001meeting will come to order may have a roll call please aider annarino hunt Khan here shoe pie here Taylor um Jim will be a little bit late today okay Wong here thank you very much the mission of school district 15 is to produce world-class Learners by building a connected learning community thanks for coming out this evening uh and I hope everyone's enjoying the first month of Summer the first few weeks of not being in school and uh the board meeting that happens when nobody's in school um we appreciate you being here and look forward to being able to uh to award a number of students and staff this evening and uh on that note we're going to move right into Mr Warren and his team from CLA with the Pledge of Allegiance Dr Heinz president
002shupai members of the Board of Education my name is Matt Warren I'm the principal at Conyers Learning Academy and I have the pleasure of being here tonight with a few of our students and staff from our multiple needs program to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance for the last two years the students in the multiple needs program have worked and operated the CLA beverage cart every Tuesday the students from all three of our multiple needs classrooms work to prepare drinks made to order for the CLA staff in addition they deliver the drinks to the classrooms and offices throughout the day not only do does the CLA beverage cart bring joy and happiness to so many staff each week but it also gives our students the opportunity to work on the important academic and Vocational
003skills such as counting sorting money management food preparation customer service students in our primary classroom are responsible for sorting and organizing the materials as well as making the lemonade and the students in our intermediate and Middle School classrooms are preparing drinks and delivering them throughout the day tonight with us we have Noah and Mateo who are responsible for preparing and delivering drinks as well as collecting payments and Maria manages the beverage stand and she is our Barista for walk-up orders all of the proceeds for the beverage cart are used to support the different initiatives within the multiple needs program and specifically this year the students voted and purchased a new sensory light for their motor room I want to thank the teachers program assistants and clinicians who have supported the students to learn these important
004academic and Vocational skills they do so much work behind the scenes to make the beverage cart possible I also want to thank them for never judging me when I order extra marshmallows whipped cream and sprinkles in my hot chocolate you can never have too much sugar or marshmallows so tonight the students have prepared a beverage that was ordered by each member of the Board of Education and in in addition they will be providing you with a free voucher for a free drink if you come by next year probably still on Tuesdays in the morning the students and one of arboristas will prepare a beverage for you on the house so first we're going to lead you in the Pledge of Allegiance and then we will pass out your beverages so will the audience please rise
005[Music] thank you and we will deliver your drinks [Applause] y'all look so professional with your aprons and if any parents would like to come up and take a picture [Music] um thank you [Applause] thank you thank you there you go thank you thank you so much foreign thank you very much I appreciate it I'll see you all next semester on a Tuesday you're welcome [Applause] [Laughter] yeah I know thank you guys very much thank you thanks Mr Warren thank you thank you everybody for being here and the special treats we can't wait to see you next semester we are moving into some student recognition at this point Becca we share our good evening um we are going to start with a student recognition we have an additional PTA Reflections winner and I'm gonna have them
006come on out here and join me as well as Julie one of our representatives from the PTA Council good evening everybody president shupai members of the Board of Education superintendent Dr Hines thank you for this opportunity to again recognize and celebrate district 15 students that excelled in the National PTA Reflections art program my name is Julie Holderman and I'm the first vice president of programs and the reflections chairman for Northwest Suburban Council PTA PTSA our Council oversees all ptas and ptsas in district 15 and we're the liaison between our local units and the Northwest cook region Illinois PTA and National PTA all ptas across the country are eligible to participate in the reflections art program you're over 300 000 students in pre-k through grade 12 create original works of art in response to a student-selected
007theme and this year's theme was show your voice this 50-plus year old program helps students explore their own thoughts feelings and ideas develop artistic literacy increase confidence and find a love for learning that will help them become more successful in school and in life students participate in the appropriate division for their grade primary being pre-k through grade two intermediate grades three through five Middle School grades six through eight in high school nine through twelve as well as a special artist category where all grades are welcome students share their talents in the areas of Visual Arts photography video production dance choreography music composition as well as literature and students artwork went through blind judging using criteria and standards used by all ptas across the country tonight we're here to recognize one student whose artwork was not
008only recognized at the Illinois PTA level at their Spotlight event at Millikin University but they also but she also Advanced further to the National PTA level we are want to congratulate a talented photographer from Winston Campus Elementary please help us celebrate Olive h AI yes absolutely principal gets to be in there perfect congratulations to Olive and to our 88 other students that participated this past year and you know we're really looking forward to 2023 because the theme is going to be I am hopeful because and I can only imagine the incredible creativity the kids will come up with that theme so thank you all so much and have a great summer thank you Julie [Applause] all righty next up we have one of our first of two staff recognitions for this evening so I am
009honored to um share that our D15 mechanics were selected as one of our staff members of the month for the month of June I did see we had Mary here do we have anybody else here from our mechanics crew don't want to kind of come on up here okay you can come on up here so the nomination was provided by our very own Mary wolf so I'll let her share a little bit why about why she nominated them I was not expecting to be speaking so I will do the best that I can I wanted to recognize our Mechanics for all that they do in this district and there's that one part of this District at the art mechanics area that they don't touch our mechanics not only work on our school buses every day
010but they also work on our mail trucks to help deliver our mail to all the schools they work on our warehouse trucks that deliver supplies to our schools they also work on our food delivery trucks that provide the meals to our schools and I could speak on my own personal account that when our unfortunate um our school bus maybe breaks down they not only work on the vehicles but they also help us transfer our students from one bus to another bus safely and during the summer I had the when we had covet our mechanics also helped us unload our food buses so they do more than just work on school buses I just wanted to recognize them for all their hard work and I know recently with something being worked on they've also had to
011deal with some of our Bays being used during not be able to be used during the the construction process so I really am proud to work amongst them every day thank you thank you Mary [Applause] and Mary just a shout out she is the president of that Union so thank you for your OD to you Okay so but thanks bear the president of the Union that is dramatically affected by buses working or not thanks Mary all right and our second up to staff recognitions tonight I'm going to have our very own K Ehrenberg join us up here to explain why they had nominated one of their staff members from GMS good evening Dr Hines president shupai Board of Education and members of the community I'm honored to recognize Megan Gannon one of sanborn's second grade
012teachers for going in Above and Beyond at Sanborn School Megan initiated a summer fun project for our newcomers students she wanted to make sure that all of our newcomers had some fun summer games and toys when they left Sanborn for summer break she collected donations from the community and our staff members and each student was able to leave with a bag full of fun markers beach balls Bubble Wands stuffed animals Play-Doh coloring books notebooks stickers chalk colored pencils and coupons to photos Dolphin Cove Palatine Library goodies Spunky Dunkers Bolero Pool passes and Wendy's the students and families were then invited to Sanborn on Monday May 22nd after school to personally pick out their bag and items so that it was extra special for the students and their families we appreciate Megan's hard work and dedication
013to ensure that our newcomer families have some nice summer fun and are enjoying their time thank you Megan for going above and beyond and we're honored to recognize you this evening foreign [Applause] all right and then our first of two Community recognitions for this evening I'm going to have our very own assistant superintendent for multilingual programs Renee urbanski join me up here to share why she nominated our parent mentors hey everyone was trying to escape but Renee managed to ring along [Laughter] if you guys want yep Jim likes to be in the background making face good evening president shoe pie Dr Hines and members of the Board of Education it is my honest and most sincere pleasure to be here tonight to recognize this amazing dedicated and just enthusiastic and dynamic group of parents here
014known as our parent Mentor team [Applause] two years ago we embarked on this journey the parent Mentor journey in partnership with the POC I do believe Kathy Millen is here Kathy can you wave your hand oh maybe she went home she wasn't feeling well tonight she was here earlier we had a little celebration before the board meeting but she was a key partner in bringing this uh program to our schools two years ago we wrote for a grant and received it from the Illinois State Board of Education and these lovely women and teachers volunteered to be part of it and as part of the program they signed on to participate and be Volunteers in our classrooms for two hours every day four days a week all year long together this group here has spent over
0154 000 hours in our classrooms in the last two years and I'd like to recognize our teachers too each of them was placed in one classroom and our teachers who somewhat were able to be here tonight if you would just wave your hand um they welcomed these parent mentors into their classrooms and the parent mentors also met as part of the program on Saturdays and received two hours of training and through that training they often expressed what they wanted to learn more about one of those things was math and so we had two of our district 15 teachers went in and taught the team how to do new math here and they were most grateful another one of our parents in the community stepped up because the ladies decided they wanted to learn more English
016so Jessica was here came in and they did an extra day on Fridays and spent two hours learning English as well so it is incredibly amazing what these women have done for our classrooms for our teachers for students and one of our parents is going to read a summary of the group's sentiments about the program she'll read in Spanish and that I will translate for her after Hernandez who by the way is a parent at Lincoln volunteered the first year at Jane Adams in the second year at Virginia Lake my name is escuelas Ninos are you the most a Las maestras hello is poderosas escuelas organizations [Music] classes [Music] thank you [Applause] my name is Mentor program the vision of the parent Mentor program is to grow personally and professionally to be leaders in our
017communities and to support our schools and most importantly our children we help teachers and we help students so they don't fall behind and we encourage the school community that parents get involved and they grow so that our schools are powerful centers of our community and that the leadership of parents is the center at the center of the school organizations and the community parent mentors has helped me to reflect on The Importance of Being a good parent through the parent Mentor program I've been able to visualize the connection that exists between us the parents the teachers and especially the children upon entering the school and the classroom I feel that I am in a new world one that I could never have imagined before it motivates me every day to give the best of myself [Applause]
018and as I said at the beginning this is a program that has been sponsored by the Illinois State Board of Education and is thriving in many schools here in the state of Illinois in fact this group not all the some of these parents but not all but they travel to the state of Illinois to Advocate to expand the program they had asked for a 13.5 million dollars and the state legislature came back with 15 million dollars so it is absolutely powerful and we are excited to see this program continue to grow and we are so proud of each and every one of you here we've given you all a token a gift which is a light because of the light that you bring to our schools thank you thank you [Applause] and we have a
