September 2021 BOE Regular Meeting

001the meeting will come to order thank you sir may i have a roll call please [Music] here thank you julie we are at this point a few weeks into the new school year welcome back everyone most things up to this point have gone well uh yet we are not without our trials of course among other things covid continues we had hoped at this point to have it in their rear view mirror that is not the case and transportation has been tough as many of you know the uh we are very grateful at this point for the commitment of our staff across the district without them we would struggle to even be where we are today with the trials so we will take that and um just from the perspective of appreciation for staff i want

002to make the point of telling all of our staff that we continue to appreciate you we continue to appreciate the difference makers that are out there having a safe and comfortable environment for our students to learn on that note the mission of school district 15 is to produce world-class learners by building a connected learning community the pledge of allegiance and go ahead i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very much just as explanation for that we are fortunate to have three colombian cultural exchange teachers that have joined our staff for this year the uh the two on the screen are two of them tatiana aguirre she's a third grade

003bilingual teacher at virginia lake and nicolas lopez is a seventh and eighth grade transitional bilingual teacher at winston campus junior high welcome to both of them and the third who was not able to lead the pledge and we certainly appreciate them leading the pledge this evening and taking the uh the opportunity to have an adventure and a little change of life and joining us here in palatine as opposed to in colombia where they might be a little bit more comfortable yeah welcome and we're so happy to have you student recognition okay good evening thanks for coming today tonight we're very excited to to recognize a number of students that participate in the young entrepreneurs academy also known as yeah sponsored sponsored by steve who will talk in just a moment grouse from the palatine chamber

004of commerce yeah is a groundbreaking and exciting program that transforms local middle and high school age students into real competent entrepreneurs through the year-long program students in 6th through 12th grade generate business ideas conduct market research write business plans pitch to a panel of investors and hopefully launch their very own companies we are very proud of all of the district 15 students for their hard work completing the yap program for the creation of their companies i'm going to call steve up he works with these students on a regular basis to honor them but from district 15's perspective we are so very proud of you and all the work that you've done and we look forward to hearing a little bit about your business plans and what you have done um over the last year during

005your participation in yeah welcome thank you dr hines thank you so much uh thank you for having the young entrepreneurs academy class of 2021 here this evening our students did a remarkable job overcoming multiple challenges with the virtual class this year a slightly condensed curriculum that we had to do to deliver 15 new businesses in june the students delivered professional presentations in a shark tank type forum to get their real funding to launch their businesses one of our students also went on to present at a national level as well the program helps connect the local business community to the school district and to the students and helps foster the next generation of business leaders we have 25 to 30 local business people that help out with this program over the course of the year his

006guest speakers as teachers as mentors and work directly with the students and we're very proud to have the partnership of school district 15 in this program this is my sixth year in that partnership with the school district on delivering the entrepreneurs academy we're one of only two organizations in the state of illinois to deliver the ea program and we hope to overcome the additional challenges we have and deliver the program again in 2122 i'd like to have our students come up and be recognized that participated in the class this year are graduates of the 2021 class oh fantastic okay not everyone is so there are several but uh rob if you are here um and would you like to tell them what your company is step up to the microphone step up to the microphone

007my please is k-36 tutoring which is a tutoring program for kindergarten to sixth grade ah i think i know some people that might use your company just saying that could put you to use congratulations if you could rob if you'd like to come over here and then we're gonna take a picture of all of you you can come around in front and then when it's time to take a picture of the la is arya here they'll tell you a new spot wherever you like perfect [Music] congratulations my business was streamy and streaming is an online platform that tells you what um streaming platforms your favorite tv shows and movies are on good very very helpful so my business is trade-up and it's kind of like online like selling things and buying things my business is

008to help adults learn how to bike and ride a bike safely and effectively um my business is an online platform where students can post videos to help other students with learning and homework very nice look out khan academy i like it my business is a magi desk which is it makes it eco-friendly uh rearrangeable desk organizers for everybody my company is paw ships it's an application for dog owners to set up play dates with dogs that are similar to theirs all right now for a moment we can come together we're going to use the screen that has young entrepreneurs behind it and we'll take a quick picture there we go now everybody has their certificate all right all right looks good [Music] okay congratulations okay thank you for being here this evening it's always great

009to see successful students in action absolutely and we will now open our meeting for public comment please remember that this is not a dialogue between you and board if you have a specific issue which requires a response superintendent heinz will get back to you please state your name and identify any group that you represent limit your remarks to no more than five minutes if you've hit five minutes you will hear a timer going off please wrap it up and close out your remarks at that point if someone previously has articulated something with which you agree please state that you agree rather than reiterating the entire comment and finally please avoid any comments that are specific to a person student or staff member respecting that person's right to privacy this is not the forum for personnel

010issues or to make commentary on such that that can be done personally between you and dr hunts if you intend to speak and have not filled out this green form this is how you get called up so please get one if you would like starting with james sullivan jr yeah and whoever is speaking just grab one of the mike spots and which whichever you like would be fine hello my name is james sullivan um this is my son ethan finnegan that are both district 15 members or students rather today we're here to talk a little about ethan so he's a happy three-year-old he's about 30 pounds after dinner right he was born with bilateral neurosensory hearing loss and he has a diagnosed sensory processing disorder and he's really benefiting from the appropriate educational setting and

011placing that he has through district 15 at child's voice um so we're thankful for all those opportunities however we had a little bit of a situation so for esy summer school uh the transportation to and from was awesome he had a great bus driver same bus driver every day he was always buckled in it was on time things were great we were very pleased with it um due to staffing issues we were told our three-year-old was going to be transported by a taxi company which was a concern but we agreed to try a trial to make sure everything worked out just fine we have had problems since day one we've been in contact with district 15 beginning on day one and really with no response so the district 15 contractor driver has never installed the

012precar seat properly the district 15 contracted cab company doesn't install the car seats so the therapeutic day school he's at tells us that their teachers have to go out and install his car seat the district 15 contractor driver does not get out of his seat to verify his passenger is properly buckled in the vehicle or that the seat's properly installed uh so transportation should be responsible for the proper installation of the car seat and any other supplemental safety air stain system that's correct for a thrill that's 30 pounds like heath in here um the staff at his school have been forced to be in a position where they have to install his seat which is outside of what they've been trained to do and outside of what they should be doing frankly but thankfully they're

013doing that otherwise who knows if he'd be in a seat coming home right because we don't know the driver doesn't get out of the car uh we were given assurances that the taxi drivers were contracted by district 15 and were trained by the leaders in 2015 specifically with installation of car seats use of restraints but on multiple occasions he has been at home and he was not properly buckled or the car seat was not properly restrained in the vehicle um so basically due to negligence we've been forced to ensure ethan safety on our own so um i know there are many district 15 leaders that are aware of the situation we sent out an email 12 days ago to a whole lot of people and we've heard that oh we feel you like we understand

014but nothing's been done so that's why we're here so as parents our goal is that ethan's entitled the same safe transportation as anybody the school district has princess and logo so they are responsible for him when he leaves our house until he's back from our house right um and unfortunately he's being discriminated against based on his disability based on transportation convenience frankly us we want to know who has the legal responsibility for both ethan and his twenty thousand dollars for the medically required equipment uh when he's in this cab with whomever is driving the cab uh and as part of the district's obligation we want to know transportation we want to know sorry this is really small it's part of this we just want to make sure that whoever is transporting district 15 students as

015a district 15 taxpayer i want them to be transported properly whether it might get or somebody else's because i mean when something goes wrong all of our taxes go up right so given this information about ethan and our knowledge of at least one other student in the district that's in the exact same situation um we hope the district would be soliciting feedback from these parents in these situations to make sure these remedies and these problems don't end up at the school board right they get solved that uh good so the end of the day ethan's not being afforded the same opportunities as other students without handicapping conditions this isn't direct violation of the 88 his iep is not being met as district transportation is specifically spelled out in his iep most importantly it was and

016would continue to be a dangerous situation if we did not assume the responsibility of his transportation we trust as a board of ed that you guys are appalled to hear the treatment of our 30-pound three-year-old son so we just hope that you guys can hopefully find a solution that is invest in choice of our son and the other students in the district that i know are in similar situations thank you for your time thank you for being here we have we appreciate you coming and sharing your commentary and you will hear from dr mrs scully our assistant superintendent for student services we'll be in touch with you tomorrow hello thank you for letting me speak here tonight my name is olga and i have a son at marion jordan school who's in second grade this

017year last year he spent half a year online half a year at home half a year with a mask half a year you know with the online it was terrible teachers tried to do a great job but it was not good at all not for him um the reason i wanted to come here and speak is that not once that i think i would have to come here in front of the board and speak and tell you that things are wrong masking children is wrong it is not right you know if we pass mandates that most of the people don't uphold there's a problem there we know that you know if if these mandates and we don't uphold them then something is corrupt you're taking orders from somewhere else and all we hear is that

018we're following protocol we're following mandates we're just following orders but we can't do that the people are not on on the side the law is not on the side the science is not on the side the cdc released an article today saying how many children were actually affected by covet under 18. that was eight eight kids all other children recovered fantastically nobody just ate in the last 18 months and we keep science saying follow the science here's the science the cdc released the science you know these mitigations go far beyond what the schools should be doing but we have this tyrannical governor we have the illinois state board of education armed and threatening everyone to take to take accreditation away and it's just far beyond their authority and you know that we know that and

019the most disheartening part of this is that we know this is wrong and everybody does you know if you have to be persuaded pressured incentivized and threatened punished and criminalized all of this to just gain your compliance you can be sure that that one thing is not in your best interest we have to open our eyes and we have to wake up and we have to fight for our community you know it's shameful parents are here for a reason there's many of us and there's going to be more coming with every board meeting these masks are parents choice the vaccines are our parents choice it's a choice for teachers it's a choice for our kids you know we need parental consent for kids to go on a field trip for kids to take a school

020picture but when it comes to masking we're saying no it's not parental consent we you have that right the illinois state board of education has that right and it's wrong we look at countries like britain we look at countries and the uk and how they're handling the mitigation they are not requiring universal masking and for our kids to be stifled intellectually not to be able to see faces smile they are allowing our children the opportunity to learn the opportunity to be to make friends the opportunity to help each other when somebody falls down you can help them but no we tell them to stay away don't touch you're going to transfer kobe she's you know they're letting them learn an opportunity to learn in an environment that is conducive to preventing kobit 19. and they

021are letting the children to do what's best and what is right for them you know and these parents will fight we are winners we are not afraid to fail we will keep coming back and we will not quit on our community and i hope you don't either thank you christine anderson so i'm sure some of you remember me from the last meeting um i'm sure some of you remember me is it on yup in the last meeting um let me just start by saying once again even though obviously you don't really read them but i'm going to submit links to 47 different studies proving that masks are ineffective and 32 additional studies proving the harmful side effects and health implications of wearing masks as i just pointed out though it seems somewhat pointless because obviously

022you don't read them because if you did in good conscience there's no way you would allow our kids to sit seven plus hours a day with mass on their face since you clearly do not care the harm you are inflicting i've decided to recap some important events that have occurred the last few weeks we know that isbe lacks the authority to require schools to force masks on our children or any other recommendation from the health department that includes a supposed resolution that was passed by isbe yesterday it holds no legal weight apparently that is being worked out in the courts as we speak we know all four lawsuits filed in clinton montgomery macouben and adams counties were successful and that schools cannot quarantine students deemed in close contact with the coveted positive person the courts

023ruled it is a violation of a child's constitutional due process when a school sends a child home due to being an alleged public health risk without consent or there being an order of quarantine from the health department i'm putting on record at this time that i do not consent for my children we also now know that masks are a form of quarantine under current law according to 777 illinois administrative code section 69010 modified quarantine is designed to meet particular situations and includes but is not limited to the exclusion of children from school or requirements for the use of devices or procedures intended to limit disease transmission therefore a district cannot lawfully require a healthy child to wear a device such as a mask to limit the spread of disease i will also reiterate from the

024last meeting that according to the fda's own website last updated 8321 masks are only fda approved under an umbrella emergency use authorization and as such euas under federal law state that individuals have the option to accept or refuse the administration of the product last we know mandating mask is in violation of the illinois healthcare rights of conscious act which states it is the public public policy of the state of illinois to respect and protect the right of conscience of all persons who refuse to obtain receive or accept medical care and to prohibit all forms of discrimination by reason of their refusing to act contrary to their conscience or their conscientious convictions apparently you like to pick and choose which laws or parts of the parts of laws you will follow based on your agenda since

