001meeting for the Prospect Heights School District 23 for June 12th, 2025 at 7:05 p.m. Uh, can I get a roll call? Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. 7:05 p.m. Mrs. Bowinsky here. Mr. Gordon, present. Dr. Long here. Mrs. Mlan present. Mrs. Morsy here. Mr. Normark Peters present. Uh tonight we have the MacArthur. Yes. So this evening we are welcomed by uh the MacArthur recipients of the American Legion Award and they are here to join us in the pledge of allegiance. Daniel Petrellis, Gavin Seleki, Julia Casmirk, and Deborah Gimmelman. We also want to acknowledge Gracelyn uh Mabberry who took second place in state for the 16 meter uh 1600 meter track run. So congratulations. You guys want to meet us in the pledge [Music] of the United States of America to the republic. for which it stands, one nation
002under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Yes. Hey guys, thanks for coming tonight. Um, can you tell the board a little bit about your award you got? And to be quite honest, I still don't know what it's for. So, we'll tell you all about it tonight. It's a pretty big deal. Do you have any? No. A little no a little. What do you know that four of us got it? Yeah. I'm sorry. You want to? Yeah. So, it's qualifications for the American Legion that stems around service, Americanism, um there's five of them. Support for neighborhood community. um and all the other components that embody truly the American Legion and the service industry for all of their years um in their service to our country um wants to give back to the youth in
003America component. So, they have this award um that they bestow to us and our eighth grade team to nominate a few kids and then we send it out to the rest of the staff for feedback um on really those that embody all of those components of really just a great neighbor to have around the community that is looking to hold others accountable and and lift them up when times are tough. And so, uh, this year we had some runaway, uh, balloting and it didn't take too much to figure out who the cream of of this class of 25 was. The hardest part for me was M Mrs. Seleski's in our building subing and Mrs. patrolises in our office um every day and so not slipping any accidental certificates or um oh yeah I got those
004and here's the four names on the list and things keeping that um is always one of the best things at the promotion ceremony is revealing those names and so no one knows what they are ahead of time and sometime you know the parents don't have their cameras ready for those things either so it's nice that Mr. was able to take a picture on stage with those people. So, um, so I have a picture of the award because I sent it to my friend sitting out in the audience. Yeah. Um, Oh, yeah. You could see him beforehand, too. I get to see him when I was sitting up there and so I didn't send it to her until it already happened. I surprised. Wait. Um, but it says that it's uh courage, honor, leadership, patriotism, scholarship,
005and service. So it's those things that you show as through your time in district 23 that you will get from all the remarkable so where are you guys where are you headed are you going to Harvard next or what's the next step in your I love that for you I love Are you headed to Mercy or Wheeling? Wheeling. Awesome. Are you excited? Where are you headed? You excited? Yeah. Wheeling. Yeah. Excited. Already started some baseball. Yeah. And football. Wrestling next week. And marching band. Marching band. Do you have some sports and stuff lined up? Uh, I think I'm gonna do like swimming and track and stuff in high school. So, awesome. Do you have anything lined up? Quite a bit. Yeah. Okay. What are you gonna do? Uh, flag football. Awesome. I made the work
006team already. That's awesome. Awesome. Does anybody else have any questions? You guys should be very proud of your congratulations. [Music] [Applause] Thank you for coming back and do not forget about us just because you are a graduate once a marauder. All right. Don't forget to come back and keep us keep us posted on how you're doing. You guys can stay if you want, but you don't have to. Dairy Queen. Congratulations. At each um regular Yeah. 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 the pink form and it's McDonald. Speaking of Braz. Hi everybody. I'm Alison. I'm Russell. I am currently the executive manager of lights and I on like
007to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for being a part of such incredible district. Serving District 28 has been an absolute privilege and we are deeply thankful to the community for to the superintendent and everybody for supporting us to the school to all of you the parents we are invested in and success for the children and we are here and that's wanted to know what is she supporting us. She's from Mr. from Wheeling and it's been a fabulous partnership working with Amy and the district and being able to provide um quality good food for the students and being part of your events that are local. It's just been a pleasure and an honor to help serve the community here and your students and we want to express how much we appreciate um you allowing
