001in this slate. SL no, not yet. Just you move. We need a second on the motion. Oh, okay. Hold on. Wait. Is that not this elect officer slate? Or do I need another box that says move to open? Uh, no. Now you can do the slate nominations for Did we have a second? Um, am I putting this here in the elect officer's slate? If we're doing this late, Mr. Gdans was the first. Who's the second? I'll second. We need a We need a voice vote, right? Or a roll call. Voice vote is okay. Voice vote. This is for the motion to open for nominations. You need a second. I got a second. I just need a voice vote. All in favor? Any oppose? Motion carries. 70. Now we need a motion. Now we need to
002nominate the slate. Okay. So I move to nominate the following slate of officers. Rebecca Mlan for president, Spencer Long for vice president, and Carol Bwinsky for secretary. I move to close nomination. Wait, wait. We need a second, right? Oh, yeah. Sorry. Are are we closing on? Yeah. No, you need a second on that. Are there any discussion? Discussion or any other nominations? Okay, then we need to close the nominations. I move to close nominations for the slate of officers. A second. Second. You're in. Oh my gosh. Well, this is what we Wait, did we have an all in favor of the last? This we just did. Now you need to do an all in favor of closing the nominations. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Said no. Oh my gosh. And then I move to
003approve. Okay. I move to approve the slate of officers. So second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? You shuffle. That's it, right? That's it. Now you shuffle. You stay. No, you welcome back, buddy. Oh Jesus. I wasn't realizing that I wasn't I wasn't realizing that you need a new one. You want to take a picture? Go right ahead, please. Absolutely. We're going to take we're going to take a photo of the whole board uh at the end, too. So, but you don't need they don't need to say for all this. Oh, that is a good idea. Wait, wait. Let her take a picture of us with me while on her phone. Shaking hands. Oh, we're shaking hands. You got to do the shaking hands, right? reme. It's out there on the web, too. So, I
004want to see if you can find it. Plenty of time. Rush. Don't take offense to that either. get used to this fine stalkers like me that would come to meet like Yeah. All right. So, now we are at the um item six board of education meeting dates. Committees just committees. Are you ready? Make committee appointments. I am not ready to do that. Can I do that? No. Yeah. Just right. let folks know as soon as they're interested in whatever committees. Yeah. So, I'll reach out to all of you and we can talk through committees and talk about like what's available and what's out there. I know Ryan and I talked a little bit um before. So, I'll reach out and see where you're at and where you want to serve. And at the June meeting,
005we'll feel like some of them I'm stuck on no matter what. You're stuck. You're stuck no matter what. Well, insurance so we'll talk through all the committees and bring that to the June board meeting. So, if you have strong feelings, let me know. I'll reach out to all of you in the next week. Um, yeah, that's where I got confused because then we have the meeting dates. Yeah, I put the meeting dates in the wrong the blank slate of committee assignments to be filled in was what was supposed to be attached there. Okay. So, will you send that to I will indeed. And I'll I'll send it to everybody so you have all the list of all the committees. All the committees. Okay. So, now we are um the calendars which thank you Carol for
006catching the typos on the um calendars there. There was a mistake right with the budgeting one in the end of the the year 20 2026 was off but the establishment now we have historically approved it as a standard every two the second Thursday but then we run into problems when we have to have 30 days in between for the hearings and so uh the September and the December meetings levy uh are moved to the third Thursday. That gives us the 30 days for the hearing in between. And then the rest of the dates as they're currently scheduled are Tuesdays. Thursdays, the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. Everybody okay keeping Thursdays at 7 p.m.? Just one thing just with the committees if there might be that people days are available for committees too
007just in case any of the committee days make changes. Yeah, I agree with that. And if we need to move some committees around based on availability. So, but Thursdays at 7 for the board meeting. Still good. I will. You guys all good with that? All right. Sounds good. Can I get a motion? A motion to approve the board schedule. We got to get on her first second. I told her I said ready to approve everything. I know this process. Approve. Oh, yes. Yes, sir. Mrs. Bowwinsky. Yes. Mr. Gdanis. Yes. Dr. Long. Yes. Mrs. MLY. Yes. Mr. Nordmark. Sure. Mrs. Peters. Yes. Motion to approve. 70. Oh gosh. I was so good. You move one seat and it's a whole different vacuum. Oh, that chair was challenging. That's why you need That chair is good. Thank
