OTHS School Board Meeting 6/26/2025

001All right. Hey, just want to apologize everybody for being a little getting this meeting started, but we're going to get going. So, um I'm going to make a motion to reconvene the regular meeting of the board of education and open session. So, motion second. Roll call. Rtor. Brown. I Is I. All right. So, Everybody in the room would just there with a flag in the back. Join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. And uh tonight we have something uh a little unusual um but we have an open board seat that we're going to fill tonight. Um so uh Blake, if you would uh step

002step forward. Um we we're going to make a motion to appoint Blake Corners as a new board member to the Ollon Township High School District 203 Board of Education. So moved. Second. Roll call. Hi. Is I Richtor? Hi. Brown. I welcome [Applause] Blake. We're going to need to take the oath Blake. So Dr. Chapter 4 gonna read the uh oath to you and as she goes through it you're gonna say I do. Yep. All right. Please respond. I do to each of the following statements of the board member oath of office. Do you, Blake Corner, solemnly swear that you will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of member of Board of Education of Oallen Township High School District 203 in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of

003Illinois, and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of your ability? I do. Do you further swear that you shall respect taxpayer interests by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets? I do. You shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by your fellow board members and others who speak pardon who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees. And do you shall recognize that a board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a public board meeting? I do. You shall abide by majority decisions of the board while retaining the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels. I do. As part of the board

004of education, you shall accept the responsibility for your role in the equitable and quality education of every student in the school district. I do. You shall foster with the board extensive participation of the community, formulate goals, define outcomes, and set the course for Oallen Township High School District 203. I do. You shall foster with the board extensive pardon. You shall assist in establishing a structure and an environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework. I do. You shall strive to ensure a continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law. I do. You shall serve as education's key advocate on behalf of students and our community schools to advance the vision for Township High

005School District 203. I do. And you shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision the board has created, fostering excellence for every student in the area of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship, and personal development. Thank you. Congratulations. You're officially [Applause] Yeah. In front of the podium. [Music] two. Wonderful. Welcome again. [Applause] All right. So, first first on the agenda, we've actually got a pretty full agenda tonight. Uh we've got some student recognitions to make. Uh full room here, we see uh we've got some graduate post-graduate surveys to go over, uh vocational school opportunities to review, um a mentorship and diversity presentation, um an update on our attendance for the past year, special services update, a non-union wage increase, salary and hourly. We've got in-house English learning

006teacher um proposal, food contract to re renew as well as meal prices, some extracurricular appointments, uh liability insurance renewal and uh the IASB delegate discussion and an appointment for tonight. Um so quite a bit to go through. Uh we'll start with administrative report. And we will start the report tonight uh with our student recognition. So I'm actually going to ask Mr. how to come up. Well, thank you, Dr. It's an exciting night here uh that we have a full house of course with all of our all state individuals and teams, of course. So, we're going to start the night off with that. Uh we always recognize uh athletes in in any kind of club or competition who get all state. All right? It doesn't happen a lot and so that's why tonight is so special.

007We're going to start with boys track tonight. And so, I'm going to ask Braden KPL come on up here. Come on up. Uh Braden, uh congratulations to Braden. He placed eighth in the 3200 meter run at the Illinois boys track field state meet on May 31st in Charleston, Illinois. To make it a little bit more interesting, uh he ran, which probably everybody doesn't know how track operates, but in the second heat. So I hate to say it because he's not slow. It's so it's one of the slower heats. And so it's unusual for someone to come out of the second heat to get all state status uh in a two-mile run. It's just incredible, incredible uh feat that that Braden did. He ran 9 minutes and 17 seconds for two miles. [Applause] It's an amazing

008accomplishment to get eighth place in the state of Illinois in a two-mile run. And as a junior, he's got a whole another year. So congratulations to you. Next is our boys volleyball team. The boys volleyball team led by assistant coaches Kenny Shehan and Demetriusia and head coach Amy Shehan captured fourth place the state of Illinois on June 7th in Hoffman Estates near Chicago. The boys along the way defeated Father McGibney Edwardsville East Lincoln Way East Orland Park Sandberg to qualify for the final four. The team has placed fourth in the state of Illinois two of the past three years. So, congratulations on this great season. So, there's a lot more of course guys on vacation. Coach Shehan is not here tonight either, but her husband of course. So, [Applause] last but of course not least

009is our girls soccer team. Congratulations to the girls soccer team led by assistant coaches Craig Dipple, David Cole, Jennifer Garrison, Lindseay Heckle, and of course, head coach Justin Judisac who won the Illinois class 3A state championship on June 7th at North Central College in Neighborville, Illinois. Along the way, the the team defeated Alton, Granite City, Edwardsville, Luca, Lincoln Way East, Bington, and Neapville North on the way to the state title. Not only are the girls number one in the state of Illinois, but Max Preps has ranked our OTS girls soccer team number one in the United States. That's right. [Applause] And this is the third state championship of course in five years for our girls soccer team which solidifies us OTHS as a premier soccer program in the state of Illinois. I also want to

010read a letter from the IHSA that was sent to me this week and it says, "On behalf of the Illinois High School Association and the board of directors, I wish to applaud your high school accomplishments for their first place finish at the 2025 girls soccer 3A state final. Your team's hard work and determination is recognized not only by this association, but by the parents, schools, and communities that are all part of the soccer experience. Be proud. As competitors in the state tournament, your coaches and players are now the focal point of all teams throughout Illinois. By earning a final four birth, your school and community, we set an example for next year as other teams look to emulate your success through displays of fair competition and good sportsmanship and your team's performance. I encourage high

011school and coach Tutisack to become a model for the standards of soccer which are reflecting the future direction of the sport. Congratulations to your girls soccer team. I'm confident that you will live up to the responsibilities that go along with this honor. Come on up, girls and coaches. Ready? One, two, three. This one's photobombing. Hold on. Ready. One, two, three. Good. And congratulations to everyone. Great job. Such an exciting night. Thank you. And at this point, if you all would like to stay for our board meeting, we would love to have you, but we will not be offended if you do not. Okay. [Applause] Oh yeah. Oh yeah. [Music] All right, folks. Now, I'll get started with the superintendent report for this evening. Uh, I'll start tonight with just kind of a recap of the

012work that we did and our committees throughout the 2425 school year as it comes to a close in a few days. And beginning with the education committee and I'm just going to list some actions at the end. I'll give kind of some outcome highlights um and that will help us kind of see where we've been and where we should be going moving forward. So within the ed education committee meeting we established um getting into the continuous improvement process um thanks to Mr. Graham our director of curriculum who's really helping us set some meaningful goals targets so that we can uh manage our progress and and gauge our progress with data moving forward. We also had two additional AP courses this year five additional courses overall. Uh we started mentoring programs at both campuses. Uh we

013brought in our in-house alternative programming as well as a department creation for alternative and intervention programming. Our therapy dogs came in to see us for the first time and continued. Our teachers worked on ACT curriculum alignment due to the shift from SAT and state testing to the ACT. We spent a lot of the year developing Mr. how taking the lead with that along with the committee a cell phone policy that the board approved last month to go into effect for the next school year. We formally adopted the CEO program and we'll have seven students in the CEO program in its inaugural year next year. Dr. Kohley implemented an advisory speaker series that allowed community leaders to come in and speak to our students. Uh we had a lot of focus and Mr. Pow will actually

014talk about this in his report later on student attendance and improving chronic absenteeism. We made updates to the final exam weight in hopes that it will bring a little bit more uh weight to our our final exams as we years ago were 20% then dropped to 10 for the past several years. Um notice that students perhaps aren't taking it as seriously as they used to. So we'll be going to 15% next year. Um we've been working all year to develop an e-learning plan again that has been led by um Mr. How and Mr. Graham along with representatives from our entire staff that development and also developed an AI policy that's become so relevant in education that the board approved as part of a handbook last month in our communication and community engagement our special committees.

015We launched the OTHS app during the 24-25 school year. Made improvements to our website, began, as you just saw, student recognition at board meetings, which had been absent prior. We held a joint conversations over coffee with district 90. Um, Mr. Graham led us is leading us still through the process of that continuous improvement process to set goals and targets for upcoming school years. We reinstated the BEST retreat, which I understand happened several years ago, but best quarterly meetings came back this year after a hiatus. And we had a retreat of all boards and all districts um earlier in the spring. We increased our social media presence through just additional posts specifically in celebrations and began regular publishing in the Oallen weekly. Um, in addition to a superintendent column, we have members of our Panther Beat

016staff that are working with the Ofallen weekly for their publication. In facilities uh, safety and transportation, a lot of planning this year and planning still to come. We did update our five-year plan. We began and are still in the beginning stages of our largecale facilities assessment which expected to conclude in December of this year. We completed an energy assessment um just to see how responsible we're being and some opportunities for improving our energy usage. We continue to explore options as part of that assessment for solar in the future. We're also still in the planning stages of a Milbourne security uh project that was something that we hoped to have approved by now but had to go back to the drawing board because bids came in three times as much as what was initially anticipated. and

017just I think today uh applied for a security grant and is it $500,000? Yeah. Uh $500,000 and we're anxious to hear back uh if we'll be awarded that grant as well. In terms of facilities projects, large scale projects, not maintenance, we are have finished or almost finished with the PAC project. It was for all intents and purposes functional throughout this school year. We continue to work through HVAC projects to get those replaced. Uh right now we have smiley cafeteria flooring being replaced. We continue to work on the panther dome roof. Um it is wonderful to see it matching the navy that is our school colors. Um however, they're working on some paint bubbling um to finish and close that out. Um we've just approved an upgrade to our weight room equipment which will serve our

018athletic programs as well as our PE department. Um and Milbour landscaping is scheduled to start any day as well as part of beautifification efforts which are part of your goals. Um in the area of transportation, we had had several years where we did not make any updates to our transportation fleet that's in-house. Of course, we out outsource our regular student transportation. So, we did purchase two driver education vehicles, a Browns truck, um an activity bus. We are still waiting on one activity bus. the one that we originally purchased ended up replacing one that was totaled earlier in the year. Um and then of course are in year one of our transportation contract in personnel and negotiations. Um this past year was a great year of transition. Um OTHS had had very established leadership for between

