001United States of America. It is the republic which stands one nation under Godis and justice for all please walker Laura Mason present Jackson preser here Chavez for participation written. We ask that the board accept the written correspondence as presented. Yeah. So just a a roll call consideration only and um we ask the board approve the minutes of the regular board meeting 28 2025 close session minutes of March 24th 2025 and the reorganization minutes of April 28th 2025 as presented motion Jackson roll call please Jackson. Hi, Mason. Hi, Miss Esposa. I motion carried and for reports, no full business from the superintendent. No business. The suggested motion is that the board of education approve the accounting plans pay as presented. No questions for also building. Oh, I didn't. Sorry. She just suggested motion is that the
002board of education approve the counseling claims payable as presented no motion Mr. Jackson roll call please I Mason I Jackson I motion carried other business I'm sorry Mr. No. Okay. Okay. Now open. Okay. Close session. Can go into close session. Yes. Okay. Go to close session. Roll. Hi. How I Jackson? Mason. I miss. Hi. We should be briefly in. Okay. Bring the board meeting back in order. Okay. Consideration of business. I need more reports. Mason reportil M. Jackson committee have writing superintendent reports. We ask that the board under license personnel leave of absence approve the licensed personnel leave request as presented for Ellen Neess and Stephanie Seanic as presented. Thank you. Have a motion. Mr. Jackson, Mr. Roll, please. Espanosa. Hi. Hi. Tower. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Mason. Hi. Motion carried. Licensed personnel employments. We ask
003that the board employ the following teachers pending all employment and paperwork. Stephanie Orioio, 8th grade math teacher, North Lake Middle School, effective August 18th, 2025. and Julia Destapani, third grade teacher, Sunnyside School, effective August 18, 2025, as presented. Motion, Miss Nelson, Mr. Jackson, recall, please. I cover I, Jackson, I. Mason, I, Mr. Nelson, I motion carried. Educational support staff leave of absence. We ask that the board approve the educational support staff leave of absence requests as presented for Tabitha Raper and Perry Strong. Need a motion. Miss Mason and Mr. Jackson. Roll call, please. Mason. I Jackson. I spin. Hi. Motion carries. Educational support staff employments. We ask that the board employ the following personnel pending all employment paperwork. Nali Navarez Acasta cross categorical teacher assistant at Riley Intermediate School effective August 18th 2025 a motion
004Mr. Jackson. Mr. Nelson. Roll call, please. Jackson, I cover. Hi. Esposa. Hi. Mason. Hi. Motion carries. Educational support staff resignation. We ask that the board accept the resignation of the following personnel. Mayor Cruz, Marillo Garcia, teacher assistant at Whittier, effective at the end of the 2024 2025 school year. Motion. No. Miss. Roll call, please. Espanelson. Hi, Mason. I Jackson, I motion carry. We ask that the board approve the following fundraisers as presented. Jefferson Sunnyside MacArthur PTO. They would like board approval to be a vendor at the spring into summer festival at Eisenhower Community Center. That's a community outreach and this will be at no cost to the PTO. They'll provide games and entertainment for the students and a point table and their goal is to sign people up from the community to be involved in
005the PTO for the upcoming school school year and a spirit fundraiser. I had a motion Mason and Miss Roll call, please. Hi. Hi. Mason. I miss. Motion carried. And for my oral report, I'd like to thank Mrs. Espinosa for participating in the parent teacher advisory committee and um the no the minutes are in your packet. It's always good to get parent feedback and we also were able to go over a little bit of our new press policy plus and I'll be going over that with our new policies with our administrators tomorrow beginning our process of becoming more familiar with that. Also, um I wanted to respond as the board asked a question last month about uncertainties with finances and grants. So, we met as a team and one of the things we're going to work
006on is in the past there have been grants that had a carryover. What that meant, let's just say 10%. If your grant was $100,000, you could carry over $10,000 to the next year as an example. Now, we really don't want to do that, but there are times where it's nice to know, oh, you can just carry it over, but we're thinking because of the uncertainties with funding, we're going to do everything we can to expend our funds during before August 31st. And we talked about that because that way if things are not guaranteed for next year, we're not relying on. So, we're beginning to strategize about being very clear about what our priorities are. and uh making sure that we have funding for it. We still have grant funding, but one of the questions that