025it's clear you truly do not care about the health and well-being of all of our children or the laws that protect them and their civil liberties or our rights as parents various lawsuits have already been filed on behalf of certain school districts that have the courage to take on the isbe more importantly parents are organizing to file lawsuits in many school districts as well i believe including this one and if not there likely will be it's become glaringly obvious we can't rely on your common sense your sense of right and wrong your courage or your ability to do what is right i can only slightly understand buying into the cover narrative given all the fear porn and propaganda that is pushed on us but none of that absolves you from being complicit in stripping away

026the god-given constitutionally protected rights of students and parents you may be able to justify these decisions based on your fear and ignorance but at some point probably sooner than you think the government will infringe on your rights something you hold sacred and no should be protected under law so just know that when that moment arrives because of wealth we continue down this path that you are responsible for getting us into the situation that we are now the fact that none of you will stand up to fight for our rights as parents to determine what's in the best interests of our children or for our children's rights is indicative of what has gone wrong in our society will willful ignorance complacency and cowardice you are now faced with a growing group of determined and informed parents

027we weren't paying enough attention but we are now and we realize that we now have to push back and demand our rights be returned because we're not asking anymore so i am submitting to your own studies that please i really wish you would read them here is the um from the fda indicating that this is emergency use authorization for masks and some other information with a personal protective equipment thank you miss anderson [Applause] kelly lapatina hi i'm kelly lapatina i have a child here in the district and i also run a business here in the district as well i'm here to speak on the mandates coming from our governor i would like my question answered or if you do not have the answer i request on behalf of this community you have an in-depth discussion

028involving all of our resources including our lawyers to answer what legal authority did the board rely on to determine either the governor or isbe or its director can mandate masks in school and what is the board doing to protect its ability to act under its own control instead of state mandates if the board cannot answer this question we will be in bigger trouble once bigger issues come forward like critical race theory sex sex education bills and mandatory vaccinations you must understand this and have a unified identity on it you must own it as a board in addition i'd like to know what the board is going to do once school mask mandates are up are we mask optional where will there be a special meeting to hear from the community when will that happen i

029believe the mask specific mandate from pritzker was up last week are we masking because this indoor mask update that he just did i'm just unclear on that we are your number one stakeholders we contribute 102 million of your 130 million dollar education budget the state is like 17. i would say that we are your number one stakeholder what are we supposed to do when our governor does not answer our questions he shoots everything down as misinformation i don't understand this my data is coming from renowned sources like phds and doctors from texas a m stanford was another one are you telling me they're liars we are all doing our due diligence and it's telling us kids are safe masks do not prevent transmission neither does the vaccine and vaccines are not necessary for our kids

030thank you miss lapatina mr nick martinelli hi uh my name is nick martinelli i um i spoke last uh last month at the meeting here um and i i talked about how it's important for other kids to see each other smiles and uh last month i was a little nervous to you know sit in front of the board like this and you know part of the reason is because i'm a small business owner in town and that's my livelihood it's how i feed my family how i take care of everything and what i wanted to share is a email that was sent to my website from a ccsd parent that was so brave to put a fake email a fake name and a fake phone number it read like this nick you clearly do not

031care about people due to your anti-masking stance when is your child smile more important than every other person in the school district go ahead and remove your child and her precious smile from ccsd15 we will all be better and safer without her in school and i trust that those of us who actually trust public health experts example not you will not be supporting your you via this business either so my thought process behind this is i'm very very open to whatever people's choices are this is the type of person you're dealing with and what my child is dealing with on a daily basis of how they're parenting their children my daughter does not pass judgment on people that want to wear masks or get vaccinated okay i don't know if this person is watching on

032the live stream or is in this building tonight i want them to know that i will lose everything and burn my business to the ground fighting for these kids [Applause] so what they're doing is they're trying to intimidate bully strike fear in a cowardly way hiding behind a fake email a fake phone number and even a fake mask that doesn't do anything i'm not afraid anymore and neither is the nineteen thousand strong that are in the facebook group that we get together once a month and i'm going to tell you guys this there are attorneys there's teams being built and we are coming strong i have the resources i have the money and i have the people behind me to help me in this journey and all i'm asking is for one brave soul from

033this board or one member and i promise you if you lose your job i will get you a better one okay we'll make more money than you will here it might not serve the same purpose but we are all volunteers just so you know we don't make any money for being here well we give our time more power to you for volunteering but i i understand everybody's fear in this because it's bigger than all of us and we're afraid that if we say something that maybe we'll lose our business or we'll lose our job or we'll lose this um but what i want to do is we've mobilized we want to end this unlawful mandate and quarantine of healthy people most importantly our children your students i promise that monthly i will religiously attend every

034school board meeting until my child is allowed to make her own choice to wear a mask get tested and so on and so forth i'm here just like i said before to beg one person from this committee to just talk to the attorney and say hey is what isbe's doing is is isbe have any type of legal ramification here can we make it mask optional because i i'm going to tell you guys something if you think about all the people that kept their restaurants open their businesses open all through the shutdown not one of those person went to jail or lost their business they're all empty threats that governor pritzker is throwing out like if you don't do this we're gonna take your funding away we're gonna take your accreditation away what is the difference

035if your accreditation accreditation gets taken away by a fraud of a governor and a fraud of a of an office like it doesn't matter as long as the money keeps coming and they can't take away the taxpayers money this school district is going to stay here no matter what whether you let them not wear masks or wear masks it's up to us the school board and just in parting i i want you guys to know i coach a pop warner football team these kids are together every day no masks outside tackling sweating all over each other sharing water bottles we have no cases of covid nobody is sick we don't uh do contact tracing we don't take temperatures we've played through the spring season and the fall season and have had no issues so if

036you want to talk about the resiliency of kids i am i'm in an experiment every day i coach the kids um and i'll wrap this up here real quickly i lost my train of thought i just thank you for your time and uh i'll see you guys next month thanks mr martinelli thank you all for being here we appreciate your uh your thoughts and you taking the time to come out and share them in person with us we also are all good about reading email and some people texts and phone calls and a variety of other ways of getting in touch i know a lot of people shoot facebook messenger notes to us also so feel free to continue reaching out and sharing your thoughts thank you superintendents reports dr hinds so it's been another

037busy month since we were last together i will highlight as i always do what's been happening across the district um and it's been quite a lot most importantly we had two opening institute days we gathered together and heard a wonderful speaker author manny scott it was a very moving presentation that was sponsored by the district our principals and assistant principals worked very hard to plan another day and a half for staff to kind of get back into the building get to know each other and get ready to launch the school year um everybody has worked as you said lisa's so eloquently very very hard to get this school year um up and running we really had hoped we'd be in a very different place uh you know but we we're not but the the staff

038just continues to rise to the challenges that are are before them every single day they put the kids first they want to deliver a high quality education they're committed to doing that um so i know i speak for myself probably for all of you and certainly members of the leadership team that we are very grateful for everything that our our schools are doing to um you know deliver a quality education and meet the needs of almost 12 000 students every day um opening days again our ptas were also very instrumental in the successful launch of welcoming our kids back they had coffee at some of our schools many of our central office leaders were at opening days helping get kids in the building welcoming families back together there was a strong parental presence as well

039as a lot of pta volunteers trying to help open school so thanks to everybody that was involved and as you'll hear in a bit from mrs flore and mrs latham we're still in the midst of of trying to navigate our way through covid and we're all exhausted from it but we just you know keep putting one foot before the other each and every day um the boundary task force um or the beyond just boundaries project is where we fired that back up we're going through all the plans in which we presented to you in april we're making some subtle adjustments to what was proposed we will present some of those changes to the board on september 22nd when we have our committee of the whole meeting that will be largely focused on the financial component

040of beyond just boundaries so we look forward to sharing those updates with you as an outgrowth of that process i have formed a citizen task force where probably right now around 21 members probably going to be in need you and i lisa to get together to find three or four more to make sure that we have oops representation from all across the district um in terms of our our boundary lines we have heavy participation from palatine and hoffman probably need a little more participation from meadows and inverness so we'll lean into that work that meeting uh the launch will be on the 23rd of this month and i know lisa you will remain a board member on that committee and then i did hear from frank and wenda in terms of their interest in joining

041i'm allowed to have two members of the board participate so i suggested a little arm wrestling match to wenda just as a joke but we can decide i don't know my money might be on wenda we'll see but we can decide um who will represent lisa on the board because i really again only can have two of you um transportation um has been a challenge uh we did put out a letter to thank the parents both to apologize and thank for the rough start to the school year as i'm sure you've heard there is a nationwide bus driver shortage we run our own routes we run over 600 routes using roughly 135 buses we transport over 10 000 students so in a good year without a driver shortage it's a it's an amazing feat and

042we are struggling this year there's no doubt about it tom bramley is working around the clock as our other members of the transportation department we have routes that are drivers that are running double routes just to get kids to school he's driving buses at 5 15 in the morning he's taking kids from the track to cicero we have an agreement and then he's riding bus driving buses members of his office staff are driving buses of course they're all certified to do so but i mean we're using everybody that we can so it's an ongoing problem we are trying to problem solve around it um one of the things that we are really talking about and i just want to make the board aware and we'll probably if this continues going to need to seriously talk

043about the possibility of investigating a three-tiered system which instead of having two start times and end times we may have three and believe me we're not we don't love that idea but it because it would mean our earliest schools would start even earlier and those later schools would end a little bit later and we know there's extracurricular implications for our kids that are in sports both in district and if they participate in sports just that their families pay for outside of school but that is something we are going to have to continue to think about as a way to um make sure that our routes are fully staffed and running you know on time pick up and drop off so just kind of an fyi that's what's happening in the world of transportation we are

044continually posting for positions going to job fairs trying to recruit drivers it seems we'll hire six and then a few will call off or a few will find another job so we just can't quite seem to get ahead of it nutrition services they're better staff than transportation but because we have kids eating in a variety of different places they're feeling the pinch in terms of delivering food and just more food prep so i think nutrition services working hard they're in a better staffing position than um transportation but there are two departments that you know dr qualcek is in close communication with and we're just trying to continue to get better and more efficient with both of those outputs um before i give other departmental news and updates i want to just share some exciting news

045with the board um so mary beth couple who's i believe is here is she here stand up she's tired but soon she will no longer look tired because she'll be retiring on june 30th at the end of this year after how many years mary beth so 17 is an administration so we're sad to see mary beth retire we're happy for her we all wish we could get out into june 30th with way things are going but she will be missed but we're very very excited to be bringing in her assistant principal and promoting her to principal of lincoln school starting july 1st of 2022. please help me congratulate miss ellen pape who will be the new principal of lincoln school next year just a little bit about mrs pape as you can see from behind

046your mask she's really smiley and energetic and i love your hot pink by the way she's been a district for the last three years and she served as lincoln's assistant principal she has been a very active member of the administrative team this year serving as a mentor to a new assistant principal over at lake louise she's always got her hand up if you need a volunteer if you need anybody to participate in a committee or if somebody needs help with something she served on key committees such as the advanced math committee the tier one summer school committee and the social studies committee prior to entering leadership she was a reading specialist and a teacher which is a combination that i i love because she really knows what is happening in the classrooms and can help

047teachers help students so she brings a lot of curricular strength to the role and every child really at lincoln has benefited from her warmth and energy and the passion that she brings to the work they're a dynamic team but she will help really um ensure a smooth transition when she takes over so congratulations and welcome to the principalship uh here soon all right congrats moving on um as you'll hear diana has been working tirelessly to create the budget for fiscal year 22 as well as the five-year capital plan we're excited to share both of those with you this evening communication we've had a lot of coordinated communication from the community becca's department with the herald with wgn and the trip largely around the bus shortage we did some live interviews and some some written interviews

048as well so they've reached out because we are the second largest elementary district in the state and they know that we run our own transportation so they were particularly interested to find out how we're faring throughout the shortage she continues to work with sherry to update the dashboard so we have transparent information that we can share with members of the community that are interested and she's worked again as i said with human resources to promote the open positions that we have educational services has been extraordinarily busy it's a new department as you know this year we've implemented literacy interventions and enhanced accelerated math system training we provided 504 training to all of our assistant principals as well as tier 2 problem solving training those are both new protocols and procedures in the district so they've

