001[Music] Everyone, can I get a motion to reconvene to the regular meeting of the provisal township high school board of education? Second, can you please call the role? Mr. Alexander, absent. Mr. Tixon, hi. Mr. Papo, hi. Miss Patterson, hi. Miss Grant I, Mr. Berz, I, Miss Barbon, I. Motion carried. We are in open session at 7:39 p.m. Please stand for the pledge of [Music] allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Jenny, can you please read the uh vision statement? Through expectations of excellence and by providing equitable educational opportunities to empower each student, our graduates are prepared for college careers and to serve as contributing members of a dynamic global society. Thank you. At this time, the
002board of education opens the floor for public comment. The board will receive public comment from any individuals present this evening who have submitted a request to address the board per established procedures. Comments will be limited to three minutes in accordance with board policy 2230. We believe that all participants in the meeting desire the best outcomes for students, families, and communities. As a reminder, this meeting is being live streamed and will also be arch available on the district website. First we have Savannah, Ireland. Hi there. Good evening. Good evening. U my name is Savannah Ireland. Um I teach social studies at Proviso West. Um so this is my sixth year teaching and my first year teaching at Proviso. Um I'm here today to speak to two items on the agenda. Reclassification of assistant principal Dr. got
003and the donation of used textbooks. I do want to be clear that Dr. Gotley did not ask me to speak on her behalf. Um, so I was excited to teach at Proviso because I love working with students and I wanted to work with the staff, with teachers to take on the academic challenges that Proviso West faces. Um, this past year, Dr. Gotly made me feel like we could make progress on addressing the ongoing critical needs of our students. Um, the reason why she made me feel this way is because she's approachable. She works to build trust with her staff. Um, she was the administrator that I felt like I could go to if I have a if I have a problem, if I have a problem that I don't know how to solve because even
004if she may not know right away, she's very resourceful and she is dedicated to problem solving on behalf of students and on behalf of staff. Um her approach to tackling the critical academic challenges that Proviso West faces is to partner with teachers to create achievable learning outcomes. I personally have many concerns about the upcoming 2025 2026 academic school year. Um but the one concern that's at the forefront of my mind is that Dr. Gotley will not be returning as an assistant principal. Um, I believe that her experience at Proviso and her resume has been an invaluable asset this year. The second item on the agenda that I want to speak to is the donation of used textbooks. Uh, the organization that Proviso is considering donating the textbooks to is called Scarce. Uh, personally, I've volunteered
005at Scarce. It's an excellent organization. uh they do good work to bring in donations of items that schools donate and um there's a store that teachers can shop at. Many of my classroom supplies I have shopped at this scarce store and I'm also in the back going through donations that schools give um and so I I personally know that these textbooks will find a good home. Um, a lot of them I went through at West are very out ofd and are not used by teachers and so I think it would be the best use of our limited space that we have to donate those textbooks. Thank you very much for listening to my testimony. I appreciate it. Thank you. Next is Dan Stamer. Hi, thank you board. Excuse my voice a bit. Um, I've come
006here regarding my proposed non-renewal and it's happened last year as well. It was requested by the same principle of Proviso West. So, Provis West has been suffering since prior my three years there and the current administration has been mismanagement and misguided leadership. However, it casts that she insists as a non nonrenewed principal on her non-renewed management team wants to non-reduce some wonderful teachers including myself and we simply do not fit in in the chaos. So her bias for my anomaly goal is I don't fit in. The administrator attorneys repeated that I don't fit in. I refuse to provide lesson plans while provided to approve FMLA medical leave is their statement but I did prior medical my medical leave and I resent them. And since I've shared these plans in the following letters that I'm going
007to refer to with the principal and the current superintendent of the board and here they are again all my detailed daily lesson plans. It has bell ringers, the presentation, the class participation, student activities, student work uh time, handouts, exit here. I don't know who. All right. But prior accusing me, our principal points out in the letter she shared regarding my performance Dan's commitment to high quality instruction and professionalism, his serving as a role model for students, his strong connections with students, academic and emotional needs. He engages and challenges students. And she concludes there's little doubt in Dan's mastery of the subjects taught and that students find him to be most genuine and caring for their education and wellbeing. And she honors me in a schoolwide broadcast for my commitment and I present to the school
