodudited so it is estimated at this time is that we will end with about the same in education 10.6 operations and maintenance about 40,000 less transportation you do see a significant dip there that those increased costs that are not coupled with any help from the state. And then uh working cash because of that $2 billion transfer you'll see that go down about a million dollars because we only get about a million dollars a year for that
029in our other funds debt service IMRF social security capital projects to health life safety same thing beginning fund balance at the top what we expect to happen during the year and our ending fund balance you'll see that IMRF uh is going down again with intention debt service is prescribed by the bond payments we have to make. Um, tort will go down slightly and health, life, safety will be close to depleted uh because of the hls projects we have in play. Uh, something to consider as we're moving through facilities for a long time and facilities committee, we would say something like, well, let's just use health life safety to pay for it. Those days are ending because we have and and it's a good thing that we have. But even if something qualifies for health, life
030safety moving forward, it will likely have to if we decide to move forward with that project or must go forward with that project for a period of time, it will have to be either partially funded or funded by our operations and maintenance fund. All of our funds, so this is putting everything together. We have our beginning fund balance for operating and other total is on the right. So we start at 28.4 million. We expect the $3 million deficit and the ending fund balance to be 25.3. Again, we hope to do better than that and we've done better than our budget year after year. But that's because B says to us you may not go over or there is penalty. Uh so we're very careful to make sure we're conservative in that regard. If you do
031have any questions, you can reach out to myself or our director of finance, Miss Gray. Are there any questions from the board on the presentation? Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Shford. Um, so enter the hearing. Um, we're going to come back out of the out of close the hearing and then go back and rec. Um, so I'll make a motion to close the hearing of the Fallon Township High School District 203 budget hearing. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Loo. >> Hi, >> Richtor. >> Hi, >> Johnson. I Huff >> I >> Brown. >> Hi. All right. And now we're going to reconvene the regular meeting of the board of education in session. So, um, next that takes us to administrators reports. And I don't I don't have a separate course.
032>> Okay. So, we'll move on to education. Mr. >> All right. Good evening everybody. Tonight I'm just presenting our new course proposals. Um, and along with the CABC, the Collinsville vocational center, which be a large course program proposal. So, I'll start with name changes. We have two name changes out of the CTE department. Um, the first one is our advanced apps course. Uh it was previously titled Advanced Apps Excel Access. That's a dual credit course through Swick and Swick is dropping access. So the new name at Swick is going to be the same new name here, which is Advanced Apps Excel. Um that's driven by Swig. The other course is advanced video production. Um that's a course you can take multiple times. This is the course that produces Panther Beat. Um and you can take
033it up to five times. So currently when a student does that, their transcript just says advanced video production multiple times. So they're not it's not looking like they're taking different courses. In reality, when they're in that room, they are all in the same room, but every group is doing very different work. So they'll they'll say, "All right, the fifth ABP5 is going to do this." So in this corner, ABP3 go here. So we're wanting to differentiate that. So their transcripts show the work they've done getting through five levels of that course. >> So it is progressively getting more challenging. >> Yes. more more uh expectations for the level four and fives than the the ones, twos, and threes. >> Sorry, at the education meeting committee meeting, we didn't have a one, but you clarified there
034is >> clarified that with them. What they intended was that the one called advanced video production would just stay that way and then there'd be four new ones, but we're just going to call it one, two, three, four, five just to make it make it clean. So, those are our name changes. We also have two new courses uh proposed in CTE. One is it's sort of a name change course um we had multimedia productions um that has not made the schedule in several years um just due to low request numbers and so they're wanting to update that course to be more relevant to modern-day production of media and adding communication to it too. So there'll be like a social media aspect of it. It's a survey course that'll go over um all different forms of
035media production and communication. So that's the that's the reason for the name change. Um and to hopefully like breathe life back into that course because it has not made in a few years. Uh the other new course is introduction to artificial intelligence. Um it'll be part of the computer networking pathway. This has been a course at the state level for about six years. Um there's few schools that have it, not many. Um so we'd be one of the few. Um it's going to cover how to use AI, how to apply it, and then how to program your own. So there's three components to it, a semester long course. And then in social studies, uh we're adding AP European history. So be a new AP course option, a new uh avenue to gain college credit. And
036we are going to open that to sophomore students. So it'll be one of the few that sophomores can take. So we do think that'll be popular. In math, we are going to add AP Calculus BC. And it's sort of a swap we're doing. So right now we have regular calc regular calculus and we have AP calculus AB. So what we want to do is take the AB course and replace regular calculus. So now every student in calculus will get AP honors credit and poss and dual credit. Um so regular calculus is going away. is being replaced by AP Calculus AB and then a AP calculus AB is being replaced by the new course which is BC. Um AP calculus in in reality it's a three semester course. There's A and C each is a semester.