049done some extensive training since school began we've revised the mental health screening tool that's used at the junior high and we continue to forward that life space crisis intervention training for administrators and clinicians that works with students in crisis and focuses largely on de-escalation strategies so it's been it's really powerful training we've enhanced the infinite campus system to track any discipline or significant crisis events so everybody at the school that is supposed to have access to information does everybody else that's not doesn't so we've been working they've been working with tech to to build how we're using infinite campus and then lastly we've launched the community school at winston campus as you remember we received a pretty significant grant to do that and we hired somebody using our sr dollars to run the community school

050and once we get that new and improved community school running at winston campus our next order of business linked to community school will be to try to launch one in the rolling meadows area where we have not had representation or access to the community school so that'll be something we'll talk to you about in the future my human resources has been collecting staff vaccination cards and working on the compliance piece it is a it's if you are vaccinated show us your card we upload it if you're not then it becomes a testing mandate so the other thing we're working on is figuring out how we're going to test staff that either have not shown cards or don't want to be vaccinated or can't be vaccinated so we're working with our outside with shield and potentially

051by next to figure out how to do that with with our employees we have 2 000 employees we're under 500 in terms of that haven't shown or provided or don't have to provide those vax cards the multilingual program department has processed almost 4 000 access scores and that's been no small task but we were happy to get the results back you will hear from renee at a later time when she gives her departmental update how our students fared what our exit numbers look like and then how many new students were going to move into the program and it is it's just kind of constant flow some kids exit out some some kids are newly identified so it's it's just a kind of a revolving door as you said we hosted a welcome dinner for our

052cultural exchange teachers and we had a lovely time we served lumonadis which is something they don't have in columbia it was wildly well received and then you will hear um renee talk later tonight about the parent mentor program grant that we've received that will be put in place at jane adams and virginia lake we're really just over the moon excited about what this parent mentoring program is going to help us do with our parent community yes if you are choosing to stay in this room for the meeting the rule is that you need to have a mask on the mask must cover your nose and your mouth if you cannot put your mask on you you can't be in the room and if you choose not to cover your nose with the mask i ask

053at this time that you please leave or cover your nose please thank you okay sorry that's right thank you it's okay professional development continues um our k2 teachers and they're learning that new component of readers workshop you remember they're writing the new curriculum now they're learning how to fully use all components of the curriculum and there's some additional professional development that has been provided you'll hear through every department professional development has really been a strong focus as we reorganize the departments brought in new staff to run the departments and new staff we hired over 100 new teachers if you recall from new teacher orientation we have to make sure everybody knows how to use all the resources that we have in place well for our students so a lot of professional development okay student services

054they're fully staffed with coordinators that 13th coordinator was hired and they will be starting this month so all of our schools will have anywhere between point four and one per one fte coverage of special education to help support our students that have ieps the paperwork process and everything we're very very excited um again if you recall just a few years ago there were four special ed coordinators covering 20 schools which put a lot of pressure on our assistant principals to oversee special ed and provide support for students and teachers and families and it just simply put it was nowhere near enough and we're getting there 13 we're excited we're fully staffed a lot of training to onboard that group so they learn our our procedures um the parent engagement from isbia our indicator results came

055back and we were higher than the state average in the past we've had at least one indicator where we were not meeting expectations and we've we've cleared that all up and we are and we are not only compliant but we're above the average so we're excited about that and then we collaborated with school teams they collaborated with school teams and families to onboard we have a cute little service dog at marion jordan so is his name juju is that his name juju and he's precious a girl sorry sorry juju it's uh but she's lovely and she's supporting a student there that has some needs around needing a service dog so it's been it was a tremendous amount of work but it was well worth it when you see the child and the dog you know

056interact together at mary and jordan teaching and learning um we had our first middle school exemplar exploratory committee so you remember we did a book study and now we're taking it to the next level so emily is helping dr schnorr and there's going to be three meetings they're going to develop the we believe statements emily has them we're going to see if we they resonate with us or if we want to do any level of modification they're going to develop a vision for an advisory program here in the district and then they're going to discuss enrichment offerings if we were to move to a middle school what might that look like the clever badge long and short instead of having to open a million different apps and having the kids remember logins now you go

057to clever they learn how to log into clever and all of their apps just magically appear so it's going to make things really nice and easy for students and for their teachers instead of 24 hands going up that they need help again professional development in math and phonics and word studies some new resources we piloted the pilot teachers for k-6 math and junior high la have been working on their pilot work and then the after-school clubs everyone wants everything right they want club they won't be and they want this they want that the clubs are an issue and i need everybody to understand why and athletics the focus has to be on getting everybody back to school and getting those routines down then we need to we figured out extracurriculars right coaches there's a transportation

058component to that and as you heard we don't have a lot of bus drivers and some that aren't available to work after school and everybody wants the clubs and due to the driver shortage there's alread they're already running longer routes there have been some delays it's not that we don't want to or that we think we can't everything is linked in this regard to the bus shortage so we're we're really trying to see each month what we can take on based on the drivers that we have available or the nurses that we have available we we need nurses now we need four of them to cover or force for students with diabetes that are going to do extracurricular sports or interscholastic sports we don't have anybody right now that can do that that has chosen

059to do that because they're they're burnt out from their work day so you know this is a it's a it's a systemic problem that we we're faced with on a daily basis that we're trying to solve through so please understand we want to we hope to we have to make sure we can and those are the reasons why so hopefully everybody can understand that maybe they like it but hopefully they can understand it and live with it all right partnerships we've had the welcome dinner as i said and then the i continue to serve on the parents our partners for our community board we have a large upcoming gala the farm to table event that i will be sharing with with the board in my friday memo if any of you are interested it's a

060phenomenal event it's really just extraordinary all the proceeds go right to the poc and they provide so much direct support to our families in need um and then i will let mrs floor and ms latham come up to give a covet update and while they're transitioning i think is that my last slide julie okay i'm gonna turn it over to the cove and queen good evening everyone we're back again for your monthly covet update um thank you so much so we're just going to start off with some of the updated guidance from isb that we received yesterday i'm not going to read through this whole thing because it is just a modification to the previous declaration that she had put out so one of the things that i just want to point out is that

061the update to the declaration reaffirms the schools and school districts existing authority and responsibility to exclude students from school so that means when students test positive when they are identified as a close contact or when they have covet 19 symptoms and again slight modification to the bottom paragraph identifying that we are also able to help with putting in place an adaptive pause so with that being said we've been in communication with the cook county department of public health and today in an email we got a response for saying that the district can always be more strict than the county and that they would support us in that because over the weekends we've had some um notification of cases and the decision to can we send the kids to school in the morning do we close

062the classroom difficult to make that decision when we don't have the support of the health department since they're not open on weekends and holidays so now that we know that we will have their support we have the ability then to be more proactive and make that adaptive pause decision prior to kids having to come to school and then wait for the county health department to to do that they also said you know that we can be tighter because they can't reach us after hours but they will not support us if we go more relaxed than their recommendations so that that's a real positive for us and really is going to help us out in the future especially on those weekends and holidays and that also too just gives us the ability to give those parents

063notice if there is a need for an adaptive pause as we've done in the past we just like to link in some of the latest guidance if anybody is interested in accessing those links and just to touch on some of the numbers from our updated dashboard so our dashboard when you go to our website now is a couple of graphs that include both positive student cases as well as staff cases and so these are the numbers that we have on our dashboard from the beginning of the school year so our dashboard we updated it as we did last we talked about last time we made it more clear and easier to read because when it was a big spreadsheet it was hard to figure out what was going on each school also has their numbers

064on their own website so each parent that's looking at the school can just look at their school or they can look at the numbers district wide as you can see our pre-k elementary those are our students that can't be vaccinated and their numbers are going to be higher because they're not surrounded they don't have that herd protection of having vaccinated peers and vaccinated staff they do have vaccinated staff as well but we expect those numbers to be higher again the nice thing about that is most of our students are relatively mildly ill and so that that is a positive but we do have a higher number in the elementaries and we've been seeing that significantly so great and then as we do every month this is our community data so as you can see we

065are at 2.98 in our august meeting we were at 4.42 and the number of new cases per 100 000 residents is at 114 and this is i pulled this data yesterday and at our august meeting we're at 103.9 thanks okay so so shield testing um is something that everyone's been waiting anxiously no one more so than than me we have been working with shield since may um we have been trying to get this established and put in position of implementing it in the district but because shield has taken on the entire state of illinois and then outside of illinois it's been very difficult i don't believe that they're staffed as well as they'd like to be and so we're we've been working with them originally our plan was to start during summer school to pilot

066and they didn't have the staff we got a third party provider they are almost fully staffed now which is fabulous we were hoping to start after labor day and found that we were unable to i was unable to get access to test results so if they tested there would be no way we could share the results with parents who did opt-in so we have officially moved the start date for k-8 shield testing to monday what is that oh yes first grade grade grade one through eight we are working on that alternate testing so if it's an am kindergarten and the testers come in the afternoon we're working to put together we almost have the system together where we'll have those kids then tested on the day on a different day but we'll be able to

067then get all our kids so we're doing grades they do one through eight starting on monday and we are just about there so the other thing that we're also doing because what we have is a lot of kids that are out in quarantine mostly due to buses so if we have a child on the bus that is positive that's identified and that wrote the bus when they were infectious the kids are three to a seat we lose 15 to 20 kids every time there's a positive case on the bus because of what the guidance is from the county now we're working with the county to try to change that because it's still six feet on the bus but it's three feet in the classroom so we're able to implement an option of has to stay

068i was on the phone with our third party provider just before the board meeting we are ordering by next test from the illinois department of public health once those are delivered we can do tests excuse me hold one second it goes off at eight o'clock every meeting oh okay yep it's some alarm somewhere sorry ken i'm sorry not a problem is that our buzzer that our attention no i didn't even hear it so it's just fine um so test to stay is something that is one of the options to allow a student who's a close contact to stay in school as long as they remain asymptomatic under certain conditions so if there is an outbreak situation test to stay is not an option but the health department says we can do tests to stay as

069long as the kids are asymptomatic and test on days one three five and seven so what that will mean and how we can make that work for our district which will be great um is to have a tester at the district office from seven to nine monday through friday students then who are eligible for tests to stay could come and get tested with a binex test 15 minutes later know if they're positive or negative and can go to school and then we can keep our kids in the school which is what we're trying to do um so we're working on getting that going hopefully by the end of the month um just to get that staffed and make sure we have all the equipment we need to properly run that program and we will make

070sure that uh families know and are aware of if they are eligible or not so if they are identified as a close contact in the classroom then that would be a circumstance where they would be eligible and as karen said if it is an outbreak circumstance that would be when they would get the notice that their classroom was moving moving to a virtual setting and so that would make them ineligible for the test to stay and that was me as a reminder we wanted to just put the reminder out there on when we are offering remote learning and so that means that students would have to meet both of the requirements meaning they are not eligible for the vaccine and they are under quarantine or isolation so a couple of examples where it is not

071eligible for remote learning would be if a student is home with symptoms and they're awaiting a test um if they were a home they received a test positive then they would be eligible for the remote learning and also if a student is deemed a close contact outside of school unless they receive a letter from a contact tracer so let's say they're doing an outside sports team and they receive a letter from a contact tracer that they were identified as a close contact that would be acceptable but if they were out at a family gathering and one person there was tested positive that would not be a qualification for them to receive remote learning we did have two classrooms that moved to remote learning since we met last one one of the schools is has already

072gone through outbreak testing so the count at the county the illinois state board of education now try it again elder department illinois department of public health who's one of those guys illinois department of public health has um their swat team of of shield testers so we have to have of course parental permission to test students so we had a meeting we set up the class the room we had the testing in one of the buildings and the good news is that everyone who tested was negative and so we were able to maintain just that one classroom staying remote but because we had two or more cases that were not epidemiologically linked so that would mean if i tested positive and becca was my close contact if she tested positive we would not go remote but

073if i tested positive she's my close contact but dr heinz tested positive and she was not that would put us in a position where we would need to reach out and be remote so we've done that and the cook county department of public health has been very supportive in that during business hours we're not bitter about that at all all right we did also give you an update on the staff vaccines and testing i know dr heinz had mentioned it in her uh superintendent's report in the hr portion but the governor did announce the vaccine requirement for our staff and that means the staff are not required to either receive the vaccine or submit a weekly negative test to stay and the implementation date was moved from september 5th to the 19th and then we

