001To the flag of the United States of America. Jackson >> preser >> is there any public participation? There is none. No public participation. Any old business? >> No business. >> Any new business? >> Yes. Uh if the board would uh give their attention to the updated policies which are listed and were in your packet. Also, the new policies which were also in your packet and the rewritten policies which were in your packet. You may recall last year we moved forward as a board. Mrs. Walker who's on that committee as well as Majin and uh Mrs. Travis about using Press Policy Plus and this is an example of how it works. So all of these policies you see here we'll be able to wave the first and second reading and we'll just be able to get
002them approved because they're all vetted by the Association School Boards and they're all at least on legislation. So they're appropriate for us to do that. That's the purpose of this meeting. So, uh, unless there are any questions, we'll close out the meeting and then we'll have an opportunity to take action on this in the board. Any other business? No other business, John. Okay. Looks like it's about 604 for the uh very motion. Oh, Miss >> Mason. >> Hi, >> Jackson. >> Hi, >> Jason. >> Walker. >> Thank you, Mr. G. Thank you. Okay, let's go right into roll call, please. >> Johnson. >> Okay, we have a public hearing on the budget for fiscal year 2026. Miss Dash. >> And while Joe Joe is doing that, I'd like to introduce uh Miss Patty Gonzalez. Patty,
003can you say hi to everybody? >> Patty's here tonight. Miss Flores wasn't able to make it, but in that spirit of cooperation and growing our own and being backups for each other. M Gonzalez as we did this tonight. >> Each year the budget process begins in the spring next year. This timing presents challenges for women's administrators because many factors at that time remain unknown such as the uncertain state and federal funding have achieved that finalized staffing need and student may vary. Economic assumptions change several times despite the unknown. This section begins early starting the spring which allows the administrator to kind of carefully evaluate the program identify priorities and align resources with district goals. It also ensures that the district can be state and the state timeline budget and then adoption in September. By beginning
004early, we create the flexibility to adjust new information that becomes available while we're still maintaining compliance and transparency within our community. Initially attended book was drafted and public hearing was published throughout the summer budget was refined to was refined to updated salaries the addition of new staff and tenative federal funding allocation and modification budget as needed. This is just a visual of a timeline. School district generally receive three types of primary um funding sources. Local, state, and federal revenue. The majority of our local revenue comes from property taxes. Investment earnings income. A lot of the smaller allocations have lunch sale and fees. Local sources make up about 59% of the entire school budget. State sources include evidence based funding that's under 17.4 4 million categorical grants are earmarked for purposes state funding about 33% revenue
005budget this year due to the increased transportation costs no increased revenue reimbursement from state we will be allocating 600,000 hours from the EBF funding to the transportation fund make sure that we can cover all these insurance we normally don't allocate fun that's in case what we need at this time the state is not going 71% are going up by 7% the district also receives federal revenue reimbursement primarily for child lunch program as well as Medicaid matching funds. Federal grants make up about 8% of the revenue budget. The nutrition services program reimbursement rates are increasing for most categories of free lunch. However, the food are going are increasing. Not sure how that's gonna work out again on the expenditure side. Sure the district are responsible. >> Oh, I'm sorry. sure to embrace curiosity for excellence. So
006our key considerations are salary and benefits which are a large portion of our expenditure that they travel negotiated agreement. The budget also includes includes funding for anticipated open professional development primarily funded through reimburseable grants and there's a couple of key components we're working with coming from a grant and Jimmy has program service grant contracts they're projected to rise by CPI with about 3% and transportation by some of our service contract like our transportation our buses our sanitation services rental agreements to our technology we're going to continue our rotational purposes devices to make and activity. Our supplies and material orders are focused on for this year. We're going to increase our focus on school daily and reation. Our capital project will focus on additional fire stations, the HV system reliability and addressing any kind of water
007issues. And then our special education to Smith will be an allocation to the cooperative case cooperative and here this year we're going to have an additional cost due to their implementation of their geothermal energy. So we're going to have portion of John of course our debt is covered directly by electric. Um, basically the budget is balanced and strategically district priorities and we'll remain committed to being transparent and responsible to the public funds. What best has budget to adapt to challenges and opportunities als also get a budget. I note that our formal action was expected this evening by resolution adopted education and county entire fundament both our federal grants are reimbursement today any of them yet we have to reimburse yet we don't know the prior year grant just filed our final our final book our
008quarterly for the report. I don't I don't know yet one is that question. Thank you. >> And as Miss Dodge said, you'll have an opportunity to take action in the uh in the board meeting. Mr. Bur. Thank you, Mr. Bur. We have the board accept the written correspondence as presented. Roll call, please. How >> the consideration of all business, we ask that the board approve the minutes of the regular board meeting of August 25th, 2025 and the close session minutes of July 28th, 2025 as presented. MO Walker Johnson. Roll call, please. >> I power. Hi >> J. >> And for a report from the superintendent, no old business. Mrs. Everman is not here tonight. She did not have businessmen. There was no question this morning. >> I get a motion. >> Jack also building >>
009any other. So I guess we're in close session. I hope we'll be short as possible. We're close second. At this time I am not going to leave it. I just want to pass. >> Appreciate that. Thank you. I just keep >> I just want to do the joint annual conference September 21st through 23rd. Yes. >> Perfect. Thank you, Miss Ber. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. Mrs. Chevz, education and policy. We have to pause for this. Thank you. Good. Okay. >> We have not had any facilities meet. So things going. [Music] >> Okay. Senator. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to begin first by we have a couple of presentations tonight. They're brief, but they're very important. And we have with us Mr. Marcus Shelton, who is our director of
