001Chris, we're ready. >> Yep. I'm rolling it. >> We're good. >> Good evening. I call to order the board of education meeting for night school district 23 for April 9th 2026 at 7:01 p.m. Please Mrs. here. >> Dr. Long >> here >> we have some new business tonight that was announced in February come and we were able to um interview them at a special meeting. Um, and so tonight we have a candidate in front of us that we have to appoint to remot Yes, >> Mrs. Mrs. Morris. >> Yes. >> Sorry, I didn't All right. So Zara, if you'd like to come >> and do the oath together, we're saying it together. Okay. I doly swear that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the member of the board of education high
002school district in theit of the United States of the state of Illinois and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of my ability. I further shall respect sorry taxpayers interest by serving as a faithful protector. school district. I shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others before the boarding privacy of students and employees. I shall recognize that a board member at a public board meeting. I shall abide by majority of the board to seek as part of education. I shall accept that responsibility for my equable student goals, define outcomes and set up the course for prospect school district. I shall assist in establishing a structure and an environment designed designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential sound organizational
003framework. strive to ensure a continuous assessment of student achievement all conditions affecting the education of our children in compiance with state law. I shall serve as education's key advocate on behalf of students and our community schools to advance to the vision for prospect school district 23 and I shall strive to work together with the district representative to school district are citizenship and personal development. >> That was the aid version. >> That was the aged version. All right. So, now we will >> Yeah, we have our pledge of allegiance tonight, which will be led by representatives from the Betsy Ross Bulldog Ambassadors as we're here today for the Betsy Ross school improvement presentation. We'll ask our students to come forward, lead us in the pledge. Um, we will then ask them some questions, and uh at
004the end of that, we'll have the students stay right here in front or the board members kind of stand in the back, and And then we'll have a real nice photo op for those that might be interested in taking some pictures. To the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> So boys and girls thank you so much for being here. I know it was Was it scary driving in the rain? You You were able to make it through. You're okay. >> You guys all drove here. >> Lices now. >> So, they this group of leaders actually brought some things to share with us to explain. They brought some some of the things that they've been working on.
005So, can we start down here? Would you just tell us your name and your the grade you're in first and we'll just go all the way down the line. Thank you again for being here. Who can tell us what Bulldog ambassadors are? classes. >> So, how did you get to do this job? >> Um, when we were getting picked, we had to write a paper about why we would be a good investor and then we would present them and then everyone would um vote for who they wanted and the person with the most votes in. >> Got it. >> So, what are some things that Bulldog Ambassadors >> are like these little pieces of paper that we give out and then >> Why do you get them? What kind of stuff can you buy with
006these bulldogs? >> We have a trading like a traditional Trading cards of your teachers. Those are pretty cool. I've seen a couple of those. Those are pretty cool. >> We have a bulldog trading menu for the month and it changes every month and you can trade them in at the end. >> That's awesome. One of the coolest things I know about the investors that I don't know if everybody knows when do you guys meet? >> We meet one Friday, >> but like when is the meeting? Like what are you like? Do you meet during math class? >> No. >> When do you meet? >> You give up your lunch and recess to be an ambassador. That's one of my favorite things. >> Yeah, I like doing it because I think being an ambassador is even
007more fun. >> Wow, that's amazing. I see you holding something here with that looks like a long length of things. Can you tell us what you brought to show us? What is that? >> What was that about? >> Awesome. What are some of the things on my You guys have some other things in your hands. What do you have in your hand? This is our recess over some people um with the schedule there's like two ambassadors like each day and they wear these special vests and yeah and see who don't have anyone to play with or they're staying on the bench. And this is so >> How many of you third graders were ambassadors last year? Anybody? >> All new this year. >> Awesome. And if you're in second grade, are you wanting maybe to
008be an ambassador next year? >> You know, they have something similar at Sullivan, too. They have a Sullivan ambassadors program. So maybe for third graders next year, you can keep being good leaders. That would be amazing. Do you have anybody that helps you as this group? Do you have any adults that help? Who else? >> And Miss um Missing. >> I really thank you guys for coming out tonight. It is a rainy yucky night, but This is really cool that you guys came here and shared with us all the cool stuff you're doing and one day maybe you'll get to be a leader like everybody else tomorrow. I heard from somebody at my house that they're allowed to bring lemonade tomorrow. Is that true? >> No, we're allowed to bring a special juice. >> Oh,
009a special juice. We have backups. >> Okay. Just checking because I want to make sure before I because they all went in the refrigerator before I left the house if they were allowed to come tomorrow or not. The lemonades. >> Very good. >> Well, thank you so much for being here. if you would do one more thing for us. If you all would line up right here in the front and turn around and face your friends in the audience and then if we have our board members kind of stand in our four here. We'll have a real nice photo op for anybody who know Slide to the left. Slide to the right. >> Are we in the right place? Are the adults doing what you need us to do? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Ready?
010>> On the count of three, say bulldogs. Good. That was a good practice. >> You guys got to get to three. I want you to say it just like that. You follow Miss Gage's lead. Count it. Ready? One, two, three. >> Freeze for a second. >> They didn't want They didn't want the shine. They didn't want the shine. >> Shiny spot. >> Your hair was I hear that a lot. >> All right. >> Release them. Can we just say parents, um, we cannot begin to thank you enough for everything that you do. You allow us to use your child in the best to bring out those leadership skills. Um, they are one of our extraordinary groups of leaders. They come up with a lot of ideas on their own. So, thank you for trusting us.
