001Pleasure. To the flag to the stands nationy and for all. Espen Olsson Walker War here. >> Mason Jackson. >> Hi T >> here. >> Tet for participation. >> For public participation, we ask that the board accept the written correspondence as presented. Small walk. >> Hi. >> Jackson. Hi. Mason. >> Mr. Burn. Is there any public comments? >> There is not. consideration. Um, witness would ask that the board approve the minutes of the regular board meeting of June 23rd, 2025 and the close session minutes of May 19th, 2025 as presented. >> The motion miss and Mr. Johnson roll call, please. >> Hi, T. >> I. >> Mason, Mora, >> I motion carried. In terms of reports, no old business from the superintendent. No business. >> The suggested motion is for the board of education to approve
002the accounts and claims payable as presented. And there are no questions this time. >> Okay. Mason roll please. >> War. >> Hi. Mason. >> Hi. >> Jackson. >> Hi. >> Tower. >> Hi. >> Motion car. Also the building usage record provided for information on purposes only with no other business. MS >> no old business open. No other business. All right. See move right along. I get a motion to go into close session. M Jackson roll. >> Hi. >> Mason. >> Hi Jackson. I motion carried. >> We should be low on consideration of minutes. Uh as a step in close session, the following motions recommend to employ superintendent. The board extends the appointment of Dan Sullivan as superintendent of school through June 30th, 2028. Motion second. >> Hi. >> Mason. >> Hi. >> Jackson. >> High.
003>> Motion carries. So, we have a uh we have a PACE um minutes. We didn't get the official minutes, but Mrs. Mason was at the governing board meeting. I joined her at the governing board meeting and uh the key takeaways is they approved their uh crisis plan for the 2526 year and they have uh brought on a new assistant executive director. We should be getting official minutes and when we do we'll get those stolers out and get anything for concern about more anything for the volume. >> Uh yeah, I was at the uh closing of the silver school session for the north side. Uh just wanted to share how great that was actually but with you but just wonderful to see what we got done over the summer with that uh program and I hope
004the families again coming out bags of things for you to take home uh all the kids and their uh tie-dye shirts. Uh again, I just every time you have a school closure, I think that uh the schools and the community together really nicely. Um and so uh again, nothing on the the actual boards that I'm on, but just wanted to share kind of what I I've seen happen with our district, uh the summer. Thank you very much Jackson. >> We haven't had facilities but schools up and running well done by new administrator done again first meeting we get you later on right thank you very much superintendent. >> Okay u thank you Mr. Jackson for um the earlier motion and thank you to the board. Um, we uh ask that the board accept the resignation
005of the following personnel. Renee Renault, third grade teacher at Riley, effective immediately. Andrew Jacobson, eighth grade math teacher at MacArthur, effective immediately. Kevin Culprson, sixth grade math teacher at North Lake, effective immediately. And Kyle McDill, English language arts teacher at MacArthur, effective immediately. Motion, Mr. JSON. Miss Mason call please. >> Hi Tartar. >> Hi. >> Jackson. >> Hi. >> Mason. >> Hi. >> Mora. >> I motion carried. >> Licensed personnel employments. We ask that the board employ the following licensed personnel effective August 18th, 2025 pending all employment paperwork. Rebecca Wglars, ELA teacher at North Lake. Michael Spel, multilingual specialist at North Lake. Anna Mains, crosscategorical special education teacher at North Lake. Anna Koreah, bilingual first grade teacher, Jefferson. Grace Maloney, ELA teacher, North Lake. Martha Tyson, inclusion resource special education teacher, North Lake. Joyce McGau,
006multilingual specialist, North Lake. George Yousef, physical education teacher, Sunnyside. Joseph Pascarella, science teacher, North Lake. Alyssa Canopoulos, third grade teacher, Sunnyside. James Blake, ELA teacher, MacArthur. And an Galert, STEM teacher at North. >> Jackson, >> Mason, I Mora, I motion carried. And Dr. Mod's been very busy. >> Very busy. >> Thank you, Dr. Modi. >> Yes. >> Good job. >> We ask that the board approve the educational support staff leave of absence requests as presented for Michael McNelte, Jesus Batista, Laura Ruiz Perez, Richard Constantino, Steven Lee, and Sonia Falco. >> Get a motion. Mr. Jackson and M. Roll call, please. >> Hi. Tower. >> Hi, >> Mora. >> Hi, >> Jackson. >> Hi, >> Mason. >> Hi. >> Motion carried. >> We ask that the board employ the following personnel pending all employment paperwork. Felicia