010nutritional services. Say hi to everybody, Mr. Shelton. >> And Steve Katy, who is our uh director or excuse me, uh, supervisor for nutritional services. and they have a brief presentation and we talk about we have kind of gourmet food service here in district 87 but our new model Irene I believe is gourmet with a budget. >> That's right. >> It's that spirit of what we've been being good stewards. So would you give us an update? >> Yes. Want to pass real quick for you guys. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> So if you guys notice up top, we have >> brand, right? We have risks of St. Reges and JW Marina. We also have Bley School District. So all those logos and brands are luxury, right? So we want to continue the celebrate mindset for
011our schools. It's almost as if walk into a resort. When you first go to a resort, what do you see? Go wow. Right. So when you first walk in the Gardener or any of our schools, you go wow. So we always want to have that luxury mindset and keep that brand alive. So I compare those brands to where the school version of uh all those brands like the hotel brands, the luxury brands. Wait, wait, stop real quick. Go back up. It's going to keep the the bottom line, right? Says scholars first because every scholar deserves it or deserves the best. So, our shirts this year for our uniforms has that on. >> Nice. >> Because our scholars deserve the best. >> Good job. And we also have hat. So, just to go over this really
012quick, those are all of our students. Some from here, Jefferson, some I think two of those were a little bit older from last year. This is just a year report of everything we've done this year. >> I'll let you guys read the executive summary. Well, this is for you to keep um I just want to give you something a reminder of like all the things that we've done this year and um and where we plan to keep going what we're going to do moving forward and keep going past this and making sure we keep the plan. All right. So, some of the picture this is Steve so you can talk about what you did here. >> Oh, yeah. You can see this is Sorry, I got to get close. Um, okay. This is from last
013from last year. We did a new teacher orientation. Um, and then one of the one of the things we did for the new teachers um was a smoothie bar. So, um, I got my blenders there. I had a couple different, uh, several different toppings. I was making two different varieties of smoothie. I was making a strawberry mojito. You can see that one's down on the right. And then, um, a pina colada that you can see is uh there on the left. So, it was a yogurt based smoothie with um, ice. Um, the the mogito was a strawberry um, lime juice with fresh mint. And then the uh pina colada was a fresh pineapple, um cocoa lopez, and um some pineapple juice. All right, this was our back school breakfast that we had. Um that was
014at the beginning last year. We took the I don't think we started yet, but we just took every color from all the school colors and used that for the walk. So you see car has a blue one. See her in the picture. Second picture. Somebody else had rain. Keep going. Uh this is our back to school bachelor. This is the first person we did last year. That was our intern that we had. Um so she started off here. She lived in uh Mel Park. Uh and then she actually started working with wellness program not too far from here. and whoever reached out for our back to school bash, she was part of it. So, it kind of worked out full circle. So, community bringing Roma in and um seeing them grow. Let's see. Oh, this
015is uh this is some good stuff that I was able to do um last year. So, on the top um you'll see I was able to get some samples. So, one of the things that we want to try to do is introduce new, exciting, fun foods um that you might not necessarily have the opportunity to try. So, I was able to get this sample of fresh salmon um and I did it uh three different ways. I did a um that was a sweet chili and then on the other side you could see a Cajun and I did a lemon pepper. And then I just garnished them with, you know, with some of the fresh fruits and vegetables that we had and make made it into um a beautiful platter. And then we just did little
016samples so they could get a little taste of the uh that that one there was the um sweet chili salmon. Um and that's with some roasted sweet peppers. I did um some blistered grapes. That's the green one. Some blistered um cherry tomatoes. and then roasted green beans. And that was all cold. So that was all a cold um uh a cold platter for everyone to sample from. And then what was the bottom one, Marcus? Scroll down to the bottom >> for the students. >> Oh yeah, that that that was too. And this uh was another new item um that we did um that we're doing is uh personal uh personalsiz pizzas where we could make uh different flavors, different toppings. Um so we could have a personalized pizza. Those became very very popular. Oh, here's
017more. So some more things that we added all the way here on the left. Um, and this is all with the same products. Um, like, uh, we just heard, uh, that we want to do all these gourmet things, um, on a budget. So, one of the ways that we can do that is we have one product that we can turn into multiple different products um, so that we're not wasting anything. So, you can see I have a um, a Kelzone that we made. This is all with the same pizza dough. Um, pretty much all the same ingredients. Um, you can imagine, you know, if you have the pizza, um, the sauce, the cheese, and all the toppings. So, all that can go inside a calzone just like you with the pizza. Um, here's another thing
018I made with the pizza with the pizza dough. Um, those are my cheesy muffins. Um, so basically, it's the pizza dough that we I stretch out. Um the ones on the far right, that one I have like a pesto I put inside mozzarella cheese, some parmesan cheese, um cut them up, put them in the muffin pans, and you bake it up and it comes out to uh like what you see in the middle. Uh a chintzy muffin. And we could add different ingredients to it um to make different flavors. pepperoni, sausage, ham, chicken, bacon, jalapenos. Um here's some more of our special days that we did. Um here on the far right, we did a um a um Asian Pacific Islander day. So this was the um my sweet and sour Hawaiian chicken. Um in
019the middle um you could see we also had a a build your own like burrito bowl. So, you could have you could have your um your burrito made into a burrito or or you could just have it in the bowl kind of like what you have in Chipotle. I don't know if anybody familiar with Chipotle, how they do how they do that there. Um and then on to the far right um that was something really new um that we did with some whole wheat noodles, but we did a ramen bowl. So, um that was ramen, all those fresh vegetables on top, and I think that version um was with the pulled pork. So, that was really good and exciting and also delicious. >> So, then we helped out with tasting that they did earlier last
