001Can I get a roll call? Mr. Sterling? Here. Mr. Thompson? Here. Mr. McKnight? Present. Mrs. Carlson? Here. Mrs. Hainstein? Here. Mrs. Leach? Here. Chris Arduino, Recording Secretary. Ms. Ronnie Armbro, Superintendent. Shelley Wagner, Human Resources. Michelle, Curriculum and Instruction. Jason Blum, Communications and Community Relations. Josh Ram, Business and Operations. No, we're good. No, Mom. Oh, somebody's singing. My pleasure this evening. to introduce to you So our students from the Chesney Elementary and our Fine Arts program. We're excited tonight because we're going to have something a little bit different for you as a board. Yes, you'll get to see your faces in a second. We are, instead of doing awards and recognition tonight, we are actually going to have a special treat for you all after they lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. And so before
002I turn it over to Abby Edwards, the principal, cabinet and board members, if you want to stand up. We're going to kind of shift this way. Everybody in the space can see your smiling faces. So I'm Abby Edwards. I'm the principal at Mochazne Elementary. And these are third grade fine arts students. So this is the youngest group that we have. And it's our first group of third graders. And we're so proud of them. So we've been working all year on a few things. And well, on one thing that we're going to show you in a little bit. And then something that was relatively new. And then they didn't sing it for a while. And we're bringing it back for tonight. But first, we're going to start. I'd like to start with introductions, if that's OK,
003really quick. So, sorry, you ready? First name only. Okay, now we would like everybody to stand up with us and we're going to lead you in the Pledge of Allegiance. Ready? Fighters, just turn and look towards me. Because the flag's right behind me. Perfect. Ready? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God. He asked if we could do it in Spanish too because we do the school pledge in English and Spanish. I'm not sure we're quite ready. Great question. Okay, so at this time I'd like to turn it over to Ms. Nelson. She is our Pine Arts and Gen Ed music and drama teacher. So she is going to wrangle these kids and then sing her school song. Yes,
004yes. So this is our Rochester School song. We get to sing it at our school years ago. A man wrote it for our school. And at our celebration assemblies, we get to sing it. And so they are excited to sing it for you. Here's our Rochester School song. One that you will know. And it's called You Can Count on Me. Nice job. You guys are awesome. and you sounded great. Families, thank you so much for bringing them and for being a part of this journey and allowing them to participate in this program. We're excited to see over the coming years how this turns out for all of them. So now we're going to take a photo. So our board members are going to join us. You guys did a great job of moving in a
005very small space. But we're going to kind of scrunch together even more. And our board members are going to come behind you and I'm going to get a photo. Hello. I can't stand behind that little chair. Or you can go that way. Thank you again. Thanks, guys. Great job. Great job. When was the Michesney song written? I don't remember the Michesney song. Way before I came along. I was going to say, I thought the two kids were... They sang it. Yes, they did. It wasn't the one I probably should have. Maybe it's just been that long. It's been that long. Okay. Since my kids are back. It's been a while. Thank you. Oh, Miss Reese. Get her back? There she is. All right. I was like, how did we lose one? She left with the
006kids. They did a great job. They did. That was amazing. I think I got the wrong job. I love the finance project. That was really great. Okay. Anything else? I did mention that Ms. Nelson, who is a teacher, and I did work together at Boston for a few years. Oh. There it is. Post circle? There it is. Where is the shameless plug? Well, I mean, if we're going to do awards and recognitions, you were handed a trophy today. Yes. So I'm the third place finisher in the March mammal. madness at Harlem Middle School. I don't have a frame, but you're looking at the third place winner over here. Oh, wow. That's what I said. I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Terrell. I tell you, again, how do you follow that? I mean, the
007kids did a wonderful job, and my shameless plug is I was principal at Machesney once. All right, there you go. So, again, as we do at every meeting, and I think, again, they... definitely represented us tonight. The mission of the Harlequin-South Asian School District as a vital part of the community is to help diverse learners realize their living potential by providing an educational program dedicated to academic excellence and the development of strong character in a safe and respectful learning environment. Okay. We're going to approve the agenda. Yeah, we'll move back to that. Can I get a motion and a second to approve the agenda? Motion. Second. Mr. Thompson. Yes. Mr. McKnight. Aye. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Hastings. Aye. Mrs. Meeks. Aye. Mr. Sterling. Aye. I need a motion and a second to approve the board
008meeting minutes March 17, 2025. Motion. Second. Mr. McKnight. Aye. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Hastings. Aye. Mrs. Meeks. Aye. Mr. Sterling. Aye. Mr. Thompson. Yes. all right and with that there are at this time there's no comments from the community correct Turn it over to Josh. Thank you. The payables this period were $1,800,338.32. There were two payrolls this period in the amount of $7,108,008.56. For total expenditures of $8,908,346.88. Split off by fund, the education fund paid $7,415,628.60. The operations and maintenance fund paid $583,874.31. The debt service fund paid $1,300. The transportation fund paid $399,378.74. The IMRF Social Security Fund paid $247,109.19. And the Capra Projects Fund paid $261,056.01. Again, for total expenditures of $8,908,346.88. Are there any unanswered bill questions? Motion to approve the bills. Motion. Mrs. Carlson. Second. I was going to say, yeah. Mrs.