037So um either students do the AB part in a year or the BC part in the year and the A if you're in BC the u the A portion that first portion of the class they kind of split it between pre-calc and BC. So they get through all the material either way. Um this is just letting some of the students go further. So there's a new um sequence chart on the right that just shows students in honors could start at say they start honors geometry, they end in BC. Students who start advanced geometry could end in AB and then so on. You can see the rest of it. So that's the proposal. We're dropping regular calculus. >> Calculus was was that an honors course? >> No, >> it wasn't. which was yeah which that's a
038one of the driving reasons to replace it. students study at that level of work but not getting honors credit >> the GPA stuff >> right >> have AP structured this way like when you take the test there's actually a C one and a C two >> so um if you take the BC exam you'll get a you get a score for BC and then they'll give you a subcore for AB which could also be college credit for calc one >> thanks Okay. And then the last new course, which is really a new program proposal, is the Collinsville Area Vocational Center. Um, so this is a and I' I've briefed the board on this before over the summer. So this is a um it's attached to Collinsville High School, but it is a separate district that
039um currently 10 high schools send students to. We would be joining as the 11th and one more will join as the 12th. Um they are building an addition to their building, adding four new programs. So that allowed them to open more seats and add schools to the program. Um, so we're one of the only schools, probably the only school that's either doesn't either, we don't have our own thing like this and we don't send students to one like this. So we're we're kind of one of the only ones like Belleville high schools have their own, but most people send to Collinsville or there's other ones. Redbud has one. Uh, so they have 20 programs that will open to our students. Um, and they're all listed there from auto body to welding. Um each program will
040have prerequisite courses that students take here before going there. This is only open to juniors and seniors. Um that's their their policy over there. Um so a junior or senior enrolled at CABC will have a half day here and a half day at CABC. And I'll show you on the next slide what their schedule will look like. So CABC has two sessions, the AM and the PM session. So, a student enrolled at CABC for the AM session would have the option to take early bird here, but most of them would probably just start over in Collinsville um for first, second, third hour. They travel here during fourth hour, have be lunch fourth hour, and then they have three OTHS classes in the afternoon. And then the PM students would take up to three classes here,
041up to four actually, here in the morning, travel, and then CABC in the afternoon. Um, and they'd be off at 2 o'clock. So, those are the two schedule options. Students will have to be planning for this in advance. So, that's that's going to be part of the the roll out of this. We don't think it'll probably get a lot of students in the first year because you really if you want to go, you need to start prepping for that freshman sophomore year, getting those prerexs taken care of. So, it'll take a little a few years to grow. Um, but that's this is the first year. Um, tuition 27.50 a year. That'll be covered by OTHS. And then for transportation, students can drive. I'm sure most will choose to drive, but we will provide transportation if
042needed. >> And how many seats are they offering us? >> So they um it's an application process and they don't guarantee seats to any school. It's not prorated by enrollment or anything. It's the top applicants for each program get in and they use the application, but they also use an attendance cut off. They don't have a set off. They don't say like you have to have 92% attendance but the top people get in so effectively they do and it was around 94% last year um attendance which is pretty good that's very good attendance. So um that's how they determine it. If we are if we have a lot of great students in auto body we might get 15 seats in that class but if Roxanna does then they'll get those seats. So just it's it's
043all it's different every year. So when you um push it out to the students, we need to let them know the other requirements, not just the course requirements, but the >> correct. Yes. >> Yes. >> So that'll be a big part of the uh the push from counseling to explain that to students. And we are going to actually start with um eighth graders. >> What a great motivator though if you're in one of these areas, >> right? We are hoping that I mean a student who wants to say go to cosmetology that might boost their attendance here able to go to that. So, >> and the finances of this like in terms of like revenue per student, how does that all play out? Is it uh parody or are we paying a premium to >>
044It's not a premium. I thought it was lower. It was lower than I expected it to be at 2750 for an entire year. talk about the budget. >> We might end up having to have a cut off of our students that we have a cost education, too. >> All right. So, how does that compare? >> Uh, the cost here is higher. >> So, we're saving money. >> Well, no, we're still we're still spending our money. >> We're spending an extra 2750. >> It's not like there's going to be less teachers >> or there's going to be less courses offered. >> And I think maybe put in perspective when you say not a lot for that year one because some people may think, oh, 70 is not a lot, but >> no, we're thinking like 10
045>> under 10. Yeah. >> Right. Students in year the first year >> and we know who's going by February of the year before. So all the budgeting takes could take place at you have time to budget for it. >> Okay, that is all I have. Those are the new courses in the CBC. >> All right. Uh next up is finance. M Good evening. >> Good evening. >> What? >> I didn't receive slides. >> Okay. I'm presenting on the August financials which is the second month of this fiscal year. The revenues from August were 8,567,223 compared to 9,47,559 in August of 2024. Expenses for August of this year, it's 2,993,80 compared to last year's numbers of 3,950,592. And the primary difference is just the timing of projects year-over-year. Um, since our last meeting, we did receive
