001[Music] Okay, [Music] heat. [Music] Hey. [Applause] [Music] Good evening. Welcome to the June 16th regularly scheduled Valley View School Board meeting. I would ask that you silence your cell phones, which I forgot to do. Uh rise and join us in the pledge of allegiance led by member Schroa. And following the pledge, we will have a moment of silence. And I'll explain that briefly. United States of America public stand. This moment of silence is for Tim Folk, one of our teachers who passed away, and Dr. Wood's father who passed away this morning. Our heartfelt thoughts, condolences, and prayers go out to their families. And that's why we're doing this moment of silence. Thank you. Moving down the agenda, Mr. Hy, if you would. Board affirmation statement. Our mission is to empower every learner to be college,
002career, and life ready and to develop, grow, and achieve as a productive citizen. Dr. Pollson, board agenda. Yes. This evening, we're seeking your approval for the agenda of all items listed with the exception of mending for adding 5.25 IHSA boys track and field qualifiers for Romeoville High School. There a motion. Motion. Motion and second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Post same sign. The eyes have it. Moving down the agenda. Student and staff recognition. Dr. Pollson. Yes. We are excited to watch a video shortly for a powerhouse coming from Romeoville High School. They're valid Victorian. Um as they're queuing up the video, Angela Darko not only is a powerhouse um in the classroom, but also you're about to experience where else she shows up. Um, I just wanted to be
003smart with how much it'd take, well, how much I'd have to spend to go to college and then how much debt like I'd be in. But for Harvard, they were really generous with their financial aid package, so I'd leave with little to no debt. Um, but also academically, I'm going to major in math and MIT is right near there. So, the location and just like the reputation of Harvard itself, like that opened a lot of doors for me that the other schools that I got accepted to wouldn't. Um, even though they're good schools, just the reputation of the school and all of their resources would be the best for me. What is one thing that stands out to you that you will always remember about Romeoville High School? I think my best memory revolves around
004my involvement with the track team, the girls track team. Um, I did it freshman, sophomore, or junior. here. I didn't do it this year, but I remember during our junior year, we were at conference and I was just running with three other like older girls, but um we were sat in like one of the outside lanes and the announcer um said three teams that we like the crowd should look out for like to see if they could win. And we broke the conference record at that point. and we just blew everyone out the water. And I feel like that is what I take with me because it showed that we could prove other people wrong and that we're capable of more than we think. One of the sports you were involved in is powerlifting. How
005did you become interested in being a powerlifter? Honestly, it started with track because he wanted us to build more muscle and with that weightlifting would help with getting faster and just fixing our form. And I think end of my junior year, I was top in everything but bench, but that's okay. Um, and I just kept doing it. And I think I fell more in love with powerlifting than track because it was like a different type of sport and it still revolved around like strength, but in that I was able to, I guess, focus on myself because with track it was more of like a team aspect and dynamic. But with powerlifting, I could set my own like limits and push myself through those limits. I need to acknowledge the person who made this possible. My
006mom. Mom, you taught me what it means to work hard. You showed me through your own life that nothing worth having comes easily. From an early age, you instilled in me that the belief that perseverance and dedication were the keys to success. You never let me settle for less than my best, and for that I'm eternally grateful. Her influence and support really shaped who I was and got me to this point. Um, and I also mentioned that being validictorian like top of my class is um, like my achievement, but it's also hers too because I wouldn't have done it without seeing her work ethic and just her support and like just me doing my best. Where do you see yourself being 10 years from now in the year 2035? Hopefully still in the Boston area.
007Um, but well career-wise I want to be like an actuary or like a data analyst. So hopefully have a secure job in that. Um I'm just living on my own, a little apartment. Um I don't want any kids, so I'm just going to be living my life and just balancing work and giving time for myself and just enjoying my life. Name an issue in the world today that you feel that your generation is uniquely qualified to solve. the issue surrounding untreated like mental illness and just like suffering in silence. Um I think our like my generation could alleviate that because there's a lot more tools and people are working actively to bring more support and just help kids especially through those emotions and feelings. [Applause] Okay, moving on the agenda. Isa track and field state
008qualifiers. Bowling Brook High School. Good evening, members of the school board, members of senior leadership, and the Valley View community. My name is Patrick Woods, and I'm the assistant principal for athletics at Bowling Brook High School. Uh hopefully everyone's summer's off to a great start. We are recognizing Oh, and congrats to everyone receiving recognition tonight. We are recognizing three different groups from Bowling Brook High School. Um boys track and field coached by Jeff Lester. uh boys volleyball coached by Molly Durf and girls track coached by John Sullivan. And before I bring them up here individually, I would just like to thank them personally uh for their time, effort, and energy that they have put into our program. Uh and also I think it's incredibly important uh that we do recognize these athletes for the great
009things they have done this year. So, round of applause for our coaches and athletes. And first up, we have Jeff Lester with boys track. Hi everyone. Thanks Mr. Woods. Thanks the board. Uh we uh we had a a really historic season in terms of uh for track on the boy side uh at Bowling Brook High School. We uh started the year we had a total of 143 athletes uh suit up for us this year. Uh, and we are very thankful for that and all the support we have throughout the building to help with those 143. As the season goes down, as we get into more of the championship season, we get uh, you know, that roster size shrinks and shrinks. So, well, while we only have 20ome athletes here tonight, we had 143 that that
010helped us get there. Um, for the first time in our school's history, we had all four relays qualify for state. That's 4x8, 4x1, 4x2, 4x4. Uh to put that in perspective, only four teams in the state did that this year. One being Homewood Flossmore, who ended up getting second in state. York High School, who is historically very good. Uh Asiggo East, who was our conference champion and a sectional champion, and they were top 10 in state, and then us, which um again we have never done in our school's history. It's very special thing to do. Um on top of that, we had uh five other individual qualifiers. We had two in the 400. Uh Bruce Duncan and Edund Anka. Uh Bruce Duncan ended up getting fourth in the state in the 400. Uh nearly breaking
011our school record, broke it in the indoors running 477. Uh we had a qualifi uh Eddie Eddie as a sophomore qualified as the youngest like just missed it last year and kind of had a redemption story this year. Uh we also had Olu Aki Olu Olu Aktomiday in the triple jump which for his four years of high school uh for him to be able to qualify in triple jump was just astounding. Um along with that uh again Bruce being all state in the 400 or 4x4 broke our own school record three different times this year. Uh we ended up getting sixth in the state in the 4x4 running 319 and that's with a freshman, a sophomore, a junior and then a senior. So we look looking back and and planning to break it again next
012year. Uh lastly, we had uh Jordan Lampkins who has been a great multiport athlete for us. He just committed to Minnesota uh as a football on a football scholarship, but he also qualified in the long jump to help us in the 4x1 and 4x2. And then on top of that got second place in the long jump uh going over seven meters uh in long jump. So uh overall as a team we got 17th place in the state which uh is you know one of the best we've ever had uh in Bowling Brooks history. That is the second year in a row we've been top 20 in the state. Uh that's you know very difficult to do but we have again a lot of support throughout the building, a lot of uh great coaches on the