011Thank you for allowing them to spend time with us during their lunch and their recess. So, and thank you for their emails. We come back and forth with you. So, students, we have some certificates to share with you from the board of education. So, we'll get some help calling out your names. We want to say thank you for everything you do. Good job, guys. right? Should I take this bananas? Thank you everybody. Boys and girls, you can go home, find your pajamas, find your stuffed animal. We have a popcorn to drink and we'll be ready tomorrow. Yes. coming out. Sometimes >> we'll fix that. Thank you. In all serious teacher discretion, she gave us some power. Thank you. All right. The board wishes to conduct a public hearing to review and discuss the adoption of
012our e-learning plan as permitted by the Illinois State Board of Education. May I have a motion to open the e-learning hearing? moved by Zara. Do I have a second? >> I actually heard Zara and first everyone >> by Spencer first by Can I get a voice, please? >> All in favor? >> Any oppos? Okay. >> So, one of the components that developed uh during the co era was the opportunity for e-learning and the development of e-learning plans. They're often misunderstood as electronic learning, e-learning, but it actually stands for e as an emergency learning. Those are intended to be days where we are able to maintain instruction uh albeit through different models modes um without needing to close the school. So it can be used in the case of inclement weather. It can be used in
013the case of a power outage. It can be used really in in any case of an emergency where um the plan would fit. In order for it to be approved, it has to be developed in conjunction with the union. uh we have to have a hearing which we're in now and then it's adopted and reviewed every three years and then formally put on file with so we have had um our initial emergency plan we adopted a three-year uh e-learning plan that is now expiring and so Dr. Curtis led the conversations with our with our BHEA and the review and revision of the e-learning plan and shared in the packet for me. >> Any public All right. I have a motion to close the e-learning hearing. Do I have a second? >> Moved by Zara, second
014by Tracy. I can get an all in favor. Any opposed? Motion carries. And this plan will be um presented as an action item a little bit later tonight where we'll vote to actually approve it. Then we'll take action to approve the plan in just a few minutes. First, >> at each regular and special open meeting, members of the public and district employees may comment on or ask questions of the board of education. If you would like to address the board, please complete a pink form. Mrs. We will move on to communication. >> We saved the best for last. Our fourth in our series of school improvement presentations as we travel from each school each year. We do rotate the order because all of our schools are awesome, but uh Betsy Ross is here tonight to
015present their work as a culmination of the school improvement goals. So, welcome to Miss Gage and the school improvement team, team leaders. I know they'll introduce themselves. They have a presentation that they'll walk us through. Are we standing? Welcome to excited to share some of the good things that we are doing here at school. I will start off with some of the introductions. Do you guys want to introduce yourself? I'm social and I also for related services and the support team. I'm Lisa Ramcraft. I am second grade teacher at Ross and one of the team leaders for second grade teacher. >> I'm Katie Lsy and I'm part of the district. >> Hi everyone. I'm Kaitlyn. I'm a third grade bilingual teacher and Everybody pleasers. >> We're started with our mission and mission on the screen.
016So our mission statement says it is mission of school district 23 to engage all students in experiences that inspire each to grow as a learner, individual and a community member. And our vision statement is to engage all students in experiences that inspire each to grow as learners, individuals, and community members. student success and second grade. In the beginning of the school year, second graders come in reviewing first grade skills. By the end of second grade, they have bridged that gap between highly guided learning critical thinking. required for some examples are they come in a lot of phonics in the beginning and then science they start with more observations in third grade to share some of the major points. Um, back in December, students had completed their second round of um, ready testing. Um, and after
017the data from the diagnostic um, nearly um, all students are on track to get their end of the year and a lot of students are even growing up soon. Um, also not on our slides, but um, very recent third grade actually this week is and as a third grader with it being their first year, it can be very overwhelming and intimidating, but we've really seen a lot of perseverance and growth mindset from students as they're coming in and taking a different session of the test. Um, so also highlights. Um, in terms of writing projects, um, we have a wide variety of projects throughout the year. Right now, a great family and community involvement project would be our biographies over spring break and a couple weeks prior time to interview a family member near. It can
018be a video call. It can be a phone call. It can be inerson interview. And students have really had a great time connecting with family members that maybe they haven't heard from or had a chance to get to know their life story. um and they take all of their research and cond um also as you can see with being in the library, Battle of the Books is a huge highlight for third grade. Um they get so excited about it. Um Mrs. Strong does an amazing job accommodating and making sure the battle really is accessible for all learners, especially like our multilingual students, um students from the everyone gets to participate and they are always so excited about it. They're they're begging to go to open checkout every day. Um they earn brag tags. A lot
019of students are very eager to go above and beyond the required amount to help out their team and really step it up and read almost the entire list for some students and that can be up to 20 books. So we're very proud of them with that as well. Um really a highlight with their reading stamina, comprehension. Um they get instant feedback on the quizzes. So it's a lot of great motivation. um to get them uh excited for even the next book. When can I go back to the library? When can I go back? So, that's been awesome as well. Um and just in general around the building, we do have a lot of collaboration um with students, especially with like intervention and resource teachers, um even students who may come into third grade a little
020bit more reluctant, really build their confidence, and are excited to share their reading skills with other students, read to other students, and work with other staff members in the building. So, we're very excited to see what what goes down with the battles very soon. So, we have a lot of behavioral and social emotional successes as well. Um, you guys have a preview of what our ambassadors are. So, that's always something really fun that we have. We also have some clubs. We have third grade inter murals campus cleanup and I believe this school has that. Um, play is something newer. club. Um the ambassadors lead the first grade tour which is um on the same day as the eighth grade graduation and that celebration. So that's always really fun. Um our ambassadors have the chance to