008certificate of commitment which I'm curiously show. Our district math coordinator concludes in her unsolicited letter of reference. I believe that Dan Saber will be an excellent candidate for any math department. I'm extremely confident he has the skills and abilities to successfully handle the challenges of today's youth. His dedication and strong work ethic will contribute greatly to his continued success in education. My special education co-teer share with our principal and superintendent. They specifically requests working with me again next year and puts words to paper. Dan accommodates varied math proficiencies and multiple learning styles. Thank you. Is that time? Okay, I'm sorry. Thank you. Next is Jenny Labash. Okay, I was in the middle of writing. So, um, good evening. I I'm a veteran teacher of 23 years. This is my sixth year at Proviso. I'm not
009here to advocate for myself, for my fellow teachers, or any staff members. I'm here to advocate for our students. My advocacy today comes in the form of evaluating the EEL curriculum currently at provisal schools. Currently, we have SAS which directly contradicts all current reading and literacy research by not providing students with the opportunity to read novels in their entirety. There are many teachers like myself who supplement with fulllength novels that allow te students to make meaningful connections to tasks, increase the vocabulary, and overall have a positive interaction with both fiction and non-fiction. That's where I stopped writing, so I'm just go off the cuff. Um, I should have written down the rest of it. Um I know that there was a meeting last year Mr. Ashaw and parents and other board members regarding the SAS
010curriculum. ELA scores are directly tied to students performances on their ACT and other things and vocabulary and just overall literacy and the SBAS curriculum. Um I gave Mr. Ashoff and several other uh individuals, statements from all my students talking about why they like the novels we were reading, how they connected them, how they were able to have um you know, classroom discussions using these novels. And I wanted to know if that could be revisited again this year. Um I know there are several curriculum writing positions available. I'm not going to be applying for them. Um, but I didn't know if that was something that was on the board's radar and I wanted to make sure that that was something that was revisited once again. So, thank you. Have a good night. Patricia Powell Good evening
011board. I come to you with some safety concerns. First, our first and foremost, I would like to come to you with this safety concern. When there is an altercation and we need to get in touch with our supervisor, it would be nice if there's not a pick and choose on who you answer the phone for. If anything, by this being women at the front door, if anybody should come into that door without and we're having an issue, there should always be the fact that when I pick up and say, "I need to talk to you about a safety concern." He needs to be able to pick up the phone, not pick up the phone when he feels like he wants to pick up the phone. One, two, there's a lot of mismanagement because the fact
012is there is no communications. There's no communications between the management and the administrators. Everybody is we're all scattering at the last minute when it comes down to like we we found out late yesterday about the testing today. We're we're still fully staffed here at PMA, but it's just the point being is we didn't know about testing. So, we're scattering to figure out what's going on. We didn't know that they were getting out till later. I thought that was it was a still a full school day, but it was not. It was a half a day concerning with the testing. We need more communications, not only just between administration and security, but management and security. Everybody needs I mean somewhere down the line they always say do things by the chain of command. You can't do
013things by chain of command when there's a kink in the link of the chain. We all have to work together to be able to maintain the safety and the ability to survive by ourselves with these kids. that sometimes these kids can be a handful and sometimes we can maintain what we're learn what we're taught to maintain them with but we all need to work together. It's just not bits and pieces here. Everybody has to sing together. So at this point let the director stand up and have us all sing together and not everybody on their own page letting us know at the last minute about everything. you. Everybody has to learn how to work together. And I think with the new board, the old board, you all tried I I must admit, you all tried
014to get us all to sing together, but it didn't work. Hopefully with the new we can all learn how to sing together to make district 209 back to what it was 20 years ago when I started. I love this. I love working with kids. I love working with you all. But we've got to we've got to make some changes, but we got to do some things right. Next is Zuma Breath. Good evening, Lord. Good evening. I'm here today with two concerned parents who primarily speak Spanish. So, I'll be helping with translation and sharing their message with you. Their daughter um here is Smilelet Paris Paris and she applied to the MSE program. The parents were recently informed that she was not accepted into the program due to an incomplete application. Specifically, the registration or submission
015button was not selected at the end of the form. The family believes this may have been a technical or unintentional oversight. They were referred to they were referred here by state rep. Hernandez, who encouraged them to attend the board meeting tonight and speak with you all directly. The Paris family has invested in their daughter's education by enrolling her in prep school her entire life, and they were deeply disappointed to learn of her non-acceptance and are here tonight to ask for reconsideration or guidance on how to move forward. State reprantis's office also recommended that they advocate directly to the new superintendent, Mr. Mohip, in hopes of a resolution. and they are simply here today striving for a chance um to give to their daughter everything that they've worked hard to. The father included his email on