013staff, a lot of great athletes that worked really hard to get there. So, I'm very excited to uh just recognize our boys track team and thank you to the board for doing this. Uh give it up for our boys track team. And I will pass it off to our head volleyball coach, Molly to surf. All right. Next, uh, President Quintley, senior leadership, board of education, and community members. We want to thank you for giving us a time to recognize our student athletes. And we want to give a special thank you to board member Shroba and former board member Sakura for their constant support of Raider Raider volleyball throughout the year. I'm lucky to be able to speak about these three men and be able to speak on all three of them in like terms. Trevor,
014Nai, and Edison are the epitome of everything that we ask to represent our community as students, athletes, and leaders. All three of them earned the academic excellence award this spring, balancing their sport, their personal lives, and their academics with the highest standard, maintaining a 3.25 or above through the entirety of the season. This past spring, Bowling Brook volleyball was ranked as high as number 12 in the state and finished ranked number 23 23. This is no small feat and does not happen without the commitment and efforts of our athletes. All three of these young men were named to the SPC allconerence team and led the state in their respective positions. Senior captain Trevor Wllo ended the season ranked number nine in kills in the state of Illinois and currently holds the program record for most
015kills in a single season with 339. Senior captain Nahaya Scott finished the season ranked number five in the state of Illinois and holds the program record for most digs in a single season with 402. And as a freshman, Edison IO finished 18th in the state of Illinois and three in the nation for the class of 2028 with 312 kills, earning him national recognition by volleyball mag as one of the top 32 players in the country in his class. Their accolades are impressive. What they have done to build and sustain the reputation for Bowling Brook boys volleyball is impressive. Nahaya and Trevor were integral parts of the 24 team that broke the school record for the most wins and winning the first ever regional championship in school history. Coming back and repeating that success back-to-back years
016is impressive. These three young men led our team to another successful season and again broke the school record for most wins, finishing the 2025 season with a 29 and8 record. All of this in itself is impressive, but who they are, how they carry themselves, and what they do for the people around them is much more impressive. They're team first guys. They're humble and servant leaders. They volunteer endlessly within our community and our school. They are innately wired to give back more than they take. They work just as hard in the classroom as they do on the court. They hold themselves accountable first and then they hold their team to the very same standard, making everyone around them better versions of themselves. They understand the process of being elite student athletes and consistent the consistent work
017ethic and effort that that entails. They're competitors through and through while maintaining the highest respect for opponents, officials, and the game with the utmost character and integrity. All of them all of this is what makes everything that they have done so impressive. Trevor, Nahaya, and Edison are the full package and absolute class acts. I've been coaching for a long time and I say with certain certainty that all three of these athletes are amongst the very best to walk through the doors. I'm grateful to have the opportunity to coach and continue to learn learn alongside them. I'm humbled by their pro their poise and proud beyond measure. This fall, Naya will continue playing collegiate volleyball at top ranked NIA Lords University. Trevor Trevor will continue his collegiate career at top ranked D3 North Central College and
018we look forward to an incredible three more years of what Edison will do for Bowling Brook volleyball. At this time, I'd like to say congratulations to Edison Io for being the only freshman named to the IBCA all-state honorable mention team, Trevor Warlow for being named to the All State third team, and Nahias Scott for being named to the All State second team. [Applause] And I'd like to introduce John Sullivan, our head girls track coach. [Applause] All right. Okay. Uh, thank you, uh, Valley View Board of Education for inviting us tonight to recognize our girls track and field 2025 state qualifiers. We had another successful season this year with most athletes making personal records in their events. Also this season, we saw many of our athletes closing in on new school records and even setting a
019couple of new ones. Speaking of that, our 2025 state qualifying 4x1 and 4x2 relay teams now hold the second best time in BHS history. Not only did we qualify in the relays, but we also qualified two spots in the open 200 meter dash. I'd like to start off with our state qualifying relay alternates. This group of young ladies are also sophomores and their future in track and field at BHS looks amazing. I'm sure we'll be back in 2026 attending the June Board of Education meeting with these young ladies uh once again. So uh unfortunately we're missing a few tonight. Uh Trinity Freeman's not here. Uh Jade Gitzky uh Janelle Coots is not with us. Khloe Rivera is not with us and Alana Sullivan. Those two are are alternates and uh we look forward to uh
020to the seasons to come. Now, I'd like to recognize those that competed at the state meet. Uh unfortunately, we're missing a few of them, but Yasmin Abdul, who is a junior, Yasmin right here. Uh she was part of our 4x2 re two 4x2 relay. Uh she was all all conference and unfortunately I just found out she's moving back to England on Sunday. So she is going to be missed so much. Uh Ammyia Sullivan, Amaya Sullivan 4x1. Uh she was a leg in our 4x1. She was all conference and also all state. Uh Danielle Kathy who is not with us today. Uh she's a junior. She was also uh part of the 4x1, 4x2, and also a 200 meter dash uh uh qualifier. She was also all conference and all state and also one of our
021captains. And I should point out that her dad is one of my assistants who who coaches the sprints squad and he's done an amazing job with these girls the last couple years. So, a shout out to Coach Kathy. Um Sarai Carter, who's a senior who's not with us tonight. She's uh actually focusing on basketball. She'll be playing basketball next year at Juliet Junior College, but she also was a leg of the 4x1 4x2 allconerence and all state. And Kayla Cole, who is not with us tonight, she great young lady. Uh she's she graduated. She was part of the 4x1 4x2 also the 200 uh open allconerence all state and she'll be attending Northern Illinois University uh with track and field. So that's all I've got. Thank you. All [Applause] right. Romeoville in the house. In
022the house. Good evening, PresidentWigley, board of education, senior leadership, and community members here um that are here today. Um before I get into it, we are going to be acknowledging our IHSA boys swimming and diving as well as our um our state qualifying track, IHSA, and our Capitol Hill challenge. Um, I would be remiss if I didn't congratulate all of the athletes that came before and activities as well as those that are still behind us ready to be acknowledged for their hard work and dedication to their craft. So, without further ado, I'm going to call up to the podium our IHSA boys swimming and diving head coach Scott Erdman. Thank you everyone. uh really appreciate you guys having this night for the athletes. I think it's something that they're not going to forget. It's really
023special for them. Uh I come here under a unique circumstance and that I don't actually teach at Romeoville. There is no swim team there, but I luckily got to represent these two gentlemen at sectionals and state. So, um I'm going to read something from Brandon Yadal's coach. He couldn't be here tonight. Uh so, it says this. Brandon competed at high school sectionals where as a freshman he placed fourth in the 200yard individual medley and he won the hunter back. The win in the hunter back qualified him for the state meet. He did his best time in the preliminaries of the state meet. Although he didn't advance to finals this year, seeing as he is only a freshman, expect big things from Brandon in the future. Okay, the second athlete is Sebastian Lebuda. So, I've actually