009Carlson? Yes. Mrs. Hasey? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. I jumped the gun. Well, you could. And with that, I turn it over to communications and committee reports. Our next regular board meeting will be April 28, 2025 at 6 p.m. The next policy committee meeting will be May, not Mary. May 14th, 2025. If you write it, I will read it, though. Recommendation to schedule an organizational meeting? Yeah, so I did, as I have done since the beginning, is we have asked to have a meeting for the new board members. that's going to be scheduled at may 12th that's the last thing we can do that okay so it's gonna be may 12th at 6 p.m to see the newly elected board members at 2025 2026. um also need
010to try to get you guys to see about meeting for a special board meeting this week thursday if anybody's available It would be what 5 p.m. 5 p.m. 5 p.m. This building that is for Yes The roof So it goes it goes out tomorrow, right? Yes Yes, it would be We're all good. We're just rolling. All right. Other than that, I went to a musical at the middle school. That was amazing. Those kids, I just, I could never get in front of that many people and just help it out and sing and dance and do all the things that they do. I'm in awe. We did have a discussion. We were going to look into mics from the high school. Let's do an audit and see what we've got to kind of move some stuff
011around and make sure. There was a lot of kids in that performance. There was. Yeah. But you're right. I mean, having four different sets of different types of mics and kids sharing it. We have it, and we're also redoing the high school at the time. We did that in school and we redid that on our trip so they have to wait. Yeah, I have no problem with hand-me-downs if they work too or just I'm taking a look. Just seeing what's available. I remember playing football with those varsity jerseys that we got, Josh. Still smelled like they never had changed. Hand-me-downs work still. Anything else? Thank you Mike yeah, I've got some similar items there Was that the performance of dear Edwina on Thursday and Friday night my daughter is in that one You're exactly right
012like the amount of talent in that show is fantastic I can't wait to see when they get to the high school level the stuff that they're going to do and if you did attend I didn't know this, I thought it was great that sound, lights, everything was run by the students. So where things weren't set up perfect, but like the opportunity to learn something, or some of the kids that want to be in theater that don't want to, you know, sing or dance, or someone be part of it, like you get that chance, which I don't know where, there's not a lot of opportunities even in some of the theater groups locally to do that. It was a great show. I can't say enough about it. If you didn't see it, you missed out. Hopefully
013there will be more here. Can't see what they're going to do. Yeah, Mammal Madness was a lot of fun. Thank you for everyone that put that on and allowing. some of us here to join and some of us clearly to find out how to rig and cheat it. It's all a little fun, but again, I think it's great. The students absolutely love it and allowing us as a board and administrators to kind of join on the fun. Thank you for that. I want it in my own house. Fair enough. I don't see who's getting the trophy. Who won overall? Yeah, we're going to see. I don't know. Yeah, we're going to find out who won overall. I'm curious now. It was a close one. I didn't know if it was you and you were in.
014I didn't feel anything. And if you're missing out on this one or if it goes on, you have to join next year. It's out there. It's fantastic. If you go to I don't know what Mammal Madness is, Google it. It is absolutely great. We had an action-packed committee of the whole. Not a lot of attendance, but if you get a chance to come. you really should for the four hours or whatever we were here we're tackling all that tonight but we're going to be going over things so briefly and approving them but the call-outs of all the work as we just did with the last curriculum doing that again for additional curriculums making sure things are tied together bringing it all up even more integral we're all discussed in that call i'm looking forward to
015see how that impacts and the benefits going to have for our students moving forward Man, everyone that came in, every year we do software renewals. And you had them all ready for every possible question and some great success stories. companies buying other companies coming in with 14% or so increase and then pushing that back down to I think was three and a half percent upgrade which is awesome fight for it let's keep those costs down so we can do it knowing the number of seats we're using how that programs done what the competition is doing and why we didn't select it figuring out licensing with the other example is instead of using an unlimited seat licensing knowing how many students were in it and when they're in it and moving to a per seat license
016that saved us was it ten twenty thousand? It was twelve thousand. That's where my head numbers were going there I guess then. But again either way twelve thousand dollars in just a creative savings nothing less nothing taken away from our children it was just the way and just taking the initiative of your team to find the right way to get it done so great call it's there we did the information on husky points and I can't and I like every time it's the second time husky points have been brought up if you're unfamiliar because even I was it's a set amount of points that our high school gets and then if there are any behaviors tardies and the like you start to remove those points kind of like a merit-based system that way but it's
017less about losing those points and what I like is how those students can get them back hearing the creative ways of either apologizing to a student that might have had some insubordination or cleaning up a lunchroom that you might have had a part with or saying that I'm going to come to all my classes that I wasn't in. think that's what you do it you provide a great incentive there's more lessons they're going to learn and this continues to have positive results I'd love to see this rolling up further to the middle school and what else we can do with this but great again creative answers things that that are working and if they work and grow I think we expand them out I think that's most of I had Ms. Yeager's class, the weather