020year around this time. and I'll go over each one. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. So, this is at North Lake uh I think we did ice cream social at North Lake Middle School. We did that last year. We also did to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month which will be coming up October 9th. produce some sim some of the same items but there are items I think ramen quesadillas and um all that you see there okay so these are how salar look at schools uh did you skip one sorry okay there so we have start blackberries and this is at all the schools this is not picking shows anytime you go schools the fruit will look like that. So um we try to introduce students at a young age to uh broccolini just different types of
021sour fruit different types of fruits they might not had a chance to try but it's very important that we start at a young age especially at Jefferson to make sure that they get the exposure that they need so by the time they grow up they're not at a restaurant and oh staff they already know it's school. So that's how they look at all the schools and this is the picture pretty much in each school week. Then we we do like ser we do like a launch of the month or celebration of themes. Uh January we did the Caribbean theme. So we had Jamaican meat pie jerk sh plantains and other items. Um some more of the catering relation practicing one make sure uh we have our fruit like that next catering to be the breakout
022session for two day part two in February is Oh, that was our part. This was the morning portion. This is the morning portion of the same institute you saw me doing the smoothies. And if you scroll down a tiny bit more, you could see the whole whole buffet with all the different uh So, if you saw the very first one that we did, we only had a couple tables and all of our food was inside of our serving lines. So we slowly progressed and started working our way out of the box um to come up with some different ideas. So once we came outside uh we did one event that we did outside of our serving line um and then after we did that one there was no turning back. Now every time we do
023something it's it's it's more like this in the front. So when the people walk in this is the first thing they see. Um we had the ideas of getting the colored tablecloth. So we could uh that's you know in the symbol um of our logo. Uh we did an omelet station. Uh and then you see we have all the stationery um hot items, our fruit, yogurt and all that stuff is in the back. And then when you see the pictures that we did from this year, if you think that looks nice, um uh this year is uh completely out of the park from even what we did uh last year. So that's really really exciting. There was some teachers here to go stack that they had they decided to post for the camera. >> Yeah.
024The theme the theme for the part two in February was a day of decadence. So I don't know if you noticed um when I did my smoothie when I did my smoothie class I also had a a decadent table which had um I just found everything I could find in the kitchen and I dipped it in chocolate. So, I had strawberries, I had cherries, I had marshmallows, I had cookies, rice krispie treats, bananas, um, uh, mandarin oranges. I peeled mandarin oranges and segmented them and dipped them into the chocolate. That one was surprisingly my favorite. >> There's some more of the snack. >> Some of my stuffed dipped in chocolate. You can see um this photo we took for [Music] but um celebration you noticed uh the occasion pasta uh the jello made the colors
025of theme for the month purple yellow gold and green Yes sir. >> Yeah. Even our colors for applesauce we use dy and color it. >> This specific is for martyr. So this was a fat Tuesday. Um this we actually did on on fat Tuesday. So St. Patrick did the same thing. Made everything special and yellow. Some of our ladies, if you go down a little bit, she kind of little melon maybe like >> open day baseball. April, we did this thing over. So we did like a baseball thing. And next time I think this year we want everybody to wear jerseys. We did it one year but we want to do it again. Make sure everybody. >> So everything you would see in the ballpark corn pretzels, hot dogs, nachos. >> So I know sunny
026side of Jefferson. >> Well this year they have many. >> Yeah. At Jefferson and Whittier, um the menu gets downsized. So at the at the we call them big school, but at uh MacArthur and North Lake, they have to survive, chicken, burgers, pizza, that whole salad bar like you just uh seen. Um and then whatever our pantry is for the day. And then when you go down to the next level, which would be sunny side variety, when it just kind of scales back a little bit, we take off some of the regularly everyday served items like burgers and hot dogs and things like that. And then when you get down to the smallest schools, um Jefferson and Whittier, um they'll have two items or hot item or cold item, and they still have the nice
027salad bar. It's just they don't have 12 options. They're just going to have poor options. >> Yeah. Some of those things like St. Patrick's Day. >> How often do kids participate? >> When I do sampled because they it gets kind of they get really really excited. Uh anytime I come out with samples, they're really really excited to try them. >> Okay. >> Um and I get a lot of participation. Uh when I first did it, they would take it and everyone would just say, "Oh, yeah, it's great. It's great." Um but now that you know, we've come to know and trust each other. I can get a good opinion out of them. Hey, I saw that you tried it, but you're telling me it's great, but why is it still there? Was it really that
028great? You can be honest with me. Tell me, how can I make it better? said something that you would never eat again. >> So, you know, we open up to those types of conversations. Um, so we can put things that we know that they're going to take. >> We do face testing by grave. Each grade gets an opportunity. >> Yes. What I what I'll do is um whatever I'm going to be sampling for that day, I'll make a whole bunch in the bag, right? other the kids will come through. Um they'll get their reimburseable meal because I don't I don't want my samples to interfere with them having their their um you know their reimburseable lunch. So they'll get their reimburseable meal once everybody's eaten. They kind of sat down. Then I'll come out with
029my cart. I have a little designated area I'll get in. And then you know they'll come up to me and I'll explain, oh this is what this is. Please try it. If you're going to try it, I expect feedback. So, everyone's welcome to try it, but you have to give me feedback. I ask. So, they'll try it and then I'll go through and see, you know, who had the wrapper. We still got the little napkin that I that I put the sample on and I'll ask them how did what did you think today? Is that something that you'd like to see on the menu? They'll say yes or no or like I said in the beginning, they just wanted to give me positive feedback because they thought that's what I wanted to hear. That it
