001Jeff on Facebook. >> Is he probably the one that wears? You probably wouldn't recognize me because he usually wears like hoodies and masks where he looks like >> Oh, really? Oh, maybe it's not. >> He doesn't always, but >> there's like the really nice guy that has been >> It's not really >> That'll be interesting. >> I mean, we're moving on from >> starting our own. Sounds like >> Yeah, just like >> Yeah, I got a good crew might be coming. >> I've been around with >> Did you hear that? >> It's like, >> oh, he's older than >> chicken like played with us. >> Look at this. Call to order the meeting of the regular the regular meeting of the board of education of school district number 40 at 6 pm on July 28,
0022025 at the Mullen Education Center at 1900 52nd Avenue in Molen, Illinois. Can I have a roll call, please? >> Audrey Adamson, Jet Desm >> here. >> Ramona Dixon here. >> Jason Frell here. Lindsay Hines. >> Jeff Mayus here. Laura Severson here. Abigail Greenland. >> Okay. No board members participating remotely for the pledge of >> allegiance. Algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Uh, number three here, the Mullen Police Department and Molen Pole Valley School District reporting safety partnership opportunity presentation. I'm Dr. Savage. Chief G. >> I'll just do a brief uh introduction and then turn it over to Chief. Uh some time ago, Chief uh approached me about an opportunity to
003potentially add an additional um partnership with the district and the police department to uh look at a potential uh uh drone uh first responder drone that the district could potentially house for the police department. I know that this has been a successful program utilized in different locations across the the country and this is something that the city of Molen has been investigating and the chief was looking at potential locations to house the drones uh in various locations across the city and at one point was looking at the possibility of of housing some drones on various rooftops and potentially schools would have been a good possibility. uh and uh wanted to to know if the board of education would be interested in looking into that. So after a study and looking into some of that um
004it came to be that Molen High School would prove to be a viable location and after um some investigation and after running through someus and running through uh technology and legal um we are now at the point to have the board of education take a look at this more formally and wanted to um ask Chief G to be here to be able to answer some specific questions in terms of how a first respond respond drone might work and um how it has been proven successful in other communities and what that might mean for our school district. So this time I'll turn it over to Chief. >> All right. Well, thank you very much for the opportunity to be in front of you again. Uh well, you all know me at least by now. I was
005here not too long ago. So, thanks for having me back. But, uh Dr. Savage gave you a good uh uh introduction to that and I'm just here to tell you that the Mullen High School has a beautiful roof. I don't just go around to uh all the businesses and tell them that they have a beautiful roof. So, you are unique. Uh but I uh may be in Jess, but I tell you that the Moy High School has a uh position in the city uh being a government entity uh and having an opportunity for us to partner to uh to expand uh an opportunity to house a Skyo uh X10 drone dock. If this video will come up, maybe. Um, so a few months ago, the Smoling City Council heard a presentation from me uh to
006propose uh how to uh expand our drone program to autonomous uh beyond visual line of sight drone program. They approved that project and we've been we moved forward with purchasing or entering into a contract with a company called Skyo. Skyo is now a subsidiary. It's been bought by Axon, which is our body camera uh company. And uh Sky Do is primarily focused on law enforcement uh drones for first responders. So back in December of last year uh I was uh traveling the country for some international association chiefs of police business and uh I met the chief of Chula Vista, California. Uh Roxanna Kennedy uh pioneered the drone for first responder program in uh the United States. It actually started in uh Mexico was the first deployment of drone as first responder and she brought it
007to Chula Vista. Now if you can close your eyes and imagine what's what Southern California is like uh you can understand that they don't have any problem sticking cops on tops of roofs in Southern California to fly the drones. So their drone program uh largely was still operated by human beings but over the years companies and technology have evolved and are now able to deploy those with technology from docs. So, we purchased two docks uh from Sky Doio. And it doesn't look like my video is going to play, but after this, you certainly could uh just Google uh Sky Do uh drone dock, and it would would show you. But this is the um static picture of it. Uh the drone dock itself weighs about 229 pounds. You can see the dimensions up there. Uh
00831x 37x 55. This is the item that I'm asking for approval from the board of education to place on top of Mullen High School. It's pretty simple. The top of it opens uh through technology, right? So, it's commands from software. Uh a drone is housed inside of it. It's temperature controlled 20 247 365 to make it through our tough winters, our hot summers, and our rain and snow. uh keeps it heated and cooled in there so that the drone itself is sets on top of a platform inside of there. It opens within 20 seconds and that drone is airborne in uh 20 seconds after the command is given. Uh and then it can fly three miles from that location. So the the uh the reason that we want to have one on the high school