018is still going. If you haven't got a chance, it's on YouTube. It's fantastic. I mean, let's be honest. It's probably more accurate than the weather you're already watching and way more exciting to watch. So that's on YouTube. I think it's every Friday, if I'm not mistaken. Take a look. Get your weather going into the weekend. And that's using... the weather equipment that came through a brand so again that's stress like self-written but it shows all of our administrators our staff our teachers the extra work they're like that they're going above and beyond for our kids with these creative solutions and you know the fact that there is actually a weather forecast that's completely done by our students by that grant it's just great i love being able to share all these stories uh and then
019yeah i mean the obvious uh mrs nelson I don't know how she has any energy for all the shows and performances and everything that is done with those, but I'm glad our kids could come in. I couldn't think we've ever really done this or had any singing in this room, and man, we need more of that. That is fantastic. Thank you for bringing them in and having them share. More singing. Dancing too. Everything. I was just going to say, I think Jason could sing next, right? Yeah. You could premiere it. I remember earlier in the year going, I don't know, we have these second graders that are going into fine arts, we're going to see how it works. And here we are at the end of that year, those second graders are now finishing up
020their third grade in fine arts. And, you know, due to technical issues, like, they kept singing perfectly. That didn't mean that they were just following, like, they wanted to do that. They practiced and they studied. I think it's a great testament to the fine arts program that we can start our kids that young. And look at the success coming out of kids that age. It's awesome. Yeah, that's most of the bragging that I have here for tonight. But we have another Committee of the Whole meeting coming up, so if you missed out on all the things I called out here, you get another chance to see specifically from me talk about Josh at the next Business Services Committee meeting, which is going to be May 14, 2025, here at 4.30. Bye. Thank you, sir. So
021nice Good evening. Good evening everyone as you can tell allergies are around So I didn't I want to apologize to the students and the chest for not being able to attend They're musical, but everybody would have ran out if they hadn't seen me. I mean, Thursday and Friday, because my eyes were all puffy, but they're doing better, and I'm doing better. But we really have some beautiful students, gifted students, all throughout this district. And the group that was here tonight, their voices were so clear, and I thought I heard someone with a first soprano voice. because I kept hearing the real high one, but that's amazing. They sound really good, nice and clear, so thank you, Mrs. Edwards. And we love it whenever we come in at every meeting, we get to see the students
022participate during the Pledge of Allegiance, and then tonight, you know, going even further, doing their little songs, the different songs. It just cheers up our hearts, so thank you for doing that. Oh, and I forgot to say hello to everybody, too. I'm sorry I didn't say that. But I don't really have anything to report. It's just that I'm... Glad to be back feeling better on a lot of different allergy medicines and I just wanted to say that the art that caught my attention, we have some really gifted art students here. We just have gifted students all around. The talent in everything, music, arts, dance, what am I leaving out? Bands, I can't forget the bands, all of our bands and everything. We just... We have some really talented kids here and really awesome teachers that
023are teaching our kids. Because you definitely need everything that we're trying to give our students to succeed in life. And that arts, all the arts help out when it comes to like math and English and social. It really does help. And me being a former art student, I know a lot of things that it has helped me. And still even to this day, I can be somewhere and I can hear music. And I can, and even if somebody took it and rearranged it and added it onto a... somebody else singing, I can say, that song is a song that was out when I was a child. And I can name the different instruments. So it's really good, and I really appreciate everybody for all you guys are doing in this district to make sure our
024kids be successful as they continue to go on in life. Our next equity and social justice meeting will be May 14th with the community as a whole. So we'll see you then, and that's all I have to report. Thank you so much. So I'm really I'm gonna echo I was busy these last couple weeks. Unfortunately, I didn't have all I was not able to go to the play But it was my my anniversary weekend. So I did have a little bit of leeway I know I remember at the middle school and even at in the elementary both my children went through the fine arts program we're in the plays at the plays the talent show at the middle school which is amazing but yes they both done it I said I miss it this time
025around but there'll be more other than that like I said seeing this I love seeing our students engaging and moving to the front was a great idea because I actually got to look at faces. And it wasn't just like me when I was singing. I was just trying to get through it because we were forced to sing in elementary school. But to see their faces and them really holding their hands down because they just want to do that. I don't know. It shows their enjoyment. And that's kind of one of the things. Not everybody enjoys school, but if we could. If we can put things in their day that help them get through, like this and the fine arts program and everything else, I mean, that's monumental. Kirk kind of touched on it with the