030was great. And I had to convince them. No, you can tell me if it's not good. My links aren't going to be hurt because I'm doing this for you. So, if you have something that you think would make it better, let me know and then we could try it for every really well and it makes it really really fun for me. >> Yeah. >> So, we have just a few more minutes. Any >> No, I just want to um tell you guys turn on the back of the page. See me read the back. What does it say? >> We expect excellence. >> Yes, because that's what we are at B87. So I want us all to make sure we focus on the luxury brand of D87 because that's what we are and we continue to
031live at the top of it. So that's our goal and that's how we're going to continue to do things. >> Mr. Shelton and Mr. Key, thank you very much. uh what they shared with you was kind of an overview of last year, but they're actually enhancing all of that again this year. But as we said, we're in a budget because we are being mindful of our our resources here in District 87. But what a great opportunity for getting our young people to experience a healthy um diet at a young age. And as you said, you're getting more and more feedback from I think it's a bad helping us with our attendance because lunch is very different than used and I don't >> know everything that you've seen on on the slideshow with the exception of
032uh like the new teacher orientation and the things that we're doing for the staff is all re reimbured. >> Okay. >> So, every meal um that we serve a student um that meets the criteria and we make sure that's why we have so many fresh fruits and vegetables. um every meal that meets the the criteria uh we get a specific amount of money um from the government for every student that we doesn't have to be separated or this is considered reversible whatever portions >> yes exactly >> exactly >> so that's breakfast um lunch um and supper >> Oh, we're also including >> Yes. >> Thank you so much for that because the last several years uh our numbers when it comes to uh the camp has increased and the positivity and the feedback that we
033get from parents they found like you said food is very important and because it is offered through district 87 thank you Mr. children. Um they keep coming back day after day after day and um they are they have really enjoyed the change and they see it. So thank you. >> Thank you for living goal four connected community in our strategic plan. >> Thank you. And then we also have a presentation from our leadership from Sunnyside. And we have Mr. Torah and Mr. Banick to give us an update on this year's school link. >> So you should see our one pager for sunny size. There are a few members with me here today. Um what we need all the time in the evening during school to make sure that our school movement is eliminating back. Um,
034so based on all of the work that we did last year, we kind of recalibrated what our goals were for this year. I adjusted some of the numbers to kind of really tighten up things. So for reading, um, it is by May of 2026, 50% of our scholars will score proficient or above in reading based on the ERA and which is tool that we use through our our program. Um in math we have um again by May 42 and a half% of our scholars will be at oral grade level on a B ready diagnostic which is we use through our math program that they take three times a year. Um same thing for the ERA. Um the teachers will sit with them um at the beginning of the year. Um and then we do some
035levels checks throughout the year just to make sure kids are on point but kids move throughout the different color levels um throughout the year. And then for we have sunny side increase the sense of belonging for both staff and students by 5% as based on our data which is so for each goal we have strategies. So reading in math um those standards know what standards you need. So they build their teacher capacity which is the universal tier one curriculum to all of our students that fidelity reading all staff will disc and in social learning all staff create an inclusive environment but their sense of belonging. We want scholars to feel heard and seen and having any conversation. We ask our scholars telling two adults in the building that that you can go to immediately. Here's
036our current stand right now. district are and this is where we're at right next and right now we're employing the reason we're going to get there. We look at this every Tuesday at our season. Here's our math diagnostics for this school year. We're taking Panorama in October. So we don't have our basic yet but we will get there on talk about I mean so talk about and I will toss that to Dr. because we really modeled it off of the plan that North had. We have our 75 attendance accountability team or for those of us that are inside the spot. Um every Monday we meet and kind of just review where kids are, you know, what kids have kind of popped up and um you know are having some struggles with either getting to school
037or even being at school on time. between the team members. We really tackle who's calling home and making those connections to see what we can do as a school community to make sure that we're meeting their needs because we have some scholars that have have already some warnings this year that are just kind of we want to make sure we provoke them and get them to school on time because as we know if they're not in the seat we can't teach you. So I am proud to say and thank you Dr. We are currently at 97% of our scholarship. It's working lot of home visits lot of home visits lot knock on windows they got car riders um just to make sure that they know like we see you there so if you've been to
038bed you know we have distinct areas with each grade level that refer to as pods and sometimes a third grader will not see a third grader So back two years ago we decided to have a house system. So a third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade team is paired up. Every month we have our house meetings and we do things that um build up our values. Every morning we say sunny science values always win the race. We are respectful. We are humble. We are caring and we are encouraging to each other. So we say that every morning and we try to live that whenever we talk to the student we have what values did you and then say I was take accountability when we're at that and we go through all of our actions that we've
039been working with with and then every year since I started in district 87 we've always started the year when I was a first year teacher adoption book and every year we had a book. So that's why I got my book and then so I wrote the book just because and basically it's just because you see one way doesn't mean that's who I am and that's what we want our students to be. So we have the all the teachers read a book and then the book then meeting work on activities that work. So in front of you you have a little walk. So after the scholars went through and read the book they kind of had some time process really do some deep reflecting on who they are as a scholar um and what that doesn't