016the public comment form that they filled out um in case someone is able to follow up with a response. Hey, thank you for your time and attention. Thank you. Thank you. We do have your email. Uh last public comment is Carissa Gosski. Good evening, Gordon. Good evening. My name is Carissa Gillespie and I'm about to go into my 24th year as a teacher in this district. Uh, veteran teachers can sometimes be know alls. We can get jaded. We can get stagnant. and that can affect the culture of our buildings and our students. This veteran teacher is not here to complain about the 17 times the superintendent and his design have visited my classroom. I'm here to thank him. Thank you for holding me accountable and offering support so that I can support my students. Thank
017you for holding students and parents accountable. I've seen you in the hallways along with other administrators and I've seen you have very hard conversations with parents. I've even seen you break up a fight. I want to thank you for holding admin accountable. In my two decades in this district, I don't think I've ever seen administrators both building and districtwide held accountable. Thank you for not allowing us to continue in the provisal way of allowing studentu adults to fail up while our students and buildings fall down. Just as I said to the last superintendent, Mr. Mohip, this is the honeymoon period. My hope is that this marriage of leaders and collaborators continues and results in greener pastures and futures for our students. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes public comments. Great. Next, we have reports and
018communication from the superintendent. All right. Thank you. want to bring up um Dr. Wat to give our financial update. Good evening everyone. Good evening. First up we have the treasures report. If you take a look for the month of March, we are nine months in and we have brought in 90% of our proposed revenue as of today. That's a clap. [Applause] Good evening. In reference to our expenditures, we have expended 73% of our proposed budget. And are there any questions regarding the treasures report? Next up, we have our bill list. Are there any questions? I don't have any questions. Um, Dr. Hill. Yes. Uh but it appears that the credit card is still the same as it has it has not gone down. Is that something that you guys are still working to get down?
019Yes, we are. It is still there. Um we are still working to try to get that down. Um, in addition to that, we are stressing to individuals that to seek out the vendor first to make sure that they're able to have access for repositions for purchase orders. But that still seems to be a challenge in some areas, but that is an ongoing concern and we are trying to work on it. So, thank you for asking about that. Next up, we have business office updates. Um a couple of weeks ago, S&P Global Rating um this is a rating agency that is a leading credit u agency that provides forward-looking opinions on the creditworthiness of entities and their financial obligations. These ratings offer a common and transparent global language for investors to assess and compare the relative
020likelihood that an issuer may repay its debts on time in full. It's basically our own credit rating. So we are happy to report that proviso um debt rating did increase um to a double A minus from a A+. That's another class. Um, are there any questions regarding the upgrade in the credit rating? That's all I have for today. And I have a a little congratulations sign because that was good news. We weren't expecting that. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good evening everyone. Thank you. All right. Moving on into uh just information items. We just have a few for this month. Um the first one I'm going to bring on Mike Swans to talk about actually the first two. Good evening board. First information item which will be an action item uh next board
021meeting is a student summer IT internship. This would be the third year or this would be the fourth year now. Yeah, fourth year um of us offering this internship uh opportunity to our students. It's been great, especially now that summer school is at East and West. They're able to engage, work through tickets, and really uh most importantly be a really valuable member of the team to help us prep everything um for the incoming freshman and transfer students. So, that's 1,400 student devices and 150 staff devices plus daily operations and uh you know, technology needs for the building. So, um looking to continue that for this year with the again six interns. Last year, it was at $15 an hour. this year would be proposed again six at 1580 and that would align with the PLCCA
022um what they offer as well. So we're kind of matching that for our program. Second item is uh our rate switch replacement. So this has come up um quite often. It's been going on for for years. We're year five. Um we have roughly or not roughly we have $580,000 left to spend um in our FCC rate funding and we were looking to utilize um that to do a switch replacement across the district. So what that would do is um we spent 188,000 so far. Um we'd be doing a switch replacement um across all buildings and that would prep us for a upcoming wireless upgrade as well. So, we did 2025 2026 RFPs and reviewed them and selected Mindsight uh based on the decision matrix um at a cost of $680,000 for the project. Any questions?