026community the whole and this is came I'm gonna kind of address something real briefly It's come to my attention a few times even recently That and and especially with a new board coming to sit in I just wanted to put this on record that it's like oh, yeah and the board meetings everything's just approved and it's 7061 all that kind of stuff and and I just want to let everybody know the committee the whole The committee of the whole could be four, four and a half hours because that is where all the details are hashed out. That's where the compromises are made. That's the meat and potatoes the board meeting I love it But that's the formality of approving the things that we went through in the community of the whole so if you really
027want to hear Well learn how the sausage is made as the way Kurt says it the committee the whole is where all the information is giving and the whys and And all the questions that are asked so we're not just here voting 7-0 on everything It's been discussed or 6-1 or however, whatever it it's all been discussed thoroughly scrutinized But thoroughly scrutinized and and that's why it's pretty easy to approve because we feel that the best decisions were were made during that meeting and with that being said But give my time up. Thank you, Shirley. I think I would add to that is You get to ask those questions that you and it gives you the time at the community the whole to give them time to find answers for those questions to bring it
028back to here. So not only does it have to pass through committee, but we have our dialogue for our questions then new questions can arise because you go into a community of the whole with a question or multiple questions and those get answered but a new one comes up. And here is where like you said it gets formalized but also the small little information that might come out, people are like, well, that wasn't really a lot. No, that was the answer to a small question after hearing two hours on a subject. So I just connected real quick to that too because then with that we'll sometimes get questions You know from board members that we got to research get answers to and get it back. And so That's really a big piece of that as
029well And we have pushed things before because we didn't get the answers in time and we have we have no problem doing that as well It's just but that's like I said if you want to come out and really know what's going on and hear the questions and Conversations the presentations the committee a whole is where it all happens Okay. Mr. Baker-Carlson. Thank you. Such a gorgeous day. I think March was the windiest year. It was pretty cool. My gosh. It's nice to be here. I just want to congratulate all of our mammal winners. Was it March Mammal? Mammal Band is there. We had a chance to get in on it this year. That was great. Andy, I just love the kids. Love watching them. I'm saying I gave a couple of the fives and
030they were such sweaty little hands But it's like you did amazing we did a fantastic job and for third grade I'm impressed. I'm so impressed. I'm impressed with you. How you you're dealing with the younger kids and the older kids and Wow, what a change for for you know, you've been doing the same thing for years and now it's like BAM It's completely different and you're hanging on and you're doing a great job and I'm impressed and even got a new assistant principal Recently do so Wow. It's busy stuff over there. It says I worked at Mitch's me. I love the place to tell you Billy But did you know the theme song? I didn't know there was a theme song, so I was pretty bad after three to four years. That was pretty awful.
031But I love the artwork. Some of these are dizzying. We'll give you nightmares if you watch them too long. I wouldn't know where you are. I live somewhere over here, Harlem, Roscoe, Friar, Ye. But, yeah, they're really cool to watch. And this is high school? Middle school? High school. They're just amazing. I'm sure I won't go home on a fish tank. I'm trying. That's the way it goes. There's not a whole lot. I don't have a lot going on. So it's great to be back in. I know we've only got, what, six weeks left of school? And then we're off to vacation and new grades and graduation. And I'm looking forward to graduation this year. So it'll be fun to do some new extra things. And I don't have a whole lot. I just saw
032these great plays and stuff. I got to get back on the ball. Thank you. Thank you. Good for me. All right. A couple of things I wanted to touch on that happened before spring break because we haven't really had a meeting between then is educators rising, competed at state. So there's probably a picture. Yeah, perfect timing. Look at that. Behind me. So that was incredible. They did a great job. Harlem. Harlem Yearbook also won bronze at state, which was incredible as well. I always give kudos to the yearbook kids. I was not brave enough for yearbook. I did paper, the newspaper. But that's a huge feat to do all that, compile all of it. It's got, I don't know how it is now, but when I was going to school, it had a lot of
033requirements, layouts, stuff like that. So kudos to them for getting third place. um math team qualified for state so i think they're going to state before we meet next on the 26th so congrats to the math team i was at friday's performance of dear eduina it was fantastic um i guess one of my favorite parts that has not been mentioned yet is the come I swear to God, I can talk. The support from fellow students. There's a ton of fellow students there cheering on their classmates. When they came out after the performance, everybody was super excited. Oh, my gosh, you did so good. That was just really cool to see. Middle school can be hard sometimes, so seeing the support amongst the students was really great. There was some technical difficulties. Kids powered through them,