007Play, Guadalupe, Yor, and Beatatric Caval. Motion, Miss Mo, Mr. Jack. Roll caller. >> Higher. >> Mason Mora and Jackson. Motion carries. We ask that the board accept a resignation of the following personnel. Ryan Turz, teacher assistant, North Lake, effective immediately. Marissa Gaston, teacher assistant, Jefferson, effective immediately. >> Good morning, Miss Roll call, please. >> Mora, Mason, >> I. >> Jackson, >> I motion carried. We ask that the board of education terminate Miss Rosa Hernandez, administrative assistant to the director of special services immediately after due consideration of information as presented and discussed in close session. >> Motion Mason, Mrs. Johnson, roll call, please. >> I Mason, >> Mora, >> I motion carried. We ask that the board accept the intent to retire letter of the following personnel. Richard Constantino and Marty Burton. Motion >> Jackson. Mason
008Hill. >> High tower. >> Hi. >> Jackson. >> Hi. >> Mason. >> Hi. >> Mora. >> Hi. >> Motion carried. In one of our ongoing efforts to address our teacher shortage and glow our own long-term educators, we have met with Bloom Board and I believe Mr. Jackson, you're familiar with Bloom Board. >> Yes. >> And our attorney has reviewed their proposal and we are using the existing grant funding that we have and uh funding for next year, which I'll talk a little bit more about in my my report. But Bloomboard will allow us to take staff who are currently teacher assistants and put them through a program where they can earn their license to become teachers. So it's part of our ongoing efforts to improve our pipeline for educators. And I'd like to thank uh
009Mrs. Travis for all of her help with this and also Irene. So the suggested motion is that the board approve the Bloomboard Educator Advancement Program proposal as presented. >> Motion, >> Mr. Jackson, Miss P. Roll call, please. >> Jackson, >> I Mason, High Tower, >> I >> motion carried. >> And with the uh Depage West Cook Intergovernmental Agreement, uh we ask that the board adopt the West Cook intergovernmental agreement. The only change is this is an agreement between us and Pace and um the uh Depage and West Cook uh special education cooperatives. And the change is to go from meeting a twothirds um majority for a quorum to a simple majority of school districts which are present at the meeting. So that's the only change. So we ask that the board adopt the Westcook intergovernmental
010agreement as presented. >> Motion roll, please. >> Mora, >> I >> Jackson. >> Hi. >> Mason. >> I motion carried. >> And then we ask that the board approve the emergency operations plans for 2025 and the crisis plans as um shown in your backup. Um and the motion is that we ask that the board approve the emergency operations plan for Whittier, Jefferson, Riley, Sunnyside, North Lake, and MacArthur. We'll do them all at one time as present motion and rolls. >> Hear Jackson. >> Hi, >> Mason. Hi, >> Mora. >> I motion carried >> and then Mr. Burn has been working us and with the attorney to ensure and also Mrs. Zimmerman that we have the appropriate digital tool contracts and so we ask the board approve the digital tool contracts as presented for Newslia Pebblego
011Parent Square and Epic which is I believe still being reviewed by the attorney. >> We got a thumbs up moving forward. >> Okay. So they all have been approved by our team. So ready for motion Mr. Jackson and M. Roll calls. >> Hi. Tric. >> Hi. >> Jackson. >> Hi. >> Mason. >> Hi. >> Mora. >> Hi. >> Motion carried. >> And we ask that the board approve the following fundraisers and donations as presented. Jefferson Sunnyside and MacArthur Memorial Park District back to school bash August 15, 2025 at 4 p.m. Mo and Mr. Jackson. Roll calls. Mora I heard I >> Mason I >> Jackson I >> motion carried >> and uh real quickly I want to thank this board member Mrs. Espinosa. She's not here today but she and I met with Congressman Garcia's
012staff last week and that conversation she was able to initiate was to allow them to understand firsthand how a school district is being impacted by the reduction in funding. And you may have heard, she also contacted me last Friday. We're we're both exchanging texts because word came out last Friday that the federal government may be releasing some of the funds that had been held. So in our conversation, I gave an example of title three, which Mrs. Henigan is aware of, that was put on hold. So that was approximately $100,000. That was zero. That's an example of how we're impacted that by that. And that uh grant is meant to help us help offset the cost of educating multilingual learners. And so we wanted them to understand the impact because that hurts our parent funding. So
013for example, last year under Miss Henigan's leadership, we expanded our adult ES ESL to both sides of the district. So instead of it just being on the north side, we had it on the north side and the south side. And so we uh we found that money that that grant provided us to be very helpful for our parent engagement. So we plan to move forward using our title one money to make it work because we're still going to make it work. But title one isn't funded the way it was last year either. We're down about $200,000 in title one. So that's this like domino effect. But what we're doing is we're strategically using the grant funds that we can use up through August 31st 2025. and then we're writing our new grants and we're hoping