024known Sebastian since he was 12 years old. Uh, he's come a long way in the past few years. Um, but I was lucky enough to be able to coach him for Romeoville all four of his years. Uh, so starting as a freshman, he competed at sectionals. He did not make state, but then starting his sophomore year, he won the hunter fly at sectionals, made state, went to state, and so that was kind of uh his opening like just getting used to that level. Um, unfortunately his junior year, weeks before state, he fell down the stairs and broke his foot. So although he might have made it, he wasn't able to go that year. And then his senior year, he did excellent. Um, he won both of his events at sectionals. He won the 100 butterfly
025and the 200 IM and was able to go to state. And, um, I think the cool part about these guys is they just didn't stop at sectionals. I think we're 100% on best times at state, which is not easy to do in that environment. And so, um, just I guess really proud of these guys. So, one last stat, which I told athletic director Mike, um, we did not lose an event at sectionals. We had a twoman team and, um, we won every event we swam and, uh, to the point where the other teams are like, who are these two guys? So, um, congratulations to them. Done a lot of hard work to get to this point. Good evening. My name is Rick Rduititz. I am in the career and tech ed department chair at Romeoville
026High School along with a business education teacher. Tonight I am alongside my colleague, Mr. Will Kaine. Um I'm here tonight for the Capitol Hill Challenge. We've run this event at Romeoville High School for a few years and we've done pretty good, but we've never done this well in the competition. Uh Romeoville High School had five teams this year. Um three of which finished in the top 20. So those you may not know what the competition is, it's a national stock market challenge. Over 2,000 teams are involved throughout the country. Um, each team in these competitions are given $100,000 in the beginning of the semester in January and it ends in May. We took $100,000 and had a return of investment of over 9% buying stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. As the semester went on, we
027are now ranked because of our high return on our investment. We were ranked first in the state of Illinois and sixth in the nation. The competition awards the foundation the top 10 teams in the nation get to go to Washington DC uh all paid expense. So tonight I'm going to honor two of our members are not here unfortunately Nolan Hgado and Ryan Ucilia and our other member here is Dominic Rosado. Thank you. [Applause] So when you walk by, I'm going to give you my Erade account number. Put a limit on it, but why not, right? All right. Next up, good evening. Uh my name is Scott Harper. I'm a boys head track and field coach at Romeville High School. and I'm a retired currently retired physical education instructor. Uh before we go into our boys
028track team, it's app propo that I you you guys had Angel up on the screen. Uh Angel Darko won a state championship in powerlifting at 123 pounds, setting the state record in deadlift and uh squat. Also, she was lift of the meat in 1A. And then uh one of the other young men that I'm going to be announcing for track, uh Francisco Figueroa, he won a state championship at 193 pounds, right? 189. My fault. Uh setting a state record in deadlift and squat and total. He also won a national championship at what weight class? 181. uh setting a national record in total and deadlift on the track. Multiport athletes are everywhere and it's it's a great thing to to to um see and it's wonderful that the school board and the the school district has
029this night for all of our kids because they deserve the recognition. Uh the first young man who isn't able to be here tonight because he's at track practice, AA track practice, he was a two-time state qualifier this year. That's Sean Alexander. He qualified in long jump and triple jump for his third total uh state qualifying uh lift uh events. Uh the first young man I'm going to talk about is he was a first time state qualifier this year. He took second place at the SBC Conference Championship with a throw of 152 ft. The next week at sectionals at Aurora East he placed fourth with a PR throw of 156 feet 8 in. And then at the state meet, he th he threw his third career PR, 163 feet, 7 ines, qualifying for the finals, finishing
030in the top 12 in the state. Uh he's going to attend North Central College, possibly do track, but he's going to be uh looking at engineering as Francisco Figueroa [Applause] second. Next young man, um he qualified he uh at conference he threw 146 feet two inches, which wasn't his best all year. His best was 149, but he still placed third earning all conference honors. Uh then we went to the sectional, hit a career PR of 155 ft 1 in, placed sixth place, uh qualifying for the state track meet. at state track meet. Uh he threw a PR of 173 feet 2 in which let him sit in fifth place going into finals. We had two uh we had two final qualifiers only one of two teams to do that this uh past year. And then
031his throw allowed him to stay in fifth place and he was our second ever male thrower to place to be an all-state athlete at the IHSA state meet. He's going to attend Roosevelt University and play football and possibly throw for their team. Mark Thomas All right. Good evening, PresidentWigley, members of the board, senior leadership in the VBSD staff and community. I'm Dr. Andrea Hyle. I'm the proud assistant principal at Jane Adams Middle School in Bowling Brook. It's with great excitement I am here to introduce our track and field coach, Coach Adam Thos. Coach Thos has coached track and field for 21 years at Jane Adams. And when I asked him earlier today how many students he has sent to state, thinking he'd say 20, 30, he said, "Oh my gosh, too many to count. Literally
032hundreds in his 21 years." I say all that to say, while we are here to celebrate our students, and I know Coach Thoss will absolutely share our Mustang pride in our student athlete who we're recognizing tonight, I wanted to share our pride and gratitude for his continued passion and commitment to providing our students the opportunity to be exemplary in track and field. With no further ado, please welcome Coach Thas. [Applause] Um, I'm going to introduce here um one one of the most fantastic athletes I've ever had the opportunity to coach um in my 21 years, Aubrey Olivera. And um I'm just she didn't make it down state in the long jump, but I think this is a very good um story to tell. She's such a great athlete. Not only did she make it down
033state in the two distance events, the mile and the half mile, um she was the anchor leg for a 4 by two, but she also was our best long jumper. And literally like I taught it to her and then like an hour later she competed at the meet and won. Like she's just like so natural and I haven't I've I've really gotten to know her as a kinetic learner and how great she is at it is at it. And I have also come to appreciate her situational awareness when in a race and none of that was more present than her being at the state meet this year. Um she walked in like I should I like literally at the end of the 800 practically walked into to the state meet because no one was even
034close to her. And um when that happens at sectionals you don't get the greatest ranking at state. and uh she really had her work cut out for her at the state meet having to pass a lot of people that she was ranked behind and uh she did that in the mile. Um she dropped uh almost 20 seconds um from her sectional time um and ran a 536 in the 1600 um finishing in the I think 12th I think 12th um in the state in the 1600 and then the 800 was her masterpiece. She ran out and uh jumped 10 places, ended up finishing uh eighth in state and bringing home a medal for IE or from the ISA state championships. And also, we just realized this today, she's the only girl that made it down
035in all the middle schools. So, congratulations, Aubrey. Go ahead, girl. It seems like I always got to follow ths on that. So, thanks buddy. All right. Um, board. Thank you guys for having us. Uh, this is Kent Lucas. He's a seventh or was a seventh grader at Humphrey Middle School. Uh he took fourth place in the high jump. Um which was again fourth place for a seventh grader who kind of just started out the season kind of learning high jump and then worked extremely hard. His older brother is a high jumper at uh Bowlingber High School. Uh I had the the honor of coaching him in basketball and track as well. So I just want to say that's also something that I look at. He comes from a just a great family. They've always been