034did a fantastic job. You know, theater, it happens, right? I think we saw it tonight, too. Sometimes the arts just don't go the way they're supposed to. Both Dear Edwina and the kids tonight did a fantastic job just rolling with the punches. Great life skill also. I did want to mention there's some really awesome summer programs. If you haven't checked out skill building over at the middle school and then sports camps went out. So we have two pages worth of sports camps for mostly 6th through 12th. Really excited to see the 6th graders in on some of that. ways to get into the sports before school hits. And then... I really enjoyed the middle school and high school's presentation at Committee of the Whole on the disciplinary stuff. Kurt touched on the points a little
035bit. I really, really love the push for restorative practices and finding ways to get those points back, really reiterating the fact that you can make mistakes and you can, you know, learn from them. You can work to... make it right. I've got to recently talk to the counseling team over at the middle school and they're really creative over there as well in finding ways to kind of deal with some of those big feelings, those big emotions. There's some programs they have for kids, you know, dealing with maybe a little bit more anger than normal or stuff like that. Really focusing on restorative practices and not kind of condemning the kid because they had a bad. because we all have bad days. So I really, really enjoyed that. I love how the secondary schools really communicate
036with each other frequently and make sure the discipline is consistent across the board. And it's also, in my eyes, very pro-student in getting the student back on the right track. So thank you for all the admins that put hard work into that. um i do agree with everything the guy said committee the whole is the meat and potatoes i like to call this like the dotting of the eyes and crossing of the t's it's fun we get to hear singing and and learn of everybody's accomplishments but committee of the holes where we get to really dig deep and answer slash ask those questions we also have a lot of conversations with each other and like conversations with Questions are asked, phone calls are made, research is done. Some of the larger decisions, we've spent hours
037going over countless amounts of information. I also think we have a really great board. We have a great group, which makes it easy because I think we're more readily... able to get to those compromises that Aaron was talking about. So thank you again for everybody who puts work into the Committee of the Whole. And I think that's going to be it for me. I will have probably a little bit of a longer thing next week, so you might want to bump me to the end again. But next Education Committee will be on May 14th at 4.30 here. Don't you mean Mary 14th? Mary 14th. Michael, can I add something? Yes. I just wanted to say to Abby, your music teacher is amazing. She's fantastic. She's been a lot of years, right? Or she's the one
038that came in here just a few years ago. Just a few years. Okay. So she's the new one now. But just tell her next time we want to see acapella. I'd love to see that. And they did so well at doing that. Jason. Definitely. And they can be normal. I love that, too. I don't know where she finds the energy to do it through all the different schools, all the different grades, all the different songs, and just nonstop. Yeah. Thank you. And with that, I turn it over to Dr. McShiller. Thank you. First, this evening, I did put a travel at your spot. Both the travel that's attached and the one at your spot are a national competition. Both of them the students had to qualify. The first one is the one that's attached. It
039is bowling qualifying for national in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The parents drive them to the meet, so transportation is not on here. They will be leaving on June 6th and returning on the 10th. The second one, and Megan brought it up about the Educator Rising Conference, and we had some qualify for nationals, as we did last year. And they will be flying out of Rockford on June 25th and returning on June 30th. So congratulations to these students for qualifying. But we wanted to bring it to you guys early so we could get everything set up with plenty of time. Okay. Can I say that I feel bad for our board? It's like a little Fort Wayne. I mean, maybe it's a really nice bowl. Omaha maybe next year. Is this our high school bowlers? Yes. Okay,
040because our middle schoolers just made. They won state. They won. The middle schoolers won state? The girls team won state. Okay. But the guys have, they were first in. Yeah, sports. Sorry, guys. I really tried. I really tried really hard. I did see something on social. They did something. Yes, they were just recently recognized. So shout out to the middle school boys and girls bowling teams as well. Yeah, that's... Omaha's next year. So my next two items I'm going to be asking for board approval tonight and as many of you stated we spent quite a bit of time talking about each of these plans. The first one that I'm going to be asking for is our district consolidated plan. That's where we show that all the grant funds are working together and that we're not
041working in silos and we shared that plan of how the funds are... the plan for the funds, and the second one being the Harlem District Behavior Plan, because we have been identified the last three years in the top 20% as far as exclusionary practices. And I agree, the representatives from the middle and high school did a great job explaining how they're looking at everything and what they're doing to bring back some of that restorative practices. So I'm asking for a board approval on both of those items. that could marry into the policy? Oh, we're just gonna, we don't have to take it to policy. We can bring it, you know, for a recommendation. And that's already on the Ed Committee agenda for next Ed Committee. The matrix? The matrix. So it'll be the matrix. Okay,
042cool. See? That's where the sausage is made. I have a question. Yeah. I have a question because we didn't have a discipline improvement plan at the COTW, correct? This particular. Correct. All those items were each one of those slides. Right. And then this one was a little bit different. But I just had a question because on the page 7, excuse me, it states that we're going to reduce out-of-school suspensions, but it chooses. specific groups of students. I didn't know if that was something that... It's based off of the data. Yes, it was all based off of the data that they... Okay, so we're not doing like, okay, because you're this person and you're that person, and you're, okay, because it just, it reads that way, and so it just seemed a little confusing. No, okay,