046two um more property tax distributions. One August 1st for 3,528,500 and another for $3,498,000 and our total distribution through today is $14,331,795. All right, good evening everybody. We're going to start off tonight with some great news on the teacher front. Um, Emerson Emerson Excellence and Teaching Award is going to go to Mrs. Tracy Ritzel who's here tonight. So, This award goes to it's one of the St. Louis area's most prestigious teacher recognition programs. And of course, she is very, very deserving of this honor. She is involved in so many different things here at OTHS over her 25 years. And here's just some of them. She is the honors night co-coordinator, our graduation co-coordinator, the Running Start program counselor, the Slooh 1818 advanced dual credit coordinator, the Chamber of Commerce liaison, the 11th grade college and
047career programming coordinator, and of course, our National Honor Society sponsor. But Mrs. Ritzel's main job, of course, is she's a school counselor. and and as you can see here, her ultimate goal is to help all of our students achieve success and plan for their future. Uh, but with all the different things she does every single day, 25 years of just greatness here at OTHS, one more round for Mrs. Ritzell, please. [Applause] I want to quickly recap uh two of our important days we've had in the past month here. Uh you can see on August 22nd was our first ever Panther Connects Day that hopefully provided students with information to get them connected to OTHS. Students participated in an advisory competition. They learned about services provided by the counseling and social work departments. They heard from
048ours assistant principles about important grade specific information and of course learned about all the the amazing clubs here at OTHS and then we ended of course with the Pepson down at the pack. It was a great day and a lot of thanks go out to a lot of people. Mr. Graham who uh organized this great day with Mr. Coazette as well our our counseling department our social workers all of our APS all of our teachers that did the advisories. It was just a real exciting day uh for the first time to ever do that. Hopefully it did get some students involved more in the school and we'll see as we go throughout the year. The second part of that of course was on September 8th where we hosted the OTS connects open house night. Our
049parents and guardians could attend activity fair over at the Milbourne campus and learn all about our clubs here at OTHS. And and we did that at the Melbourne campus so that it would get the freshman parents to see these clubs and hopefully go home and and say to their son or daughter, "Hey, look, there's the the chemistry club. Why don't you join that or whatever maybe just to get them involved at an early age?" And of course, there was a meet and greet with all the students, teachers. So, it was a great night to make our connections to to all the OTS community. And uh it it was we that's the first time we've had kind of an open house in several years since before co. So, we plan on continuing that going forward as
050well. >> How was the attendance? >> The attendance was kind of to be expected. Melbourne, it was much higher. Okay. Then here at Smiley, um the freshman campus had a much higher attendance rate. Um it was tough to get actual numbers. Mr. Graham had a clicker at the front door. >> Yeah. So, Smiley with like 450 people come through the door. That's with the clickers. That's anybody came in the door. Uh Milurn did not have a clicker, but they did get attendance sheets. I'm still calculating how it was very well attended. >> We had a teacher in a neighboring district. Jen and I were talking outside the IMC and she's I mean she was very sweet, but she said um she said, "I've always loved OTHS, but now that I've met all the teachers, I
051know why my kids have loved OTHS so much." So, she was just really really grateful. Um and it was really nice to get that feedback when we were there. Okay, next week of course is our big homecoming week and the theme of that is Oella Festival and it all kicks well. It's all next week of course from Monday through Saturday and it starts on Monday night with our homecoming bash from 5 to 6:30 where and that's going to be in the front of the school on the grassy area out there where clubs are going to set up boos to play games and sell food participate in the Panther Olympics and there's going to be a car show so they get to vote on on various cars there on uh Wednesday. Next week is our homecoming
052parade starting at 5:45 going through of course the community. Lots of candy to be thrown out and and to be had. Our pep assemblies Friday from 11:30 to 12:30 in the dome. Lots of course excitement going on there. And then the homecoming dance Saturday evening from 7 to 10 in the Panther Dome. Our dress up days next week, as you can see, start off Monday with biker versus surfer. On Tuesday is USA Day. On Wednesday is our class distinction day, which is with music genres. And the seniors do It's crazy to say 2000's throwback, >> but they're going to guess dress up what I guess Backstreet Boys and early 2000s. Who knows? So, they'll have fun doing that one. Our juniors going to dress up country music, sophomores, disco, four freshmen, techno. >> Uh they
053have they have to dress up in techno. And then our faculty and staff, we're going to be rock and roll that day. And then on Thursday is jersey day. And then on Friday, of course, is blue gold day culminating in the pep assembly where all everything is going to be, you know, added up and totaled up and see which class wins. We've added a little new wrinkle. This year we're having a faculty spirit war. Okay. Done by hallways and departments. And uh so they're going to send me a picture at the end of each day. I'll send that out in Microsoft forms. They get to vote and we'll see which hallway or department gets to be uh the winner this year of the spirit flag. So, the 900 Hall is throwing the gauntlet out there.
