001United States of God. Roll call, please. Travis here. High Tower here. Jackson Mason present. Mora Walker here. Esposa here. Participation written. We ask that the board accept the written correspondence as presented. Motion. Miss Walker. Misso. Hi Chavez. Hi. Hi, Toer. Hi, Jackson. Hi, Walker. Hi, Mason. Hi, there is no public comment. Consideration of all business, we ask that the board approve the minutes of the regular board meeting of February 24th, 2025 and the closed session minutes of January 27th, 2025 as presented. Motion Mr. Jackson, Miss Wall, please Walker. I Jackson, Izz. Hi, Espinosa. Hi, Mason. Hi. Mention period. Okay. Reports. Superintendent report. Uh, no old business. No business. Uh, yes. The suggested motion is that the board of education approved the accounts plans payable as presented. And there are no questions this month. A motion.
002Mr. Jackson, Miss Mason. No call. Mason. Hi, Jackson. Hi, Espinosa. Hi, Chavez. Hi, I Tower. Hi, Walker. Hi. Also, the building rental and usage report is provided in your packet and it is forformational purposes only. Thank you, Mr. Travis. No business. Okay. Any other open business? No other session. Yes, please talk. Yes. Okay. I get a motion to go into close session. Uh we should be in a few minutes. Mason and M. Roll call, please. Jackson. Hi. How I Walker? Hi Mason. Hi Davis. Hi. Motion carries. I think their nervous system we have our full set of openings back. Is this correct? Oh yes. Okay. Consideration of business reports. Miss I have nothing to walk. Nothing. Nothing to report. We now have meeting report. Nothing. All right. Right to the superintendent superintendent report. Okay. Thank
003you, Mr. President. License personnel leave of absence. We ask that the board approve the license personnel leave request as presented for Karen Sherman, Robert Deanna, Natalie Steinley, and Vikisha Moore. Exoom as presented. I wish. Hi. Hi. Toart. Hi, Jackson. Hi, Mason. I Walker Iosa I motion carried. Licensed personnel resignation. Please see the letter of resignation as shown under the correspondence for this meeting. We ask that the board accept the resignation of the following personnel. Dawn Marie Chester, Mark Han, Annabelle Calderon, Elizabeth Lopez, Mariela Lure, Kimberly Morrison, and Angela Krypy as presented. I had a motion. Mr. Chz and Miss Roll call, please. I Walker I Mason I Jackson Higher. Hi, Travis. Hi. Motion carried. The inter administration has interviewed the following per person personnel and is recommending employment for Sarah Walker, social worker at Jefferman
004Jefferson. The motion is that the board employ and approve Sarah Walker, social worker at Jefferson, effective August 18th, 2025 as presented. Motion, Miss Walker and Miss Gro, please. Hi Tower. Hi Jackson. Hi Mason. Hi Walker. Hi Mossa. Hi Chavez. Hi. Motion carried. And she was doing her internship internally. So this is another example of growing your own. Thank you Mrs. Travis. With intent to retire. We ask the board accept the intent to retire letter for Miss Nancy Turra as presented. I get a motion. Mr. Jackson rolls Jackson. Hi. Chavez. Hi. Mason. Hi. High Tower. Hi. Espinosa. Hi. Walker. Hi. Motion carried. We ask that the board employ Mr. Jonathan Dy for the position of director of facilities and transportation effective July 1, 2025 pending employee paper. Okay. Got a motion. M and Miss Walker. Roll
005call vote please. Esposa. Hi. Chavez. Hi. High Tower. Hi. Walker. Hi. Mason. Hi. Jackson. I. Motion carried. Come on. And uh just say a little a little something to our board. Mr. DY is currently the facilities manager in Lombard and uh we're very pleased to have this opportunity and you have your friend Michelle with you as well. Michelle, welcome. Really appreciate the opportunity to join you guys team here. Um you know just looking forward to it. Been in law for the last 17 years uh with my career there. up to being facilities manager director and family as well. What's our story here? We hit the ground running, Mr. D. Well, congratulations. All right. So, this will take a few minutes, but we have a resolution authorizing the dismissal and non-renewal of first, second, and thirdyear