014all of these grants get funded. But hope is not a strategy and that's why we're looking for every funding source and every savings that we can. So um another uh grant that was not funded. It was put on hold was title two and that's professional development, recruitment and retention. So we use that grant for sending teachers and staff to workshops. We also use that to help offset the cost of Mrs. Travis going to the job fairs and the career fairs. That money is zero. So, anyhow, not that long after that conversation and Mrs. Espinosa was on with the congressman. Guess what? They said something Friday, they're going to make a change. I think she had something to do with it. >> So, we're going to see if that actually happens. But right now, I checked
015our funds. they uh haven't changed, but we are we are hearing that what was put on hold is now going to be released. So that would be very good for us as a district. >> Can you give us update on that? How many grants we have outstanding maybe? >> Yeah. Um it it impacts uh literally right now all of our grants and what has happened and this is not necessarily going to be for sure >> but title one for example normally you get a preliminary allocation and then you get a fine we have we're hoping we still get the fine usually that is $150,000 more than the original. So for us, that's that's in the range of $800,000 that we would typically get. Right now it's at it's at 600, but usually it goes up
016after the year starts. So all of our grants are like that right now. PreK is like that. IDPA is like that. All of them are not where they were last year, but we're monitoring it as a team. We uh for example, the teacher vacancy grant this year is less money, but we're going to use that to help offset the cost of the Bloomboard that we just approved. And I've explained to Mr. Simone, this could mean that we don't have as much for that teacher retention bonus because in the past we've been able to do a teacher detention bonus. We're still trying to do that, but that was funded by a grant. So we people people understand that uh some of the things we do with grants we may not be able to do but we're
017going to find ways for the ones that are critical like for our parents our special education children our children with um multilingual needs we're going to find a way to to make an effort >> bottom line we want to stay on top of this issue >> let's not vac stop and stop these funds we need these funds Yes. Zimmerman Travis Dan Joe New. >> Well, you're welcome. I just want to pull something up really quick because Dr. Bapor did some work for me on this. Nicole, you shared that with me. Do do you have that uh computer >> that computer? But uh you heard my answer. Was there anything else you wanted to add with that? >> Um no, but that comparison chart um I think was helpful. I compared the um balance from last
018year to what is preliminary like Dr. Sal said for this year and then we g all of our grants. So we could kind of see the change and then again we met like Z and I have met then again we've been meeting together to see you know again just how we can make sure we use some fun to the best of our abilities take care of each other. >> Uh I found it both so real quick Mr. Higher to make your to answer IDA for example right now which is uh special education and the way Dr. Spataphor did it. It also includes prek, but overall it's about $190,000 decrease, but often that's preliminary and then when we get the final it goes up. But where we were worried was, for example, the title two because
019that title two was frozen. That was this one. That was $109,000. It was like we weren't going to get it. So now they're saying that we're going today >> and the other decreases are from the preliminary to the final allocation and uh we have not heard that the final allocation won't be honored. In other words, I know I'm talking a lot. My understanding is Congress has appropriated this money. It's there. It's now on the president or the administration to release it to the states. That's what we're waiting on that. But the good news is it's going to appropriate. >> No problem. >> We will we will stay on top of that. And then um we u have under Dr. Spataphor's leadership, we've been doing our site assessments. Uh we have review for Riley and North
020Lake, which I believe has been shared with you. We're going to end up at all of our schools having a site assessment done for safety purposes. We have Harvard administrators retreat coming up on Tuesday, August 5th, and we're having that at the North Lake Public Library. That's one of our community partners. And what's really nice about that, Irene, as well. >> It's free. There's no charge. So, how's that for response? We're we're working on that. Uh Institute Day and back to school bash will be on both sides of the district. That's going to be on Monday, August 18th. And uh we are that's a community event as well. And our first day of school is Tuesday, August 19th. And unless there are any questions, that's in your report, please. >> Thank you, sir. >> Okay.