074just wanted to give an update as we had mentioned we were identifying quite a few close contacts on the buses so we did just want to put some data out there that last year we had 4500 opt-outs from either am or pm transportation and this year we had just over 11 100. so we have identified quite a few close contacts on our buses so far this year and we have asked a few times now if parents are able and i know not all are able to opt out of transportation um but if anybody is listening and they're interested i made sure to link that uh survey in there for you and as we said transportation does take out a lot of kids 144 in a month is a lot of kids and we really would

075like to have that number much much lower and those is there any indication that the um that is v or the idph are going to change the uh the distance from six to three there isn't at this point um i am constantly in communication with them because we're finding that the transmission is not on the bus typically typically the transition transmission occurs in the classroom or during lunch when they're unmasked so we're trying very hard to say you know we need these kids in school but with our test to stay option hopefully that will be one of our solutions to be able to allow these kids to stay at school one thing with that correct me if i'm wrong but that would mean that those students if they were doing tests to say would not

076be able to use transportation during that time frame but they would be able to go to school right so we would have to have them tested prior to them coming entering the school building on their days um that they are required to have testing and as long as they're asymptomatic they can still be in school so that would be a real benefit for many kids did you say sorry i just wanted to perfect i don't i just didn't understand what you were saying so part of the problem is that they can't currently be six feet apart on the bus right or you can't even be three feet right because there's three right okay i was making shirts i thought i heard you say something different like last year we had tight capacity restrictions so we

077could spread kids out and then keep in mind too eight thousand kids learned in school four thousand stayed home because we offered those two pathways and then of the eight thousand we had a combination of people before and after school that were willing to forego transportation so there was a variety of reasons that you know transportation had fewer students that needed to quarantine so even if we decreased the distance to three feet that's not going to help the business it will not so we have asked we had said you know the kids are in the classroom for their entire day and you're saying it's three feet they're on this for 15 20 minutes with the windows open and you're saying it's got to be 16. so we're we're seeing can we do a study can

078we what can we do to limit that number to make it smaller because if we can deem less people close contacts because we're not seeing the transmission on the bus it's surprising that there's inconsistency in that rule there there is if you're going to point six feet in one spot three feet in another spot that's not very sensible well they're they're saying fully masked and our kids are fully masked on the bus they're all fully masked on the bus so that we're trying to figure out how can we assist in changing that ruling together that would imagine part of the problem is that some trucks are not pulling me 15 to 20 minutes that's our first question when we get a positive how long was that child on the bus we're always so happy when

079it's only 10 minutes the shorter routes yeah yes absolutely our first stop right right so at this time we're continuing with it with our safe six our numbers are higher than we'd like in the buildings um and as you can see so we're going to continue with our safe six medication mitigations once shield testing starts and we hopefully identify some of those asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people who are positive we're hoping that our numbers will go down and we'll be able to see that on the dashboard so we're looking to do that we're going to continue to report that data and as we collect data from shield testing to see how many people are we identifying we'll make sure we share that number with you as well that's a great question so the way that shield

080works is it identifies people when they're asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people are most highly transmissible the day before they have symptoms and the day of symptoms so that's when we know it transmits the most frequently and the most easily so if we can identify them before they're infectious then they our are not number goes way down we have a lot less people who are then exposed and then spread that spread the illness around this is how the professional teams have come in and been able to play with all the seasons preventing others from catching it we called a case-to-case by case transmission right no i i don't see that happening right now and i don't think we have accurate numbers right now we we're seeing first of all a lot of the kids that are younger

081are very mildly symptomatic and and sometimes aren't identified as being positive and they could be spreading it to someone who is not mildly symptomatic and that is the person that's identified not the person that actually gave them covet so we're hoping to find those people who are asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic before they can spread it and then we'll have our own d15 bubble so we'll know you know where our numbers are and we'll be able to control the spread a lot better what we're seeing because we have all the children back and we don't have the distance that we had before we're seeing spread we're seeing spread in the lunchroom we're seeing spread when kids unmask and and it's disheartening that we you know we can see that i'd rather not see that but i think

082we'll get to a point where it will be better because we can't do six feet how soon we'll be able to institute the test to stay i sent an email today requesting buy next test because that's a test that's the test we need to use we've not received them yet so i don't know how long it will take for us to receive by next test we hope end of the month but we did order we've been going to walgreens and cvs's and we placed an order for a thousand of them that we could find they're very hard to find right now as you can imagine once the testing mandate became a thing so we have some but the the level that we'll need you know we would go through the 1200 or so that we

083have very quickly so our target will be the september but it is we're at the mercy of this third-party health provider actually binax is coming from the state and the third and the state even worse and the onus on having those tests and doing the testing is on the district or the employee for staff it's on the employee i believe right we're gonna try to have some available to get things rolling but it we are gonna we are going to have them try to find their own tests but where it becomes tricky is if they can't or won't find their own tests and we don't have one then we exacerbate our sub issue right so we're in a with with teachers and and many of our other subgroups that i've said yeah and we have

084to do everything we can to try to retain and maintain of course full staffing yep yep all right yes yes no hospitalizations at this point yet for our students not for students those students and staff would go into isolation for 10 days and then they would they would be released so once someone has positive for covid they can still test positive for 90 days so then they're exempt from testing after their 10 days for the 90 days afterward because they'll still they'll still shed the virus but they will no longer be infectious that's a good question linda all right thank you both so we'll do six one if you're ready which will be tiff if you're moving six four up because we do we have people from the outside of the district in both of

085those um agenda items perfect okay so thank you we're gonna go six one six four yeah or six four six six one six all right thank you hello so good evening i'm elizabeth hennessy with raymond james and i'm here to talk to you about the financial impact of extending the tip so i think you see hopefully you can see that hopefully with some paper copies so this first page talks about the various tif districts within district 15. the palatine downtown tiff is the the biggest with a 2019 equalized success value of just under 100 million dollars you've got the rand road tip within palatine the rain road dundee center tip and the ram lake hook tip then enrolling meadows you have two the kirchhoff owl and the golf road conservation then you have the village

086of schaumburg north schomburg so total uh incremental eav in these tip districts is 167 million 541. and that is an area i know you understand what tiff is but the idea is that the that incremental value does not is not taxed by any other bodies except the village to provide revenue for their tif development so that's frozen as far as you're concerned let's go to the next page hopefully again you have this in front of you so you can see but this is when the tiff expires the incremental value comes onto the tax rolls as new property under the tax limitation law so new property can be taxed by the district and exceed the cpi increase on your tax extension so new property is very important to allow you to capture the revenues and make

087the pie bigger lowering taxes for all the other taxpayers in the district so this chart looks at each tif and when it expires and the downtown tiff um was originally going to expire or is scheduled to expire i should say in levy year that means that the revenues from that would come to the district in fiscal year 24 which is what we're showing fiscal years here so it's about 2.7 million and then it grows with cpi and becomes part of your overall tax extension so here you can see the revenues coming from the downtown tip when that expires rand road the grand road dundee just came off in 2020 and is now hitting fiscal year 22 which i know you're going to talk about a little later in your meeting so um if you look

088at the total these are significant dollars coming to the district as the tip expires let's go to the next page i know you've heard from the village of palatine and they are proposing extending the downtown tiff by two years and they need to do that so they can continue to funnel those revenues into that tif district to complete the redevelopment projects in order to extend the tif they actually have to have legislation to do so and they need all the taxing bodies who are impacted by the tip to agree uh with the village that they they can do that so this spreadsheet is from the village of palatine and shows the extension and this is instead of expiring in levier 22 it would expire in two years long later levee year 24 in calendar year

08925 and the village has shown the various amounts that would be coming to not only district 15 but district 211 the village itself park district county harper college and all the various taxing bodies that residents of district 15 pay into so the thing about the extension is it is legally a 12-year extension so that's why this chart goes out to year 12. so the village has said that if we the district will go with this two-year increment recapture even though the tif would technically be extended 12 years they're going to make the district whole by distributing 100 of the tif revenues back to the taxing bodies not only district 15 but all the taxing bodies so that you're really going to give up just two years of revenue so let's go to the next page

090here's a comparison of the downtown tax revenue by fiscal year from the expiration of the tif downtown tip versus the downtown tiff surplus proposal made by the village per fiscal year so the top first line is the regular downtown tif expiration we saw those numbers a couple slides ago the next line is the downtown tiff extension and surplus distributions by fiscal year so in fiscal year 24 um with this extension you're not going to get anything in fiscal year 25 you'll get a small amount from that downtown tip and then they'll make you whole so you're pretty much 100 percent covered uh as if the tif would have expired so what you're giving up is about 4.6 million over those two fiscal years fiscal year 24 and fiscal year 25. the village has also been

091very generous about distributing excess surplus in the tip and they've done so with a rand road tiff and if the district agrees to this extension they likely would be able to do that same surplus distribution with the rand lake cook tip and those numbers are shown kind of in the lower part of the page you see that the dollars you're currently getting in fiscal year 22 in the budget and have received in the past and would continue um through 25 to the tune of about 1 million to 60. so the expected net difference net loss to the district would be the the two years in 24 and 25 which total about 2.1 million okay so you know the negative is that given the capital projects and the capital planning you're undergoing you know this is

092going to cause a temporary deficit spending in these two years uh but the good news is that if the village is able to you know make go ahead and give you the make you whole in after the first two years you'll be pretty much even so it's kind of a temporary loss albeit a permanent one you'll never get those dollars back but it is a temporary loss where the district will have to rely on its fund balance in that case the next page i think is a better view you can see in the blue bars are what you would receive by fiscal year if the tiff expired and then the red bars are the um surplus agreement uh the make whole agreement discussed by the village so you can see you know you're pretty even

093except for those fiscal 24 25 years so i'll pause here and see if we have any questions before i turn it over to aerostelianis to give you more details on what the district may do sure you're never going to get that 2 2.15 million you know that i think is just a little bit preliminary on how you know because in 2035 the tip is going to expire so maybe um on the calculation from the village that amount is going to be a little less because it's it's expiring uh technically in 2035 and you will be getting some tax revenue from that so i wouldn't let that last you if i happen to i don't hi everybody my name is eric stellinis from the forensic law firm thanks for having elizabeth and myself here so i

094wanted to talk a little bit about uh memorializing uh some sort of an agreement if the board moves forward with uh acquiescing on this 12-year extension on the downtown tiff from 23 years to 35 years and as eliza elizabeth said you do uh all the taxing bodies have to sign off and approve it before the general assembly would would approve it it is not uncommon to do these extensions if you look at the tif act there's probably 180 190 that have occurred statewide keep in mind that right now there's about 1 400 tiff districts in illinois there have been quite a few extensions over the years as well and it's also something you don't have to agree to do uh but what the village is saying is uh if the board does agree to it

095they would agree to this revenue sharing surplus agreement where for the first two years the village would keep the money to wrap up some additional investments redevelopment within the downtown tiff and then surplus out a hundred percent of the revenue in years three through 12. and so uh it's my understanding that the village has proposed to do this via an ordinance where the the city the village council would approve it and it would happen so it would be my recommendation that you that is not the way you go i'm strongly urging that you would have an intergovernmental agreement at least between district 15 211 and the and the village of palatine where it would have certain provisions certain obligations that you have certain obligations that the village has and why you want an agreement as

096opposed to just sort of a unilateral action by the village is that you know there this is a long commitment so we're talking 12 years out 20 35 before it really wraps up there will be a new village administrator there will be new city council members new board members new superintendent new everybody and there will be new tiff consultants who come to the village and say hey why are you doing this you know we can do a project here we'll create a new tiff adjacent to the existing downtown tiff poured all this revenue over and look at all these great things we can do and with an agreement that has certain provisions in it i think you're in a better position to overcome those sorts of inevitable changes and recommendations to simply not do it

097and i'll give you a real concrete example where there was a sort of economic turmoil coming out of the great recession we saw a number of communities simply stop following the igas or agreements they had with their school districts because either the revenue wasn't flowing or the eav had dropped you know if you look back to 0.70809 eab came down like almost 30 percent county wide so the amount of tif revenue being generated was significantly down and so when iga puts you in a better position with some strong protections in it and the example i want to give you is is the city of park ridge so they're uptown tiff where the pickwick theater is if you know that area near the metro station there was a very solid iga with district 207 and 64.

