001Call please. Ader here. Anino here. Hunt here. Khan he's not. Zubir will not be here this evening. Shupai here. Taylor here. Wong here. By leveraging strengths and providing highquality support, we will honor our diverse learners in reaching their full potential. It is devastating to have begun so many meetings over the past year with a moment of silence and sadness for someone that we've lost, whether a staff, student, or community member. Today, we'd like to start the meeting with a moment of silence for Hannah Hodgson, an amazing, respected, and much loved educator. Thank you. Hannah will certainly be missed by so many in the district that were close to her and um we're really devastated for her family and friends, too. I want to thank everyone for participating in our democratic process and voting on April
0021st. Um, another moment of sadness here, not for the uh the loss of life, but the uh the loss of the ability to hang out every month at the board table with Anthony Juan. Um, we are very sad to be losing Anthony who has served the community for the past eight years. We have appreciated your commitment over these 96 months. You know, 8 years sounds like a long time, but 96 months sounds like wow. And if we break it, 2,920 days. And I don't know about you guys, but the 2,920 days doesn't sound as long in my mind as 96 months. But um but we've truly appreciated your commitment, Anthony, and everything you've done for district 15. I for the first time had somebody send me a photo of one of the plaques on one
003of the new construction schools, and I'm not exactly sure how I missed it because we've been in and out of those schools and out and about for months and months and months, and I never saw any of those plaques. but you are immortalized on that plaque on so many schools for your uh your time commitment and everything you've done for D15. So, thank you. And just to to take a minute, I mean, it's it's truly it's been a an honor to serve uh the community in the district over the last eight years and appreciate people coming out to vote. Um, you know, and I think uh Mr. Bachman and the new board are going to work wonderfully together. Um, I I will still be involved in district. I've got two kids at Lake Louise, so
004I will still be around and active. But, um, it it's been an honor. Will you still go to Taco Bell once a month on Wednesday after we meet, even if you're not here? No comments, but probably. Yeah. Yeah. Taco Bell's appreciating the plug right now. And half the room's like, "Oh, yeah. Let's go to Taco Bell after the meeting." And uh Anthony mentioned uh Eric Bachmann who uh we are he is not here today. He had a uh a conflict but we'll we will see him at the next meeting and we welcome Eric Bachmann who will begin his board service in May. So thanks again for everybody participating. Thank you particularly to Anthony and uh Eric when you're watching this. We appreciate the beginning of your long-term commitment and we hope you like Taco Bell.
005That's right. Um, our first dinner. All right. Uh, we've got Hunting Ridge in the uh in the building today who will lead us in the pledge of allegiance. All right. Fantastic. Good evening, President Shupai, Dr. Hines, esteemed members of the board of education, staff members, and guests. My name is Kate Arinberg, and I'm the proud principal of Hunting Ridge Elementary School. I stand before you tonight to shine a spotlight on a remarkable group of students from Hunting Ridge Elementary School, the Hunting Ridge Hawk Crew. I am joined this evening by Mrs. Ally Freriedman, our assistant principal. Mrs. Amanda X is the Hawk Crew Club sponsor and one of our beloved fifth grade teachers. This dedicated team of young leaders embodies the very spirit of community and initiative and they play a vital role in fostering
006a positive and engaging school environment. The Hawk Crew is more than just a club. It's a commitment to service, leadership, and school spirit. Let me elaborate on the core principles that drive the Hawk Crew. commitment. Being a member of the Hawk crew is a significant undertaking. These students dedicate their time and energy beyond the regular school day. They meet two to three times a month during their lunch and recess periods, working closely with Mrs. X and Mrs. Freriedman. They don't just brainstorm ideas, they actively implement them, shaping the school experience for their peers. This commitment spans the entire school year, showcasing their dedication and perseverance. Responsibility. The Hawk crew members understand the importance of accountability. They are responsible for attending meetings, completing assigned tasks, and following through on their commitments. Their fellow students and the
007school staff rely on their reliability, and they consistently rise to the occasion. Hard work. This team is a powerhouse of productivity. They collaborate to brainstorm creative ideas, produce engaging videos and announcements, manage the popular Huntley store, serve as helpful lunch and recess assistants, organize exciting schoolwide celebrations and activities, lead impactful community service projects, and tackle various tasks assigned by myself, Mrs. Freriedman, Mrs. X, and Mr. Soil. They are truly multiaceted contributors to the school community fun. While they work diligently, the Hawk crew also understands the important importance of joy and teamwork. They strive to maintain a positive and vibrant atmosphere at Hunting Ridge, ensuring that school is not only a place of learning, but also a place of fun and excitement. The Hawk crew is a testament to the power of student leadership and the
008positive impact that young people can have on their school community. They are cultivating essential skills such as teamwork, communication, and problem solving, all while making Hunting Ridge a more welcoming and engaging place for everyone. Tonight, I'm proud to introduce to you, we're going to go down the row here and give a wave and a smile. Matthew, Kelly, Cece, [Applause] Jill, Clara, Alyssa, Lillian, Aa, and Libby. We have a few more Hawk crew members who couldn't join us this evening and they are Anya, Brin, Harper, Olivia, and Owen and Grayson. Thank you. We are incredibly proud of these students and their dedication to service. They are truly making a difference. I encourage you to see the impact of their hard work and to join me in celebrating their accomplishments. Thank you for inviting us this evening
009and please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Turn this way. I pledge aliance 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. Thank you. If any parents would like to come up and take photos from right in front, please feel free to walk up and uh All right. One fan in disagreement. [Music] Highlighter for your hard work. Thank you. Wonderful job. [Music] highlighter. Wonderful. Thank you for your service. Okay. Thank you so much. Oh my gosh. Are we lucky today? Oh, thank you. How awesome is that? Oh, well, thank you. Thank you so much. Awesome. These are great. Those are very cool. You get two bears. You got two bears. Zar's going to be so sad.
010I missed a cookie. Really? It's like you said when you missed a meeting that was like an hour. Wait a minute. It's okay. cuz you talk faster. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. Dr. Hines, President Shupai, members of the board. It is with great pride that district 15 presents three outstanding middle school students who are being recognized for their exceptional accomplishments in the arts. These students have demonstrated remarkable talents, creativity, and dedication, earning them well-deserved recognition at both the state and the national level. Their achievements not only highlight their individual artistic abilities, but also reflect the strength of our district commitment to fostering artistic expression and excellence. Jaylen has advanced to the national level in the visual arts category for her piece breaking free, a testimony to her extraordinary skill and artistic vision. Iris received a state honorable
011mention for her work from 11 places in the world showcasing showcasing her unique perspective and storytelling ability through visual arts. And Derek was also awarded a state honorable mention for his film production, Keep Going, a piece that exemplifies perseverance and creativity in the dynamic medium of film. These students accomplishments and Plum Grove PTSA reflection competition representing the North Cook region are a reflection of their hard work and passion for the arts. Beyond their accolades, Jaylen, Iris, and Derek serve as role models for their peers. Their success is a reminder of the importance of arts, education, and developing critical thinking, problem solving, and emotional intelligence. By excelling in their respective fields, they inspire other students to explore their own creative potential, and strive for excellence in all areas of learning. On behalf of the district, I
012commend these students for their achievements and thank the board of education for its continued support of art and education. Their work exemplifies innovation, dedication, and talents that make our school community so exceptional. We look forward to celebrating their future successes and continuing to foster an environment where all students can thrive. Congratulations students. And before we take a photo, we are going to watch the the video. What is 6 * 47? [Music] It's okay. We all make mistakes. Thanks. Let's try this again. What is * 68? Good job. Hey, hold your certificates. Take a picture. Yep. If moms and dads, anybody that's in the audience that's a fan, wants to come up for pictures, come on up. Got one more. One more. Congratulations. Your artwork is really Um, our student recognition of Zoe, she's not here
013tonight, so we will uh reschedule her just so the board knows for next month. Okay. Good evening, board president Shupai, distinguished board members, Dr. Hines. This evening, we have Leonel with us. We're celebrating him and Leonel's team that I'd like to introduce to you. We have um I'm Patty Van Winkle, the uh the proud principal of Virginia Lake. I know I know all of you. So, thank you for having us this evening. We have um Mr. Rodriguez and Miss Reyes, the assistant principles. We have um Miss Mus, Lonel's classroom teacher. Mr. Hermate, his resource teacher. We have Mrs. Luna, one of our program assistants, Miss Breto, our social worker, and Mrs. Brenton, the assist of technology teacher. It is a great honor this evening to recognize an exceptional fourth grade student from Virginia Lake, Leonel,
014who has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 outstanding student technology award from Infantech. This prestigious award is given to students who demonstrate remarkable progress and achievement through the use of technology. And Lonel's dedication to innovation and learning has truly set him apart. Lionel's ability to harness technology for a tool for growth and discovery is an inspiration to both his peers and educators. Leonel's shared Lionel shared that technology has enhanced his discussions with peers and facilitates a deeper understanding in math and science, his favorite subjects. Leonel's enthusiasm shared with learning within these subjects has been amplified through the use of technology, allowing for a more interactive and potentially wider reaching discussions. The Virginia Lake team is so proud of [Applause] Lionel. Thank you. Wow. Ready and cheese. Here comes his family. Hold on. Keep
015smiling. Congratulations [Music] That's awesome. It's eye catching. I got the uh the highlighter. All right, we have two staff recognitions coming up next. Okay. Uh, good evening. I am Andy Albert, director of human resources. Uh, I'd like to take a little side journey if you if I can for a moment. About two and a half years ago, I did a presentation an above and beyond for Miss Cynthia Fletcher. Um, it was I was new to the district. I would think I was two weeks in and I got in front of you all and and did my little spiel uh and didn't think anything of it. But since then, I've been to several board meetings and I realized everybody else since then has started one particular way and I didn't start that way and I have
016regretted it ever since. So, I consider this my little redo. It's uh 2 and 1/2 years late, but I got to go ahead and start the right way. Continuous improvement on the That's exactly that's where by the way Dr. Hines, esteemed board of education staff and guests, might I introduce you to uh sorry I'm glad I got that out of the way. I feel much better. Um this uh district 15 is thrilled to congratulate Katherine Lestina for earning this prestigious recognition. And Katherine joined the district in 2021 as a special education resource teacher at Carl Sandberg Middle School. She earned her national board certification and exceptional needs specialist early childhood through young adulthood. She joins our 46 other national board certified teachers in this district. National board certification is widely recognized as a gold standard
017for prof tough word for professional educators. This voluntary rigorous certification process requires teachers to demonstrate distinguished practice and content knowledge, differentiated instruction, data use, and continuous learning. Similar to certification in fields like medicine, national board certification is a peer-reviewed process that ensures teachers have the proven skills to enhance student achievement. It serves at an as an advanced teaching credential where teachers analyze their teaching context, submit videos for their practice, and provide student work samples showing growth and achievement. The reflective anal analysis submitted must demonstrate strong content knowledge, the ability to design effective learning experience, and use of assessments to guide instruction, and partnership with colleagues, parents, and the community. Teachers with national board certification set an inspiring example to their colleagues. We thank them for their dedication and perseverance and going above and beyond to