023All right. Next is something that one of our teachers in Ireland spoke about earlier. Alex is going to help save my voice. Thanks, Alex. Thank you. um board six and board members, secretary department. Good evening. My name is Alexander Asha. I am the deputy superintendent of educational services. Uh thank you again. Yeah, we did hear Miss Ireland speak to the book donation going to uh scarce. I myself have also shopped at scarce. It is a great establishment there. Learned that you don't you cannot bring your kids uh there. There is not allow that. All right, looking at the book donation again. Big thanks to Johnny Jenkins who uh kind of led this effort also with Dr. Gotautly uh taking an inventory of all of our books. There were 6,77 600 6,772 books uh in total
024that did need to be donated. There's a small uh financial impact with this of just about $1,600. Unfortunately, given the number of books and our equipment, we're not able to transfer those. it's just not the manpower and time to transfer those. So we are looking at uh an outside company to do that work that we've contracted and got an estimate from. So looking about two to three trips but this is something very needed. Uh we have numerous book rooms. Again this was a big effort to go through and just consolidate uh the amount of books that are no longer needed. Thank you. The last item um for information, something we're considering bringing next month is a new system called K12 Let's Talk. K12 Insight Let's Talk is a program that would help us monitor incoming
025and outgoing um communication. So essentially, as I've been here for the past over four months now, I've realized that there have been a lot of complaints from the community um and a lot of complaints internally from staff regarding emails and requests going um unanswered or taking a very long time to be answered. This is anything from parents trying to call to get information from teachers, requesting information from central office. Um, and so the K12 Let's Talk system is able to capture all of these different requests that are coming in so we can start monitoring um, turnaround times. My expectation would be that anytime that a request comes in internally or externally that we could respond to it within 24 hours. Now I understand we may not be able to resolve that but we should be
026able to make contact with people to let them know that they are valued, that we are listening and that we are working on this. um we can then um as we ensure that within 24 hours there's a response, we continue to monitor it, monitor it to see how long it takes to get to final closure. And so I've used the system in previous districts and it's helped really bring about some changes within the culture of a building and so within the culture of of a school system. And that's what we need to do here is trying to make sure that we are being responsive to our community and to our own staff. And so it does come at a cost approximately 22,500 would be the per year cost. In the first year it would be
027set up there would be a $16,000 cost that would be able to set it up into our system. Setting up into our our phone lines and then also providing the professional development that's needed for our staff. From my view, my perspective, I can manage and I can monitor every single employee to see how many requests are coming in, how many time how long it's taking them to make that initial first response and how long it's taking them to close a response ticket. And as somebody um as a person is requesting information, they do have an opportunity to rate us on a five on a fivestar scale so we can start getting that customer relations feedback score. And the goal would be to be at least a 4.0 out of five on all of our communications
028with internal external communications. Any questions? I'll I'll continue to put some information in a previous board update. I am looking to see if I can have a rep come in and make a present board so you can ask more questions and see the system in person. Next, we'll be moving on to the action items and I'll bring up the corresponding staff members to talk through these. Again, these are the ones that will be voting on tonight. Um the first one is just um I know that board member Hixon has done a great job preparing us for the policy press 117. So, this month is the final reading. So, if there are any questions about any of these, I know they've been also placed in your updates um over the past few months. We have three
029pages here of policies that we will be taking in Sean and approved we put into our workbook. Next is Renaissance Star again. So looking at renewing uh Renaissance Star. This is something that we have been using. Now this is uh continued partnership for a three-year renewal. We are very pleased uh with our partnership with Renaissance Star. We utilize this as a universal screener. So this is something that we provide an assessment in reading and math to our students three times a year. So that is done in the fall basically right at the beginning of the school year in the winter at December January time and then again in the spring uh toward the end of the school year to assess where our students are. there is an alignment with ACT or SAT with looking at