021talk to the first graders coming in and tell them all about how Betsy Ross is just to get them excited for that transition because it can be really hard to transition into a new school. So it's always really fun. I'm circle back to the golden ticket. have a new student lunch at the beginning of the year um where we have new students to the district come and meet Miss Gage psychologist her instructional coach and myself and we get to know them and we help them feel comfortable and acclimated to our setting here and it's always really fun to get to know the students um we have PBIS assemblies um which are really fun this past week um we actually had some kids um buy a time to be a leader at the assembly So with
022their Bulldog Bucks, they got to um do a role play. They got to read off some really good scenarios and just be leaders in front of 300 other kids, which was amazing. They did a really good job and it was really special to see that kids wanted to step out and lead and it was children outside of our ambassador. So it was really fun to see them do that. They did a great job. Um outside of my office, we have a regulation board that is used by a lot of in our school. And this is a board that just shows pictures of some strategies kids can use um when they need to regulate. We see a lot of students um who are now independent coming with a timer and some crayons and they use they
023color and then they do some walls or wall push-ups. So they're using that little brain break to help their body so they can go back to class and be ready to learn. So that's been something fun. There are some adults that also go there and help the children which is fun. Um the bulldog redemption ambassadors talked about that a little bit. We do have some fun ideas. The kids really like seeing our mascot. So when the bulldog shows his face to the students, they are always willing to give him lots of hugs and high fives. So that's a big thing at Betsy Ross. Um something new across the district for our SP department. Um we are incorporating more student voice in meetings and 504 meetings. So that's been really talk with students who have those
024supports um on what their strengths and challenges are and then share those with families. Um and recently we have as a school we've been sending out some thank yous to the parents who participate in those meetings just to welcome them and have them feel more part of the team. It can be very hard to sit in those meetings talking about really hard things that are going on also very good things but we want them to feel super welcome here as well. And then we've also had a VIP lunch where kids could fashion their bullseye and they could set up a special table and have some fun bling around and play some music and just have their the paparazzi come and take their pictures. So that's been really fun. And then one thing that has been
025a huge hit this year is the golden tickets. So I actually have some examples of some golden tickets which I wanted to We have some administrators um who have been very generous with their time and they have become Bulldog buddy mentors. Um so I'm gonna pass them out. So what these the golden tickets are, sorry to embarrass you guys. Um but these tickets um are for when you go above and beyond and you show respectful, responsible behavior. And so I'm going to give them to Dr. A because he is one of our mentors for our students. So you can read it later. There's a little message on the back. Dr. Curtis. So, thank you guys so much for your time. Dr. Sroa, of course, Mr. MS, he is a really fun student as well. >>
026And then, thank you so much for your time. We really appreciate how you guys come together and help support us, our students to be successful. We'll come and take your picture so you can Now I'm gonna talk about our ready data. So this is our benchmarking that we do three times a year in the fall, the winter, and the spring. So I'm going to review our fall data, but um as Caitlyn spoke about a little earlier, we'll get ready to do the spring one pretty soon as well. So the first slide just shows the meaning of the red, yellow, and green that you'll see on the next few slides. So in the fall, the green represents students that are above average. they've mastered the beginning level skills they need for the grade they're in and
027maybe have some mid to end of year skills as well. Uh the yellow in the fall means that students have their pre their grades from the pre or their skills from the previous grade level and they're ready to learn new skills. So we honestly anticipate a lot of students being yellow in the fall. Um and then red would be below grade level students that have not yet mastered skills from their previous year or may even be two grade levels um behind. Um so this is our overall fall I ready reading data that shows that 85% of RAW students uh are at or above grade level at the time of this assessment. So you can see that most students are in that yellow and even more in the green actually which would be ahead of where
028they need to be. But overall we're looking at the green and yellow. um together which shows 85% and then the red is showing it's pretty small up there but two grade levels below and then the very small one on the far right is three or more grade levels below. So you can see that most of our students are right where they need to be or ahead. Um this is second and third grade separately. So at the beginning of this year, 88% of second graders were at or above grade level and 81% of third graders at or above grade levels. And then this is our math. So we had 85% of students that are at or above grade level. Again, looking at the yellow and the green um much smaller red portion, which is what we
029want to see. And then again, separated. So 87% of second graders were at or above grade level. So you can see a bigger chunk of yellow for these, but again that's where they should be in the fall. That means they have their skills from first grade or from second grade and they're ready to learn new skills. And 81% of third graders were at or above at that time. >> So also going back with our data um we measured basically the fall to the spring because we want to see that growth. I I've taught for 19 years. I can we cannot figure out that dip that happens with that second assessment. But it's just like the kids the content has become a little bit more challenging. It's on grade level. It's newer things because the first
030one is kind of a review of what they had the previous year. So there's always a dip. So as a parent, if you see that dip, don't panic. Like they're going to come back up again. We know that there's that dip and we're coming back up. So don't think that we didn't show that. We were hiding. We're not hiding our data. You guys already seen it. So, we're proud of our kids, though. All right, my turn. Um, teaching, learning, and innovation. We have a dynamic staff here. Um, one of the things that our instructional coaches proposed to Dr. A and to Dr. Curtis last year was gamified PD. Um, professional development. A lot of times you see people, you talked like, but they took our PD to a different right. But not here. Not here.
031Not here. Don't even think about it. You need to come on this side. Um, our PD is gified. So, what we did last year was the entire district, no matter what your role is. We were all brought together, placed on teams, and we compete and do activities together. Not just games. A lot of it is things that we should know about the district. But the strategic plan is created by the admin team, by the board, but it's not just for us. It's for every single person in this district to own. So our PD is gamified. No matter what we do, everybody has an opportunity to earn points. We have one of our point winners sitting here in the back of this poster. If you can see in the lower right hand corner, um she earned