006probationary teachers. So, I have a resolution to read and then the board takes a vote. So, um, whereas the teachers set forth were employed for the 2425 school term as full-time, first, second, or third-year probationary teachers. And whereas the board of education of Berkeley School District 87, Cook County, Illinois, has heard the administration's report concerning teachers and has determined the set teacher shall be dismissed as of the end of the 2024 2025 school term. and not re-employed for the 2025 2026 school term pursuant to section 24-11 of the school code. Now therefore be resolved by the board of education of Berkeley school district 87 Cook County, Illinois as follows. The foregoing recital are incorporated into and made a part of the resolution. The following full-time, first, second, and/or third-year probationary teachers shall not be re-employed
007as teachers in the school district for the 2025 2026 school term. And the present employment of said teachers shall terminate at the end of the 2024 2025 school year. Katherine Shanahan, David Hudson, and Cassandra March. The president and secretary of the board of education are hereby authorized and directed to send said teachers a written notice of dismissal and non-renewal substantially in the form attached hereto as exhibit one and incorporated herein by this reference by hand delivery by the superintendent or the superintendent's designate at least 45 days before the end of the 2024 2025 school year. This resolution shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its adoption. All prior resolutions or portions thereof which are inconsistent or in conflict with the term of this resolution are hereby repealed. So now what we have to
008do is we have to have separate votes. So the very first one is on Katherine Shanahan. And so um we ask that the board adopt the resolution authorizing the notice of dismissal and nonrenewal for Katherine Shanahan. That's the first motion. Okay. Motion. Mr. Jackson, Miss Roll call, please. I Walker. Hi. Mason. Hi. Jackson. Hi. High Tower. Hi. Chavez. Hi. Carrie. And we ask that the board of education adopt the resolution authorizing notice of dismissal and non-renewal for David Hudson. I get a motion. Mr. Chavez and M. Walker. Roll call, please. Chavez. Hi. Hi. To Jackson. Hi. Mason. Hi. Walker. Hi. Esposa. I. Motion carried. We ask that the board of education adopt a resolution authorizing notice of dismissal and non-renewal of Cassandra March. Motion, Miss Walter and Miss Mason. Roll call, please. Espinosa. Hi. Hi.
009Walker. Hi. Mora Mason. Hi. Jackson. Hi. High Tower. Hi. Motion carried. Rehiring administrators. The following administrators are considered for rehire for the 2025 2026 school year. Kelly Zimmerman, Letic Travis, Irene Dasha, building administrators Nancy Tortura, Harris Brandon May, Maria Hendris, Tracy Bowden, Kevin Gchowski, Sunil Kumar, Modi, Sharon Urbana, Jennifer Bar, Stan Loa, Elizabeth Pipes, Tasha Thompson Gray, Patricia Saltzman, Nicole Spataphor, Laura Henghan, Joseph Burn, Marcus Shelton, Carolisanic and Terresa Gargano. We ask that the board rehire the administrators, Kelly Zimmerman, Latish Travis, and Irene Dasha. So, we do a motion for them. Make a motion. Mr. Johnson and Miss Walker. Roll call, please. Travis, I miss. I high tower. Hi, Jackson. I Walker, Mason, I motion carried. We ask that the board rehire rehire the following principles as presented. Tracy Bowden stab Maria Hendricks Sunil Kumar
010Modi Harris Brandon May Nancy Tortora Kevin Gchowowski get a motion. Miss Jackson roll please I Mason. I Chavez. Hi. Miss I Walker I Jackson. Motion carried. We ask that the board rehire the following assistant principles. Jennifer Bar, Stanley SOA, Sharon Urban, Elizabeth Pikes, Tasha Thompson Gray, and Patricia Salsman. Excuse me. Mosen and Miss Walker. Roll call, please. Walker. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Heisau. Hi. Mason. Hi. Missa. Hi. Chavez. Hi. Motion carried. Uh we ask that the board rehire Nicole Spataphor, Laura Henan, Joseph Burn, Marcus Shelton, and Cara Misanic is presented. Good motion. Miss Walker and Mr. Jackson. Roll call, please. Jackson. Hi. Mason. Hi. High Tower. Hi. Chavez. Hi. Walker. Hi. Senosa. Hi. Motion carried. And up above, we also should have had uh I didn't see the name up up there, Stephen Katy, nutrition services