054They are very determined to win and hopefully not cheat the 900 hall, but we'll see. I'm joking, of course. All right, last thing tonight is our enrollment compared to last year. And you can see our total enrollment as of today is 2531. Last year at this time was 2542. Uh, our freshman have 607 plus there's 15 other grades in there. 50 other students I should say. Our sophomores have 609 students. Juniors are 650 and seniors 650. For a total room at 2531. Any questions? >> Thank you. >> All right. And I don't believe we have other reports. So start committee reports. Uh, Miss Johnson communication. Yes, the communication committee met on September 9th. Um, we solidified our KPIs at that meeting. We still need to do a little bit more research on uh staff um
055communication as one of our KPIs survey at the end of the school year that will end up being. So that uh we discussed that most of the meeting um that we had. Um and then we talked about trying to get uh recognition for staff and and students um to come forward because some uh staff and and has been recognized and we may not all know it and maybe put in the paper or article. So we would like for them to let us know so we can recognize them. our community as a whole knows about the good things that our staff is doing along with the students. Um our next meeting is September 14th at 5:00 pm and we will discuss the P um T agenda for that we're going to have in December at that
056meeting. >> So PC is coming up. >> Yes. So we work with their own. >> All right. Next is education. >> The education committee meeting uh met also on September 9th at um 4 p.m. Um at the meeting we discussed the targets for uh the KPIs for 2526 school year. Um, we decided to for the grad rate, we're going to keep the same target at 93. Ninth grade, we're going to uh keep the same target at 91. We um didn't make that target this year. We're at 90.6. So, we thought we would keep that the same. Um ACT, um we're looking at um kind of improving that. Um last year was our baseline. Um so this year we want to improve that baseline coming in. So and then program enrollment um we are looking at
057um improving uh looking at what all we look at for program enrollment and should we have everything in those categories that we have. So we're still looking at that. chronic absentee 19% um was our target um was our last year um is what we had was 19% and our target is 21. So we're going to keep that target and try to make that. And then extracurricular participation um it was 53, it is now 73, but we know last year we really didn't have all the numbers that we had. So this year we're actually looking improving that to 75% as our target. And then student survey data. Um looking at changing that up a little bit to look at the seal survey um and try to determine um where we should go based on those numbers.
