001Good evening everyone. We're going to start the September 2nd, 2025 700 p.m. regular board meeting to order. Secretary, please call the role. >> Valencia >> here. >> Reyes >> here. >> L >> here. >> Oliv >> Here. Johnson absent. All >> right. Before we uh select the pledge of allegiance, I just wanted to congratulate Mr. Olivas on being selected uh for Fiestas Patrias as the grand marshal. So, if you could please uh lead us with uh the pledge of allegiance, sir. All right, moving on to public comment. In order to have signed up for public comment, you would have had to sign up before 7 p.m. Respect the 3minut time limit and respect the confidential confidentiality of students and staff and keep comments appropriate. Mark Michelini. Hello, I'm Mark Mlaney. the chairperson for the educational
002foundation. 1977 graduate of East Aurora High School. Um, also a member of the Krue School. Um, I think I graduated school Krue School probably in 19 7273. I felt pretty good about it until Dr. Halverson told everyone that u I went to school with his mom. Then I realized I was old. But no, it's been an absolute pleasure. I was able to attend the red and black day and it was fantastic. I mean, um, God, I could have been in high school. It was just that uplifting of events and inspiring. And so, I'm so happy to be a part of this. And I hope that I can carry forward in the tradition of the longstanding um foundation that is over I think it's going to be 1991 to 2025 35 years. Fantastic. So tonight I'm
003presenting you with our annual report and this is our third annual annual report. Um there's copies out in the out in the foyer. I wrote out the first two and barely got through them, but this year I had help. Melissa Mardo was absolutely essential and Saul has been also great for us. So tonight I wanted to present this to you and this talks about what we do throughout the year and the many times we touch the district and the things that we do. Um I'm happy to report that we've hit all-time highs in our fundraising. I'm happy to report that we've hit all-time highs in our scholarships. Last year we did 33 scholarships. This year for 2026 we're looking at 45 scholarships. Yeah. Uh I've had people since we've gotten word out they've doubled their
004contributions. It's just been fantastic. So with that, I'd like to thank the people that have helped us in the past. And that number one person is Lisa Morales. Thank you so much. Uh I think you were here pretty close to the start. So she has been our guiding light for so so many years. I'd also like to thank Dr. Halverson. He has welcomed us with open arms. Thank you. And if I'm over that threem minute thing, please somebody tap the g and Mr. Suentes. Um your your comments at the um red black dam were completely awesome. Um Dr. Engle, I've known him for 20 25 years. It's great to see you. Mr. Simpson, we just met you. So, we're looking forward to working with you. And I got to call out to Miss Jennifer Mitchell.
005She has always been so helpful when we're at the high school. So, with that, I would like to um say that we're very excited and I hope you take a look at I gave you a couple extra copies, share them with your friends and neighbors and relatives and uh look forward to supporting us. Thank you. All right, moving on to communications from the superintendent, Dr. Halverson. >> Sure. First, I'd like to call up under uh action item 4A, um I'd like to call up Miss Britney Walker to go through the communication community relations report for us this evening. So, Miss Britney Walker, thank you. >> Good evening, everyone. Tonight, um, in the presence of the board of education, we are proud to honor one of our very own, an East Aurora High School alumnist, a
006dedicated public servant, and a true hometown hero. Officer Gerard Gerardo Chidz of the Aurora Police Department has shown extraordinary bravery both on and off duty. On January 19th in 2024, he responded to a devastating dog attack on a young girl. Without hesitation, he stopped the attack, applied a tourniquet, and ultimately saved her life. Just months later, while on vacation vacation in Texas, Officer Chadez witnessed a motorcycle crash. He immediately took action, dragged the victim to safety, improvised yet another tourniquet, and saved another life. In both moments of chaos and crisis, Officer Titz remained calm, decisive, and selfless. His courage is an uh inspiration not only to his fellow officers, but to the entire East Aurora community and especially to the students who walk the same halls he once did. Now the story comes full circle
007as officer Chidz has recently returned to East Aurora High School as their school resource officer serving the next generation of Tomcats in the very building where his own journey began. This evening we are honored to welcome him home and to recognize him for his heroism, his service, and his lasting example. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming Officer Gerardo Chitz. So, this award reads Hometown Hero Award presented to Officer Gerardo Chitz in honor of your exceptional contributions and dedicated service. Thank you. >> You're gonna have them come to you. You want to say anything else right here. Before Miss uh Walker moves on to our next item, I just like to say uh congratulations, Officer Shides. Again, uh we're truly uh excited about the continued partnership with the Aurora Police Department. um under uh Officer
008Wick's uh leadership, we're collaborating even more with them than we have recently. We're excited to continue to open up those opportunities. Uh we had a lot of support from the ROAR Police Department as we started the school year. Um it included we even had some officers on patrol on bikes in the Philips Park area because we know that's an area that if our students choose to leave school, they kind of hang out at sometimes. Um so we're just looking for that continued collaboration with APD and so thankful for your service as well. So thank you so much. All right, more fun today. So, in addition to our award, I also wanted to, I guess, welcome us all to this brand new school year. Um, so we have been in school for nine days now, right?