008you, Carol. Um, at each at each regular and special open meeting, members of the public and district employees may comment or ask questions to the board of education. With our very large audience, if you would like to address the board, please complete the pink form and give it to Mrs. O'Donnell, our reporting secretary. Anyone? Anyone? All right. So, we're moving on to communications. So, for communications, I have two uh additional items that are not in the packet. The first is um the invitation from Mount Prospect uh public library to join uh for civic connections. Michelle, you did some research in that. Can you just give kind of an update of what? It's just a casual conversation evening. There's no presentation. You can come and go if as you please. They did say that they hoped
009that he'd come early so that there was time for conversation, but um not be prepared to speak formally or anything just to kind of get to know each other and then that would shape the meetings to come each year. They I did this you go to that too like six years ago. It was called like Sunrise Connections. I I went to one of them and it was and it's just people it's just you know members from like park districts, schools, uh other area, you know what I mean in the area and so like I had met people from like Arlington Park District and stuff. So it was a neat event just to kind of meet other people in a similar position. I thought that they had like some brief presentations at that one but this
010is sounds like it's like a mixer type thing. Y I can RSVP if you guys want they sent it directly to my board email as well. So I already got an invitation and I did RSVP and I plan to attend. So I if anybody wants to go with I'd love to not go alone but I know so I can't yeah I don't think I can stay the whole time. Awesome. Uh the other item is uh we just want to take a moment to send our thoughts and prayers to the uh district 23 families that were impacted by the fire at Pleasant Run. Uh we are appreciative, fortunate that there were no injuries uh as a result of that, but there was some damage to neighboring properties. We have uh three district 23 families, five students
011um who we have been in contact with to reach out and offer support. Uh and I just want to again thank uh our PTO. They are currently running a dining night out at Berry Yo and they have decided to allocate the proceeds the the proceeds from that fundraiser to the families uh that were affected. So, uh, a really nice, uh, gesture and a way to support, uh, those families who, uh, were have been displaced and, uh, we hope can get back into their, um, homes soon. Something cool about that fundraiser that I, um, they talked about at the PTO meeting that I went to last month, and again, they posted it today. You can buy gift cards. So, they're counting the gift court cards towards our um, dining night out money. So, somebody had said
012that they buy like $25 gift cards and then they use those as like birthday gifts throughout the summer or things. So, if if you have a need to like even get gift cards, it's that that'll count towards the dining night out, which I think is a a good way to to put it on if you don't want to get ice cream this weekend, you get it another weekend. It is supposed to be and it's Mother's Day, so it's a perfect gift. Perfect gift. Um we uh also let's recognize uh this month is teacher appreciation week, the first week in May. Uh again, we thank our PTO for sponsoring uh just a great week of celebrations. Uh as we have historically done, the board of education and admin will host a lunchon for uh our staff
013on uh Friday, May 16th between 11 and 1. You're all welcome to join us for that. This year we have also moved our retirement and recognition uh celebration to that same lunchon while we're all gathered. Um and we just want to take a moment to recognize our four retirees this year. Marus Jenkins uh serving 44 years in district 23. Kim Brunner with 26 years. Jill Bersbach 22 years. and Amy Rosner at Eisenhower 20 years of service. So, we're very appreciative and wish them the best of luck uh in their retirement. Uh also, as uh the the board policy u indicates, we do a service recognition at 10 years, 20 years, 25 and 30 years. And those folks are in the uh packet and will be recognized also in the school scene tomorrow. Uh another invite