009is because of the city of Molen. So, as you can see on the this radius for three miles, that center point is on the uh Moy High School property there. And so, you can see the radius that the drone would be able to to fly. The drones can only stay airborne for about 45 minutes and they have to return home. Does anybody have a Roomba? Right. So, same concept of a Roomba. It will leave and then it knows it has to go back home. It will fly back home. There'll be a law enforcement officer that is uh either at a desktop uh at a mobile uh mobile uh computer in their squads or on their phones to be able to control it and do some other things we have to do for the legality of
010that. Uh but it can fly what's called beyond visual line of sight. Right now our drone operators under the FAA license that we have have to be within visual line of sight. So, anybody that has a hobby of a drone operator, to get FAA Part 107 certified, you have to keep the drone in your line of sight. Uh, we have now we've already gotten our uh our certificate of authenticity through the FAA where we're able to fly beyond visual line of sight. Um, so our drone can leave that dock and fly and we can control the whole thing through a computer. There's several safeguards in it, but if it has it get it has a obstacle avoidance in it, it will fly around stuff. It will know if it's in trouble, it will return home.
011Certainly, there is some vulnerability. I guess any technology can fail, but it has a lot of safeguards to it that it will return home uh back to its dock. So the the position of the Moy High School being on the bluff as you guys all know being great moleners you know that uh Avenue the city's is high and uh River Drive and then the the Rock River are both low and so that presents us some problems for uh flying from the police department which our other location of the dock will be. And so you can see here the three mile radius. And even though the limits are three miles, as you know, the longer it has to fly, the more battery life it's using, right? So if it has to fly to the edge of
012three miles, right, it's used up some battery life to get there. And wind speed or weather conditions can drain it a little bit more. And so then by the time it gets to that edge, right, it may only have 40 40 minutes instead of 45 minutes uh in its battery or or less. And so we want to have two positioned around uh the city. When I was out in Southern California, they're using hospitals and schools and other government buildings uh to deploy many of them. Some of the cities are bigger and they'll they'll deploy them in what they call hives and they'll deploy them all throughout the area. uh partly because hospitals have generators, they have technology, they have power, they have internet, all that different stuff. And so we looked at a couple different
013options. Uh you know, the hospital down by Target. The problem is this building problem is the the airport uh gives us some FA ceiling height issues. We are going to be able to get some of those raised for for us in certain areas, but the paths of the actual airplanes if you if you understand that if you look at the airport, the way the runways will never get certain areas of the of the path of the runways. So by uh deploying one at the police department and then one at the high school, we get this coverage. And so you can see the blue is the police and the the maroon would be the high school. And so we get really complete coverage uh of the residential and commercial areas of the city of Molen by
014having the two. And then we also get what's this called? A ven diagram for who's the math professor here in this like you get this little ven diagram. We get expanded coverage in the heart of molen for almost all of molen with two drone coverage. So we could almost have roughly an hour and a half uh drone coverage uh in the city of Molen. So u lot of advantages to to having that. The other thing is this final edge that that the the uh sorry um this final edge down here where you can see that expands past our limitation from the police department gives us that whole route uh route 6 I74 area the South Park Mall all of Walmart all the way over to Green Valley Park that we cannot reach at all if
015we just deployed. Originally, we thought, well, we'll we'll find out the second dock later. We might have to split two of them at the police department. We would never be able to get South Park Mall all the way over to Menard's from the police department. We have to have a secondary location. We looked at the library. The library does not have a generator. Uh it's not open 247 that we could put somebody in there. A lot of issues uh with the location of the library. Um and and uh so we looked at uh really we did a lot of testing. We had Sky Deio out here. We did some testing from the school uh to make sure that we would be able to go from there and they approved that. So, uh the the ask
016from you just is if we could have about uh 16 square ft of space on the hot top of Wayne High School. Uh we would put that dock on the high school and not bother you anymore. Uh we just need access, put it on there, access to maintain it. We will pay for the the drone. We already paid for the drone dock and the drone inside of it. We'll pay for that. We'll pay for the installation. We'll pay for the We will have to run some conduit. We need power and we need internet access. Um we already have a part great partnership with you guys through internet access. Uh somehow Craig makes it happen for us where our school cameras that are at every crosswalk outside of the schools. That video shoots back to a