009I think um we began on August 20th. Um, and on the 20th, there was a nice bus tour with some board members and Dr. Halverson touring all 22 of the schools in one very long beautiful day um seeing all the students. So we prepared a video that kind of just highlights some of those moments and some of the numbers that kind of go along with that. Um one of the things just because I won't be coming back to the mic. One of the things that we didn't get to put in the video is in those first seven days um I just got these numbers today over 83,000 meals were served um across the district. So, that's just one of the numbers that you'll see along with everything else that's with the video. Please enjoy. No
010problem. Thank you, Miss Walker, for putting that together. And the the last part there was at Waldo Middle School. Um the principal has made a a yearly occurrence of welcoming students back with Mariachi there. And you had neighbors out in the community and everything. So, it was a very vibrant experience for sure. So, thank you very much for putting that together and highlighting that, Britney. Really appreciate it. Um next for district updates, I'd like to welcome Dr. Dr. Laura Armbball to the uh to the microphone, please. She's going to provide us a little bit of an update on family counseling services. This is one of our community partners that we've began partnering with and we're really excited about the initial partnership and she's going to provide some of the highlights so far and our next
011steps as well. So, I'll turn it over to Laura. Thank you. >> Thank you. Good evening. >> Uh we have a slide ready, but while we get that up, I can uh speak to it. So, last Tuesday, August 26th, we uh had a training for all of our district administrators, uh social workers, uh counselors, and school psychologists all came through. We did a a series of trainings throughout the day where we talked with staff about our risk of harm process and combined that with our new partnership with family counseling services. Uh throughout the training, we highlighted the benefits of this partnership. Uh for those who have been with us, they were uh aware that uh we previously had the partnership and were we're very happy to have it back. In total, we had 150 staff
012that were trained throughout the day with the intended outcome that as of today, we would initiate the process for any um risk of harm uh situation that warranted additional support for the student. Uh those that were trained early were very excited to get going. We even reached out to FCS last week to um initiate connecting our families with support. Um and so far it's been it's gone very well and staff has been very pleased uh to have this additional layer to connect our families and students with additional counseling support. Uh and so I wanted to say thank you very much the board of education and Dr. Halverson for bringing this partnership back. It has been very well received and and we anticipate it will ultimately reduce um the need for higher levels of support for
013our students when they are uh mentally in a place where they're needing additional support. >> Any questions for Dr. before she uh retreats to her seat there? >> Thank you very much. And that's all I have for communications from the superintendent. So I'll turn it back over to board president Suentes for item five. All right. Motion to approve the following consent agenda as listed. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> Hearing none. Secretary call. The role, please. >> Yes. >> All right. Moving on to finance and personnel committee with uh Miss Reyes. >> Good evening everyone. Buenos atos. Uh the finance and personnel committee met earlier today uh Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. here in the admin center and I will have a report of that at the next meeting on
014Monday, October 2nd, 2025 at 5:30 here at the admin center. Um, we do have an action item. Motion to approve the following revisions to IASB press board policies A through O as listed on the per on the agenda. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> Hearing none. Secretary, call the role, please. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Moreno. >> Um, she said the date wrong. October 6, right? Not Monday the 2nd. >> You're right. Thank you. October 6, 2020. >> Oh, yes. To October 6th. >> Yes. >> And that concludes my report. >> Sounds good. On to curriculum and programs committee with Mr. Olivas. Thank you. Um the curriculum committee met on August 18, 2025 here at the admin center. Um we talked about uh Mr. Simpson talked about the school improvement plan for 2025. Um
015where all schools uh develop school improvement plans annually with leadership um team to set goals for growth in academic success. Um we also talked about um Mr. Simpson also talked about the west ed learning partnership with uh 2025 2526 um with uh Rollins, Waldo, Coward and Allen schools that are required um required to select a learning partner. Um so we are recommending they were recommending to continue with West Ed learning uh for the school year 2526. Um we also talked about a proposal for high school um courses uh with principal Mitchell uh and Miss Stone. Um we review um course catalog that led to a proposal to introduce four new courses uh culinary arts fundamental 462 college preparation math and technical math um dual credit. uh these additions aimed to uh diversify the curriculum, align
