001Good evening, Wardes. I would like to call the regular meeting of the school board to order. Uh, secretary, please call the role. Valencia here. Deuentes absent. Bez here. L here. Olivas here. Moreno absent. and Johnson here. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. We're going to move on to our public comments. Um to speak at the board meeting, uh you might have signed in before 7 p.m. Everyone who has signed in before the meeting will be called upon to speak at the um here and in front. Please respect the three minute limits. um respect the confidentiality of students and staff um and keep your comments
002appropriate. First speaker, Merl. Hello board and community. My name is Merl Herren, 723 Bang Street, Aurora, Illinois. Um district employee, EA grad, class of 1983 and also a union stewart with SEU local 73. And I'd just like to address um just to say Dr. Dr. Halverson, we want to say thank you for meeting with us on June 5th and opening yourself up to us, letting us know your plan, your goals for servant leadership. We love it. And we have a bunch of our our constituents here after being encouraged by your um gracious attitude towards us. We're looking forward to getting to know you better and having that. That's a little early. Getting to Wow, I have to laugh. Okay. No, but I I just want to say thank you so much for that. um looking
003at that and as I said to you um you know appreciate your you know you just talking about your roots with district 131 we're looking forward to that somebody who's well rooted and by the way the armed breast say hello and uh and I was also looking at your dissertation actually and I love the fact Robert Greenleaf's theory of servant leadership I've just started reading into that I am so looking forward to this and thank you it's refreshing and I'm looking forward to spread out throughout the district thank you very Next goes Antonio and he does need an interpreter. Okay. Uh good evening distinguished board members. Uh Gratitude, Dr. Halerson. Uh the reason for us being here today is to give uh groundskeepers uh masonaries and other uh workers at the uh buildings uh building
004and ground building and grounds department uh a chance to uh express their gratitude. Uh you asked us a question that was uh what do you what do you want uh what's our perspective? What do you what do you think uh we see that is most important for us to accomplish? for you. Uh precisely the uh the way that you amicably embraced us and allowed us to speak. Uh and that just shows your support and we're really uh thankful for that. Chicago. [Music] We want to thank you. We're all part of this community. Uh I have three children that go to the district and one currently is attending the University of Chicago. Uh, each one of us here has benefited from the hard work of the district and we want you to know that we are
005preparing for new negotiations for our new contract. Uh, as you can see today, I brought all my brothers and sisters here. Uh some of them coming straight from work to express that we are all one organization and we are all united for the u well-being of our children. Uh, we would also like to use this opportunity to uh ask you to excuse us for each time it seems that we demand a little bit too much uh especially with uh regards to the uh previous director. Uh we tried to work with him and uh well we're looking to uh uh we want to continue uh working under your leadership. So I promise the next time I will doing this speech in English. So I'm I'm working on this. I'm working on this. But we are really
006proud to be uh the the Latino community and be part of one only one special community. Gracias Rafael. Thank you everyone. Thank you. [Music] on to communications from the superintendent. Good evening board members, member the members of the Easter community. The first update I have for us is for summer school right now. Um I'm proud to say that for summer school for total uh enrollment pre-K through 8th grade, we have 454 students enrolled. Uh we have 480 students enrolled in our high school programming. This includes uh traditional summer school as well as ESY. And then on top of that, um we have 62 students who have completed summer school at the high school. Um nine seniors who have completed summer school working towards graduation that'll continue to climb as we get closer to summer graduation
007there. And then we also have uh implemented some after school programming or camps for the summer. We have 208 students who are participating in soccer camp, 75 students participating in basketball camp, 19 students who are in our all youth leadership academy and 201s who are who are participating in STEM ignition right now as well. So a lot of good summer programming going on for our kids with a lot of participation right now. So that was the first thing I wanted to report. The second item uh 4 A2 is summer school graduation. Touched on that briefly. It'll be July 16th at Aurora University at 6 p.m. We encourage all of the board, cabinet members, uh, community to to attend and celebrate our summer graduates as well. Next, we have 4 A3, which is a motion to
008approve the safety mapping solution for all district buildings to critical response group in the amount of $86,000. And we went through this last time at our buildings and grounds meeting to talk a little bit specifically about the digital mapping and how it will service our buildings and provide even an even more increased response time when it comes to uh local um police officers and medical respondents and fire personnel as well. So, I've got a motion out there, if there's no questions, to approve the safety mapping solution for all district buildings to critical response group in the amount of $86,000. So moved. Second. Any questions? Secretary, please call the role. Yes. Yes. Li. Yes. Reyes. Yes. Thank you. And our next item is 4 A4, which is the motion to approve the commercial insurance policies as
009presented by the hub group for the 2025 2026 school year. And once again, this is just our commercial insurance policies, not the insurance as a whole or insurance premiums that go out there. Are there any questions about that before I call a vote? I didn't get to see this. So, what you said, it's not the it's not our normal insurance. What is it again, Bob? I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Angel to talk a little bit more about the specifics there, Jud. It's our collective liability insurance, our our workman's comp insurance, our cyber liability, and our property insurance. Okay. For everything. Okay. And the reason we're bringing it tonight under the superintendent's agenda and then dropping it right down for action is it has to be embedded by July 1st to make sure