011supervisor, up under other administrators. So, um he's our nutrition services supervisor. So, we ask that the board rehire Mr. Steven Katy, nutrition services supervisor, and Terresa Gargano, facility supervisor, as presented. Mr. Jack and Miss Espinosa. Roll call, please. PZ. Hi. Hear. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Mason. Hi. Walker. I. Espinosa. I. Motion carried. We ask that the board rehire the following nurses. Paula Lynn, district nurse. Barbara Leie, school nurse. Namie Leario, school nurse. Danielle Scott, school nurse. Jasmine Martinez, school nurse, and Arlene Olive, school nurse. Motion, Mr. Johnson and Miss W. Roll call, please. uh that name is is uh should be removed. Correct. Yeah. So it should be Paula Lynn, Barblesie, Danielle Scott, Jasmine Martinez, and Miss is it Aliva? Olivo. Alo levo. Is that correct? Yes. So, uh, let me read this again. We ask
012that the board rehire the following personnel as discussed in close session. Paula Lynn, Barblesie, Danielle Scott, Jasmine Martinez, and Arlene Alivo as presented. Motion Johnson. The second roll call, please. I, Walker. I Mason. I, Jackson. Hi. Hi, Tower. Hi, Chavez. Hi. Motion carried. Thank you, Dr. Spatter. Uh, rehiring technology personnel. We ask that the uh board rehired the following technology personnel. Ivy Carris, Sebastian Rob, and No Diaz. Motion, Mr. Jackson, and Miss Walker. Roll call, please. Jackson. Hi. Mason. Hi. Walker. Hi. Miss Venosa. Hi. High Tower. I Chavez. Motion carried. We ask that the board approve the 2025 2026 student fees as presented. Motion, Mr. Jackson. Miss Walker. Roll call, please. Espinosa. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Mason. Hi. Walker. Hi. Chavez. Hi. High Tower. Hi. Motion carried. We ask that the board accept an intent to
013retire letter for Michael McNelte as presented. Sex Jackson. Mason I. Chavez. Hi. Espinosa. Hi. Walker. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Hi. To. Motion carried. We ask that the board approve the educational support staff leave of absence request as presented for Vanessa Marillo Garcia and Keith Williams. Motion Walker. Roll call, please. Tower. Izz. Hi. Espinosa. Hi. Walker. Hi. Mason. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Motion carried. We ask that the board employ the following personnel pending all employment paperwork. Laura Pion Estrada, lunchroom monitor, Whittier School, effective March 17th, 2025. A motion. Mr. Jackson, roll call, please. TZ. Hi. High Tower. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Mason Walker. Hi. Espinosa. Hi. Motion carried. We ask that the board terminate the following probationary employee effective immediately as discussed in closed session. Chelani Gutierrez motion Espinosa and Miss Mason. Roll call, please. Espinosa. I Walker. High
014Tower. Hi. Chavez. Jackson. Hi. Mason. Hi. Motion carried. We ask that the board terminate the following probationary employee effective immediately as discussed in close session. Carlos Sith motion miss roll call please Mason. Hi Jackson. Hi Chavez. Hi Espinosa. Hi Walker. Hi Tower. Hi. Motion carried. We ask the board approve the following fundraiser as presented. Jefferson Sunnyside MacArthur PTO family paint night enchanted castle and Chuck-E-Cheese as present motion. Mr. Jackson, Miss Roll call, please. Hi, Missa. Hi. Hi. To Hi, Walker. Hi. Mason. Hi. Jackson. Motion carries. And then for my oral report, I just wanted to give a update. This doesn't require any action tonight, but we will come back in April with more details. As you know from the last month, I shared that we did a survey of all of our middle school students
015about what kind of additional sports they might be interested in. And uh I met with Dr. Misanic, Miss Dasha, Dr. Modi, and Mr. Gachowski and this is what we propose to move forward with. So I want to tell you the sports and just a few things about it and then we're going to come back in April with more information with some financials and more of a plan. But right now it was the idea of looking at all the data and determining which ones would be most impactful for the kids as soon as we can possibly do it. So we would like to continue exploring soccer for boys and girls and that would be part of the conference. So there would be actually a season just for girls soccer and a season just for boys soccer.