01915 and 20 years and had probably the largest transition I know we've seen in my 25 years here. Um for health insurance, we continue to look at uh self-funded options. Still opted to stick with our traditional planning um due to the financial cost of shifting to self insurance for this year. Um however, we did see uh a greater shift in this most recent renewal which just ended earlier this month where we saw um our employees are taking advantage of the HSA option which is rather new um and also uh funding that option. um through payroll deductions um recruitment practices. We did um explore job fairs which is not something that we've done in the past here. Um the job fair that we went to was actually a statewide job fair. Um and it did not

020result in any applicants. The applicants were getting we are getting from the various sites, employment sites that we post on as well as our social media posts, word of mouth, etc. If we're able to identify more local job fairs coming up for educators, they would probably be more worthwhile as most of the ones at the state level it seemed were recruiting I80 and north of I80. Um accountability practices for our personnel uh we're working on specifically in the area um of attendance of accountability for that. For several years we were not fully staffed specifically with our pair professionals and our maintenance staff. um accountability was not as much of a priority as getting people hired. Um happy to announce that we do have full staffs in those departments and we're operating with that over the

021past year. Um so just making sure that now those performance expectations of those that we hire are being met. Um professional development uh is primarily decided upon by our teachers and is primarily focused on our teachers. Um, we had some things specific to AI this year, more time for collaboration, and I know Ethan has things planned going into next year as well. We also had, of course, our required training, CPR, our intruder training, and things of the like. And then job responsibilities. Uh, we we noticed some uh job descriptions that uh ended up in duplicating efforts specifically within the district office and on the business side of things. So, we've refashioned some of those jobs just to improve efficiencies moving forward. And we do have several new staff in the district office now and beginning

022um this coming year. Uh and we'll see how those efficiencies work and see if they pay off the way we hope they will. For policy and governance, we worked on press alignment throughout the year and also updating old policies, making sure our student handbook is aligned with press. uh ARS compliance is a fancy way of saying state compliance that it we're measured through the ROE on that. We averaged about 10 policies a month, sometimes more, sometimes less. Uh we also went through an IASB board self-evaluation last fall and are currently in the process of applying for board governance recognition. In finance, we were informed that we did achieve ISBY financial recognition in our audit for FY24. The budget for FY25, which will end on Monday, also indicates, as long as we stick to budget, and

023I anticipate we will, that we'll receive financial recognition again. We've taken advantage of more grant opportunities. We continue to budget conservatively. Uh we completed a five-year forecast and in year five of that forecast, the deficit spending um is no longer occurring. The 2024 tax levy resulted in the lowest tax rate we've had since 2010, which is when the Milbourne campus opened. We had no findings in our annual financial audit. Um we're doing some long-term planning and conversations with PMA as well as with Stiffel to see what our options are moving forward. And financial reporting is really in a maintenance stage that's reported monthly uh in through through the board reports is also posted on our website. Outcome highlights. Again, this is super high level. Um I do have some more detail uh that I'll provide

024the board. Um but I wanted to provide just the highle highlights. So we do have seven students in our inaugural CEO program for the next school year. 72% of our students who participated in the Empower Me mentoring program reported improved grades. Our ACT composite score conversion indicated an improvement in average score from 19 to 21.4. Uh again, that's not perfect because we're comparing it to the SAT, but Mr. Graham did convert that into the equivalent ACT score. So, we anticipate improvement there. 80% of Milbourne and 63% of our smiley students involved in our academic assistance center which is one of our priority intervention efforts made notable grade improvements which was presented to you I think by them in December or January. Uh I know this one is difficult to read. We do have preliminary results

025for Illinois 5 essentials although it will not be made public until I think the beginning of next month. But from our students um we had improvements marked in schoolwide future orientation, math instruction, academic press, classroom rigor, academic engagement, importance of high school for the future, academic personalism, rigorous study habits, and course clarity, which is a testament to the ed uh education committee efforts. Overall days absent decreased by approximately 2%. We don't have the chronic absenteeism numbers in until the school report card is published. Unfortunately, that's not typically until uh September. Uh we also saw a 20% decrease in the number of students suspended compared to 23 24, which is very significant. And then students reaching the discipline threshold where they are removed from the regular education environment decreased by 7% this past school year. Those

026are all related to the education piece. Some other highlights um that are related to the other committees. We're in the education business, so that one's the heaviest lift. Um, we have energy conservation efforts through replacing uh our lights with LEDs. The PAC Milbourne landscape and cafeteria flooring are updated as part of beautifification efforts as well as functionality. Um, areas for energy conservation have been identified for the board's consideration. Of course, we haven't moved on that because we're doing our large scale facilities assessment. We want to have all that information before we make decisions. Um the Illinois 5 essential survey results indicate improvements um in student safety. This is from the student perspective. We had three new grants awarded. Uh we have long-term financing options as I already briefed you on. Uh we've maintained ISB financial

027recognition. All of our policies are now aligned with press. 100% of our policies and several have not been uh out updated in over 10 years. So that was a tremendous accomplishment. We did not have any findings in our financial audit or our ROE audit that's the regional office of education that makes sure that we're compliant with all the state mandates. Um we also update made annual calendars uh for information sharing that includes board reports. So we have an Excel spreadsheet now that tells us this month these reports will occur. So you've seen the rotation of different departments briefing you. Uh we're also doing that for our administrator reports to don't m make sure we don't miss things from year to year. Um in addition to that uh Mr. Cox has developed uh the same or

028similar for social media things that need to go out. We've developed the same or similar for our Skylert messages. Um the maintenance team was fully staffed for the first time since uh Tom Goodrich began working here, which I believe was in 2008, although I may be off by a year or two. Um and then also we reestablished those partnerships with the feeder districts and community businesses through the speaker series that will be taken even further next year because chamber is getting officially involved in um getting speakers. We're going to have that be part of our career exploration grant that we were offered through DODIA. Um and the partnerships with feeder districts. Um we did this a little bit this past year and it will continue. We're doing some more vertical articulation which has been absent

029for about the past five years as well. Again, very high level um highlights. Um if there aren't any questions, the second part of my report, I'm going to invite our superintendent intern, Miss Jodie Scythe, who is our English department chair, to speak a little bit more about our facility assessment and where we are in the process. She's put a lot of energy in towards this assessment. Uh so I will hand it over to her. Thank you, Dr. Shackleford. So, as you know, we're working very closely with FGM on the facilities assessment, and that kicked off in early May when Dr. Shackleford sent an email with a survey to every faculty and staff member, which allowed every individual the opportunity to provide feedback about our buildings. Then, at the end of the uh school year, that

030is Dr. Shackleford arranged for FGM to bring a team of four to six people in for three days, and we had 30 minute slots. So, department had a 30-minut slot to meet with FGM individually. Teachers were also um encouraged to attend those meetings. Our maintenance and custodial staff participated, security, athletics, marching band, administration, office staff, computer department, AV, essentially every adult in this building had the opportunity to sit and talk with a team of people who were phenomenal listeners taking copious notes about what our building is functioning like and what might make it better. Um, And then at the end of well actually the beginning of June then FGM returned back on campus um and spent about four hours touring both of our um our buildings to my lover. Okay. So taking us to these

031tours the the biggest priority is they came with huge printed floor plans and they wanted to make sure that the floor plans they have match what's actually going on in these buildings. So, I walked them around and we went every hallway. Um, and they're they're matching up room numbers. And as we're doing that, they're walking in the rooms and I'm unlocking classrooms and unlocking unlocking office spaces. And they're taking it all in. They're literally taking pictures. They're taking notes. They're thinking about the size of those spaces. Uh, what technology is in there? What what do the student desk look like? All of that. They're thinking of all of that. And then we walk down the halls and they make a mention about let's look at the width of these hallways. They're thinking about like how

032many exits do we have and what how do those function? Um so they're paying attention to all of those things which I've been in this building for probably close to 30 years at this point as a student here. And so much of that I just take for granted because I'm so used to seeing it. So to have a fresh set of eyes was really um interesting. And I put an example up here. This is from Milbour. And so they're they're not just looking at big scope. They're looking at tiny details. So they point out the sign which I took a picture of on the left. This was in the 1500 hall at Milbour. And it's just a it's a closet. It's a it's storing data technology. And they said that is the perfect signage. It

033should say what it's used for and it should have a room number and that's for security purposes and safety purposes. And then you contrast that with there's a sign just with the restroom and ideally it would have a number to it. So is they're making notes on all of that. So it's it's not just large scale, it's down to the details. So what do they find? It comes down, I would say, to the four S's. Okay, so more space. We need more space. We need more storage. We need to prioritize safety. We already do, but that is certainly something continue to be focused on. Um, and a desire for sunlight. And I think all four of those things not only help us as faculty and staff to do a better job, but they're critical for

034the success of our students. And next step, so when our students get back, we're going to give them a few weeks to kind of get acclimated to both buildings, and then we're sending out a survey to them to give feedback about the buildings. Uh parents are also going to get a survey this summer to get their input. And then during open house, we'll have an opportunity for them to give um feedback on the buildings as well. faculty and staff. Late August when we get back, we're going to have an afternoon where we can go offsite and look at other schools and come to their science labs look and um kind of have that opportunity. We also were going to talk to FGM with program verification which basically means we have to ask I ask what

035that meant but it meant they took all these notes and they want to make sure that they're understanding what we're saying correctly before they move on to drawing and and kind of moving forward that plan. So that's what FGM will be doing early this fall as well as they're returning to campus in July to look at our operations in terms of plumbing and and mechanical to kind of see the status of those buildings. So overall, I think that FGM has been from my 12 plus hours sitting with them incredibly thorough. The amount of um detail that they took in from both the people and just the tours was incredible to me. Um and I also want to just say that many people have come up to me and said how grateful they are to be