036supportive of us. uh they've always gone above and beyond to like I said support him and support the coaches as well. So that's always something great. Um he ended up the season like I said with fourth place is personal best which is a coach that's great when they finish on the highest note um with all the practice that they put in. He's also a three sport athlete. Uh he plays basketball, baseball, and track. Uh and then also too as well um he's a great student, great role model. um a lot of the the kids look up to him and that's something that we really want to have for next year. So, we look forward to running it back next year. Hopefully, we'll see you guys. Thank you. Good evening. Thanks for having me. Uh, PresidentWney,
037assistant superintendent Pollson, uh, senior leadership and the community. Uh, I am Justin Nipma, one of the coaches at Avito Martinez. I have Mr. Sadler with me and, uh, Rosemary Blers was not able to make it tonight. Uh, we're very proud of a couple boys that we have in front of you tonight for their performance. Uh, I think we've heard this a couple times tonight, finishing on a high note. Um, as you're getting better and better as the season goes on, and both of these two guys uh, exemplified that. Uh, not only that, they were with their hard work, their attendance, being present, um, actually made everybody else on our team better, which was great. Uh, couple things for these guys. Uh, Xavier, who second year in track, really blossomed, uh, took over a lot of
038the coaching that we gave them, um, and had some great marks. We entered a Cougar Grand Prix over at Planefield South. Um the interesting part of this is they combined seventh and eighth grade. So there was uh no age class. Um and at that event Xavier took sixth in the 100 and fifth in the 200 and their relay ended up their 4x1 relay ended up in 12th and that was a 15 school event. At that same event uh Giani ended up taking 13th place and again so you're looking at about uh 30 30 plus runners uh in that event. So he did really well. These boys both continued to progress as the season went on. And as we made it to sectionals, um many of the other teammates are not here, but our seventh grade
039boys took second place at sectionals. That was out of 14 teams. Uh we were just three points off of that first place plaque. Um, at that sectional race, uh, Xavier took, uh, second place in the 100 where he had his PR, um, at a 12.15 and then he ended up taking first place in the 200 meter dash with a 25.15. Uh, he was also involved in two of our relays. So, he was running all day. Um, that 4x1 relay took third place and the 4x4 relay um, also took fourth place with both which both boys were a part of. Um, at that same sectional event, Giani uh set his personal best in the 800 where he ran a two minute and 25 second uh 800. Both of those times and that those places qualified them
040for state where um they continued to do their best. Uh Xavier went down state. Uh he was ranked sixth high competition. Um improved his time to a 24.91 shaving off uh it's about 2.25 25 seconds, but that's huge in a race where there are thousands of a second that are separating some of these guys. Um, and that got him sixth place medal. Um, and Giani as well went down state and he he shaved off a little over a second, 1.2 seconds to run a 22402. Um, we are really excited. Uh, we haven't been here in a couple years. Um, and through my time at B at Bowlingberg Humphrey, um, we it seemed like it was a given that we were going to send kids down to state and after a couple years a drought, uh,
041it was nice to be back there. And this really strikes the the hunger and the drive for not only us as coaches, our players, and the rest of the teammates. Uh, so again, I'm really proud uh, to have coached both of these guys, uh, Xavier Hall and Giani Rardo. [Applause] So, thank you to all the coaches, parents, student athletes uh that participate in this and uh represent us. Well, I' I've said this story before, but I was in Puria, Illinois three or four years ago, and I ran into somebody I knew. Uh, and they said that they were staying in the same hotel as some kids from the Valley View School District, and they're like, "Oh, Lord, I'm in a hotel with a bunch of high school or junior high athletes, and it's going to
042be a long night of kids running up and down the hallway." And when they left, they were like amazed by how wonderful our student athletes were, how pleasant they were, how polite they were. at when they were getting breakfast and stuff. The kids were standing out of the way. So parent for adults to get their breakfast, which is kind of crazy because that didn't even happen in my house. But uh I really want to congratulate the coaches and the schools and the kids for their their hard work. So thanks once again. All right, moving down the agenda. Treasures report. Mr. Renich, thank you. The uh 6.1 is the treasures action report. The treasur's action report 6.1 for the month of May includes the normal schedule of financial reports, balance sheet, summary of revenues and expenditures,
043interim obligations, and debt service payments totaling $14,372,69257 for your approval. Motion and seconded. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, hearing none, roll call vote, please. Member Pipkin. Member Hy. Yes. Member Schroa. Yes. Secretary Sutherland, yes. Vice President Campbell, PresidentWigley, yes. All right, Mr. Renidge. 6.2 is the schedule of bills. The schedule of bills for the month of June. We have six funds totaling uh bills payable of $7,364,4456 for your approval. We have a motion. So move. Second. Motion and seconded. Is there any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Member Hy, yes. Member Shrova, yes. Member Pipkin, yes. Secretary Sutherland, yes. Vice President Campbell, yes. President Quigley, yes. Mr. Renitch. In your packet, you have uh 6.3 to summary investments for the month of May along with 6.4, which is a state revenue, state funding update, 6.5
044property taxes received, 6.6 all schools trust activity. This is anformational agenda item. Anybody have any questions on these issues? Property taxes, school trust fund. If not, moving down the agenda, consent agenda items. Dr. Pollson. Yes. Thank you, President. Quickly, we are seeking approval on eight consent agenda items. Um 7.1, board meeting minutes from May 12th, 2025. 7.2, executive session meetings, May 12th, 2025. Uh 7.3 gift to Oakview Elementary School. 7.4 gift to Brooks Middle School. 7.5 Recommendation of Vice President Campbell as candidate for vice president of the Illinois Association of School Boards. 7.6 Authorization to prepare tenative budget for school year 2025 through 26. 7.7 The intergovernmental agreement for the village of Romeoville and RC Hill Elementary for the Water Man relocation. And 7.8 8 Romeoville High School band uniform resale. So moved. Motion to
045accept. Motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion seconded. Is there any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Member Strova. Member Pipkin. Yes. Member Hy. Yes. Secretary Sutherland? Yes. Vice President Campbell? Yes. PresidentWigley? Yes. Uh Leaison is on reports. Any left? All right. Secretary Sutherland, please go at it. Um on May 19th, um met with um the learning and growth work group which was with Dr. Herurder and Dr. Pollson and Dr. Lindsay attended along with two of our student ambassadors um was uh Lillian uh Chan and Jerel uh Tepe. Uh it was an there will be a formal presentation at the beginning of this school year but right now we had looked at the share uh was sharing the changes to the state's assessment system and changes to the uh state's accountability system were discussed. We also
046discussed uh projected outcomes for the 2025 Illinois assessment readiness test which is known as the AR which all students do take. Uh we also discussed the uh priorities for learning and growth planning for the coming new school year. I appreciated the input that the two students had given. Their insight and discussion was very valuable and their perspective and suggestions were very helpful and beneficial. So I thank them for coming. Um the Wilco uh Wilco board meetings were on 520 25 and 61025. At the May meeting the focus was on election of new officers to the school board. Also shared the highlights from the the awards night and the exit survey and the final grades. The percentage of the students did very well. Majority of them got no less than C. Many many had received a
047B or an A. um at the uh June 10th meeting. This is where the contract was approved and um teacher contract and also the budget and uh expenditures that are upcoming. Also uh approved was the student hand new the student handbook. Wil had submitted a grant application of $350,000 for the build Illinois. They're still waiting for um acceptance and approval. They also are finalists for the clean energy grant which is in the sum of $428,2828.98. Um the last one is uh we met with the student ambassadors Dr. Cam um Dr. Liz Campbell and um and I had met with uh both of this uh high school administration and the senior uh administration districtwide and we were actually trying to get input as to how the first year went with the student ambassadors. Many of them