014for the board and community. We will be hosting the uh district 23 schools almost out celebration on Friday, May the 30th in partnership with our PTO. Uh there is a Kona ice truck or two usually uh that are out on the Sullivan playground from 3:30 until 5:30. students pick up a a ticket for a free uh ice ice treat and other uh other items may be purchased from the Kona ice trucks. And we've got some uh fun bags and some gaga ball being played and some just festive uh music played. uh nothing formal like the family fest, but it's a good opportunity for folks to gather and celebrate the end of a of a another school year and to recognize our kids for all the hard work that they've done. So, we invite uh folks
015to join us for that. Uh also celebrating 8th grade promotion on June the 4th. Uh we alternate between uh Percy and Wheeling High School. This year we are at Wheeling High School at 700 p.m. on June the 4th. Uh you saw in the Monday memo as well. Triple I registration is now open. Uh we'll send out a Google form to gather registration. Uh if you're interested in attending, we can capitalize on some early bird discounts uh the sooner that we register and uh we have better chances of getting the hotel preference uh for those that are attending. That's the annual school board association. I can't believe it's time to register for I know it was like yesterday. They open it June 1st. So, we got to try to jump on that if we want to
016make sure we're at those. They are always the weekend before Thanksgiving. Yeah. I want to say November 21, 22, 23 this year. Something like that. 20 21. Yeah. 21. Um, the last communication item I have is just a a quick update. want to thank thank thank our families. Our uh enrollment in registration in the month of April uh that campaign uh has was really successful this year. Uh we have as of this Wednesday 87% of our students uh enrolled. That is uh up by almost 20% over where we've been in the past. Um, uh, again, not that it's a competition, but, uh, Eisenhower is in the high 90s, 95, 96. Wow. Uh, Ross, 96, 98. Uh, so you do the math on the averages to bring us to 80. We've got some some folks at
017Sullivan and Mack uh who need to uh finish up their their registration process, but we're really really happy with how how many folks already registered. It really helps us get uh transportation planned and get communication out as soon as possible. So, do you have a what's the kindergarten number? Kindergarten number as of right now is 91. So it's up the first grade is 112. So up from our 80s and 90s that we had this year. Um so we're picking up some of those kindergarten students coming into to first. Uh but and we still have a handful of of kids in K1 that need to to register. Um, and then of course over the summer we have the bulk of our moveins and those kinds of things. We'll be uh monitoring every week, every Wednesday, uh,
018Vanessa gets gets me this spreadsheet uh, print out that we monitor and then we'll be bringing formal reports to the board at each board meeting as well as we have uh, enrollment and staffing any updates. Based on we're now current staffing season, right? Yes. Yeah, we already reduced one section at Kinder and we're watching that section those sections at first. And those are my um communication items. Thank you. Um up next is committee reports. So, first up is building and sites with Mrs. Binsky. Okay. Our meeting was a week ago Monday. Um there was a review of some of the summer work that's uh planned for this coming summer. Um Raf went around to all the buildings with um Archon and checked out the roofs and the roofs are in good shape at this point.
019So we don't need to worry about that. Um there will be patching and striping of the parking lots and just kind of the regular summer cleaning and repairs and that kind of stuff. um uh talked about uh the food service the RFP award is wait it's still awaiting okay um that is going to organic life uh and part of that is a plan to purchase steam tables for Ross and Selvin and also to um accommodate the steam tables Uh they'll install high voltage outlets to use with the steam tables. Uh let's see. Um there's an update on the Ross Sullivan garden. Um we have an Eagle Scout that is also going to be working with that project. Um Gavin Celeleski. Uh and the PTO is uh adding some funds to that project. And there's is
020there a date? Um there was an update on and this is on the agenda tonight. uh land swapped land swap agreement with Arlington Heights Park District for um between Patriot Park and Carousel Park and that was is later on the agenda tonight. Uh then there's some technology updates. Uh let's see. Um some work is proposed for Mac and Gratsky to replace cables that are quite old. Um they haven't been replaced in 10 years. More than 10 years, right? More than 10 years. 15 years. Uh they would have graduated from MacArthur if they were students. Uh let's see. Do they have a typical lifespan? Like yes and no. The the challenge is so much work has been done around them and the integrity of the bundling is dropping that we are definitely pushing it. So yes,