018obtain this advanced recognition. We look forward to having the board of the board recognize and congratulate them in person on January 8th. We know that they will share our pride and talented educators. Thank you, Katherine, for your dedication and hard work. Congratulations. Sure. One, two, and a bunch more people. Okay, you guys. Good. All right. Good evening, Dr. Hines, President Shupai, members of our school board, and of course, members of our district 15 community. My name is Joanna Shastichuk. I'm the principal of Central Road School and I'm here with Mrs. Amy Wagner, our assistant principal. Together with our entire Central Road staff, we are very excited to recognize Mr. Isma Malagon, who serves as our head custodian at school. Isma's dedication, work ethic, and positive personality have had an incredible impact on our entire school
019community. His efforts go far beyond keeping the building clean and well-maintained. He is a regular source of support, kindness, problem solving, and dedication to our staff and students alike. Isma also plays a critical role in ensuring the smooth operations of our building, especially in managing the daily challenges that arise in any elementary school. His proactive approach and attention to detail help prevent accidents and keep our school community safe. Beyond his job responsibilities, he is known for his warm personality. He greets every staff member and student with a smile, responds quickly to any concerns, and consistently goes above and beyond to lend a helping hand. His willingness to pause his work to support students and brainstorm solutions with staff speaks volume speaks volumes about his dedication to our school. We are lucky to have Ema on
020board with us at Central Road and we hope that being recognized this evening allows him to truly know how valued he is by our Central Road community. Congratulations, Isma. This is an honor that is very welld deserved. His daughter's here. Mindy, we're sending water your way. Scooch a little. Aren't they? She's a little mini me, but she has cuter hair. This is sweet. She's She goes to Lincoln Elementary School. Joanna and Amy, why don't you get in there, too? Okay. Congratulations. And Central Road really does look amazing. So, thank you. Best part of the meeting. Absolutely. We will now open our meeting for public comment. Public comment is governed by board policy 2 230. As people are making their way up, if you could go back just one slide just very quickly. We've also recognized
021uh our pair of professionals since our last meeting, our assistant principles and our national school librarians as part of our staff recognition days. And then as we do every Friday, we highlight different staff members so people can see where they work, what they do in our district, and how long they've been here. Nice. Now we'll open the meeting to public comment. Please remember this is not a dialogue between you and the board. If you have a specific issue that requires a response, Superintendent Hines or a designate will follow up with you as needed. Do we have any forms? I don't think so. Okay. I'm going to go through the whole thing. Would anybody like to speak? Do you want me to finish? Step up. Say something. Move on, Mr. Bramley. Keep it. All right. Are
022you sure? Last chance. All right. Moving on, Dr. All right. Wonderful. Uh, so since we last met, if you go to the next slide, I uh held a second catch up with Hines, this time in the Hoffman Estates community. Um, I was at their library, which was lovely, by the way. Uh, the mayor of Hoffman Estates was in attendance as well as a number of residents. Um, and the final uh catch up with Hines for the year will be uh before our next board meeting on Monday, May 12th, right here at the Sunling Auditorium. So, we figured we could spend an hour or so. If any board members are able to come just to participate in the audience, uh feel free you can come and learn hear my spiel, uh interact with the community, and
023if they have any questions, uh you'll be there to help answer those questions. Um, I started also my second round of superintendent middle school advisory uh with the Sunling crew. We introduced ourselves. I had a lot of repeat customers. I met uh with Dr. McFaden joined me. We did three rounds. We did a sixth grade lunch, a seventh grade lunch, and an eighth grade lunch. We introduced ourselves. Uh we sought their feedback on intercolastic sports, inner murals, and clubs. And as I have said before, um they the students thankfully are never shy. They always share exactly what's on their mind. and they gave us a lot of very um good feedback in terms of what sports we offer. Um some of them would like uh baseball, flag football, um what else did they tell us?
024Regular football. They had a whole list and I said we have to save some things for high school. We we can't cover it all at middle school. Um most participants have been involved in inter murals and or clubs and this I would say overall a lot of very positive feedback. Um some some actionable feedback was have we ever thought of offering homework club during lunch. What would that look like? because one girl in particular has a big dance schedule after school and doesn't have time to go to after school homework club. But she identified for us a spot that's available in the library in the lunchroom. And she did all the thinking for us and said if we could just make that space available, she could get some work done while she's eating so she
025has less work to do when she gets home. So we're going to look into that. Uh Mr. Deetsz, the principal, uh also joined us and he said he heard similar things from the students. So they are certainly going to be looking into some of the student suggestions. Um we also asked them to refle reflect keeping in mind that this year sixth and seventh graders were new at our middle schools. So the school staff really had their work cut out for them on boarding twothirds of their new building as as first- timers. So we said, "What can we do now to better prepare our current fifth graders for sixth grade?" And they also had ideas. They shared with us what they liked and they thought that we did well and what helped them as they transitioned
026in, but they had other ideas to share with us to make it an easier, less scary, smoother transition. So, we will also be sharing those ideas once we compile them across all five middle schools. And then we we asked them if there was anything else that they wanted us to know. And of course, again, they weren't they weren't shy. They had they had suggestions. One young man had approached me. He wanted to be able to provide vending machines himself at all five seventh grader uh at all five elementary schools um because he found one on the internet and he was going to find four more and he was going to talk to me about profit sharing and he had it all planned out. It was a great business plan. I mean he is an entrepreneur
027in the making but unfortunately due to bid requirements and LLC's and etc we we cannot move forward with a studentrun vending machine. But I loved absolutely loved his enthusiasm. So, round one, I have four more to do and uh they're wonderful. They've really become one of my highlights uh of my days here in in uh district 15 this year. All right, next up, as I often do or always do, I will provide you with just a brief update. Like I say every single month, we are so very busy with so much great work. So, quickly, there is an insurance committee. you'll hear a presentation on uh today from a handful of district 15 staff, central office staff, but that committee also consists of AERA, our insurance group, as well as um the CTC president and
028vice president and and Bridges and Scott Waldman. It's been a team effort and not only the insurance committee, you'll see on multiple slides, we've really been focused on renewal. Where are we? What is the market saying? What is are the trends saying? Um what does insurance look like right now? So, it's a it's not a great picture as you can imagine with medical inflation and everything. Um, we've had quite a high experience over the years. So, we're going to talk about the renewal rates tonight. Um, we're working on uh teacher evaluation and the possibility of getting a joint committee together, a small group of people to take a look at the teacher evaluation instrument. Every school district in Illinois has a joint committee. You are supposed to convene annually. Um, right now we're working with
029a consultant, her name is Pam Rosa, and we're just going through some professional development. We really don't know what it's going to look like in in these next phases, but it it's in the development stage at this point. And as the plan takes shape, we will certainly communicate with the board, with the staff, and and get others involved. But right now, it's at the professional development level. Uh the team and I have been working as as Lisa said, we're we're sad to lose Anthony. uh at the May meeting May 12th, we had to change it from the 14th Wednesday to the 12th on a Monday um to be in compliance with IASB seating requirements. But the very next day on Tuesday, May 13th, we will meet with new board member Eric Bachmann to provide him
030with an overview of what district 15's working on. Um, I'll do a lot of board updating and board sharing of information, some training, and then each member of cabinet will provide a 15 to 30 minute update. Um, highlevel overview of what their department is focused on just so when he has his second meeting and third and fourth, it's hopefully a little bit less overwhelming because you really do just like dive right in from from day one of board service. So, we've been working on on boarding. Uh, as I spoke with you last month, Senate Bill 1799, it is an EA um, if bill that has been picked up and sponsored by Senator Vivalam. Um, and we have worked, I've worked um, great deal with Ed with IASA. Um, a couple members of the transportation department,
031Tom Braramley, Lisa Nes from HR, uh, Claire Kowalchek, and Sher Lazour, um, met me on a call of Zoom with the senator, and we really tried to provide a more balanced perspective. So, this is an IEA backed bill. They they they initiated it. They found a sponsor. That's how bills get legs. Um, we tried to to paint a balanced picture, you know, really expressing why a bill like this would be very detrimental to District 15. uh Senate Bill 1799 at its core says that you uh will limit the district's ability or any district's ability with non-instructional staff to do any level of outsourcing or supplementation beyond the 90 days without union approval. So as this board and community know we have had a driver shortage for a number of years really since co it never
032has rebounded. We'veate between 85 and 90 drivers on any given kind of Sunday as the saying goes. uh we need over 110 drivers to run our routes before we even get involved with people calling in sick at a rate of 18 to 20% a day. So the way the statute's written now protected in Illinois school code, it gives the managerial rights and authority where they should be at at the board level, at the administrative level to to supplement our workforce and to fill our positions in any ways that we need to. By no means do we have more supplemental drivers than district drivers. We want them to be our own drivers. We We would love to have 110 plus a bench of around 20 or so substitutes. They're just not there. So, this bill, if
033it's if it's passed, will have a devastating impact on our ability to get kids to school every single day across three tiers on time. So, we are very concerned and we we're making our concerns known. Um, there will be an action alert that will come out. We received one today from IA. I pushed out to the board. uh numbers members of the leadership team, colleagues in other places and we are likely going to need the staff and the parents to get involved as well as it moves from one house to the next house because it needs approval from both both houses to become a bill. Um we need the legislators to understand that we have tried and tried and we continue to try to recruit. Um we have raised wages. We've upped our game in
034terms of recruitment. They work very hard in the transportation department to in soft ways to show that, you know, we care about our drivers. We just cannot seem to find them and keep them. So, we've reported at least 11 times to this board um how many drivers we have. We have how many drivers we have in the hopper, how many drivers have gone out on FMLA, uh quit, have been terminated. It very much is two steps forward, three steps back. So, not for without trying, you know, are we still struggling to find bus drivers? So, more to come on S Senate Bill 1799, but I would urge staff in the community to really strongly oppose this bill because we will get our kids to school late. They will lose instructional time. And more importantly, and
035I don't know if our drivers have all thought this through, we will be asking them to double up routes. So, if you are a driver that drives across tier 1, tier 2, and tier three, and I do not have drivers in any or all of those routes, you will be asked to double up. Am I correct, Tom Bramley? So that means you drive for 35 or 40 minutes with one route in your tier and then you will go out again and do a slightly longer route because it might be a little further, another 30 or 40 minutes. Drop those kids off and then immediately begin the next tier. It has a domino effect. If one tier is late, the next tier is late and the next tier is later. So the doubling component has us