040mean as an individual. So inside um Sunnyside we have the seven houses. Each house has a tree and each student was given a deep. So it is some of them are very deep for for our kids when you think they're only third, fourth and fifth graders. So we did pull a couple that you know we we had tutorial just because I'm short. This mean I can't play basketball, right? But these kids came up with some just because I take care of you doesn't mean I trust you. Yep. I'm too bad, right? Um, so our kids are amazing and the house system really gets them to be able to see each other in a different light because they don't get to interact with each other often or in ways that would like. So at your seats,
041we did give you a um because we would like to adopt you into our houses. So, if you are so kind as to just saying something about yourself um and what that doesn't mean about you at the end of the day as a human, if you can send us back to us and we are going to put you on one of our houses like adopted to should you want to come in join a house meeting in one of the uh amazing scholars that we have. And then we started positive offers instead of negative. So teachers nominate students based on our values and they send out their positive referrals and then we call them to the you can refer you to come to the first world office and then Mrs. reads it over the intercom and
042we copy it stallion but we also put their picture can see that we call them picture perfect. I have to say the one display case that we have in front is almost filters and as you can see I haven't stacked as close as I need. So I am so proud that there's times when I'm making six seven eight that got nominated that were nominated as staff. Um, it goes to show that those of us that would school are getting the acknowledgement, right? And the friends that need a little bit of extra support, you know, they get them as well. We all need to be told that we aren't bad. Awesome. >> You want these today? >> Should we put our names on it? >> So, you know how us in the house? Right. So, >>
043we have a couple of them. Thank you so much. focus coming around. I think >> this is a second. >> Okay. >> And what a uh good start we're off to at Sunnyside. >> 97%. >> And we were talking about houses earlier. This is an example of the intentionality of getting the uh different grade levels together. And uh I want to say and Dr. Misanna could speak more about this as well, but these were some ideas that were piloted in Camp Berkeley and now we're trying to get it throughout the regular school year. So, thank you Mr. Torah and uh Mrs. Urban. Really appreciate the information about how we're off to a good start. And by all measures here in district 87, our children are learning. And uh that's really really good news compared to
044what we've gone through, this is just fantastic. And as you both talked about, we we everything matters. Lunch matters. Coming to school and having connections with adults matter. It all it all matters. So thank you so much. And what a great idea to have a book for your staff every year. Thank you, Mr. Ch. Okay. So, I'm going to go through my part. All right. So, um we ask that the uh board uh look at our licensed personnel employments and we ask that the board employ the following personnel pending all employment paperwork. Edith Elbow bilingual teacher Whittier and Katherine Williams cross categorical teacher at Jefferson as presented. Got a motion more. And Mr. Johnson rolls. >> Chavez. High. >> Tower. Hi. Jackson, >> hi >> Mason. >> Hi >> Mora. >> Hi >> Walker. >>
045Hi >> Espinoza. >> Hi. >> And uh just a correction. It should be North Lake for Miss Williams. I think I said Jefferson. It should be North Lake. Okay. But uh we should be okay. I just said the wrong school. >> Can we celebrate those two? teacher assistants that became teachers >> rolling their arms. >> So, uh, licensed personnel leave of absence. We ask that the board approve the licensed personnel leave request as presented for Kayla Gandia, Brian Ellsworth, and Valerie Woods as presented. >> Get a motion. Miss Moore and Miss Espinosa. Roll call, please. Chavez. >> Hi >> Tower. >> Hi >> Jackson. >> Hi >> Mason. >> Hi >> Mora. >> Hi >> Walker. >> Hi >> Esbinoza. >> Hi. Motion carried. >> Resignation of school nurse. We ask that the board accept
046the resignation letter from Arlene Olivo. School nurse at North Lake effective September 29th 2025 as presented. >> Get a motion. Miss Walker and Miss Jackson. Roll call please. Chavez. >> Hi >> Tower. >> Hi >> Jackson. >> Hi >> Mason. >> Hi >> Mora. >> Hi >> Walker. >> Hi >> Espinosa. >> Hi. >> Motion carried. >> Policy revisions. As was discussed in our policy meeting. We ask that the board wave the first and second reading procedure for the approval of these policies. These revisions reflect changes in legislation which do not require public review or comment. We ask that the board of education approve the revised board updated new and rewritten policies as presented. >> Motion chz roll call please. >> Chavez. >> Hi >> Tower. >> Hi >> Jackson. >> Hi >> Mason. >>
047Hi >> Mora. Hi >> Walker. >> Hi >> Espinosa. >> Hi. Motion carried. Educational Support Staff Employment with ask that the board um accept the recommendation for employment of Raone Diamano Gonzalez midshift custodian at North Lake effective September 11th, 2025 as presented. >> A motion more and Mr. Jackson >> Chavez. >> Hi >> Tower. >> Hi >> Jackson. >> Hi >> Mason. >> Hi >> Mora. Hi. >> Walker. >> Hi, >> Miss Nosa. >> Hi. Motion carries. >> Educational support staff leave of absence. We ask that the board approve the educational support staff leave of absence requests as presented for Keith Williamson, Christy KS, and Stacy Broomfield Haywood as presented. Get a motion. >> Miss Walker and Miss Roll call, please. >> Chavez. >> High Tower. >> Hi, >> Jackson. >> Hi, >> Mason. Hi,
048>> Mora. I'm Walker. >> Hi, >> Miss Spinoza. >> Hi. >> Motion carries. >> Fundraiser requests. We ask that the board approve the following fundraisers and donation as presented. Jefferson Sunnyside and MacArthur PTO. Hopping popcorn fundraiser September 8th through September 19th. Scholastic Bookf Fair Trunk or Treat October 23rd, 2025. and Hispanic Heritage Event Loyia night October 9th 2025 5 to 7 PM as presented. >> Get a motion. >> Sexual call, please. >> Travis, >> hi >> Tower. >> Hi, >> Jackson. >> Hi, >> Mason. >> Hi, Mora. >> Hi, >> Walker. >> Hi, >> Miss Spinosa. >> Hi. >> Motion carried. >> And uh for my report, I just have a few items and then also Mrs. Zimmerman's report. I'll do quickly uh board meeting start time. I just wanted to uh keep this out
049there as we pilot our first year with the 6 pm start time that for a few of our members like we had tonight. They may have some conflicts on a Monday, but they're working it out and uh we keep the communication going. we should be okay for right now, but um we do know as a board if we've we're piloting this first year at six o'clock, but uh we have to keep our data on how we're able to do with making a quorum because people do have balances in their life that they have to take care of work related, travel related, parenting related and uh I just appreciate everyone's feedback as we work through this process and we'll continue to monitor to that. Um, anybody else have anything on the start time? Was that okay