030the ACT now to take a look at those at the standards that students uh still need support in uh within Renaissance. So you're also going to see an adoption and ask for uh nearpod which is a connection now with Renaissance that kind of merged companies to provide some additional tools to our teachers. Uh this is something that's very valuable to us as a district, something that's helped progress monitor uh our student progress in reading and math. Uh something that our administrators regularly use as well as our teachers uh to better assess where our students needs are. And there's a lot of differentiated support in there as well with specific tools for our teachers so they can kind of group students based on ability level to give again some more information about how to better support
031their learning in the classroom. See uh beyond that and I did not mention yet we use this also for our type one assessment. So this is something that is part of every teacher's evaluation as well as our administrator's evaluation where that is our student growth measure of whether students are or are not uh growing academically. So again further need for this to continue our partnership and the renewal with Renaissance Star. Thank you. Thank you. gave me. All right. Um, so Miss Island, very good job. By the way, our science textbooks are falling apart. Um, they're outdated, 13 years old, missing copies. You can no longer replace them, and the digital of those will stop next year. Um, so now is the time to purchase new textbooks. We brought in several different vendors, and we went
032with um, Experience Physics. It was unanimously recommended by all of our physics teachers. We did pilot it. We just finished the pilot right before uh spring break. And one of the great things about this program is you can change Lexile levels. Um you can have different um experiments that you can do. So if a kid is homebound, he's not missing out or she's not missing out on experiments. You actually pick up the stuff and do it. It's not a demo. Um, so very good program to go ahead and do. We're looking at books, classroom sets, three-year digital licenses. The virtual PD that's on here is actually for physics and chemistry. And then our shipping were a little under 58,000. Next is chemistry. Same thing, missing copies, 13 years old. Um, a majority of our teachers
033recommended this. There was a little bit of push back. Um, but once they start using the program, I know they will be ecstatic with it. Um, especially that EL and DL component. That is what's lacking in our current textbook and our that current one is not going to be upped. So, Pearson is not redoing it. So, we feel that this is the best program out there for our students. It will help every single one of them. And with all the books across the district, three-year digital license shipping, don't forget the PDS in there. We just tacked it on to physics for under $100,000. Thank you. Any questions about either next Marino talk about new contracting role? Thank you, Bor. Um we have talked about Newella uh last month um as an information item. It is
034up for vote tonight for action item. This is a program um that provides rigorous and high interest articles to our students. Uh we have tremendously high usage by our teachers across the board. Uh it's used by all of our content areas. In fact, more of it is used in the nonla areas. Um, there's ELA, there's social studies, there's science, there's EEL, and there's social emotional learning content as well. They provide it in Spanish, which can read the text in English or Spanish with or without the audio. This is a tremendous feature of New Zella. As I said, teachers have provided consistent positive feedback for further implementation in their classrooms. They're also utilizing the integration of Newella with Schooly so that students can access this through the Schooly platform and get right onto Newella with those
035selected articles that the teacher has hand selected for their classes as supplementary curriculum material. The blended learning suite and the Newella writing digital license package would run for one year. It includes six virtual PD sessions because there's so much that teachers can do with it. The total investment would be $72,822.30 and it would be funded through our general funds. And again, this is something that we've been using for the last four years to provide highinterest rigorous non-fiction text for our students. Questions? Next, we have the Renaissance near pot that Alex had referred to earlier. Sorry Mr. Ash referred to earlier. Yeah. Near pod is uh a new interactive uh platform that we're using. It was introduced city board, excuse me. Um it was introduced uh and we invested in it last year and during the
036month of October uh we trained all of our teachers and our usage uh was very low at that time but at this time it has really uh picked up significantly. Um we trained teachers in October and we saw a really um increase in usage during the uh past months and uh the good thing about the near pod it is connected directly with Renaissance. So a lot of our teachers have readym made lessons there. Um and the other thing about the platform it's very engaging. uh teachers uh may give students uh quizzes, they can play different games. Um it's just a a a very engaging platform. So currently uh our data is there. We have um we've had and this is just a beginning snapshot. uh we've held about 200 there have been about 250 sessions