036worried. Kids will be late. many many years ago and everyone's going to come and kill me in about two seconds. I'm aware for what's about to come out of my mouth. This district was a four tier bus Tom's nodding was a four tier bus district for start and end times. They went to two in my opinion. They probably should have gone down to three at that time, but I wasn't here. No one asked me. I was in another place. Now I'm here. You remember in February of 2022, people were not happy with me at that time when we went to midyear, a third tier. Not because I like to be beat up on social media or get nasty emails, but because it was essential. Doing that alone required us to need 50 fewer drivers. We
037thought that's the fix. If we can reduce the need by 50, 4550 drivers despite this emerging at the time in 2022, national driver shortage, we should be okay. Well, guess what? It helped tremendously because we needed 50 fewer drivers, but we're still not fully staffed. So, this is a massive problem. Any and all scenarios, should this pass and when it goes if it goes into effect will be considered and a fourth tier might be a reality. I hope not, but it might because if I can't staff my buses, I can't get kids to school, we're disrupting their learning, it's an emergency. It's a big issue. I'll stop now. I could go on for hours. Okay, another House bill. Legislature is in session until May. So, another bill that I got involved in through Ed. And
038just so everyone knows, that's our lobbying group. They lobby on behalf of around 88 or 90 suburban districts. Uh, House Bill 2578, artificial intelligence and FOYA equal a nightmare for the office of the superintendent, in particular, poor Jamie. So, just recently, one FOYA came at us 10 different times with different years. It'll be in the packet because every month I give you my FOYA requests. And it's it's AI generated. It creates all kinds of work. It takes Jamie out of productive work in other places and it's just becoming more and more burdensome and it's quite frankly a nuisance. So, um, Ed Red sent me their uh, initial language and and I added a significant amount to it and and asked Jamie to help me as well because, you know, she she feels the pain, you
039know, first and foremost every day. So, all of our edits were accepted and they're part of our our amendment and what we're what we're asking. We we support House Bill 2578 that allows us to confirm whether or not it's an actual person generating the FOYA. And if it's not a general person, we will not be wasting time responding. We have more important things to do. I already talked about the hang with Hines in the middle school. Okay, that's for enough for me. Uh Sher was also very instrumental. She has stepped in this year um and is helping on the insurance committee and it has certainly been baptism by firestorm. Uh she has been very busy on the district reunification plan as part of our safety protocols. We have relocation locations. We practice your school practices
040every other year. We're taking it a step further. We've been talking about this for years. We're actually doing it this year. And in tandem with our I Love You guys Foundation updates, this is a full-blown reunification. Carl Samberg Middle School will be our pilot school. We're going to run through that with a limited number of interested staff and kids whose parents are willing to let them run through the practice. So if it were to happen and we had to reunify for a true emergency, and we've had to reunify when Mary and Jordan's water mane broke and we walked down Palletine Road to, you know, St. Nario's. It wasn't a true emergency. The kids thought it was fun because the police blocked Palentine Road and we got to walk down Palletine Road without any cars. This
041would be in the event of a true emergency and we had to find and connect parents with kids in a safe and timely manner. So, we're going to we're going to work on um a drill this year and then we will standardize that across all the rest of our schools in years to come. We are currently doing AP screeners and we conducted uh round one interviews at the end of last week and we continue to work with uh Pam Rosa on professional development. The business department is uh FY26 business planning is underway. As you know a number of years ago we started with zerobased budgeting. So Anthony and Diana will meet with department heads and we will structure new budgets. Um and they'll be leaner than uh in the past. we will really really really
042justify every dollar put into a department's budget just based in light of what we're trying to do with the deficit. And then summer construction um projects are planned as the bids open and close. They've been coming in, knock on wood, um well, so we continue to add additional projects to the summer work and we're pretty close to um to finalizing all of that, but it'll be a busy to the tune of around 10 or 11 million summer. Okay. uh communication department started second phase of parent square implementation. They're collaborating with HR. We're going to have a really sharp that uh started this week recruitment video again SB1 1799. We are heavily recruiting and doing it in new ways. Um we're creating they're creating content and communication plans to do an end of the year highlight.
043When I do my kind of state of the district, what have we been focused on? They're going to put a slick video together for the board and for the website. And then we're they're reviewing data related to their strategic plan priority that has to do with family and community engagement. Um in ed services they're conducting budget planning for fiscal year 26 continuing monthly leadership engagement around um our data especially relative to suspensions. They will be hosting um a gifted program parent night with the focus being on promoting student persistence. They're onboarding the full service community partners uh link to that grant that we received and can co coordinating a soft launch I kind of coordinating and soft coordinating coordinating soft launch of summer services and then they're working to develop um a summer administrator training
044plan that is something that's actually happening at the cabinet level uh human resources they're focused on staffing for the 25 and 26 year uh what we call all unknown all known openings and and they had were posted prior to spring break. Very good news. If you remember when we adjusted tier 2, put a we put money into tier 2 to correct the salary schedule and we said the where the money is going to come from because it was a large amount of new dollars was to get do away with needing contractual service agencies, right, that that charge us an exorbitant amount of money. So at this moment in time, as of April, we have reduced the use of contract agencies for mandated service delivery by approximately 75%. So kudos to everybody and their mother that
045has been involved in screening, hiring, and all the things that go in between to do this. And 75% that's amazing. Yes, that's huge. Um, human resources as I said is part of the insurance committee working with plan design and renewal and that's she's done it so much and she's loved it so much that it's there twice. Okay. Uh, multilingual other multilingual is planning a multilingual literacy night and you can see the five different dates uh that these events will be held across the district and in what languages uh what you see up there. Spanish, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Ukrainian, Russian and Japanese are our top languages. So, we're doing uh parent literacy nights. Recruitment and hiring for the upcoming school year are underway, as is planning for a variety of multilingual summer programs. Nice job. All
046right, everybody's just cooking with gas. Student services, recruitment, and hiring, and that slide of 75%, a lot of your department is um within that 75%. So, they're doing a lot of screening and hiring. Yellow folder update. Um, this project is training, digitization project training at the last three schools is underway. That's been what, a two-year, three year, two-year lift, three-year lift, and we're nearing the end. And then the next step once we digitize our student records will be staff records. So, that's that'll be next up. Um, Miles of Smiles dental clinics are underway. Last week, 55 students at Jane Adams had exams and sealant provided. and the Rotary Club of Palentine sponsored clear vision programs at Virginia Lake providing 15 students in grades K5 with free eye examinations and glasses. And we just can't thank
047our local community partners enough when they help bring uh supplies or services to our families and students that are in need. teaching and learning um continues to explore middle school algebra resources uh with the math review committee. And you're going to hear from a bunch of the ladies in the in the audience shortly about a couple other um initiatives and reviews and updates that they've been working on. They're mapping out middle school instructional units for social studies. And again, you'll hear about social studies shortly. Uh feedback and reflection meetings are taking place with middle schools and elementary reading specialists and intervention teams. What's worked? What's not worked? what changes do we want to make uh to delivery for next year and they're deeply involved in planning May Institute Day which will be here before we
048know it. So nice work there. Uh tech services continued power school cyst development and rollout. we are in full swing um with our wrapping up smartphones at school committee work and I believe MJ she's off today uh is going to be bringing the board an update in May or June in terms of her committee work and recommendations relative to cell phones in school especially in light of Governor Pritskar's you know kind of recent release um May Institute she's involved as as are so many members of cabinet in May institute preparation text focus will be on power teacher and parent They're planning summer professional development as well as summer tech workshops. And Mindy put this in hers, but just a special shout out to the I can see local partnerships, Rotary of Palletine, Walmart, our Walmart
049and Palletine, uh, Northwest Eye Physicians of Arlington Heights for just really leaning in and helping, you know, bring bring kids glasses or, you know, um, vision aids. So, a special thanks to Dawn and Dr. to say for really giving of their time and making this uh happen. And that's my report. All right. Any questions? Nope. Excellent. Good stuff. All right. So, uh Dr. Lazour, I don't know if Anony's here. Is he here today? Fish? No. Okay. So, Anthony and Diana. Um Lisa was not in today. She came for close but had to leave. She's been very active on the insurance committee as has Anthony Fisha. We wrangled him in a couple months ago and he's gotten himself up to speed uh pretty quickly. Also part of the committee um our is Sam Dort who's our
050benefit specialist and a shout out to Ann uh Bridges and Scott Waldman who are also members of the insurance committee. All right. Uh Sher, do you want to lead us off and we'll Diana and I can chime in? Dr. Dr. Hines, the members of the board. Um, so we're here to talk about um our recommendations for getting the green mic. Oh, there we go. Okay. So, we're here to talk about uh the recommendations for our insurance for the upcoming school year. Um, so we're going to talk about medical, dental, and vision and what the renewal recommendations are. We are a self-insured district which means that our premiums are deposited into a fund which then we take to make payments for the claims and um our insurance committee has been working and collaborating with the group
051who is our um insurance consultants to discuss the medical dental and vision uh renewal for the upcoming school year. uh we determine like our overall goal all the time is always to maintain our high level of coverage while minimizing the increased costs to both the employees and the district. Um as Dr. Hines says it's a difficult task with every all the costs rising around us um which is you know out of our control. Uh uses both market trends and historical our historical claims data to uh annually to help determine our overall renewal rate. Um over the years we've really made some changes to insurance such as the drug prescription plan which has provided uh and has proved to be successful um to help try to maintain insurance costs and coverage letters. Um, some of the
052areas of more recent that have caused us a little bit more concerns is the skyrocketing health care costs and how to balance benefit levels. The costs of insurance continue to outpace the change of our plans. Premium contributions have not kept pace with the claims in the uh fiscal year 2025. Increased use of the DP1 drugs and then also the number of high-cost claimants on the plan. So, these are all factors that come into play when we're making our decision about the premiums and where they need to be. Uh, as a result, um, if we didn't make any changes to any of our current coverages or plans, um, we would have to, um, ask our employees in the district premiums, they would raise by 20 over 20%. Anna, would you mind elaborating a little bit on
053the district? Interject on that. Yeah. So, we keep a close eye on this, you know, standalone uh bank account or fund account number, whatever, um that we deposit all the premiums in and the claims are paid out of it. So in the uh seven or eight ten years that we've been with the group before I came here um the the the fund the whole um self-insured pool has replenished itself with very small premium increases each year. We saw two, three, four, but the la last year I came with a 10 and and this year we're coming with a sizable amount again because as Sherry said earlier claims have been exceeding our the budgeted premium increases and uh this year um we have had to uh transfer some money from our regular district accounts to the