050for us? All right. So, we'll just keep monitoring that. I want to mention that Mr. Dy and I have worked with the village of Berkeley on a safe school grant. So, more information will will follow on that. It's an application that Berkeley the village of Berkeley is putting in. to try to promote having more uh bicycle uh bike racks throughout the village and uh we helped with that application and we're hoping that it is successful. You may have noticed the new sidewalk out along Wolf Road that the village has installed and also they're putting sod out there. It looks really nice. And uh the uh other thing I want to mention quickly is that the village mentioned that the property just east of us on Wolf Road where Walgreens used to be and then was
051Honey Can do is uh it looks like another distribution center is going to be going in there. They'll keep us posted. But what's really interesting, the design looks like it's been informed by our Sunnyside MacArthur where people are looking at that and they think that is such a be beautiful design that they're trying to incorporate it in. It's going to be new construction. So, the village will keep us posted. It should not impact us with construction because they're going to be using nonwolf um road routes in and out for construction. Thank you. >> Um, also for Mrs. Zimmerman, the e-learning plan has been revised and that is in consultation with with our teachers and our teachers union and that's been submitted to ISBY. Should we need to use that for severe weather, we have that
052as an option where it still counts as a day of attendance. I'd like to thank Mrs. Zimmerman who is at the Illinois Title One Director's Meeting today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. She's there with Dr. Spataphor and also Raven uh Terry from the uh finance department who is our um accounting specialist but she's looking at accounting now for our grants and that's that whole idea of continuing to build capacity of everyone who works in district 87. Also Mrs. Zimmerman participated in an articulation with proviso 209 and I believe um Dr. Modi was in that meeting recently, Dr. Misanic and Mr. Kachowski with um the uh their colleagues at Proviso and that's part of our articulation with the high schools. So unless there are any questions, that's the end of my >> Thank you. Any questions? >> Okay.
053The summary of budget statement of position and student activity reports ending August 31st 2025 have been provided for yourformational purposes. The next item is the adoption of the Berkeley School District 87 2026 budget. The budget hearing was held earlier this evening and the suggested motion is that the board of education adopt the resolution for the adoption of the budget for fiscal year 2026 as presented. A motion and Mr. Jones calls >> Chavez. >> Hi. >> Coward. >> Hi. >> Jackson. >> Hi. >> Mason. >> Hi. >> Mora. >> Hi. >> Walker. >> Hi. >> No. Hi. >> Motion carries. >> U. Last month Mr. DY discussed the comet energy efficiency project and this month we um the pro well let me just tell you this month um we looked into it more carefully and the
054program identifies cost savings upgrades by using LED lighting and lighting controls and supplies which is an authorized comment service provider will facilitate the project if we get this approved. The improvements are to reduce energy costs, utility costs, and carbon emissions while using the comet incentives to minimize the district expenses. Wind supplies will be paid the incentives directly by commed. So we don't have to cover that at all. Um basically it'll come down to paying $67,15 for three schools, Jefferson, Whittier, and the administrative center. um with a savings of annually 33,165. So it'll take a little more than two years and we should have a return on our investment. The suggested motion is that the board of education approve the agreements with twin supplies for the comet energy efficiency lighting and controls project at Jefferson Primary,
055Whittier Primary, and the administrative center as a combined net cost of 67,105 payable after incentives are presented. >> Yes. Any questions? >> Good morning, Mr. M. >> Sorry, >> Chavez. >> High Tower. >> Hi, >> Jackson. >> Hi, >> Mason. >> Hi, >> Mora. >> Hi, >> Walker. >> Hi, Missa. >> Hi. >> Motion carried. [Laughter] [Music] That's okay. >> Okay. for my own report. Um, as part of the fiscal year 25 audit, which is going on right now, the transportation fund has more expenditures than revenues. So, to avoid using our fund balance, which is not very significant right now anyway. It's only 1.2 million in fund balance at this time. We're going to we're hoping to transfer $500,000 in evidence-based funding from the education fund to the transportation fund. This is allowable. talk to
056the audit team, talk to the attorney. Um, and board approval isn't required because it's done by a journal entry, but we wanted to give you this information anyway for full transparency. And I want you to make questions. >> Any questions? >> All our capital expenses gone through the process. All bills have been paid. We have we have closed everything related to our project. >> Um this is for the transportation fund. No, no. I I realiz just asking. >> Oh, in general, >> in general, >> all our journal entries, all our transfer between funds, >> everything else has been um completed, but as I was talking to our audit manager, we found that there was there were more expenditures than revenues in transportation. And I didn't want to touch the fund balance, >> okay? >> Because
057it's just it's not there's not a lot there anyway. Okay. >> And that does that answer you? >> Yeah. I was just wanted to understand that we are done with all of that. So going forward any of the financials that we're reviewing will be more so our normal operating expenses, you know, because we had a lot of activity the last five years. >> Yes. >> So a lot of ins and outs, you know, so you can't really start to make a good uh you can't get a good grasp on where all our finances finalized >> now that everything is in as well from now we can start to understand where we stand >> financially. >> Yes, you're correct. Yeah, >> income. >> Oh, of course. Yeah, I could I could do that. >> Yes. Could
058I just have a consensus for this just for my for our records? >> Okay. Consensus that we want to pay for >> and that we want to um transfer that $500,000. Are you okay? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Let's back up. >> I'm sorry for consistency for that. >> Thank you very much. Okay. The next item on my report is a continuation of the situation with Cook County Taxes, um, our property taxes. I attended a West 40 meeting with my fellow CSBOs and the main speaker there was from the Cook County Clerk's Office and basically the bottom line was that they don't know when we're going to receive our property taxes. Um, this is due to issues with their new software implementation. >> The bills have not gone up. The bills for Pico County have not