019certificate for each of you so Maria Socorro if you want to come forward and grab your certificate or pass it to her Lucia malagon Nuria Lisette Lopez Hernandez Tanya Cruz Ramirez porfiria Lucia Ramirez Nunez is one of our grandmas and she is not here tonight she's in Mexico Elida Estrada she's not here either Antonio sabaleta Flores vaccine Montiel Leticia Perez Bueno Karen Villegas Mejia Yasmin Jimenez Espino Laura Concepcion Patricia almost Peralta universe [Applause] you take a couple steps to this later so we're off the screen to get there but I'll be able to make it okay all right ready one two and three thank you thank you hold on one more ready thank you so much [Music] [Applause] are we uh do we have a Harper okay threw everybody off all right and we have
020one more Community recognition I wanted to just clarify or make sure before I started um this one is professor John Garcia here by chance okay I'm going to read this we'll make sure we get this over to the Harper College Honor Society but our last recognition for this evening is for our students at Harper College they reached out in the fall to district 15 in hopes to help with uh help students with materials specifically art supplies so they gathered all the supplies requested by our art teachers our instructional coordinator Beth Richter she had worked with all of the students and also the art teachers to identify the needs that our teachers had and they supplied us with all kinds of requested donations including crayons colored pencils cap erasers scissors pencils and other basic supplies for
021the art rooms so they donated a large quantity of goods and as you can see our students thoroughly enjoyed all of them and we just wanted to take a moment to recognize our students from the Harper College Honor Society for their generous donation [Applause] thank you Becca we will now open our meeting for public comment please remember that this is not a dialogue between you and the board if you have a specific issue that requires a response superintendent Heinz or a designee we'll get back to you please state your name and identify any group that you represent also limit your remarks to three minutes or less if someone previously has articulated something with which you agree please state that you agree with it rather than reiterating the entire comment and finally please avoid comments particular
022to any person student or staff member respecting that person's right to privacy this is not the form to comment on Personnel issues if you have an interest in any additional rules regarding policy 2 to 30 they can be fine found on the website at board policy 2 colon 230. Amy heartsong wherever you like who can either be up there you can sit here with uh with the mic make sure if you're um if you've got a mic that you push the button and the green light is on on the base of the mic okay green light is on perfect look at you I'm here to thank District 54 for the electric School Bus report that will be presented to the board later tonight the report is the work of Deputy superintendent Claire kowalczyk Chief School
023business officer Diana mccleskey and director of Transportation Thomas Bramley I'm here with Renee Gladstone who came here a year ago with a group of district 15 residents to present information to the board about grants for electric school buses we are all very appreciative of the work that went into this report being presented tonight I just want to add that the United States EPA will be releasing new emission rules for trucks and buses the public comment deadline on the new EPA rules is this Friday if district 15 did not already comment I just want to mention that many points in this school bus report would be excellent as a public comment to the EPA a question the report does not answer is what Financial Risk to district 15 there is if it's diesel buses do not
024meet the new EPA emission rules and so it would have to be replaced before their end of life I do appreciate that the report mentions high quality emissions filters on District 54 diesel buses but there may need to be more discussion about that after the EPA publishes new admission rules thank you very much thank you thanks very much Amy we appreciate you being here Jane van wovelier are you sure Jay all right sounds good uh would anybody else like to say anything that's all we've got just too all right yeah superintendents reports Dr Hines so just a side note comment I feel like the last three or four board meetings have been so packed full of information that we have pushed the superintendent report to the end and then we never quite get to it
025so it's kind of kind of exciting it's actually going to happen that's very true and it's of course it's the day I feel like death heaven was talking to you but I am happy to be able to provide you with an update like every month um we we're just busy doing great things you know with our staff for our students um on my slide you see pictures of our some of our graduates at the end of the school year we had five graduation ceremonies they were just beautifully managed by the staff and the parents and the kids grandparents siblings we're just very excited so CLA had a nice lunch in our other four Junior highs had evening events and they went off without a hitch we sent our 8th graders off to their high schools
026are ready to do us proud we continue to work on all things moving 15 forward we we have a big crew here tonight to give you another kind of comprehensive update as we have been trying to do on a monthly basis so we're ready for the 24-25 school year our lobbyists continue to work in Springfield there was a settlement agreement reached between us and Churchill Downs that will be publicized shortly and we continue to meet kind of lions and tigers and bears you know Springfield Churchill Downs and the bears oh my it's taken out a whole life of its own it's a big part of my week every every week so we'll just keep moving the ball down the field it's always a sports analogy whenever we have our meetings I have been asked to
027serve on the Palatine Village of Palatine steering committee and I have had my first meeting with that group it's exciting a new opportunity for me but they wanted to have the school's voice you know very involved in their City Planning and they were an active readout and as the president of the Village of Palatine was very involved and his Deputy were very involved in both our portrait of a graduate strategic plan so now it's our turn to have a seat at their planning table to help them you know to build their long-range plan in Palatine and then as you know we're and Scully is moving on to another District shortly and we have been very involved in planning and hiring and interviewing to try to have a seamless as of a transition as possible I'm
028a nervous wreck about it but uh that's taken up a lot of time so that's just a handful of the things that have been happening in the soup's office next slide please um Claire has been researching the electric buses as Amy from the audience mentioned um because we know Hugh mentioned it quite a while ago and wanted us to work on doing the research putting the time and we've done that so this is the first round and you'll hear the presentation this evening we'll engage you in a conversation talk about some possible next steps and registration and residency it kind of tis the season we have our new policy that we will just enroll students that haven't re-registered this summer in August and really just have only students enrolled in our schools where the parents
029or Guardians have re-upped residency and and taken care of registration so it's been a lot of work but um or we're in a very good place in terms of how many folks have already re-registered in Renee's Department have been working with some of our parents to help them through the registration process as of our apparent Liaisons business Diana has been extremely busy and you'll hear tonight in her Department uh continuing to work on the tentative budget in which she will present shortly communication a lot of end of the year events Becca is our resident photographer she takes all the cute pictures that you see at millions of events all over the district she supported a successful first one five family walk run it was a terrific event and just we're already preparing as we close
030out one year preparations for the next school year are well underway ed services summer school implementation we have nearly a thousand students enrolled which is very exciting that program has grown so they're doing a lot of work to make sure that kids have Extended Learning opportunities in the summer we had a Boys and Girls Club celebration this was the end of our first year in partnership with the boys and girls club we've had numerous conversations with them to see if there's a way we can continue in potentially expand that program moving forward so we're working on some funding issues right now we've completed the First Federal grant process for titles one three and four grants all of our grants are daunting um but they're worth the time because we they we receive so much money
031that is just much needed to keep providing the great supports and services that we do for students we updated a student selection process for our Junior High Advanced Ela course to align with our new Ela curriculum now we have a protocol and a selection process for advanced dla we've had out-of-level math before the first time we'll have advanced dla and we have a new criteria and then we created the academically talented and gifted program handbook and a program guide we had a parent meeting for incoming sixth graders and now we have other documentation and documents to support this new program which over the last few years has been revised next slide please Human Resources boy they're just kicking back right about now no this is uh like this is for them it's like being an
032accountant in April Recruitment and hiring are well underway it's something they do all year but crunch time is is really spring and summer so we're fully staffed and with the shortages that we have every time it seems that we hire a handful of people we have another handful of people retired so it's a couple steps forward and hopefully fewer steps back but that's it's a definitely a push pull um we're doing screenings for student services we um hopefully will have you approve our tie or espa rather midterm negotiation and our Thai negotiation we receive parameters from you so hopefully at our August meeting that will come forward for approval and then program assistant assignments and job postings for the 23-24 you are underway and that's like a just a giant giant jigsaw puzzle being being
033worked on multilingual program Staffing 23 24 school year is underway this is a very hard to fill category so Renee literally goes to other countries to recruit she doesn't herself physically go there but she recruits from teachers and Educators from other places to really make sure her classrooms are fully staffed uh preparations being finalized for the Dual language culture camp for June 12th and 15th and multilingual summer camp the 10th through the 3rd of August and I think Camp kicked off yesterday Monday correct so I'm sure that was a lot of fun and bilingual education award and elevating the educator grants have been completed and approved again these Grant all these grants are beasts they keep going after more funding sources and it's a blessing and a curse when they say yes because it's a
034lot of work work to manage them but it again provides us with a lot of opportunities for children so everybody is is very invested in seeking new um bless you seeking new Revenue sources student services seal and Aces a level review of professional development um has taken place we have sip seal Aces leap Retreats planned so those are all different programs and the teachers the staff will meet in July correct to to work on their planning this summer we have an expand expanding expression training that was happening and then summer Wilson training is going on so when people ask Educators what do you do all summer there's a lot that happens in the summer this is just a handful of things happening in student services Ian's also working on her transition decks and because I'm
035not going to let her like hang on to her leg all right and then lastly is this the last one or is teaching and learning oh one more time oh there's a cute one too yes special that I remember this Special Olympics date competition soccer skills soccer team track and field we had eight students qualify that's just amazing I mean that's like almost unheard of so that's that's wonderful yeah so I recently got two slides because it was full of really cute kids uh teaching and learning we've implemented mtss and school Improvement planning meetings they had different School rotations it was a a cross-department collaboration but we really have a very solidly written mtss plan and a process for for having consistency with data usage and and plan Development Across all of our schools so
036I had the pleasure of sitting in for a day and it was just exceptionally well done we've they've been involved in organizing administrative and Institute day training school behavior and wellness promotion we're having Champs come out we're going to do a a nationally renowned kind of training for two days over Institute day and that's been a lot of a lot of planning taking place we're preparing for the adoption of a new supplemental reading program K2 to work on foundational literacy skill gaps we're supporting curriculum planning teaching teacher training and support for our Title One summer school program as well as organizing Middle School planning groups to support the 2425 transition to Middle Schools our new assistant superintendent for teaching learning and assessment Dr Lori Lopez um kind of jumped in on on a portion of