036part of this process and that they were invited into these meetings and given the chance to give feedback. So I just want to thank the board and Dr. for making that such a collaborative process. So, um that's it. Any questions? Thank you, All right. And Mr. Smiley and Miss Gray are not with us tonight, so I'm going to move on to the financial report before um before Ethan comes up. Just a very brief update. At the end of May, we collected 99.3% of our revenue compared to 98.1% last year with 1.7 million collected in the month of May. Our local and federal sources are both over 100%. That's a result of our conservative budgeting that we do with intention. And also the federal sources were higher because we had some of our ESSER funding, that's

037our pandemic funding that ended last year that wasn't paid until this fiscal year. Um, state sources are just at 89%. We tend to see a lag with our state reimbursements. Uh, in addition to that, uh, what we're going to be keeping an eye to make sure they don't fall really far behind. I would say probably close to a decade or so ago. Um, the state owed OTHS, for example, $1.5 million. They were they were behind in those payments. They've since caught up. So, we'll be making sure that this doesn't continue to be delayed. Um otherwise it will require some advocacy on our end to make sure they give us timely payments for our claims. Our expenditures at the end of May we're almost through the year. Uh next month you'll see the complete year of

038scope. We had expended 78.6% of our expenditures compared to 77.7 with 3.2 million expended in the month of May. Operations and maintenance is lower because projects we expected to be closed out are not closed out yet. So, you'll see some of those hit in the FY26 budget. Some will hit uh you have a payout to approve tonight. Uh and the budget next year will reflect what we did not spend this year. Dr. Sheber. Yes. Um the state being laid on payments. Is there any feedback on why that's happening? No. Um I know that there's there was a lot of um energy spent towards arriving at a state budget that everyone could agree with and I think their efforts have been focused there. I think also the state ISB in particular is dealing with the same

039issues that seem to be widespread throughout education where there's a lot of turnover within staff and I I think it's just those types of clerical things. I don't think it's that the money's not coming. Actually added late is the norm. Believe it or not, the last couple years have been fantastic as far as uh them keeping up with the payments. So, but we that's something that we just used to live with all the time, late payments. So, uh hopefully we're not going down that drain again, but hotel for you. Thanks everyone. Thank you. All right. Uh director of curriculum, Mr. All right, good evening everybody. Um, tonight I have a couple of surveys that I want to review with you that are given to graduates and I wanted to share a potential uh course uh

040off course offering for the 2627 school year that will be proposed as a new course uh in a couple of months. So the first thing I want to share is the class of 2025. We call it the plans of graduates survey. This is given by Tiffany Lugie in the counseling department. She put these slides together for this one. Um, and this is given to all seniors right before graduation. Um, asking about what they want, what they're doing next. So, it is self-reported. It's not always what happens, but it is what they reported they were going to do. Um, they got 566 responses. So, nearly every uh senior responds and just ask for their future college and career plans. It is a pretty short survey and I'll just give you some of the some of the

041key takeaways from it. Number one, the uh number one question is what are you going to be doing next year? And it's 56% of our students say they're going to a four-year institution and 22% say they're going to a two-year institution. So overall the num the percent of students going to college reporting they're going to college is up 1% from the previous class. And then below that you'll see the other um they have plans that were indicated by students tech schools working gap years. What's a statistically significant change in this survey? What would be? Yeah, more than 1% probably, but I'd have to look at the previous like five years probably to see a trend. Um, next thing they ask is if you're going to a four-year college or a two-year college, where are you

042planning on going? Um, 56 students say SIUE as the number one uh choice. Illinois State, UFI, and SIU were the next with double digits. So, just a random selection of schools there. We had one student planning to go to West Point and then we have 120 students going planning to go to Swick. And then lastly is I assume there are more schools identified. Yes, these are just the top 10. And so once it gets to number 10 only had five. So, anything below five respondents, they didn't list, but yeah, they're all over the place from the rest of them. Thanks. And then lastly, they asked what career field you're interested in. Um, we have 10% of our students are undecided. That's the largest group, which is understandable. I was undecided, too, when I graduated. Um,

043business administration though is the number one named career field. Um, and then you can see the rest there. So, we use this to kind of guide what what are we missing in our course offerings that our students are planning or wanting to do. Um, so we look at this every year to determine when we offer courses. Um, what should we offer? And so, you'll see in a couple of slides what we're planning to do for some of these. And I have a question for this for those majors, right? Do we look at the return on investment for those majors when students are so business administration, right? Do we know like what the return on investment is for the students for who pay for a business administration degree? Have we looked at that at all? The

044counseling department has that data. I don't on this, but the counseling department does. Okay. And there's some career planning platforms that we're actually going to be using next year that'll have that students can directly get access to this. Uh the next survey is the postgraduate surve. We give this one year after the previous class graduates. So we gave this in May of 25 to the class of 24. Um just asking them what did you do the last year? So we got your plans. Now we want to know what you did. Um this is a lot harder to get responses to because they're not our students anymore. Um I believe that probably the email goes to junk for a lot of them that we send. Uh because we asked them when they graduate on the plan

045survey to give their personal email address and then we just emailed this out to them. Um, so we only got 58 respondents, which is about 11% of the class that we sent it to. Um, and we ask a lot of questions in the survey. It's about their preparedness. Um, and so we look at different subjects. We ask them what courses did you take and how did those courses prepare you for what you're doing now. Um, with the low response rate, I don't think we can use all of the questions we got. The the point of the survey is to be able to say, okay, every student who took AP physics one says this about how prepared they were for science labs in college, but because the sample is so small, it's hard to break it

046down by course. So, what we do have is a couple of questions that are just general preparedness questions. Um, and I'll I'll share that next thing and go back a second. Is the 58 How's that compare? I know this has been collected for years because Martha Well used to do it too. Yes, they've all been low. I think the highest was like 110. I was going to say I don't remember it ever being like over a 100. Yeah, it was I had the last six years of the survey and it's they're all very low. But this is pretty normal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we're strategizing ways we could do this. We could ask for their personal cell phone number in that survey and text them a link to the survey. Maybe could be an option.

047So we're looking into how we could do that. Maybe shortening it would help too. It is pretty lengthy. I don't think they use email. I've got kids in that demographic and they open their email maybe once a semester, right? Or it's like their iPhone, their Apple ID email that nobody knows how to check. So that's probably um so the the biggest takeaway question was number six, I know that's very tiny. I put it in board docs if you want under exact content. You can look at the whole survey actually. But the biggest takeaway I had from number six, this is asking how well did OTH Brook s prepare you in the following areas on a scale of 1 to five? And what I look for is like areas of growth things they're saying we're not

048preparing them for. Um so up there you'll see APA style formatting which is what you would use to like write your dissertation. Um they're saying that they're not as prepared for that one as they are for MLA which would be like what you'd use in an English class, right? Um artificial intelligence, which we knew this one would be low. Um we just added it to the survey this year. Um and we knew it would be low because we're only just getting started on it. Um and then study skills is the other one. students reported that they don't know how to study when they get a huge uh maybe just you have to read an entire book in a week kind of thing in college which maybe you don't have to do as much of that

049in high school. So those are the big takeaways on areas of growth that I had from it. We can use that even though the sample size is small. I just can't tell you how many students took it because it's one and then said that because it might only be one person. The other uh stats from the survey are you able to like correlate response to like graduating GPA or class rank. We don't ask that and it's anonymous like well you have you have the data. We have the data but we don't can't u response the response is anonymous. We can't link it to anything. We could ask for that. Um so this is the the final stats of what reporting they're doing. These are the schools uh that they listed they were attending. So again

050it's kind of the same list that we saw in the class 25 survey. Um, and the nearly the same percents with actually has 90% saying they're attending college. So, it was answered more heavily by our college attending students. So, those are our two surveys. Another area of growth is getting more people to answer. We're working on that. So, I mean, I love the survey. I think it's great that we're asking. I mean, there's a lot to learn from kids that are giving us that feedback and it's it's nice to get it. Have we ever thought about offering that the same survey service to the feeder districts for them to ask our students? Yeah. Yeah. You're not you're not asking the questions, they're asking the questions, but you're facilitating the survey so that they have the

051similar feedback for how freshmen feel in terms of being prepared for high school. We haven't thought of that as a good good way to articulate. We did that years ago and may still have it. We did a ninth grade survey. remind because I think they're looking for ways that we're not telling them what to do, but yeah. Yeah, that might be a soft way to help give feedback. So, the last thing I want to share with you is this kind of ties to that graduate survey where they say the career they want to go to. So, we use that to decide what should we offer next and one area we're looking to expand is our CTE department offerings. Um there are a lot of programs in CTE, dozens and dozens of them and they're some

052of them are very difficult for a single high school or one school district to offer because of the space requirements just the enrollment requirements program. So in Collinsville they have the CABC which is Collinsville area vocational center. Um it is a standalone school district that's attached to the Collinsville High School's building. Um and they offer half the CTE programs to member districts. So, it's a cohort of districts. Um, there are 10 current districts and they're looking to expand and add two school districts for the 26 27 school year. They're also constructing a new facility across the street from Collinsville High School that's going to have these huge aviation program room, much bigger expanded automotive rooms. They're they're expanding which is why they're new schools. So uh I went on a tour there with our outgoing

053and incoming CT department chairs and then our counseling department chair. We checked out all the current offerings they have and talked with them about what would the process be for us to join. We were a member of this group I think 10 years ago 20 years ago and we left but it was not for anything that this school was doing. It was internal student issues that we left for. So, we are looking at proposing rejoining U CADC and I want to share with you kind of the programs they offer because they offer things that we can't offer in our facility without building an entire entirely new one like auto body, auto mechanics, cosmetology, aviation. They have all these programs that I've listed. And when you join as a member district, you select what programs you