058With that, um we also discussed the new courses that u went over along with the um area vocation center. So, we had that discussion and then we went over the e-learning plan which we'll be looking at and voting on uh later in our meeting today. So, that was a lot of uh updates in the education meeting this last uh last meeting that we had. We're meeting also on the 14th uh at 400 p.m. right now. >> So, Donna, how who the administration is responsible for? >> Um Are we going to be getting updates on progress towards those? >> We usually look at the end of each semester just um to see where we're at for the years. January. >> So are you any concern about just checking twice a year that >> Well, that's the
059big ones we check twice a year. There's things we track that are smaller and more frequent throughout. So like like grad for example, >> we'll see we see we always are tracking who's not on track. and figuring out what to provide them. So that's kind of ongoing. Can >> we start getting a report what flows into the major ones then? >> Yeah. >> All right. Uh facilities, Mr. >> uh we met uh on the 9th. Uh and uh basically my report is attached, but there's a couple items I'd like to mention. Uh we're basically going through a self-imposed as far as any uh potential projects uh until we get our report from our architect as far as uh uh what we have there. And then uh we continue to have issues with the Panther Dome
060with a new one uh coming up today. So, we're going to uh analyze that and then I'll have a full report to you uh past months in that regard. >> And that's it. >> Okay. Uh finance was tr >> uh yes, we had a finance committee meeting what two weeks ago. >> The nth two weeks about two weeks ago, less than two weeks ago. Uh we heard essentially the same presentation we saw today. Uh the ask from the finance uh committee, Miss Gray, was to have a report uh for us or some proposals for us at our October board meeting regarding how we're utilizing our uh cash and the instruments we're using to approve interest on that cash. We actually have quite a bit of cash. Um but we're essentially uh getting about half a
061percent uh of interest on it, which is fairly below market. We believe we can do better. uh October report coming. The other two areas we asked uh for the district to look at was uh energy spent. I know not just solar. Um we talked about guaranteed energy contracts as well. Um and uh supply spend I can't remember how it's categorized but fixed fixed spend contract spend uh vendor spend. Uh so those were the three areas and then you saw the report there. Um but we're hoping to gain revenue and control costs. >> Okay. Any questions regarding finance uh personal negotiations? I don't know that there were >> no meetings. You know, we really need to set one because we haven't really goals for the year. Although I think so >> they're just invite they're included
062in my personal goals that we tal us information. We need to >> go full circle with that. >> So, so I think about my schedule that's probably at least two weeks out until I can get something. >> Are you think a special meeting to >> for the whole board rather than a committee meeting? >> I mean, we can call it a committee meeting, but just get to check the whole board to be there. >> Okay. Um I guess let us know what you guys policy governance >> we did not have a policy meeting in September because there were no updates when there's no press updates but you are going to see for second reading uh the 17th that we reviewed in July. Sorry there's whoever's speaking. >> Um, so there are 17, but the 17
063there are from July. Our next policy meeting is currently scheduled for October 7th at 4 p.m. If we have any updates yet and I do have an update. So, for the uh conference in November, the Friday focus workshops are filling up. I know a couple of us have already signed up, but if there's any more than want to sign up, um make sure you let Karen know because they are filling up quickly. Um there's also the Holly Jack Award nomination which recognizes the administrative professional for all their hard work for we want to nominate that. I just got that one in. Uh registration for the upcoming division meetings. Our division meeting, Southwest Division, is going to be October 22nd at Belleville Cave. So, we'll have a chance to go through and see that. Encourage you
064guys to be there. Um at 5:45 before the meeting activity starts, there's going to be a presentation on to the constitution for ISB. There's a number of changes that they're um going asking to implement this year and it's going to be voted on in the delegate conference um when we get to the conference these way the conference. So if you're interested in hearing the constitutional amendments uh be there at 5:45 otherwise it starts at 6 o' vote okay on October 22nd. I think if you're not signed up, you want to go, just let Karen know. She'll get you signed up. >> I have four of you going so far. >> And then finally, last Saturday, Super Saturday was uh it's called Super Saturday because all the new board members uh can get a lot of
065their training mapped out and IASB put these puts these on regionally. I think there were about three of the divisions that were able to come. Um thank you Rob for coming and sitting on a panel of um experienced remember saying, "What do you want? What do you wish you had known when you first got on the board?" Um, and as I guess coincidentally or not, Rob and I were the only two that showed up for the panel. So, uh, it was a good conversation. Um, we were able to talk to folks from from around the area again, three different divisions as well. Um, and had at least one of them reach out um, and appreciated it. So that's that's part of of the reason for these divisions are so that we can have the cross
066talk and you can learn um help yourself help be a better board member by talking to other board members on what they're facing and such like that. So it's that networking opportunity so I encourage if you can be there on October 22 there are any questions that is all I have. Okay. Um I think we have the special committee best committee. >> The best committee we met on September 8th at the Shiloh district. Uh each of the superintendent gave an update. Just to highlight a couple of the things from the superintendent district 85 which is Shiloh. Um one of the things that uh that was interesting is uh >> Jenju they are starting their solar project uh at each one of their buildings um in uh October and November. So, we're going to have solar