021they are at the end of their life. The integrity of how they're run with all the other construction we've done has degraded things. So it's time for them to graduate. Isn't it kind of like, you know, when you have your charger and you keep like moving it around and rolling it up and all that? I mean, it it's compromised over time, right? Correct. It degrades over time. Part of the issue. Yes. 100%. Yeah. Okay. I just didn't know like if it's typically 15 years and we've been pushing it or if it's typically 10, right? Like I just didn't know like a typical we're we're toward the end of the lifespan. and we've dodged issues, but we we would expect something to happen if we don't do this. Okay. Thank you. Uh also, um we talked
022about a phone system replacement going to a cloud-based. Um the current system is old and has been repaired and refurbished over time and so it needs to be replaced as well. Uh and we also talked about the emergency notification system and that's all the note I have here. Okay. So that is the least uh finance Maryland. You've got that. Yes. Um it was a a big meeting lots of board members. We discussed bond refinancing with Elizabeth Penny. So that was a great discussion. Um unfortunately we've also discussed that movies has downgraded our um our rating our bond rating. Sorry about that. Yeah, they downgraded our bond rating based on our um largely because of our balances. Um we went over the annual bill payment resolution which we will vote on later this evening. We went
023over the NSSO budget which we will again vote on this evening. Um the land spot agreement with our friends Carrie and Jason Heights will this evening fiscal year 26 budget process. Um we discussed um we discussed the RFP for food service and we have to wait for ISB to approve it. I don't know. Still in process still boy. Okay. Uh we too talked about uh technology priorities. We're going to vote on the LVS cabling contract this evening and then um we did our monthly financial reporting review any of the other say anything. Was four hours. It was a great time. Thank you. Sorry I missed it. I'm the only one. So sorry I missed it. Thank you for telling me what happened. Amy on that but both Caroline and Marilyn mentioned the the I don't
024remember waiting like this for the food service stuff. Is this normal? Yeah. So we they have asked for when we filed the RFP. Um it's it is it's a huge process, right? We've been doing this since it feels like November, right? Um they request 30 days after we submit. So, we we submitted um and and we said we wanted to target the May 8th. It I said, "But if we have to go to June, we can go to June." This RFP process is something the district only has to do every five years. Okay. So, if we haven't done it in quite some time so wait, thank you. Yeah. NSSO Carol. Okay. NSSO meeting was last night. uh they had uh uh several retirees. So there was a little reception um before the meeting um for
025the retirees to honor them and that was the shining stars at the meeting. Uh the four retirees represent 109 years of service. So, uh, Cindy Fairbanks, uh, who's a social worker at Kirk, Becky Lunabach, and Gina Patel, who are both ESPs at Kirk, and Chris Sepsacos, who's uh, in the early childhood DA deaf and heart of hearing program. So there was, you know, some each person, each retiree had a colleague that gave some information about their career um to the audience and it was very nice. It's it's interesting. I I say this to teachers all the time. I I don't know how they like every year at the end of the year these kids that you've been with a whole year and they're gone. You know, they're moving on or moving to the next school
026or whatever. And in that environment, I think you're even closer with those students just because of the nature of that work. Um it's I I can't imagine how you just pull away from it. Anyway, that's just me. So, um, that was shining stars. Uh, the new assistant principal for Kirk was announced. Uh, that's Nick Balserk. Uh, he there were a number of candidates that were interviewed. He previously had taught at Miner uh, for a number of years when before the program change and minor was u high school and transition students. uh he was a recent administration intern at Miner uh through Concordia College. So he starts on July 1st. Uh then uh there was a the superintendence report. Uh the uh Dr. Schnore went through a number of recent activities and upcoming activities. There's a
027Timber Ridge movie night. The Kirk Prom is coming up. Uh there's uh something that NSSO has done um the last several years called the Kirk Market. Uh the high school and transition students have um like micro businesses that they, you know, create products. And so they now they do this market every year and people can come and take a look and purchase the different products that they have. So that's at Kirk um on May 17th from 9 to noon. Um yes and uh there was a summary open to anyone like anybody can just go. Yeah. So, uh, and then, uh, Dr. Schnor kind of did a summary of where things are with the strategic plan. I think we're down to um determining uh the timing between the and you might remember that I was talking