043great. No, the slides were just all that information put together. Yeah, it was on the consolidated, but okay. Yeah, great. Perfect. I missed that on there, so. Okay. All right, thank you. My first item this evening is a recommendation to approve a resolution declaring surplus property at Parker Center, the Administration Center, Loves Park, Ralston, Marquette, Olson, and Windsor. A lot of this is the ELA pilot program items. I know that. Tonight I have a recommendation to approve a facility request. There is one with student council for homecoming hall decorating in September. Before the kickoff party. Yeah, they do that so we can walk through them during the kickoff. We need floats. Just saying. Next is the recommendation to accept the February 2025 Treasurer's Report that we reviewed in the Committee of the Whole meeting. 11
044before is a recommendation to prove the Harlem School District 1.2 fee information for the 2526 school year so next year and that recommendation is a $15 increase to the k5 registration fee from 110 to 125 and the page that's attack attaches is reflecting that $10 at the middle school which includes the mini shirt now and we just updated the exam fee in the club test which are just All right, so From 11b 5 to 11b 28 are the hours on equity of the whole we'll have to read them when we vote but To say double reading that with the questions on any of those I think we did our due diligence He took a lot of time on them. The team also came very prepared. Very prepared. Which I appreciate. I really did. I didn't
045know if I said that, but I really appreciated it. The expansion of letters, and now we're using letters of the teachers that went through it. One of the first two rounds are now teaching the program and the cost savings for that. They mentioned that was another area of just potential savings without giving up anything. So, love that. I did have a question. What's the expiration date on the school improvement grant funds? What did they have to spend that by the ones that they got this In January. Yeah, I have to be spent by August 31st. Okay. Great. Are they pretty much? Done with that we have the Stuff from loves Park that I shared it the lab at the committee of the whole where they're going to be asking for things that go with the
046inter reading curriculum We don't have enough time to get it sure a couple extra things, but yes We are spending up the money that they're giving us so they'll be able to utilize it before deadline cool And we're able to use those funds for not just year after year But we're going to use those funds for some of the five-year multi years they have in the past and In the past they hadn't allowed any type of curriculum and they did allow for the middle school. Because of the fact the curriculum is for all the elementaries, we can't use it for the curriculum, but they can do some of the above and beyond stuff. Also? So, are there any questions between 11B5 and 11B28? Well, I don't have any questions. I just want to say thanks
047to everybody doing it and I think it's amazing that very little of all those numbers came out of pocket. Kind of like Kurt said, grants and ideas and it's amazing. The diligence and creativity is just awesome. As Aaron mentioned, the team's ability to get on the phone and haggle, I mean, it's not an easy feat, but to get something dropped from a 14% increase to a 3% increase is pretty impressive. You just got to ask. There's a lot of asking going on. Ask with authority. It's the highest possible compliment. Dr. Shirley Wagner. Good evening. Good evening. Mr. Shirley. Good evening. Tonight I have the recommendation to approve the personnel agenda and addendum, which includes nine employments, 12 transfers, one leave of absence for childbearing request, 18 resignations, and five federation bank requests. Thank you. Dr.
048Turner-Darbrough. Thank you. No FOIA requests this time around, so that's good. But I do want to echo what's been said, I think, by every board member today as far as the Committee of the Whole. And I want to, you know, obviously, you know, show appreciation for our admin, our administrators, and our teachers for the amount of work that they put in, you know, to those presentations. Because I thought this one, and I want to thank the ISTE department, was thorough, as thorough as I've ever seen a proposal or proposals. And they were all ready for your questions. And so thank you, you know, to Dr. Erb for preparing your team. And, you know, obviously for our administrators and our teachers who are part of our community as well. And then the next meeting Jason I'll
049have something for ESJ as far as a presentation for meetings Videos great to you should share it began to that video that was at that one And just just to kind of offer that one is just the community the whole right like we didn't know how that was gonna go I think it's and and I kind of enjoyed having you know, not for our meetings But I will say that I I'm all I'm all in on the whole I think getting is all here having the staff here getting our questions making sure we have as many board members as possible for all of the meetings i think we're a more educated board member than being specific to the committee meeting so yeah i i was skeptical i feel like i could field questions so much
050with just about anything because we have the ability to be or at least have an id you can speak a little bit about everything yeah i'm sold on it My favorite was the time it gave back to everybody while still gaining some of those. You know, if you think you had like three to four days a month versus one day. So the time back to the admins, the teachers that, you know, everybody here at the table, but still coming out feeling like you were more informed. Like it felt weird, right? Because we were like, oh, we're going from four to one. Why do I feel like I know more? You know what I mean? So I think it was in that positive for sure. I think the preparation, I think, has kind of changed, too.