010we're in place for the fiscal year 26 there. And you got a couple different quotes it looks like. Right. Went out to bid right. A lot of this has been bid out specifically I will say for this year uh workman's comp and our uh cyber liability and auto insurance commercial liability as well. similar to the year before. It's up a little bit. Yeah. Okay. That's housekeeping. Yeah, that's everything. Any other questions with that one at all? Okay. So, I'll read it one more time. Motion to approve the commercial insurance policies is presented by the hub group for the 2025 2026 school year. So, moved. Second. Secretary, please call the role. Valencia, yes. Olivas, yes. Yes. Johnson, yes. Reyes, yes. And that concludes my report for this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Item five, a motion
011to approve the following consent agenda as listed. So moved. Second. Any questions? Hearing none. Secretary, please call the role. Reyes? Yes. L? Yes. Johnson? Yes. Valencia? Yes. Olivas? Yes. Next we have the finance and personnel committee with Miss Reyes. Good afternoon board members and community members. Was deto. Um so we had the finance and personnel committee last June 2nd uh 2025 at 5:30 p.m. here in the administrative center. And do I need to There were no public comments. Um, we went over some donations. Dr. Engel uh presented all of the donations received by the district to which the committee agreed that the donations were in order. Um, we also discussed uh the FMP committee me committee meeting dates and times. There were no questions um and we moved forward with that. The monthly financial reports,
012Dr. Engel presented the financial reports for March and April of 2025. Uh there were no questions so we move forward. Everything looked in order and we moved forward. Um, Dr. Engel also uh brought us information regarding the appointment of district treasurer Dr. Rob Grossy uh will be retiring this year. So, Dr. or I'm sorry, David Ricker will be his replacement. Uh, additionally, Dr. Engel stated that he will be placing a request of recommendation to appoint the new treasur. Uh we also discussed the certification of treasurers shity bond. Dr. Engel stated that the finance uh is requesting a bond of 20 million for the upcoming year and the request will be taking place for action during the next board uh of education meeting. We also discussed the bank depository. Dr. Engel provided background regarding that depository
013as it is updated annually. This update permits the district to utilize Harris Bank in an official capacity as Bloom Township of Trustees and Treasurers uses this bank to process accounts payable and payroll transactions. Um Dr. Engel also brought up um the high school grand piano that the district obtained several quotes for the purchase to which the district will be pursuing a purchase from the piano man. Uh we'll be trading in the current high school's piano grand concert piano. Um, President Cuentes asked if the district will continue to use the high school's other panels. Uh, Dr. Engel stated that the repair cost would be much higher uh than to purchase a new one. So, that panel will be traded in for the new purchase. Uh, Dr. Halverson then confirmed that the trade-in value offset the cost
014of the purchase for the Arbiter Sports for middle schools. Dr. Angel stated that this item request is a third-party source for referees for district sporting events and this request in particular will be for middle schools in the district. Uh Dr. Ballard um presented a review of revisions to the IASB press board policies. Uh he mentioned updates to language for title 4 which will be changing per current regulations. Dr. Ballard also stated that there have been changes made to policies uh 7200 and 7210 which allow students undergoing suspension or expul expulsion to have a support person or representative of their choosing. This information will be added to suspension and expulsion letters after July 1st. Uh Dr. Ballard um continued that policy 7250 will be adding language to identify a person at each school that provides support
015to parents or students who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Additionally, Dr. Ballard also mentioned um policy 7255 which references program support for parents and or students of domestic or sexual violence. Um and so the district will be working together with building leaders once these policies go into effect. Um there we also discussed a request for an emergency approval for one FTE one-on-one special education teacher assistant at the Gonzalez Child Service Center. Dr. Mr. Ballard um stated that the emergency request is due to a student who meets the requirement for one-on-one teacher assistance. Uh we also discussed the request for three uh.16 overloads for PLTW for the fourth quarter at Fred Rogers Magnet Academy. Um this request is part of a continuation of an overlord overload approved previously and that this request is seeking
016approval to pay the remainder of that overload. Um we also discussed the request of one 1.0 FTEE dean at Simmons Middle School. Um this request is to add a dean of students to Simmons Middle School as it is the largest and the other middle schools have been provided with that support. Um President Cuentes asked if the structure of the structure as Simmons will change regarding principal leadership to which Dr. Ballard responded that the structure will be the same as the other middle schools that currently have deans in place. And with that, the meeting was adjourned at 5:42 p.m. Um, and we have some action items like section. Okay. And we do have some action items that we will be um approving tonight or seeking approval. Motion to approve the fiscal year resolution to appoint a
017district treasure, a school district treasurer. So moved. Second. Any questions? I do. Um so I don't remember doing this before. This is because the Bloom Township invests our money and that fell is retiring. So now we're picking a new person. So each and every year um you go through and we appoint a district treasurer. Um it just so happens this year Dr. Gross is retiring. He's retiring in June 30th. And this is um the first change in Bloom Township's trustees of schools as far as treasurer in 38 years. So So this fellow watches out for our district. Our district along with I want to say 23 others. Yeah. Correct. All right. So that's standard operating procedure. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's Any other questions hearing? None. Secretary, please call the role. Valencia, yes. Olivas, yes. Reyes,
018yes. Johnson, yes. Lash, yes. Uh 4B2 motion to approve the certification for the amount of treasures shy bond. So moved. Second. Any questions hearing? None. Secretary, please call the role. Olivas, yes. Valencia, yes. Johnson, yes. Reyes, yes. Yes. 4B3. Motion to approve the resolution for depositories. Some moved. Second. Any questions? Hearing none. Secretary, please call the role. Reyes? Yes. Valencia? Yes. Johnson? Yes. Yes. Olivas. Yes. 4B4. Motion to approve the quote from piano man for East High School in the amount of 20,387. So moved. Second. Any questions here? None. Secretary, please call the role. Bosch, yes. Valencia, yes. Johnson, yes. Reyes, yes. Olivas, yes. 4B5. Motion to approve one FTE 1:1 special education teacher assistant for the Gonzalez Child Service Center. So moved. Second. Any questions here? None. Secretary, please call the role. Rosh, yes.