021You're up. >> All righty. So, I have included um our summer learning program, our final report for you. It'sformational services, but we had roughly 294 students um enrolled in our June summer learning programming. um about 117 on the north side and 177 on the south side. Um and as you know we engaged in um inquiry based project based uh sessions where students were engaged in hands-on learning, social emotional projects. We recall and our theme this year was journey through time campfire stories. So they worked through lots of different um periods of time. They got to research the world. um they had adventures in reading. We had um readers theater. We had just lots of wonderful product uh projects throughout the um experience. We had um also focused on SEAL skills um throughout that time. We
022had a post pre and post assessment um that they focused on as well. We had a total of 36 uh certified staff, eight support staff, um two administrative assistants, two nurses and our food service um program as well. So they students had lots of breakfast snacks um throughout their time and we transported the students um as well and all this was funded through our grants as well to in order to make sure that um we had a great experience for our students this summer. So I'll move into my oral report which also talks a little bit about summer school. So we have just wanted to give you a little bit um from Dr. from Misanic. We just wanted to first of all express our sincere appreciation to the board and our leadership district leadership for
023supporting those efforts um to expand our grow our own leadership opportunities. So we this summer ex opened up um those opportunities to summer school positions within our district or princ the principal positions. So, we were able to choose leaders within our own district that had um who are not currently serving in those building administrator roles. So, that gave a unique opportunity to for emerging leaders to step into that leadership experience. So, we'd like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Mr. Ken Gardner, our physical education teacher at Jefferson Primary, who served as the summer school principal on the south side, and to Dr. from Nikita Whitfield, the instructional coach at MacArthur Middle School who led on the north side. Both individuals approached the opportunity with an incredible commitment and professionalism. They began planning with Dr.
024Misanic in advance several months in advance to make sure that this was a um to ensure that our camp Berkeley was a success for our students. What continues to make Camp Berkeley special this year is how it evolves in the into a reflection of the leaders, the teachers, and the students who bring it to life each year. Um, while we give them a framework to work from, it's their vision, passion, and energy that truly shape the experience. And um, it's definitely a privilege to work alongside um, Mr. Gardner and Dr. Whitfield. Additionally, we were fortunate um to partner with Dominican University. We had six of their teacher candidates join us uh for summer school to complete their student teaching experiences. Um these partnerships are not only mutually beneficial for us, but they often result in
025long-term hiring opportunities for our district, which of the one of them is going to be at North Lake next year in the science department. So, that's very exciting. The other thing that was really um exciting we that was a highlight of our successful um part of successful summer was we were able to pilot the parent square communication platform and um we want to recognize our technology department for their outstanding work behind the scenes to prepare and implement the tool. And we'd like to commend our summer school staff for embracing the pilot with flexibility and enthusiasm. And there was a high level of parent participation. And while we monitored it this daily through the admin dashboard, it was a strong indicator of engagement. And because of this pilot, we are very we are able to then
026have many of our staff help us assist us in training at new teacher orientation and be kind of the leaders of this um digital platform as we move forward into the school year and help the rest of our staff. We also want to uh thank again for your continued support and commitment to innovation and opportunity to grow across our district. And now for the best part. It's the video of Camp Berkeley that we would like to share. Um created by our very own talented and creative instructional coach from Riley, Miss Parson. find myself to guide you. [Music] You can't [Music] be there. And that's what brings us to our fall. I'll sing a song you what you really mean to me. Every day I will remind travel. [Music] That's what he brings. [Music] 2. We
027don't break our [Music] This will be good. [Music] I'm thinking about the underground that passenger The first half I just wanted my name. [Music] Just change. >> Yes. other exciting news to share. Um, this summer we had, as you know, the amazing opportunity to have 31 of our educators um, attend the innovative school summit in Las Vegas for school improvement. The summer brought the summit brought together five powerful conferences which was innovative teaching strategies, school discipline, at risk youth social and social emotional learning and English learners. throughout the week. Um they participated in a wide range of workshops aimed at deepening our understanding um and equipping us with tools to better support our students. And um our plan is to so we put a Google folder together so that they could bring ideas back and