059gone out yet. Okay. >> So once they do go out, it'll be another 30 days before I think they have to be paid and then another 30 days before we receive our worship. >> On balance on balance, we're okay. The only thing right now we're looking at is our debt our debt payments. So our debt payments are due in December. >> Okay. and we would like to we're considering um taking a loan from the working cash fund to cover the debt payment and that would be through a resolution and that would be done next month to make sure that we have it done in time for our beginning of December and our payments in December. >> What happens if we have we go over that approvement and our bills index >> then we just won't
060do it. >> Okay. So, um yeah, that that's that's what I'm considering doing and we would bring it next month and I would work with the attorney to get that resolution together because it's pretty complicated for Any questions? >> No, no other questions. >> And as Irene was saying, this is every district in Cook County. >> We still are paying our bills. We still have debt payments we have to make. And we're using our reserves to pay that. But we don't have revenue coming in until the tax dollars come, which won't come until the tax bills are sent. and the tax bills haven't even been sent. So, um, but we have a plan. That's what we do. >> So, thank you every listed in my oral report are our vacancies. We have six certified vacancies
061and 12 support staff uh vacancies. In our custodial department, we have some openings and some retirements and movements and then we have um a few teacher assistants that would fill in the process and pipe. So you will see those support staff vacancies uh you will see them decrease. U Mr. Day has started the interview process. We're interviewing so should see that number decrease. who still are looking for a certified staff member in special education, but special education, there is a shortage in special education. Um, on October 21st, I will be going to the Illinois State Fall Career Fair. So hopefully we can catch some December graduates um at that time. So looking forward to that. And then next on my list is uh we will host our annual flu shot clinic for um Berkeley um
062employees and that's going to be on October 28th. Um I believe it's in Houston. So looking forward to hosting that. Any questions? >> Any questions? is present as well. >> I actually just got back from the multilives conference. It was a wonderful experience. I'm looking forward to sharing some of that information with the building and colleagues. But um the most exciting going on in the district right now is our after school programming. We have 66 proposals put in and all 66 will be moving forward and we are working on moving all of the supplies right now to get started. So enrollment open today and then we'll close within two weeks to get all of our fil presentation. everything. >> Yes. Great presentation. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yes. Thank you. >> I would like
063to say that uh Chef Steve came by the uh camp this summer. Um and the children just they were waving and say hi. Hey, >> it's dark. >> Yeah. And I was like, yeah. And I see why. >> I see why. Very good job. Oh, thank you. >> Did a great job. >> We're good. >> Thank you for the presentation. Let's shift around. >> Thank you. Um, so I would be remiss if I didn't start by saying we had a big loss in our technology department with the passing of my computer. And I just want to say Uh she was just a tremendous employee, a servant of District 87 for over 30 years and more importantly she was one of the most amazing people I ever knew and friends. So uh definitely a big loss
064to the technology department and A7 as a whole. Um but the strength of her lives on and as she would say the show must so um we are off to a strong start of the school year. We'll be publication shortly so we can um you know carry on with some of those possibilities. Um let's clear your thought to a good start. Uh n testing is underway as Dr. Mannic said after school programming opened up today. So our parents are are filling those things out. Um online conferences for our parents to sign up for um another data system safe reporting. So we are in a good place to build different things. E- rate season starts. Um so we used all of our funding historically for the Sunnyside and MacArthur WY and North Lake network components. Um
065but it's called two category 2 funding starts every five years. So we're in a new five year cycle. So, we are looking to purchase switches, access points, firewall, and wireless controller. And we are at a 90% discount for the school district. So, we move forward with let's say $200,000 technology equipment. We paid $20,000. So, it's an amazing program and we plan to utilize it to its fullest. >> So, this quick update, good update. Thank you. that shift around. Dr. >> I would be remiss. I met I 14 years ago and I walked out of class and being principal when I saw you she did a big role in my success of being principal. It was a big loss you know honor eight years with Mrs. um miss her dear. She was my friend more than
066a couple for a lot of us. We had a great first month of school. We wrapped that up on Friday. First month, uh I want to say we had an amazing open house on September 11th. We had a lot of parents come out for that. Thank you to the PTO. We had our first um back to school dance. Um and we had a big turnout for that. They made a whole lot of money. because we really need their support and I want to thank you too. They they've been doing so well the last few years in supporting our scholars and bringing a lot of excitement back to our schools. Um parent teacher conferences Bernie mentioned we are all set for our parent teacher conferences on October 2nd. That typically is our biggest turnout uh for
067our school year and then thank you Dr. by we were approved with 15 after school clubs and so that's going to be another way that we can embrace our scholars and some of the great things happening at North Lake Middle School 7 and then I would be remiss you know um Dr. Sullivan, we met eight months ago and you had this vision about bringing soccer middle school and then middle school when we matter to you. Uh we needed some money from you. Uh thank you Cara. You went all over the district to figure out where we could host these things and um you know Mr. John you were over here painting the field every other day and so all that for our scholars. So between um North Lake and MacArthur we have about 90 scholar
068participating in soccer share with you that we play MacArthur last week and I asked both teams along with Mr. G if we could take a group picture. This is our JV team right here. Uh there's about 45 scholars on the JV team between uh North Lake and MacArthur. And then this was our varsity team here about 45 scholarship North Lake and McCarthy team. I'm going to tell you our varsity team and North Lake is first place. They're undefeated so far this year four games into the season. Nice. >> And then I wanted to share with you um Dr. Misenic, we work very hard with you to provide what the scholars, you know, we have some of the best if not the best uniforms in all the conference. Uh this is our North Lake uh block