054self-insured account in order to cover claims. We're hoping that by the end of the year we'll have enough balance to do a payback left in the fund so we can transfer the money back to district. If we don't, we're going to have a liability at the end of the year. So, you know, uh this I think believe this year though is the first year where we've actually gone significantly negative to about $5 million. So um you know that can't have that continue. So for us what we're proposing to ensure that we do not increase the premiums by 20%. We're proposing that we we implement Blue Cross Blue Choice options network um for their PO plans. So uh predicts that by doing this um the BCO contract will drive greater discounts for us and the employees
055by encouraging our members to visit tier 1 providers. This will allow us to um reduce the proposed renewal rate by 5 and a half%. So going down from the 20 down 5 and a half%. We're also proposing eliminating HMO plan B. We currently have three different HMOs. We have plan A, plan B, and plan C within the district. Um, and then in order to eliminate some administrative costs, which will then also help bring down some of the premiums, we're recommending that we do eliminate HMO B. Um, because we find that that would be the highest savings to our members and the district. And HMO A and HO will remain in place. So, um, our employees will still have the option of the two different HMOs. um they just would no longer be able to use
056HOB after this school year. This would reduce our proposed renewal rate by 2.7%. Additionally, we're the insurance committee is also proposing an adjustment to our mail order pharmacy. Uh currently we it's a one um time co-pay to pay for mail order prescriptions. We're proposing that we increase it to two times the retail rate. So, what that means is you would get 3 months of your prescription for two times of what your co-pay would be. Um, if you went to like a Walgreens or CVS and just picked up each month, that would uh reduce our rate by uh our premiums by 0.45%. Um, finally, there are two additional programs that would be voluntary programs for our members that we're recommending that we hope that they can take advantage of. One is Hinge Health. that is a
057digital it's an online multiskeletal skeletal solution that can assist members who suffer from chronic pain or a recent injury um receive support by utilizing Hing's dedicated care team. So instead of going into the doctor, this would become an online app that you'd be able to um utilize if you choose to partake in that. It's not something they have to do, it's something that they can do. Um also Galileo is a digital medical practice of primary care providers, specialists and care navigators. So members would have access to providers through the application and Galileo would designate a care team for each member with with implementing both of those opt voluntary programs that will alleviate some of the claims that are currently being processed on the plan through the traditional doctors and that would um reduce the proposed
058renewal rate by 6 60%. So based on the proposed plan changes, we are um recommending a 10.7 increase in premiums for the um fiscal year 26. Um and that's what the insurance committee recommends. With the um renewal of dental plan, we're recommending a 5% increase in their premiums for the fiscal year 26. And then we are proposing that there will be no rate change for the vision plan for the same fiscal year 26. And you know this was a long drawn out um process as Dr. Hines says it's a difficult process because our main goal is always to maintain the high level of care and and benefits that we offer in the district. And we don't want to minimize that for us and we don't want to add extra expenses for us or our employees.
059So, I want to we want to thank everyone for all their hard work and dedication to trying to get to make it happen so we can lower that premium as much as we could. Um, any questions in particular from Anthony and Wenda who were on the finance committee meeting with Diana, Anthony, Pepe, and me on Monday. Uh, we talked about this when we were together. Anything else to add or any comments? Uh, no. No, I know we we had a pretty thorough discussion during the meeting uh just about different options to look at obviously into the future um because this is you know continuous increases and there's going to be some challenges potentially in future years um you know with premium. So, yep. Yeah. Thank you so much for um the work that was put
060in. Um let's continue to look at this. Let's continue to see what um the costs are for next year. Um um and and re-evaluate. We will. This committee meets at least four times. This year we've met a little bit more, but we we try to meet at least four times a year. And I agree with you. I know Wenda, one of the questions you had for us on Monday evening's call was were there other options that we looked at? And there are there are a multitude aera any insurance group or whether you're click or whether you're self-insured. There's a variety of things you can do. But you know we want to make sure that we're maintaining a very high level of insurance that our members are not going to feel too much of a change
061or too much of a pinch when they go and and you know have a doctor that they've used for a long time. So we analyzed a variety of different options and it was a difficult decision to try to to to add some of these things but we cut it down by 50% by 10% and then as you said we'll continue to look annually they comes with suggestions um the committee looks at uh all options and they really weigh the options options against the goal of keeping costs down in a market where it's really impossible to do that while also providing you know high quality insurance for our staff and their families. So, I thank the whole group, Ann, Scott, Sam, Anthony, Lisa, I'm on the committee, Sherry, Diana. Uh, it was a lot of hard
062work, but um I think we made a big step forward together. Thank you. Yeah, thank you very much. Thanks for all the effort. All right, next up is a quick one. Um just so the board and I mentioned it earlier but just to be very clear our normal meeting is the second meeting of second Wednesday of a month for the board meeting. Every now and again we have to change it based on work schedules or a conference. In this case we have to move uh next month's meeting to Monday May 12th that has to do with the election when unofficial election results were uh finalized April 1st April 2nd. Then you have 21 days for the canvasing of the boat vote. They're saying by April 22nd it would be done and then from that point
063April March or May 12th rather would be the last day we would be allowed to reorganize and seat the new board. So that is the reason just to be in compliance with the Illinois Association of School Board uh timelines and I I believe I had reached out to make sure everybody was available on that date. Okay, terrific. And then that'll be an action item for you later. Okay. All right. Teaching and learning ease on down the road. That's they have two reports that they are going to dazzle us with this evening. And I will be adding and to Costa. So when this is posted online, your name is in light. All right. Got it. Laura. Okay. Fantastic. Well, um, good evening, uh, President Shupai, members of the board of education, and Dr. Hines. Um, I'm
064here tonight with Tiff Costa, and we are thrilled to share some information, um, about a recommendation for middle school math. Let's see. So, um curriculum re review uh in in any district and in in district 15 in particular is ongoing. Um uh it aligns with uh our strategic commitment to ensuring um equitable growth and achievement for all students and um through curriculum review which happens consistently uh through team meetings and through ongoing professional development. um our teachers review. What are the best practices in teaching? Um is our pacing aligned the way that it should be? Um how are our students responding to our resources? What does our student data look like? And while curriculum review is ongoing, uh there's a part of curriculum curriculum review that happens only every 5 to seven years, and that's
065actually selecting a resource for adoption. So, um, this year we actually pulled together, uh, uh, our math review committee to look at potentially a new resource for math. And we began our work actually last year in the fall of 2023. So um and we'll talk more about the process that we worked through. But when we moved to thinking about what our resource might look like, we actually formed two subcommittees. One subcommittee was responsible for selecting a core resource um for grade level or accelerated grade level courses and another subcommittee looks specifically at resources for algebra. And let's see. Oh, you got it. Um when when um districts launch a curriculum review, it typically starts with professional learning. So, when we launched the middle school math review in fall of 2023, um we reflected on our
066best practices in math education, um and we had some really extended conversations about um inquirybased math and about uh really explicit instructional strategies for math. And part of this process really included clarifying um what we value in math education and what we're looking for in a math resource. So as a committee we talked about the fact that um we really value students having the opportunity to do problem solving in math. And so we knew then that we wanted a resource that where kids would have the opportunity to do some real world inquiry. At the same time, we know that we value precision and fluency in solving math problems. And so, as a committee, we knew we were committed to having some explicit lessons that help students master algorithms, right? Um, and then last, uh, a
067a big conversation for our committee was around our commitment to having access and opportunity for all of our middle school students. Um, we know that we want to continue to have an ambitious course sequence. Um, and that we also want to be able to be responsive to students needs whether they need to be accelerated or they're struggling and they need to slow down. So following um our professional dialogue with the committee, uh we reviewed the Illinois learning standards for math and the math practices. Um and we did a really rigorous analysis of three instructional programs. Um we built a rubric for looking at the programs. Um the rubric was uh based on resources from different organizations including the state board of education. Um but we looked really closely at standards alignment. Um we looked at
068opportunities for meaningful problem solving. Uh we looked at that support for skill fluency and procedures. Uh we looked at how effective the instructional strategies were that are part of the program. We looked at accessibility for students, assessment tools, and usability for teachers. And then um a part of this process involved deep lesson studies. So we looked at the same topic in all three different programs and compared how the programs taught the topic and then evaluated that as a group. And then based on our analysis, we selected two resources to pilot. And then throughout the pilot then teachers reflected on um the things that you can only see through the pilot, right? student engagement and whether or not students were responding to the instruction and um our outcomes. So um our the subcommittee working on algebra
069actually decided to extend their pilot activities through May and so we're going to bring a recommendation for algebra to the board in June. Um the subcommittee for grade level and accelerated uh grade level courses unanimously recommends that we adopt Carnegie middle school math solution and Tiff is going to talk a little bit more about why Carnegie. Hi. Um I'm excited to introduce you to Carnegie Math. Uh first, it is a comprehensive curriculum that is fully aligned to the Illinois State Learning Standards and key mathematical practices. But what makes this program stand out is really its balanced approach. It blends the realworld inquiry with direct skill instruction helping students build both understanding and the fluency. The program supports all learners. It offers two clear pathways, a grade level track and an accelerated track, each with realistic
070pacing guides to keep students on target. Uh language support is built in along with explicit vocabulary instruction. That means all students um whatever their background and experience can access the content with confidence. There are also resources for reteing when students need extra support and enrichment opportunities for our advanced learners. So each lesson begins with an engaging realorld activity, something that sparks the curiosity, gets students thinking right away. These activities are designed to connect math students uh uh to connect math to students everyday lives, making learning feel relevant and meaningful. Our teachers commented that during the pilot they were impressed with the rich student discussions on the topics in Carnegie that were relevant and interesting to our students. I believe some of the students called the topics cool. Just exciting. We thought that was a real
071win. Yeah. Um, the structure of each lesson follows consistent routines which helps students know what to expect and builds confidence over time. Teachers are supported every step of the way with ready to use Google Slides that guide instruction and keep the focus focus on the student thinking and discussion. Throughout the lessons, students are provided with worked examples so they can see concepts in action. They're asked to reflect, question, and analyze, engaging in that deeper thinking. As a component of the lesson, Carnegie includes the algorithmic skill practice and homework assignments that reinforce what students are learning in class. What's especially helpful is in these assignments come built-in hints and supports. If a student gets stuck, they can get live stepbystep help encouraging them to stay engaged. In pilot classes, the students really appreciated and noted how