048showed up which was wonderful. Uh we had a great open conversation. They were very um willing to share how they felt about how the first year went. There was some positives. there was some suggestions for improvement and also there was some concerns. So we had a a really great discussion and um so we'll be looking at all that information and determining um the next for the next year. Some of the suggestions were one of the things that was positive that they felt like they finally and they understand the process um the school boards um go through and also uh they have a better perspective of how we have to do things. the they would like to see an improvement in more uh communication with the school board and between the high schools. Uh so one
049of the things that they had pointed out they would like to be more involved at the lower levels with the middle school and the elementary. They really like that when they had gone into the different schools and shared um their experience and stuff. So they would like to see more uh being involved with that. and um also they're discussing ways to recruit new students for our student ambassador and uh and to uh so they're looking to help with the restructure and participation at school board meetings and I was appreciate the fact that they had um come to the the workg group the discussion the recap of the end of the year and uh look forward to working with him again next year. Um Vice President C uh Campbell may have some more things to say
050about that as well. No, I just like the revelation of one of the young man says that he knows after attending these board meetings, he will not become a school board member. So my goal was to recruit one from every one of the cultures that sat here so that everybody would be represented, but he said no way even he's going to go on. But uh that was the very interesting thing that he learned at a very early age. And so this big free job, he didn't want it to go through the election process to sit up here with us. But it is very interesting working with them and the new ones that's coming up because they we do need their input. And so we're just glad I'm just glad that we started this and that
051we'll continue the process and it'll get better and with the the staff that we have with the family and the community because we are truly a village then it can't do anything but get better. So, thank you. See how smart that kid is? All right. Uh, any others? I I do have one board uh legislative update. The Illinois General Assembly on March or March May 31st uh working well into the evening uh passed its over 52 billion budget. In that budget, there was a increase for uh the I what is it? I needsbased evidence-based funding, EBF, EV, evidence-based funding, uh increase of over $340 million that's of course spread around statewide. I do not know what the bottom line means to our district. Uh but our our district was front and center in the negotiations
052of that that took a long long time. I'm talking several years, like seven, eight, nine years, because there was an intent to re-shift money from districts like ours to districts that are downstate. They don't have the tax base. Uh they don't have, you know, they have a lot of farm community, what have you. Uh but what they did was work out something over many, many years. And I sat down with the chief of staff of the Senate, our lobbyist, and several others. And we disc Gary Gresafi, uh Jim Mitchum was down there. There was a bunch of us. And we discussed, you can't hurt us to help somebody else. And they finally figured out a way to do it. And by that time, the chief of staff for the Senate Democrats was a state senator.
053And he is the one who pushed that through. Uh Andy Manar is his name. But Andy by that time had retired from the Senate and worked for the governor. So he is the governor's office lives on to which is a very a deputy governor of of uh education and several other things that he has under his wing. But I want to thank them for the efforts that it took to do that because it could have been easier for them to say, you know what, you guys get a lot of money and you're a big district, so you can figure that out in your own backyard. Whereas the districts elsewhere um don't have that ability. They do not have the business development and the the things that we have in our community. And you've heard me
054say this before. I want to thank the communities that we represent for their leadership and going out and bringing in uh businesses and and taking up, you know, building out Remington Road and building out uh Airport Road and the and the things that they do in this community and setting aside things for commercial and and retail development that help the property tax base. And I know we all have high property taxes, but if we kept this district like it is without the things that we have, you wouldn't be it would be unbelievable. We would not be able to provide the services that we do. And we would not be able to have the buildings that we have. And I don't think the school district would be nearly what it is without the guidance and help
055and all of these things coming together and working together. So, uh, it's a big budget, well over 3,000 pages. If you want to go through there, illinois general assembly.gov or ilga.gov. Uh I think it's Senate Bill 2510 and that'll really give you some late night reading if you're looking for it. So, uh moving down the agenda, where we at here any audience particip Oh, I'm sorry. We don't have any ambassadors tonight. So, uh I don't think uh audience participation is anybody who wishes to address the board. If so, please keep your comments to three minutes or less. And if you have any documents, uh please provide them to the clerk. Hi there. Please state your name. Where you from? Hi, Kelly Olsen. I am the continuous improvement coaching coordinator at Jane Adams Middle School. And
056I will do my best to be brief. Just something really quick I wanted to talk about and a gift I wanted to pass out if possible. From our understanding, Illinois is going to be passing a bill soon regarding cell phones, smartphones, technology within the classrooms. It looks like they are going to limit the use of cell phone technology but are leaving the districts up to figuring how that's going to look. Before we have um policies that come out, I wanted to share a topic and that is the book The Anxious Generation. I don't know if you have read it or seen it. Um I know I have passed it out to some people. Uh we did a book club at Jane Adams this year and this was the most attended book club I've ever had
057with about 25% of our teachers joining and the idea of how anxiety is impacting not only our students but frankly adults as well. Uh this book goes in and talks about a number of things. Um, it looks at the impact smartphones have had since 2010. We have seen an increase in depression about 150%. Okay, that's huge. Anxiety is I believe up 60%. Now, the book goes in and talks about a number of different things. And I do have a copy of the book for all of you if you're willing to read it. Or if you're like, "No, I got enough to read this summer." pass it on to somebody who could maybe give you the highlights. Um, it goes in and it talks about a number of things and two big ones that really impact
058our district. One of them is the social impact. We are seeing students who we think with cell phones are going to be happier, but actually the data shows that they're a lot lonier. And when they're lonelier, they're more likely to be depressed. when they're more likely to be depressed, they also have issues with anxiety. Okay, so that's one area that I think if if we could talk about policy, what our policy will look like as a district, and I know all the students out there are like, "No, cell phones are great. It's not a problem." But the data is showing us otherwise. Additionally, we have something that impacts us educationally, and that is attention fragmentation. As I was sitting here listening to the school board, I have had I think eight text notifications come through
059just on random things. Students get on average 237 notifications a day. Imagine how much comes through during school as you have your cell phone beep beep and it's going off, right? You imagine all of a sudden you're like, "Oh, what's going on?" and your attention, even if you don't grab the cell phone, is immediately off of education and what we're learning and on to what was posted, who's saying what. So, there's a lot of great information in here. There's also some really good videos and frankly the book club, we've done a presentation for our administration at Jane Adams. We'd love to do a present. I'll get I'd be done. I apologize. We'd love to do a presentation if you want to learn more. Um, all I would ask is before we make a policy, could