037with about 89 teachers that have uh adopted uh nearpod our uh monthly usage uh has been a steady growth in usage with proviso provisiso is uh proviso east is leading in our sessions uh with 51.9% um and then proviso west contributes to that about 15.27% and then PMSA uh 29%. Uh our investment with our renewal license will be $33,600. And I am strongly recommending uh that we continue to build on this. One of the things that we know when our students are engaged, positive things are happening. And um so um I'm just looking forward to uh the success. I have recently provided a plan uh to Mr. Ashoff regarding ways that we plan to increase the usage even before we leave this school year. So we have some things in place where we will be
038uh uh working onetoone and then we also have some super users uh some of our super user teachers will be leading some of those sessions and so I have some swag to present to a couple of our super users. So I do have a course questions. Yes. So I have two. Um the first is can you define what a session is? Okay. a session is in near pod. Let's say whatever that content area is um if it's mathemat if it's um social studies uh there may be a social studies session uh with whatever um the standards that that teacher may be working with. There are thousands and thousands of sessions that teachers can start with students that are already ready made. We have also seen some of our proviso teachers uh that have made their
039own uh sessions and so they're out there for the general public as well. So is that like an assignment or video? Yes, it it may be a combination of an interactive video. It may be polls that the teacher may be taking uh to be able to look to see what that um learning may be uh in in form. Thank you. And then my second question is I mean these usage rates look very low to me since this is our second year. So what we're excuse me but technically this will be our second year but we invested in uh in in this last year school year is the first school year. Yes ma'am. So we we did our first uh teacher training session this past October. That makes much more sense. Yes. So we we definitely
040anticipate that that the numbers will be going up and we plan to conduct those sessions onetoone um and then we'll have other teachers and um and near offers a number of uh free opportunities for our teachers uh to learn at their own pace. So thank you pace. Thank you. Next we have a band instrument purchase for West. Okay. We are looking at some additional band equipment for our band instructor, Mr. Aer, at Proviso West. Uh we recently did an inventory check and realized that we needed a number of instruments at Proviso West. We did have this go out to bid and went with Sweetwater who was the best uh provider for the best value and instruments and the equipment needed. We are looking at enhancing and growing our proviso uh west band program and this
041is a desperate need uh to in order to do that. Uh the purchase of that equipment we're looking at a cost of [Music] $56,744. Any questions? All right. Then Alex, we have the All right. Imagine egeneuity or we we often refer to it as egenuity. This is primarily used as our credit recovery program. Though we do have teachers, all teachers have access to that curricular needs um if they so choose to use it, but they do primarily we use it as our credit recovery program. you notice we are looking at a one-year uh renewal. Uh we this is something looking at possibly going in a different direction but given the time that summer school is coming up we are looking at extending this for one year and then doing a very very close audit at
042some other possibilities which we've already started to engage in. We have been using this since 2019 but I think as we know that uh technology quickly advances and changes. Uh there are some just concerns around this but we feel at this time it is necessary to in to continue with a one-year renewal. We are all set up for this year with summer school and aligned with all of our current course curriculum and the current course offerings. And so that is why we're looking at just the one-year renewal at a cost of $86,633. Any questions? Could you repeat that again, please? Yes, ma'am. The dollar amount. The dollar amount. Yes, ma'am. $86,633. And and so this is essentially the backbone of our summer school program. We have a lot of kids that are that are be
043using Ingenuity to recover classes and we also have a dream program throughout the school year where kids are are working withinuity and then we also have night school programs other issue other ways for kids to try and recover classes that they're feeling. So we do have some concerns um as as Mr. Asoff was was was discussing you know technology has changed. We want to make sure that whatever program we're putting in front of the kids is a high quality, high value, and um there's there's not room for cheating. And so we're exploring other options that are available. We've had heard we have had some concerns, but we have also bought another plug into this to to um reduce the amount of cheating that could occur um with this program. Essentially, it's the age of chat