016with students interest and career pathways um and better prepare students uh for post-secondary success. Um Dr. Amy Angel also uh talked about the inter with Dr. Rita Gooseman talked about the international newcomer center. Um we had um approved this earlier uh during the summer. Um fortunately we had to put a pause in it due to um newcomer enrollment. Um and then we also finalized with attendance and enrollment. Um at that time the district registration for the 2526 school year is at 97%. Uh total of no of students registered as of August 14 u total um as of August 14 was 11,672. Um and then we had currently we talked about a little bit about what kind of enrolled students were enrolled um here at the district um with um 20 we had 43 student pending
017sorry let me go back um pending students um that were reg not registered yet were 165 students waiting 91 needing documents from their parents 43 students pending school records 29 students in progress and actively being enrolled as as scheduled. Um hopefully that number is now down. Um and then we adjourn our meeting at 6:14, which was kind of one of the shortest one. And we also have a few um action items. Um motion to approve the following school improvement plan for the 2526 school year. Um 7B1A through 7 B1E. So move. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> I have a question. I I'm going to be honest. I don't feel competent to vote on this. I mean, has the committee and Bob, you bless these plans. >> So, yeah. Uh, Mr. Lofty, this these are
018just kind of an overview of the plans and where we're heading with it. They'll be highlighted at each, uh, board meeting. We'll still have at our curriculum council meetings. will have the schools come up and actually present their plans throughout the year just like we've done in the past. This is something that is statutory required by the state board of education. It should be done on an annual basis. Um so we need to make sure we have those plans approved not only so we can receive our funding for title one planning, but then also when you look at those schools that are targeted and comprehensive for 103A schools, we need to have those approved as well. So this is more of a housekeeping measure on the front end here, but we still will go through
019and have those presentations actively. This is something that the state board of education requires of us. Um, so we're just making sure that we're dotting all our eyes and crossing all our tees and having everything taken care of there. Mr. Simpson, did I miss anything with that? >> No. And we will have our first batch of school improvement plan presentations at the September curriculum board. So, the first two schools are up uh and we are going this year in order based on designated status uh per the ISB designations. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Secretary, call the role, please. >> Ra. Yes. >> Olivia. >> Yes. >> Moreno. >> Yes. >> Valencia. >> Yes. >> The following item is 7 B2. Motion to approve the West Ed as the
020learning partner for Rollins, Waldo, Coward, and Allen School for a total of $148,000. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions? Secretary, call for the role, please. >> Valencia, >> yes. >> I'd like to go on record for that as well. And that is all coming out of 103A funds. So once again, that's coming out of state funded funds there for schools that are targeted and comprehensive. So for the record, that's all out of 103A funds. Thank you. Following motion 7B uh three motion to approve the following courses proposal for East High School for the 2627 school year. Culinary arts fundamentals forensic 2 uh college preparation math and technical math as dual credit. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions? Secretary call the roll please. >> Yes. >> Valencia. >> Yes. >> Moreno. >>
021Yes. All right, our next work committee meeting will be Monday, September 15, 2025 at 6 PM here at the admin center. And that completes my report. >> All right, thank you. Moving on to building and grounds committee with Mr. Lshe. >> Thank you. Uh we had a meeting tonight at 6 and uh we do even though it says action items, we decided to Oh, no. We are going to I'm sorry. We are going to vote on this. We have one action item. So we'll I'll give the report next time, but there is one action item to approve the McKini Vento transportation contract with first all power by first student. We're basically extending the current contract to match the other transportation contract we have. And we got a report from Andy that said it's going to
022be a 3% raise, which seemed reasonable. That's what our committee was asking. >> We have a motion. >> So moved. Second. Any questions? Secretary, call the role, please. >> Yes. >> Valencia, >> yes. >> All right. Moving on to executive session for the purpose of discussing workers compensation, student discipline, and the appointment, employment, performance, compensation, and dismissal of a specific employee. >> So move. >> Second. Secretary call the roll please. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> There will be no action after All right. Now that we're all back, motion to reconvene into open session. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Secretary call the role. >> Yes. >> Motion to adjurnn. So move. >> Second. Secretary call the roll please. >> Yes. Valencia. >> Yes.