060we have a discussion about some of the things going on that are mentioned within the book? I thank you for your time. May I pass the books out? Thank you. Uh, that bill did not pass. I was trying to find the bill number, but I do know what you're talking about. the bill that she's referring to, uh, the governor's office in his speech, state of the state speech, he indicated he would like to have a a policy for each district. Um, and they were going to have some boiler plate things put in this language, but I do not believe that that bill actually passed the general assembly this session. They will probably take that up during veto session. All right. Hi, please state your name, where you're from. Hello. Uh, still Bob. Uh, still have
061three kids in the district. Um, there's going to be no activist dad speech tonight, so don't worry. Uh, no need to going into how bonkers the other folks I speak against are, as I think they've done a great job proving my point better than I ever could. Anyway, tonight I just wanted to thank the board and any other faculty and staff in the room or that may hear this later. On Friday, I enrolled my kids for next year uh in fifth, seventh, and sophomore year right here in this district. Now, I did so without hesitation because I know that I can trust the district with the well-being of my children, both mentally and physically. I can drop them off in the morning at their schools and then go about my day to go work and
062provide for them, just like my parents did for me when I was a child in the 80s and 90s. I double majored in college, ch early childhood studies and child psych. I wanted to be a teacher, but fatherhood stepped in and redirected my path. So, I know both sides of what I'm talking about from an educator standpoint in a cursory kind of way and as a parent on this side of the podium. So, thank you for your time this evening and at all these meetings this uh last year and for as long as any of you have been hanging around. uh and thank you for everything else that you do that we see and possibly more importantly that we don't see that happens behind the scenes that keeps this district safe and trustworthy. Thank you.
063Thank you. All right, seeing there's no other speakers moving down the agenda action report. Misty Donado action for 10.1 is the consolidated action report for certified, classified, and administrative personnel. The administration is respectfully seeking your approval on all items as presented. So move. We have a motion and we have a second. Is there any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Member Pipkin, yes. Member Hyo, yes. Member Shova, yes. Secretary Sutherland, yes. Vice President Campbell, yes. PresidentWigley, yes. And before we move on, uh, PresidentWigley, I would like to acknowledge, uh, Helen Romeo is recommended as the director for finance at the administration center. Helen's in the audience today. Um, she's an extensive experience in finance as both an internal auditor and analyst and she's currently serving as the director for human resources. Helen is excited to return
064to the finance department where she will be able to support the continued collaboration among the administrative services department and their partners. Welcome to Valley View, Helen. All right, moving down the agenda. Mr. Renich, technology action reports 11 through six. 11 through six. So 11.1 is the annual consolidated instructional and operational software maintenance renewal. Last month uh this item was presented as anformational report. This is an annual report that is presented to the board of education to provide an overview of software titles and support for both instructional and administrative operations across the district. The software solutions are essential to maintaining the functionality and effectiveness of our educational and operational system. For the upcoming fiscal year, we are considering the renewal of 29 software titles that each exceed $25,000 threshold. Of these 18 titles fall under the
065educational services and directly supporting teaching and learning while the other 11 titles fall under the administrative services primarily supporting technology infrastructure and operations. A detailed breakdown of the software titles under consideration is included in your packet. So, the administration is recommending that the board of education approve the software services, support, and maintenance renewals for fiscal year 26 totaling $2,996,200 as presented. A motion. Motion so moved. Second. Motion and seconded. Is there any discussion? If not, roll call vote, please. Member Schro. Yes. Member Hyo, yes. Member Pipkin, yes. Secretary Sutherland, yes. Vice President Campbell, yes. President Quigley, yes. 11.2 is our phone replacement project that we've been working on last month. This also was anformational report that was presented. Um the district's uh current phone system has reached its endful end of its useful life. Our
066existing self-hosting infrastructure relies on outdated technology, suffers from limited vendor support, and continues to incur increasing maintenance costs. Recognizing these challenges, a replacement phone system was included in this year's long-term improvement capital budget. To ensure a thorough and informed decision making process, the technology department convened a committee compromised of key personnel from across the district. This committee evaluated proposals from three different vendors, each of which whom uh detailed demonstrations of the systems. Based on this comprehensive evaluation, a preferred vendor was selected. The administration is recommended the board of education approve a one-time purchase of an implementation of the hardware cost of $389,587.64 and a monthly cost of $12,58328 as presented. Is there a motion? A move. Second. Motion and seconded. Uh John, I have a real quick question. So the uh the 12,500 a month,
067is that for maintenance issues? What's that? That's to access the outside. Um that's like our phone service. Okay. Got it. Got it. And that that actually went down um Okay. by about $1,800 than previous uh maintenance agreements or um services. All right. Thank you. Uh we have a motion to second. If there's no further discussion, a roll call vote would be in order. Member Hy? Yes. Member Shva? Yes. Member Pipkin? Yes. Secretary Sutherland? Yes. Vice President Campbell? Yes. President Quigley? Yes. 11.3 11.3 is resolution 2544 for the approval of a school treasurer and treasurer's bond. Um section 8.1 of the school code requires the board of education to appoint a treasurer which is being done tonight by formal resolution. In addition to the school code requires the school board to purchase a treasurer's bond or
068insurance uh at 10% of our anticipated fund balances. The regional office of education requires certain documentation for this process. For your convenience, I've included those documents in your packet. So, the administration is recommending that the board of education adopt resolution 2544 appointing John Renish as a school treasurer and approved the the purchase of a treasurer's bond for fiscal year 2526 as presented. Motion motion and seconded. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. ing none. Roll call vote, please. Member Pipkin, yes. Member Hy, yes. Member Shrova, yes. Secretary Sutherland, yes. Vice President Campbell, yes. President Quigley, yes. 11.3 is resolution um 2545, designation of interest. Um resolution 2545, the approval of designating all earned and acred interest. So why are we doing this? In 2009, the Illinois Administrative Code changed which now makes it necessary for school
069districts to pass an annual resolution to recognize acred or earned interest. Recognizing the designation of interest gives the board of education the authority to earmark interest earned and later flexibility to transfer this earned income to a fund in most need. In prior years, the district has earned anywhere between seven to $10 million in interest. Without this resolution, we would not have access to these dollars for the opportunity to make transfers in the future. So, the administration is recommending that the board of education approve resolution 2545, which allows the board of education designate all earned and acred investment and bank interest earnings as interest and not principal for the upcoming and prior fiscal years. Further move to maintain the records of such earnings as stipulated in resolution. Motion. So moved. Second. Motion and seconded. Uh I