028about the and I will update you Tracy more and I'm sure Don has too about what uh what's happening with this strategic plan for NSSO. Anyway, uh the point that we're at now, uh we have through the whole interview process and and talking to the different stakeholders, uh we will have a what for now is being called an administrative group that consists of the superintendent and then the governing board. And the idea is to bring uh issues to the superintendent and then it will go to the member boards and then that their representative will bring the consensus to the NSSO governing board. Did I explain that? Yeah, it's exactly right. Okay. Uh so that's where things are now. Um they're working on the the scheduling of these meetings because this is a shift in how
029we've been doing it and you know the timing is going to be a little tricky for a while I think until things shake out because you we're going to have to issues will have to come forward earlier so that that process can be uh let's see because that could end up being a few months right to start with the I think I think once once we kind of get used to it I I don't think It'll be that right. It's it's different. I mean, we do that internally where we'll have our meeting about July board meeting items that we're prepping for. So, we actually have our our next superintendent meeting is May 19th and there we are discussing items for the July NSSO board meeting. June. No, July. So, we're Oh, you're right. There's not
030usually one in July. So, then August. Yeah. Okay. So we're we're in the process now of making sure that the items that are going to be presented there have enough time to go to be vetted by the governing board, come back to member districts and then come back. So most of the time uh those items that are voted on are uh known well in advance and if there was an emergency situation that's obviously a an exception to the rule. But for the most part, those budget items, personnel, staffing, facilities, planning, those kinds of things, you at least have a regular cadence on. So, it's just about trying to engage in that conversation sooner. Okay. Then uh human resources uh let's see the board approved a salary increase for clerical staff bus drivers and food service
031in line with uh the agreement the for certified staff which at this point is 3.75%. Uh the board approved um a dollar amount uh just over $57,000 uh for uh salary increases for administrative staff and that is Dr. Schnore is directed to that amount is also equal to the 37 or 3.75% uh increase that the certified staff got and then Dr. Schnore will disperse it in whatever manner she feels appropriate. Uh the board also approved a contract with a company called Sunburst Workforce Advisors. This this is a company that uh serves kind of as a single point of contact uh for the various agencies. I mean, NSSO deals with dozens and dozens of um uh contracting agencies for uh OT's and PTs and nurses and all that kind of stuff. Rather than go to each
032of these individual companies, uh they will work through this sunburst um company and the there is no cost to NSSO. request is um um made by u the agencies, the various agencies. Uh and another uh plus in dealing with this is that often when you're dealing with uh contracting agencies, there's a like an um the employee has to sign I don't remember what you call it where you cannot you cannot take a permanent job with that company. So that won't apply to this situation. So um you know if if NSSO gets a good employee from through this process then and that employee wants to have a job and there's an availability then there's no penalty to assist. All right. Um then Gavin did an update on the Kirk HVAC project project. Uh it's already in
033the works. uh as much as they can around the students. Uh they were delaying doing a lot of it because you know many of these students are they are fragile and can't you know if they're if the heat's off and it's a cold day it you know they can't regulate so they had to delay a lot of that stuff. Um so they are working with Archon and uh there are weekly meetings now that are you know going through what needs to be done and just it it seems to be on track. So but the schedule is very tight. Uh and then the last thing was um NSSO has a few new board members and we need to elect officers and there's a nominating committee and I am part of that nominating committee. We will the