032a parking spot because she was rocking it with her team. And so she had she had a coveted parking spot. She kind of named it again because you know the boot. She loves wearing that boot. Um so you'll see like in some of the pictures are kind of small right now but we get together as a district and that's so important that we see K through eight that band level width across the board and have a chance to talk to each other. We're only second and third grade. After a while we're kind of like we need to reach out to our peers. So we do a lot of together as a group. Um, a lot of fun here. You got to try it. We don't just do emails here. We do. You got to be
033a game of IPD. Um, one of our other things that we're proud of and thank you to our board. Thank you to Amy Mcartland and Dr. Curtis and Dr. A who really pushed us for it. Um, Ross had had a garden the last couple of years and we moved it so that it's kind of central and it's a Ross Sullivan garden now. It doesn't look very pretty right now. a chance because we had to uproot some things. But right now, um, second grade, third grade, what are you guys doing in your classrooms right now to prepare for the garden? >> Depending on if you need to start it in the classroom, some classrooms are right now. >> Thank you. and transfer the plant into the garden. And then some, like myself, since I just told
034you not um you will just put it into the garden. So, it depends on what you're actually growing. Some are starting in the classroom and some will just put it into the garden at that time. >> So, while it looks like just dirt now, the prep work is happening behind the scenes and watch us in the springtime and you'll see a beautiful garden. Thank you, ladies. Um, one of the other things here with teaching and learning is standards based practices. Um, That is a new a newer initiative that we started last year. Um project Dr. Pis hats off to you for it. It's not an easy task. It means for us um unlearning some of the things that we have done as teachers um so that we can be better with our students so that
035we can be more transparent with our students with our families. when my mother was a saber of reporting. So I report cards back. It may say A, B, or C, whatever. But if you were to ask me what did I learn in second grade and to get that A and then B, I could not tell you because it's not listed anymore. I know there standards based practices is a lot different like we will tell you the standards and tell you is your child working on engineering, is your child working on mathematics? What measurement what is. So it's a different approach to how we're doing grading, how we're doing communication to our students, how we're doing feedback so that we can have more of an explanation to our parents and to help our students just to
036learn that feedback and help them grow and give them a little bit more ownership in their education. It's not being given to them and being done to them, but they are in it. They're owning it and they're living it. talking about family and community partnership um at Betsy R schools within the district. We feel that the connection between family and school is very important. Some things that we have um is meet the teacher before school starts. Kids can come in, drop off their things, meet the teacher. There was like some playing on the playground so they can meet each other. We have curriculum night. go over what we will be how the classrooms are run and basic ideas of the curriculum that we'll be covering. Um, AIC is art volunteer in the classroom. Um, so
037we have parents come in once a month and teach about a artist and the kids ab my kids absolutely love it every single year. It is so fun to just have a parent come in and sometimes parents get a little nervous. They do a wonderful job. They have everything they need right there. Um we did have grade level musicals. So Mrs. Lure had um she has the second grade they put on a performance. Third grade I know fourth and fifth also does the same. Uh we had an African storyteller come in which was fantastic. Kids really liked it. heritage night was recently. I think it was okay. So, just have that. We did have Irish dancers come in for um just to show us some of their fun moves and we have Mr. once or
038twice a month. Um some other things we did have the fire department. They came and they talked to us. They showed the kids all their gear that they wear, why they wear it, talked about basic fire. We the fire trucks classroom parties and PTO volunteers. Honestly, without some of these parents, we really couldn't do it. It really does make a difference having parents coming in and they do everything for the parties. So, it's it's nice because the teachers can actually enjoy their kids and have fun with them. So, it's really great. Um, communication with families through Seesaw. Most of the um teachers at Ross I believe do use seed to get communication with parents. Um Al was right around the holidays where people within the district went out and gave like little treats to the
039kids and let them know what time they'd be going there. Um the ambassador fundraiser which is going to be We have a fundraiser coming up. We know we do >> ideas class. They did a food collection for second grade and then um May 26 we are doing um Ross. Yes. So the famous ice cream scoopers we're all going to be there. Make sure that you go May 26. I believe Sullivan and Ike are May 16th if I'm not mistaken. So May 6. >> May 6th I'm sorry. So, make sure that you go to Cap's Ice Cream. It used to be Caparies, but we're going to have famous here from 3 to 9. So, we'll see you there. All right. My turn again. One more time. Financial um facilities and financial management. We've had a lot
040happening throughout the district this year. Um we cannot even begin to thank our um Amy Heartland for everything she does and Gonzalez and his team. Um we make sure that we do our part by doing some campus clean up. It can't all be done by our custodians. So, again, we have our We have the benefit of having one to one devices, but we really want to stress to our parents when we have holidays, we want those devices removed and we take them and we don't have kids have their devices over the break. Um, I don't email teachers over break because we all need that device break at that time. So, it's we're not trying to take away something from the kids and not let them have fun, but we want just separate from technology for
041just a little bit. When you came through the was kind of neat because I was like project and I was like no I need to see what's happening. So at 3:00 for the last few days um Chris um has worked with his team and we're having some cabling issue to make the system better. Right. >> Comes with free HBO. >> Oh sorry different type of cable. No network cable. >> We have our students who are helping us just to keep the community campus safe. Our ambassadors um just by cleaning up and my goodness I am an English major and look at that after we clean up after >> in case In case they can't see >> what the next one, um, this is just our ambassadors at the beginning of the year. Again, we truly
042enjoy them. Um, they are a dynamic group of leaders. And then on the other side is the dynamic team that I have the honor of leading with and growing with and we have been through a lot together in the last three years. I am so proud to be able to work alongside each and every one of you. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you Link who is a new psychologist this year in case you have not met her. She is outstanding. Thank you Miss as well. >> Questions or comments from the board? question about the newcomer lunch. So we get students probably new students coming in throughout the years. >> We are working on it. Um thank you for bringing that up. Um typically um I will go and introduce myself and talk with them.