007came up from the board was what are what is the impact on grant funding going to be in the next few years? And we really thought about that because right now nobody knows, but we need to have a plan, right? And our plan is when we have the funds, we're going to expend them. We're not going to count on them carrying over. And the other thing is the good news is we are getting our grant funding currently. But now we're actually talking about next year down the road. And as you know, we always figure these things out and we will. And I'd like to remind the board several years ago when I was writing the prek grant, we lost it one year. And we found a way though through title one and we made it
008happen. And we didn't skip a beat because we have a good team here and we'll figure things out. But it really caused us to reflect as an administrative team because there are no guarantees. We can do everything to be in compliance and it's possible that some of our grants won't be there or they won't be funded the same way. So we're going to work to identify certainties where we can. I just wanted to mention that unless there are any questions. So we are funded in all areas for the rest of you for this year. Um I remember it be for the rest of the year. Is it so far? Um I believe it's going to be for the rest of the year, but things are changing late. Yes. So, you know, we could have one,
009you know, we could be certain one minute and then something freezes for some reason. It may not be, you know, eliminated, but it may be frozen, but we have gotten all everything to date that we should have gotten everything to food program, right? Including the food program. When you say the year, you mean this school year or even in a physical year? the next year. It's for our grants, it goes through the end of the grant. So, for our grants, we try to write them all for August 31st. We get what's called an extended uh grant period. Usually, they end June 30th because that's around when um most school years end, but we go out to make sure we're available. We have funds available for some of our students. And we'll keep talking about this
010every month, but it's not good enough to just say, well, everybody's in the same boat. We need a plan. And our plan is when there we're going to just keep working on finding certainties wherever we can. So, we have our funds. We're going to expend them. We're not going to count on them being around next year. And approximately 10% of our budget comes from bricks. 90% from local funds or property taxes, evidence-based funding, things like that. All right, that's good. I really appreciate that. And uh thank you. I just also wanted to say um Lzette, uh not to put you on the spot, but I just want to do a an update here for graduation. Mr. High Totower is not able to make it this year, so we need people to do uh diplomas. Mr.
011Jackson, who have a graduate this year, I believe, at MacArthur. So, Mr. Jackson's going to be at MacArthur. I'll be there. And I was wondering, would anybody MacArthur is at um 7:30 p.m. Would anybody be available for North? Thank you. Okay. And I think Mrs. Mason's hand went up. Yeah, I did. You're already for both. Sorry, you're on for both. Yes. Thank you. So, Mrs. Flores, we're good. Yes. Okay, perfect. And uh I wanted to thank Mr. Burn over here, the young man right there. We had a great We had an interesting uh event happen last Sunday into Sunday night. I know Mr. High Totower, you and I were in communication and Mr. Burn spent a big part of his mother's day here in the district trying to get to the bottom of the internet
012outage that we had. I then kept working to get communication out to everybody and it was interesting. Four of our schools did not have internet but we we figured out a way through it and we had school and I just wanted to publicly thank Mr. Burn because it was not anything we had anything to do with. The village was doing work out there and our understanding is something happened where a fiber optic cable was cut, damaged. We're not sure exactly how it happened, but we only found out because Mr. Burn was getting some alerts about our internet not working and he kept at it and kept at it and kept at it and finally found out what it was. But then we had to do the same thing to get the repair done. So, I
013just want to thank you, Mr. burn because it could have been more than one day without internet. But Mr. Burn, make sure what what was it like 3:00 in the morning on Tuesday morning? You you that's when you finally send me the Okay. Yeah. I just wanted to thank Mr. Burn because today's day and age, we rely on technology quite a bit. Oh, it was. Yeah. Yeah. So it it causes our teachers to adjust. And speaking of certainty, we don't like springing things on the teachers at the last minute either on a Sunday night on Mother's Day or back to work on Monday. But we know that we have to be adaptive in our profession today. And unless there are any questions, that's the end. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Hello. Um I have an