098and the city of park ridge simply said we're gonna we're not gonna pay these school districts anymore so it really came almost to the point of litigation and then there was a renegotiation so you have to have a document in place to give yourself some protection and some leverage from these inevitable changes whether it's economic dislocation change in personnel whatever the case may be so those are important things to keep in mind and something you need to i realize this is just a discussion board meeting but to the extent the board is going to move forward with this there would be a a meeting where there would be an action item to approve an iga we'd be looking for the same thing from the high school district and then the village to approve it as

099well memorializing the things elizabeth has talked about hello this is district does impose an extra layer of taxation is what it does because you've got sort of the base tax rate of all the districts and then you have this bucket of incremental eav where the rate is applied again so you guys will get 100 of your levy as well the park district but that additional amount that's generated in revenue is layered on top so your tax rate is actually a little bit higher than in other words wise would be if there were no 10th district at all i'm talking about the overall tax rate so let's say it's three and a half percent just to use the number for district 15 but let's say i get my tax bill and it says i owe district

10015 two thousand dollars with all these stiff districts not all two thousand dollars is going to district 15. maybe 1 900 is going to district 15 and 100 bucks is going to the village so take that on every homeowner or maybe it's five dollars who knows what it is but you're not getting a hundred percent of that two thousand dollars in my example a portion of it is going to the village for the downtown tiff and some of the other kids as well and that's just how it works that's how tips work so we have a question just to i don't know a way to kind of for myself especially just to simplify it so i recognize that this would be an agreement like a partnership actually want to we want to try to help

101out the village because we want them to kind of help out us and like so i recognize that that's obviously the goal because why would we not want to you know help each other and i see what would be in it for toward the village but just for clarification not that there wouldn't be anything in it for us i'm just curious like what is the benefit to district 15 since ultimately that's our primary concern here right um what's the benefit of either saying no we don't want to extend this or yes we do want to extend it like one way or the other like what is it what's the bottom line so to speak you know to to say yes or not say yes yes if it can be that simple i mean i know

102it's more involved if the downtown tif ends at the end of 23 years in the 24th year all of the incremental eav in the tif and it's about 75 million dollars is treated as new property in your limiting rate calculation under p-tell p-tell being the tax property tax extension limitation law so in that one year when the tif ends you get all the new property in my example 75 80 million that goes into your base and that compounds over time so you get the money then and it's part of your base if there's an extension the proposal is in the first two years the village gets a hundred percent of the incremental revenue but in years three through twelve it's surplused out at a hundred percent so even though it's being generated by the tiff

103it comes to all of the taxing bodies 15 to 11 harper etc in addition to their levees by doing the surplus it's in addition to the levy for that 10 year period so that would be a reason to do it would be that supplemental revenue source or not doing it you would get the new property right away so it's a little bit of six and one half a dozen or the other obviously there are other factors at play here than purely the numbers but those are two sort of two ways of looking at it and elizabeth may have more on that as well well and the village is telling you they need the money to complete their projects within the tip that you know theoretically is going to make that that property worth more when

104it ultimately comes off the tax rules and back on to your uh property taxes okay so it's kind of like pay now pay later you're giving them two more years because they're going to make you whole after that in order to make it a better downtown which hopefully will have a higher eclass assessed value and will ultimately provide you with revenue that's that that's the potential benefit and i think essentially jim what you know what reid said last month was they there's a full-on extension for 12 years 13 years the um 12 years but palatine you know the village has done the right thing over and over and over again in that when they have completed the work that they pulled the tif district for they have then returned the the funds in each year

105following the completion of the work and so his proposal is two years of funding and past that point they won't just continue to take the revenue for the remaining 10 years of the tif because they don't need 12 years they just need two years of funding and then they'll turn it all back to us you know it's really hard to say right right that's what you're betting on that's what they're telling you you need they need and you know you've had a good relationship with them and you know maybe that makes it a more valuable piece of property um i think that's the logic there but it's hard to quantify sitting here you know 12 years down the road what's going to be that value but theoretically that's what you're doing to help them make

106it a better one and it's not necessarily a known it's an assumption but the assumption would be continued investment in the downtown area you know the the fix of this the sewer system which is one of the big hang-ups in that area and kind of re-redirecting that so we eliminate the flooding and then continued investment in the area we we should benefit long-term district 15 should benefit and if you know the answer to how much we could benefit then give me lottery numbers for next week can i just ask some in terms of i mean that's long term but in terms of short term um there are some goals that we would like to achieve as a district and um and and you know anyone can answer this but i just want to make sure

107that we are not impeded in um achieving our boundaries goals achieving our um our uh you know full-day kindergarten goals um just because of all the and the in your right maintenance um all the the needs that um that haven't been fulfilled yet and that we want to fulfill um that you know we don't we can't budget for right now um is there uh thoughts to whether or not this extension impedes any of that about that and during diana's budget presentation i think you'll hear some of that tonight a little bit more of it at the cow on the 22nd so we're leveraging a variety of revenue streams to pay for the projects that we need some of it is o m you know budget dedication you'll hear about debt certificates d subs you know

108wenda and anthony as members of our finance committee of the board you've heard of some of the the ways in which we're going to come up with money it's a possibility that we'll go to referendum you know but we will need a variety of sources of revenue to help us but i think we've we've figured out a way to do it the timing is unfortunate for you know for both entities that were you both have things that we need to happen kind of in the in the shorter order but because this project potentially isn't going to come to fruition if it does i'll go the way we'd like it to 2425 we might be able to we think we have a way in which to help the village and then still do what we need

109to do here in the district i also just wanted to say thank you because the your explanations and the questions that have been asked were just very helpful and clarifying and simplifying so i really appreciate it these are our three newest board members that i said we have folks that really have never really had heard anything about the tif so both reid's presentation and then now what you've additional information you've provided you know has helped our three newest members i think have a greater understanding just a tif situation in general all the tips we have they work and then how this one relates to the projects that we're trying to forward here as a district so i agree they did a combination of a nice job okay and then in terms of our next meeting

110you have put together you've talked about the memorializing the agreement in an iga which we have a number of them in the district as you all know we talk a little bit about that tonight they're going to think about it and then we'll what would be the next steps in terms of if we were to go the route of an iga just procedurally so the board understands absolutely so in my understanding the village would like to get their tiff extension request in front of the general assembly for the veto session which is the first week or ten days of november and so um i have prepared a draft iga i sent it to dr heinz and and diana as well and so that'll be something you guys can review and look at we'll i'm sure

111be interacting with the village on some of the terms and provisions and then ideally come back at your next meeting and have a document that's ready to go so let's say you know early october or mid-october i guess we're sort of mid-september right now and if it's if if we're all comfortable with it it's something that the the board could approve and then the village would approve it and ideally it's buttoned down entirely prior to the veto session so the agreement is final it's been approved by all the really the three key public bodies here the two schools in the village and then you know they would have the support they need to make that request to the general assembly and the many benefits that elizabeth and dr heinz are talking about would begin to

112flow at that point so all right excellent so then all right eris we need to have eris come back what would the typical procedure you seek feedback from the board or you would reach out now to reads here can't tell if any that looks like josh and jim um not the mayor jim our gem but um he would start and you would start engaging with the villagers just so the board knows kind of the next steps i did send a copy to read this when it came in this morning so he has a copy he actually had a copy before the board you know had it this wasn't the real intention of tonight's meeting it really was to just hear from both jim and or from elizabeth and eris as a follow-up to presentation from

113last month make sure you had you know full understanding of the pack good bad and ugly and then see what an iga might look like because again as you've heard um frantic our our tiff lawyers you know feel strongly that we should have an iga to memorialize this agreement this extension agreement and so i would anticipate just interfacing with the village attorney working it out you know getting a final agreement having it in your board packet well before the next meeting answering any questions you have before the meeting and then at the meeting and then if it's ready to go having the board approve it so one of the things relative to just the timing because it's tight for for for us we've got a lot going on the village does as well we have

114a committee of the hole as you know scheduled for september 22nd so if we needed any level of follow-up or if you wanted to have eris come back or if you wanted to uh take action at the committee of the whole we could potentially see depending on how conversations and meetings go on the 22nd if that would help with their timeline or we could wait because our october board meeting is october 13th yeah i think you know what we made a commitment to read we would work with his schedule and ensure that we we meet his timeline so yeah i think it'd be best to put it on the agenda for the 22nd for the cow okay all right all right thank you for coming and waiting considering public comment and coven and for your

115presentation tonight yeah wonderful thank you we appreciate you being here all right we are going to move item 6.4 put the parent mentor program presentation up and uh and do that now hi thank you for waiting have a seat good evening hello good evening uh president schumann the members of board of education and dr heinz uh as dr hines mentioned earlier we are thrilled to be here to share with you just a brief summary of the parent mentor program and i'm joined by kathy millen who's the director of the poc and one of our retired bilingual teachers who you will soon learn that we just pulled out of retirement however as the director of our parent mentor program so the parent mentor program began actually about 25 years ago in the logan square neighborhood of

116chicago and it was a group of organizers that realized the power and value of having parents involved in school and it started with just a handful of parents and now 25 years later they have over a thousand parents and over 160 schools where the program is successfully implemented and that particular group of parents actually went to the state and lobbied last year for additional funding so that it could be expanded to more schools in the state of illinois and due to the excellent and expert grant writing skills of lisa hanson-brun at the poc and kathy millen we are one of the lucky recipients of that extra funding that's been allocated to that program so our parents that participate in this program will commit to spending two hours every day in our buildings for monday through

117thursday they'll be assigned to a classroom that is not their child's classroom and they'll assist the teacher with different instructional tasks they'll work with small groups of students individual students provide instructional support two hours every day monday through thursday and then on friday they will all come together at the poc and they'll receive leadership training and skills they'll have time to ask questions about what they saw in the classroom share reflections uh it really just feels supported in the implementation of the program so our goal is to find eight to twelve parents for jane addams and virginia lake uh that will be part of this program and i'm gonna let kathy uh talk a little bit about the poc part and the partnership that we have that we'll be entering into thank you for having

118me here today it's always wonderful to be at the meeting thank you everyone for inviting me um we are so excited about this grant you have been looking at this for about three years now in a non-profit alongside of district 15 knowing my day-to-day work is working with parents that really want to understand the school system they really want to get back to their kids they are so so eager for this opportunity so when we learned about the power of this program in chicago we knew that we had to bring this to the federalist district 15. so as we look to the parents my role will be to support these women then there are women members in this program to support them on the fridays especially as they come to our center we've wrapped around

119pro efficiencies for them we'd like to ensure that each of these parents involved do they want to go on to harper college and get more education do they need um what else do they need in their life to be the best they can be the best role model for their children the best assistant in that classroom how else can we wrap around them so on friday we'll have leadership for them that will be led by our wonderful sander that's here along with lisa gutierrez has been doing leadership for immigrant parents in this community for many many years so we'll we are looking forward to this friday this friday will be powerful not only will we be bringing hopefully 16 parents into your classroom it's 16 families that we're going to get to know on a

120more personal level and to lift them up their children and whether in high school elementary school it's going to be a real powerful powerful program and if we do well which i know we will because a partnership with district 15 is always pretty incredible this could expand to every school next year this could grow and grow um and we know these parents will start in the classroom they may become teacher assistants they may become bus drivers they may become teachers who know the end but we know that it's going to help that teacher in the classroom and it's going to help that parent they're going to bring it home to the apartment complex where they live their neighborhoods and they're going to have a lot of important information to share so we're real real excited

121about that um i'm glad to be back 2315 and be part of this uh program mentoring parents um i believe that it's very important to support the parents when they come and be part of that in the classroom and be part of the process of the the kids location and not just for the parents the family but the whole community we're excited you're out of retirement we're very excited and sandra was a teacher in district 15 for 32 years so she knows our community quite well and we're just thrilled to have her as part of this effort here right it would be wonderful i think about pt involvement for years and years and years as a parent and brainstorming how do we get hispanic parents involved you know in a school that's got a you

122know a lot of diversity and and you're trying to pull in that involvement have representation you want them to have a voice and we always struggled with trying to get parents comfortable with coming and comfortable with being part and uh this feels just like a really nice bridge and kind of like polygamy and and one of the things that i forgot to share um is that when once the program is completed and the parents have completed that 100 hours we'll have a ceremony to recognize them they will get a certificate and then in addition to that as part of the grant they will each be given a thousand dollar stipend so it's a little bit of a financial incentive you know for our parents and at the same time though the greatest benefit is our

123students because we know that research is so clear that kids who have parents that are involved whether they have a high level of education or low level of education and no matter their income they fare better in school they have better test scores they have better grades they have better school attendance social skills school behavior so we're really looking forward to reaping those benefits and in our schools as well so thank you very much do you have any questions i was just curious i think that's this is absolutely amazing i think it's wonderful i i was curious about um you know the pilot program if you will at the like how how did you go about selecting the schools that you chose or um you know how what what's the criteria for a parent that