054want to send be able to send your students to. So you decide what your students are offering. If we offer something here, we're not going to send students to CNBC to do it. So we're looking to add programs that we can't do here or that could be like a capstone if they take all of our welding courses. Can they go there for some final welding course that's beyond what we can do? So that's what we're looking to offer. Um we haven't fully decided which programs we want or what prerexs we want to include on these courses. Um, I've met with several CT department teachers to start putting that together. It's not final. I just want to preview it to you tonight to let you know that this is coming as a new course proposal when

055we do new course proposals in September. So, it's just a preview of coming. So, I assume there's an expense attached. Yeah, they charge a tuition. I wish I the numbers. It's way lower than I thought. It's like 2600 for a year. transportation to get the students there. So they allow either self transportation or districts to provide us. We can provide us. We did before. Um their new facility has a huge parking lot attention. So our students could drive themselves but if we're going to offer probably should transportation too. I don't see culinary arts up there. Oh, food service. They do have their culinary program. I see this as an outstanding opportunity for us. I mean, we're going to be offering our kids so much more opportunity than what we're currently capable of offering. I think

056it's an outstanding way to do that, you know. And then your thoughts on not offering what they they do and trying to fight them over, you know, who's better at it, but plug the gaps and, you know, making sure that we're providing our kids as many opportunities as possible. Well, I agree with you 100%, but at the same time, I was a little disappointed and you the statistics there as far as attending trade school 34. Wow. Those responses that was the plan to graduate. Yes. Only 34. Some people going military lesson that but this is something too where if we as we prepare them more for the trade experience and give them those more more advanced experiences we may see a trend there. On the other side of that it's also a reason why it's

057not worth it for us to build our own aviation center right because we don't have enough students interest but you know that interest may go up when the course offerings don't top out quite so early. you expect to send maybe five students to auto. So this is a very small group we're talking about. I think if we've got if we found that 35 students want a program over there maybe look at it here. So um we're talking about small numbers that wouldn't justify bringing a class here. I think it's a great idea. Gives our kids more gives our students more options opportunities to explore different feedback. Good evening everyone. I'm going to start my report for tonight. Actually handing it over to uh Dr. our assistant principal who is going to come on up here

058and give a report on mentorship and diversity. I'm going to go over some of the programs with you this year with our mentorship and diversity um uh our students here at CHS. Do I click? Okay. So, our programs that we have this year and this is a few of the main ones that we participated in. So we had a guest speaker series that went from September to September, October and November, I'm sorry, October, November. We did our story in August or September because we were still getting adjusted our schedule. So we didn't start for those months. Um we also did um uh the B youth leadership uh program. We talked about that in the educational committee meeting last year. We got approved for that. I was in more detail about the leadership program and and

059we did a series of black history month celebrations this year. So the guest speaker series, so here's just a few pictures um of student participation with guest speaker series. So what we did was um work with Mora to use the space in the library so that they have some um and then we send out a link uh to all students who sign up sign up grades 10 through 12 and teachers were also allowed to bring in their home classes if they chose to participate participate in the series. So first October we had he's the senior vice president um over at US Bank. Um the topic he touched on was education planning, career path and finding financial success. So a lot of students had a lot of questions about financial aid, kind of that impact move

060forward, how how they get to this point they can save money and spend less and still have a whole bunch of so they talk a lot about those in that session. The second session was Dr. Terrence um Duncan. Um he's a professor at Liberty University and he's also a father as well. He spoke on um setting smart goals and emotional resilience. So that was very engaging for our students because they had really sat down and talked about setting smart goals. Um they really talked about setting those goals that were measurable they can achieve. So there was a lot of feedback questions from there. A lot of students did stay behind and sit down and set them to help them map out some of their goals that weren't quite sure or if they didn't know if

061they were actually realistic goals to accomplish. And our last session was with um VHR with Tiffany Tiffany Lacy Clark and Robert Hughes. Um they talked about uh behavior and mental health. Um we're so focused on how to deal with behavior and mental health crisis, how to get help and then they also talk about business side. A lot of students want to go into industry. Um they some about internships at their own organization. BHR is also the organization that sponsor our students to to say in focus leadership St. Louis. So initially we got approved for endowment grant but the HR they cover everything. So we end up not using the funding that we were initially awarded through the endowment. They cover everything for us. So Black History Month um one thing I wanted to do this

062year was um just highlight history month. We we didn't celebrate too much. It's like Valentine's Day stuff around Black History Month. So I want to take some time and just celebrate in the month of February. So what we did was each week I activities that participated in. We had a great time out for it being one of the first times that we planned specific events for each um each week. And I'll go into what was going on about these pictures. So the first week we did um crafts for culture. And so we printed out with assistance from uh J and the department. We printed out a lot of pictures and the students were able to like just sit down, come here, relax and color. And they colored some of the pictures of just different prominent

063figures in um in history. So that was one of the first things they did. Um they did uh African-American figures, HCU culture, inspirational quotes, um and commemor commemorative images to celebrate black history. Um we were very surprised at how students came in, they they just relaxed. I mean, just relax. Even when they came back each week, I had to keep a table set up because they wanted to cover every single week. I mean, so I know my students like to cover much. Um, February, last year we did lion dancing and so I mean we opened the doors right here and kids were coming in as they wanted to during lunch hours. They can only come in during their lunch advisory years. Same thing with the speaker series. Students can only come in during their lunch

064advisory and if they came in the teacher have to do like the whole class one. Um the line dances they came in they danced for 30 minutes. So the pop room was out while we were in here. So that was fun. Uh the third week we were going to do a a mini step show with the divine 90 organizations. However that didn't happen. So we didn't get a chance to do that. So that they that got cancelled. But our final um activity was on February 26 25th. We did a pend discussion with all of the all of the guiding organizations. Um they talked about college career readiness. Um what was free like on college campuses? How did it feel high school going into college? And so on the table I mean everybody was here. We

065had some students some or Greek organizations that were students here. OTS. So that was good for them to come back and you know give back to the community and our parents that came to us and watch discussion and they also were giving thank you Ethan a book called the new and self book that was given to all students that participated. I think we gave out was it 90 was it somewhere around somewhere around about 90 books out to all students that came in and participated in the panel discussion and so the thing I'm most proud of this year is the focus you leadership program that we did u this program was so amazing so the way we identify students to participate um I feel like has a lot to offer to all students but we

066just like a small group of students. So our target audience was students who had a 2.5 and above but were free and reduced lunch. So that was how we identified students and whoever came in a packet they filled it out and we just made that selection from there. So here are some of the activities that they participated in. Um and I'll go over some of the the job sites that we went on. Um and our students this Dalton Samara uh Ken um Jasmine and um I think that's it. So it's four of them. This So how many students? It was we had four students. Okay. Yeah. Jasmine. No. Maddie, Jasmine, Samar. We had four girls. Um we had we had seven applications. So I think the biggest thing is they don't really know what it

067is they get start doing it and then once they start doing it they follow up with it. So there's a picture on here once it comes up that you'll see them at the table and they're just sitting there looking at each other. These group of students they did not know each other at all. It was the first time they ever meeting each other. They're all students here at CHS but we just loaded up and over and they sit in the car and so as They came in here closed. They got our group chat. Now they're planning projects to make sure it's it's a lot that came out of it. Um so this is these are some of the pictures from our events our graduation that we did their presentations they did for their projects. Um

068so they have monthly program days. So September was the opening retreat. They did a building community and leader project that was held at in October was their first seminar day just focused on team building that was held at the Missouri History Museum. Um in November that center around um centering health and wellness uh they did at the at um in January it was STEM careers. with the house on the interview at Singapore. Um, and they also went to Jessica in January as well and they interviewing skills and job skills and all those different things. But some of the broke downs, put them into different rooms and interviews process. Um, they return there, but it got cancelled. they get to develop. Um, February the 21st uh was just focused on belonging and establishing strategies on how

069to promote belonging, build leadership skills through storytelling and presentation um skills. They worked on that because at the end of the at the end of the program, they had to do a presentation of the service project. They were they when they were they were assigned to groups, it was students that were not from their same schools. So, they had to learn how to students from different schools across St. Louis school from Illinois. Um so they had to set up Zoom meetings and keep up with their own service project. They created their own service and on the last program we did not participate because that was our testing. So we so here's our graduation. Um here's a quote from one of our students whose leadership has helped me to keep an open mind and appreciate perspectives.

070especially when I learned about new things. So, each student um participated in our in our graduation ceremony in April 29th. Every student received a scholarship of $21,000 for completing the program. Um we were very proud of this. Two of our students are looking into their schools on their list. So, um that's going to be a great um benefit for them. on graduation day of each student. We saying here are the topics that our group our students did was child safety, mental health awareness, and hunger in the community. And those are our students on graduation day. Um how do we continue to work? So for focus st because the students that participate are juniors but they're identified their years. So, I did work out selected group. Um, scholarship has already been secured from VHR to pay

071for all of our students again this school year. Um, and it's going to cover all their expenses. The 2024 group will uh class what they're going to do is make an extension of what they've been doing now and do the service projects here at LTHS. Um, so they're doing like the homework projects, doing food baskets, clothing drives. They want to do different things like that. So, we're going to set aside time where they can meet and brainstorm on how they can serve our community here in um diversity and inclusion. I want to make sure that I create great things celebrate um all cultures during their respective months. Um and also work on establishing monthly Mondays here in the pan to encourage students just interact with each other, get out their phones. Like that was one

072the biggest thing that I learned um I took away from the history month that they weren't their moms. They were here talking they were engaged with one another. So um just looking out I mean it seems like a great program. Um you said five kids graduated. How many kids are going this coming year? Five. Are we limited to five? Yeah. So, uh I tried to target more. Uh the thing is whenever we whenever I introduce the program to them, I was honest with them about it is a little extra work some days. Some some kids away from that. So, I think we are looking at five potentially six. Yeah. What are the limits to help? Uh there's no really only limit is transportation. So, a suburban typically can only take up six kids at the