016And uh I wanted to tell you that's it's not a motion tonight. I just want to make sure that you're aware that we're working on that and that's feedback from our students that they would like us to have. Dr. Morton will coach you. That's why he's here. Dr. Mo, do you want to let me say the other one and then you talk as well. Now, the other one is to me is very interesting. But what we really like about this next one is it's really no cuffed. That's the beauty of this and it's bold bold and uh Dr. Modi. And then the other thought is now this is it's adding to our matrix if you will of offerings and commitments and transportation uniforms where we host events. There could be for example we feel North
017Lakes Field is okay for practice for soccer but we feel it needs to be improved to actually host a contest there. So, we need to work with Memorial Park District to see if they can help us with that. Um, I've spoken with Mayor Sherwin of North Lake and he's very excited about because he would love to see that space used more, but he reminded me that's Memorial Park District. It's not actually at North Lake. Yeah, at North Lake. The field here. Yeah, the the field itself. So, we have perhaps an intergovernmental agreement we're going to need to do, but we are soccer field ready over here. So if we have to, it might mean that we're sharing the field and have additional transportation. So we're looking at an athletic director stipen. So having a staff
018member help us out with some of this because it's scheduling, it's transportation, it's uniforms, and just think everybody who's in a sport, doesn't matter if it's bowling, they have to have proof of insurance, they have to have a physical, doesn't matter what grade they're in. There's lots of things. Plus, we have it's basically a C pass to play. So, we have to monitor our grades. So, there's a lot going on and our principles are willing to promote this, but they also need a little bit of help. So, I've surveyed our nearby districts about how they do it. Most of our nearby districts have a stipen just like we have in our appendix in the contract. So, this may require anou because we already have an agreement going on of some kind of a rate that
019would allow an athletic director, the principal and Dr. Mogi is here. We'll still be the decision maker, but we do need some help with coordinating this. So, um you're here. What are your thoughts on moving forward with boys and girls soccer? that I think as I wrap up my 13th year, there has been no question I get more than how come we don't have soccer, right? We are such a community that embraces the sport. Uh we have never had a facility, but we've been working really hard with our conference to make sure that we allow scholars to feel welcome and the addition of bowling which is a no cut sport. Anyone can play, anyone can compete in soccer is going to be huge for our scholars. Um I'm excited Dr. for us to meet this
020year and come up with ways where we can celebrate our community, celebrate our scholars. Uh we'll work hard to figure out um all the tidbits that go with I think that's the heart and soul of what we're going to need to do over the course of the next couple months to make sure that we can make this happen. We'll work hard with our conference uh and then we'll figure out how to best bring those two things. We also look at a couple other options. Track, I'm sorry, uh cross country was the other option and softball was the other option. So uh over the course of the next year I think a lot of great things are going to happen for our scholars. Thank you Dr. S for the vision and thank you for allowing us
021to bring some breaks instead after school. So today we have volleyball basketball and cheer cheer cheering. Okay that's those are the three programs we have. Those are mainly late fall winter programs. volleyball's right now. Oh, right, right, right. It's volleyball. You do the basketball then you Okay. Well, we were pretty much finished in April. Yeah. But in the early fall and spring, we're not really running. We are. Yeah. Early fall, we start off like week two of the school year with girls basketball. Okay. Okay. And then uh we end right around late April with uh boys volleyball. So it's pretty much year round. Okay. But it's so the girls vol you don't have the boys basketball right but I'm saying you have a gap. There's a gap right where the boys don't have anything to
022participate. And uh you know that's a great question you just kind of brought up because that's part of what we're talking about. We have to coordinate all of this because we want to provide as many opportunities as we can. But of course what happens you may end up because of the way the timing that someone may have to make a choice of which sport they're going to try out for. But we're going to try to minimize that as much as we can. We're looking to expand really, not necessarily give the same kids more because we we want to get as many kids buying in and as you were saying, feeling welcomed and belonging in our school. Uh, but we're we're still working our way through it. So, we've been talking about it the last couple
023of months and next month we're going to have more muscle on skeleton, if you will, which we'll talk about further. But these are the questions we're trying to figure out right now. So that's uh the end of my report and Dr. Mr. also co soccer for many years. Okay. Officiated competing all over my So you're trying to say Mr. Chavez. Thank you. Okay. All right. Welcome everybody. Um first up I have our It's that time again. It's our proposal for summer learning. So we are excited to get to offer summer learning for our students again. Um we're going to have it in two locations. Riley Intermediate and Sunnyside Intermediate. Um we're blessed to have the funding um through majority of our grants um title one IEDA preschool for all our afterchool programming grant. Um and