072the hints helped their learning. And this support makes the homework more effective and less frustrating for both students and families. So, the Carnegie Math program also includes two powerful digital support platforms, MATHIA and MathStream, designed to personalize learning and support teachers and students. Matathia is an interactive studentpaced platform that adapts in real time to student needs. It provides the targeted topic reviews, stepbystep support, and ongoing formative feedback. Students get the practice that they need when they need it. As teachers get realtime data to guide their instruction. Math stream uh is a complement with a robust library of engaging ondemand videos. These aren't just recordings. They're interactive and responsive. Math stream helps students catch up when they've been absent, reinforces key concepts when they need a second look, and supports reteing. It's instruction that's always available,
073aligned, and accessible. Together, these tools promote meaningful math engagement for the students while giving our teachers flexibility to support the students. So, in short, it's really built to support all of our learners, make math more engaging and relevant, and empower our teachers to do what they do best, which is teach. No wonder you're excited. I know. Sounds great. All right. So um in addition to let's see that um to our resource recommendations something else that the math committee focused on was reviewing our current pathways. Um so prior to this school year uh this was our current pathway. So our students completed um mathematics 6 which is really a a sixth and seventh grade class right? It has a little all all of sixth and part of seventh in it. And then they moved to uh
074pre-alggebra which is all of seventh and part of eth. And then they moved to algebra straight to algebra. Um and this past year what we did was we um opened another learning opportunity at the eighth grade level. So for students who were struggling, we said instead of moving on to algebra, let's take that extra year in an eighth grade level class and secure your middle school skills before you go to high school for algebra. We know that when students take algebra in middle school, it can give them the opportunity to move through a different track in high school. But if they take algebra in middle school and those skills aren't secured, it can make high school very very challenging when you're starting to build your transcript for future experiences. Right? So, we wanted to offer
075that to students. Um, and and as the committee met and talked this year, we'd like to extend that grade level option down to seventh grade as well. So, we'll continue to offer an accelerated experience for all students in sixth grade. And then at the end of sixth grade, if students need to move to seventh grade math to secure their skills um in seventh grade and then eighth grade math in eighth grade, then they'll go to algebra in high school, right? Um, it was a a a big conversation that that uh that the committee had, but the committee felt committed to kids securing their skills in middle school before they take that leap into algebra. Um, and obviously we continue to offer out of level uh an outofle math sequence for uh for some students who
076are uh two or more years advanced. So Lauri, can I ask you to just share with the board um kind of what the high school's take is on this and our students readiness or in some cases lack thereof because of the way you're getting a full year and a partial year and a full year and a partial year and how that played a a little bit of a of a a factor in this work. And then um I lost my train of thought. Oh, maybe some of the parents with some of the outer level and some of the skipping because those were two things I think that you you talked about and it kind of informed this new and and the structure and sequence that I think is really yes wonderful. So, so one of
077the things that we were doing and feel free to chime in, but one of the things that we were doing at the middle school level um was our our original compression, right? Uh was that seventh grade math was actually seventh and eighth grade math. So, we had sixth grade math, seventh and eighth grade math, and then algebra. And that compression was just uh was too tight for some students. It's a lot of math to try and tackle in one year. And so as students were moving from their eighth grade algebra experience uh to high school, they were doing okay initially uh as as freshmen in a geometry experience, but then it was becoming more challenging when they moved to an algebra 2 experience, right? Because those uh algebra skills uh happened very quickly built on
078the compression of seventh and eighth grade. So, our initial thought was at the end of seventh grade, let's give kids who are a little wobbly the opportunity to go to 8th grade math where they can secure all of their skills and be ready for algebra as freshmen before they move on. Um, and the high school has given us the feedback that um uh giving kids more time to master more content is is what they appreciate. Great. Thank you. And the committee, you know, this this was a big discussion because we want all kids to have the opportunity to have algebra and we feel like we can do that by maintaining that accelerated opportunity at sixth grade, right? Um you're still on track to go to algebra if if that's what is a great fit for
079you. um if if you are successful in sixth grade and then move on that track. And we've done a couple of different things over the past uh two summers. We've looked at um providing opportunities for students who um are are maybe struggling a little bit uh to get some extra assistance in the summer so that they can make the decision at the end of summer about which pathway they want to be in. So we we can afford students those opportunities as well. Um, the total cost for uh Carnegie uh middle school math solution is a little over $452,000. That's actually a three-year subscription. Um, it includes uh all of the consumable student texts, uh the print teacher editions, access to the digital platform, and the Matia and Mathstream um resources that Tiff shared. Um the
080mass stream resource uh we actually found really valuable for our students um in in some cases where where we're focusing on attendance rates. Um uh Math Stream has been really valuable because it gives students the opportunity to see the lesson even if they were unable to be present uh in in math class that day. Um it's really great. I don't I don't think I had heard that throughout this process. Yeah, it's a it's a very nice resource. Um, we're purchasing some manipulative kits. Uh, Tiff and the and the team uh actually repurposed all of our current kits. So, um, a little bit of sweat equity saved us over $10,000. A lot of sweat equity. I shouldn't lie about that. Yeah, a lot of sweat equity. So, we think we're going to have to spend around
081$3,000 just to shore up those kits, but otherwise, we're in great shape with that. Lori, what are manipulative kits? Oh, great question. So, the manipulative kits uh include things in them um that are math tools like rulers or compasses, but also um math tools that are for modeling like base 10 blocks. And what else are in our kits? Depending on the units, it might be string. There might be meter sticks. Uh we have a lot of compasses, middle school protractors are involved. Uh note cards, various um uh different color opportunities, even like colored pencils are important. Um so various things like that. Okay. And whatever we could, we thought whatever we couldn't use in math, we rotated over to science. So we're making use of everything we have. Um and then in terms of professional
082learning, we'll use title 2 funds to support our professional learning next year. Um we'll launch our learning on May 2nd on our institute day. Um anybody who's new to the district, we'll have uh professional learning at new staff orientation and then we'll continue that with our opening August institute days and then we'll have job embedded coaching throughout next year. And then our next steps, we will um uh we're still working on finalizing our recommendation for algebra and we're taking some additional time with this um because the algebra course is essentially a high school course um and and it builds a runway for all of our students future high school classes. So, we're continuing to do um some lesson sampling from two additional resources that we identified. Um and and we'll bring a a recommendation forward
083in June. Um the team while the team really uh loved Carnegie for the grade level and the accelerated courses, they felt like uh the order in which uh the topics were taught in the algebra piece um wasn't as streamlined as it was for the other grade levels. Um and algebra can be tricky to teach in middle school. And so they they wanted it to be just right. So we we we decided to slow down and take our time and and pick the resource that that we could uh recommend with confidence uh rather than than moving forward with something that that we felt like we might need to supplement. So we'll bring that forward in June. And uh Tiff and I just we we cannot thank the math committee members enough. Um they just worked so
084hard. They invested countless hours in this process. Um, and uh, we just feel really confident that that all of their efforts uh, have resulted in a decision um, that that will be a benefit to all of our students. So, their names are listed here and just a a big a big shout out to the whole team. Um, also Britney Henry is a member of our team. She's actually uh uh we're passing something around on our some illness around on our strep throat. Really don't hug us on our team. So I I think poor Brit probably finally caught it. But um she also was really instrumental to the work that the team did um in addition to Tiff. So we're very happy to answer uh any questions uh that the board has. You know what I
085really like about what you did with Carnegie is some of the things I remember hearing that the math teachers, especially at the middle schools, felt with illustrative have really been addressed with this new resource and this new approach. So, I'm I I think when the masses get it in their hands, I think they'll appreciate that. So, thank you. I know I do. You know, it was a a big conversation on our committee because we know that math is most meaningful when you're learning it in context, right? when you have the opportunity to apply it to problem solving. But we also know that we value the balance of being able to practice the algorithm, right? And that that maybe the pendulum had swung too far one way and that uh if we have a more balanced
086package, we think kids could be more successful. I appreciate that you um actually gave us examples in this PowerPoint. Um, and I'm looking at this example for Matthew. Um, and it's talking about this um this swimmer who's um training for a a junior triathlon. And it's giving us ratios that um this swimmer um swims laps in 15 minutes and it's saying that if she does 280 laps, what's the ratio? Um my my son would not get this right. um in terms of being an athlete um when we even think about for track you know a 400 um he he goes a little under a minute okay but if you were to cut that off to a 200 that ratio is not the same also not for um a 100 so for him he would say
087no I'm an athlete this is wrong this the ratio doesn't add up um so I just needed to point that out to you guys because you know when students look at that especially somebody like him, you know, they they wouldn't understand why why people would believe that's true of an athlete just because they can keep a pace in the beginning. That's not going to be the same pace towards the end. And I realize it's it's math, but you're applying it to um to sports and an athlete is is not going to agree with this. Okay, that's just one um one thing. So, I just I need to say that out out loud. I hope the teachers understand what they're teaching that, you know. Um and I just uh going back to the first PowerPoint um
088there is this term for alignment teach to the target and teach to the uh gap and I just want to um can you just explain to me what's the difference between that terminology and teach to the test? Is it teach to the test but um uh modify to you know uh the new terminology or you know what's the difference? So teaching to the target is teaching to whatever your learning target is, whatever your goal is. Teaching to the gap is differentiating instruction to achieve the goal. So how are you going to customize your instruction for somebody um that that's that's either struggling to get to proficiency or maybe even is already beyond proficiency and has a learning goal up here. Um the test hopefully the test is aligned to your learning target. So, if you're
089teaching to the test, you're you're teaching to what your real goal is. Sometimes, I think the words uh teaching to the test get a negative connotation because people think that you're um you're you're uh it it kind of drags up the vision of thinking about kids practicing problems that look like test problems, right? Um and and we just don't really do that in education anymore. kids have authentic experiences in the classroom and then the test um typically mirrors what their what their learning goal is. I don't think I'm explaining that very you are. And that's aligned to what the board would know is like our learning standards by grade level and by content area. So those are your targets, right? So, if you're if you're making sure that kids at each grade level know what
090they're supposed to know and be able to do in terms of like the standards at that grade level or in math, then they should be prepared to be successful on the test as long as we've given them practice opportunities in a in a test-like setting or with the context of that test. So, that's how it all goes. And I agree with you, Laura, teaching to the test is old school and very negative. So that's why I like the adopted kind of newer language to target and gap and that the gap can be on both ends. You could be accelerated or you could really be two or more years below grade level. So I think that's I like that language upgrade. Yeah. I had I had a question with regards to the uh course sequence. So