073time. So, It's only one of those ones. But seems seems like a great program. Yes. Her name and her increase this year. So thank you Dr. Great job and all that. You know, those were all initially this year, a brand new romance that continue on next year. It's great great work on that. You know, speaking of attendance, that's going to be my topic that I'm going to focus on here. Um, and as you know, be coming in my first year as principal, my real emphasis was attendance. Um, be present was the topic last year that we started with. And so, I want to give that end of the year report so you can see how how it went. Um, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to give kind of a three-year basis

074for this and come back to it at the end and compare all three years. Let's go with this year, the 2024 25 school year. If you remember back in the fall when we we discussed these absences, there's different types of absences. Okay? Um, in our Skyward system, we have excused absences that's coded with an E. This school year we had 2,283 students that used 13,163 and a half days. Okay. Uh that's and again just so we know enrollment wise we're roughly 2500 students. Uh those are with an e excused. We also have a code that's a that's our unresolved absences meaning nobody called in. We don't know why they were absent. We had 786 students this year that used 3,997 and a half days. Our mental health days, that's coded as a B. In Skyward,

075we had 1,347 students that use 3,769 days. And then the medically excused absences, that's that's an M. Okay. And that's 1,314 students that use 8,283 and a half days. And so our total absences for the school year was 29,213 and a half days. That's just these. That's not like suspension days, anything like that. That's just these absences. Which ones are counted towards truency? Oh, which ones are counted toward the excused and the absence are the only two there that's counted towards if we compare that to last year that 23 24 school year. I'll go quickly through this because we We'll see a chart here in a minute. Um, last year we had 237 students that used 14,06 days for excused. The a absences were 769 students for 474 days. The mental health days, 1,275 students

076that use 3,552 and 1/2 days. Medically excused, 1,277 students used 8 8,248 and a half days. And the total I have is the year before was 29,881. And then in 2223 and again I'll go through this pretty quickly. Um as you can see the amount of excused absence 2261 students used 12,53 the APS 671 students used 3,481 days mental health days 1,109 for 2799 medically excused 1523 for 8826 and then the total in 22 23 school year was 20 27,6 69. So if we look at a chart and that puts all three in perspective, what you can see here is comparing these and really for me the excuse is the big one, right? That's the big one. So there was an improvement from the 23 24 school year to this year that just ended. As

077you can see, it's still up from two years ago. The amount of excused absences, uh, as we can see there, the amount of unresolved absences went down just a little bit, not much at all from 4,74 to 39.97. And again, it's up still from the 22 23 school year. The amount of mental health absences went up. It went up again from last year to this year. Um the me the the medical absesses kind of interesting are pretty consistent uh throughout the last three years and our total amount of absences did go down. Okay. And so what are the takeaways from all this? So the e the excuse access did decline 843 absences roughly 2.2% from 24 to 25. The amount of unresolved absences declined 77 absences from 24 to 25. Mental health absences increased 217

078from 24 to 25. the amount of medical absence increased 35 uh from 24 to 25 and the total absence overall declined 67 67 and a half days. Okay. Um the one thing about the mental health days I will say is for next year in our handbook we did change it to where a student can only take a mental health day if they report it that day. Okay. So, in the past, what we've done, it could be in December and a student or a parent will call in and just and we'll say, "Hey, you're out of mental health days." Well, they'll take excuse me, they might have two health mental health days left and they'll use one from back in September that they were absent from. So, they don't go into try, if that makes sense.

079Um, so we got rid of that because our social work department, which was excellent involved in in in how the mental health days were used, they did show that they were not being used the way they're supposed to be being used. Okay, there the mental health days were being used for like vacations, things like that. Now, that can be mental health day, but it's not in a true spirit of what a mental health day is supposed to be used for. Okay, so going forward for next school year, um, it'll be interesting to see if mental health has decline because of that. We'll see. And again, going into next year, this will be something we'll continue uh to be present to try to find better and more effective ways to get kids in school because ultimately

080that's what we want. We want kids here at school because we know that's how they learn best. Any questions about any of these things? So, you you had a decrease here. you had the be present campaign or being present campaign. Was that the is that what pushed the decrease? Oh, I don't know that and I don't know if there's any way to really make sure we know that. I think any type of attention that's put on it helps and it's something all of our teachers did a great job in their classrooms of promoting it too. So, it's a team effort on part of the the whole faculty and staff to try to get kids here. So for next year when you use the tools how will you measure their effectiveness right because this is something

081I think that you know we want kids in schools butts and seats that it matters it does matter a lot um so how would we measure that effectiveness and whether we should fund that effectiveness it's a great question and the only answer to that is if we include maybe some sort of incentives you know because there's been a lot of talk about do we give incentives uh for students and that could be a variety of ways and so if we do something new some kind of new way of then we can gauge it based on that because the data would show if it was successful. So we would have to look at it that way. I think we just have to continue. I mean it's not just about the absences or not the numbers. It

082is the correlation that you had briefed earlier between the number of absences and the GPA. I think it's the continuing not just focusing on you got to be in school, you got to be in school, but hey, you know, this amount, you know, you're out of school for 10 days, your GPA falls statistically by.5, you know, and that is the difference between 4.0 and a 3.5 or a 2.0 and a 2.5. I mean, I think that, you know, I I agree with the be present, but you got to tell why. Yes. Why do you want them? And it's it's not just with the kids, but it's with the parents. These e absences excused. I'm taking my kid out on a vacation, so I'm gonna call in. Sorry, my kid can't be there. They're sick. I

083mean, we've got to get that message out, but tell them why. Not just you've got to be here because you've got to be here. Absolutely. All right. Um, online registration. So, uh, our online registration is going to begin on July 7th. This was moved from June because OTHS has to prepare our Skyward system. we have to do what's called a rollover and that takes place in early July where we transition to the next school year. And so to make everything seamless, we did move the online registration from I believe it's supposed to actually start today, June 26th to July 7th. Um and so that that will make sure it's a smooth transition. And and of course when it comes to online registration, registration in general, it's mandatory. All returning students still have to do all

084the registration paperwork. We try to make it as easy as possible, of course, online. Everything is on our website and follow the directions on there. But we will have an in-person registration if you're having some kind of te technology issues or if you have a unique situation at home where you need to fill out what's called an affidavit. And those will be on Tuesday, July 22nd from 12:00 to 7:00 and also on Tuesday, July 29th from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on those days here at the Smartly Campus. And of course, all the information for registration is on our website. A big thank you, of course, goes to our retired vice principal, Miss Tana Dison, uh because she's the one who organizes all this. And uh next year, uh Mr. printable where we'll be taking

085over uh the registration from from Tuana uh to next year. So even though Tana's not here tonight, I give her a big thank you. All right, here's some other important things coming up. On July 16th and July 17th is going to be our new teacher orientation. We're going to have some walkthrough dates starting on July 30th. On July 30th, it's going to be from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on both campuses. July 31st is going to be what's called Waka Palooa and this is Dr. Heavens. I give you a big shout out to uh Dr. Heavens here is organizing this and this is all this is going to be for our sophomores coming into the Smiley campus. Um where we're going to try to have some excitement for the sophomores coming in so they can

086get a feel for what the Smiley Camp is all about from 12 to 7 on Thursday, July 31st. Scavenger hunts, building tours, prizes. So overall good times. So hopefully all sophomores will come to walk a Palooa on those days. On that date, August 6th, 7th, and 8th are also our walkthrough dates. And again, in those time periods, uh students and parents can come in and check out their classes, where they're at, their lockers, which barely students use anymore, but nonetheless, they can use lockers and they should. Um and just get an overall feel, of course, for what the school is like. August 11th is teacher institute day and then of course the most exciting day of the year August 12th the first day with students. All right and that's it for me. Any questions? All

087right. Thanks. All right. We got a special Let's welcome Miss Schneider and Miss for the special special education report. Hello everyone. Good evening. Good evening. Uh, Mrs. McNichols and I are committed to a very brief presentation um of the special services department. So, in years past when we come up and give our presentation, we go over a lot of um what we do as a department, those kinds of things. But tonight, we are going to just give you the highlights of this year where we have some really exciting changes coming up. And so, we just want to brag on on all of the wonderful things that are going on within our department. Um, we always start out and kind of give everyone a um an idea of what our numbers look like for for the

088current school year. So, one of the things that I think really is highlighted on this slide is that bottom portion with out of district students. Uh we had a big push for alternative education in the last school year and that was because we were utilizing some of those out of district placements for our special education students in certain um disciplinary scenarios and and things like that. At this time last year when we presented we had um 24 students in those out of district placements and that's gone down to 13 here this year and that's primarily because we were able to utilize that alternative um service structure. some of those numbers um our are our students who are living in residential facilities um the Illinois Center for Autism, those placements will stay pretty much those same

089numbers until those students age out. So really where we saw that fluctuation was in those middle places that we were utilizing for those various reasons and those numbers came down significantly because we were able to uh utilize Mr. Printable's fabulous services um and our all dead programming. our numbers at the top. We're going to talk about a little bit more as we get into what our projections look like. The the sort of running theme every year when we present is what is it? What are what are our projections for the next five years? And I always say to everybody, I can't tell you exactly because there's going to be a big fluctuation. There always is. And so, we'll kind of look at where those projections were were meant to be and where they kind of

090are um in the coming years. I reached out to the teachers within our department and I said, "What is something that we want to make sure that the board knows and kind of sees as far as sort of the back and forth give and take within our department?" And the endowment fund has been incredibly good to the special education department. So, um, I encourage you in board docs to look at these pictures and do this to them, make them bigger so that you can see these are some things that in just in the last couple of years we've utilized endowment funds for. So, the two pictures that are kind of tinted pink pink, this is Kelly Marman's classroom. Kelly Marman, who also has a background in social work, did an extensive amount of research on

091trauma-informed classroom settings. And so, she wrote endowment for um flexible seating space and the trauma-informed classroom. So, when you enter Kelly Marman's room, it's like you're immediately like in this peaceful space. It's very nicely colored. All of her desks raise and lower so the kids can stand if they need to stand. they can sit if they need to sit around the edge. There's all kinds of flex seating and she kind of instructs from various places in the room while she's working with the kids, not just standing at the front of the classroom. So, that was one of the big pieces we had through endowment. Um the middle couple near the desks, we uh Christina Beer wrote for VR headsets for the students and we utilize those throughout our entire department everywhere. If you have never