014middle school ELA um curriculum update. So we have been talking American Reading Company has a new middle school um curriculum that they have redesigned to engage um middle schoolers in a different way. And so we've been talking the last several months with our middle school ELA team about is this a possibility? should we look into this um and what it could mean for our students regarding um ELA curriculum? And so we have been looking at it um combing through all of the pieces and parts of that. And so this morning our final conversation today is that we're going to move forward with the new ARC Fusion. It is designed in a different way. It's designed in a 45 minute period. Um so their first period would be the new ARC fusion and then the second
015period so they're of their 78 minutes or 80 some minutes they would also implement what's called ARC accelerator which is a the differentiated the small group portion that we have now but it's designed to accelerate reading for students that are behind um and teach them high utility instructional strategies in a way that um we feel is going to better prepare them for their next journey onto the high school. And so we're going to move forward with that and we are um excited that we have the current they have the grant funds to help support that new um arc fusion curriculum. So it's the same curricular company. They just redesigned things in a new way to engage middle school students differently. It's more project based. Um, and the topics go a little bit deeper. And the
016books are a little um similar but a little deeper and broader for what they're going to experience as we prepare them on to the high school. And so we talk a little bit about some of the things that they need to do over the summer as they prepare to go into high school, especially our eighth graders. And so our kids redesigned this um from feedback from middle school teachers. And so we really want to make sure our kids have the best and most um effective learning experience. So we've been working through that discussion. So I'm excited to see that. some of our teachers have been piloting our accelerator um the last couple of months, our reading specialists and we've seen anywhere from a half a year to a year's worth of growth in the last
017four to five weeks. So for our students who are above below grade level, that has really accelerated their growth in the last month. So I'm kind of excited to see what that can do for our students, our struggling learners, but then also accelerate our students that are proficient and above. So I'm excited to see what that does for us. Summer school. Let me give you a summer school update. Enrollment is up and running. It's actually set to close this Friday. And right now we have many classes that are already closed because they reach their capacity. So that's a great problem to have. Summer school is always fun to see um how quickly they get up and running there. So we're hoping to see that trend continue. And most recently we have just finished our Camp
018Duncan. Um, so it's been excited to see our seventh graders and our fifth graders experience some outdoor education experiences. So for our fifth graders, they enjoyed their overnight tra trip to Camp Duncan. So I want to give some huge shout outs to Sharon Urbanic and Stan Saup for their leadership planning and work behind the scenes throughout the year to make sure these trips came to life. Also Dr. Misanic. I also want to thank following staff for giving their time and participation in Camp Duncan. And we know that staying overnight um at Cam Duncan with our Berkeley students is means that they're choosing to be away from home from their own families. And that's a commit commitment that does not go unnoticed. So I want to thank um Demetra Sakuris, Karen Nornstrom, Jasmine Martinez, Mike Bernowski,
019Michael Paronis Aerninos. I never say his name last stop. Rebecca Temple, Ellen Debess, Richard Civil, Greg Grant, David Kavanaaugh, Emily Alenheim, Greg Olsen, Tracy Davis, Hannah Heble, Melanie Swims, and Elizabeth Lopez. We could not have made that possible without all of them. And our seventh graders also got to go on their first team building experience at a place called Go Ape, which is like a low ropes and zipline adventure. And so we'd like to thank Kim Baron at MacArthur and Julie Ernston at North Lake for their leadership that they informally took on to make sure that this experience was successful for our scholars. And Joe has an awesome video that um to show that was created by and shared uh by our wild cats. Take it away, Joe. episode. It's amazing. Foreign speech. Foreign speech.