034next meeting will elect officers for the governing board. And are you running? No. Is this Robert still president? I he he wants to continue. So, but there are others. So, we'll be able to work that out. Thank you, Carol. That was great. All right. Next thing is the consent agenda. Um, which we have the person Yeah, it's just the personnel report. We are um we have two vacancies yet to fill. We're interviewing one candidate tomorrow and then Chris and Dominique have been busy screening uh for a hopefully final position. Yeah. So presented tonight are those and then the contracts are here in the signature file. Can I get a motion for the person for the consent agenda? I move to approve the purchase of I guess consent. You know, thank you. Sorry about that. We're
035trying to speak. I will move to approve the agenda. To approve the consent agenda. Thank you. Can I get a second? Can I get a roll call, please? Approve. Yeah. Mrs. Morsy, approve. Mrs. Bowwinsky. Yes. Mr. Yes. Dr. Long. Yes. Mrs. Mlan. Yes. Mr. Nordmire. Of course. Mrs. Peters. Yes. Motion pass 70. There's still a lot. All right. Next up is the superintendence report. So, we have a number of action items that are included in the packet. all of which we have uh or almost all of which we have discussed at length. The bill payment resolution is an annual resolution that allows the board uh the district to pay certain bills prior to board action via the uh process of board member review. I move to approve Oh my gosh. Sorry. I'll second that. I
036didn't finish normally. Make a motion. I get it. I get it. I move to approve. Do you? Yeah. The bill payment resolution as presented. Second. Moved by Tracy, seconded by Bren. Can I get a roll call, please? Mrs. Morris. Yes, it is. You have to do you do. But Brian's gonna start [Laughter] Mrs. Marcy. Oh, approve. Yes. Mrs. Bwinsky. Yes. Mr. Gatis. Yes. Dr. Long. Mrs. Mlan. Yes. Mr. Nordmark. Yes. Mrs. Peters. Yeah. Motion passes 70. The next item is also an action item. It's the approval of the uh PHA negotiated and board approved stipens for next school year. Uh there is a zero per 0% increase as negotiated. Uh but we are excited to um continue to collaborate with PHEA to kind of shuffle around some of the activities. We will be offering a
037fitness club experience at Eisenhower. Oh, that's uh next year. that's the the groups that have the fewest extracurricular opportunities. So, we wanted to serve serve some of that. Uh looking at shifting a couple of other activities around and offering some new experiences at MacArthur as well. This is part of our ongoing equity work. Uh we're looking next year to provide a speech club, an esports club, and a soccer club. So, uh, some new opportunities and really thank PHEA for working to shuffle some of those things around and keep keep our kids as engaged as possible. Something really cool about that, Don, that like I don't think the rest of you, like Carol and I were at the equity meeting. Um, they talked about they did a survey of the like it's a really low percentage
038of kids less than 20% less than 20% of math students that aren't involved in anything at all. And then they really like targeted like how do we get that 20% that is doing nothing at MAC engaged which is where they came up with the like esports club and like the different things and the speech club and I'm just really looking at like okay so like over 86% of our kids do something and so then how do we get that little group of kids that do one thing? They were talking about knitting. Oh yeah, there was a knitting like the knitting club and the swifty club were the two biggest. Those were new in the last two years. Yeah. So it was really cool. All right. Can I get a motion for the stipens? I move
039to approve the 2025 26 stipens as presented. Um, moved by Tracy, second by Spencer. Can I get a roll call, please? Mrs. Morsy, yes. Mrs. Bowwinsky, yes. Mr. Gdan, yes. Dr. Long, yes. Mrs. Mlan, yes. Mr. Nordmark, yes. Mrs. Peters, yes. Motion passed 70. I can't look over there. The next item is also an action item. This is a resolution that uh was drafted collaboratively among all of the member districts. Um in some way, shape or form. Uh the superintendent group has supported bringing these resolutions forward being acted on officially by some boards uh this week and others potentially in in the next few. Uh this is just a resolution that sort of reaffirms as Carol had shared that the board representatives who serve at uh on the NSSEO board are there as a representative
040of their uh the member districts um and not there as an independent uh voice. So it reinforces the sense that any one individual doesn't obligate the packet of party. This was something that we don't need, right? And I'm happy it's a packet of party. This was something that we don't need, right? And I'm happy to to to approve it or whatever, but that that that our representative from NSSO does a really great job and absolutely. Thank you for everything you've done for that. Yeah. And I mean, it's an extra meeting that she goes to other. Can I get a motion? I move to approve the mot the resolution as presented. A second. Clear. U moved by Tracy, second by Brian. Uh, can I get a roll call, please? Mrs. Morsy, yes. Mrs. Bowwinsky, yes. Mr.