028kind of put all their sessions in the Google folder. in our plan is when we come together with all of our school improvement teams, they're going to share out the different strategies and the different information that they utilize so that we can focus on continuing um continuous improvement. But one of the things that I really wanted to share with you is when the team returned um Dr. Misanic and I received this email and I wanted to read it to you. During my time in Las Vegas, I had the pleasure of completing 23 hours of professional development from nationally recognized and educators. I left energized with new ideas, strategies, and connections that I'm excited to bring back to my classroom, share with my team, and spread to the broader North Lake Middle School teaching staff. Each
029evening during the trip, I found myself revising and enhancing my first unit. I spent and will continue to spend time infusing my units with fresh approaches I learned at the conference to engage our Berkeley 87 learners in complex highquality instructional tasks. Beyond the professional learning, this trip helped me build a stronger sense of community among staff. I had the opportunity to connect with educators and leaders from across the district, many of whom I hadn't I hadn't met despite my six years in the in D87. I returned feeling more connected not only to the North Lake team but also to our district as a whole. Thank you again for advocating for opportunities like this. I know how challenging it can be to navigate the logistics of grant funding, especially in the current climate, but please know
030the impact is real. Experience like this make a meaningful difference for DA staff and ultimately for the students we serve. So, I thought you would really appreciate hearing the we received from one of our staff members was very very moving and I was very appreciative. Um really made my made my day. I too um was able to go to uh visible learning conference with myself, Miss Hennean and Miss Salsman. We went to uh visible learning which is um it was a week-long conference on um John Hattie's research about what are the best strategies to impact um student learning. And so as a result of that it was um was an amazing learning opportunity. Let me just say that. Um, and as a result of that, I am certified now to train the rest of the
031district in his research and and am an invisible learning um ambassador. So, I can um provide any of the training. I have access to all of their resources, all of his research and we're able to um provide that. and the floor would want to add any about the conference. >> There are a lot of great opportunities um invited to us at the conference that um we're going to be able to bring back to the teams to buildings starting Wednesday with the principles of this correct Wednesday with principles um to just continue to enhance um our sense of belonging, our culture and um our school movement. >> Great. and we kick off new stu new staff orientation on August 7th. So, we're very excited about that. We're doing things a little bit different. We have it
032Thursday, Friday, and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, which will give our So, it's the 7th through the 13th, which will give our staff a few days then to kind of take a take a breath before um all of our lovely children come back to us on the 18th. There's not any further questions for me. the conclusion of my report. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Sorry. >> The summary of budget statement of position and student activity report ending June 30th, 2025 have been provided for your information. The first item is regarding the tening budget for fiscal year 2026. A summary of the projected revenues and expenditures are in your packet along with comparison of the FY25 final budget at this stage in the process because of all the things that Dr. Sullivan talked about with the revenues
033changing. There will be some changes when we come to to by September. Hopefully, we'll get some firm numbers of what we'll have. So the revenues and expenditures both will be slightly changing depending on the allocations that are given to us by the government. So right now we're not I used the numbers I thought we were going to get but they most likely will change. Um the evidence-based funding has not been released yet from the state. Historically the district has been designated as either tier one or tier two. We're expecting the same. It varies yeartoear um that the model takes into account 27 different factors. So it uh including the equaliz test value of property class size enrollment all these different things play a factor in how much we will be getting what tier we'll be
034getting. I don't expect it to be much less than you know much less or much more than what we normally get. that should be coming out in September. On the expenditure side, also um the special ed tuition rates have not yet been released from our cooperative. So that's um tenative as well. Capital outlay will be revised once projects are determined and expense and costs are are student transportation is expected to increase through our contract by about 6%. And the reimbursement rates are projected to decrease slightly according to um legisl legislation. Salaries and benefits reflect the negotiated agreement and will be updated as vacant positions are filled and new employees make their benefit elections. So that that will vary as well. Um as always, the district remains committed to making choices that support our students and
035provide the highest quality environment possible. And then in accordance with the school code, the board is required to set date public hearing on the tenative budget and publish notice of the hearing at least 30 days in advance. So the suggested motion is to approve that the board of education approve the tenative budget for fiscal year 2026 as presented established Monday, September 22nd, 2025 as the date of the public hearing. Direct the assistant superintendent of finance and operations to publish the required notice of public hearing and to display the tenative budget at the administrative center in accordance with requirements. >> Motion miss >> I mora >> I motion car. The next item is an annual item for the food service milk vendor. The suggested motion is that the board of education approve the food service department