124would be in the program or how do you select those parents just you know and then and then as we assuming this would be successful as well um do do other schools have to like qualify or is it just like yes this is working and so we'll we're going to do it you know i'm just curious how the process looks so the grant is intended primarily for schools that have high levels of of poverty or low acs numbers and high minority numbers so we picked jane adams in virginia lake because those are two schools that are the largest for us and that have that need um you know significantly because of the student population and demographics and those principles were also um just amazing we sent out an email just asking if they were interested

125in within minutes and they wrote letters of support for the grant so um so that's where we just naturally started but there is potential to expand it to other schools as well great and then um how do you select the parents just like uh so there is an interview process so we are working on that we have a picnic schedule this saturday at falcon park um our b-pack our bilingual parent advisory committee organized and we have flyers ready to go and they are ready to recruit parents there and then we'll have an interview process where we'll select the 8 to 12 parents along with the principals and sandra as well and our coordinators for that program great thank you um my question is if i could join some of the friday sessions of course of

126course you're the most up just check it out and hear from parents and just appreciate the work that you all are doing and there could be an opportunity to share learning in the organization that i work for we just executed a family advocacy program with all latinos spanish-speaking families in houston and so there could that would be wonderful thank you very much thank you for the time maybe january yes yes we look forward to returning thank you thank you and thanks for staying yeah thank you thank you thank you uh josh 6.2 budgets we love budget presentations great i'm so glad sorry to hear you but y'all you have to tell me after okay so um i'm diana mccluskey again for the public i'm the chief school business official of the district i'm josh shoot

127the director of fiscal services for the district and we're going to present the final budget for this fiscal year which has already started um so we'll dig right in all right so some of the background information and legal requirements for budget adoption are that one of the guidelines we use is this handy dandy little isb mechanics of a school district budget this has not changed for several years but this is what we use as our guide for all the legal ramifications timelines etc again the budget it's a road map it's a it's it's plan is to help and assist the board and the district and the superintendent meet their financial goals but it's a tentative outline meaning that we do our best to predict what this year will cost the board has to adopt the

128budget annually by the end of this month that is the requirement so we always present it in the month of september prior to adoption we've we've fulfilled the requirements for the mechanics for this little handy document here we had a public hearing in in august on july 6th we made that hearing um published we published that notice in the newspaper and the budget with the tentative budget was on display for at least 30 days and again at the august board meeting we had the hearing um so i'm just going to give a brief overview of the different funds that make up the district fund 10 educational fund obviously we're a school district so our largest fund is the educational funded it's used to account for all the monies that are used for the day-to-day classroom

129related operations of the district and then next operations and maintenance fund that's basically to make sure that the buildings are kept in good repair that's where smaller projects are are funded from and just general day-to-day like the life bills and the water bills fund 40 is all costs related to the transportation of the children in the district illinois municipal retirement imraf fund and social security fund are combined essentially it is to account for the cost the district's share of imrf and social security related to its employees working cash fund there's a little residual balance around 100 000 that's been in there from some prior years old bond issuance it doesn't currently we don't use it really it's just the cruise interest and earns interest every year the tort fund is used to account for all

130the costs related to the district's insurance liability insurance workers comp insurance and then any deductibles and related costs that service fund is used to account for all of the interest principal payments and then the bond agent fees related to the administration of those debt issuances capital projects fund it's used to separate larger projects out of the operations of maintenance fund so they're easier easier to track and you can track them across time it also allows you to see the bigger projects that are done over time in one easy spot life safety fun usually it's funded by bond bonds like we issued this past year to fund the hba see where if the boiler repairs at district locations so i have one slide here to go a little bit in depth on the state major amount

131of money that we get from the state and what they call this adequacy target so about four years ago illinois replaced the general state aid formula formula which you may have heard and be familiar with in the past with what we call now the evidence-based funding and there were a lot of organizations that worked very hard i'll just plug iasbo and the board the state board association the principal association all those associations they worked together to get this ebf uh worked out it took a few years and lots of lots of professional development about it it's it's uh it's evolution so it changed um the general state aid into a more equitable funding formula so basically what happens there's a very brief overview of it but it divides or it assigns each district to one

132of four tiers and palatine our district is in tier two what does that mean well it means briefly that the state came in and they figured out what our adequacy target was what does it cost in this community in our district to educate a student according to several defined cost factors population teacher salaries et cetera et cetera and then they also look at what are our local resources you know mostly our property taxes and they do a simple division program division um equation and they come up with our percentage of adequacy meaning how much based on that local that adequacy target that cost can our local resources cover and we now with this year and it changes a little bit every year right now we are at 79 percent and 79 puts us in tier

1332 which means that we have a ratio our percentage fell between 67.4 and 90 so tier three and four are above us uh i don't i think tier three is 90 to like 98 i can't remember and then like tier four is like a hundred you know like they they get it they have it all they really don't need any money from the state so we fall into tier two so um what i found is that so tier one is everybody underneath 67 and they get what the state allocates 50 of that pool of money goes to tier 1. and tier 2 gets 49 of the money and tier 3 and 4 have to split 1 so you see that's the equitable part of this um so this year our base funding minimum is 16.9

134million and they came up with some new money they weren't sure last year in the covet but they did come up with some and so our portion of the new money based on our tier 2 allocation is another 346 000. so we're going to get a little over 17 million from the state this year okay let's move on revenue assumptions so again the tax levy i presented last december was um our increase is 2.7 percent or 3.6 million dollars on a 2.3 cpi that cpi comes out every december okay so when we had 15 million a new property this year this fight these final numbers just came out like three weeks ago so and that 50 million a new property includes the rand road dundee tiff rolled off so rolled off after the 23 years

135that's the home depot area so again we're getting about 133 million dollars of property tax revenue this year versus a little over 129 last year um again when we come to do the levy presentation and in this november and december it's based on last december cpi last december cpi is 1.4 okay so we are benefiting this year from the 2.3 so keep that in mind that's going to go down to 1.4 which is a little going to be a little tight and we'll talk about that some more in this presentation again the ebf i just talked about 17.2 our federal money is going to increase you're going to see in the pie charts a little higher percentage than it usually is um we're going to get we're using um esther money 2 money of 5.9

136and the srr money that's budget right now is 6.4 so total 12.3 million dollars of federal code relief money and cpprt that corporate personal property replacement tax that that has been kind of lucrative for the district lately we got more than what was budgeted um we actually received two million approximately last year or half a million dollars more than it was budgeted question was why well part of it was because in the first year cova they extended remember we all got to pay our taxes later and they did that with the corporations also in july but last year they they still had to pay by april so we got more money in one in our fiscal year interest income again we're but you know i'll think you know things you know things you know if

137you get more money here you get less money here right so um interest income is is really low in this at this in this environment 165 k is budgeted versus uh beckon 20 fy 20 we got 1.3 million and fy 19 we got 1.6 million that's probably because the federal funds rate's still 0.25 it's been like that for i think two years now okay next page reverend assumptions um again the board passed a 15 increase on those student fees so those are the new fees this year and uh i budgeted 825 000 for student fees so e-rate is basically a similar to a federal grant program you spend a certain amount of money and you get reimbursed a certain percentage so it's around 40 percent for us basis it has to do with the low

138income population of the district that funding allowed us to do a network refresh to bring our network up to the capacity that the tech department felt that it needed to be at in order for the kids to have the speeds that they needed so we spent around 1.1 million on that but we'll get back around 500 000 from the e-rate program national school lunch program is um it's going to be summer food service again this year which is really pretty a little bit of a windfall to the district every district all students eat free i've budgeted four million dollars this year um we got 4.7 last year we probably won't have so many kids eating breakfast that's part of the reason for the decrease um the the only real wrinkle this year is in the

139state regular and special ed transportation reimbursement of fund 40. you'll hear us talk about that a little later uh with all the less transportation we did last year we have less reimbursement this year so you know it's delayed so i budgeted 3.7 million we got 5.3 last year care program josh has been working on that as you know the district has a before and after school program named care it's actually we we were the administrative agent essentially so we did all their accounting and we um signed off on their checks and all that stuff that transitioned over to the palatine park district the rolling meadows park district in the hoffman estates park district beginning on july 1st so because of that transition from us being the administrator to those districts being the administrator we will

140start charging them rent so in this year's budget instead of them being a totally separate entity that's not part of our income we're getting rental income approximating 140 and then also part of that dissolution of that part of care meant that we got a payout of 500 000 at the beginning of this fiscal year fy22 that will be used to fund some of the lrc improvements in the district once our audit is all done and we get the final sign off on all the numbers the remaining funds will be split between the district and rolling meadows and palatine you have 50 of that and they get 25 each so that's going to be another 100 and something thousand mostly and they had a big checking account balance carried over over these last several years okay

141and then chip surplus you've heard about that we're we've budgeted 787 000 and fund 60 and we are going to make a couple transfers but i've lowered the transfers we're not taking as much transfer money out of head fun um to o m and then to fund 60 or a couple of projects so it's only gonna be a million coming out of the ed fund this year last year i think it was two and a half million so just a million and then that goes to nm technically and that's how you have to do it now we're going to take 5 million out of m we're basically 4 million i don't know m then the million that came in from the headphone then we're going to move that to capital projects you'll see that later

142okay so in the revenue this is the summary of the revenue budget um ed fund is going to be probably increased at 13 million is mostly to the rps or federal increase of the grants operational maintenance um again that's our money um and um let's see some some some of the increases related to the increase in property taxes because of the cpi yeah um transportation's down because we talked about that so overall operating funds increases 15 million most of that's the federal money and then you'll see that life safety is way down but that's because we sold bonds last year so um just really the what we really want to look at is that the revenue was up in the operating funds of 15 million let's keep going then as a pie chart we have

14373 is property taxes and the other is three percent local 11 state but that federal money that's high this year 13 last year was six on the expenditure assumptions talk a little bit about this teachers salaries um right now based on our forecasting um they're up about three million um and we budgeted at 960 fte that's just a a little bit lower than last year's 966 i believe in my last year presentation um but based on those ctc negotiations of 880 um we are above that 80 fte and then just the uh highlights of the the salier increases were 2.75 administrative historically one to two percent non-union got a four percent this year historically two percent and the five collecting bargaining units they've averaged between two and over ten percent and so this is where

144i'm coming again with again the two the those those um those are how we're going to pay for these increases and most of it is because 73 of our revenue comes from property taxes and our property tax increases are limited by the cpi so we had a 2.3 percent cpi this year and then next year we only have 1.4 increase okay all right expenditure assumptions next josh is going to go over some of the benefits which are good good news so the the district is self-insured for its medical and dental plan so essentially what that means is every time there's a payroll money is deducted from employee paychecks the board kicks in its share and it goes into a bank account when there's claims made someone goes to the doctor or the dentist and they

145submit a claim we get a bill from blue cross and the district pays that the benefit of the self-insurance is that it stabilizes the insurance rates over time if you have a good year like this year where it was eight point one percent below the budget which is actually incredible but it's something that is not something you can count on every year you can't estimate you can't know what's going to happen with people's health or the number of doctor visits in a year but over time if you have a good year your rates you don't have to raise them if you have a bad year you have to raise them a little bit but it evens out over time and that's the benefit of this type of funding for us for our medical plans uh

146the employee insurance premiums health went up 1.9 which is actually very good our our consultants gcg really went to bat and worked hard to get us a good rate increase 1.9 percent the industry trend was six to ten percent so we're really below that dental 1.3 envision no change we're also part of a program through cbs care mark where we get rebates every quarter depending on the level of usage this year we got 1.4 million dollars in rebates and over the life of this program since fy17 we received four and a half million so that goes into that same pool of money and adds and helps to stabilize the funds over time as well um and then some more expenditure assumptions kind of what diana was talking about earlier where you you have your salaries

147if your increases are above cpi and you only get cpi it's not a sustainable thing to do over time but you know there are times like these these two years we have a number of people that are retiring at higher salaries because they've been at the district for a long time then you get to hire back people at a mix some are newer teachers some are a little bit more seasoned but overall you save money because of the replacement of those people and helps to stabilize it and keep things along cpi whenever possible also part of this budget is the sr2 and arp money which it's coveted relief money so we can't count on that being around forever and the district has a team of people working hard to make sure that it's being used