043But that's something that we've been talking about having the ambassadors or having another group of student leaders help us with that. So that's definitely something that we and make sure that we're coming into the year with them. But it would be there's lots of ideas floating out there. So we're working on it. Currently what we have students do when a new child comes in takes care of them in the new teacher and the teacher sends down and the kids welcome and parents are petrified school. And they do come in and they teach and show them how I will say that you guys do a great job. You know, it starts you guys do a great job at missing our community not just within us but partnering with Eisenhower. You guys love it. You guys work
044really hard, you know, using as a school identity, but then extending that to the other schools and just a nice question. So, when you talk about the data, you're you're saying that over 80% of your students are coming in grade level. What's the attition like of that learning? So if I take a second at the end of last year, are they at the 80s? Are they 90s? >> That's a good question. That's something Dr. child's here. >> It would be Yeah, he's he's in third grade. >> But um but it's just an interesting thing because you always think like summer is so important for kids, but what are they what is that? >> What are the tradeoffs? So just be cool because you have so much data in >> that's what I do for work.
045So love it. You do see the transition because they're different assessment criterion. It's really what does grade level mean in first grade? >> What does grade level mean in second, which when they join us in second grade, it means a good amount of first grade, but then they are also testing for se second grade. And so that's why we're not surprised when we see not yet. That's where most kids should be. We haven't experienced second grade yet. So then when you look at that spring fall to spring is where you really see that growth and that dip is natural for many grade levels as they start the year with more refresher kind of repeat reinforcement. Then you jump into the new content and that's when everyone's like wait this is I've never done this before.
046And then as they have that practice by the end of the year they're showing more mastery. I'm just wonder >> you don't have to answer. I'm just >> over 20 minutes a day. to the math. I just think there's so much data that historically in education has not been available >> great thank you guys for coming >> thank you for standing outside and welcoming our children in the crazy uh bus line every morning as those second graders are learning how to get out of the car on their own and get up there and Just like we told the kids, you don't have to stay. >> More than welcome. Go home and get your popcorn ready, your jammies ready, our drink ready. >> Lemonade. >> His teacher teaching Oh, yeah. All right. >> I do have
047just a handful of other quick uh communication updates. Uh the superintendent profile survey is ready to launch. will launch it tomorrow for the broad broader community for staff and then Spencer will conduct uh or participate in some focus groups discussions and this really is to help build the profile of the preferred uh mindset characteristics style approach that the different stakeholder groups feel are important in the next superintendent. So that will begin here in April through May. And then we'll have board discussions in June and July to gather your uh input and feedback into that as you review that data as well. And then that'll inform the board's next steps for the fall. Uh at the end of this month uh April the 1st, I'm sorry, April 30th and May 1st, uh we are joining the
048PTO to celebrate teacher appreciation week. We appreciate all of our staff um with a we have a coffee truck coming and so Eisenhower will be the morning of April 30th and then the truck will be here on this campus at Ross Sullivan first and then over at MacArthur. uh teachers and staff will pre-order um and then any board members who are available to help uh will join members of the admin team and representatives from the PTO to deliver those to classrooms to thank our teachers, staff, ESPs for all the amazing work they do. So that's the that's flyer that's in the board packet. Uh just Save the date. You are all invited to participate in our annual retirement recognition celebration. This will take place on Friday, May the 22nd. It's a lunch celebration. We have
049some think barbecue is on the menu. And then we recognize our retirees as well as 10, 20, 25 years of service. And that also in your packet. And lastly in your packet um is a flyer for D23 Day at the Dogs. Uh we are again participating on Friday, June the 12th. We do this sort of every other year. It's just a fun community event. Uh we don't upcharge on any of the tickets. That's just ticket price. We'll be inviting some students to perform. Um Star Spangled Banner to perform before the game. There's running the bases after the game. Um, so and then all of that registration happens directly online with the Chicago Dogs. So that will also be a flyer that goes out in the school tomorrow. But uh, hard to believe we're already celebrating
050our end of year uh, activities. quite a few of those to come, but wanted to point these out just for your >> calendar. started out. Um gave an update on staffing for his team. Um one of his people gave notice and his last day was about ago. Um so u a couple things. Um another employee Aiden will cover for now and then going forward comparison starting. Um there was uh and this is an action item um classroom orders for furniture and uh there was a review of the summer work that's taking place uh that's scheduled to take place uh is established weekly meeting to kind of keep tabs on what's going on at M and also the same for I see and the current alter We reviewed the proposal for the lift at height. It's
051for um students in a wheelchair for the stairs there. The current one is fairly old and it's broken down quite a bit and quite expensive to will be purchasing and installing a new one and that is an action item for tonight as well. Uh we um talked about uh site visits that Amy and Don were going to have and one of those was today uh at um district in Northbrook that's pretty much doing the same thing that we're doing. Yeah. So um they're just about to start this. >> They start in June July. So you want to share anything >> just that we're looking to gather kind of their experiences, what lessons are they learning, what are they doing? And we asked a series of questions regarding what everything from, you know, how are you
052keeping your board apprised? What are your community updates look like? Um to what are some of the elements in their in their construction plan? So we're just trying to expose uh elves to kind of the other districts that are doing similar projects so that we're learning and then we're kind of sharing our experience with them as well. So it's mutually beneficial. Um the discussion about uh as we do the construction at Mac uh regarding blocks uh we're reviewing the key hierarchy so that we can kind of kind of better organize the block situation and just have it be more standard and as possible. Um then we were talking about um the schedule for replacement of the boilers. The boilers are also aging and um the boilers at there are three boilers at Mac that are
053in need of replacement. One is already kind of failed. So that's an action item tonight. We'll replace the one immediately and then the two others will be replaced as well. And then we look at replacement schedules for other boilers in the district. review the low voltage installation that Chris is managing and that is an action item um another opportunity for a deco grant was identified um through um So that is $100,000 and will be put towards the intercom and the district pickup truck is also older many times and is getting expensive to maintain. So we'll be on the at some point. >> And then um also a roof leak was identified at the sale area. did not meet. Someone was out of town. Someone was sick. >> There you go. Do you want me to
054do a quick of what we read about. >> Sure. Okay. Um, so property tax is always the hot topic, but we are um about 100% adjusted coming in for last year, but it is possibly we'll adjust in some money back from us. So, >> I'm sorry. I'm just I'm a realist, but okay. And our taxes hopefully paid all your taxes everybody from the most recent um April 1 tax bill. And boy, Caroline, it sounds like your identical to ours because we discussed about classroom furniture, summer projects, oiler replacements. Um, did you talk about the JF renewal? Maybe not. Okay. Uh, budget information, you know, we're later. Um, we did talk about insurance. So, And just like everywhere we are. So we'll see. Insurance feeling better. back in town. >> All right, next up back to
055you, Mrs. Binsky for a quick recap of NSSO. >> Okay, so um we started um our meeting actually was this week. And I've mentioned this before that unlike typical districts um has occasion to um have moment of silence for students who have passed away and that happened this month as well. So the student um the teacher his teachers um presented a photo montage and story of his time at um and then we had stars. There were two students 21 and there was a presentation of some of their work that they've done. Uh they have progressed such that they will be transitioning back to their adult transition program in their home district to 11. And also um both sets of parents um expressed their thanks very their team was the students team of the kids. It
056was a really fun like >> uh and then for public comment there were members from the current staff that spoke over concerns regarding staffing there and some safety issues. Um then um for the superintendent report uh started you remember I don't know it was two weeks ago that we approved signage um to install the district regarding uh the use of our facility for um any kind of staging. Um so some districts have uh adopted resolutions addressing that some districts have done a resolution and they've installed signage. So this topic came up at NSO wondering if NSO should do something. So the board discussed it. Um the feeling was that the reps would take it back to their home boards and and get some input there and come back next month and direct the administration to
057whatever that direction is. Then the following month in June, uh we would bring it back to the districts and the districts would have directed vote for vote in. So what the thinking is is that since we installed signage resolution that I would take that to our comments Um, let's see. There was a short discussion on the lease for minor which expires next spring. So, it's kind of running out of time to really do that. So, uh, stay tuned. with that. Um there was an update on the negotiations with teachers union has made their first offer representing operation. Uh you guys they um at the counter proposal. So I don't have any further information on that. Who that is? Um Molly D gave summary of the progress of the program task force work. Um Gavin gave