008us to come in to your home and being part of it. So, thank you very much and we're looking forward to you know hopefully more time here to make a big difference and um work with the kids a lot. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. feel free to stay and hang out. Thank you. All right, we're on to communications. Yeah. Um so just a few items uh under communications. The first one is we'd like to recognize our retirees. Um and we want to congratulate the following individuals on their retirement and thank them for their years of dedicated service. Um Marus Jenkins, 44 years. Kim Brunner, 26 years. Jill Bersbach, 22 years. and Amy Rosner uh 20 years. Um we were joined by uh Christine
009Zarnki and Lisa Moore um from the PTO. Uh and they uh were not able to continue on with us, but they did um Elaine Wong and um Bethany Brinkworth are the outgoing um uh PTO co-presidents. Bethany is is leaving after two years and Elaine is staying on. Um, but they just asked that I just share a brief overview. So, I'll go ahead and read that. And the PTO executive board would like to thank the board of education and Dr. Angelio for all of the support during the 2425 school year. We would have not been able to host events without your help. As we look forward to the upcoming school year, we plan to work alongside administration to ensure the PTO events remain successful. As we plan for the 2526 school year, the PTO will be
010kicking off our fundraising initiative called Let's Play. This initiative will focus on funding the principal wish list, focusing on items that are used to foster play and physical movement. We will display Okay. Now, we will display the items requested and the total cost for each item and update progress along the way. Our hope with this approach is to be more transparent to the community as to how their donations are being used and create excitement. Along with let's play, the executive board is committed to provide support to our studentled groups like the ambassadors and the student senate either through volunteer support or funding. We are incredibly grateful for the continued support from the board of education and Dr. Angelio. Your partnership has been instrumental to the success of our efforts and we look forward to building
011on that momentum in the year ahead. With Let's Play, we are excited to bring our community together in a new way, one that's transparent, engaging, and deeply connected to the needs of our students. We believe that by working handinhand with administration, staff, and families, we can continue to make a meaningful impact. Thank you again for your support, and here's to another great year ahead. So, that's exciting. Uh just a few more notes. Um Michelle has uh registered those board members and administrators that will be attending the uh joint annual conference in the city November 21st through the 23rd. Um if anybody is has not done that or is still interested, please let Michelle know. Um we will also be participating in the Prospect Heights Fourth of July parade. Um, please let Don know if you're
012able to attend. And I know there was a a sign up for administrators and board members as well that was um that was sent out. Um, so you could go ahead and just fill that out as well. Um, and that parade is July 5th at 10:30. And I think uh I thought I heard that we were gathering at 9:30 in front of MacArthur. Does that sound right? Yeah. So yes. Okay. So any questions you can um pass those along to Don as well. Michelle is everybody going over% and then is anybody walking in candy. Oh, yeah. Perfect. And dog treats. So, that's it for communication. Honestly though, like the Fourth of July parade is pretty. It's a fun way. But it also a plug for that um sign up gen like the Google sheet. Just
013get your name on there for You want me to say anything? No. Sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. I'm like in a talking mood tonight. I had a coke. I never do. Oh gosh. I'll stop. I'll just go back to my I told Tracy earlier I don't sleep on Fortnite. So this might be why. Oh, because of the immense amount of All right. Sorry. So, we are committee appointments. Um, so I sent that out to everybody. Um, and then we are formalizing it tonight. Any questions about any of the committee appointments? Everybody's good with where we all landed on that. Um, and then buildings and sites. Carol, sorry. [Laughter] my buildings and sites met on June 3. Uh Raph reviewed uh some of the work that's planned for this summer. They're doing the deep cleaning of
014classrooms and food storage areas, which they do every year. Uh stripping and floor waxing at all the buildings. uh painting and um touch-ups on the doorways uh and uh preparation of the classroom for the Strive program at Mac. Let's see the uh Mac floor is going to be Mac gym floor is going to be refinished. Um it's it's a yearly refinishing that they do. It's not like they sand down to the wood. It's like one one layer. It is just like the top two layers. Yeah. Let's see. There was an update on the Ross Sullivan garden. Uh the PTO is donating funds to purchase the boxes for the garden. And Gavin, who was here just a moment ago, is uh contributing supplies and manpower through uh his project as a um for his Eagle Scouts.