148in a way that's sustainable over time that we don't fall off a cliff financially uh some of the some of the things being funded by it are curriculum adoptions uh elementary junior high multilingual tier one curriculums also a lot of technology upgrade so uh we mentioned that wired network refresh earlier that's partially offset by e-rate funding projector replacements and a few other things there especially with covet and different things that you don't know what's going to happen down the line you need to be able to have the kids be able to remote learn when needed and people to be able to work remotely when needed so these upgrades are helping to accomplish that okay last slide of expenditure assumptions so now we're on to fund 60 capital projects fund 90 those life safety bond expenditures

149again these are some of the um i won't go through everything here but we're we've we're really starting to plan you know now on how to deploy our money through asphalt overlays hvac we are going to be taught bringing to the board pretty soon in the next few months so we want we're going to replace or we're going to um upgrade hvac at paddock and virginia lake they really made it so we're looking to do that next summer you see both fy 22 and 23. um lrcs uh we're working on those going to get that going very shortly a lot of concrete repairs you probably may have noticed some outside here at some sundling um jim's done a great job of of um getting some done this past summer we'll talk more about that in

150a couple slides um carpet and flooring needs needed in lots of places so we've got three schools earmarked we're finishing some lockers and um last but not least is the purchase of the new technology building which uh we'll talk about the phase two report too in a little bit um that looks fine we're gonna go ahead with that and life safety um finishing up which we are just finishing up now what we started last year last fiscal year is the three hvacs at grace sanborn kibble hill mike louise and then um some of this extra life safety money from the bond sale we could use for cla's classrooms so that takes up those budgets okay so here we have the overall expenditure budgets um last year's this year's again these are always unaudited numbers from

151last year um just from when i ran the reports and plugged the numbers in but if we look at this year we see that the ed fund is up 11 and of course that's again mostly because of the federal money coming in um o m is the budgets are actually pretty similar um but um to to unaudited actually it's up 1.5 but pretty much keeping that steady though budget wise transportation um is down um uh well is let me see okay why is that okay but we're saving in the buses because of what we didn't have to buy new buses this year for one million dollars um so that is a it's also it's also down a little bit because we have reduced state funding so you need to use up a little bit of

152the fund balance until the number of miles come back then your your revenue and expense would go back to the normal levels but this year because there's less funding we're using up a little bit of fund balance to cover the expenses yeah we will have to so operating funds um are again increasing like 14.6 but that's mainly because of the federal relief money that's coming in and so we really focus on that operating funds number and then back on the one back please so also i wanted to mention that diana and dr heinz had us do a zero based budget this year so we looked back three years two years in some cases and saw what people were actually spending we didn't just do a flat rate so part of this it went up but

153it didn't go up as much as all of the grant money that we're getting and part of that is all the department heads worked with us and they they looked at their past spending and they said this is what i actually need and we were able to lower the budget for expenditures in some places yeah i want to thank everybody for working on that because i was busy during many of those meetings with boundaries but the team did meet and i did when i could we met and people in all the assistant soups departments in person came down went through their budget several times so i feel very confident about this budget especially the first one that we did from the beginning to the end and i think we really have a good understanding of

154it and they do too as we want to keep growing is they understand their budgets they own it they understand where their spending is going okay so then on the pie chart this just shows you that the big blue is the salaries but salary and benefits so this is district-wide not just ed fund though district-wide our salary and benefits are 71 of our budget then let's see we can just talk a little bit about again um those coveted relief dollars are coming in at 5.9 million on the sr2 we talked dr hines presented that in may and we will she will present in um october the arp esser plan and again a little recap of where all that money has gone the cures act that came out right away in kovid um 1.6 million that

155helped to pay for those 40 additional teachers last year tech sub custodians cleaning but we the district spent a lot more than 1.6 million dollars so um how's the auto going i'm glad you asked um so the audit is underway it's we started it a little bit earlier this year so that we could get hopefully the report out a little bit earlier right now we had budgeted a seven and a half million dollar loss in the head fund tentatively we're looking at around two and a half to three million loss so it came in a whole lot better and a lot of that is again people watching what they were spending only spending on what they actually needed and we were able to just really really keep a handle on things and work together as

156a team right get the word out so we think that the final numbers will not be as damaging as the budget was esther 2 5.9 um that's we're spending now curriculum tech interventionists clinicians and of course always cleaning and disaffect and disinfecting supplies and then we will talk more next month about this additional 13 million um so last but not least but another next slide is the overall budget um revenues versus expenditures and what is the surplus of deficit in each fund which is always what i always get excited to see so or anxious to see excited anxious yeah right so we have edfun we have budgeted a surplus of 730 000 uh o m almost a million transportation we're going to have it we're going to have probably a deficit this year just because

157of that reimbursement um but we have surpluses and all the other operating funds so and you know you have to don't pay attention to life safety because of course those bond bond proceeds go over two years so uh surplus without life safety 1.7 million in all funds and then the fun balance summary this is what i really get you know i want to see is um so we're projecting so again projected we don't have final audited numbers these are just what we think could be at the end of the audit for last year 61 million in operating funds and fund balance so 62 million this year so we're still maintaining that 34 which is good news and then we'll just talk a moment about beyond beyonce's boundaries we have a committee of the whole that

158committee the whole meeting back in april uh was the name the big presentation about what everybody uh has been working on had been working on all last year our solution to the um to these nine uh high value priorities um so years of analysis a lot of analysis our next meeting is the committee of the whole two weeks from tonight um we're going to talk about the revenue streams and the five-year tonight we're going to talk a little bit more about the five-year facility and maintenance plan but again in two weeks it's going to be that um beyond just boundaries so we want to bring out a few points of pride in this district uh last year we had notables we thought now this year's points of pride yeah yeah what's the feeling what's their

159feeling right now well we feel proud so you know it was a big deal i i if karen was still i mean to me there they here they yeah but anyway so okay we delivered a lot of a lot of uh in-person learning i mean lauren can talk more to that about that than i can via two instructional pathways kristen was here boy they did a lot of meal services last year um via buses and tom helping out with that 1.5 million rdm up to update curriculum resources and provide high quality professional development to enhance pedagogy esc those departments were reorganized it was a big deal we have dynamic staffing to address social emotional needs and academic needs students this year we're really excited about the lrcs and library the gms is almost done you're

160going to see a picture about that really soon so stay awake we have 1.1 one-to-one technology really great a lot of money has gone into that self-insurance as josh mentioned we didn't have to buy buses this year 1 million and a bunch of construction and additional facility improvements that jim caplanes and his team got accomplished and then on top of that beyond just boundaries moving forward moving 15 forward you're going to hear more about that okay jim is sitting behind us so come on up let's see here you can sit here and so um so this is a highlight of stuff that we started in august and what we're taking through the end of june for this fiscal year a list of the items that we've accomplished is remodeling the art room carl sandburg bathrooms

161for student services at grace sanborn willow bend got some breakout rooms esc got their second floor flooring and reworked the cubicles for organizational purposes sealcoat several buildings concrete repair we were able to take the extra money and apply that in june so that is now applied but we got to seven schools and we'll do something similar every summer because it doesn't have long lead items so we're able to pull that together carpet flooring at winston and an esc second floor i mentioned earlier walter suddenly got the hallway and some walk-off carpet and then uh we refinished the lockers at winston campus as well and then the life safety projects as they've been mentioned went well and you'll see some of those pictures so those three buildings are wrapping up and getting real close to finish

162oh and the remodel at this remodel cla yeah that finishes up the end of this month and that's on schedule [Music] you said replace hvac i'm like man they tore down the inside of the building so it's a big deal so now we just want to highlight a few accomplishments so so those are some offices that are finished up at cla that's concrete work at whiteley and then that's uh taking away trip hazards as well but it's also uh you know freshening up some of the front um the art room at carl sandburg and then in the basement that's pretty cool and um the library at gms some boiler work uh the new gym lights that you'll be seeing uh going through the district these three schools got the same gym lighting and then where

163we ripped out ceilings you'll see in kimball hill that'll be you know the new look and it really does freshen up um the look of the hallway even though that floor is existing the whole field changed and then lake louise um same that's the front entrance jim did the uh the boiler work your reference at the unborn could you give an idea what what y'all did there i'm sorry could you could you tell us what you did the boiler work at sanborn did you actually remove that old the old boiler yeah so um going off of memory but yes the sanborn pretty much got everything redone okay so you got boiler work and then the distribution system down through the hallways as well thank you there was i will tell you there was a time

164place where we were told the only way that that boiler was ever getting removed was by tearing the school down so nice nicely done oh some more some more of the sidewalk work and then the flooring at winston campus that was taken through all the hallways the walk-off carpet it was the campus as well so winston campus basically has a whole new feel as well so hopefully you guys get a chance to see that go ahead anyway um so we're very excited about this year and um and you know making making more things happen so thank you very much thank you thank you thank you appreciate the energy [Music] thanks josh okay so we're gonna go quickly over this five-year drift five-year facility and maintenance plan um it's a really rolled up version of it

165um as projected on the screen here um jim do you want to talk a little bit about how you don't work with woold on this so this is a summary based on you know the categories but behind this which you guys have seen in the last board meeting there's everything is built up now so that everything can be prioritized and put in place we're using it to set up what we did for budget this year next year and then rolling forward into the big projects that are coming up that's going to be talked about so everything's in place for prioritization and they are in that place up until the point you guys tell us and and where you want us to uh put all the projects moving forward but this is a summary um it

166keeps it simple and it's lined in with it's in a full alignment with the life safety or with the life safety work that's been rolled into the five year plan you'll also be able then to see what the totals and all those totals match up to what we'll be presenting forward on other forms yeah and so on so the 21 22 column 6 million that's that's the breakdown of the 6.4 million that's in the budget a half a million for surprises definitely occur and um and then in 2223 4.5 million so you see in the two years together that's about 11 million so that's that five million that we're talking about that you'll see in my five-year forecasting financial forecasting that every year five million from l m goes to uh capital projects and then

167again a little bit of the surplus from the tiffs and you know kind of also can buffer that so those that's this year next year and then as we get out further it's boundaries and health life save that no well this is boundaries i'm sorry this funding though is kind of talked about in our in our boundary presentations but this is mostly held by safety as we talked about and some other projects that we know okay mm-hmm thank you it's my new mic and i didn't use it sorry and i didn't mention earlier um so the items in the first year for this fiscal year and for next year are all strategically rolled into stuff that no matter what happens it is in alignment with um where this district wants to go in the future

168and that's the beauty of putting together this plan so that money is being spent well and and directed and in line with um the options that will be coming forward and we can plan ahead yep and that's how part of it what it's all about for your budgeting purposes and absolutely getting out the bids early you know scheduling cetera and we've been talking about that too because there's been such a delay in products because of coven that now that we know when we're doing what we're we really will be hitting the street much earlier with our bids so we we have longer lead times because we're going to need it so it's this is like kind of goosebumps stuff it's like so exciting that we have this five year roadmap moving forward we know what

169it's going to cost when we're proposing that we tackle it and then the six to ten will be developed and then what we're doing with the boundaries it's all going to come together so it's it's pretty phenomenal in just over a year's time this is health life safety this is that report this is my safety and some modernization priority plus some of our priority projects yeah can you remind me when the next health life safety assessment is 24 20 24. so we'll be getting we'll be getting this done just as the new one will start the clock will take on the new not necessarily no no that's that's lining up all the work that that is needed so as as priorities are picked then you know that will be that be adjusted to reflect what

170everybody wants and when moneys are available and yeah as funding yeah it's largely driven by money right we have isn't it always yeah but we have we have the ability to move some of this to earlier years maybe if we figure out how for you know yep if we save things like typically what they've done a great job with is if something comes in under bid it's 500 000 let's just say it could go into the budget or it's like okay what are the next couple projects we want to call up to finish because we really are trying to accelerate because there was a lag in facility work so we're trying to accelerate to take care of health life some of our high priority projects prior to the next decennial but also as a result

171of if we get to deliver on everything we want and beyond just boundaries we know our kind of our target for that's 24 25. so we're giving ourselves you know this amount of time to finish everything all right okay thank you thanks jim have a good night all right i will be quick because i know the time is running short i mentioned it in my update but um we will be um commencing a superintendent-led community task force citizen task force i will be working and have been working with marcia sutter from mind your business and that's one of the things that she really does well is figuring out how to re-engage the public we have four dates set september 23rd will be our first uh meeting coming up and we will really get that comm