037of that training that took place last week along with Emily McFadden and others and it it's a nice group of people came together and I think we're off off to a good start but we have a lot a lot of work still to do all right and that is it for me thank you tons and tons of things going on the um moving 15 forward um we're gonna have to start adding more chairs to the room just so that we can fit everyone [Laughter] all right so we got the gang we got the whole gang again here I think this time I might remember to make introductions because I'm always too nervous let's start at the end here this is Chris Killinger and Aaron Miller from archon architects Dave I mean Jim davidus who you
038know director of facilities um Dan critta from World architects Joe Papa Nicholas from Nicholas and Associates construction management and Liz Hennessey from Wednesday Dream Team everybody's here together every Wednesday yeah T-shirt If you behave all right all right so on that executive note we're here tonight to discuss the rationale present the rationale to request for you to authorize not to exceed amounts in our fund fundage and we will go into more detail to explain what that means and then there are two ways too right um to uh whether you will approve this authorization as the district Works to continually streamline and identify project scope and Associated budget impacts it has become clear that inflation added scope and current market conditions has significantly escalated prices the updated budget presented to the board in May included a
039revised budget for moving 15 forward of 119 million up from 110 million and 67 million down from 76 million to address the needs outlined in the five-year Master facility plan due to increased scope and cost escalation in order to stay within the 186 million budgeted for moving 15 forward a number of projects have unfortunately been moved into six to ten year Master facility plan and in some cases Beyond we're going to go into a little bit more detail on this slide about these bullet points additional scope required from the original concept is partly due to the following bringing greater parity to kindergarten rooms sized through Renovations and additions our Target to standardize kindergarten Realms between 900 and 1100 square feet is is to standardize doing so supports programmatic changes that will be brought forth as
040part of a full day kindergarten experience so I'm going to turn this over to we'll start with Dan okay Daniel on expound on that sure so as we started looking at the additions for each of the schools any of the schools that were getting an addition it just made sense to make sure that we're matching at least the Equitable kindergarten spaces that to what's already there so most of the schools have at least two kindergarteners that are over are sized to be more best practice aligned and that's at 1100 square foot range so as we're adding onto the building instead of just adding classrooms it made sense to make sure that we were bringing that parody in the kindergarten environment so the student experience at those schools would be very similar between existing classrooms for
041kindergarten and anything that was being is new for the all-day cave anything from arcom no okay and feel free to ask questions while we're going through this so the second bullet point increased resource class room space to support student services I'll take another try then okay um so the student service alignment was very close to what was proposed at the pre-referendum we didn't see a big Flex so there is some shifting from building to building that's has kind of transpired as we got into more of the design phase but the uh um there are some resource spaces some smaller support spaces that have blossomed a little bit as we got into more detail and meeting with principals and doing some of those initial design discussions so this is mostly affected renovation the kindergarten impact is
042more of an addition and renovation impact as far as a scope that expands growing ell enrollment in a number of communities and additional classroom spaces needed in a number of schools responsive some of the the newcomer phenomena of more newcomers coming into the district beyond what was projected so we're looking at the schools that are having that impact are getting needing more resource space but also more ell environments and to some degree that is actually adding classrooms to those schools where that that impact is most is the greatest so this is a actually bringing on some additional addition space but also some renovation space in those schools that are mostly affected by that newcomer impact lastly increased space requirement for art and music itinerants for five and SEC six section schools is really surfaced and
043some of our early design discussions with the principals in a tandem with them doing their Master scheduling and trying to understand as those buildings that we're growing to a five or six section building that just the art and the music spaces on their own were not enough space to hit the requirements for art music across the board in the five and six section building so those buildings unless they had a space available for that flex room to accommodate art music we're adding that space at many of the schools that are getting additions to accommodate that the additional Flex space and that's it any building that has a five or six section targeted enrollment how many how many buildings do we have that have the higher targeted higher higher number of sections Lincoln is sick yeah
044Hunting Ridge is five um let's see Sanborn um I think it's about half the buildings are in the five and six range half the elementary schools all right thanks I know that's a little loose of an answer but I just saw the time I was looking for ballpark I can put an exact number for Friday I'm not that important Lori just I was wondering if it was 25 50 75 you know where we were sitting out there good do you need to see him you're good okay since the six excuse me since the successful passing of the moving 15 forward referendum the D15 team archon Architects World architects of Nicholas construction I've worked hard to stay within the intended budget to do so we review plans and make adjustments to what the budget allows us
045to provide so I'm gonna and we we really have combed for you know two years you know ever since before you know way before we knew the referendum would pass and come through and come through and and send our Architects back to the drawing board many many I thought they might fire us because uh we're like no you know and and I and I gotta why are you laughing so hard Joe I just kind of want everybody to elaborate you can speak more eloquently to our process than I could have go ahead um before we get into some of the scope specific scope I could talk a little bit about phasing so phase one is complete as we all know it's underway it's in the construction phase uh we have three phases to go um
046our primary focus right now is phase two within phase two there's six schools uh five of the six will be bid the first week of August so we'll be out to bid middle of July on those five um right now we're about 80 90 complete with construction documents so we're going to do a final control estimate so I expect some budget refinement so as the designs are progressing we're refining the budgets we like to start out a little conservative and Whittle our way down until we get to that final control estimate so each school will have that final control estimate established before we go out to bed so that's sort of our final check just to see where things are tracking it's sort of a soft bit opening so it's kind of nice to have
047two bid openings just in case but anyways we'll have these soft bid openings later later next month prior to going out to bed Hunting Ridge is a sick school as part of phase two the outside bid for hunting rages November 1st so that's trailing a little bit and then we'll have that bid opening before Thanksgiving so the timing for all those phase two bids will be great and then phase three and phase four um will follow phase two but we will also bid those in the fall as well Jim you want to see some say something Jim's really good at keeping everybody on track well I think the uh just for anyone that's watching at home or for you guys that you know you hear so often people just going for money and and this
048is just an authorization ask because we're not giving up um we don't look at this as you know a loss but the reality is that inflation has been significant from the time that we started this process till now and and those numbers are real and we see these numbers and so when you factor in how much that really means to a 186 million dollar budget it's a lot but we have been fighting on every turn every corner to deliver what's necessary for all-day kindergarten for the kids deliver the alignment and deliver all the things that we promised and so we're still fighting on that and and this ask is not saying that we're going to actually go and grab it but that we are uh it's a safety net in case even more things come
049our way there's been a lot of things that have happened over the last two years completely unforeseen our cohort our 10-year cohort show declining enrollment we're not declining and and and the increase is not gen Ed but other other services that require programming so that has a larger impact on the facilities so we have been fighting very hard we will continue to do that and so I don't want anyone thinking that this you know you're throwing out in there oh you're just asking for more money because that's what people do no that's not what we're about so we're here to present everything so you know what what's been affecting us and how we're fighting to stay on that budget five-year facility plan we really really don't want to like you know to preserve what is
050left in it Five-Year Plan we've got Andy film nervous about our HVAC systems those are big ticket items I believe Virginia like just half of it right now is four million dollars so um again A lot has been moved to the six to ten and a lot also had to do with inflation so um where it stands right now is really where we want to accomplish all right so now we're going to go through each School are moving 15 forward plan that has been impacted and what and either an update or you know what what actually is is you know there it's on budget or some of the changes so we'll start with archon okay we'll start with Thomas Jefferson uh the conversion from elementary to middle school as you know we did include the
051incorporation of a track and Associated grading and detention as part of the site development there in order to achieve parity between that school and the other middle schools likewise as we entered into our code reviews for the plans we uncovered an existing egress issue at the classroom pods we are able to correct that but it's resulted in some additional interior renovation to the building the gymnasium was sized to allow for Middle School competitions and also to respond to some of the needs that we heard from building principals and others through a design process so to accommodate the requested bleacher capacity and meet the PE requirements that has grown in size from what was originally intended we've added a student comments and that was something that resulted from early meetings with the middle school principals one
052of the Design Concepts that resulted from those important conversations was that we wanted to provide a space for middle school students together outside the classroom which will also allow for some additional flexibility in the building and then there were renovation dollars were not originally applied to convert K to Art and we did end up having to convert some existing toilet rooms into a kiln room replace casework and then address some of the Interior finishes for example that it was a carpeted space and had to become a hard service obviously to accommodate that art program we're good we're just doing keep going alter something don't follow this live okay foreign the final design really landed in a much different place than we started we were able to reduce the amount of new construction new building construction
053um at that school but we did end up converting the lrc to classrooms which allowed for us to maintain that grade level house concept which is also something that was discussed as a middle school standard in those early planning meetings with principals that did result however in some additional interior renovation we also bid improvements to the existing wrestling room and health room as part of an alternate fit to the project that wasn't part of the original scope but will allow those spaces to be used much more flexibly as classroom space which will help address capacity issues at that school and then similar to TJ we incorporated as two student student Commons area to mimic the approach that we're taking at all of the other middle schools and help achieve parity there okay at Jane Adams
054we touched on many of these points Dan explained some of the considerations in sizing kindergarten appropriately into industry standards so our new building Edition at this school did increase in footprint to allow those kindergarten rooms to be sized around 1100 square feet we also uncovered the need for that Flex art and Music Room earlier and early in the design process which resulted in that additional programmatic requirement in the space we plan to bid the library renovation as an alternate to the budget so that the district can determine if they will accept that scope of work or not depending on how the bids come in and then we are intending to relocate at the existing staff Lounge to allow for an appropriate sized conference room that is located in the main office so that visitors to