036milk vendor contract for 2025 2026 as presented. >> Moter motion carried. The next item is the adaption designating interest earnings for fiscal year 26. This resolution is to ensure that interest from one year that is posted to the following year still be designated as interest. So the suggested motion is that the board of education adopt a resolution designating interest earnings for the fiscal year 2026 as presented. >> And Mr. Jackson roller. >> Hi >> Jackson. >> Hi >> Mason. Hi. >> Thank you. >> The next item is for inter fund transfers for debt service for capital lease. A suggested motion is that the board of education adopt a resolution authorizing p permanent inter transfers for debt service as presented. >> Okay. >> I >> Mason. Motion carried from my oral report. Um the fiscal year
037audit still continues. Our title one grants and our national school lunch program are going to be audited as part of the single audit. The auditors will be at the district the last two weeks of August. The finance department's been working on helping other departments amend their grants to provide up-to-date expenditure reports. We're also making sure all the supply orders are in for those schools to get ready for our students. I recently attended a legislative update posted by Illinois Association School Boards and some of the key highlights um from the recently passed state budget include the evidence-based funding has been reduced to 307 million which falls below the statutory minimum of 350 million. The future vacancy grant as Dr. Sullivan has mentioned previously that has been reduced from 45 million cap um at least past two
038years to 30 million for the upcoming year. However, our categorical grants remain level with fiscal year 25 funding. So I've included presentation slides for you to review if you want to see the legislative action. While the slides list bills that are that have passed in both chambers, there were still awaiting the governor's signature at the time of the presentation. And today I received notice that the second installment property tax bills for Cook County that were normally issued in July, the bills were usually sent out in July. The payments were normally received in August probably will be sent out until September, October, or possibly later. Um, so given this delay, the township treasurer and I will just continue to to um closely monitor the balances and if we need to transfer funds, we'll bring that to
039your attention and let we have received our PK Pard rebate of $2,844.3 this year just for using our card. I think so. And I just wanted to welcome again John Davey um to our department as the director of facilities and transportation. He's had a busy week with all the uh water issues. So, welcome John. That's the end of my report. [Music] >> All right. Wanted to share with you the vacancies um for certified staff. we have um 11 patenties um at this time and then so for support staff we have um two. So this is an improvement uh from the years in the past. A lot of our vacancies are special education uh vacancies. Uh special education is a hard to fill position right now at this time as well as bilingual. Um, but we
040are hoping to for one of our hard to feel bilingual positions. I believe we have an interview set up for Wednesday. It's been a while since we've had a candidate, but hopefully that person does not get a job by Wednesday. I told them, please give us a chance before accepted at another district. for special education is something we're still we had maybe like one or two late resignations of that but we're working on um I was reviewing some data and I'll give you more of a report because I want to be exact but I was looking at our resignations and these are voluntarily resignations from the 20 for the end of the 2223 school year and at that time voluntarily on their without being non-renewed. There was approximately at that time 30 something resignations but
04130 were voluntary. When I looked at the school year at the end of school year 2024 2025 which is the one we've just concluded we have voluntarily on their own set. So we're moving in the right direction. we are beginning to retain our staff and we're moving in the uh right directions. Now we do have more that were nonrenewed and chose to resign but people just voluntarily resigned our our data were decreasing and so I want to do a couple of like maybe three or four years and have a spreadsheet for you to review. But I want to make sure we're as accurate as possible. So I want to check and double check. But um when I come back in August we can take a look at that. But that's great news. And so the
042teacher uh vacancy grant I believe is helping us. I will tell you I had an exit interview uh today and uh the teacher one of the teachers told me um that they really really felt appreciated with all of the different uh gear and activities. Um he said he felt like he belonged and he felt appreciated in Berkeley 87. So he said that is one of the things that he felt like we were doing really well in um was making sure the teachers felt appreciated and um and that he belonged. >> Any questions? >> Good progress. Thank you. >> Okay, let's shift over to Mr. Mark. >> All right. Thank you. My first item here is talk about water in the data room, but I'll let John take the pleasure of going over that. It's under
043control. So, as Dr. Gman talked about, new chief orientation begins next week. So, a lot of preparation in that. Make sure we have everything ready for our new teachers and our welcome starting on day one. As Dr. Zimmerman, Dr. Sen said, moving forward with some new tools. So working hard to get those implemented and getting training set up for new teacher orientation. Uh those tools epic like Dr. Svin said is a robust library of digital books. Newella is those real world events brought to news article books for our scholars. Peel go which is an online encyclopedia and then parent square is our new communication platform which I'm really excited about. I've been working with teachers over the last couple weeks to get trained on that. They're going to train both new staff and staff that