092just come into the building and seen the kids using the VR headsets, you're absolutely missing out because uh we did they did lessons with the human body internal organs and things like that. They we took them down to the South Gym with our OTS South Campus kiddos and they did everything from like swimming for sharks to actually academic and educational things. But they are um they utilize them a lot in like our world geography classes and those kinds of things just to enrich the curriculum and the kids absolutely love them. So they've been to every building that we have um just this year alone. And then the three pictures on the right are our chicken coupe which is a wildly successful project. Casey Bosler's um absolute passion project that she pulled into the OTS South

093campus. Um, we lost the chicken coop actually this year in the big hail storm. And so we just rebuilt the chicken coupe um bigger and better and and even cooler. And if you go over to the south campus at all, there is chicken paraphernalia everywhere. So people who um see the kids and what they're doing with the chicken coupe have like knitted tiny chickens with tiny eggs and each of the classrooms has tiny knitted chickens in it. The kids do crafts um but they completely run the coupe on their own. So they do all of the um you know gather all of the eggs, do all of the cleaning, taking care of the chickens when we need to kind of um replenish the flock and all because you know the storm was not great to

094all of the chickens. Um we raise the chicks from babies at South. So they're in a little incubator with little lights and everything in our um kind of flap room where all of our kiddos go to relax and then once they become big enough they make their way out to the farm. So um the chicken coupe has been wildly successful. They gather the eggs, they deliver them to staff members who purchase them. We didn't know we kind of had gold mine with the with the egg spike in the last year or so, but uh we still sold them for cheap. So, um lots of things through endowment that we're very very very thankful for as a department. Um Tiffany, are we still doing the coffee? Yeah, the the perfect blend is running wonderfully. They were

095a little nervous when Starbucks came over here. you had 0% of an issue with kids choosing our um more economically priced coffees than a Starbucks coffee. So yeah, the perfect one is amazing. They have an early bird crew that come in in the morning for kids who are here for early bird and so that we have students who come in before first hour even and start working and get everything ready and inventory and all those kinds of things. And last year we talked about they started for some of our students who um just weren't quite able to keep up with the hustle and bustle of like taking orders and making orders. They have those kids actually um run like sort of an apprenticeship program with some of our other students in that same program to

096kind of help mentor them into being able to do some of those higher level skills. I pushed it twice. I did. Sorry. Um some other school year highlights. Um over at Soore, we restructured our um Soore program to include a curriculum for life management skills. Um adding in um restorative conversations, um having restorative circles, but also just curriculum based on um their need for academic and emotional well-being. Um so we put that in first hour to kind of ease into the day um to allow for those conversations of like whatever happened last night, a cool down, get your breakfast, just take a minute. That was super successful. Um and then we also added in a step program to kind of incentivize um student growth outside of the program. Our purpose with our sore program is

097not for students to to stay and just feel cozy at to get them out and find a good balance of what they can handle in our general um environment here at school with that supportive environment as well as kind of like their home base. So, uh we were we have been over the last two years able to push a lot of students over at the semester here to the smiley campus um to reintegrate and they have been pretty successful. And then freshman wise, I've also been able to integrate um into our Milin campus as well. Um this year I've also had students um get incentivized to go to half days who are older and go to work. Um and so having that balance as well. So that's been super helpful in just the students being

098able to visualize a path of of their success in the program. Uh in our autism classroom um we've been able to enhance job skills. Um we created office um an office job where they deliver slips where our secretaries can get their supplies um and and principles and such um replenish. So, our students come around and deliver their slips, then they come and collect it. AB fills it for us there. It's a great partnership and then our students deliver it out to our staff. It also includes some um just social interactions for our students with our staff um which everyone loves. They benefit, our staff benefits. It's it's a great time. So, um, so those are some of the things at Milburn that we've enhanced and that's kind of been the theme departmentally for us is

099is expanding partnerships that we have with our students and and students and staff kind of throughout all of the buildings. So, I'm going to skip around in these next couple for a moment. We restructured our sort of character ed programming that we do and we partnered with the social work uh team to create positive praise and so teachers could nominate students and um for for various things. What I really liked about the program is that teachers were not nominating students just for getting an A on every single test, right? It was a kid who came from a D to a C. It was a kiddo who they saw reach out to someone else and do something kind. We got really really great nominations from teachers. And then the students got just as a shameless plug

100a gift certificate to coffee shop and um and then some OTS swag that we had made some water bottles and um Dan Cox created some super cool stickers for us. Um, and so that was that was a great collaboration with the social work staff this year. Um, we also supported the LMS. Our life management skills class is a is a one-hour class here that supports uh social emotional growth in our students and we were able to partner with some RTI funds with them for a really really great new and upgraded curriculum for that class. Since the inception of that class, we've kind of pieced together what what the social work staff and the the person who teaches it sort of enjoys and they've kind of um crafted that as they go, but we we purchased

101a much more wholesome curriculum for that class and it's been going absolutely phenomenal. They're very happy with it. Um and then we partnered with a company for this coming year called Infinitech. We're going to do a lot of um extensive professional development with our pair professional team, really chunking out what they do based on the environments that they're in. as we continue to grow our programming. We have like 45 to 50 pair of professionals on staff in any given year. Um, so we're partnering with Infinitech for just a larger amount of ability to to provide really structured PD that's focused on certain disabilities and serving those disabilities. Um, and so we're really excited about that. And then last on here is cyclical monitoring. So the Illinois State Board of Education released a six-year cyclical monitoring

102program. So it's it's about accountability. um you the the process we were in round one of the six-year process. Um but they it's an extensive process where you go through and you have to sort of audit through everything you do in your programming. Where are things listed? Find them on the website. What's updated? What's not updated? And then they take a sample of um IEP paperwork from the students and you have to go through pages and pages and pages of detailed check boxes and making sure that you're doing everything exactly the way that the state is expecting it. So uh we are we're completed with round with with the um whole process. We were in that first round and most recently at the director's conference the special education director's conference in Bloomington Illinois Dr. Bill

103Trusdale um who is one of the consultants at Isby said to the group, "I vowed to give he wrote a book. I vowed to give my new book to the number one first district in the state of Illinois to finish the cyclical monitoring process with wild success. I own that book. No big deal, but we did a great job." And so they were I've actually been asked to speak at three different conferences on this process and what that looks like um from a district lens. And so it was great. It gave us an ability to go back with our teachers and look at some things that we needed to clean up and do better. And it was it was actually really a wonderful process. So, and then finally, the most exciting thing that's happening I

104feel like I'm clicking Jared. Thanks, buddy. Um, we are expanding our transition programming. So, uh, for for years and years, we've had the transition house, right? And and last year, we came to you asking to grow that program by one. We hired uh Courtney Booth who we're very excited about having this year and we're expanding our transition programming for our students who are 18 to 22. With that expansion is coming a rebranding. So we were we're not calling it the transition house anymore. It will be called the rise house and the new classroom will be here at Smiley. So the rise house and rise smiley um the acronym because everything in special education is an acronym stands for uh real life independence skills and empowerment. We have done a ton of collaboration to begin the

105process of expanding this program. We partnered with a group called the Illinois Center for Transition at Work and at U of I and asked them to come in and audit our programming. And so we asked them into every single one of our transitionary classrooms to tell us what do we need to do better? what do we need to look at to make this a more collective process so that students who are aging out at the age of 22 are as prepared as they can humanly be for adult life for for vocational life for independence those kinds of things and so we we've started a great partnership with them um expanding this program is going to allow us to hard focus in on the students that we have in that population allow us to see what

106kiddos are going to be ready for for being on their own in the workplace and who are going to need more support in that space and really being able to tailor their experience during the time that they're with us um until they age out. So, we're really really excited for Riseze. Um we're excited for the new staff that we're bringing on board and and you know excited for those new adventures in that program and that's well more importantly for that I feel like our staff is really excited to offer this opportunity um all the way around. Um, and so I think as a department it's just something that like everyone is is excited and looking forward to, which means a lot to us as leaders. Um, oh that's not mine. That's terrifying. The only other

107thing I wanted to show you guys was that was the projection projections as they um were previously. What's really interesting is once Jared who I love so much and is going to get that back quickly. Um when when we look at numbers I I joke every year that you know this is what I think the projection is going to be but I can't tell you completely. So if you look at these numbers right for the 24-25 school year and 2526 I went back to a couple of years ago to my presentations and a couple of years ago for the 2425 school year in that top category which makes up our largest population of students I had said there were going to be 268 and there were 287 so not a terrible difference right but I

108was right and that it was going to increase during that same year for 2526 I had projected in that column 222 students and it's looking at 282 students. So that's really representative of just how much of a spike there is in in early intervention and things like that and how our programming continues to grow and how thankful we are that you as a board continue to to help us grow as as we service those kiddos in all of those areas. And that is the end of our presentation. And and just a quick question. So to figure out projections, you're probably talking to our feeder districts. We do. Megan and I Megan goes to all of the eighth grade meetings and then we collect information for several years back for all of the students from all

109of theaters. Thank you guys. All right. So that concludes our administrative reports. The next thing we'll cover is board committee reports. U communication committee first and Miss Johnson's uh out of the country. So I'll just provide a quick update on communication. We did have a meeting on June 10th. Um the next meeting for communications may be on July 15th at 5:00 pm. Um I think it's uh up in the air whether we'll have a communication committee meeting or an education committee meeting. But uh that same day I think 3:00 we facilities 4:00 will be policy. One of those two committees will fit in at five o'clock. So it's to be determined. Um but in the last meeting we discussed uh really the goals. Um we tried to work on KPIs again and uh and targets.