055that building don't have to Traverse the building for meetings okay at Winston on the scope to that building really remains relatively unchanged from what was originally intended but the new multi-purpose room was size to house lunch surf PE use after hours use and then provide the necessary gym storage Furniture storage and nutrition services so it did grow in footprint from what was accounted for in the original lump sum placeholder and then Hunting Ridge is a good example of one of those buildings that was originally intended to receive minor res minor renovation work but the scope there did grow because Pro some program was shifted to that school it now needs to accommodate all-day kindergarten as well as incorporate that Flex art music classroom that we've talked about in corporate for student service classrooms to house
056the lead program for ell classrooms and then a number of office spaces to serve support staff that was also something that was discussed in detail with building principles as we move through the design process yeah we'll start with Palm Grove Plum Grove really stayed on track with the original proposed improvements we didn't see much of a fluctuation as far as scope goes there was one uh fairly small cost addition and that was to accommodate storm water requirements at the local jurisdiction required from us so that one stayed pretty close to budget actually came in under budget on bid day so we're ahead of the game Lincoln um couple things that influenced some of the Lincoln expansive work there is we have a very tight sight and the principles Express the need to preserve as much
057playground area as we could so we had to separate into two different editions was a little bit loss of economy and scale because now we're building on two two parts of the building other than the same general area but it does it does put a little bit of A Wrinkle In the efficiency of construction also the kindergartens the parody kindergartens was an influence there that affected renovation and some of the the footprint of the addition um the five to six section building again getting that Flex art room class art music classroom and then this building also uh required a little more intervention and clinician support space to match some of the evolving language needs that we're seeing at that surface post uh referendum planning so Frank Whiteley um talked about this a little bit already
058the right sizing the kindergartens and then also um the maintaining proximity to the existing classrooms so the the 2K classrooms are at one end of the building and it made sense to put the addition there because we're creating those more the parity of those K classrooms well that displaced the these the playground area so that was a cost that wasn't foreseen by moving that playground we're gonna incur a little more costs at that site at Pleasant Hill that is a scope that stayed very much in alignment with our expectations of pre-referendum and uh we are bidding a couple of smaller alternates there the lrc renovation as well as um reclaiming some space in the music space those will be alternate so on vid date as long as numbers come in are tracking right that you'll
059be able to select those as to add to the project at Willow Bend on the right size of the of the kindergarten classrooms was influenced the uh we also are looking at the the potential this isn't fully fully committed yet but the flood plain in the back of the building was where the ideal place to add the two kindergarten classrooms it looks like we'll be moving that to the front of the building so what that does it forces a little more renovation so what war kindergartens will become classrooms and where classrooms become kindergarten so we can cluster the new kindergartens with existing kindergartens or renovated kindergartens we also had a little bit of renovation that's out of that building just to again address some of the evolving needs for the English language Learners that are
060reflection flexing into that part of your District at Kimball Hill uh the the kindergarten one influence on cost the uh optimizing location of that Edition also forces to do a little more renovation to make the connection to those kindergarten classrooms so we displaced two regular classrooms in our Edition but we're also because of the potential that that site being able to expand for enrollment we are designing that building so it could be added on upwards so you could add a second floor not just out further in this on site but also a second level so there's a little bit of cost to infrastructure that building so it can support a second level if in fact that's needed in the future and it that was one site that seems like where you could have some enrollment
061growth for other reasons that are on the horizon and then at Sanborn the classroom Edition was a four classroom Edition there we found in their initial planning meetings that aim and mile really needed that additional space and it's it's the location to add on in the building is right next to their current space so those rooms are going to be a little bit larger than in general classrooms so that footprint Edition is expanded a little bit we're also looking at um an additional two classroom Edition at the front of the building and that's really been prompted by the need for that additional flex room for art music as well as there was a lot of support space that were in classrooms in within the building so to make sure that we're not disrupting all of
062those support staff that kind of are surviving in classroom environments a second classroom is part of that Edition we will be bidding that two classrooms at the front of the building as an alternate the four classroom based Edition will be bid as a base bid so um mostly the the two classrooms are pretty much the influence of any scope expansion at that site any questions at this point okay then we'll move um into the section called additional scope rationale for increased borrowing so each time the cost of moving 15 forward increases increases offset by pushing out five-year capital projects two years six to ten and Beyond in the original plan the district intended to fund the 186 million dollar plan with 93 million referendum bonds 25 million operating fund balance over five years 36 million
063debt certificates are alter alternate bonds repaid from The District's operating funds and 32 million of limited bonds repaid from The Debt Service extension base or working cash fund bonds the district is authorizing both the alternate bonds and the d sub work in cash bonds at this meeting tonight in order to allow the board to issue additional d-sub working cash and fund bonds if needed in January 2025 and January 2026 plan time of issuance we suggest authorizing up to 40 million of dsub working cash fund bonds instead of 32 million this does not commit the district to issuing a higher amount but gives it flexibility to do so up to 40 million if needed as the construction progresses and the budget allows the alternate bonds as was discussed at the May 8 2023 Board of Education
064meeting based on market conditions Elizabeth Hennessey from Raymond James recommended issuing alternate bonds instead of debt certificates given current interest rate volatility in order to issue alternate bonds the district needs to approve an authorizing resolution which commences the petition period process and hold of public hearing given the scope expansion and cost escalation we suggest increasing the authorization for alternate bonds from 36 million to 40 million as well please note that the 40 million amount is a not to exceed number as mentioned above alternate bonds are payable from annual operating revenues the currently budget amount that I have in tonight's tentative budget is 2.7 million per year for principal and interest payments that's new next year if additional bonds are issued depending on interest rates that could put upward pressure on the annual payment amounts final
065decision on the amount of the alternate bonds issued will be made at the time of the actual sale the authorization is good for three years sale of the alternate bonds is expected to occur simultaneously with the sale of the remaining 43 million referendum Bonds in November of 2023 given construction requirements the sale of alternate bonds does not increase taxes to the community because it is paid out of operating funds Deb working cashback as was discussed at the Board of Education meeting on May 8 2023 the district is authorizing the dsub working cash Bond issuance as well these bonds will be issued in January of 2025 in January of 2026 given construction requirements as discussed above the initial plan was to issue 32 million however due to cost pressures and added scope we suggest authorizing a
066maximum amount of up to 40 million in order to issue dsub working cash fund bonds the district needs to approve an authorizing resolution which commences the petition period process and hold a public hearing the authorization is good for three years sale of dsub working cash fund bonds extends The Debt Service extension base payments including an increase for CPI but does not increase them over the district's current annual payments so we I will go read the recommendation and then we have a slide presentation from Elizabeth so we recommended the board approve the authorizing resolutions at the not to exceed amount suggested above and determine the final issuance amount at the time of sale depending on the way the remaining phase two and phase three bids come in and affordability of the debt payments given interest rates
067so good evening tonight in this presentation we're reviewing the original capital plan first which uh 50 referendum bonds 50 percent District funds and the district funds include the O M budgeted amounts which is a 25 million 5 million per year over the next five years the dsub working cash bonds and the debt certificates or alternate bonds so let's go to the next slide this was presented in may as well the original August 22 plan for 186 million included 109.9 million for moving 15 forward and the five-year Capital plan items were 76 million and that was funded over those five years with 32 million of the dsub working cash bonds 25 million of the O M operating budget death certificates or alternate bonds of 36 million and then 93 million referendum bonds so I'll let's go
068to the next slide which we shared again back in May at this point um we saw the moving 15 forward up to 119 million for some of the reasons discussed just now and and through the last several months and to offset that we reduce the five-year Capital plan by uh equal 10 million that doesn't mean those projects will never be done they're just moved out to the years six through ten every time you move those projects out they cost more and more so at this point it seemed prudent to look for other sources of funding to try to maintain the five-year Capital plan at least at the 67 million level so um and the other thing we wanted to mention Joe's most recent estimate estimate in capital letters takes the 119 million for moving 15
069forward up to 123.8 million now that's conservative he'll tell you all the contingencies he has built into that but this is a reality construction prices are still moving up so we look at the rate of increase of inflation of construction prices which is over 10 right Joe Versus the cost of interest on borrowing and getting the money now and offsetting some of those future escalations in year six to ten if you pile that ten percent on and it continues to go so that's why we're suggesting borrowing more or having the authorization to borrow more is a good idea so you have the flexibility to do so if you need it and if it's affordable um again the additional borrowing is only on the non-referendum pieces of the debt okay so let's go to the next
070slide and talk about the referendum piece left we've issued 50 million last November or January and this November we're planning to issue the remaining 43 million based on the construction draw needs we updated the interest rates um the FED did not raise rates today which is good but they did say they're going to raise them a couple more times this year so you know we're still being conservative on our estimates we've got a 50 basis point cushion in these numbers and we're still pretty right dead on with what we told the taxpayers the 93 million would cost so that's the good news let's go to the next page here's the update on the 36 million alternate bonds it's very similar to what I showed you in May annual payments of just over 2.7 million consistent
071with what Diana's budgeted for this year and as we talked about last meeting we think it makes a lot of sense to issue both the alternate bonds and the remaining referendum bonds at the same time in November you need it for cash flow purposes and putting these Bond issues together consolidates cost of issuance so we did an option what if you issued 40 million alternate bonds instead of 36. and this is the authorization to do that is agenda item 9.6 so the annual payments go up from 2.7 million to 3 million per year over the 20 years so I think you know we don't have to make that decision tonight but we will have to start thinking about that decision this fall in September and October if that's something affordable over the long run and
072we can see how the projections are coming we can see what CPI is going to be for the 23 Levy year 24 Levy Year and that will have an impact on available funds so we don't have to make that decision now but um if you did go to the met the maximum 40 million this is what the payment structure would be like um so also we can make that decision after you get more bid data in if we go to the next page I had this in the last presentation but just to remind you alternate bonds are paid from your operating funds the pledged revenue that's why we focus so much on it in in the budget and in your financial projections so they also can be paid from the other funds cpprt evidence-based funding