091I was looking at now the core the core sequence here. It looks like a sixth grade you got mathematics six. So, in in seventh grade, it's blank. What? Or maybe it's just the sheet that I got here that I'm looking at. Okay. There's like three or so. Oh, there's another one. I see. Okay. So, there's three of them. Oh, got it. I got it. So, it says mathematics 7. Okay. And then the night after that, it says foundations for algebra. Is foundations for algebra similar to pre-alggebra? Foundations. Go ahead, Tiff. Yeah. And it's it's true eighth grade standards. So, yes, it's similar to pre-alggebra. Um, but true eighth grade standards, just getting ready for algebra at a freshman year level. And that's where they want them. They're going to drill in and make sure that
092they master the eighth grade foundational algebra standards before they go to high school. So, when they go to high school, whether they entered algebra 2, algebra, or algebra 2, right? They're ready. Yeah. Foundation, algebra one. Yeah. Okay. So it's similar to the pre-alggebra but not exactly. Yeah. Pre-alggebra is actually a combination of seventh and eighth grade standards. So it's compressed a little bit more so that they can take that algebra that um that eighth grade year. Okay. And then for sixth grade. So the sixth grades they just don't have any accelerated but they do have an auto level. So this the mathematics 6 itself is accelerated. So, it is all of sixth grade standards and I would say a preview of seventh grade standards so that the students that would go into pre-alggebra would be
093ready. Um, it kind of spreads out that compression and gives them that preview a little bit. Um, but students who do need a true seventh grade. Um, standard experience could go to mathematics 7. They might revisit a couple skills. Um, but they would have a full sequence to prepare for algebra freshman year. So if there are some accelerated kids in mathematics 6, that program actually has extra material for them. Yes. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thanks. You got your bases covered, ladies and committee. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate just the concept of making sure that the children are strong with their skills before they move on because I think it's common for parents to push really hard and say it's, you know, my child has to be in algebra or geometry freshman year and
094if they don't have the solid foundation, you may be successful for a little while, but at some point that gap shows and then it is a struggle. Very true. And the stakes are higher, you know, the stakes are higher. GPA that's going to, you know, follow you into college and your college applications. So, it is a big deal. Yeah. GPA, but also confidence at a time when confidence is really important and you don't get it. That's a that's a big hit. And sometimes I also think there are so many what what what you don't realize until your child goes to high school is all of the other things that they want to be involved in besides advanced math, right? So some of it is also anticipating what does that balance look like for your student,
095right? Yep. Agree. Yeah. All right. Thank you, ladies. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, social studies. And Megan, I'm adding you to the deck for for posterity sake as well. Does anyone eat Does anyone have a cough drop for Anthony? [Laughter] I have M&M's and Skittles, but no cough drop. So, take your pick. I have a lifesaver. Would that help? Do you have any Skittles? Here comes Michelle for you today. Excellent. All right. Would you like Skittles? He likes sources better. Skittles. All right. Dr. Lopez, Miss Price, keep the troop strong to learn about social studies. All right. Well, um I'm thrilled to be here tonight with Megan Price, who is um an assistant director in teaching, learning, and assessment. and Megan uh truly provided phenomenal leadership for our middle school social studies committee. Um
096we referenced this a little bit in the math presentation um but we're focused on three things to support um uh student achievement in district 15. We're targeting high expectations for students, the alignment of um teaching, learning, and assessment, and then using data to inform our instruction. And uh the social studies review uh actually mirrored in some ways our our uh the process that we use for math. Um the the process began um uh with the team uh reflecting on the Illinois learning standards and uh the curriculum for social studies in Illinois uh is directed uh by two resources. The first is of course the Illinois learning standards for social studies and then second uh the Illinois state board of education has identified curricular mandates in the area of social studies. So, our social studies teachers
097consider both of those when they're reviewing resources and designing curriculum. Um, we built uh a rubric uh to for analyzing resources in the same way that we did for math. Um, we looked closely uh at a number of different things. And um Megan, I got to just find my my notes here for where I wrote that. So they were slightly different from what we looked at for math of course. Um but we did look at opportunities for real world application. We looked at the integration of diverse perspectives. Um something that's really important to social studies instruction is being able to access primary resources and secondary resources. So we looked at that. We looked at opportunities for multimodal learning. So sometimes social studies can look like a reading class if you're not careful. So we wanted
098to have a a resource that provided us with active learning activities so that students could be engaged. Um we also looked at the assessment tools that were embedded in the resource and then usability for teachers. And then again, um, as we did some unit sampling, our teachers were able to observe, boy, does this resource work for students? Are they engaged? Um, and how are students learning? And then Megan's going to tell us a little bit about where we landed and why. So, our committee um, worked so so hard and we're so appreciative for them. and we'll talk about who they are in a little bit, but they ended up choosing TCI, what we're calling TCI Middle School, which is their middle school suite of programs. We get multiple programs through that adoption. Um, but really
099we were looking for strong routines in the classroom. Um, really clear resources for both teachers and for students. And the accessibility of those resources was one of the most critical pieces. We're of course looking at like what Dr. Lopez said, we're looking at the the variety of resources. So, your primary and secondary sources, videos, um, everything that can help us really build student understanding, but more so because it sometimes looks almost like a reading class, we're looking for some of that readaloud capability, the leveling of text, we're looking at um, of course, always in collaboration with our multilingual friends. Um, we are always looking at that Spanish authentic translation, Spanish readaloud, and Spanish leveling as well. So that accessibility component for our students and then ease of use for our teachers and students, those were
100core reasons that we chose um TCI for middle school. And the reason that another reason that's kind of a bonus reason for us that this is um a really great choice is that our K through six social studies classrooms already use TCI. Um so it's a familiar resource to our district. It's a familiar resource to our students and they're able to use those clear classroom routines across their experience through K and 8. And then thank you. Um throughout all of our resources that are available through TCI, you'll see that there are four courses and we of course have three grade levels. So I'll show you a little bit in a moment about how we are going to divvy some of those pieces up. But in general in Illinois um and through our publishers, we study
101ancient civilizations in our sixth grade course and then we split US history across seventh and eighth grade. Um we're really looking through the domains of the standards which include inquiry, geography, civics, economics, and history. We're really trying to thread all of those um really deep understandings under the umbrella of specific historical events split out by those three grade level areas. In addition to that, we have civics and geography that TCI provides programming for that we need to split in between um each grade to help continue to build that modern understanding. So, we're getting in our grade level content, we're getting that historical perspective on things like civics and government, economics, but then we need that modern-day um comparison point for student understanding. So, we'll we'll show you how they're going to build that in. Um,
102in seventh grade students in US history at their initial outset for US history, they're studying through um the industrial industrialization after the Civil War. Um, and then our eighth grade pickup right after that. They do a short review and they go through um World War I, World War II, they go through um all the way to modern day. I like to kind of joke a little bit with them sometimes. I don't know that they love it, but our teachers who have been teaching and are close to retirement or retiring this year, they have 30 plus more years of history to teach than they did when they first started. Um, so there are real genuine uh pacing challenges with that. I think, you know, a lot has happened even in the last 10 years that are
103not necessarily in all of our history books. So, we have a lot to consider when we're talking about pacing. And that leads us through um to the next slide which is which units we are actually going to take a look at for those grade levels. We have um some opportunities here to embed civics especially because that is one of our real core mandates from the state of Illinois. We embed that into our sixth grade coursework especially because in ancient civilizations especially with ancient Greece and ancient Rome they are studying those foundations of government and what makes different government types successful um what makes society successful. So it's a nice bridge into that civics foundation um and then US government for modern day. So they're able to make some nice comparisons. So, we would like to
104put some of those units from Civics Alive, which is TCI civics resource into that sixth grade coursework. Um, in addition, we want to spread the rest of the civics units and economics units into US history and appropriate places. So, in a lot of instances, you hear about Alexander Hamilton helping support the stock market. Um, and you know, there's lots of those fun songs that go along with that. But I think there there are opportunities there to build in more of the the explicit geography, economics, um pieces that students sometimes miss if they're just purely studying chronological social studies and history. So we have those opportunities to build in um more explicit civics connections. And then lastly, as we've kind of mentioned a couple times now, we do have some opportunities um in social studies. As
105I mentioned a little bit, we're we're talking about chronological study and that's how students make sense of how things evolve over time, but you can't do that without looking at it thematically as well. So, we're always doing a dance in social studies between doing things in a timeline, but also really understanding themes that pop out over time. And that leads to those rich critical thinking skills. And those are well supported by TCI's supplemental support resources. They have several different libraries available including primary source libraries. Um they have an economics library. They have a civics library and even down to a supreme court case library. So they have a lot of resources that teachers can use to build in to help supplement that rich understanding and critical thinking that's required to to see themes within a
106timeline. So, the total cost for TCI, it's a 4-year subscription. Um, and it's approximately just a little over $428,000. Um, that includes all of our print and digital uh teacher editions, our visual placards for um critical concepts. Um, we have both print and digital student editions as well. And the interesting thing about TCI is that uh it's a a 4-year subscription commitment, but they tell you that it can be up to six. So, they extend that um subscription for two additional years for at no cost. So, uh, the social studies committee members will work together this spring and and a little bit this summer and into this fall, um, to map out our units of instruction, as Megan shared. Um, they'll be designing inquiry projects that are linked to each unit. Um, and then we'll
107start the task of also building unit assessments. Um we uh will host professional development for the social studies uh department uh on May 2nd. Um and then uh we'll also host additional PD at our opening days in August. And um new staff uh will also uh have the opportunity to look more closely at the curricular materials at new staff orientation. And uh Megan mentioned this, but I also just want to to to thank uh all of our our committee members. Um uh social studies is always a fun curriculum review because uh social studies teachers have great dialogue and they they think so reflectively about their content. Um they're very passionate um about uh about their support for students. Um, and so we just we had a we had some really rich conversations about the resources