058a summary of the budget which um that you're talking about insurance insurance increase. So, um I guess >> I would imagine the board approved the tuition rates for extended I would just add the negotiations team >> language items >> just language items now and we're queued up to approve another handful at the next meeting which Did you do that? >> Every opportunity >> with an adolescent brain like mine has they will take advantage of >> um policy will be needing to press released >> um I need to revisit the committee assignments. I realized that as I was looking So I will send that out tonight or tomorrow relations. Um we were going to apply for the board governance award. We have received that every other year. Boards can apply through the Illinois Association of School
059Boards and so that has been a task that the community relations committee does. So I presented the application and we decided yes, we're going to go for it again. So we'll apply this spring summer and then because we're an amazing board, we will win that again or be awarded that again in the fall. Do we have to do another session? >> We do. >> We got a free one. >> We did. >> I wanted you remember >> I screamed at the thing and I ran up and got the certificate. We got a free session with a good job. >> I didn't do anything. I just got to go get it. You get a golden ticket. >> It doesn't mean you get it just because you request it. a second or third >> grad thing tomorrow.
060Um then we primarily talked about our community connections newsletter. It's going to be coming out um to hopefully arrive the first week of May. We have a lot of topics covered in this. We're going to be speaking talking about the new Ike edition. Um 2027 addressing kindergarten kindergarten committee program design committee. Um we're going to be talking about the work at map that's going to be happening with the windows. Um talk about our maps and what they are. We'll have a superintendent newsletter about that. Nope. Um we'll be talking about we'll providing a update on succession planning on a timeline such as our superintendent search for our superintendent search input committee. Um will be sent out in school about focus groups and participant. Um the We're going to be talking in our newsletter also about
061the adoption of our program. Um and the growing popularity of girls wrestling program um the cool school challenges. We'll talk about that and we'll talk about I wrote one word was heritage. Heritage >> spotlight. >> Um we will be talking about financials and how we're trying to get back to an appropriate fund balance. Um however with that there's increased costs and a widening debt. Talk about that a little bit and what that means to our community. We're going to be considering a referendum for the fall since we have our bonds that we've um been able to come for take on for construction. Now we need personnel to support that. Um we'll be including some photos for the musical musical. We will be talking about building better D23 um Mac construction updating that building better D23
062websites and and alternatives for the Ike project timeline. um our weekly video updates. That's not going to use a separate but yes >> I just merged all that together >> um on our building uh building 23 websites incorporating those videos again that I think were a really good hit last year last summer. um working on Miller, working on some signage for the fence at Ike to communicate to the community what this building in construction is, people walking by. So, if they haven't read about it, if they haven't heard about it or details, um and potentially directly connecting some of our surrounding neighbors that they also have who are directly touching affected they have can answer some questions. Um, as we talked about earlier, teacher appreciation's coming up and some of the activities we're going to
063be doing is a distribution of coffee on the first of May involvement. So, I'm in 26 will be lost. um talked to about they have dogs on June 12th. Hopefully we can get some of our performing arts groups um to perform the national anthem or something like that. specifically the Memorial Day. >> We did just apply for the Memorial Day parade in Arlington Heights. So if folks are interested in joining us for that, our target audience um of student invites will be our student leadership groups. So our unified programs, our ambassador programs across the district, we'll invite those kids to walk with us to celebrate. Um and then the Fourth of July parade here in Prospect Heights that we've done the past number of years. Again, if folks are interested, you can let us know
064sign up on the spreadsheet for that as well. There are four. I will move to approve the consent agenda as >> presented by second. >> Long But that's my name. >> Motion carries 61 report. Tracy, you had the finances this month. >> Anything anything to report back to the the group? Awesome. It was your very first time. How did it go? >> Great. Love it. Awesome. Um, do you want to make the motion? >> I will make the motion to approve the vouchers to be >> as presented. >> The documents are included for your review. >> Tracy, can I get a roll, please? Mrs. Long. Mrs. >> Yes. Mrs. Morris. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Motion carries 61. >> Awesome. Now, we're to the superintendent report with a lot of stuff. >> Move through it quickly,
065but we want to highlight two really important presentations um that have action items with them. our curriculum adoption work that we've been kind of updating the board on throughout the year is coming to its conclusion. And so first we want to thank Dr. Curtis and Dr. Sorca and as well as other members of the curriculum adoption committee for their work and we'll share a brief overview of that process and the recommended curriculum All right. For our next presentation tonight, um we'll take you on a little journey of our uh sixyear social emotional learning curriculum adoption. Um so we've broken the presentation down into three parts. First, we're going to tell you a little bit about our committee work, then our selection, and then we'll talk about the cost of the adoption. So, to kick things
066off, just going to review our curriculum review cycle. And to fast forward here, you're going to see this again in our next presentation. So, up at the top in the yellow, those are all of our uh curriculum programs that are up for renewal this year. And you'll see right in the middle there with the yellow arrow is our social emotional learning program. Every six year, we Every six years we review all of our programs. So all those ones in the yellow are up for review. Uh you can see social emotional learning. All the rest we'll talk about in the next presentation. >> Here we just outlined all of the different members of the team. Um these are some of the highlights from the committee that our team members actually came up with. Um of our
067last meetings. Um they shared that they felt like was a representative group of members from each of the buildings. Um all the team members were motivated to be a part of the team in order to really find a program that was going to meet the needs of the students. Um we as a team utilize interview data using a rubric in order to help make our final decision. Um and then the team really liked again the ability to try out some of the even nice um like said here's one of our here's the road mapap that we shared with them at the start it outlined a very brief overview of the five different meetings that we had and then the following next slide actually goes into a little bit more detail about what we did. Um
068so the start we reviewed the castle standards and brought everybody kind of got everybody on the same page with those. Um school then actually explored uh different curriculum options. They met with their teams to kind of think through what was going to meet the needs of their buildings and they all came up with their top four choices. Um we then narrowed those down to four total of the top the top four amongst the four buildings. Um we also surveyed what neighboring districts used because we have lots of you know teachers and staff that have kids in other districts. So we were able to kind of get some perspective on that and just kind of know what is being used. Um and then we developed and utilized that rubric in order to um use it during
069those vendor presentations to help it be as objective as possible. Um we ped the presentations. So we did two on one day and then we had one on two other days. So they felt that that was helpful in order to not overflood and overload yourself by one day. Um from the four to two based on the rubric data. Um, and then at the second to last game, the teams develop each of the final two in order to make our decision. And then this is just an example of the rubric that we came up with and the highlights that we looked at. And then every time we do some type of adoption, important that we u make sure programs are uh safe and secure for our students. So uh we check the privacy and safety requirements
070um of the program. So um as far as our committee goes basically our involvement is we say hey Mr. Holmes is safe and we did that of it and we're a okay in that area. Um, so next was our curriculum selection. So these are the four programs that we took a look at uh for curriculum options for the district. >> Wow. >> Too fast. >> Too furious. >> So we did look at these four um that uh some folks in the area are using. So we able to talk to other districts in regards to what they like or don't like about the certain programs. And then, drum roll. >> Oh my goodness. >> The committee's choice was Second Step, which is our current curriculum. Um, it has over the past year, they've added some new
071components to it and have refreshed it. So, we're looking forward to continuing that. You go to the next slide. Some of the highlights of Second Step um is the ease of use and the flexibility. Um people are super familiar with it. They're very happy with it. Um it crosses early childhood through 8th grade. Um it is aligned with the castle standards and um all of our state standards for a really big research um foundation behind it um unlike maybe some of the other programs. So uh a new component is some tiered interventions that they added about a year ago. Um so those will be some new pieces that we'll be exploring as well as the family supports and some new administrative tools. So for our principles to have some tools to look at um how
072students are responding to the lessons and things like that. >> Okay. As far as the overall cost of the program, um the K through eight part of the program, um we have a six-year license for it that uh covers all four schools. Uh comes with a bullying program that was already part of the program, but is a separate license, which we have. Um we started with a quote around $76,000 and we brought that quote down to $24,000, >> which is more which is more than half of what we were paying previously. So that was got a nice deal on that. So >> for early childhood, theirs is not an online component. It's a kit um that has story books and some picture cards um that they can use to do the lessons in class. So
073um that has not been updated. So we only have the cost of one additional kit. So we could have a kid in every um for every teacher. So, um, we've actually already purchased it with, um, current dollars, so they're set and ready to go. >> Pluses and minuses. They didn't update it, but that means we didn't have to pay for >> Yeah. >> Um, and we wanted to thank you as always for supporting our adoptions. Um, and we also wanted to thank all of our committee members that we had previous >> big was ruined by the man behind the curtain. >> Stephanie, that was their moment. >> No attention to the man behind the curtain. >> Could I get a motion? >> Second steps, >> thank you, >> Miss Peters. Do I have a second?