044are returning who are choosing to come over the summer. We're going to have right now about 70 people showing up for that. We hope to get some more as well. We want to start the school year off with our staff being well informed tools which I think could be a huge value add seven. Working hard over the summer to get all the technology ready. new MacBooks, new Chromebooks, imported document cameras, so platforms that are ready in day one. And then always spending time to focus on security. So that means updating all our servers, hacking them, and then doing some things where we're increasing the security of people's accounts. That means requiring additional complexity, turning on multifactor authentication, requiring password changes. So we are in partnership with our insurance company. They kind of pushed us to
045continue to make our infrastructure safer which helps lower premiums but ultimately just makes this a a digitally safer place to be and uh still working hard to get all those things in place. So that's all I have. Is there any questions? Any question? Okay. Hey John, since you was calling out welcome to your first board meeting and I'm a new director. So walking with hands for yourself. So uh I definitely have been running here the first month or so. >> That's absolutely >> right. Um so we we've had a couple issues with some water penetrated buildings. Um I'll start here. was the most recent one. Um so in the last two heavy rains storms that we've had um we ended up getting first storm we had a substantial amount of water um come in the
046fiber optic um conduit lines that are located right outside the building actually studying um and it actually flooded the data room and the lower level of the the center here. Um and uh just over the weekend um another rain on and we had some more water but it didn't penetrate the data room this time we blocked out one of the uh one piece of conduit that was carrying the the fire lines and block that Friday um so the rain water that came in yesterday uh did not affect uh the data over the internet so that um that problem you know it's been that stops pieces of conduit. Um today we grab some of the joints that were in the basement where the connect pieces of conduit um water tight uh tape on those that you
047don't get any um seal outside. So that's not be an issue uh moving forward here. Um little update on our North Lake water situation. Um room one has remained dry uh since that room was waterproof which has been great. Um unfortunately now we are getting some water up in the toilet room. Um so the water's kind of just continuing to push its way um you know kind of through the building. Um I had the city of North Lake out um that last week and they did um hydro excavating where the um forensic uh leak company was out. Um and it turns out that we actually had a water man leak on the the water man pipe. Um that's where the leak detection company had uh you kind of X marks the spot for us. Um
048so they dug down um that's where we found the old water man. There is no water main leak. Um currently over there um the ground is very heavily saturated with groundwater. Um so the understanding right now um and this all all the information has been sent to the as well. Um but when the new water main service was put in as part of construction um it created kind of a natural uh front stream type system. Um because of the looser gravel um it gave the groundwater a new path. Um so what we're thinking is taking place is that the water has just been traveling down along the line of the uh the new watering service and that's what was originally penetrating one. Um but now that it's been sealed out in there the water actually
049coming up. So, we're going to get those sealed up and hopefully the the water will stop, you know, coming into the building right now. Um, but as soon as I get some more information from the architects, they're kind of putting their heads all together and getting more. Um, that's, you know, what's what's going on, what trying to do so that this doesn't become another issue for us. Um, but besides those, we've got a couple of roof less taken care of. Um, and then, uh, our custo knocking it out of the park. We brought a crew over here to our admin building and thorough deep cleaning. Red the floors and they did quite a bit of painting throughout the hallways, offices. They repainted them here. um and really kind of making this area um a lot
050nicer than you know how previous work. So I think that's about it for for now. Um but uh yeah >> question about the board room the week is not on the effect being the board. >> No we were down for a couple hours or so. >> Yeah. Yeah. at about 3:00 on whatever day the storm was kept the network disconnected is with an abundance of caution got wet the next morning when I plugged it in we were able to do technical things to that we needed to put in place all services were up so um internet is back to where it was in place >> yeah I I was on site at North Lake property never the hydro excavating um and when we have a short little video that shows them you know doing the
051hydro excavating um and just the amount of groundwater um that was you know just underground. So that shiny part of the pipe is the repair that was made and that's where they thought it was leaking, but it wasn't. And watch how much water they take out and look how quickly it comes back. That's ground water. It's been sitting See water keeps going in. So, if there was a leak on the water man and at least in this area, um if it was a couple of feet either direction, um being that we disturbed such a large area, if there was a leak on either side of the exposed area, the pressure from that leak could have completely blown out all the the dirt and rocks and so that were underneath it really exposed itself. as a