067panels at each one of their facilities as you can get some information >> to do that. Um uh district 104 central um they are sitting on solid ground now. They're not sinking anymore. So, that was a big thing that was going on with their district. So, that's been resolved. And then district 90 um has been a lot of marketing or publicity, but their playgrounds have been updated and are really nice right now. Um they're working on their doors and locker rooms, so doing some renovations there. And then they're working on goals in AI policy for the school. So, and then that ger gave an update on what we're doing, but we get that all the time here. Um new business. The superintendent did meet as we requested them to do at the last meeting and
068they thought that the meeting was very fruitful and um they will continue to meet. Um they have some projects that they've all agreed to work on together. They are looking at a health clinic for uh for the staff to relate to insurance um issues. See what we can do there. They also looked at child care for staff trying to combine that but right now there's no space to do that. So um and then uh we talked security and safety um we went over our partnership with the district 9 or our SRO and how well that is working and then discussed the communication efforts that we have going on that Mr. is reaching out to the other districts to get that started to talk about the AI partnerships and different things that we're doing there. So
069overall, BEST is is doing some great things and collaborating together was which is the whole purpose of that organization. Uh we did give up on our cell phone policy. They were really interested to see how that was going for our district. Um, and our next meeting will be at District 90 on January 26 at 4 p.m. And it's it's kind of interesting to see a lot of the initiatives we're doing kind of initially worked on right now. All came out of that big uh joint meeting we had. >> The retreat that most of the school members in the area. So, it's kind of cool watching that all kind of come together. Um, all right. So, I don't believe there were any other special committees. We've not done a conversation with the city in the last
070month. So, uh, we'll move on. Um, are there any members of the public that would like to address the board at this time? If not, we will move on to our consent agenda, which is a motion to approve the consent agenda items in their entirety, including but not limited to prior meeting minutes, financial reports, payment of bills, the freedom of information act requests, and disposal of equipment. So move >> Johnson, Hop. >> Hi Hi, >> blue. >> Hi. >> By the way, that disposal pleases me to no end that we're getting rid of owls, penguins, bats, and cats. >> If you're there, I'm guessing that's all books, right? >> But, uh, but the condition I got a good laugh when I first read that. >> All right. Old business. We've got a motion to approve
071board policies as presented. So moved. Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Motion pass. Any opposed? Motion passes. Um in new business, we've uh got a motion to approve the appointment, compensation, discipline, performance, dismissal of personnel items as presented. >> Second. >> H. I >> Is >> I >> Richtor? >> I >> Johnson. I >> Brown. >> I um we've got a motion to approve the pay applications for construction projects. >> Move. >> Second. >> For for this one, the cafeteria flooring stuff. That's not because they made a mistake and they're correcting the mistake for free. But this payment's different, right? >> That's why there's a red line on it. >> Okay. >> Um because It is they actually tried to charge more initially but because they did do more work. Okay.
072But that if we would have made that payment it would have exceeded the costs of the work they have to do next summer. So we redlined it from 44,000 to 7,000. >> Okay. >> Yeah, >> that makes sense. Thank you. >> Y and Do you have any questions over how that's being remedied because they're going to do it next summer? >> They're going to do it next summer. Yes. Yeah, I think you talked about last board meeting. >> Yes, we did. They they wanted to do it over Christmas break. Uh but we didn't feel that the committee did not feel comfortable with that. Uh with that shorter time period concerning weather possibilities and what have you. So, uh we made the decision to do it right during the month of June. And I think they
073wanted to do patches or spots, >> right? >> All right. Uh trips, but I was just looking at the floor. >> It looks kind of dirty. I think there needs to be some spills. Yes. >> That haven't gotten attention yet. >> Rob, we need a vote on that. We have a motion. Yeah. So motion to approve the applications for construction projects. >> We have a motion in a second. >> So I >> Richtor >> I >> Johnson I >> H >> I >> All right. Trips. We've got a motion to approve trips in excess of 200 miles. >> So move second. >> Call the blue. I >> RTOR >> I >> um Johnson I >> H >> I >> and Brett >> I and the budget. So motion to approve the Oalance Township High School
074District 203 budget. >> So move >> second. >> Victor >> I >> Johnson I >> H >> I >> uh next is the vocational center. So a motion to approve uh the intergovernmental agreement that we are happy with Kville area location. >> So move second. >> Roll call. >> Richtor. >> I >> Johnson I >> H >> I >> Brown >> I. Right. Motion to approve new courses and course name changes for the 2627 school year using prior roll call. >> So move second. >> All in favor? Any oppose? Motion passes. And then we have a motion to approve the administrative and teacher salary and benefit report. >> So move second. Call >> H. I >> Blue. >> Hi. >> Rtor. >> Hi. >> Johnson. >> I >> All right. Then that that kind of