020Foreign speech. falling as sick. Now I don't have [Music] like they had a wonderful time experience for them. Definitely. I would be scared but they seem to handle it just fine. Um we've continued our articulation with the high schools or um with lighten and proviso. One of the things that we're trying to align and we'll talk more um with Dr. Sullivan and as we plan for our calendars, but we'd like to um articulate um for our institute days so that we can do some institute some professional development with the high schools teachers as well. And so we want to have our curriculum aligned, our standards alignment, and we've been looking talking about what key strategies that we can look at K to 12 so that we're all working on similar things and experiences. And so
021all of our teachers K to 12 see that there's alignment. So when they're talking about similar things and we're talking about similar things from an instructional standpoint, that we really do communicate with each other and that we they see that alignment between the three school districts. And so that's been a really good conversation. And then we also talked a little bit I talked to Mr. Ashb about the uh PMSA enrollment procedures and what that'll look like in the um future and what some changes that they're making so that we're on the same page and we're aware. I just dropped them this morning. So those articulations are going really well. So I just wanted to make you all aware of that as well. If you have no other questions or any questions for me. You said
022summer school is going very well as far as what are the numbers? So, I don't have all the exact numbers. I know that we have I don't know if you were able to pull that up. No, I didn't. I just looked at the class. Yeah, Cara said that we had several classes um that are full and we have 200 on each side of the district, but we have several classes and each of the classes are around 15 and we have many classes that are already closed. Great. they've reached their capacity, but I don't have the exact number. Sure. But yeah, the Friday enrollment we're set to close and we're probably gonna reach that. So, that's good news. It is. It's great news. So, they're very excited. Well, thank you. Any questions? I just want to
023make a comment. Um I in the last meeting, as you mentioned, as more of an appreciation, I feel that we're focused on getting our kids ready to go to high schools. I'm hearing that more and it's it sounds so nice. Thank you. I love that we're partnering and have building our relationship with our work. It's been really good conversations. It's taken a couple years to kind of like cultivate those conversations relationships but they're coming along. You have a question? Okay. One action item for the consideration of the property tax appeal. The suggested motion is that the board of education ratify the settlement of the tax rate objections for tax year 2011 through 2014 as presented and discussed in close session. Motion Jackson rolls. Hi. Math. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Hi. Motion carried. For my oral report,
024there's a few things that are upcoming. Um, our 10ear life safety plan is due by the end of December, I'm sorry, is due by December 31st, 2025. The architects are drafting proposal for this. Um, there's a required survey that they have to complete that we need to complete. The process will include walkthroughs of all buildings to assess any facility needs. The architects will then meet with administration to review any findings and then confirm alignment and priorities for the next 10 years and then we will present the plan to the board for final approval. The architects are also preparing a proposal to add additional manual fire pull stations at North Lake and Riley and Sunnyside and MacArthur. The expansion is required at North Lake and Riley and then Sunnyside and MacArthur will be updated for consistency
025across lines. Dr. Solid, would you provide some additional background on this, please? Yeah, I'd be glad to. So, what happened here? Just kind of a recap. When we had our final occupancy inspection for Sunnyside MacArthur, the number of fire alarm pull stations was deemed to be sufficient. And so our architects used that same approach to Riley and North Lake and had the same number of pull stations located approximately in the same locations. Even though the buildings are different, but approximately in the same places, but on the final occupancy, the inspector at Riley North Lake required more pole stations. And so we decided as a board back during um construction that because it would be a summer project, we'd have to just put it off to the future, we could occupy the building. That wasn't the
026issue. But in order to be fully compliant, we do need to do the additional pull stations. And then we thought, well, if we're going to put them in one school, might as well put them in the other two because they were the same. and we don't want to fail an inspection down the road because someone else thought now one has more than the other. So that was our approach. That's what the board agreed to do. This was a few years ago and now we have it on the calendar to get it done. Okay. Next month I'll present a resolution to dispose of district owned property. It's valued over $2,500. Um this is a required required to go to the board. This is um this will include two vans and one pickup trucks that we don't
027use anymore and we're exploring the use of online auction platform to do this and evaluating appropriate reserve pricing. So we received our Kelly global pricing and then we're that's and then we're going to try and evaluate what the reserve would be. Um, next month, we'll also bring forward a two-year contract extension with our ER consultant. She provides critical support in securing funding that helps us offset our internet costs. We've been working with internet connections for many years, hoping to renew that contract. We're also reviewing our fund balances before year end and a resolution will present it to transfer interest between funds next month and additional transfers may be recommended based on the review. completed. Talk about the grants a little bit. So, we're receiving that funding. However, we've been notified that Cook County tax bills
028will be delayed. So, that means that we'll receive our distributions later. We're going to continue to monitor our cash flow carefully in in the coming months. And for those of you who might not be familiar with cash flow, it's just making sure that we have more revenue than expenditures. And um if for some reason we're in in a deficit, we'll be transferring in inner transfer funds and use funds from your account or from another we constantly track that anyway, but because of the time and distributions, you may need to do that. Um we also have constellation energy. So our energy supplier notified us that upcoming increases in electrical costs are coming probably around 10%. So our annual billing for electricity runs anywhere between like 600,000 650,000 a year. So 10% of that would be 60,000.