052water main week. Um that did not happen. And then further with with that, if you've ever seen ground on either side of the streets where there's a water mane break, um the grass just gets extremely saturated and water start pulling out everywhere. We're not experiencing that at all on the property, which further leads to, you know, the assumption that groundwater that's been entering report and well I don't have as much to report to you guys. >> Hello. We're um getting ready for the school year. Um it was a nice break um to be uh out of the building. we were part and so that gave an opportunity for colleague car and I to share a room um and we got a lot of work accomplished during that time frame getting ready for the new school
053year have some trainings um in place we have total eight trainings in place for our uh bilingual teachers as they return to the dual language program to provide them support as they're u working on teaching a new very excited about that and working on um making sure that our adult ESL program continues and stay tuned. We've got some feedback dates on the calendar and just getting ready for a fun school year. >> Thank you. Great job. Appreciate >> Okay, pleasure. Thank you for your motion for passing um the revised uh safety plans that meet our FEMA standards and all standards and obviously they all the renovations to the schools there, you know, new plans and all that information in there. Each principal and assistant principal looked at each one of their own plans to make
054them, you know, specific for their building and their needs. Um so they put a lot of effort into that over the summer to get that done. So, thank you for getting those approved and then we'll be getting those out. Matches our crisis response protocol and all the training we've been doing. I think Dr. Sullivan last month explained that we had training on reunification. So, that's kind of our next step for leaders in the district to work on that training and implementing um that training. And um as Miss Travis said, we were um you know, we have some vacancies that we're working on and we did have some related services positions that are filled that were unable to be filled last year. So, we're very excited to start out the school year with having those positions,
055especially for our related service providers for our special education children in that capacity. Um and then we're working um this year with um Miss Zurman's leadership on our parapros, not just special education, but all of our parapros being able to work with West 40 and doing some professional development specifically for them and their roles as a teacher assistant. So looking forward to that this year. And our nurse team is going to be coming together next week. There are some changes um with some things with uh you know school regulations and things like that. are looking together. Uh may be familiar with the label of an that we would um work with every year that has changed. So the team's coming together to start thinking of other solutions to make sure that all of our children
056get all the things and requirements of physicals and vaccinations that they need that there are no barriers in the way for any of our families. So there are things coming together about that next week. And um had the pleasure of working with John um again on all our safety plans and things we need in our classrooms to get everything set up. And he's also going to be joining the Northern Illinois School Safety Administration um association with me. So it be wonderful there'll be two representatives from district 87 um in that association. And I just also want to say thank you this myanic and I central office administrators for that participation in the trip to the innovation summit. For me wonderful things I got out of the conference but the biggest one was looking at our
057future leaders because I could see the innovation in some of those teachers and I can see which ones are going to be future principles and it just made me so so happy. >> Wonderful opportunity. information back. We appreciate any questions. I say I say the best you want to >> Well, I am excited and blessed to start my 14 school. That's going by real quick. I remember 14 years. sit in this room get an interview. Um, I want to thank Mrs. Travis. I've been working with her all all summer to be able to just build I think we're almost there. So excited. We have a couple more interviews tomorrow and I couldn't take those 100%. Thank you for all. Um, we ordered our soccer jerseys and our bowling jersey last week. Both MacArthur and North
058Lake. We're excited with that. Um and then I met with John today and uh we're going to start mapping on our soccer field at North we'll use that practice and then all our home games will be at the field. So we are super excited to bring soccer and for the first time the coaches >> uh we will get that going as soon as the school year starts and then I want to thank you. I know we working partner that um athletic director position at the middle school. So I think Mr. Travis has put out the posting and so we can give a couple more opportunities for people to uh expose their leaders interested. >> Thank you. Looking forward any question? No questions. No other no other business announcements. I think you usually ask when is
059the next board question that's be the 25th. >> What time? >> 6 o00 next 25th 6 p.m. We like to thank everybody for your time and notifications. Uh but we cannot go on board without thanks everybody. >> Miss everybody will be able to say more. Hi. >> Hi. >> Jackson. >> Hi, Laura. >> Hi. Motion >> car. >> Thank you. Excuse me, John. Did you have any business cards yet?