075wraps up our voting. We got a couple items to discuss. there's the uh tentative e-learning plan that we're not voting on. >> So, you have to have a formal hearing for this. So, we just worked through committee um as well as with the union leadership to um make sure everyone was in support of the plan. So, if there's any further discussion from the board, we could have that now if there's any other additions that need to be made. And then we will put a hearing notice. This will be similar to the budget hearing for formal approval um in the October meeting. However, um we do have a full day teacher institute in October in the second week. Um, so we'd like to have um while there won't be any action, um, we'd like to have
076the opportunity to invest some time during that professional development date if we think we're going to move forward with this to adequately prepare the staff for it because we won't have another full day prior to the season where they could possibly be used. >> And this can go into effect uh after we approve it. Correct. after we approve it and it also has to be sent to the ROE but that's a very quick turnaround. Yeah, that's that's not a process. So it would not be able to be used until after the board approves and then so that would be October I think 24th I'm not sure is our is our meeting could be mine. Um, and then >> so at this point I think you're looking for support in the direction heading and there's a
077document attached. Hopefully everybody got a chance to kind of skip through the uh through the document. Um, but I guess to best question you know are there any questions any concerns? Any uh >> so I'm not supportive of this. You know, I was a board member when there was co um it is clear from the impact of e-learning on students that had a horrible horrible effect on learning. Um I I think it's been proven time and time again that there is no replacement for inperson in classroom learning and I don't think we should weaken that at all. >> Well, there limits from the state on how many days they can And how many days in a row? >> It's a maximum of five days annually. >> Is there a maximum of the number of days
078in a row that you can do >> or could you do all five of them and then not have any more days for the rest of the year? >> And e-learning would only come into effect when there's >> if there's a reason for an emergency day, e-learning would be considered. Um and then there's also in the plan that you know through our discussions we talked about that the students would need to be aware so that they're prepared with their technology before they even left school the day before. So let's say Friday is a beautiful day over the weekend we get the weather that comes in and we haven't adequately prepared that we're probably looking at a traditional emergency day. Um likewise sometimes we you know last year we had an emergency day that was used
079um last minute because there were bus issues that didn't develop until 6 a.m. You know an e-learning day would not be used in that because now we our educators haven't had time to prepare for it. So there's something in the plan that it would be called by 8:00 p.m. Otherwise it would be a traditional day. Um and and you know to the and I I I understand you know um both both sides of of uh the the debate on this. I will say you know last year we had six traditional emergency days. We made up five because that's required. Um we we had a year where we had beyond it doesn't happen often but we had beyond that and and we can't predict the future. We don't know what's going to happen from year to
080year, but last year one day was truly thrown away. We we never got that. And and in that regard, I think that this would have been better than that scenario. Um so the what to date though, to your point, Heather, you can use a maximum of five. Um after you use those, you must also use those emergency days. So those five days that we have built in the calendar will never go away based because if we have 10 emergency days um we'll be making up those five days you know up to five days before you can move to what they call active god days which is what we used with our sixth day last year. >> So I think we went over this in our education committee too and made some changes and recommendations and
081then it was going back to the union >> and that's been done. Yes, that that was completed I think last Friday. >> Okay. So, they're on board. So, I think um and James, I understand your your hesitation in doing this, but I think it gives us an opportunity to at least if we have to go to e-learning for emergency purposes or whatever, we can. Right now, there is no opportunity for us to do that if it's something that we have to do. And then our neighboring schools and districts all have a in place. >> So my question is what is I know district 90 does >> 90 and 104 do. Shiloh does not and as far as I know they don't intend to. In terms of our feeders I believe most of the other surrounding
082districts especially the larger ones. I don't want to speak to rural districts. They're in a very different scenario um have them in place but I don't know specifically what how many or what percent do but I >> So this might allow us to coordinate with district 90 and our feeder school. >> Absolutely. I mean, our plan looks a little bit different. They don't have the 800 PM call time, but that's something that's important to us. So, there there's still a possibility that, you know, 90 could have an e-learning day when we have a traditional day or vice versa because um you just got to make the decision that's best for your district. But there is a probability then that you know an e-learning day here and at our theater schools would happen in concert with
083one another. >> And that was one of the questions I did ask Mr. How was did he look other e-learning plans were developing ours to see how ours coincided with theirs and he did I don't know if you want to add anything to it since you work >> well I mean I'll just add some other things to it that you know this was a process that developing this and this process we started a committee back in February uh over 20 to 25 staff members participate in the committee and the one thing that all teachers in the committee wanted to make sure of that this plan um it's got purpose, okay? It's not a check the box plan that we're getting through a day. That this this plan, the purpose is to educate our students, okay?