041Gordon, yes. Dr. Long, yes. Mrs. Mlan, yes. Mr. Nordmire, yes. Mrs. Peters, yes. Motion passes 70. Next agenda item is an action item. This is our directive vote for approval of the NSSO budget that was brought to the full board. um last month for in draft view. There have been no changes to that budget as presented. I does anybody have any questions or can I get a motion? It's motion time. Yep. I move to direct Carol, our board representative, to vote in support of the NSSO budget as presented. Can I get a second? So I do. Um, moved by Tracy, second by Brian. Roll call, please. Mrs. Morsey. Yeah. Uh, yes. Approved. Mrs. Bowwinsky? Yes. Mr. Berdan? Yes. Dr. Law? Yes. Mrs. Mlan? Yes. Mr. Normar? Yes. Mrs. Peters? Yes. Motion carries 70. Uh, the
042next item is also an action item. This is uh our response uh to the land swap agreement with Arlington Heights Park District. Uh the community may not be aware that one of the pieces of property in well the only really exterior piece of property that the district uh currently owns is actually Carousel Park in Arlington Heights. And as we've had discussions with the park district, um the Patriot Park uh is the same valuation and the same size and um we have agreed to uh swap ownership so that uh at some point in the future uh Patriot Park uh being a more suitable spot for any kind of expansion would be in the district's portfolio whereas CA carousel park really would not be something that we would um see as really feasible to build upon. So
043we will uh take action here uh send our resolution to the Arlington Heights Park District. They will are are slated to take action in their board meeting next week. Um and then following that we would uh execute a memorandum understanding about our continued relationship for supporting their park programs and their upkeep and maintenance of the facilities at trade park as well. Okay. So so they're going to keep maintaining the field and the mowing there for for now. Okay. Y is there anything like legally that we should have a concern of that. Yeah. No, this is this is the legal we have to resolve to swap before that transaction happens. We will do an environmental study on our property to make sure it's copacetic. They will do one at Patriot Park to make sure it's copacetic.
044And then we will have an exchange of titles and then you'll vote on the memorandum. understanding that'll come forward again probably in July maybe August. Okay. Yeah. An intergovernmental agreement. Yeah. Okay. But then so so theoue is for the transfer and then the IGA is for them for them continuing to maintain. Yeah. The resolution is for the land swap. Yeah. Because there's no money exchange. The valuation is equal. So we don't need to doesn't cost us anything. Doesn't cost them anything to do the exchange. One question that followers um are not as familiar with it as the but how does that since it's the same square footage essentially of property of both how does that affect our tax our tax base doesn't because they're both the the Patriot Park property and carousel are both within
045our district boundaries. It's just who the ownership of the of the spot of the land hasn't decreased. Maybe nothing we have to change on the insurance. No, we confirmed. And I think Tracy, one of the things is like they were like the value of them were the exact same. The size of them were the exact same. Like it was like a very clear even swap between the two. Yeah. And the legislation is set up so that that that is an option for two independent taxing bodies to take advantage of that swap provided that it the parcel that we would be looking to exchange is not something that we would have an immediate use for. So that's it's a great opportunity for us. And in the resolution, we have agreed to a two-year notification window, which
046is fine for us that if we were going to ever do anything different at Patriot Park, we would have to give the art the park district at minimum a two-year notice. So, that's certainly something we can move with. Move to approve the landlaw park district. Second. Moved by Tracy, second by Bren. Can I get a roll call, please? Mrs. Morsy, yes. Mrs. Binsky, yes. Mr. Gdonis, yes. Dr. Long, yes. Mrs. Mlan, yes. Mr. Nordmar, yes. Mrs. Peters, yes. Motion carries 70. The next item is also an action item. This is approval of the LVS cabling project between uh MacArthur and Grodsky. This is one of the tech priorities that were shared at uh finance and buildings and sites. Uh this first uh work, this first project I should say is presented tonight. Uh we anticipate
047bringing uh action in June for the other two projects. Any questions? Right. Can I get a motion? motion to approve the creation of Low Voltage Solutions Incorporated in an amount not to exceed $150,000 US for cabling work at both MacArthur Middle School and the Groski Administration building. Can I get a second? Second. Moved by Tracy, second by Brian. Can I get a roll call, please? Mrs. Morsy, yes. Mrs. Bowwinsky, yes. Mr. Gdonis, yes. Dr. Long, yes. Mrs. McClaney, yes. Mr. Nord, C. This is Peter. Motion carries 70. The next item is a an information item. Um, two times each year. Uh, our we give a a program update sort of middle of the year. Typically, we'll give kind of a here's what's going on across the district in our instructional program, in our professional development,
048in our uh multilingual, our student services department, and um with any of our committee work and and tech projects as well. Uh and then toward the end of the year, we do another recap with just a kind of a summary of some of those items. I want to thank Dr. Sroa and Dr. Curtis, Dominique Guza, and Mr. Alms for their work uh not only preparing the memo of course but uh throughout the year uh leading such fantastic programs and um we will also include a link to that summary in the school scene kind of see uh the summary of a lot of really good work that's happened this year. Are we changing kind of what you're doing for Strive and MacArthur as of right now? Sort of just because of our low numbers. Lower numbers.