044that has made it very difficult for us. Um I don't have any questions. I do have some concerns because u what I found is you you didn't go to class almost the whole school year and in 3 weeks you come and you pass a year's worth of work or the system has been open for and so I understand um what you're saying mister. Yeah. you. It has to be something that's way more serious than ingenuity. And I've had conversation with kids that whatever they're using, they get in, they use it, answer a question, open up the next test. So, I think it's going to be very important. Okay. Yeah. We want the kids to have the skills needed to go on to the next level. All right. And the last action item we have is
045regarding the Melrose Park tip. And so this is something we talked about several times. I know before I came on the board um or before I joined the district, the board um did approve two tips for Melrose Melrose Park and um with that we engaged in additional conversations with the mayor with the city and they have agreed to an IGA to provide us $250,000 to spend as we need to improve student outcomes. Um the caveat with this is that we do spend these dollars in in one year from execution of this IGA and it is a reimbursement model. So as we make the expenses we would get reimbursed from the city in accordance with that IGA. Very thankful to mayor and the city of Mosart for making this available to us. We will um bring
046options to this board on how we can best use these funds to move forward our student outcomes and achievement levels. So, it starts tomorrow. As long as you sign it. Okay. Any questions on any of the items? All right. Thank you. Great. President's report like, I don't have much, but I do want to apologize for starting the meeting a bit late. Um, the open session started at around 7:30. was we had kind of a heavy executive session. So, I apologize for the for the um community that waited for us. So, we try to do our best when we sit here. So, you guys don't wait that long, but we're getting there. Um, with that being said, uh, I also want to congratulate the the newly, uh, elect board members of um, but I also want
047to thank the veteran board members of education because I always believe that, you know, there's always a purpose. There's everything happens with a purpose for a purpose, right? We sit here. I've been sitting here eight years now. Um pro probably served eight years here. And I've learned a lot here. And I'm sitting here because eight years ago somebody decided uh to call me because I was a parent that was in PTO PTA. I was advocating for kids at the pro district 89 schools. And I sit here today. um the newly born members are are going to be here in a perfect setting kind of like in 2017 when we started where you have you know new board members I know there was I don't know what the outcome was but I know it's pretty long
048but really was is four new board members that are coming in in a perfect setting you got a new superintendent a great superintendent you got a great uh board still here so there will be no excuse not to excel in this next four years for you guys to bring this district even higher than it is now. And you know, I thank you for voting. I never really got I mean, I thank you for running. I really never got that, but I remember when I first won, everybody was thanking me. I'm like, why are you thanking me? Well, now I know. Eight years later, now I know why they were thanking me. But there's a lot you're going to learn here. There's a lot of commitment to the students, especially the families, the community, and I
049still have a freshman at Provis. So, I'll still be heavily involved. Um, we're a proviso family. I graduated from here. My wife did West. My son's from two two from east and one from here. So, congratulations. And also congratulations to our veteran board members that are retiring uh after eight years of service. I think eight years, maybe 12 years was enough, you know. So, I want to thank them because we we we we did a lot together, you know, we argue, we came together, we agreed to disagree, but overall, I think we brought the district to a better place and we just expect that, right? We live on this communities and we expect the new board members to bring it up even higher than that. So, um that's all I have to say. anybody else
050has to say anything. Just thank you new board for coming in and thank you for running and thank you veteran board members for for sticking with me and sticking throughout this 80 years and doing what we can for the community since we got one more meeting. So yeah, I got one more meeting, but I think that was more of a special meeting, right? So it's more of a special meeting, so I don't think I'll get to say this, so I just want to say it now. But yeah, thank you the newly board members and thank you board members, my present with my granddaughters, not my grandfather. Thank you. That's all. With that being said, okay, may I have a motion to approve the minutes of the March 11, 2025 board of education meeting as presented?