019Valencia, yes. Olivas, yes. Johnson, yes. Reyes, yes. 4B6. Motion to approve the three-year agreement with Arbiter in the amount of 12,4.96. So moved. Second. Any questions hearing? None. Secretary, please call the role. Johnson? Yes. Valencia? Yes. Olivas? Yes. Reyes? Yes. L? Yes. We're going to move on to curriculum and program committee with Miss Valencia. Uh the curriculum committee meeting. Um well, we met this evening at 6 PM here at the administrative center. Uh we will provide the details at the next regular board meeting and that will happen July 28th at 6 PM uh here in the administrative building. Thank you. All right. Next on to buildings and ground committee with uh Mr. Lavshi. Yep. So building and ground committee met June 2nd right here. Um I'll go through the items. Dr. Magazinei gave us an
020update on a lot of the construction projects. Um the district um would like to have a formal rep request process for handling tree or bench as uh in memorandum and memorials. How do you say that? So we're going to look into that. Um district's going to look into purchase two vans which we're going to have an action item for tonight. Um Dr. Dr. Meazini talked about uh the IT department gathering quotes to purchase management software to monitor the safety and security of the district's information. We have an action item about that. Uh we talked about the meeting dates for the next fiscal year resolution for the sale recycle of old usable unusable copers and IT devices. We talked about the work order summary and the uh performance on that. Then we had an executive session
021and we have a couple action items. First is a motion to approve the purchase of two vehicles, cargo vans from Curry Motors in the amount of 104,934. So moved. Second. Any questions hearing? None. Secretary, please call the role. Valencia, yes. Johnson, yes. Olivas, yes. M. Yes. Yes. Next is a motion to approve the purchase of Casia Dark Web Pentest and Bull Scan Security Management System for a three-year agreement in the amount of $44,356. Some moved. Second. Any questions hearing? None. Secretary, please call the role. Reyes, yes. Slash, yes. Johnson, yes. Valencia, yes. Yes. And finally, motion to approve the sale of personal property, IT equipment, and unusable IT devices. So moved. Second. Any questions? Hearing none. Secretary, please call the role. Yes. Yes. Olivas, yes. Johnson, yes. Valencia, yes. Our next meeting is Monday, July
0227th at 5:30 right here. Over to you. Thank you. Uh can I have please have a motion uh to executive session for the purpose of discussing student discipline, safety and security, pending litigation and appointment, employment performance, compensation and dismissal of a specific employee. So moved. Second. Any questions? Secretary, please call the role. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And there will be action resulting from a secession. That was fast. Can I get a motion to reconvene from uh close session, please? So moved. Second, please call the role. Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh, Mr. Lovely. Be it resolved that this board of education after considering the evidence presented by the hearing officer hereby upholds the recommendation for alternative placement to core academy in lie of expulsion for student 349639930 of Simmons Middle School for school year to 2026
023to include summer school 2025 and 2026. Should said student fail to attend the alternative education setting, the expulsion will be immediately enacted for the remainder of the expulsion term without further action by the board of education. Be it be further resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to the parents of said student and duly recorded in the official minutes of this board of education, school district 131, dated the 16th day of June, 2025. 10A. Motion to approve the resolution for student number 349639930. So moved. Second. Any questions? Secretary, please call the role. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. 10B. Motion to approve the resolution for the honorable dismissal of educational support personnel. [Music] So moved. Second. Any questions? Secretary, please call the role. Hold on one second. What is this? What's this? This is
024different than this. What are you What was your That's another resolution that is on your agenda or packet. No. All right. I know what you're talking about. Fair enough. Sir, could I please call the role? Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion to adjurnn. Second. Secretary, please call the role. Valencia. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.