051You know, it's really kind of funny with the stuff that the administration was asking for, like curriculum and that kind of stuff. I mean, at the end of the day, they're trying to sell us on saying, hey, please. And I think that's helping with the negotiations with the pricing, too. I really, that's the whole sales process. But I just had to get the sales part in because that's kind of what I do. I do appreciate actually hearing from you guys and saying, well, wait, we have all this stuff to reveal. We've answered the questions, but you're waiting for the answers. You had our answers to the questions that we normally ask. You always come prepared, but when we're already ready to vote, you're like, but we still have more stuff to sell you. We're good.
052We've answered them. We've knocked them down. That was good, so I do really appreciate that. Thank you. All right. Let's get into this. All right. All right. 12A. Can I get a motion to approve personal agenda and agenda? Second. Mrs. Hasey? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Can I get a motion to approve student travel requests? Motion. Second. mrs haitian hi mrs meeks i mr sterling all right mr thompson hi mr mcknight all right mrs carlson yes can you get a motion to prove facility requests motion second mrs meeks i mr sterling all right mr thompson hi mr mcknight all right mrs carlson yes mrs haitian hi can i get a motion to approve district consolidated plan motion mr sterling all right mr thompson hi
053mr mcknight yes mrs carlson hi mrs hayson hi mrs meeks aye can you get a motion to prove district behavior plan motion second mr thompson aye mr mcknight yes mrs carlson yes mrs hayson hi mrs meeks aye mr sterling all right can you get a motion to approve resolution declaring surplus property second mr mcknight c mr mrs carlson yes mrs hayson hi mrs meeks i mrs sterling all right mr thompson hi can i get a motion to accept february 2025 treasury support motion Second. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Mrs. Hastings? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Can I get a motion to approve the scheduling of organizational meeting for Monday, May 12, 2025 at 6 p.m. to seat newly elected board members and set the 20 for 25, 2026 meeting
054dates? Motion. Second. Mrs. Hastings? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Can I get a motion to approve the Harlem District 122 fee information for 2025-2026 school year? Motion. Second. Mrs. Hastings? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Can I get a motion to approve the renewal agreement with Teaching Strategies Gold for one year subscription at $8,182.80 paid with local funds? Motion. Second. mrs meets aye mr sterling right mr thompson hi mr mcnoy all right mrs carlson yes this is hazy hi can i get a motion to approve the renewal agreement with mystery science for a one-year subscription and a total cost of thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars paid with local funds motion sorry mr.
055Sterling all right mr. Thompson absolutely mr. McKnight yes mrs. Carlson hi mrs. Hastings hi mrs. Smith's I can I get a motion to approve a one-year renewal agreement with curriculum associates for I already assessment for grades K through 8 and across the forty eight thousand three hundred thirty six dollars paid with local funds Motion second mr. Thompson. Hi. Mr. McKnight. All right, mrs. Carlson. Yes. This is hazy. Hi. This is me. I'm sister Can I get a motion to approve a new renewal agreement with curriculum associates for my path for Loves Park Elementary and Harlem Middle School to purchase licenses at the cost of $67,018 paid with SIG funds from Harlem Middle School three-year $36,462 SIG funds at Loves Park five-year $30,555 Motion. Second. Mr. McKnight. Aye. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Hasey. Aye. Mrs. Meeks.
056Aye. Mr. Sterling. Aye. Mr. Thompson. Aye. I'm going to motion to approve a one-year renewal with a year of learning for, what is it, a station? A station. And a Spaniel program for a total of $4,410 paid with Title IX. Motion. Check it. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Mrs. Hastings? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mrs. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Can I get a motion to approve an agreement with Music Play Online for a one-year subscription for a cost of $1,000, paid with Title IX? Motion. Second. Mrs. Hastings? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Mrs. Carlson? Isn't that Title IV? Yeah, Title IV is right. yes you're right so i gotta go back actually just correct me can i correct the mode now i have to go back
057to the second one 13 right helpful for a motion for paid with title four funds motion well we have to redo it you amend them you're he's amending it to title four gotcha okay so we we need a first and a second on the amendment is that for both of them we can remember so motion Yes, mrs. Carlson. Yes, mr. Mrs. Casey. I miss the stearly All right, can you get a motion to approve the one-year renewal agreement with second step for online curriculum subscription for a cost of four thousand three hundred and eighty three dollars paid with title for second Mr. Sterling all right, mr. Thompson by tonight. All right, mrs. Carlson. Yes Can you get a motion and a second to approve an agreement for DBQ online one-year subscription renewal at a cost
058of $2,800 paid with Title IV? Motion. Second. Aye. Mrs. Meese? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Can we get a motion to approve renewal with the IXL Learning for one-year subscription renewal at a cost of $4,331 paid with the IDEA grant? Motion. Second. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Mrs. Hayes? Aye. Can I get a motion to approve an agreement with Fastbridge for a one-year subscription renewal at a cost of $8,253,000 paid with an IDA grant? Motion. Second. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Mrs. Hayson? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Can I get a motion to approve an agreement with Formative New Seller for Instructions and Assessment Platform for teachers at a cost of
059$24,208 to pay the local funds? Motion. Second. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Mrs. Hayson? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. I get a motion to approve a contract renewal with Brex database solution Inc for embrace IEP and 504 platforms and website access for eighteen thousand six hundred eighty two dollars and fourteen cents for the FY 26 school year funded by the idea grant motion second Mr. McKnight all right. This is constant. Yes. You should take me. Bye. This is me. I miss the sterling Mr.. Thompson, hi Can I get a motion to approve an agreement with Edmark reading for a one-year subscription at a cost of? 3,200 paper the idea grant motion second. This is Carlson. Yes, it's a painting. All right, Mr. Sterling. All right, mr. Thompson. Mr. McKnight.