070just want to make a comment. We have earned a lot of money some years and some years we've earned almost nothing depending on the interest rates and where the money is invested. So uh we haven't lost any money but we haven't there's some years where and some of us sitting on this board remember those years are very lean to say the least. So uh we have a motion and a second. If there's not any further comment, a motion to approve, roll call vote would be member. Yes. Member Hy. Yes. Member Schroa. Yes. Secretary Sutherland. Yes. Vice President Campbell. Yes. President Quigley. Yes. Mr. Renich. So 11.5 is a workers compensation, stop loss insurance, and third party administration for 2526. The district's workers compensation insurance program is similar to a medical insurance program. More specifically, they
071are both self-funded programs with fixed costs. The district has received the proposal from the current provider, Illinois Public Risk Fund, IPRF. The proposal has three main components that should be considered. The selfinsured retention or SIR or that's considered our deductible. The district maintains an excess workers comp insurance program that currently includes a selfinsured retention SIR and the SIR is set at amount the school district must pay before insurance company begins to cover the claims. So our SIR is $400,000 for each claim. So that's like our deductible. The second component is our third party administrator or TPA. the third party administrator company that provides the operational services such as claims processing and employee benefits management under the contract um for this company. The last component is compensations loss which were over a million dollars for the
072last two years. So, the administration is recommending that the board of education approve the Illinois public risk fund IPRF program at a total cost of 189,533 for the period of July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 as presented. So, move. Have a motion. We have a second. Second. Do we have a second? Motion and seconded. Is there any discussion? Only one. If we could make just the the scrier's error correction on the uh section, I think it says like 4,000 instead of the 400,000. If we could just make that one, it's like a scrier's error in that document in our in our Sure. Thank you. So noted on uh under the self-insured retention, it says 4,000 comma or Yeah, comma, and then three more zeros making it look like 4 million, not 400,000. Good catch.
073Thank you very much. All right, we have a motion in a second. Roll call vote, please. Member Hy, yes. Member Shrova, yes. Member Pipkin, yes. Secretary Sutherland, yes. Vice President Campbell, yes. President Quigley, yes. Cleaning contract extension 11.6. So on February 24th of this year, an information report was presented to the board of education describing the bid and selection process and outlining the timing timeline for this recommendation. On March 11th, a public bid opening was conducted during in which all submitted bids were read out loud. Over the past few months, a comprehensive review of the bid documents was conducted. As a result of this detailed review, irregularities were identified in the submitted documents. Due to these findings, the district has determined that it would be necessary to rebid the services to ensure a fair and
074compliant procurement process. In the interim, the current contract with GSF will be extended for one year with an approximate increase of 1.5%. So, the administration is recommending that the board of education extend Global Commercial Cleaning Services Company GSF contract for one year 2526 with an increase of 1.5% as presented and um pending the attorney review. There a motion motion and seconded. Is there any discussion? If not, roll call vote, please. Member Schro. Yes. Member Pipkin, yes. Member Hy, yes. Secretary Sutherland, yes. Vice President Campbell. PresidentWigley, yes. All right, moving down the agenda. If I can get back to it. Action reports. Dr. Pollson. Yes. 12 point, excuse me, 12.1 is fiscal year 26 consolidated district action plan was presented as the information item at the last board meeting on May 12th. and we are looking
075for your approval as presented. Is there a motion? So move. We have a motion. We have a second. Second. Motion and seconded. Is there any discussion? If not, a roll call vote, please. Member Pipkin, yes. Member Hyo, yes. Member Schrotherland, yes. Vice President Campbell, yes. President Quigley, yes. 12.2, 2 resolution 24 2546 name of early childhood center in Bowling Brook. Way to steal my thunder, if you would please. Yes. Uh resolution 24 2546 is a resolution authorizing the naming to request or excuse me to request the naming of the Valley View Early Childhood Center the Bowling Brook campus to be Debbie Sakura Early Childhood Center. I'm going to ask Miss Sakura to come down to the podium if she would like to. You don't have to if you don't want to. Be nice though. Just
076Just saying. I'm just going out on a limb and saying it be nice. We have a motion. And do we have a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in f I need a roll call vote, please. Member Schro. Yes. Member Hy. Yes. Member Pipkin. Yes. Secretary Sutherland? Yes. Vice President Campbell? Yes. President Quigley? Yes. [Applause] Okay. So, what we just approved was resolution authorizing the name of the Valley View Early Childhood Center to be named the Debbie Secur Early Childhood Center. Uh, here is the resolution. Whereas, the Valley View Unit Unit School District 365 is an Illinois school district organized under the operating pursuant to the Illinois School District Code 450, School District Code. Whereas the school district owns certain real estate property located at 150 Schmidt Road, Bowling Brook,
077Illinois 60440 at which currently located the Oakview Elementary School and which shall be expanded to the location of the early education facility there and after referred to as the Valley View Early Childhood Center Bowling Brook campus. And whereas the district desires to name the new facility of the VV SD 36 365U the Debbie Sakura Early Childhood Center Bowlinger campus in recognition of her 35 years as a Valley View school teacher, a 12-year board member and including her tenure as a board secretary and for many years dedication, positive contributions to the Valley View community. Um I'm also going to add all the things she did with the sports stuff even though it's not in here. Uh whereas the school district here finds that determines it to be in the best interest of the school district as
078residents to name the Valley View Early Childhood Center as the W. Sakura Early Childhood Center effective immediately and now therefore it be resolved by the board of education of the Valley View Community School District 365U will county Illinois as follows. Section one school by school district hereby finds that all of the recital contained in the preamble of the resolution are true and correct and hereby incorporates said preamles in this resolution as it fully set therein. This is all the legal gobbledegook and this resolution shall be in full force and effect from the after its passage and approval in a manner so provided by law. And section three, all policies, resolution, and prior agreements to the school district which conflict with this provision of this resolution shall be and are hereby repealed to the extent of
079such conflict is hereby repealed. Pass this day, June 16th, 25, 2025. Seven yays, no nays, zero absent. Congratulations. Thank you. [Applause] And she's got notes. Good evening to the board, senior leadership, Assistant Superintendent Pulson, and members of the community. Put these on so I can see what I wrote. First of all, I would like to thank the board for this honor. I actually am very humbled um to receive this honor. I've been recognized when I taught, when I was on the board, attending school events. But what I'd like to tell you is that I enjoyed all of that. So it didn't seem like I was doing anything special, anything out of the way. And that is the reason that I am truly humbled to get this award and to have my name on a building
080is unbelievable. U so thank you very much board for this recognition and uh thank you for the honor. Thank you. [Applause] And for the record, I need to correct that there were six yeses, no nays. Member Burus is not present this evening, so we can get that included. Thank you. Deb, thank you so much. No, I don't think so. That's a lot. All right. If you insist. Very well deserved. Very well indeed. All right, moving down the agenda. Student due process cases. Dr. Pollson. Tonight, we're seeking your approval for student discipline case A and case B as presented. A motion. Motion and seconded. Is there any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Member Hy, yes. Member Sutterland, I'm sorry, I'm completely lost. Member Pipkin, no. On A, yes on B. Member Shva, yes. Secretary Sutherland, yes.