110So I think it's similar to what education's been doing over the past uh six months or so but trying to incorporate smart goals, KPIs and things like that into this committee. Um and then we also talked a little bit about staff surveys. I think showing a need for improved internal communications. So um focus on that moving forward. Um, next is education committee which there was no meeting this past month and like I like I mentioned July 15th we we may have another meeting at 5:00. Um, facilities. Uh, Mr. Richard, uh, we met uh, June the 10th. U, my report is attached. Uh, but I'd like to cover a couple things that might need a little bit more explanation. We had a as you if you've looked at u my report you'll see that we've had

111a problem with water runoff at the back and uh we everybody knows we had a very unusual spring as far as the high rain amounts but at the same time uh we believe as a committee that uh much some of the water that uh causing that problem basically came from the new construction. So, uh the uh to rectify the problem, it's going to cost it was going to be $21,000 and I'm happy to say that FGM has agreed to pay that. So, we're not going to get uh stuck with anymore as far as that is concerned. Uh let's see what else. Uh and then the other problem that we had with the drainage uh by the track and the bleachers that they're they're in the process of rectifying that problem. The painting on the dome

112roof is uh they should be attacking that here hopefully next week. The lower parts of the building have been done. They had a problem early in the beginning with the paint formulation and hopefully that's been rectified and we'll monitor that as far as that goes and our next meeting will be July the 15th. So thanks Mr. um finance committee Mr. We haven't had any meetings uh but I think uh a meeting in July is due for that. Yeah. So, just a little bit of discussion, Blake, you're you're new to the committee. Um, but we were thinking that finance committee would be a good fit for you. Um, so Mr. Richtor is going to uh step step back and focus on facilities. Um, so we we'll connect we'll try to find some time in in July

113and connect on that personnel committee. Uh, Dr. is going to get us. We're delaying slightly the superintendent uh evaluation, but just slightly because I think you're going to get to us by Monday. By Monday. Um so get that over to the board and then we'll get a a a meeting on the calendar to go over that. Um and then I also asked Dr. Shackle for to uh get goals started writing goals since we're we are delayed in our superintendent evaluation to start writing goals though. We have spring and same same question. Mr. Corner, are you interested in personnel committee? So you'll be replacing me on that committee. All right. Policy Mr. Miss Leo policy meeting met on the 3rd of June. We went through 12 new policies board members of average according to Dr. are

114caught up. These are just updates from press. Uh you will see some of them don't have any updates. It's just the date and what that is is that's when um when press goes through and just confirms that everything is still accurate and so the dates are updated on that. So 12 new policies for review there. Um 13 policies that are for second reading. Um and as she said, we are working on the governance award and I um appreciate the board's work in getting us back up to date with policies. I think we're together packing there just as much work as we've done putting the governance back together and getting things getting things updated so that we are we are back on track there. Um our next meeting is I have down 15 July at 4M

115but apparently every other committee is meeting there. You got four policy committee it's always open if you'd like to join. So um while you're up uh Heather updates I do. That was my next thing. Um registration for the joint annual conference is open. I think that those of us who are going um have already been registered. And for our two new board members, we've got Super Saturday coming up which is September 13th. Um it's it's when new board members, you guys can get all your training knocked out at once. It's over in Collinsville. Um Of course, board members who are on this board are still welcome to attend if you'd like to get some refresher there. Uh I think C probably she can help get you get you signed up for that. Uh but it's

116it's good. It's for all new board members and they walk through not just the training, but you get to to link to other board members from other districts and you talk to them. Um they really have the experts come in and train you and and that's the mandatory training that you're Yeah, your mandatory training is knocked out there. um in addition to some some extra if he's not already done it correct you haven't already done it like I think you overheard conference so you you'll need to let Karen know if you're interested in attending conference this year and conference is always the weekend before the Thanksgiving week and then it is a good opportunity for new board members you're exposed to a lot the place where we can get training um because it's mostly focused

117on training classes and things of that sort and uh you get a good chance to interact with a lot of board members from a lot of other school boards. So you get a little bit of perspective on you know how we're similar, how we're different. And then just a reminder to our new board members as well um in our board policies is a requirement that you spend one day in the school kind of shadowing and seeing uh different teachers. So Mr. How will set that up for you. So connect if you haven't already. Um like I know you haven't but I don't remember if you have he's already done. So you get to you get a day in the life of the student. You get to see it. And then a reminder to everybody if

118you do any of the trainings online um please give your certificates to Karen. There's a requirement that it be maintained and hosted. So that and and you mentioned doing the the school tour. Um it's not just new board members. So reelected members too. We're also we all need to do it within the next two years as well. So if you want to let me know when somebody's doing I might just take you back. All right. So uh other special committees we have the best committee um did meet and uh this this meeting was really focused on the feedback that we got out of the retreat. Um so some of the big trends I think that uh were discussed is just an interest in improving collaboration um between all all the our district and all the

119theater districts. Um I think they we're looking at collaboration security technology curriculum development trying to get our principles together um to to to talk um security and and and fire were were some of the other ones. Um there was discussion around the superintendents I think used to meet on a regular basis. I'm not sure if they felt that they needed to meet as as frequently as the superintendent used to or at breakfast monthly, but I think there is interest in trying to get something that's that's regular and uh on the calendar. Um joint professional development was also discussed as another collaboration opportunity but as we're doing professional development it might be an opportunity you know do it across some of the the other districts and uh you know gain gain respect perspective there but then

120healthcare insurance came up too as opportunities for where we can maybe work together to uh to improve our product and reduce our our costs. Um, so that's pretty much it for best. Um, then we have the city council group that meets regularly. August the 7th is our next meeting. I I had July 7th. Maybe I thought it was too No, it isn't July 7th. It's on the Thursday. So, it's correct. I'll follow make sure. Thank you. And and the purpose of that committee, the the city has a lot of projects that are planned. Schools have a lot of projects that are planned. Um so, it's trying to work together so that you know maybe the resources can be shared. um the projects can be shared um any opportunities that we might have or at least

121that we're giving each other feedback and uh and trying to consider other perspectives. Um so that that wraps up our um board board committees and and other committees. Um next would be uh our visitors and uh is there anybody in the audience that like to address the board? All right. If not, we will move on to old business. consent agenda. All right. So, u I want to make a motion to approve the consent agenda items in their entirety, including but not limited to prior meeting minutes, financial reports, payment of bills, freedom of information act, requests, and disposal of obsolete equipment. So, move I Vtor All right, consent agenda passes. Um, next we have old business and uh I'm going to make a motion to approve board policies as presented. So move second roll call. Victor,

122I brown I that completes old business. We're going to move on to new business and I'm going to make a motion to approve the appointment, compensation, discipline, performance, and dismissal of personnel items as presented. So move second. Roll call. I Brown I. All right. Next is a contractor pay applications. I'm going to make a motion to approve the pay applications for construction projects as described. So move second. Roll call. Is I I Victor I corners Brown I Next is uh trips in excess of 200 miles. So I'll make a motion to approve trips in excess of 200 miles. Second. I just I do this every time. There's a there's a trip on June 27th and 28th, right? Oh, is that No, it's this year. That would be tomorrow. Yep. Boys soccer. I I can't speak

123to that. Only Mr. Patton would be able to speak to that. I think they go to Quad Cities. Do you know? Okay. I think they go to Quad Cities for a tournament. Was it surprise or was it a surprise that they did it last summer and I for some of the summer, but they may not have had I don't know if they had it planned before the May board meeting or not. I think the task is more advanced notice. If they know they're going to do that, they should have more than one. I'm going to approve. I just hate when it's like a day before or sometimes it's in the past. Yeah. All right. Thank you. All right. So, roll call. Victor. Hi, Corners. Brown. Hi, T. Hi, Hi, Le. All right. Next is a

124uh additional teacher for English learning. Um, before we kind of go into this, do you want to Sure. So, in March, you approve all of the FTE needs typically, but our English learner population has increased. Um in the notes there you'll see that uh it we had three in the 2021 school year and this past year we were up to 13 students and we're anticipating that number to continue to grow. Right now our English learners travel to the regional office of education to be serviced there. Um we think that with the numbers and we also uh the numbers of students as well as as well as financially um that our students would be better served that we hire an in-house English language teacher. It would only be a three pist position. It's not a full-time

125position. Um it will result in financial savings, but more importantly, these students would be served in house um by one of our own teachers. um that teacher then would be able to the rest of the day if they chose um to fill in as subs which we always have need for that. Um I don't know if it will get filled if it truthfully a part-time position is difficult to fill and it's a very unique position as well for English learners. Um if it's not filled we'll continue to utilize the regional office of education. I actually spoke to the um superintendent for our office today uh and just told her what you know our plan was and she said it'll be you know we still have room for you if it doesn't work out but we

126are at the point where we do have numbers to support it. However, if we don't get it higher continuing with the ROE is not a bad option either. This is just a better option. And I we think it's going to expand. Is that because there's kids in the grade school level? Just because we've seen growth from year to year, not only within OTHs, but also in our area. Okay. And then this teacher, I guess, even though they're doing three fifths this year, could potentially possibly if we keep growing. Sure. Okay. Any other any questions from the board? All right. So we'll motion to approve the certified FTE edition of 35ths EL teacher for the 2526 school year. So move second roll call Brown I I um next up is the intergovernmental agreement between the city

127of Oallen and and the high school. Um Blake's new Dennis is new. Do you want to real briefly explain what this is? This is for our school resource officer. Um which we have we've had one uh historically um we have an opportunity this year to not only renew as we do annually. We do this every June. Um but also the city is offering another school resource officer for next school year who would be primarily housed at the Milbourne campus. That school resource officer would also serve um our feeder districts in Ofallen um on an as needed basis but be primarily serving the Milbour campus and it will only add $10,000 annually to our current contract. So it's a wonderful deal for our district for a wonderful service. So, we're just looking for the standard approval

128plus an additional $10,000 to get a whole other person over at Milurn campus would be housed there. Yeah. And then this agreement also contracts out how the relationship is defined between the city. So, any questions? Someone make a motion to approve the intergovernmental agreement between city of Township High School District 203 regarding the SRO program. So move second I I Richtor I Brown I All right. Our next item is the food service contract uh which I believe is a renewal. So I guess before we jump into this are there any questions from the board? I I think I get this question answered every year. So there are renewal contract terms in paragraph B. CPI hall, CPI food, CPI food away from home and then there's CPI food away from home not doing 5%. So and