073and it's backed up by a bonded interest Levy that's why we're going through this petition period and public hearing on the alternate bonds that makes the interest rate a little better in this very volatile Market that we're looking at that on an interest Levy is abated annually so this type of bond does have a little bit more paperwork okay so let's move forward with this page covered that before next we're going to look at the dsab working cash bonds now in our cash flow these don't need to be issued till January 25 in January of 26th but we're authorizing them now because we're doing the petition period for the alternate bonds as well the authorization is good for three years let's get that done while the referendum is fresh in people's memories and this is
074the non-referendum bonding portion so that at 32 million and this is consistent with our past projections we have a small taxable refunding involved and we go out 10 years you have a ability to issue more of these d sub Bonds in seven years in the year 2030 so that's what would be used to fund some of those years six through ten projects um out in 2030. if we go to the next page authorizing dsub working cash bonds up to 40 million means that the bond repayment goes out one more year so instead of 10-year repayment it's 11 years and in this example we issued 20 million and 25 and 20 million and 26. you still have room for additional bonding in the year 2030 for the 6 through 10 projects but it does take us
075out one more year so you give up a little bit of flexibility here but it's doable based on current interest rates up to 40 million so between the additional authorization and the dsub bonds the additional authorization and the alternate bonds all put together that's 12 million dollars more now with Joe's 123.8 million we don't need all that 12 million but we thought it would be wise to give yourself the flexibility by authorizing these amounts so you can make the decision at the time of issuance depending on how bids are coming in to access those funds if needed and avoid pushing out more Five-Year Plan projects okay and then this is just about d sub bonds again they're working cash bonds technically you have an item 9.5 on your agenda tonight to authorize up to 40
076million of these dsub working cash bonds they're non-referendum what they do is extend taxes at the same level plus the CPI Factor so it's not an increase it's just an extension of the payments 10 years or 11 years as the case may be and then page 13 here this is our schedule we met finance committee in April 24th a board meeting May 10th finance committee last night talking about this very same thing tonight you have the ability to approve the resolutions of intent for both alternate bonds and the d sub Bonds on your agenda is approved we will publish those notices tomorrow and then on August 8th public hearing for both the alternate bonds and the d sub bonds and then September 20th approve the parameters resolution for the issuance of the remaining referendum bonds
077for 43 million and the alternate bonds so that's the piece that we have to make a determination are we 36 million or anything up to 40 million on those alternate bonds and again we'll have good better information from Joe on the bids how those come in in the fall we're looking at selling in September October depending on market conditions so you have the money and it's closed by November because that's what your construction schedule requires so sorry for talking so long questions a lot of moving parts so it's it's an authorization again I'll just repeat that it's an authorization not not that we're going to to take it you know so it's 12 but it is 12 million million dollars above we've been presenting to the board just to to authorize that definitely waiting to
078see how the bids come in so if in fact we need it we have the opportunity or the option to to grab those funds up and we can donate it we don't if it turns out things come in a little lower than we expected we continue forward with our one to five year plan and we don't push anything out if it turns out things come out a little bit higher than where then we're pushing potentially some of the one to fives into a six to ten I know we this is just out of curiosity I know we've talked about some of the alternates have we chosen to not opt for any alternates at this point okay definitely okay I just wanted to make sure exactly quite a bit okay yeah I don't know if we've
079actually um accepted any alternates have we yeah we have the wrestling okay wrestling room health room right yeah unless we regards to contingency there's 2.8 million in Phase One in contingency which is there for unforeseen conditions or District added scope we're out of the ground on all three phase one projects so very very limited unsuitable soil um just a little bit and that was it so um that's a huge hurdle to get through when it comes to the construction phase and then there'll be another 2.6 in the the last three phases worth of contingency so it's about five percent overall do we have it um assuming we are we we go up from the expect like the 32 to the 40 and then the 36 to the 40 you know with the two different types
080of bonds do we have a number uh at this point I know we haven't actually need you know this is just an authorization of what would be the additional interest costs on you know on repaying those amounts [Applause] Zoo bear you're just looking for interest so the there was a 300 000 difference 2.7 to three million and the payback but that's not just interest that's alternate 40. yeah that total is uh about 6 million over 20 years and then for the alternate bonds now and that difference includes the principle that includes the principle the additional four million so I would say two million of additional interest costs and then on the 32 million going from 32 million d sub bonds to 40 million we are looking at so I'm gonna do a little math here
081minus it's really only about 700 000 in interest and interest because we're just going out that one one and a half more okay any other questions all right thank you thanks [Music] I'm not I I definitely appreciate the detailed coverage start to finish Where We Are things that are that are happening in the planning that's something that we committed to at the beginning making sure people were aware of so thank you thank you thank you very much anybody need a Breakers does anybody need a breaker to roll through um let's go five minutes five minutes would be great yeah let's start back up at 8 30. I mean and it'll cost just divided [Music] thank you I wrote a note to myself I'm going to try to smile this time I think most of the
082time I look like I'm scared to death okay so tonight um we're gonna I'm gonna present the tentative budget again it's the tentative budget um the fiscal year is not over you know the 23 is not over yet we have yet to see how 23 ends I've been I've done a cash flow analysis and I believe that our revenues are trending maybe even a little higher than what budgeted and I'm hoping that our expenditures are coming in at a little lower so I am uh you know I'm I'm feeling pretty optimistic about this this fiscal year I'd like to thank Danielle Gardino now the assistant director uh in finance department for her really just incredible work that she does to help me be able to present this budget tonight and then I also wanted I
083was asked to mention that Tom Edgar had nothing to do with this all right well if he was in here we would have said you know maybe Tom wants to come up and talk about how he didn't contribute Frank said then the presentation will be short because tab's not here so okay all right so again this budget every budget is a road map but this one tonight is a tentative Road man to meet the financial goals of the school board and the district again the final final budget will presented be presented on September 13 2023 and the rest of the things on this slide are just the legal requirements so about publishing and holding a a hearing which we will in September again school districts are based on fund accounting which is not your traditional
084kind of accounting in the corporate world or the in the non in the non-public world we have funds Ed fund operation and maintenance Transportation Municipal Retirement Social Security working cash and tort those are our operating funds those funds support the day-to-day operations of the districts every school District on the state and then we have three other funds that we we uh have activity in in this in this District um dead service capital projects and fund 90 is Health life safety all right so the finance team starting early and probably mid-march started meeting with department heads and principals to review three years of historical spend and looking at the trends I I do thoroughly believe that it's important for people to understand their numbers you know we're not we're the numbers people in District so we
085have tell people and understand their numbers but you know we try to educate directors and and and others and assistant superintendents and everybody to really understand because it's really goes hand in hand with the decisions that they make so fli 24 budgets were based on on need not we didn't just give them what they had for this this year's budget and again we use this zero-based budget which means that large expenditures like curriculum technology software licenses things like that you have to itemize them and then keeping in mind that in fy24 the federal covid relief money will be almost exhausted we were we received about 22 million it's been two or three years now we we had this Lion's Share this Federal money coming come come to the district and there's about four million left
086to be spent is budgeted in 24. so local Revenue so I'm giving you some of the revenue assumptions some of the highlights so property tax revenue is up substantially 14 because we have two five percent cpis and then the Cook County Clerk does add a three percent loss in cost they call it to uh cover uncollected taxes so in our operating funds our property tax revenue is about 149 million versus 139 million again the levy that will be presented in December will also have another five percent CPI since last year's December CPI another significant source of Revenue is the Illinois personal property tax revenue for the district and that um business has been good in the in the state so we we're looking to see see about 5 million this year I budgeted four so
087I I did budget five interest income that's been a boon to the district and every everybody who has any savings and savings um a year ago the federal funds rate was like one percent so uh I budgeted accordingly 178 000 in interest but we'll probably have about 100 a million and a half so that's part of why we have you know higher revenues this year our interest okay and and also uh the 50 million that we sold the bonds that we sold back in February we anticipate about one point I believe they told me yesterday 1.4 million 1.5 million interest alone on on that and that money and that money has not been um earmarked or I mean that's going to help cover our if our bids come in a little bit higher whatever that
088also money is going to help cushion the blow there are some transfers in the tenant budget tonight on 94 000 we have to transform add to that service to cover copier lease payments and interest payments the 5 million that is in the 25 the 25 million and the mowing 15 forward funding is again so 5 million is in there from o m to capital projects and then brand new is the 2.7 for in operation of Maintenance to the Dutch service for the principal and interest on those um 36 million dollars of of um that certificate or alternate bonds now all students that will issue in the fall on the state side the ebf which is about 17.8 million an increase of 250 000 the state has consistently increased their appropriation for ebf so kudos to
089the state uh so I believe it's about 350 million to the total pie and then our portion of that is 250k thousand and then we get a significant amount you know we have a large Transportation program here busing program it's about 9 million and we get about 4.4 million between special ed reimbursement and regular Transportation reimbursement so I kept it flat of 4.4 Federal revenues um again like I said earlier 4 million is remaining and in the yes or three we have here that was originally 13.6 out of the 22. um so this we really want to spend up spend that out this year let's use it up but the deadline is September 30th of 2024. the rest of my bullet points here just to make you aware of the the size of title grants
090idea national school lunch program Medicaid um title is about 3.8 million we get and idea I budgeted almost 5 million national school lunch 4 million and Medicaid reimbursement is a million and a half approximately so it was based on those assumptions and there's a lot a lot more that goes into that but those are just the big ones um so the I don't have you know what the actual are for 23 yet so we compared to the rev the adapted rev the budget adaptive budget for this year so going across you can see the differences by each fund um to the tentative budget for 24 increase decrease so everybody's increasing and our operating funds increased by about 5 million and um so that's significant The Debt Service is increasing quite a bit because that's the
091levy for the paying of the 50 million bonds from the referendum is included in the debt certificate in service there I'm sorry that service fund capital projects Revenue will go up because as we've discussed in the fall we plan to issue the 79 million the 43 plus the 36 right 43 plus the 36 alternate bonds unless we ask for authorization on a higher level so that's 79 million so all funds total revenue going to be distorted because of our selling of our bonds so 303 303 million but operating about 200 million and then the pie chart just shows you know this is just operating funds because including all the other three funds would be really Distortion so property tax revenues again 75 percent and we're back down to our historical historical trend on the federal