074Second by Can I get a roll call, please? >> Mrs. >> Dr. Long, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mory, >> yes. Motion carries 70. >> Amazing. Our next umh is the special exploratory curriculum. >> and then there was one. >> All right. Our final I think right >> your final. >> All right. Um I'll go with the next presentation um is set up similarly here. We're going to talk a little bit about our committee then our curricular decision and then our overall cost. Uh so I mentioned this earlier. Um this one is very different in that we have a whole bunch of pieces to this adoption. Um so all of the ones in yellow other than the curriculum we're going to talk about here. Um this is a list of all of our committee members. Um
075differently than most of our adoptions. Usually we have representatives from all the teams. for this committee. It's everyone who has involvement um in these departments was all on board this committee. Um and then in addition to that, all of our principles from all of the buildings as all right. Now for our committee process, um we began with all of those members together in the same meeting. Um we talked about all of the strengths and needs of each of those departments and their curriculum. Um we also worked on reviewing their standards. Um and then from there um when you look at the middle one in the yellow from there we kind of divided those committees in those departments up and we started having more individualized conversations. So from there some of the committee meetings were just
076one department at a time or me visiting their department meetings or possibly just a random meeting on their plan time. Um there's just there was so much involved in this and so many different department we had to individualized. Um, from there we scheduled vendor visits, just had individualized conversations about what their needs were. Um, and just determined best fits for them as well as from their needs. Some people it was just simple, hey, I could use some professional development on this or maybe going to a conference and things like that. Um, timeline kind of went over this already. We began in September, then from there October really through now. I've had those individual visits um and just really broke down their needs and figured out how to make that work best within our budget. Uh
077we have one more meeting coming up um and we're going to finalize some of those curriculum maps and some of those pieces. Um I'm going to since he just clicks whenever he wants to go to the next one. >> Uh fair game. Come on. Get moving. >> You don't want to. This was the best part. >> All right. So, now for the meat of the presentation here, we're going to go through each department individually. So, for applied tech and robotics, uh I worked with Mr. Dudich individually. He's in charge of that program um over at the middle school. For his program, um the cost of his program really is divided into two things. Um that's what comes out of the MacArthur um supplies account which belongs to the building budget. And then also just for
078the adoption this year, um he had some needs that we haven't really updated in a while. We bought we've bought him some new applied tech robots and pieces for his class. Um so basically those cost uh $5,000 upfront as well as $1,000 for those materials each year for the six years. So overall for six years it's going to be just over $11,000. >> So we're trying to show you kind of both what was the allocation for curriculum adoption this year because we have that allocation set aside and the allin investment. And so especially in many of these programs where there aren't necessarily textbooks that we would consider an adoption, there are annual supply costs and maintenance costs. consumables. So, as Craig's walking through these, so he's differentiating those three, but just so you understand the
079we're showing the whole picture of our investment into these programs, but they the total dollar amount doesn't always equate to this particular adoption. >> Yes, it's going to look like a lofty price compared to what we usually show because we just show you what the actual program costs, right? Now, what we're showing you is similar to that because it's for six years, but it also includes um what the principal's budget might include and some of those other pieces. So, I'll break it down for you more at the end, but um okay, so for art, uh this one I sat down with the three art teachers in the district. There's one shared at Ross and Sullivan, so that's why there's only three. Um in this budget, they chose a program called Deep Space Sparkle. Uh sounds
080like a science program, but um for that program it's going to cost 6,000 around $6,000 um for the three teachers. That's basically helps them map out their teacher portion um of what they're teaching for the six years. Then in addition to that, you see the adoption supplies. That's a one-time purchase for a kiln at the middle school that all of the teachers can share if they choose to do clay projects. In addition to that, there are at the bottom there the annual supplies. That's from the principal's budget. So that just breaks down how much is invested each year in the principal supply budget. So overall over six years that would cost a total of just over $44,000. For this one year, we're you're really going to be approving the $6,000 for this project. And then
081we're also somewhere in in our budget there will be the $5,000 for the kiln as well, but it won't be a part of this. Okay. for our fax program, which is family and consumer science. Um, I worked with Miss Sam Elvaro over at the middle school. Um, for this, um, in Dr. Nestrom's budget over at MacArthur, her individual supply account, there's $1,200 annually in that account. And then also for her one-year adoption, there's $2,000 in that, which is really to replenish some of her pots and pans that she uses for her class. So total, it's going to be $9,200 over six years, but for this year, it's going to be the $2,000. That's not even going for approval in our project here today. That's just going to be separate in one of my Okay. For
082health, we did break up and health separately for this project. For health, for EC first grade, there aren't any needs for this project. Um, for that I worked with Kelly Krauss over at Eisenhower. For grades, man, he's jumping. Um, for grades two through five, worked with three teachers, um, Bob Miller, Colleen Davies, and Darren Mosak. Um and for that program we are going to be uh recommending Health Smart and that is a new program um for health second through fifth grade. Um that program costs just over $4,000. Um that is there are some student subscriptions in there as well as two uh teacher subscriptions included in that cost. For grades six through 8, we're recommending Gleno Gleno Health by McGraill. Um the cost of that is $4,000, but because we do so much work with
083them, they're actually going to give that to us complimentary. >> Um that's a good cost right now. So total for the six years, it's going to be just over $4,000 for help. >> For ideas class, which is the program that started last year um at Ross and Sullivan, I worked with Mrs. Lorie Travis. Um and for that class um basically the only thing that is included in that budget is a one-time cost which we actually approved combination of last of this current year and last and next year's budget. We purchased some new robots that she uses in those classes. Um she had them all along but the software for them was becoming outdated. So she needed an update to those. Um and that is not for approval today. That's already a part of the for
084music. Um this was one of our bigger investments. Um they have two programs um that we that we are approving today. One of them so the one on the left is for elementary. The one on the right is for middle school. Um so for elementary quaver music is the one that we're looking at. Um the initial quote was just under 11,000. The final quote was just under 10,000. Um that is something we currently already use. They just want to keep that program around. Um also at elementary they have their annual supply accounts which are listed there how much they get. Um there's a lot more involved with the music because of uh repair of instruments um and things like that. So that's why their costs are a little are a little higher. Um when you
085look school. Same thing as far as costs. Um, a lot more repairs, plus they have band, orchestra, everything over there as well. Um, and they have the three grade levels. Um, the program there that is a new program called make music. Um, that they were they had looked at the last time we did an adoption. It didn't fit into our budget. We were able to make it work this time. Um the final cost of that is just under $12,000 for the six years. Um and then they also have their um instructional fees. Again, for for this, the total of all of that for six years is about 116,000. For most of that is in the principal's budget already and has always been. Um what we are approving for this adoption is just the quaver music
086at 98.28 and the make music at just under 12,000. Out of that building budget, the district marer purchase a large instrument every year. So over the span of 10 years, you know, we've done xylopones and cellos and, you know, we try to replace the oldest, least functional, most necessary instrument, but we are kind of again on a phased cycle. We'll purchase one of those big instruments every year. Um, and then the repair budget is significant as well. in addition to the ones that >> Yeah, these are all the ones that stay. So, Tony, the drum set that the jazz band uses, the piano >> upright, all of those every >> actually that we have >> popular down in the city. We've got it. Megan Murray bucket as well. >> All right. For PE um worked
087with all of our PE teachers. I mentioned all um all of their names at elementary level when we talked about uh health. I did not mention the middle school teachers though. Um for middle school, we also worked with Mike Becker, Dan Carillo, and Shelley Kutcher. Um for their PE costs for all of them. There really weren't any costs associated other than their instructional budgets from the principal. So, um that those costs total $43,500, but those are not for approval today. That's part of our building budget. And then the last one is our Spanish language programs. Um this is a really a renewal. Um this is a program we already use. Um for that, um worked with Ina, she did some she did some great work and was very self-sufficient in this process. Um, she worked