015And remember, [Music] I knew you can do it. Yeah. Yeah, I was I was gonna say anything. There you go. Yeah. Let's see. Patriot Paving will be doing the steel coating and striping in the parking lot at Mac Ross and Sullivan. And there's some additional work that was identified. Um the uh area behind Sullivan where the um trash pickup is will have uh either the curbs put in or ballards um just for added safety of students coming and staff coming and going from that uh doorway. Uh let's see. And also the driveway entrance in front of Ross Sullivan where the buses enter will be expanded slightly um just to accommodate the buses running through the mud naturally. Um let's see. And then um following the yearly inspection by fire marshall um a fire rated door
016will be installed downstairs at Gratzky. You did finance here. Well, we were blessed with the finance team with all board members. So I probably I mean I will just touch on it because of course for our audience just let you know kind of what we did but not really many details because I think we were all there for a long time. Um the big item on the list was facilities and financial planning which um we will be discussing later. We have special guest Elizabeth Hennessy um with us uh for that meeting from um our financial advisors Raymond James. Um we went over technology plan proposals. Um so those who are going to be voting on for approval this evening which is a Sentinel WebEx single wire and server. Um then we reviewed the food service
017RFP at the finance committee and uh we'll be voting on that later this evening as well. Uh we discussed um increasing the launch fees um based on the RFP that came in. So we'll be voting on that later as well. Um or workman's comp re that we're going to vote on later this evening too. And then um we did our review of monthly financial reporting which we do every month. And that was about it 10. If you have anything else you'd like to add all I have um next up is NSSO. Okay. NSO met on June 4th. uh they started with uh in the NSSO shooting star which um you may remember that they started a program called shooting star and that is for uh former students who have moved on to life in whatever
018capacity. uh and so they revisit with those students now and then and choose the shooting start and show what's possible with them. So this student uh was at Timber Ridge from third to sixth grade uh and they talked about some of the interventions there. He went on to high school at Buffalo Grove. Uh participated in marching band and taekwond do winning awards in both and he will be attending you by this coming fall. So um that was our shooting star and then uh there was election of officers for the governing board and for the first time in my memory there were more people interested in being an officer than there were positions. So uh after some discussion and um candidates statement uh the new officers for associates Debbie Mcatee from 21, Chris Leto from 57
019and Liz Nearman from 23 or 25. But that was president vice president and secretary. Yes. in in sorry I should have said it uh we the board adopted the meeting schedule for the coming year uh it's typically the first Wednesday of the month uh there were a couple uh exceptions October 2nd or October will be the second Wednesday of the month there will be no January meeting and the April meeting is the first Tuesday of uh superintendence report. Uh there was a short recap of the graduation ceremonies held for each of the programs. Um uh Dr. Schnor announced the uh creation of a new dashboard uh which will be launched on the website in August. Molly Dunn had a um year-end report for the continuous improvement plan highlighting IEP best practices, professional development, both internal
020and across member districts and um some data analysis of those programs through the last few years. Uh let's see human resources there were uh several there were there was first reading of 27 policies which you probably uh and there's there was an agreement uh a an updated policy that staff participating in the NSSO funded English learners courses through Grand Canyon University. uh some of the policies for that and the requirement that those employees that take advantage of that um need to um complete a year of service to NSSO before moving on business services update the amended budget for 2425 and the annual budget for 2526 was approved. There was a facilities update. Work has started at Kirk for replacement of the HVAC system. I can show you some pictures that are pretty amazing. Uh the
021old boilers were to torn out and cleared away and space was prepped for new ones and they started uh installing those. How old were those things? it it I don't know how just ancient I don't even know but corroded it was just right like the amount of like I just think the uh then um there there was some discussion the board is going to review the NSSO articles of agreement. Uh the board reps will meet with uh their superintendent prior to the next board meeting. The superintendent were supposed to meet today. They did not today and um a date for that. Uh there's supposed to be a committee of the whole with the superintendent and they were going to the superintendent were going to talk about it today to uh determine a date. Uh let's
022see. uh and the the uh lease for minor will be expiring in two years and so they're starting to review that lease and uh also NSO will be looking for a facilities assessment group to determine what what is needed and then figure out what what needs to happened with minor who owns 25 mothers touch spent a lot of money in like adapting that they've been there for several years they used to have more right now it's been there a Yeah. And then um just related to NSSO, but it wasn't really part of the meeting. It's been part of ongoing discussions. Um the part of the operation of NSSO going forward will include um a council of all the superintendent and um Don and Chris Sroa and the upcoming NSO governing board meeting to go through
023agenda items and Uh also kind of apart from that or previous to that superintendent aren't intending to meet every month with Dr. Shore. Um so it should foster more participation and cooperation um within I think it will be good in the long policy that's your Um we met on June 3 and uh went over some policy changes but generally there were two main changes. There was some terminology that was changed from sexbased to sexual such as discrimination sex discrimination change to sexual discrimination. So remember that was annoying that [Music] um there was also some changes made to incorporate AI and policies incorporating AI um such as broadening identity and cyber security um things like that. um mostly language changes and incorporating AI, incorporating stack development and training regarding AI which would be 26 um for
024students and um [Music] I mean I think that the majority was great. Congratulations on your first uh and so I think the only other thing I would add anymore just so you know you've made a motion you and yeah you're officially a veteran but just like the only other thing I would say like the policies are in there I think for the most part that we're looking to adopt them as presented that they're mostly language changes right um and uh and terminology changes but so then we will we're there for first reading And then we will actually vote on them next month. Great job. No, that was awesome. Completing that. Brian, since I stole all your fun now and give out some new reports on Yeah. So, for community relations, we we met last week
025as well. Um, you know, I think that Don had sent us an email uh that that they, you know, that we had won a couple of awards for some of the, you know, some of the the mailers and things that we sent last year. Um, we did talk about, you know, continuing to have Jenny Cer Quinn help us put out two newsletters again this year. Um, you know, I think that that ends up being a useful way to get messaging out to the community and I think that Dom has been very happy with her work. I think that that ends up being good work