024we will use some local funds to offset some of it but the majority of it comes from our grants. All of our students are eligible to participate in our summer learning program uh pre-K to 8. And uh we'll again we'll prioritize registration to ensure uh students um with an academic or social emotional need will be given available opportunities for that enrollment first um as they're identified from their current school year. Um and our suggested motion is that the board approve our summer learning proposal as presented. Jackson, this is roll please. Espinosa. Hi. Walker. Hi. Mason. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Hi. To Chavez. Hi. Motion carried. And for my oral report, I wanted to talk to you a little bit about a couple of opportunities that we have. First, we um as you know, our school district
025receives a school improvement uh grant funding um to focus on our school improvement needs. We have received some additional funding as a district. And so, um, I brought all together our principles and the central office team to seek input on what that what we could would be most essential, um, to add to improve um, our student learning, what would have the most impact for student learning as well as professional learning for our staff. The grant funds um that we were um, additional funds we were given have to be used by um, beginning of August or by the end of August. So, it's anything from now until that time. So, as part of this conversation, we looked at what's going to have the most impact and give us the longevity um because it was quite a
026significant amount of carryover that the state had given us. And as part of this um conversation with Dr. Mesh, our school improvement coordinator, she encouraged us to attend professional learning conference that would be outside of Berkeley and take our school improvement team. So, as you know, our school improvement teams have been meeting for all of last year. we met after school and we met on Saturdays and then again this year they have committed um two hours a month. So it was four hours a month last year and two hours a month this year. And so one of the things that she suggested that was really would might be really important is to attend a professional learning conference together as a whole school district. So each of the school improvement teams along with the administration um
027to attend a conference outside of the district to kind of look at lots of different experiences and one of the things that we are taking a look at is called the innovative schools summit and it is in July and so we're ask and it's in it happens to be in Las Vegas um it's where they host this conference and it's the um it has five school five conferences in one which is one of the things that kind of draws us to this conference because it looks at a a conference for atrisisk students, innovative teaching strategies, e conf an eel conference um for strategies for EL students, school discipline and social emotional learning, which all of those areas are um the critical areas that we look at in our that are in all of our school
028improvement plans. And so we are looking at um h inviting all of our school improvement teams to go together as part of a a team bonding piece, but also each of those areas are addressed in the conference. And then the responsibility would be for each of us to look at what areas we would divide and conquer and make get the most out of that experience. And then how will we dispel out what we will do and how that will cascade back into the organization and fit into our school improvement plans. So that was one of the things that we're looking at. The second thing that we're looking at is that's really central is knowing all of the things that are um happening around the country with regard to education and our grants. We're really trying
029to look at what kind of things can we look at that are multi-year like subscriptions for learning, our digital learning platforms, things that can carry us forward for multiple years and use this money from that standpoint. Um, so we're trying to look at things that will sustain us for a couple of years for this with this school improvement money as well, knowing that this is an opportunity for us. So, I just wanted to kind of make you aware of these additional grant funds and how we're we have been trying to work to use that to impact our school improvement planning processes. Any questions about that? Any questions? And then the second piece is the consolidated district plan. Each year we have to bring that to you. Um it's kind of the gateway that opens up
030all of our title grants. Um and so we will be bringing that to you. It coordinates all the grant funding, how we're going to use that for school improvement, what that looks like, and how we're going to address all of our students needs and the organization's needs and professional development. So our goal is to bring that to you for um board approval at the April board meeting. We can move forward with all our grant funding. That's the end of plan report. Thank you. Thank you very much. You said that's going to be in July. Yes. No, I know we are. That's what everyone's like, who wants to go to Las Vegas in July? I was like, there's some really amazing speakers. I'm kind of excited about the opportunity. It's probably why they're having it there
031discount. Summary of budget, the statement activation and the student activity reports for the period ending February 28th, 2025 have been provided for your review. And the next item is um an action item. As part of district 87's referendum, the audiovisisual equipment in the gym and the cafeteria bases at Riley, Sunnyside, North Lake, and MacArthur were upgraded. We're now ready to upgrade Woodier and Jefferson gym. and the cafeteria spaces to replicate the enhancements with the other schools. W Architects provided a proposal for the design services and we're asking the board to approve the proposal as presented. Motion Mr. Jackson motion roll please. Chavis Jackson Mason Walker Espinosa. Hi. Motion carried for my oral report. Uh EBC board meeting last week, we received the final health insurance renewal rates which came in one point or.1% lower than