092around 9 10 11 percent and then State 12 and then other Local 4 percent so jumping into the expenditures so here this list salaries how their budgeted per Union contracts um I think that I the tie will be based on our discussion earlier tonight but we put in a we so we these some of these have assumptions in them but most of them are based on their actual uh the contract that still is in place in fy24 to note that in the teachers CTC we have budgeted a thousand twenty FTE for 2024 which is an increase of 37 over the actual right now of 983 for FY 23. teacher retirements is something we always want to watch um for 20 this year we have 19 retiring teachers their gross salaries are 2.6 million and we
093budget um a one or two year uh salary um that's what we budget Replacements on the salary scale of I believe about 42 000. so um 80 822 000 to to uh to replace the 19 retiring so that's a 1.8 or so million dollar savings and next year we expect about nine teachers to retire about 1.1 million and the rest you can see are listed there espa has gotten we've we've recently proved you recently approved for a four dollar increase to the base for the nurses two contractual days and increase to the sped assistance stipends SEIU is still there and still in their existing contract at three percent and the drug Transportation AIDS and drivers you can see 4.25 percent increase on the AIDS of four percent on drivers and then 34 cents increase to
094the base for the AIDS 1756 starting in July 1 and a dollar increase to the base for the drivers July 1 20 23 25 an hour similar highlights our employee benefit insurance premiums uh Health we see about a 4.9 increase which is pretty good I think a mystery trend is five to seven percent Dental we are proud to have partnered with CTC working with us on this and we are making a switch to Delta Dental and a decrease of 1.8 percent and then Vision no change property and liability insurance that team worked very hard shout out to Adam Hackman uh fy24 less than a point five percent increase and site reliability which is people are companies are are canceling their coverage on Cyber liability ours is going to be less 18 000 less than our
095current year so all total approximately 1.7 million curriculum purchases are listed there those are included in the budget those are like a the zero based budgeting and then technology Dave is really good with his listing on everything he needs so these are some of the larger ticket items and then operation maintenance funded 2.7 million transferred to the debt service for the principal interest on the 36 million of alternate bonds and then let's go to the Federal on the 4 million these are just some of the large spends instruction instructionally focused computer technology apps outdated curriculum Ela curriculum assessment software some curriculum writing professional development libraries 1.8 million Makerspace supplies Flex seating shelving and then learning management system so we were able to really put I I mean they teams were really made Incredible use out
096of generous amount of money from the federal government I think we really made some strides in having that money available you said this is our last year yes money right four million is yeah we like to spend it because again we could go to September of next year 24 but I think we'd like to get the money because get the money back and then here's our pride list of moving 15 forward and summer 2023 projects quite a list Plum Grove and TJ and and sunling are under construction and I think every all those came under budget Jane Adams Winston campus Frank C Whiteley Lincoln and Pleasant Hill will go out to bid in July GMS Kimball Hill Willow Bend Hunting Ridge will go out to bid in the fall and and and and so that
097will impact you you know what we've talked about tonight uh more in the district side Carl Sandburg junior high you'll there is a bid tonight to be asked to be approved on their new running track we're doing some gym and cafeteria lighting upgrades shout out to Porfirio Diaz and his team have been doing this throughout the district in many buildings saving us a ton of money because we do that in-house corridors and hallways throughout Carl Sandburg will receive new lvt flooring and painting in Hollies again with our team and cafeteria so it's really gonna really shine and then the security cameras and the access controls those are currently being put into place throughout the district those will be in place before school opens in August more Library Renovations we have five this summer Central Road
098Conyers Marion Jordan Kimball Hill and Hunting Ridge we have some playgrounds we're actually attacking Frank sweet C whiteleys to be done in the fall and Winston campus has one that is part of the Dual Wing bid that will go out to bid in the fall asphalt those came in under budget so Virginia Lake this summer will get a front bus lane and that that whole area the whole parking area and then Pleasant Hill the front lot on Illinois Road and then Willow Bend our team is enclosing the art room and we're gonna have to move the portable from one of the Portables from Lincoln to all Bend Pleasant Hill is getting some gym lighting upgrades I believe that's Diaz's team again and then ongoing exterior door assessments or Replacements that's in that's our maintenance team
099so all that is going to keep us really busy plus a couple other things that I didn't list so the budget expenditures compared to the this year's budgeted you can see that the Ed fund is up 4 million operation maintenance took 2.3 mostly because of that principle and interest uh transpiration is down because I don't have a transfer this year we're transferring 4.7 million there's no transfer in there so it's pretty much then just kind of an even but even expenditure budget and then you see the restroom so operating funds total up two million dollars approximately and then that service capital projects that's all because of selling paying repaying bonds and then all the construction that we will um expect to to incur this year so then on the pie chart these are about about
100caring uh famous previous years salary and benefits salary 65 and 17 signal total of that is 82 percent so 82 of our budget is that we're a service organization every pretty much every district is like this 82 of our budget goes to salary and benefits okay and then well so summing it all together the revenue budget you'll see listed there for 24 and then the expenditure budget going across we do have a deficit and they had fun I didn't want to put any transfers in there right now to cover that up this is a tentative budget let's see how it falls out in the fall the rest of them are running a surplus small surpluses so but the operating funds total we're all in in such a big district for 200 million dollars district is
101872 thousand dollars and then and then the rest of the the service and the capital projects that's because of timing issues I don't have a projection of the fund balance right now I'm not comfortable doing that I don't even I don't know what the FY 23 results are going to be in June we have four payouts we have 20 million of salary we pay out you know in in in in June alone because we pay out all the four pays for the teachers over the summer so but I do think based on the cash flow projection which I'll show you sometime there's a lot of numbers tonight I board the poor finance committee with it last night um but um I do believe that we're looking at I think our revenues might come in ahead
102of what was budgeted and I do think that our expenditures may come in under under budget so I think that we're still going to maintain that 35 fund balance um so that is where what questions do you have I'll try to answer so it's a tentative budget but I by Statute I have we have to do a tentative budget now and then the final budget and the fall just I appreciate the thorough presentation it's very helpful thank you yeah I was just going to say um Diane again thank you for all the work you put in with this end of year there's there's a lot to go through and um you know especially trying to kind of figure out things fiber forecast and so forth um a lot going on so really appreciate it thank
103you I think I'm gonna cry yeah it's probably yeah no it was complicated lots of lots of moving parts and a lot of things that are not yeah I do it sometimes and God just gave me this like you know god-given gift I guess if you want to call that I'm not a good artist all right um bus fleet there you go so we're here tonight to talk about some research we did on um electric buses versus our fuel buses that we currently have in stock or that in our Fleet you do it no I turned it off sorry I think you went go go back one yeah there we go So currently we have 148 buses in our our bus fleet um right now this past school year our highest number of buses that
104we needed on our three tier system was that we needed 94 buses to run tier one and I think we were like at 92 or something for tier two so basically we're up in the 90s there for every for every tier and tier three was a little bit less um our practice a few years ago Tom started buying buses that were two or three years old because that was a big cost savings versus buying a bus brand new um the the cost now of a brand new bus has gone up to about 140 000 a couple years ago I think it was around 130. but now we can buy um if we buy them that's a couple years old average cost is around seventy six thousand dollars and um just recently we retire our buses
105when they when they turn to be about 14 or 15 years old and so um but when they're that old we don't get much for them when we sell them Tom just sold four of our buses and we got like a whopping eleven thousand dollars total for all three buses I've done that just a little bit the um some years ago the the the manufacturers the vendors would be giving you seven eight nine thousand dollars as a trade-in for a bus unfortunately are good friends to the South decided that your boss over 14 year old will go over their borders and that's where most of the buses all went so at the moment if we trade a bus in against either reused or a new bus we're lucky if we're getting about 2 800 3
106000 for our boss in a trading so what we have been doing in the last few years is looking at some of our bosses if an engine blows it's about 25 26 000 so instead of uh putting the money out to get 2800 back we've been donating them to the fire department or directly just scrapping them for the scrap value and we've been getting about 1100 for a scrap value and some of these buses we did uh recently uh South four bosses we put them up for auction and I think we got about eleven thousand dollars between the four buses unfortunately further on you'll see why we stopped doing that at the moment because of um some of the programs that have been offered from federal and state programs and what Tom's referring to is
107um some of the programs for the electric buses and if we if we decide to go that route in the future they want you to trade in an older bus to get that grant funding to get to get an electric bus back so we have like I think he's keeping you said eight buses right now on hold for sure that we know are that age that are ready to go and there might be more in the future but we're doing that on purpose just in case we decide to go that route so next we're going to talk about just why don't you talk about this the air average route times we've tried our best uh within the district to keep route times to in the area of 30 minutes a route but as you know
108because uh we crisscross the district for a lot of our special programs some of these routes go up to 40 45 and 50 minutes depending the distance ago we have a district of approximately 35 square miles which doesn't seem a lot but when you put the bus on the road and you start picking students up the males do add up um mouth traveled by various part of the route and the bus the average row is to see 30 minutes 50 minutes is one of the programs that we've had another ladies sitting behind me she's probably throwing daggers um but our multilingual and dual language programs uh again have the whole district and um that is one of the routes that I've taken the most of time to to do the distance traveled could be anything
109from 9 to 25 miles per route where you are nowhere in a three bowel schedule you can see that could be anywhere from 27 uh to about 75 miles in the morning and possibly the same in the afternoon um for that tier three routes set can toll two and a half to three hours in the morning and the same in the afternoon and then of course you have your midday routes and of course your activity buses and then the sports boss is at the end of it so we are still continuing to do roughly about 10 to 11 000 miles per boss per year types of fuel all our current Fleet at the moment is all diesel buses we do have the most advanced exhaust system on our bosses if you're ever behind the bus
110you'll all of a suddenly see a big puff of white smoke and everybody we get phone calls your boss is got a problem it isn't the exhaust system is like a massive filter and it actually traps the um the see the bad stuff you don't want to inhale coming from the engine and when it fills up it then heats up to approximately 3000 degrees and then gives a puff of whites walk out the back Which is less toxic than the black smoke which is not very good for you so all our vehicles now have the the new exhaustins exhaust systems in place we budget about 750 000 a year for fuel or diesel fuel I believe we have spent about six hundred thousand dollars this year we're still running because we've got summer school well