017little panel on the schools, drops into the internet. We share Genio uh internet connection. Basically, you're just giving us a path into that that fiber and it comes right back to the police department. Doesn't go into your uh in infrastructure, your internet, anything like you're not maintaining anything. Just giving us kind of a port into the fiber that's below the school. We're asking for the same thing. Uh if you could just give us a little bit of power. It's very light, right? Just like we want to plug something in to keep it powered and then we just need internet capability, another port to go in and then run it back. Your teachers, administrators will have no role in this. They will not be I know there was a couple uh the news picked it up
018when I presented it to the city council last week. Uh you know, teachers will not have any role in this. Administrator will not have any role in this. You won't have any access to it. Just asking for a little roof space to put that thing on top of there. The advantage to you is if for God forbid we did have an incident at the school, it'd be up in 20 seconds uh and we could fly the perimeter of the of the school in 20 seconds. Now, the other thing is you might be asking, uh, well, when are you going to deploy this? I didn't I didn't bring all those issues here today, but if you want to look at my drone presentation to the school, we did a good about an hour or to the
019city council. We did a good about an hour of that explanation. But the state of Illinois has strict guidelines on when we can deploy a public safety drone. I'll tell you the number one thing we cannot do is any type of proactive surveillance. So we can't do traffic control. We can't see if the kids are coming in out of the school properly. Uh we can't even if you asked us gave us permission. The law does not allow that. It has to be a emergency call that goes into a 911 center that allows us to deploy law enforcement resources uh to an emergency. Uh there's a few other areas that we could use it natural disaster if we had a search warrant. Uh there was other sorts of imminent threat like we we've used it on
020fires and things like that before. Uh but we can't use it for just general patrol. We can't use it for general surveillance. That is prohibited by state law. to open it up to any questions you might have. Uh we did uh run uh anou through both of our uh legal departments so that we just outline the responsibilities, the delineation costs u that really uh what what I just presented to you today in some kind of legal ease uh so that everybody uh was transparent on what we were asking and that uh when we're done with it, we'll repair your roof back to its original condition. Uh we have a five-year contract with Sky Deio. Um and so we assume the technology after five years will be different and that we'll re revisit it at that
021time. >> Any questions? >> Yeah, for starters, I think this is really really cool. Um, and I would be for sure supportive of, you know, bringing what the Mullen Police Department is doing, um, and what we are already doing at Mulling Public Schools to bring it in further into the 21st century and help keep everyone safe. Uh, that said, just a couple of questions. Um, are there any other communities in our region using a similar program? >> No. Well, um, as you know, the Moy Police Department is pretty, uh, on the cutting edge of technology. We're always pursuing a lot of the stuff nationwide, a lot of them. I don't know. I I guess I don't know where all of them are deployed. I don't know if there's any other ones in partnerships with schools,
022but like I said, many of them are not on the police department property. They're on other types of government entity buildings or hospitals, things like that. Uh but no one in this area is uh is using drone as a first responder. Almost every department has a drone program with manual pilots and with a with a game controller in their hands. Uh I I think all all the major metro agencies and we have had drones for several years. We have both outdoor drones that are large. They're probably, you know, about the size of this table. They're huge. And then we have indoor drones which are the size of an R RC car. They're completely encased. They can fly in indoors. Uh but but um and and a lot of people a lot of departments have those
023uh particularly in this area, but no one has rooftop uh drone docks. Uh Aurora uh when we entered into a contract, we went up to Aurora where was Sky Deio deployed them. I don't know if Aurora went through with it, but that was the closest 2-m radius that we could find that had that. There are other u companies that have them. St. Louis has a company called Palladian. We looked at them as well. But uh um the kind of the safety features that SkyO has, it has red and blue lights on the drone so that the public knows that it's a public safety drone. We can turn them off for covert, you know, if we need to, but then people see, hey, it's it's a police drone, things like that. >> Will you be able
024to help complement the other communities where >> Yeah. So, good point. >> UT I think of UTHs for example, like if there's an emergency situation. >> I don't think it'll fly all the way over to UT. >> Gosh, it's got to be close. >> Let me let me go back to >> But I see it. You know, it it goes into Bentonorf as well. >> You know, well, yours will yours will. So, if you see the Hi Ve grocery store with the E, you can see that gets all the way over to to the the intersection, right? It'd be right at the the far edge there. So you see that intersection with the splits off with the E. The E looks like to me is right over UT high school. So it'll be really close.