088with the uh high school program. She made sure that it was aligned because they have switched their program at the high school. Um, but based on what they're using, she didn't feel like it was something we needed to switch just because they were switching. Uh, still in alignment. And actually their teachers said some of them I don't know if I should say this publicly but some of them said they felt like their old program was maybe more sufficient than what they're using now. So um she she said and and it was the school break. So and that's what we're recommending here. So um the cost of that sixyear subscription uh for students and teacher version is just under 26,000. have since gotten a little lower. It's actually just under 25,000 now. Um, so that is
089what we're so I know this is a lot of numbers. Bless you. Um, so again, when you throw all those numbers together, if you look at the right hand column for all of these pieces, including instructional materials, we're looking at the number on the bottom right. When we talk about what we're approving today, if you look at the second to last column, the final cost for what we're approving is right there. I mentioned I just got one program was just decreased. So for today, we're approving up to 57,76945. It'll actually just that. But that's what we're >> good on,000. Um, any other questions? That's it. I did want to thank all of our committee members for all of their help throughout this process. There was a lot of time involved on their part for taking
090their planning time, department meeting, a whole bunch, I won't say more time than our typical committees, but just being a lot more flexible. And thank you to all of you for your support. and purchase the special exploratory materials as an amount not to exceed by Mrs. >> Dr. Long, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mrs. Marcy, >> Mrs. Peters, >> wonderful. Next thing is the calendar was updated. You guys met >> March 12th. This is no change to the end of this school year. snow days. So, the only recommendations are some tweaks to next school year's calendar, which uh as an upgrade from previous years as we learn uh to do things better each time. Uh I highlighted in red in the calendar what was changed and then in the school scene tomorrow, we'll share what we
091had in the memo to just specifically point out to families this is what's different in this calendar. We drafted uh the 2728 school year calendar, but we always wait for 214 to take action on theirs before we move on ours. So that'll come in the fall. >> Second question. Um, but we've made some adjustments on the red and we're going to communicate that to our community. Will there be some reiteration as we get closer to those dates that were changed in future communications next year? >> I mean, yes. In as much as in every school scene we include like here are the upcoming dates. So, we'll have start of school year this day is off. We won't necessarily call out A year ago, you may have seen this was a day that was in session
092and now is off, but we will communicate throughout the year. This is a day off. >> Yeah. >> Yes. Yep. We had our hearing again thanks to Dr. Curtis and our work collaboratively to review and update the plan presented. The only tweak to the plan was a clarification for more flexibility for asynchronous work. There were some people who felt that it was required to be on the device the whole day and that is not the intention nor is that in the plan. So we're articulating that to be a little bit more flexible so the teachers can better implement that and explain to their kids and parents. very discussion. Yes, Mr. Mrs. Next up is our insurance. >> Uh the memo in the packet explains the uh rates. We are seeing significantly high rates but compared
093to some neighbors better than it could have been. sad that that's the target these days, but it's a significant increase, but not as bad as it could phrase that. >> Yeah. Um, so going into next year, we're looking at a 16.2% increase in the PO, 14.4 in the HMO and just under a% increase. I would encourage district to explore next year what it looks like different shields. You look at the race22 it's just an explosion take the family teacher select that $40,000 for family coverage. So at some point you price yourself into a selfunded kind of environment or some other option. So I think it's definitely something obviously different heavy over the last five years. It's just price insurance. So we've got one more year. Motion to approve the renewal of medical insurance. Is there
094any more discuss I don't know how to account for that. Motion carries. >> I know. I don't know. Um, next up is our classroom furniture orders >> presented 26 for Betsy Ross and >> um so just kind of an overview this gets us one classroom at Sullivan, one at Betsy Ross and four classrooms of tables and um teacher replacement components at MacArthur. We um had a couple years ago we took adv another district that was classrooms of chairs. So we put all of those into these four classrooms have fairly updated chairs but updated tables. So that is what we're bringing for as you recall these funds are um a portion of non-discretionary funding that is allocated specifically towards furniture. These purchases um typically are made in the spring of the prior year. However, really kind
095of waiting to see how the county property taxes would come in. So funds were budgeted in fiscal 26 and placing the orders now will ensure that we get them prior to our fiscal year end to approve the FY26 class orders for Betsy Ross and Sen. Any discussion? >> Mrs. Mrs. >> Mr. Mrs. with finance and buildings and sites. Uh this next phase of elements of part of our summer projects that the district is managing are presented for approval tonight. >> So um finance and sites were presenting the updated project um said it is just kind of breaks all of those individual components that are being managed and as we bring them forward to kind of changing the color on some of those just for reference. So um this evening we're bringing forward um phase one
096of the Betsy Ross Library. Um we do have just the um the preliminary rendering over here with some of the finishes. This has been a project that has really been probably the past year plus. We've kind of undergone a couple of different iterations as well as shifts and retirements and vendors and staff. So um this is the final um we're bringing forward phase one which includes all of these tables here as well as this um separate area. Um and so that's the first item. The second item um as was mentioned previously is the replacement of That is one project that was included in our overall plan for Eisenhower school. However, due to the more recent increased um issues that we've been having with the list, our preferences to replace that now instead of continuing to
097invest money. So, those are the two projects. How does the summer project All right. So I will move to approve the furniture replacement for phase one of Betsy Ross library in the amount of 31,55 educational environments and any discussion. Mr. >> Mrs. replacement at >> so shared earlier in her buildings and sites we've got three boiler units at that currently all 15 years old um and they are in need of replacement that has gone down two are part of the summer but we do need to replace them are just over $10,000 a piece. Um so we're requesting a replacement of the three. However, one would be paid for with remaining fiscal 26 funds for immediate replacement and then the remaining two um will be replaced over the summer. >> So my experience with boilers is
098they last a lot longer. by hundreds of hopefully hundreds of handashers. boilers, just a motion. >> We have discuss Long >> yes. >> With a very big Thank you to shelter youth and family services. We received an additional deco grant that will allow us to expedite replacement of the telesenter intercom system that I think is probably original. General MacArthur installed it. and limping along for about a decade but excited to move that forward as a safety. >> So this was one of the projects that was replaced with fiscal 27 funding. However, when we got this um I'll make a motion to replace. >> Do I have any discussion? Yeah, >> the mobile device management software that we use. to maintain the management of all our devices. We are actually reflecting a reduction in cost thanks
099to Mr. Holmes negotiations with this software renewal. software. Can I discuss? Yes. >> Yes. We have an budget >> presented tonight just for review. We'll bring it as an action item next month. Again, thanks to Carol for serving as our district rep. Thanks to Chris for serving on oversight with the assistant soup group and Amy for her work on the finance committee had eyes on and participated in all those discussions. Um the challenge continues to be that costs go up. Um, just as we talked about before, NSSO's insurance rates went up even more than ours. Um, but our budget impact will be actually a decrease even though the tuition rates went up, but a decrease because of a reduction of total number of students that we have enrolled. So, we're really again pleased about the
100development of some of our inhouse district programs that allow us to offset uh tuition costs and maintain students function and presence in our district. So, thanks to Chris and her team for that as well and a reduction of one instructional coach um that we contract with through MSO capacity. So, the overall impact to the district is less dollar amount than it has in the past. >> Yeah, I think we're finally seeing our programs and things leveling out. students who are um the reduction of students who are ethical. So that we didn't anyone because we have the sports built into our programs here. There's no executive session tonight. All in favor calling