111under the way uh we budgeted uh 804 well sorry this year we spent 600 for next year I'm sorry we budgeted 845 000 if we are going to maintain a full diesel fleet prices have just gone up again they fluctuate we have a very good program in place where we can the the only part of the diesel cost that we manage is the markup price everything else and Diesel is one of the only things that we have to pay a lot of taxes on we can't get away without being the the state taxes and federal taxes on that so anywhere and more I've seen it as low as 370 this year but I've seen it as high as about 460 to 465 a gallon okay so now we'll talk about um the pros of electric
112buses that we researched on yeah I just wanted to just double check the um fuel budget for um next year is it the 600 um an 85 or or is it the 800 no sorry it's 845 okay yeah I'm sorry that was a typo when I put them in the slideshow um okay we're going to move on to the next slide so so the the biggest Pro if we use electric buses is that they're they're much more environmentally friendly they produce a significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions than diesel fuel um and gas powered buses and and then that of course would have a positive impact on air quality for our environment um and one of the things they also wanted to State about electric buses is that they're quieter than a um a fuel running
113bus uh yeah yeah on the outside right um they also stayed at one of the and I don't know if this is a plus sometimes or sometimes this could be a a negative they talked about the ease in refueling an electric bus was that um you know you just once you get that whole infrastructure built which would have to be done if we were going to have an electric Fleet um you you can just take the bus and plug it in right into the source um now we have we have our own fuel stations on on site also in the district so we just take our buses for fueling right here in the district as it is um the one thing about an electric bus though it takes about a full four hours to get
114a full charge on electric bus so that that could cause a little bit of an issue um like if we were to go to electric buses next year for example that would cause an issue for us because we still have half day kindergarten and we have routes that run midday um but depending on what this grant funding would come it would most likely not even and then when you order buses it takes a lengthy amount of time to get them we wouldn't be able to implement it probably until the 24-25 school year which then we'd have all-day kindergarten which would actually help us for our electric buses because then we'd have time in the middle of the day to do like a quick one-hour booster charge which would then help charge that bus for the
115afternoon route since our routes do take so long to run um and then basically electric buses are safer or as safe as fuel or fossil fuel burning buses um and in general all school buses are designed to be safer than any other passenger vehicle type and of the most regulated vehicles on the road they're required to meet more Federal Motor Safety standards than any other vehicle and just today we had we had idot at our bus depot today surprise um and checking out they come in and do random checks to make sure that our buses are safe and that we're following all the protocols yeah come tomorrow and then another plus that the research speaks about is that it's a it should be a lower fuel cost than than um diesel um that they that
116using electricity should be would be less and that districts would save money annually by having electric buses than instead of purchasing fuel so then we have the cons of the electric buses um one of the things um you know they state that an electric bus is going to operate between 40 and 80 miles on a single charge however that's they're not taking into account than the weather or a bus filled with children or you're running a heater or you're running an air conditioner on the bus all of those things will um drain your battery quicker so you might not get as many miles um and so yeah the charge which I just discussed it takes four hours to charge the bus and and you would need that just to do like our first tier round
117and you'd have to come in in the afternoon for probably a booster charge um and the negative impact the electric bus has on environment is is the batteries the batteries um um have they can have an adverse impact on the environment because they consist of materials like nickel lithium Cobalt and others which are energy intensive to mine and then there's also the question of when these batteries die where are they going to go to die like at least they're going to be a landfill someplace filled with these huge batteries that's that's just something that um I'm sure all parties will have to take into account what how will we be cycle or what's going to happen with these electric batteries in the future and then um probably the biggest downfall right now about electric buses
118is that the price of them is significantly higher they're two to three times higher to purchase a bus than it is to purchase a fuel bus right now um which is why the grant incentive programs are very very attractive um you know a typical new electric bus could cost you four hundred thousand dollars but with grant funding um you can typically get around 250 000 towards bus Which would bring the cost down to about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars which is just slightly over the cost of a brand new fuel bus and then we can talk now about the three options that we see that might be possibilities for us in the future um the purchase option that is there it can cost you anywhere from 335 000 up to about four hundred thousand
119dollars uh per bus uh to to purchase most buses are coming with a minimum five-year warranty some are slightly more depending on the manufacturer that you look at and go with um warranties are slightly going up um there uh say the The Five-Year warranty a lot of them are trying to stretch out towards the 10-year Mark to assist you um depending again on the model there you go we can apply for grant funding which could provide 250 000 per vehicle and will reduce our cost um significantly the other option is what is called a refurbish option that is where you will give them one of our existing buses and they will take it away and they will strip all the diesel aspects out of the bus they will refurbish the frame and the chassis for
120it and um change it into an electric bus but they want a hundred and eighty thousand dollars for that they did start with a 10-year warranty those warranties are coming the opposite way they're now down to eight years um for that option and the other thing to to actually put in there if you do have a few years ago if a battery cell went bad you had to replace the whole battery system out of about of a cost of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to yourself the batteries are getting better whereas if a cell goes you can actually replace an individual cell but they haven't told us what the price for that is yet but then you have the problem of storing these bad cells because they will not take them back the lease
121option uh Highland electric fleece is a bus company that provides electric buses they also help by installing of the infrastructure for the charging and the fleet charge and the main the management software they supply for the maintenance of the whole Fleet they will undertake the training of her existing mechanics because looking after electric bus is totally different from a diesel bus that these guys have been trained and working on for many years police buses the school districts had a per year cost on a multi-year contract Highland would cover the entire upfront costs of purchasing the vehicles setting the charging stations and the infrastructure of training then because they would own the vehicles we would only lease them our mechanics would work on the buses but they would reimburse us for their time and efforts on
122keeping the fleet to the same standard as that we do already and they pay the electric bill I'm trying to get my house in it now um the only thing with this is that the cost um without sorry with the grant subsidy without the subsidy you're looking at a cost of about 49 000 a year per bus if we are lucky enough to get some of the grant subsidies that are out there that could reduce that down to 29 and a half thousand dollars a year with a 12-year contract correct so when you look at that at in the in the lab we haven't bought buses for a few years um when we were buying buses we were buying 10 12 buses a year to renew the fleet at a cost of about 1.2 1.3
123million dollars if you were looking at 10 buses at this cost per year then you would be vastly reducing the outly on an annual basis but we would not own the buses we would not have the capital behind us at that time um the only downside to this is once we if and once we get the grant money it can be 12 to 18 months from The Ordering of a bus to getting a bus on your premises I do know it's been publicized recently that there is an electric bus manufacturer coming to the Chicago area I think it's Aurora uh down there but that is a boss that we don't know a lot about yet but we still have our blue birds we still have I see that we are where we currently work with
124they are offering uh the bosses as well um Highland has also said that um they would buy the boxes of our choice uh the majority of our food won't everything except for one bus is actually an international so we could continue with uh the vehicles that the drivers drive just now um we are in the process of uh working with Highland uh Highlands working with us to um fill in the applications for these grants there is a Federal grant out there there's also a state grant that is uh out there just now um the only thing with the EPA Grant which is due this year we're still working on at the moment is that unfortunately district 15 is not a priority there's a lot of the districts ahead of us but we're going to fill
125in the paperwork and move along as quick as we can just in case you can also get both grants so you could maybe get the Illinois Grant but you could get the Federal grant which is going to save you up to that two hundred and fifty thousand dollars we are yes they're all the the Illinois Volkswagen Grant yes we were told we are not um at the bottom of the list we're we're up there that last year we were lowered down this year we are higher up with that one but that is the one that we have to keep the vehicles for because if you get the Volkswagen Grant from the state you must scrap a vehicle at the same time that just means that we we give we make the fire departments happier we
126give them numbers time with the warranties that you mentioned and in the are the batteries covered in the warranty if you have a five-year warranty the batteries are not the same as the whole bus um as I say the the warranties for the batteries has started coming down some of the warranties for the batteries are down to five years it just depends what style of us and who you buy who you get it from but if the lease the bus were covered we are covered sorry and then we just did like a we approximated a cost estimate on we know the fixed cost if we were to lease a bus would be twenty nine thousand five hundred dollars um a year sorry I put month there that's wrong and then um then we tried to
127just figure out if we were to purchase a bus how much do we spend on Parts fuel labors and fee um that would be 17 669 a year so that's just the the cost differential of leasing versus purchasing per bus yes quick question on the um on the 29.5 you said that was with grants with the grants without the grants it's 49 000. now those grants do they get locked in for 12 years or are they ones that need to be renewed so they're locked in for 12 years so you don't have to worry about the grant going away and then the price going up twenty thousand dollars a year the actual Grant you get helps them buy the bus so what you're paying for is the maintenance Electric 1009 annual basis okay I know
128what the buses we said that it was 40 to 80 miles per charge are there any instances in which that would become an issue based on our current routes that could be with Summer throughout and unless we get them in at the midday but again by going to Aldi kindergarten in 2015 that would help us at that time it also is dependent on what you put on the bus so if you want air conditioning on that bus the mileage is going to be significantly reduced heat in the winter again would be reduced a little and of course then when we start putting on our GPS systems and everything else it also draws from the battery so even with if we were to have those as long as we have the midday charge we would be
129okay yes okay a full charge on a full set of batteries would be overnight a good charge for eight hours but then you could do during the day three or four hours would then boost it for the afternoon the only thing I would say is that we may be looking at the long trips away right um you know I don't want to be pulling them back from Chicago every day yes um and then my other question was around the cost for the infrastructure and so it sounded like based on the leasing option they would help cover that do we know what the cost would be if we were just purchasing our own buses we haven't got back we haven't got it down to where we are because it would have to come out Luca or
130bus garage and find out how much they would have to spend for the infrastructure so nobody's wanting to give you a hard figure okay would we be doing that if we are pursuing Grant funding is that something that we would be exploring in parallel or how would we there is grant funding also available if you're if you're doing it if you're buying your own buses and you wanted them build your own infrastructure then there's separate grant funding for that got it okay thank you are you aware of any other districts that are that have a electric Fleet at this moment Huntley is started to get electric uh buses that haven't got them all um there as yet uh but Huntley was one that we have talked to um but they are they are slightly different