129we've picked the most expensive renewal contract. Is that because of what we picked in the original contract? It is. But if you look at page one, CPI is lower this year. So we've been 5% the past few years. It's at 3.6% page one. Yeah, I I do see that. But we do not get CPI food which is 2.5% or CPI all which would be 2.9%. Original contract terms just just we're just stuck with the original contract terms and and it was a gam we gamble we sometimes you win sometimes all and this will be the last year for the contracts. We'll have to do the food service bid this coming year. Okay. Any any questions? I I think by the way next year we should both I think food cost will steadily increase in the

130United States. We might want to pay it to CPI all instead. Um, and that might be cheaper in our next contract. Okay. Okay. Make a motion to approve the renewal of the food service contract with charts. So, I Victor I Brown I All right. Next is the adult and student lunch prices for this coming year. Any questions from the board? They're increasing. Okay. The minimum increase for the state is 10 cents. We're increasing by 20 cents. Um there is a tool that all schools much must fill out every year. It's the paid lunch equity tool. Um it's a spreadsheet where we take our current prices and they make a recommendation on what to increase. We've never reached that increase. Um the recommended from that tool was4. We need the 20 cents to sustain our lunch

131account balance to stay to stay in the black in our lunch account. So, we'll always decrease we'll increase it to the least amount possible that we can um while keeping that account balance positive. We need the 20 cents for that this year. So, the tool said 45 cents, but that would be us just housing money and reserves in that lunch account. That lunch account is meant to be used on the food service program for purely covering our cost. Correct. Yeah, that's it. And I looked at the numbers. Does it look like you're increasing student and adult lunches proportionally? The same amount. And so an adult lunch is what our staff purchases. Yeah. Actually purchase lunch, which is more expensive. I really hate I know prices. Can we subsidize the 20 cents here? We can't from

132other funds. No. The lunch account is actually prescribed as its own bank account that's only to be used for food service. So, can we go negative in that account and just transfer at the end of the year? No. What happens if we blow that account? We wouldn't be able to pay our lunch bills. I mean, it's its own it's its own individual bank account with a completely different bank really. So, it's kind of like the education bucket. You got a bucket for kind of except the Well, except the education. It's part of the education fun, but I I mean, all of our operating funds are in our primary bank account. The lunch account is its own bank account because it's that heavily restricted. Can we subsidize at the register for your students? I don't know

133what you mean. So, instead of subsidizing the bank account, I've got a problem with the increase. I'd like the school to subsidize the increase of students. Well, we've done that. So, the equity tool says we should go up 45 cents. The reason we're not is because we can afford to get through this next year with only the 20 cents. I guess I don't understand so yeah go zero but we can't put funds in the lunch correct it's restricted I mean we have to take it from our oper our operating expenses I guess Um, I don't think that's a responsible thing for us to do. Any other question? Any other comments? I mean, I I personally feel like it's important to cover cost. At the end of the day, we have to cover cost and stay

134in black. So, um, okay. So, I'm going to make a motion to, uh, approve student and adult lunch crisis for the 2526 school year. So, Second roll call. I Richtor. Corners. Brown. I motion passes. Um, next is uh other food prices. Um, they're for the student and adult out. So, it's things like Gatorades and above and beyond basic basic uh basic lunches. Any any questions here before we get into it? I ask that we amend it to not have an increase for milk, bottled water, a fruit, and the fruit cup, keep a price. Is that possible that this is market? We're going to be charged more from the vendor. Um, so the district would have to eat that. And I don't know what the sales analysis is on those. the last time uh that we

135did that and they agreed to to it. What what they did I think if I'm remembering correctly is they increased other things to balance that make that same I guess I see where tell me what items so typically before when we've worked to negotiate we've kept healthy items lower right and unhealthy items higher so I just need to know then what I need to go back to them with to ask them to negotiate down So, there's three what I would call healthy items that I think should be price frozen and that's milk. Okay. Bottled water in the fruit cup. comfortable then because you know at the end of the day they they're they're going to have to balance too of bringing something else up in exchange for those. I would peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

136All right. So um what do we want to do? Are we tableabling this motion or are we uh adjusting it pending pending your outcome? I think because we don't have to make decision and this is AL card so it's not as important as the launch prices. All right. So we're going to table item 10.8 uh for discussion next month. Um basically pursuant to uh adjusted pricing to keep staple items, healthy items at at a stable at a at a stable price and I have milk, bottled water and fruit cup. Heather also mentioned peanut butter and jelly sandwich thoughts from other board members on that or fruit and vegetable fruit vegetables already flat. Well, I don't want that one. Yeah, right. Sure. That's a good point. I I'll make sure. Okay. Okay. Next is uh All

137right. extracurricular assignments. So, we're going to take a look at not not what we're paying, but the the pay is tied to our contract CDA. Um, but it's it's really approving the people that are being appointed or assigned to the positions. So, um I'm going to make a motion to approve extracurricular extra assignments for employees, staffers, and volunteers presented for the 2526 school year. So, second discussion. Sure, Dan. Uh we've got for uh let's see, it was volleyball for the girls. We still have uh the two that took over the program last year during maternity leave. Are we going to remove those or what? Or they're on there as part-time staffers, right? So we are keeping them on then. according to what Mr. Patton has in his his going to be parttime staffers. Good enough.

138Thank you. That's the only question I can maybe she Yeah, because they were pretty much head coaches this year, right? Yes. All right. Uh, any other questions? All right. that I'm going to make a motion to approve extra curricul. Brown I I All right, motion passes. Um, next we have liability insurance premiums and coverage. So, I'm going to make a motion to approve the annual renewals of liability insurance premiums in the amount of $473,155 for the coverage as presented. So, moved. Second. Roll call. Brown. I I see. Okay. Um yeah I should have asked a question this uh covers board members too or is that a different policy? It does. Um motion to approve the treasur's authorization to pay bills for 2526 prior second. All in favor? I oppose. Okay. Motion passes. Got a motion

139to approve resolution regarding designation of interest fiscal year ending June June 30th 2025. So move call I I Richtor I Brown I motion passes. We've got a motion to approve the appointment of Shalita Gray as district treasurer for the 2526 school year using prior rules. So move second. All in favor? I oppose. Motion passes. Um I've got a motion to approve annual designation of depositories for the 2526 school year using prior call. I need to listen and I no longer need to. Is there is there a second? I'll second it. All right. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. We've got a motion to motion to approve Ethan Graham as a federal impact aid agent for the 2526 school year using prior move. Second. All in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion passes. We missed

14010.15. Motion to approve Shelita Gray, Karen Hayes, and Beth Shackleford as Freedom of Information Act FOYA officers for the 2526 school year. So moved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Um motion to approve Shelita Gray as the authorized agent for the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund IMRF fiscal year 2526 prior roll call. So moved second. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Uh, we've got a motion to approve Tiffany Schneider as the DCFS liaison to facilities to facilitate the enrollment and transfer of records of students in the legal custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services when enrolling in or changing schools for this school year 25 and 26. So move second. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. All right, we've got a motion to approve the OTHS concussion protocol using prior

141roll call. So move. Second. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Uh we've got a motion to approve the OTHS concussion oversight team as presented for the 2526 school year. So moved. Second. All in favor? Um Next is uh just a discussion. So first and then we'll make a motion. But uh for the uh school board um conference in Chicago, we need to assign an IASB delegate. Um Heather's done it last year and has offered to do it again this year and somebody else would like to do that. I think Heather's interest. I agree. So, unless anybody disagrees, Heather's our delegate. Uh, but we need an al alternate as well. I don't know if you have thoughts, Heather, on that's be an alternate. I won't be there. So, I won't be there either. So, that's

142Dennis. I won't be there. So, it's Donna, Dennis. You're going right. And yeah, I think it may be good to like learn that process too. So the IASB is the nonprofit organization that we are a part of that um their goal is to help school board members become better school board members. And so the delegate is one that that works with the constitution and the bylaws and the um deciding you know kind of helping um which laws to advocate for and stuff like that just keeping the governor's laws across the whole state of Illinois. So it's the process of giving the the association direction on where to lobby. All right. Um, so I'm going to make a motion to um approve Heather Leu as our IASB delegate and Dennis as our alternate for the 2526

143school year and using prior roll call. Second. All in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion passes. Um, and then next we've got a board is not not something to vote on, but uh we're reviewing a first reading on board policies. Um, so if there's no questions on the board policies, we'll review them again next month as a second reading and uh motion them and vote them, you know, into our policy book. Um, so that takes us to uh any any other business. Someone ask if I can back up. I'm sorry I forgot about this one. The residents one. So I asked the board to consider this on we had a question on whether we wanted to allow um students out of the district to to basically pay to come to the school of if they were

144students of teachers. Um the policy committee recommends no. If any of you as board members are reviewing this and disagree with the policy committee's recommendation, we're going to have to discuss that as a as a board. But I did want to bring that to your attention because we did get a question um from the public and from at least one of our future schools. Again, policy committee recommendation is no. Um service our school are students who are in district. I I guess questions all Does anybody feel you know that that should be a yes and not a no? Right. So I I think that everybody's in agreement with your your direction. All right. Um so other business um are there any other items left to discuss that we didn't make that didn't make it to

145the agenda? All right. There's not we'll move our next board meeting will be uh July 17th. In that meeting, we're looking at semian review of our closed session minutes. So, I guess we're deciding whether we want to keep them closed or make them public, which normally we keep them closed, but um we need to review that and make that decision next month. Uh we've also got a review of the threat assessment team and procedures. And then, uh important dates, we've got it coming up soon, is the teacher orientation on July 16th and 17th. And that kind of wraps it up for today. Um, so I'm going to make a motion to adjourn the regular meeting of the board of education. So move second. All in favor. injured on