069jersey. >> Please. They're reversible. So one is the away and if you flip it over, it'll be white on the inside. That's cool. And then is from there. So I want to thank you guys for meals together every single week. So thank you guys so much. It's been an amazing amazing journey from eight months ago to what our scholars doing. I think we had a one minute clip for those that have not had a chance to see what soccer looks like in the 80 seconds. Thank you. [Music] What's >> varsity is 4 and0 and then JB is two and two. >> Arthur, it is a learning season. It is going to be exciting. I hope we can win something in our first ins. Thank you. Thank you. a lot of preparation I know behind the
070scenes so thank you so >> yeah so obviously you know been painting the field you know depending you know what and in part of that work I've already had some conversations with our steeping company um to try and get the most out of our field it's starting to get pretty used and beat up you know currently um so we're coming up with a plan to, you know, try to address some of the needs that we're going to have, you know, going into the the winter months and the early spring so that we can have a very nice scholars lake custodian who is also a former uh currently acceptable student as well. So little bit so far. Um last board meeting we did, you know, I told you guys put the vehicles up for bid. We
071have received a couple of bids um so far vehicles. Um, so the bid opening is going to be or all the bid windows closed um this coming Friday at 1 pm. Then we're going to open bids on October 1st. Um, the custodian maintenance team have received their uniforms for the year and had years pass. It just said school district 87, you know, on all their shirts, polos, button downs, jackets. Um, and something that I thought would be nice for them was I got our actual logo put on all the shirts. Didn't tell any of them. Um, surprised them with it. And the amount of joy and happiness they had just something so small like that really meant a lot to them. And we also got them each a perfectly set that says facilities department, you
072know, underneath the logo. I never really happy about that. It really was a morale for them. Um we've been using the same order platform now um for the past about month or so that the technology department has you know used um and it's been giving us a lot of great uh data to to help us with some things. Um in the past month we've had 197 work orders come in um and our maintenance team has been able to close uh 124 tickets so far in a month. Um so they're they're busy. They're they're knocking things out of the market for us. Um the other benefit of this really help us diagnose some of the problems or problem areas that we do have and out of those 197 work orders 73 of them have been HBAC
073related. out of those 73, they have all been controls related. Um, so our controls company and I have been working, you know, pretty diligently on trying to get some of these issues addressed. We're really experiencing a lot of extreme temperature fluctuations, whether, you know, too hot, too cold. Uh, we've been really trying to work through some of those issues. What have this data is really going to be beneficial for us to address the problems forward. Um part of you know that data has also showed us that two of our older schools are having the least amount of issues but they have the oldest um control systems in the district uh with Jefferson having zero uh knock on wood um you know HVAC issues for the past uh month. having five, um, North Lake having five,
074Riley having 14, uh, MacArthur having 15, and then Sunside having 31 stations. So, what that's, you know, showing us is that we're having a lot of problems with our control systems that we have here. Um, so I reached out and had some initial meetings with a separate skills than what we've been using to try and come up with a game plan as far as digging a little bit deeper into the control system so that we can get to the root cause of some problems that we're having so that nice comfortable learning environment for scholars staff. Um and then um as Mr. do have a couple interviews scheduled this week for the positions that are right. Oh, and before I forget, um Dr. Sullivan and I went to the first facilities uh meeting at West 40
075this year um and we received two awards. Um so something new that they started this year was um handing out awards for schools that had zero violations on their health life safety inspections. So last year at Sunnyside of MacArthur um we had zero health life safety violations. Uh so we received two awards um you know for those buildings. We're going to get copies of the certificates made for the buildings to um you know post in their buildings over there and then we're going to get the other certific hallway or something like that. Um the work order system workers no those are all whether it's from the teacher the princip um there are newer controls are you still under warranty for uh unfortunately right now not to my understanding we are not under any any necessarily
076the the devices that are having issues it's more the programming and the behind the scenes inuts is not necessarily devices They believe in the software. Most of those [Music] >> uh we uh got uh we did the midyear occupation of Sunnyside MacArthur uh this during the 2022 2023 school year. So we would I know So, we came back from winter break. But, uh, John, uh, we also want to mention, I I don't know if you mentioned it >> that I've reached out, uh, John Irene and I met because we really appreciate the data. It's good data that we got. >> Oh, absolutely. >> And so, we uh, reached out to our architect, Wolf, and they're uh, going to be sending some dates, and they're going to have their mechanical designers attend. We're having a meeting
077also and we're inviting precision to that which is the controls company and we're going to go over the data and get some feedback about questions like that about warranty but also what's happening where we're getting so many work orders and we're staying curious about it. We we feel though the schools that should have the least work orders would be the brand new u mechanical and brand new controls. But actually that's not what we're seeing and that's the data we're going to bring to the meeting. So we'll keep you posted on that >> how that goes. is the control software there. >> Um, so far we have, you know, been we got some wood, but we're dry up there. Thank you for the progress. Any other questions? >> No other questions. >> Great. No more business
078next meeting. >> October 27th. February 27th >> and 6 p.m. >> I hope everybody have a nice safe ahead of us for next week. Thanks for all the work in tonight. We appreciate it. And I got to post >> Jackson. Mason, >> Laura, Walker, I >> motion carried. >> Thank you everybody. Thank you for staying.