029U I've talked to our consultant from next era. Mr. gentleman that gives us our rates or helps us with our rates and he said that there is going to be some sort of a small credit and future invoices from commed but and that'll help offset the costs that are going to be incurred and also and I have a meeting with him later in the week to discuss that further but he's also um given me some information on something called a community solar farm and a company called Unisur could help us look at different farming um to get energy credits at no cost, no obligation. And he also offered to attend a board meeting in the future to answer any questions about it. We haven't signed anything. We're we're still looking into it, but this is
030just part of our our contingency plans basically in case something in case um funding doesn't come through on you know there's grants possibly. Are you familiar with so anyone have any questions regarding with solar farms? Is it any detail? Um no details. What would happen was Unicosaurus would go out and find different solar farms for us to evaluate and give us contracts from different companies and we would evaluate them and decide if we want to participate or not. And we still have Edison. We would still have Edison. It would just be a credit that would be put on our account and on our account or on escalation accounts which is really Edison. It's just the provider means it's a different provider. But so we would get energy credits and then the solar community would bill
031us for a portion of it and whatever that difference is would be our be ours. So we'll meet with Mr. White and Mr. Gothy our new facilities director and we're going to work out our plan. But Irene is bringing this up as an FYI. We're looking at our contingencies again with the uncertainties. What can we do? So, if we can save a little money by exploring the solar, we're going to look into it. Especially when prices are going up. [Music] Uh, National School Pro Lunch Program awarded us funding of $10,26 to purchase. Say that again. National School Lunch Program. Yes. They awarded us funding of $10,026 to purchase a refrigerated salad bar. So that is good news. Um updates to the amended budget will be presented next month. We'll have a hearing and one additional
032item that came across was that we um we purchased new student Chromebooks uh which we ordered early to avoid, you know, the price increases, possible price increases. And that's on a rotational basis. We ordered this year. Um, and I'll also need an additional bills list to be paid at the end of May due to our early cut off for this board meeting. So, we'll have an interim list for next month. Any questions? I'm sorry that was a time. Okay. Thank you. Any questions? Anything else? Thank you. Sorry. Thank you, M. have a quick report. Um, interviewing update. Interviewing is going well. Um, tonight we approved a few candidates, but we have several uh that have accepted the positions. They just have to go through the employee process. So, we have about nine people who have
033accepted. They're just going through the, you know, employee process with physical background checks and paperwork. So, that's really great. And then we have five who are currently still thinking about the offer. So hopefully by this Friday they'll provide you with updates on whether they and such that. So the interview season it is going really well. We still have some you know work to do uh with the candidates. Um but yes interview season is going well been very positive. Um last week Dr. promoting at a former student. He's accepted. So, he's coming to North D and he's coming back to teach um in North Lake. And then the last board meeting, we approved a candidate. Um she was my former student, I was a principal, and she's coming, she's hired at Woody to be a first
034grade teacher and I met her. We got acquainted at Illinois State University. So, it's really great to see our students and they are so excited to be coming back home. So, that's really great. So, it's been a positive interview season. Dr. is doing a great job. Principal is doing a great job of communicating with me. Once they send it to me by email and how the candidate if I don't talk to them, I email and candidates have been really receptive and responsive. And we have had some defamations to that perform various reasons. However, everybody just enjoyed you know. So, so far so good this interview. Are the reservations low? Am I missing something? Are they high in between? Well, yes, but I have a little step to take. I'll be honest. A lot of times
035when people resign, they want to wait to their approval at the school board meeting by their new district and then also they'll wait like to the end of the year. But I I send out I want to send out some communication just to remind them that we want to thank our staff, right? But if they have accepted positions, I will send out a communication this week just letting them know that we need to know because late resignations really hurt us. But I've just been trying to hold off. Um, but it is time because we only have a few more weeks. That way they know last year I did it and right when I send the letter we receive about three or four, you know, and so and I know sometimes it's hard to do but
036we really, you know, want to thank everyone, but just in case we want to be informed because we we have a few candidates that I met at career fairs that are saying, you know, hey, I don't see anything in my grade level being hit. I'm willing to see if anything comes up. So, we want to have candidates who understand, but it does feel very low. Uh we haven't, you know, they like to let them know their benefits will stay intact, you know, to August and that kind of helps. So, sometimes they're worried about that, but it's going good. It's great. Thankful for that. Yes. Thank you. and for the work of the principles and the career fair. Yes. I just want to say for um our principles and assistant principles. So I it's a virtual