084Um and the committee was determined to do that and it was it was very very very good work on the part of our teachers to come up with this plan to make sure that it's a legitimate learning plan. And I feel very confident it is very confident it is. Um and it's going to be live teaching. Yes, it will be on the screen. However, it's going to be live teaching. It's not going to be a signing um you know a reading or whatever. And that's why Dr. Snacker was talking about the importance of October's institute is to give our teachers time to prepare lessons and to be ready for those things if need be. Okay. Um it's very important for our teachers to have that professional development time. So um we took this very very
085seriously and I think the plan shows that >> it also included office hours for for the students to reach out one-on-one if they needed to with the the teachers too. >> Mandatory office hours and additional >> correct in addition to the instructional class the the teachers then would be available during office for some office hours if the students needed to reach out if perhaps you know learning behind the screen isn't isn't the easiest for them to get some one-on-one instruction the same day. >> Let's just get feedback real quick. James I think we we got your input. Dennis, do you want to chime in? Provide direction. >> I mean, I'm bored personally. >> Donna, >> I'm bored. >> Okay. I'm also for I like I like the idea that you guys have the flexibility to
086educate so just have the kids sit at home. Um, I think the technology is there. We have the technology. I think uh giving the chance to kids a chance to use the technology, embrace the technology. I mean, that that's the modern world today. people work from home, people are doing classes in college and from home. Um, so I think it's an opportunity to to learn as well and I like the ability that we're more alike with our theater districts and the broader community. So I'm in agreement with James for the most part. uh uh I could uh be in favor of approving it to a limited extent otherwise not uh jumping on the bandwagon at the first call of school the first uh snow day. So uh do the I will go along with the
087board on it as long as we uh go along with that. So >> but I I am totally in agreement with you do not get anything do not get as much out of e-learning as you do that classroom. So, >> oh, I agree with that. I don't disagree with that, but I do think we need to have an e-learning plan in our system available for emergency or whatever need it for. >> I I agree with that. I mean, you know, obviously in person is much better, but I would rather them at least have something So if they're able to reach out to a teacher and on a you know god blizzard day when you're stuck in the house at least get something refreshing some sort of something to keep their brains working. >> Another thing
088that I would point out is that it's only going to be for a it's only going to be for select days or short period of time. So though I know it was we learned from co that kids don't learn the best through e-learning that that in of itself was a whole uh anomaly in regards to what kids experience versus okay a kid will more than likely understand that they have potentially five days where they may have to endure uh e-learning and it's back to their normal physically present but once again gives the teacher the option flexibility to continue to educate our students >> and you know Rob you made a really good point because my daughter is um taking a online course in in her master's program. She had no choice. That was the only
089way that course was offered. So this also gives kids an opportunity to see what that may be like when if they decide to go and further their education. Um they may not have the opportunity to take all their courses and be present. So they need to know how to navigate and work through that when there's not opportunity to do otherwise. I brought you They were facing the same thing. There's just some classes that are done online. >> But we still have to remember we should provide the best education environment for our students, right? >> You know, >> that's the purpose of us. >> Yeah. Exactly. And so I understand it's five days, right? But are there other ways to to get to to get these these education in classroom education hours? Right. Our best students
090will succeed in I've got no doubt our struggling students absolutely fail with this. >> I don't think they absolutely absolutely fail. >> You don't have the home environment that they absolutely fail that provide the direction. >> Yes. From what I heard collectively from the board, we'll move forward with some education for our staff on this and then we'll have action and a hearing um next month and we'll publicize for that hearing. >> Okay. Um the next is just board policy. So we've got four board policies up for a first reading. Next month they'll be up for a second reading. >> And I wanted to mention with those I'm sorry to interrupt that there is no change outside of names due to retirement. So this wasn't even a policy committee meeting. It's just that we need
091to update for personnel reasons. >> And then were there any additional things that came in, you know, post post after posting the meeting? >> All right. Our next regular board meeting is in October. Um it looks like it's the 23rd of October. Um we are going to be at Milbour next month. So make sure you mark that on your calendar. It's not here at Smiley. It will be at Milburn. Um do you know yet where like >> I believe He will be in the cafeteria >> for close session and >> for closed session will have to be in a classroom. I don't know where close session will be. >> So let us know instructional media center. >> Thank you. Mr. Wallace has got it. >> Okay. >> Instructional media center >> for close session for
092open. Okay. >> Okay. >> And then homecoming as Mr. House said is uh coming up this week. That's the big stuff in the calendar. And uh with that I'll make a motion to adjourn the board of education. So move second. All >> in favor you were going to