172uh committee community based committee up to speed on where we've been as a district relative to our facility project and what did it what our goals are and then we want that group to really vet the plan even further and we have a meeting then on october 14th october 28th and then november 11th where we will be talking about the benefits and enhancements the curricular offerings that we'll be we want to bring to the district and why we think they're so beneficial for example full-day kindergarten potentially converting to a middle school the way in which we've fanned out the multilingual program the special education offerings across the district and the location of our gifted programs one of our heavier meetings will be october 28th when we talk about you know the funding and what it

173potential solutions to these kind of long-range problems that we've been admiring but now we're really tackling we've identified and we're not admiring them anymore we're you know putting solutions in place and then on the 11th of november it's going to be a critical meeting to because they will really help finalize my recommendation to you you know the board in terms of what we want to absolutely push forward and test out into the community we will then have a meeting in the spring well we'll redo review any additional recommendations or um research that might be necessary from november from how the board feels to where the ctf has gotten us taken us and then you know we'll make some big important decisions for the district in terms of what are we going to proceed with do

174we have the money uh through a variety of revenue streams do we need to go to the community you know for help to bring all of these projects to fruition so we have a lot of work we have been very very busy but we have some very heavy lifting ahead but we have a clear plan you know to continue to move it forward through 2021 and then into the early part of 2022. so i just wanted to give you an overview what will then happen is citizen task force meetings will one of them at least will track right after a board meeting so we will have any feedback that you want us to bring to add to the agenda and we can also make sure that through having lisa and wenda warzoo bear on the

175committee that you have an opportunity to speak directly to the citizen task force in terms of you know uh any questions thoughts things that you want as a board to know you'll have a few spokespeople to um to make sure that the board's voice you know is strongly present in addition to those members of the community that are volunteering their time and at some point i will probably invite the citizen task force to come and speak to the board of ed maybe at that last november meeting where they can talk to you about the process that we've gone through and help deliver our recommendations that'll be my recommendation so that's it in terms of just a brief update i really wanted you to see the schedule again and kind of high level what we're going

176to be focusing on over our first four of meetings across schools different programs could you share that with breakdown yes as soon as it's finalized this is probably would you say i would say like 90 percent we have a little table and we've just solicited some principles just principal assistant principal participation we kind of done a gender balance and now we're looking at where do people live or work and what schools are they representing so that's what this little little duty is here but i will definitely have that available when i uh present to you at the october meeting i plan to be able to share it at that time still a few people were waiting to hear on okay and you're back okay i know okay so today um we had a nice virtual

177phone call with this company true north to review the phase two report just came out late friday so but they had given me preliminary results so we have good news to report and i will read it a little bit of an excerpt from from this report the findings and conclusions of this report are based on four soil borings and two soil gas probes installed and sampled at various representative sites on-site locations at the colfax building the soil analytical results indicate the presence of minor localized soil impact at the site an exceedance of the most stringent tier 1 sros provided by this iepa in 742. the site is reportedly provided potable water being via the municipal water supply and an on-site well is not documented or proposed so they do not we do not need a

178well therefore the presence of this vinyl chloride does not present a current exposure exposure risk to the on-site receptors and then additionally the site has an existing concrete slab and paved parking lot in the facility of the noted arsenic exceeded exceedance location the presence of these surfaces verifies that the impacted soil is not accessible and does not present a current exposure risk to on-site receptors so in conclusion there were no major concerns resulting from the soil and soil gas samplings do you remember why we did phase two okay so this is good they were worried because there was a cleaner there's a cleaner and then they probably was a plastic manufacturer maybe one was first built so um we so dave was on the call and so was andy thulman and jim coplanus and um

179so um it's we have a clean bill of health we're going to head on ahead um i i've reached out to the attorneys to try to move up the closing date we're looking for a closing at the end of this month if possible so we can start prepping this the location the building for technology to move in dave we also spent with dave today and went over some uh some of the things you know some of the improvements that need to be made and you want to mention some of that sure yeah we went over just a transitional document what are the plans for us to move forward now that this you know phase two sampling was positive and all systems are go and we've been there 15 years so you know just imagine a

180house what it can accumulate in 15 years 15 years we it's time to you know consolidate and eliminate and then make our move but we went over some of the priorities for the transition you know getting the security sonic troll in place looking at replacing some of the flooring in that one showroom area where the carpet was really worn painting the walls and then doing some wall removal in the back section of the area so we could have a nice staging area for all our big summer projects so you know false everything falls into place we're probably looking at like a january type a time frame to move in and we're very excited about it you know thank you diana for all your efforts to find the place and dr hines to make it happen

181so we're really looking forward to it it's gonna be great and we're very happy that that report came out the way it did they had us a little scared for a minute okay any questions okay excellent thank you all right section eight board committee reports ed red frank so there was a lot of legislation was passed recently the curriculum is uh public school and elementary state high school for adding a unit of instruction studying the events of asian american history let's see things but uh i think it was kind of curious here they're saying that they need to provide uh play time for all students in kindergarten for fifth grade our students be uh covered by recesses that's for 30 minutes for every school day yes thankfully it will be because we already feel as

182though the day is as short as it is to cover all the content that we need to so we will not have to take away from any subjects or try to collectively bargain uh you know a longer school day senate bill 818 which was uh sex pen stuff which they were spreading out through kindergarten but i believe that became [Music] an option if the district has a comprehensive sex education curriculum in place there's a different standard since we do not we have an opportunity to opt in or opt out as a district um or parents can opt out opt in or opt out as so meg's department i just texted her she's out in the lobby um they will be looking into that but that will not have a significant impact on district 15 based

183on the fact that we do not have a current comprehensive sex education curriculum in place that one hit us uh you know have hit us hard to try to figure out how do you track that with absences and that goes into effect we believe in january so it's something it's relatively new so we have to look into that we talked about it just briefly at at cabinet so up to five days you know kids can take off without being marked absent and it doesn't attach to any other absences that might make them then truant trs penalties that's good with such a shortage probably going to see more and more that i would suspect those interesting ones you hit the eyelets right yes indeed they've been busy we will communicate mex department we have received just

184a few emails you know about senate bill um but we'll we'll put out a a specific communique about it it doesn't go into effect if it were to go into effect until next year so you know we'll communicate it in a timely manner yeah there's a lot of bills that are coming through specifically with regard to social studies and we are a comprehensive social studies review this year and eventually going to look at adding different supplements at various grade levels to make sure that we're hitting all of those mandates i understand that we were talking about the sex ed and what's going on with regard to that i don't know how much of this was discussed but if a district is implementing a comprehensive sex ed program which we are not then the district is

185required to implement the program that's being pushed out through the state and through the feds however since we're not a comprehensive sex ed program we are not required to do that so what we're doing right now is the majority of the sex education program and talks are obviously at grades six seven and eight we have been going through and probably many of you grew up in this area we have been using robert crown which is now called camper health so it's a program that previously we would go you know the kids would get on the field trip they go to lyle it's a museum type thing but since covet they have been coming to us so what we've been looking into is what is their program going to be in light of what's coming through

186with regard to the state mandates and is the program that they're going to be offering can it be customized to include or not include certain portions that we don't deem appropriate compared to maybe what other districts might so we're in the process of reviewing that and we're going to review it before obviously anything would go out and they have also sent us information assuring us that the videos that the students would be seeing will be available to us into parents before anything would go out to kids and this is just a from a parent perspective there's always been an option to opt out absolutely yes absolutely regardless of what it is there's always been an option to preview and then opt out okay thank you you're all good frank all right jim one five foundation

187uh last month the one five foundation uh were nets and they updated their list of board of trustees and then also created their calendar for this year for all their meetings next meeting should take place by september 15th excellent thank you very much uh finance committee anthony winda okay finance committee we met august 24th and a lot of the items that we covered we've already covered in today is covered as well in the meeting book that is going through uh some tiff implications and then regardless of what happens um with that whether it's extended or rolled off um instant budgetary information and then again looking at that timeline for life safety work and just some of the funding sources that district 15 has available to us especially with the same energy as you did tonight

188no pressure all right equity to bear sam sam is over uh we are meeting on friday uh zubair and i are meeting on friday as the two board reps to just get a sense of um our priorities for the year so they can communicate and work date with glory great great thank you very much um item 8.5 is the first reading of update 107 and policy 6 120 education of children with disabilities as far as the first reading goes does anybody have any commentary or feedback or things that they'd like to address that's all right sam had uh two questions she said yes i just have two questions um so one was around policy which of course i don't have the page open for me but um the board policy committee as part of the

189policy review that is something that we don't currently have established correct so we need to go through a process to establish our policy committee correct so um in and i've talked to claire about this from in my past district we did have two members of the board that served on the policy committee and what would typically happen was cabinet would review or we would parse out portions of the policy based on content to whomever needed to take the lead they would review that policy and that's procedurally what we do now and then it would come together then i would take the feedback from my team and then meet with board members the two tour was two board members in my last district to see if they agreed with any adjustments that we made if they

190had any additional you know edits or suggestions and then we would it would come before the the larger board just like here for first and second read and we've gone back and forth to determine you know whether we think that that's a you know good use of time to have separate meetings because you could do that very work in a board session you could go through claire could walk you through each policy and you could have a conversation she could talk to you about any changes that we've made you see them now in in red line formation but you could discuss each policy so it's it's just a matter of whether you think that that's important to have a separate committee to do that work or if you want to just commit to doing that

191more at this board meeting is the is really the thing that you have to determine historically and i've only been here just now three years lisa frank you've been on the board anthony's beer and longer um can you remember in the in the past and again that doesn't have to dictate the future but has this district ever had a board policy committee to your knowledge mine either but again doesn't mean we can't but that's just procedurally what it might look like you have to determine if it's necessary and then if so you know who would you want to to okay serve my only thought on that is if we could at least if we do go down that row if we could have at least one number from the equity committee to serve as a

192policy rep to just be able to give feedback from an equity lens within policymaking the other was just around um i noticed that we had edited the vision mission and values of the district and so i wanted to just get a sense of like what was the process for refining those defining them um did we have any like community involvement in that i just was surprised to see that all changed within so that policy um was very very limited from what press gave us for that policy and we only had on file a very dated policy had a district's vision admission but mission but it was from years ago so we took the information that we currently have on our website and put that replace it because it seems like that policy had never been

193updated years ago okay so that's they if you see i think you probably have it the one that press offered you it was it was just called like the philosophy of the district and the district many years ago probably never adopted that exact policy from press they did instead what's the district mission and vision but what they had what we currently had listed on our website did not reflect what we currently have everywhere else for our district's vision and mission statement so we put the new current data there okay so then this is because this isn't who wrote this i mean i can see that some of this is the values of that and that came from our website where we have okay and and the website information is part of the strategic planning process

194that was done under morgan is that the time that we had edited our mission statement yes well not the mission we added a value the mission has been in place since the 90s because i was here the first time i was here we wrote it under john conyers the superintendent and then the core values the the mission and vision are from the 90s the values were edited um while morgan was here and then we added one bullet point equity and inclusivity when i started when we did the three-year refresh so interesting it's the philosophy so we haven't really had a conversation about the philosophy so we can do one of two things we can keep this here or we can or or not and but make it part of the work of the strategic plan

195i was just going to ask if this is something that we would be able to read at any point yes but yeah i would propose that if we're going to potentially look at not potentially we will look at mission vision value as part of the writing of the new strategic plan i would propose that we make a philosophy statement or we combine all of that into something that isn't as separate so okay okay all right any other questions or comments questions nope all right move on to action items great item 9.1 may have a motion please 8 20 21 has presented motion carries item 9.2 make motion to prove the administrator and teacher salary benefit benefits report as presented discussion aye [Music] motion carries item 9.3 motion please make a motion to approve the adoption

196of the fiscal year 21-22 budget as presented [Music] motion carries item 9.4 motion please i make a motion to approve the settlement of the tax rate objections related to the 2008-2010 tax years pending against the board at three mills and to authorize the superintendent or her design the authority to sign such documents as necessary to settle this matter subject to attorney review approval second discussion roll call consent calendar would anyone like to remove anything from the consent calendar no removals motion please i make a motion to approve the consent calendar items as presented second roll call oops sorry nope yeah roll call getting tired [Music] correspondence dr heinz um because she really is or whoever and it just felt as though to me if there were the conference of interest or at least that's the

197perception that there was because i'm saying cardiff is going to prove part of it's been denied so i want to make sure that whoever is um yeah and for years when men will begin to gain the fame of being the foia officer absolute all right thank you for explaining that um adjourn may i have a motion to adjourn please second all those in favor aye meeting adjourned [Music] you