037career fair. They host three a year and so our principles they joined me in March. I think I may have shared it but it was like 10 of us online talking uh to candidates. That was really nice. They just had another one May 15th, Miss Anakin, she was on the career fair, Mr. Tur and I jumped in and had the virtual career fair. So, it's a really great way to meet candidates and at that one you have people who are currently employed in other districts that just may want to move them out as well as new candidates new to education. And when I looked at the pool, it was about 950 people who get their resumes into that system. So, it's a a really great um career fair. It's virtual and it's hosted by um
038highs. Last but not share, we just completed open enrollment for benefits for our employees for the 2526 uh career fair, the administrative assistant of human resources. She did a great job. She does a really great job preparing going out to schools and um right now she's finalizing it uh for the 256. So we're about to wrap that up and everyone will have their benefits for the upcoming school year. Okay. Um Miss Djack and I we met with the retirees getting them ready and prepared for their new life of retirement. And so we've been meeting with them, letting them know what they need to do before they uh retire. And it's been a joy having her with me and seeing their excitement, but yet feeling like they're going to miss that time. They can always come
039back and substitute teach for us. They come back on and a few of them have uh let me know you're going to substitute teach. So that's great. Unless there are any questions, that's the end of my report. Any questions, Travis? No questions. Thank you. M. Awesome. I just build up what Dr. Sullivan said up in the front. You can see there's still a hole where fiber was cut. So big pilot parking lot working with AT&T. When you cut fiber, they try to do a quick repair and that's splicing the fiber back together. But there's some quality degragation when it happens. So, their plan is to run the full run by her to rerun that. It's about 2,000 ft. So, in contact with AT&T and when they're schedule that um and that will not be at
040our expense. We'll rerun that once they do that and we'll back fill all the dirt and it'll be like it never happened. So, just an update on that. I'll go into working on uh something with um Mrs. Zimmerman and the curriculum department working on digital subscriptions. I bring that up now because as Dr. Sullivan mentioned, when there's a day without internet, it it affects what we do. So, we try to really have a reliable um and in some cases redundancies to try to minimize this occurring. Some of the things that we're working on three tools epic, newsletter go, we're evaluating that as a great console. The epic is a tool to bring books digitally into the hands of kids 247. Um, another one is new set up which is a really cool tool which takes
041news stories but it rewrites it into a format and reading level that's appropriate for students. some of those current events, but it touches on topics of ELA, science and social studies. Really a great tool again brings those current events to the lives of our students. In Pebble Go, which is a research tool starting at in kindergarten, we want our students to use technology not just to absorb content by watching videos, but to use it to research and create. And this is a tool specifically designed for our K1 and two user students to begin developing those digital skills in a productive way. So that's some work there. Technology department is working on expanding the school year. That means collecting technology wrapping up the student information system for all state reporting that take place at the end
042of the school year and as Mrs. Z mentioned getting summer school up and running. And then as um in Chromebook purch [Music] I'm sorry NWS and then EA. Yeah, it's a really great tool and again, no decisions have been made there, but that's just some tools that the councils have found for potential use next school year. It's a great tool. It is. Yeah, it's a great tool. It's interactive and I think they have correctly 20,000 digital books. We want our kids to be reading at all times. This is a tool that puts books in the hands of our kids. Any questions? Well, I'll stay inside the room. Dr. Welcome. Just want to give you an update. I know at our last board meeting we talked about uh embedding soccer and then bowling into our middle
043school. So we are meeting with a veter tomorrow some soccer uniforms. So we're excited about that. Um want to formally invite you to graduation is two weeks from today. I know it's the first time we've had on Monday. So it's going to be nice. And then we'll wrap up the schools with our sixth and seventh grade scholars on June 3rd. And so we're really excited about that. And I want to go back to um the internet outage, you know, I want to say not a single teacher converted, you know, and it was nice. I know Dr. S, I reach out and you called me at 9:00 and we converted and we thought let's let's go ahead and do this. And so we still have books. I know it's it's an ancient uh thing we haven't
044heard of, but we still had books together. We have a lot of books for our program. And so and then we had the math workbooks and then the field trip you saw kind of helped out. That was the day that the honor so third of our building had something to do. So that was an amazing trip. And then that trip, you know, sometimes kids come back and oh, why do we have to go on? They loved that field trip. Even the teachers like, man, can we do this again? And so thank you to your department for just allowing us to experience that. So lots of good things happening. We've had a really positive year at the middle schools. And so we just want to see you all at the graduation in two weeks. We're at