051Second. Jenny, please call the RO. Mr. Alexander, absent. Mrs. Hixon, hi. Mr. Okampo, hi. Miss Patterson, hi. Miss Graham, hi. Mr. Ber, hi. Miss Bartman I. Motion carried. May I have a motion to approve the April 8th, 2025 bill list in the amount of 5,732,225.33 as presented. So move. Second call. Mr. Alexander absent. Mr. Tixon. Hi. Mr. Rompo. Hi. Mr. Patterson. Hi. Miss Grant. Hi. Mr. Belier. Hi. Miss Bartman. I motion carried. I have a motion to approve the resolution for the non-renewal of probationary teachers who are not completing the their final probationary year of service teachers being say right Amal Sati Lisa Mazanski Roach Danny Steamer as presented by administration second Mr. Alexander absent Mrs. Hixon I Mr. Mr. Okmpo. Hi, Miss Patterson. Hi, Miss Graham. Hi, Mr. Bierz. Hi, Miss Barban. I motion
052carried. May I have a motion to approve the resolution for the non-renewal of probationary teachers who are completing their final probationary year of service such teachers being Kleti Elsas Paula Shard as presented by the administration. So, second, please call the vote. Mr. Alexander absent. Mr. Hixon. Mr. Mr. PMPO. Hi, Miss Patterson. Hi, Miss Graham. Hi, Mr. Belier. Hi, Miss Barbin. I motion carried. May I have a motion to authorize the appointments, employment, resignations, terminations, and stip? We're skipping 15. You're skipping 15, but 16 you got to pull up. Uh, yes. I'm sorry. We're going to pull one a2. A2. Number 18. May I have a motion to authorize the appointment resignation termination stats as set forth in the first report dated 2025 minus 182 as presented. So move second call. Mr. Alexander absent Mrs. Hixon.
053Hi. Mr. Okonco. Hi. Miss Patterson. Hi. Miss Grant. Hi. Mr. Belteras. Hi. Miss Barban I. Motion carried. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda to include the following agreements and the expenditures? A. Adopt policy updated update press 17 on 17. Renaissance star renewal physics textbook purchase chemistry textbook purchase. News PLA contract renewal. Renaissance near contract renewal. Imagine learning ingenuity renewal. Intergovernmental agreement with village of Merles Park concerning TIF reimbursement. Second, please call the RO. Mr. Alexander absent. Mrs. Hixon. Hi. Mr. Okmpo. Hi. Miss Patterson. Hi. Miss Grant. Hi. Mr. Belier. Hi. Miss Barban. I. Motion carried. And if you read the foyer report, please. I can. Township High School District 209 received the following foyer request. Uh date received was March 27th, 2025. Request was Walter Breeski. The request was Vincent Rosiola's
054complete personnel file, salary, work history, termination letters, disciplinary records, incident reports, warnings and suspensions, documents, letters, layoff notices, letters, investigative files, vetting information, resume references, employment applications, and class schedule. The request is in process. That concludes. Thank you, Jenny. Any old [Music] business? Hearing none. New business hearing. None. Jenny, can we call I have a motion to sorry second. Mr. Alexander, absent. Uh, Mrs. Hixon. I. Miss Grant. Hi, Miss P. Miss Patterson. I Mr. Okmpo. Hi, Mr. Rosier. Hi, Mr. Barman. I motion carried. We are done at 8:31 p.m. tonight. Let's climb down the hill.