108that that we were looking at. I'm going to call out Scott because he's in the back. He participated, too. Thanks, Scott. Um, and so that's where we landed with social studies. We're very excited about next year. Um, we think it it's a nice flow for K through 8. Um, and uh, we know our students will continue to grow in all of these critical areas related to the standards. And Megan and I are very happy to answer any questions. I just had a clarifying question. So on the slide with the supporting units and the course just to confirm my understanding. So the supporting units are in addition to the description of the courses from the previous slide. So it's like layering in the civics pieces within each. Okay. Got it. Thank you. I mean with that
10930 years of of more history to teach from when some teachers started we we cannot teach everything that all the programs I mean first of all they're giving us four full years of content but in addition actually five full years and then um with all of the events happening we have current events. We have all of those layers that happen. we have to pull out some content and really decide what's critical and civics is is critical as we all know but it's it's also a mandate that we have to do. So we need to put those units into places that make sense instead of having them in isolation. So it's it's been a really um rigorous process for our committee to really make decisions about that because I think we all we think everything is
110important so it's really hard to make those choices but TCI lays things out in a way that that makes that pretty fluid. So, it it's helpful. So, in um the programs that you did pull out, can I just confirm is civil rights um part of one of those programs? Yeah. And we cover that um really nearly every year in in all of our in all of our um commemorative dates, trainings, and and resources that we have to do as another mandate. Um civil rights is also deeply embedded in the Illinois state mandates um especially around black history. it's very clear what we have to cover. So, we're very particular about where all those resources go. If we need to supplement um in any places, then we we try to do that very thoughtfully, especially with
111that mandate. Obviously, we we know that it's critically important for our students, but the mandate also helps guide us with what we have to do. Thank you. Any other questions? Very excited. All right. Thank you very much. Okay. 65. Skip. Skipping. Yeah. Um 65 where we are skipping. Um we are now on to 71. May I have a motion for the uh acceptance of minutes? I move to approve the minutes from the March 12th, 2025 regular board of education meeting and close session meeting minutes as attached. Second. A quick question. Did the uh minutes get adjusted per when does Okay. Excellent. I didn't look at them again after that. All right. Discussion. All in favor? I I motion carries. Um Ed Red, committee reports. Mr. Anorino. All right. So, there was a lot of stuff
112going on down at the legislature. specifically uh Dr. Hines already mentioned uh Senate Bill uh 1799 from Senator Villa Valum um which is it restricts the use of emergency provisions for third party contracts to 90 days with renewals up to the local union's approval. So I think we kind of covered that. I don't know if you need me to go into any more detail on that. How do you feel about? Oh, well, clearly it's going to cause problems. Uh especially not just with bus drivers, but if there's other areas where you may need third party services, uh it could cause problems. So, I mean, it's uh could be very disruptive to getting the kids to school. I don't think people be very happy with that. I don't know if this was 100% thought out by
113the unions when they, you know, brought this up to the uh legislators to to do this. Um I I know they might have been bit single-minded with what they think they were going is going to happen, but there could be uh un uh what's the word I'm looking for here? Unrealized consequences. May you called it over? Yes, they might consequences. Yes, that's a good way to put it. it may be a result of uh of pushing this kind of legislation through that the unions might not be very happy with. Um the uh the other bill here that was causing a little bit of issue I think would be the PE waiverss. Um the Senate there's a House bill uh 1358 which limits the PE waiverss to a single three-year period and prohibits their renewal. Um,
114this will uh this will limit the district's ability to provide students with uh more time for music, art, and other electives. It also doesn't allow the district to address uh facility space limitations. So, if we need to provide additional PE than we already do. um that could cause some real disruption in what kids have available time for, which I said, music, art, and then just having gym space for all kids to put that much time into it. Um there are a couple other things here that came up that are a little interesting. Uh, House Bill 2970 would allow teachers to grieve the issuance of a notice to remedy, adding procedural hurdles and potentially delaying the necessary disciplinary action by creating a new avenue to challenge these notices. The bill circumvents negotiated procedures and disrupts the
115balance that exists between school boards and employee unions. The bill imposes strict requirements on how misconduct can be described in a notice, making it more difficult for administrators to address evolving or pattern-based issues and restricting their ability to manage behavior that impacts students and staff. The bill also limits the effectiveness of these notices by capping their validity for four to at four years and requiring their automatic removal from personnel files after just 3 years regardless of the nature or frequency of the misconduct. This undermines long-term accountability and weakens the progressive discipline process that many districts rely on to take further action when needed. So, I thought that was a kind of a bit of a strange bill there. I'm not sure what the motivation is for this. Something probably want to dig into a little
116bit more. I don't know if you taking over managerial rights to assign and allow a rating not to be griefed or discipline to remain in a personnel file. I just don't see how this is advantageous to uh the the school districts taking this their ability here to potentially remove potential uh what I say habitual offenders. Mhm. I mean kind of is hiding things. I think this goes against um there's a law with regards to sexual offenders being kind of hidden and passed along through the school districts and I think this would kind of go against it. Well, it's we have a bet verif when someone's applying for a job, we're required to check all past places in which they've been employed. Is that what you're referencing? Yeah. I mean, cuz if you're erasing stuff after
1173 years, then you're not maintaining a employment history that's has continuity. So, I could see some real problems with this. I think that's why Ed Brad is Yeah, we're opposed to that. Yes. Yes, we're opposed to that. I'm just kind of I'm not understanding how they even came up with this. Um that's my I guess my point. I'm like seems like somebody didn't quite think this through. Um and then uh with regards to the cell phone bans and classrooms, uh that's House Bill 34.88. Um that bill has kind of become uh a little bit more up to the districts. They've kind of softened it, so to speak. uh where the it's more of just a requirement that there's some sort of requirement rephrase that that the districts need to have a policy in place. That's
118what the requirement will be but it's not really specifically well- definfined. And then uh last one here is is the one that you brought up too, the house bill 2578 which is the foyer verification to make sure that the request is from a person and not AI generated so that we don't overload staff and waste time just perpetually answering questions from AI. So that's it. So we'll see how things pan out. But there's a lot of pretty uh I don't know intense stuff going on down there at the legislature that could be potentially harmful to uh to districts. Thank you, Frank. Mr. Taylor,5 Foundation. Yeah. Uh so the5 Foundation had their 50/50 raffle and it raised um $13,350 for the foundation. So the winner took home that amount minus taxes of course. Um the staff
119tribute campaign is underway. Um you can find the links to that to send a tribute to um a worthy staff member or your favorite staff member in the district. Um you can find that on the5 Foundation. Donations as well can be sent there. Um on the5 Foundation website which is 1-5.org and it is now also housed on our D15 website. Um, you can also find it through there under the our community uh heading on the top of our website. So, it's you can find it if you forget that how to spell one and five, you can go to the link. There it is. There it is. You can get it there. But both are available. The website is still active. You can go directly as well, but there's a link now on our website as
120well. That's it. That's all. That's all. All right. Well, thank you very much. Finance Committee, Wenda and Anthony. Yeah, finance committee. We met um April 7th and we had a pretty robust discussion on a number of topics. Um one of them we covered earlier tonight, but uh disregarding um health insurance renewal, uh we had a projected 10.7% increase and that was after the uh the hard work that has been put into cut that number essentially in half. Um so that is something that we need to be monitoring because that number is not going to be easier to swallow as uh as future years come. Um but a lot of that's attributed to healthcare costs and uh increases in claims and pharmaceutical costs and and everything else. Um we had also discussed the u auto firm
121selection. you know, we've been with Miller Cooper for um quite a while and um you know, they've served us well. Uh but went out to bid and um with the intention of saving some additional money and just getting uh better uh service or quality service from them uh and ended up going with Sikage uh was our vendor that we chose. Um and then uh and then lastly, of course, going through just a projected deficit. I know um some of that was due to delays in property tax collections. Um I believe I saw that we had a uh 3.2 million county from today. So um so that obviously helps but again something that we need to be keeping a close eye on um in future years. Can I just add um Anthony um I wanted to
122thank you for having worked with you for these last six years. Um, I still remember the first time we met in Starbucks and you reviewed the entire budget with me and I um I told you I I didn't even need a calculator to figure out we were in the red. Of course, this was before um the referendum and I thought um and I walked away and I said to you, Anthony, if you can sleep um at night, I can sleep at night, but I am really anxious right now reading through all these budget um numbers. Um but we got through it. We got through these six years. Um I don't know if um people who have ever worked close with you ever realized um how wonderful you are to work with. And um for those
123of you in the audience um Anthony is uh the peacekeeper of of the entire board. So we are going to really miss you as one of the you are one of the many reasons this board um works so well. But um I'm certain uh the the pathway forward for you is is still great. And um I'll still continue to reach out to you because I still have your phone number and we can we can talk. You'll never get out and and there'll be another election in two years should you miss us. Equity committee Sam you today. Yes. uh Zubar, Lori and I um met last week as we have um instituted a new monthly cadence just at the rate of change that's happening at the state and federal level to make sure that we are
124keeping our eyes and ears and understanding of potential implications. So um we will continue that in the months to come. Beautiful. Thank you very much. Action items. Item 91 motion please. Move to approve the personnel report recommendations for administration certified and non-certified staff members as presented. Second. Second discussion. I just want to appreciate reviewing this um personnel report. There was um recommend or there were filling of positions that were once held by um temporary staff. So really appreciate seeing that and the the great work by um the human resources team. And just to note the uh my understanding was we're spending what about $5 million correct on contractors. So if we're replacing about 75% of those that would be a savings to the district of probably around what 3.5 million. So just so people can
125get we're on it and it's only April. Just wait. Yeah. So people get a good idea of the actual monetary savings that that is. Didn't we estimate when we were doing the estimated calculations of potential savings, we had said 80, right, as the estimate? So, we may even exceed that conservative estimate. So, do it. Amazing. Yep. Do it. Yep. Good stuff. Roll call. Hunt. I. Shupai. I. Taylor. I. Wong. I. Aer. I. Anorino. I motion carries. Item 92. I move to approve the rescheduling of the May 14th, 2025 board of education meeting to Monday, May 12th, 2025 at 7 p.m. to comply with IASP reorganization requirements as presented. Second discussion roll call. I Taylor, Wong, I ader. Honorino, I Hunt. Motion carries. Item 93. I move to approve a three-year engagement for auditing services with
126Sikage as presented. Second. Discussion. Second. Anthony. Anthony. Both. I. Yeah. Discussion. Roll call. Wrong. I. Taylor. I. Shupai. I. Aer. I. Honorino. Hi. Hunt. I. Motion carries. Item 94. I move to approve the recommended 202526 medical, dental, and vision insurance rates as presented. Second discussion. Thank you to the committee again for all of the work and time to make this happen. Agreed. I'm seconding what Sam what Sam said. Roll call. Taylor. Hi. One. Hi. Ader. Hi. Honorino. Hi. Hunt. Hi. Shai. I motion carries. Item 95. Move to award the Winston campus paving improvements project to Evans and Sun Blacktop for the base bid of 122,697 and41 as presented. Second discussion. Roll call. Wang. Hi. Ayah. Hi. Herino. Hi. Hunt. Hi. Shoai. I. Taylor. I. Motion carries. Item 96. Sam. Save the paving way for you.