049Yes. Because the amount of students going over um isn't as high as we expected. So, we're still going to host the program because there are students in the program. But um Mrs. Peterson is transferring that work back over to MacArthur where she started her career here in district 23, right? And um she'll support the strive students, but she'll also support um a few other students as well that have IEPs and require special ed services. Okay. So that'll just be for the year and then it'll continue to grow as the kids metriculate up. Have a full class next year at Sullivan. So we are anticipating that it'll start out. And then who will be the primary for the Sullivan class? Um, we're in the process of interviewing tomorrow. Someone is interviewing with Dr. Angelio tomorrow. So
050hopefully by 9:30 tomorrow morning, I'll have an answer. But fingers crossed. Yeah. So yeah. Okay. So So Katrina will be kind of split between the Strive classroom and then Yeah. a small group of resource students. So yeah. Okay. I love like having it all like just to see all the the good work that's been done and I know it's just six pages but so there's probably stuff that's not even on here but it's cool to see uh you know okay the next item is also an information item and this again from Dr. Troa Dr. Curtis and Miss Guza. Uh just an overview of the summer ESY programs. Chris, you want to give any I know we've got a again another robust program for our ESY that's going to be Yep. at Eisenhower um in June.
051Our last day will be July 3rd. Um so Mr. Graphman um he's been the ESY coordinator for the last several years. So he'll be there running that. Um and then go ahead. Um summer reading in the park program we're going to be running again this year um is over at John park. Um I know Carol's come in the past, but if any of you want to stop by, you're more than welcome to join us. It's Monday and Wednesday from 1 to 2. Um usually the the kids sit together, a couple of teachers join and read to the kids. They have a little snack. Um and then one of the two days, um Alice from the Prospect Heights Public Library joins as well, and kids are able to check out a book, and then they bring
052it back the following week. Um, so that's that's always a fun time. Um, and then also, um, the other thing that we have this summer for staff for professional development, uh, coming back, returning this year is poolside PD, um, which is basically they can do, um, asynchronous learning while they're enjoying their summer. Um, a few things this year kind of piggybacking on work we're going to do next year, but that we've also started this year. Um, we have a book study to go along um with our grading and assessment work that we started this past year and are going to be continuing for a couple more years. Um, uh, it also the book that we're going to be using for that is Tony Frontier who we're going to be partnering with next year um, as
053well. And then um, also some of our math committee work. We're going to be uh, having a bunch of sessions around everything we did this year in the math committee. start working on some of those strategies. New business. Is there an old? No, cuz there's no old cuz we're a brand new fort. Oh, duh. Yeah. Sorry. This is our first fort. I'm sorry. I just have one really quick question because what I get asked about most by anybody in the community is what's is the status of the lights out in the field. Oh. Is everything cool with the with with with getting the lights out there, the baseball field? Yeah, they haven't moved forward with Okay. So, so we're just waiting on them still. They are. Okay. Yeah, we haven't had any further. We would
054bring that to buildings and sites next. But yeah, I mean they they got the approval to proceed on a couple of different things, right? on the scoreboard on the running the electrical out to the shed, but they have not they um they ended up having to move a box um right outside, but but that electrical work has not taken place yet. We don't we don't know that ref has a time frame. Um in all honesty, it was held the permitting was held up a little bit by uh by the city of Prospect Height. So, I don't even know if that has wrapped up, but that's where it was last living. Okay. Thank you. All right. Can I get a motion to I motion to second? Second. All in favor? I'm uh we