032the preliminary estimates were. So slightly lower. However, the rates assessed for the district for both HMO and PO were higher than average due primarily due to an increase in claims. For the PO plan, our loss ratio was 120.5% and that produced an increase of 8.9%. For the HMO plan, our loss ratio was 115.7% and that produced an increase of 7.2%. And for the dental plan, the district had a loss ratio of 92.9% and that produced a n or a 4% increase. our vision insurance with BSP and also our life insurance with reliant standard remained unchanged for this year. Any questions on this? Questions? My next item is my report concerning the proviso township school treasures office. The office has been approached by three three school districts from another from another line from another township and
033our Right now we have um 14 districts in our township. So that would make it 17 according to our treasur. Three additional districts would be the maximum that can be accommodated through our current office and um they would like to they would like to pursue this. One benefit of expanding the membership is the ability to increase the total investment pool so that we would get have a return on our investments. The second would also um incre increasing the number of districts would lower the percentage of township overhead costs charged to each of the districts. So as one of their I'm one of their board members and at our meeting on April 7th there'll be further discussion about this and a possible vote on the matter. Is there any questions on this questions? Uh I just
034wanted to let you know that um through our self insurance program, the district is now part of a nurse triage program and the program provides direct access to an intake coordinator at 247 in the event of any staff injuries. Um this can be done during through a QR code. They just scan a QR code and they can access a nurse triage person, a blind person. Um the facts of the incident are documented directly and medical referrals can be given immediately. Um the stakeholders on I'm one of them um can be notified within minutes of the incident. So we can do whatever we need to do here if there was any issues with any anything here. The program also allows nurses to focus more time on students and our office still interacts with the injured party
035to follow up on the incident immediately. So far the program has had very good feedback. This is a pilot program with them. So they're testing it with us. And finally next month the audit post will be presented and Joe like um Baker telly will be here to provide the upcoming audit information. That's all I have. boards always. Thank you, Miss Travis. You're up. Right. Vacancies um pretty consistent um from this past school year. So, they're stagnant at the same certified staff 16 support staff six and one districtwide substitute. After today's board meeting, we will tomorrow morning post our 25. will change off the postings and update them for the 2526 school. So that will happen tomorrow morning. She has a lot to post so hopefully be done early morning. Um statement of economic interest are
036due. I think I believe I've sent you all an email to your Berkeley 87 school board email addresses. Um, the administrators are doing a great job of turning them in and I believe in you 100% they're going to do the same. So, they're due by May 1. Stress. Yes, sir. I'm so proud of you. Can you please send me your um your confirmation receipt? That's all I need return. So, I am very proud of you. Um, just to give you an update about the career fair schedule. I have two more virtual career fairs. One tomorrow with Chicago State University and then the last one will be IASPA virtual career fair. That will be their their third one that we participated in. But I'm happy to share with you on March 6, I had nine administrators
037join me for I asked for virtual career fair. So there was 10 of us in the virtual career fair at one time. So, we talked to about 60 or 70 candidates. A minute. It was about 60 or 70. Like we had chats or like videos with like I think about 60 uh candidates. So, that was outstanding. I've talked to them, you know, for a while about this, but it was great to have them with me. And so, some of them also will join me um in that. Also, I wanted to let you know next week for spring break, um, we have candidates joining us from the various career fairs that I've been to. I think someone's coming from North Central, Illinois State University. So, the various ones I can't keep up even. So, while our
038our schools are on spring break, I'll be uh providing tours to let you know. We also have candidates who have toured our district who have kept in contact with me and they're watching the vacancies. They emailed me a lot saying, "Okay, Miss Travis, I've been watching the vacancies. I'm ready to, you know, hopefully be a part of Berkeley 87." Good to have. I'm watching the vacancies and they will begin to see those vacancies. Trying to keep in contact with them and keep them interested in the district. Are there any questions? Any questions? No questions. Start not so we have um some information in front of me as well. But start with um thank you for um the nurses. Um very nice to have that stability of um all of our nurses. of a vacancy for
039the quarter nurse. Um, but we are able to get some of our nurses now into other courses such as like vision and hearing certifications because they we got that stability. So, very excited about that. We have another nurse going through that program that helps with like our screenings for preschool and things like that. So, very excited about that. And then we are also working on um talked about the cardiac breath plan that came out the guidance from the state to have more possible building within a certain kind of perimeter of where you are most of your crowds. So we'll be working hopefully over spring break with facilities on where we're going to put those other AEDs. We're looking at the second floor of each building because there's obviously a lot of people in those areas.