127What if I don't? No. Uh, I move to award the Pleasant Hill Parking Improvements Project to uh, Tro McNeel Paving Company for the base bid of $147,280 as presented. Second discussion. Roll call. Ader, I. Hunt, I. Shupai, I. Tamer. I, I. Motion carries. Item 97. I move to award the Walter R. funling the parking improvements project to McGill Construction LLC for the base bid of $745,56467 cents as presented. Second. That's a big parking lot. Sure is. And it's going to be gorgeous when it's done. Yeah. Roll call. Any. Hunt. I. Shupai. I. Taylor. I. Wong. I. Hater. I. Motion carries. Item 98. I move to award the Kimble Hill Site Improvements Project to Choke Neil Paving Company for the base bid of $12,152 as presented. Second discussion. Roll call. Hunt. I Shupai I Taylor I
128W I hater I Honorino I motion carries item window. It's a paving project. Everybody get out and you get a pavement project and you get I move to award to hunting site improvement projects to tro me paving company for a base of $101,855 as presented second discussion roll call I Taylor I Wong I Honorino I Hunt I motion carries Grace. Item 910. Motion, please. I move to award the Willow Ben parking improvements project to Evans and Sun Blacktop with a base bid of $26,822.80 as presented. Second discussion. Roll call. Taylor. I. Shouai. I. Wang. I. Aer. I. Honorino. Hi, Hunt. I motion carries. Item 911. Do I get a second parking project motion? Oh my god. I move to award the Frankie Whitley parking improvements project to Manaval Construction for the base bid of $264,895
129as presented. Second discussion. Roll call. Wang. I. Taylor. I. Honorino. Hi. Aer. I. Hunt. I Shelby I motion carries item I move to award the Conjur Learning Academy sidewalk Improvements project to Everlast blacktop for the base bid of $119,11340 as presented second discussion roll call I adah I Hunt I Shupai I Taylor I motion carries going to be so Great to be walking around in the district in September and amazing yeah there'll be smell of black top all all around beautiful right item 913 please I move to approve the 2024 2025 final official school calendar as presented second Discussion. Roll call. Aer I. Herino. I. Hunt. I. Shupai. I. Taylor. I. Wong. I. Motion carries. Item 914. I move to approve the middle school math resource as presented. Second. Second. Discussion. Just revise some of
130those questions. I'm just kidding. Thank you for the uh don't use those examples. Thank you for the uh all the work looking looking into it. The non-athletes in the group would have just thought about it as math. But not that I'm saying I'm not athletic, but I'm not very athletic. Um but I can ski, so it's okay. Um roll. Roll call, please. Hunt, I. Shupai, I. Taylor, I. Wong. Hi. Gator. I. Honorino. All right. Motion carries. Item 915. I move to approve the middle school's um social studies resource as presented. Second. Second. Discussion. Just sorry, really brief. Also thanking the committees um for this one and the last one. all the teachers and ad admin staff and everybody that um helped participate in this. It's an extra load and so greatly appreciate the time and
131effort. Absolutely. You bet. You're here. Roll call. Shupai I. Taylor I W I Aer I Honorino I Hunt I. Motion carries item 916. Are we uh No, we skipped this. We want you still to take uh action on it. It's just the the thing we wanted to share about that, not didn't want to pull it out separately, is folks can families can go in and just buy items. They're going to get their one uniform and they can buy additional items online like if you want a long sleeve shirt, if you want a pair of sweatpants, additional. So it's additional. So it's not a required fee or a required requirement. optional extras, but we're still really cool pair of sweatpants. Got it. That match your gym uniform that you love. Sweet. You're really You're really going
132to buy a set. I move. I have a very quick story about it. So, one of my one of my son's friends, my oldest son's friends is um h who went to Plum Grove Junior High, grew up to be a middle school gym teacher and is in his first year of teaching. And the stories he tells about the things that happened in the locker room, like people, somebody taking somebody else's gym uniform and flushing down the toilet and then the toilet's all stopped up. And I mean, he's just a whirlwind of stories of the ridiculous things that happen and you just can't stop laughing. It's terrible, but so funny at the same time. My god. And you know, it's karma, by the way, because I'm sure that he was causing a lot of those problems
133in the locker room back in his day. Oh, yeah. No doubt. So, so included in this optional uniforms, are they going to have an 80s version of short shorts? No. Retro link. The retro short a short jump with a zipper and a little collar. Super fancy. Oh, yeah. Make sure to buy the extra smalls. Those were coveted, too, cuz they'd run out of the extra smalls. I'm sure everybody wants to go home, but about me back in the day wearing my extra small. That's all the picture in our head. That's why we got this one. Jim Taylor was the first motion, please. I move to approve the physical education uh uniform fees as presented. Second. The discussion is done already. So, roll. Second. I don't have a second. Wend. Thanks. Okay. Roll call. Wang. Hi.
134Taylor. I. Shubai. I. Aer. I. Honorino. Hi. Hunt. I. Motion carries. Item 917. Much like 916 917. It has a limited impact in that the transportation fees were reviewed for paid ridership. paid wrership rates have not gone up for at least 15 years. So the I know so we're going to change that. We're going to review fees annually at one time, bring them to the board in December or January. Um and they're proposing $100 um increase for the first child and then it's going to go down from there. And this is just for paid wrership each year. Well, postcoid we're kind of back to being able to look at paid wrership and if there's room on a route we can say yes, but we're not going to say yes, you know, if the route is
135tight or if we would have to split a route and add a bus because we don't have enough drivers to do that. So, we're going to um just increase and there was a memo in there transportation for paid riders only because it hasn't been raised and despite increased staff costs, increased fuel costs, increased maintenance costs. So, and even though you said it four times just to make sure we don't get 100 emails, this is not for everyone else who rides the bus every day, right? Because everybody else, if you live, you know, one and a half miles or more or if you live or have to cross a hazardous crossing and it's been deemed hazardous by ID do um then you get free ridership. So, the vast majority of our students ride buses for free.
136Very small percent. The very vast majority of 10,000 kids. Correct. Right. Because you know the emails, correct? All right. Motion. Who's got the first? Frank does. I move to approve proposed transportation fee adjustments for implementation in the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Second discussion. Roll call. Taylor. I. One. I. Aer. I. Honorino. Hi. Hunt. I. Shupai. I. Motion carries. Item 918. I move to award the Willibben roof replacement work to Sarnophil Services Incorporated of Canton was like Massachusetts. That's my for a cost of $172,300 as presented. Second stage for discussion. Roll call. One I Hanino I. Hunt I Taylor I. Motion carries. Item 919. I move to award the Virginia Lake Roof replacement work to Sarnville Services of uh Canton, Massachusetts for the cost of 1,331,900. Second discussion. Roll call. Ader. Honorino. Hi. Hunt.
137Hi. Shupai. Hi. Taylor I Wong I motion carries item 920. I move to approve theou titled renewal of and amendment to um inter agency agreement between district 15 and the center resources for teaching and learning as presented. Second discussion. What is this is for early childhood. But we have worked for a number of years without a signed with our ECT partners from the center. This is um putting a signature on a revisedou a kind of long overdue for this year and then one moving into next year. So as we've we've talked about we're going to be over time over the next year and a quarter now taking over and bringing you know early childhood under the district 15 umbrella. This is theou that will guide the work for the remainder of this year and next.
138Anything else to add? Mindy. Okay. All right. Roll call. Anno. I. Hunt. I. Shupai. I. Taylor. I. Wang. I. Aer. I. Motion carries. May I have a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented? I move to approve the consent calendar items as presented. Second. Second. Roll call. Hunt. Hi, Shupai. Hi, Taylor. Hi, Wong. Hi, Aer. Hi, Herino. Hi. Motion carries. Foya, Dr. Hines. As always, I include FOYAS that we've received. Um, and as you can see, it's why we're strongly opposing the latest House bill because there's a a number of them in here. So, if you have any questions, then let me know. All right. Motion to adjurnn, please. I move to adjourn. Second. All in favor? I I Let the record reflect my overunder was spot on at 9:15. Thanks back to window.
1399:14. You got one more minute. You want to keep talking? Oh, no. It is 9:15.