060Yep You get a motion to approve an agreement with the every news to you for one year subscription renewal cost for 45,000 547 dollars and 33 cents pay the day idea grant motion Second. Mrs. Haysing? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Can I get a motion to approve agreement with Retopia for a one-year subscription for a cost of $2,606.74, paid with an ID agreement? Motion. Second. Mrs. Haysing? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Can I get a motion to approve a five-year agreement with Panorama Education for Harlem Middle School MTSS team at a cost of $57,396.25, paid with SIG funds? Motion. Second. Mrs. Meeks, aye. Mr. Sterling, aye. Mr. Thompson, aye. Mr. McKnight, yes. Mrs.
061Carlson, yes. Mrs. Hasey, aye. Can I get a motion to approve a one-year renewal with Edgenuity for student licenses at a cost of $12,237 paid with local fund? Motion. Second. Mr. Townsend? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Mrs. Hasey? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Can I get a motion to approve a five-year agreement with Common Lit for Harlem Middle School ELA curriculum at a cost of $28,570 per year paid by the SIGFUS? Motion. Second. mr mcknight absolutely mrs carlson yes mrs hayson hi this is me i'm mr sterling yes yes can i get a motion to approve a one-year agreement with common lit for high school ela curriculum at a cost of 6 500 paid with local funds motion mrs carlson yes mrs hayson did we get a second second i'll second
062i guess okay Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Mrs. Hastings? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Aye. That was when you were out of the scene. That was why. 13-1. Can I get a motion to approve an agreement with HMH for Spanish language arts curriculum at a cost of $48,008.20 paid with local funds? Motion. Second. Mrs. Hastings? Aye. Mrs. Meeks? Aye. Mr. Sterling? Aye. Mr. Thompson? Aye. Mr. McKnight? Yes. Mrs. Carlson? Yes. Can I get a motion to approve professional development plan for implementation of a new curriculum at a cost of $29,108, paid with a TOW 2, $25,108, and an online literacy grant of $4,000. Motion. Second. Casey. Aye. Meeks, aye. Mr. Sterling. Aye. Mr. Thompson. Aye. Mr. McKnight. Aye. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Can I get a motion to approve professional services
063with HMH Arriba La Lectura at the cost of $14,060, paid with the Title II, $10,060, and Title III, $4,000. Motion. Second. Mrs. Meeks. Aye. Mr. Sterling. Aye. Mr. Thompson. Aye. Mr. McKnight. Aye. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Hastings. Aye. Can get a motion to approve a required letters online coursework at a cost of thirty seven thousand five hundred six dollars paid with title to Motion second, mr. Sterling, mr. Thompson. Hi, thank you. Yes Can I get a motion to approve development with common lit 360 for middle school 12,000 in high school not 6,000 for a cost of 18,000 with pain with st. Grant 12,000 and title to 6,000 motion Yes, yes, yes, yes, I'm just early. All right, great job Mike. Yeah Can I answer in different languages? Because I googled how to say yes, and
064I got like 37 of them. Please. Like ja. Ja. Is it Swedish, Danish, and or ja? It'd be Chris recorded in his proper language. First, I would say. The answer could always be yes, but you would have to specify that you are saying yes. John. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Thank you. I'm glad that this is under announcements and discussions. There's always another day. Is there anything that we have for Thursday when you need to go over? So Thursday's just going to be the roof? Yeah, it's just the roof. That's all it can be. So it goes out for bid today? It goes out for bid Tuesday. It's been out for a while. The deadline is... That was the one that got extended a week because of the tapered insulation, so they pushed it to tomorrow.
065Gotcha. Okay. Do you want to summon personnel and any litigation for closed session? Yeah. Can I get a motion to go into executive session? to discuss employment of personnel 5 ILCS 120-2C and pending litigation 5 ILCS 120-2C11. Motion. Second. Mr. McKnight. Aye. Mrs. Carlson. Yes. Mrs. Hayes. Aye. Mrs. Meeks. Aye. Mrs. Sterling. Aye. Mr. Thompson. Aye. I said no. Five minutes.