081Vice President Campbell, no. PresidentWigley, yes. 13.2, 2 board policy updates. Yes. Action item 13.2 is board policy updates for 4 col 20 and 4 col 80. Um 420 is connected to fund balances and 480 is connected to accounts and audits. There a motion second. Motion and seconded. Is there any discussion? Roll call vote please. Yes. You member Schrova. Yes. Member Pipkin. Yes. Secretary Sutherland. Yes. Vice President Campbell. Yes. PresidentWigley. Yes. Superintendent's information update. Olson. Yes. On behalf of um Dr. Wood, the superintendence update. As another reminder, as we have been doing since February, um to get your students enrolled, whether they're new or returning to us in the fall, enrollment is open for incoming kindergarteners and returning students at all levels. Enroll now and fees are due in July. And you'll see in a later
082slide, but I'll say it twice because sometimes it takes us a couple times to remember things, and that is the last date to enroll is August 8th for the upcoming school year. Thank you. Anything else? Yep. Couple more. Okay, keep rolling. Um, just a celebration for our administration at both high schools, Romeoville High School, Bowling Brook High School, and our step exit campus or their exit ceremony. Just three dignified ceremonies um honoring all of our graduates and students exiting step, which were huge celebrations at the end of the school year. Next, we are the place to be. So everywhere from early childhood all the way to our step campus from maintenance to um every opportunity you could think about in a career we have it here in Valley View. So we encourage you to apply
083online now. Um some a couple of highlights for a incentive right now that we have going for our certified staff is in the areas of special education because that's an area of hard to fill as well as our dual language educator um open positions. So, please encourage those that you may know that are able to fill those positions. Pair of professionals, transportation, building operations, security. Um, we again, we have the career here for you here in Valley View. So, please check us out online. A couple things happening. Um, Woodview Elementary, we were just notified and we're excited um and thankful for Senator Rachel Ventura's office. They have provided funding for Woodview sign marquee to be updated to reflect their new logo that they adopted a couple of years ago. And then the middle truck picture
084as well as the picture on the right is highlighting the work that's happening at the now which will be known as the Debbie Sakura Early Childhood Center. We are ready to getting ready to rock and roll this fall to welcome our youngest learners there at that site. And lastly, just some upcoming quick dates to remind um honoring June n Junth. On June 19th, the district office will be closed. August 8th, again, just a reminder, is the last day to register online. And staff institute days are on the 11th and 12th, and August 14th is the first day for student attendance. Um, in case you were counting, it's only 60 days away. Um, and then lastly, our first day of school for our earliest learners will be on August 18th. And that completes our update. All
085right, Dr. Pollson, I wasn't going to say anything, but you said step twice, so you must redeem yourself. Oh, this is a quiz. Can you help me vice president secondary transition education experience program? I apologize. Secondary Education Experience Program. There you have it. All right. Any other corrections? Vice President Campbell. All right. Moving down the agenda. Uh, Association Federation Reports. I don't see anybody there, but that doesn't mean they're not there. Uh, Valley View Council 604. Valley View Office Personnel Council 604. Transportation Network 3057. I see none there. Uh, any old business before the board? Any new business before the board? I do have one. Um, it was just a pleasure. I actually had the opportunity um earlier this month on June 3rd to attend the Three Rivers Division. This is of the ISBA. This
086is the school board, our division that we're a member of, which is the Three Rivers Division. I got to uh attend that governing board meeting and uh where Miss our board member, vice president Campbell is the director um and does a wonderful job and is highly respected for obvious reasons. And so they had a great discussion there. We were able to talk about some of the ideas. Actually, one of the uh community members uh was able to speak to some of the things we actually talked about which was about social media and its impact. Um, we also spoke about some other things as well and how other boards are handling things as well as our upcoming November training. So, it was a great me meeting. I was able I was very happy to be there.
087Thank you. Thank you. I had one more. Okay. Completely off the different topic. Um, I was debating whether I was going to say anything, but I first of all, congratulations, Miss Deb Sakura, on the naming of the board. We're so happy for you. [Applause] I do not want to take away that honor while I say what I'm saying. Not at all. Um but I was concerned just that the announcement happened before the vote um before we actually had a full discussion of the board and a vote of the board. That's the main concern and I think that we should be cautious in that because I think that takes away from the spirit of the rules that we have that govern how we operate as a board. But that was it and that was but otherwise
088that was it. Thank you. Uh, freedom of information reports as always. Mr. Blay has those available. Any announcements by the board? Uh, I will address that. I I did talk to board members individually to get a consensus of the board before so we could announce it at a foundation uh that Deb has been also very much a part of and a full room of folks. So, we were under against a time constraint because of the fact that the building is moving on and they're trying the construction is moving and they needed to get something on paper so they could do that and then start the process of building the signage. Uh because we are 60 days out before that facility well actually we're going to take possession of the facility when John like in the
089next two or three weeks. Correct. We're going to have a tour maybe coming up in a ribbon cutting ceremony. I'm going to coordinate that. Right. But they were but they were they're actually pouring concrete now because I saw the forms going up. We are almost at substantial completion. The guys in the back are nodding so they would know. But uh but there was a reason for that. But I did talk to all the individuals including yourself just to get a consensus before we moved ahead with that. So uh anyway that being said that's where we are with that. I and the other thing I wanted to announce or just discuss real quick uh the Valley View Educational Enrichment Foundation hosted their annual golf outing. Uh I don't know how successful it was but in my
090opinion it looked like a huge success. It was full of golfers and full of people and uh we all went out and had a good time spent money uh which is the whole basic idea of the thing and uh Mike Lawler who's been a part of that I think since the very beginning announced that they have raised well into the millions of dollars and funded hundreds of if not thousands of uh projects for the teachers. So much much appreciated for all those who participated and sponsored things and and uh showed up and whatever. So I'm sure Mike and uh the Education Enrichment Foundation folks will be here to tell us all about the good things that came from that and what they intend to do with it and the monies and where there be well
091they where they will be being spent. So uh any other announcements from the board? Any announcements from the administration? Uh motion to adjurnn would be in order. So move. Second. Motion and second. All of those in favor say I. I. Opposed same. Sign. Thank you. Have a good night. Happy summer. And it's going to looks like summer's here tonight. Going to be in the 90s tomorrow. SPF 30. Hydrate. Thank you. Good night.