040So that's another place. So, we'll be kind of working with the best um location for the ADS on the second quarter. Um for special education and preschool, we did have our state visit for the preschool for all program. After the state visit, you submit a action plan. So, we submitted our action plan. Uh they usually give us some feedback on some things that could be enhanced to make it better, whether it's curricular items, staffing items, or even like health and safety types of items. So we kind of look at what they offer, give us some advice, and then we put our action plan into our next. We just submitted that to the state. And then we also um you saw the stop the weekends last time. Those got distributed to the schools. They're in um
041their little red bags in the classrooms. And we're going to be looking at our next steps for training for our staff on that. We'll also be doing some training on evacuation, getting again familiar with the sites and those locations and how they can get to those sites if we ever needed to. So, we'll be practicing that in April. And we're also getting ready to do our annual um safety meeting. I would like to invite all the board members to that annual safety meeting. We meet with our first responders in the area. We go through our work operation plans, which again would be something like our evacuation drills and things like that. we kind of get together and so we'll be uh working with the principles right now to find a a good date and then
042I'll make sure it works with all the chiefs and then I'll get that along to all of you. If we can find a mutual date that works very well for all of us. Um in your board packet you had a kind of I made an executive summary there was a site assessment. Um we were awarded preschool health and life safety funding. So we had the site assessments done for Winger and Jefferson and those were completed and the report done. Also we had the state visit. So in my executive um report to you I took a summary from the state visit and a summary from the site assessment and put them together for you and some of the next steps that we're looking at to improve those. Any questions? questions along you. Fantastic. Few things we're
043working on as tariffs are in place. We're looking at technology purchases. It will be a Chromebook that we do around this time every year. So, working with several vendors try to get in the price and purchase those so we're ready for next school year. Testing season is in full swing. We finished up access testing. Wea testing or A testing. We're soon going to be doing ISA testing and NWA testing. We'll spend some time after this maybe work. So working with all those test platforms to make sure all students teachers are in there appropriately, devices are testing. It's a lot of testing. So we try to make them go as smooth as possible. working on our registration process that's going within April 7. So right now we're working on the residency verification and working on getting
044communication out for families those who have to come in in person school year and those who are cleared through our online system. So we'll be getting some of those communications out and then after spring break the returning student online registration will be open as well as registration for new students as well. So, we're working on streamlining that in Skyward. And then over spring break, we're contract to take advantage of new teachers and students getting concession. We're doing some network upgrades of our firewall, installing some access point ones, and just doing some other server upgrades operating systems. We do have the main office tab here. Um, so we don't want to have too many some of those. Any questions? You're up, sir. Two good things for the night. We think we've located where is the water
045that we leave down one. So locating the leak is one good thing. Second thing is it's on the main water for the city. So the city's going to be taking care of that because they got it's in the park upon the lake side east of so kind of in front of where the dock and stuff is over section. And uh they're they're gonna plan to do it around slide after summer school before they dig that. So your time started. Thank you. Good job, Miss Teresa. Yes. Welcome. Thank you. Thank the first board so you get a chance to give a speech in two minutes. I'm happy to be here. It's been a pleasure working district 87 for the last one or eight years. Um and I'm just excited to continue to work here and continue
046to learn and show you that I'm very passionate about what I do. Well, thank you for having me. Always welcome. Now, we have some new guests. We had everyone come on board with me and participate. So John and Michelle, thank you for the blood of our team. You get a chance to invest the entire, you know, really happy for the opportunity to to be here and you guys see run. I like it. Thank you, Dale. Thank you for the due diligence. Absolutely. Major major right puzzler figure out if there recourse of getting our money back put in the behind the scenes problem. The problem has no wor I don't We have to get one of those sound penetrating things where they send sound in the water man and they track it with sound. I don't
047know how it all works but that's how they found it. Just so you know they didn't I did learn that if you have PVC piping the plastic piping can't use it. Yeah. So cities that put all any other new business. Okay. We as a committee we have to go into another close session. So we're going to get a vote to join come back. Okay, I got a vote. Okay, Miss Mason and Miss Roll call, please. Mr. Olsson, hi. TZ, hi. Hi, Towers. Hi, Walker. Hi, Jackson. Hi, Mason. Hi. Motion carry. Well, thank you everybody uh tuning in tonight. Uh we're going to go into close session for second time tonight. Hope everybody have a nice evening. Thank you.