0455:30 and the follow. Thank you for um just passing out this year. Let me apologize to North change and this is one of the great any questions for Dr. So for special services um for our nurses, we still have that vacancy for the flo nurse guys for um we've been okay this year working with the agency to make sure that when we go on trips like this um that we have a nurse when it's needed. So we've had a great partnership and and that's been doing okay. So we're doing okay even though we have vacancy we're doing okay but we're looking forward to hopefully finding a good candidate this summer. Um, our nurses also are working on um, stop the bleed. Those were those kits that you saw a few months ago that we put
046in the um, go kits. So, the nurses are um, working together for what our training could look like for next year so that there's more hands-on application. There is a um, mandatory module that all of our staff are watching every two years, but we want to take it another step further and like using hands-on. Um, so the tools that are in the the goal kits, they know how to use them. So the nurses are kind of working, we're going to be working with like paramedics in the area, police in the area together to maybe just make some small workshops like maybe even just little stations where um staff can come and kind of use those tools. So we're kind of taking our steps, our nurses are taking um a look at what that could look
047like for next year uh for special education. Um actually today um I met with um our partners that are doing that uh special education review. Uh they the review is completed. I got to see the final results uh today and review them. And so our next steps are going to be reviewing with the administrative team here and then they would like to offer a presentation to the board. So that'll be our next step. I figure in June we'll do it with the administrative team and then we'll have um presentation for the board and that's the full program um special education um that they did very deep a deep review on and then from there they have some ideas of what we could look at for strategic planning for next steps for the future. So, it's
048very very great meeting today with them and to see kind of the whole uh thing come to that final piece and very very wonderful job and it's very clear. I think you really appreciate that the report that's very succinct, very simple yet a lot of detail, but they're working on a report that'll make a lot of sense for you and other members of the community. It's very simple. So, they've done a really nice job. So, I'm looking forward to those next steps. And then uh we did have our safety meeting um in May with um some of our first responders in the area. Um so what I will do is I will um put together a summary of the outcomes kind of the key highlights from that safety meeting and then there's obviously the form
049for you to sign and then we will submit to the um we also have our site assessment. um sunny side was um completed two weeks ago and then next week they'll be doing the carpet. So then all the site assessments will be done and we'll give report to you as a board with any summaries that they have or any key highlights they want to point out. And uh we have a compliance visit for McCain Vento. This is a new visit that the REO is doing where they come and review our registration enrollment process and just make sure everything's in alignment with kind of school code making sure that you're, you know, careful to take care of kids that are DCFS care immigrants or homeless children. So, they'll be doing that this week. And one final
050thing is um I was able to represent Berkeley um at the Berkeley Centennial. They had their time capsule where they kind of put just different things from the community in a time capsule that they won't open for another 50 years and be here. Um, but yeah, we were able to uh put some different things. I was a member of the community, so they asked us to share things from uh we were children that grew up here and then I had some things from the district. Um, so they I had like one of me breaking ground. Uh so then they asked if we would do more for the district. So they asked if over the summer we would maybe put together some more detailed information especially about the new facilities that they could then preserve maybe
051work with some summer school friends on a project like that. Maybe something that could be historical. They'll be here. You said the presentation for the board will be in July open. Uh it could be for July. We could take a look at see what the calendar was. Any questions? Moving right along. Any other members? Anyone? I had one you forgot to share. I apologize for work. I wanted to let you know that I did um work on a grant application for a district-wide literacy plan. It's a small amount of funds and that's been submitted to Bisby and so we should hear about back on that day new grant effort. As you can see, this board is ready to go someification. Guess what? You got some on vacation. The black administration can be on vacation. So,
052it be our last board. Uh well, I can say it's going to play this year. Everyone being on these four winning matches, right? So, as we go forward, uh this year makes a lot of progress and see progress. going to be telling all of them, you know. So, let's keep moving on that. I want everybody to have a nice summer. Uh, next board will be will be on June 23rd. So, stand that. Guess what? I get a motion to adjourn. Roll call, please. Hi, Tyler. Hi, Jackson. Hi Mason. Hi Elsa. Hi. Motion. All right. Thanks everybody.