131from us is that they already have in place these lovely panels in every solar panels in every square foot of ground in all their properties I know that because I live out in Huntly um so they they have actually got an infrastructure in place already another random question so I know we said that our current Fleet is 148 buses we require 94 to execute a route at a time is that the maximum number of buses that we need how does that could reduce buses at the moment we have done by putting some out to auction right [Music] we stopped that because it has to be a nine-year-old or older boss that you scrap okay but how many buses do you always want to keep for spare I I would say at the moment we could
132probably go down comfortably to 140 maybe even as low as 135 as long as we stay in the three bell schedule and we do need the backup buses because if we have oh yes well you're a member of the fleet that has a problem out on the road we need we need we need standby buses and we also have buses in for me and your regular maintenance so you need buses to put out as spares uh when we're doing that and our mechanics do a great job of turn around but we still need the buses there okay and where are we in the process of pursuing grant funding is there an estimated timeline of Highland Fleet is hoping to have the um the first bit ready to go out in September in China and we're
133applying for the other one that's due in August but that's the one that we're not a priority District on how did they determine whose priority and who's not okay no idea [Laughter] for the district gotcha okay thank you all for exploring this it's exciting I didn't notice one thing you were mentioning here that the bet the battery packs would be lead acid just on the Range thing here it said what asset batteries will operate between 40 and 80 miles on a single charge with the battery with the buses we've been getting be lead acid batteries or would they be lithium I honestly think the lithium okay because most of the materials for that is actually coming from outside America should I do the lithium battery packs have any kind of a longer range or is
134it still in the area of 40 to 80 miles you'll have bus you'll have bus manufacturers that say that their bosses can do 140 150 miles on the charge but then it depends what you're adding to just the running of the engine sure so if you start putting air conditioning GPS Heating in that is significant reduces it to sometimes eight to eighty five miles per charge okay and those all those extras really we don't consider extras because we're going to have AC we're going to have heat we're going to run our GPS and the tracking systems all the things that are already on our buses tracking systems are a massive Plus for the parents that will be a minimal um on the battery um but our special needs we do have the wheelchairs everything else
135we have the air conditioning um I know I have drivers who would love to have air conditioning than every bus uh that would be something that we'd have to look into the cost um because that would be an additional cost on top of the cost the price of the bus any other questions thank you thanks for taking a deep dive into this all right I have a motion um to approve minutes please item 7.1 I make a motion to approve the minutes from the May 10th 2023 regular meeting of the Board of Education and executive session as attached thank you discussion all in favor aye aye motion carries board committee reports ad Brad Frank okay okay all right so the legislative session is ended for the spring and they'll be back in the fall um
136some of the ad read initiatives that were well that we're working on was uh the new student arrivals um that unfortunately did not make it into the final budget but uh I'll be working on that in the fall the 10-year dismissal hearings where they put in student protections that did pass so that's should be signed into legislation and then the professional development and mandated training Reform Bill um it also allows employees to transfer completed trainings from one District to another the bill passed both Chambers and that's waiting for the Governor's signature so that shouldn't be an issue and then just recently they signed a a book ban legislation uh which is a for you know public libraries or uh libraries that receive state funds they need to adopt the American Library association's live Bill of
137Rights which holds that materials should not be excluded because of the origin background reviews of those contributing to their creation so I'm not sure exactly how that's going to get 100 implemented because you know there are other things that go into people wanting books to be restricted based on appropriateness so I'm sure we'll find out more on how that's going to all flush out over the next whatever six months well actually not six months it doesn't get implemented until January of next year so we have to wait till next year and then probably six months so you're saying they're moving fast all right yeah well yeah wait wait until probably by May of next year you know you'll probably see some feedback that's about it thanks Frank one five Foundation yeah so uh the staff
138attributes were sent in the last week of school the fun run walk was really big success so thank you to all those that participated in that and came out to that event the 1-5 annual meeting is scheduled for August 8th and they are also looking for new trustees so if you are interested in participating in that in that capacity please look on the website at 1-5 the words not the numbers 1-5.org yeah thank you Jim um finance committee Anthony Wendell I'm finance committee met yesterday June 13th we really thoroughly discussed the additional school for moving 15 forward the alternate bonds diesel bonds issuance to offset the potential increase in costs um and then the fy24 attentive budget our action items today just to remind you are items 9.4 and 9.5 I just need to emphasize
139that the hope is not to spend this additional 12 million dollars it's just an ass this is just an option for the unforeseen costs that that uh that may come up as a result as well as for the additional to meet the needs of the additional scope that is required great thank you Linda um Equity committee to Bear Sam I don't think we have an update from the last time uh we uh strategic plan just wanted to share that strategic planning is gonna the next strategic plan will be brought to the board for approval in August for August meeting correct um it was not able to be brought this month due to some scheduling issues um and then also wanted to say happy pride month to our community thank you Sam and zubair zubair has
140none Sam has some next time with Sam should I have an unusual okay we're not here for the credit we're just we're just moving on whatever we do is for the kids item 8.5 so we have a uh the Press 111 board policy a variety of things that are on their second reading and discussion do we want to talk about them anything now does anybody have any comments or talk during discussion on 9.7 all right well if anyone thinks of anything we can kick it at 9.7 um action items May I have a motion for 9.1 please I make a motion to approve the request for an increase of 2.0 certified school nurse 220 day Health Services coordinators for the 2324 school year as presented I'm sorry discussion so I was wondering um the certified
141School nurses would they be like part of the administration because I don't I was just wondering if the espa contract really has anything in there to account for them because I would think their pay scale would be different so what you're thinking about Frank is are espa nurses our registered nurses uh csb or uh certified School nurses are would be a part of the teachers union or in this case as a coordinator they'd be on an administrative schedule similar to Karen floor schedule schedule we said part of the teachers union say that again Frank did you did you say that they would be potentially part of the teachers union they would be CTC if they weren't admin because that's the the certified classification because certified school because they hold a pal because they hold a
142pal okay got it do we do we need to determine that no as a coordinator they would not be in CTC they'd be like Karen and Karen okay so they would be under the administration they would be okay so that's what these two additional certified School nurses would be under that yes CTC so you need that certification for things like IEPs um there are registered nurses aren't able to do because they don't hold that pill okay questions and that and it's 220 days because they're not working Summers but okay any other questions or discussion roll call shoe pie aye Taylor aye Wong aye ader aye interino all right hunt hi Khan aye motion carries item 9.2 I make a motion to approve a restructuring of the support staff and the human resources departments as presented
143second discussion broker one aye aider aye annarino all right hunt Khan aye shoe pie aye Taylor aye motion carries item 9.3 I make a motion to approve the Personnel report Administration certified and non-certified as presented discussion roll call Todd hi shoe pie Epstein Taylor aye Wong aye aider aye annerino hi hi motion carries item 9-4 I make a motion to approve the espa amended negotiated agreement 2017 contract years of CBA 2023 to 2027 as presented discussion [Applause] I want to thank everybody that worked so hard on uh getting everyone to agreement on this contract it is much appreciated and also to all of those who serve us as part of the spa we appreciate you tremendously thank you also Pro okay Taylor aye Wong aye aider aye interino abstain on hi shoe pie ocean carries
144item 9.5 make a motion to approve the resolution declaring the intention to issue working cash fund bonds as presented second discussion Brokaw Khan aye shoe pie aye Taylor aye wall aye motion carries item nine six make a motion to approve the resolution authorizing the issuance of General Obligations School bonds as presented discussion roll call annerino all right hunt hi Khan aye shoe pie I Taylor aye Wong aye aider hi motion carries item 9.7 make a motion to prove the second reading or board policy press 111 perfect discussion roll call Khan aye shoe pie aye Taylor aye Wong aye ader aye interino all right hunt carries item 9.8 the motion that the Board of Education after consideration in closed session uphold the suspension for student 2023-01 as presented second discussion roll call Taylor no Wong aye
145ater aye interino aye hunt Khan aye shoe pie I ocean carries item 9.9 make emotions or prove that and as SEO contract for the 2023 to 2024 school year for student services professional development Consulting and ideological Services as presented second discussion roll call Hunt Khan aye shoe pie aye Taylor aye Wong aye ader aye annarino all right motion Gary's item 9.10 I make a motion to award a one-year contract for laser Bond paper to Midland Paper Company Wheeling Illinois for a total bid Award of 136 000 and 3 and 40 cents as presented second discussion roll call shoe pie Wong annorino all right hunt hi motion carries at 9.11 make a motion to award a one-year contract for a Fresh Bakery products to Alpha Baking Company Inc of Chicago Illinois for a total bid Award
146of fifty one thousand three hundred and thirty three dollars and twenty cents as presented sorry discussion roll call hunt Khan aye shoe pie I'm Taylor aye motion carries item 9.12. I make a motion to award excuse me a contract for the Carl Sandburg track improvements project to Evans and Sons Incorporated West Chicago Illinois in the amount of 132 270 as presented second discussion roll call ater hi annerino hi hun hi Khan aye shoe pie aye Taylor aye Wong right motion carries item 9.13 I make a motion to award a contract for the Frank C Whiteley drainage improvements project to Martin Construction Inc Elgin Illinois at the amount of 67 630 as presented discussion roll call Hunt Khan aye shoe pie hi Taylor hi hi Wong aye aider I annerino all right motion carries would anyone
147like to remove anything from the consent calendar motion please oh shoot sorry I've always wanted to skip something we could just go back to that one 9.14 yeah I mean you already went through the consultant Kevin going on let's go 9.14 all right I'm totally gonna matter I make a motion to approve the renewal of the district's website and communication contract in the amount of 427 for the 2023-2024 school year with a one-time setup fee for the new website in the amount of twenty eight thousand five hundred and twenty five this renewal is approved through June 30th 2028 as presented second shoe pay all right Wong aye ader aye annarino all right hunt Khan aye motion carries would anyone like to remove anything from the consent calendar we have a motion please make a motion
148to approve the consent calendar items as presented roll call hun hi Khan aye shoe pie aye Taylor aye Wong aye aider aye Russian carries Dr Heinz correspondence you have a list in here of course buttons we've received since our last meeting any questions how long do you have to leave the um those that were men sent out confirmation of an email or a contact information and they didn't respond how long do you leave them before you to be honest until it's considered a a dead request I'm not really sure we have obligations in terms of our turnaround time whether it's a commercial Quest or not but I don't know if they don't respond back to us all right so I can I'll bring that information to our next meeting yeah yeah it's not that big
149deal it's the first time that I've ever noticed that yeah okay questions all right may have a motion to adjourn make a motion to adjourn second all in favor all right Canadian adjourned because everybody