025And then >> my wife teaches in a school that's right in that same bubble as well. So it kind of hits. >> And then you can see the blue the blue goes over probably Rockan High School as well. Be very it probably be pretty close. >> So you will mowing police department will be help complement the other. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. >> Police departments with this technology. It's great. >> And we we have a mutual aid agreement. Uh not to bore you with the legalities of running a police department, but we have a mutual aid agreement with police departments from Clinton all the way down to Burlington that we we share resources with. Uh obviously this won't fly all the way down there, but it would fall under uh those same parameters. So if
026they call all the only thing it requires is that they call us. We can't self-deploy it to those situations, but they called and said they needed it and it fit within the law. We could uh send that. Also, I probably should point out to you that under the law, we're required to report drone uh deployments to the state's attorney's office and we have software that automatic every time the drone is used and a police officer completes a report about the drone, it automatically sends that to the state's attorney's office via email. >> Thank you, Chief. >> Um just a quick question again. Thank you for doing the leg work. Theou looks great. uh running it through our legals takes out a lot of leg work. My question to you and Dr. Savage is like what
027kind of um proactive education do we have for like students and staff and individuals that will find out you like you said through media outlets you know that there's this big thing at the high school that that will not impact their day-to-day because right you know how people start creating their own stories if they don't know the logistics behind the legals and the FAA and things that you guys have going on. >> Yeah. So the media reached out to me. Um, so the the legal or the uh the logistical hoops of getting anou is really tough. So you you guys only had kind of one summer meeting here and uh so we have to stuff has to go through a city council twice. So I put it on the committee of the whole agenda last
028week came here today and it will go on the city council agenda next week. So, it's kind of got a three-w weekek approval process and three public presentations, first of all. Second of all, I turned down the media in inquiries last week and I asked them uh if I could get through August 5th uh if the entity I said I want the entities to be able to um evaluate this and approve or deny it on their own before I start going on the news and doing any type of media relations. I'm sure Dr. Savage feels the same way. I feel more comfortable. Let's just say hypothetically you approved it. Uh it goes back to the city council. Uh they already approved it in a committee a whole. I would assume that they would approve it
029as city council. Plus, they would know that you had approved it at that time. After August 5th is done, I'd be more apt to do media uh interviews uh on August 6th or thereafter and go over all that. Um I don't think uh from a uh student or pupil um learning perspective they would even ever know about it unless maybe kids were out at rec uh not recess in high school um you know physical education uh and you know they saw it leave but if you've seen a drone operate they're they're fairly quiet they're gone in an instant uh and so outside of maybe a crash on the avenue that was and we can do this for traffic crash reconstruction and different things like that. Uh if it just went up and went over, maybe
030they would notice it there. But um you know, I guess the other thing is it might be an opportunity for students to become interested in law enforcement technology. Uh you know, the future of technology is is doubling at a faster rate than anybody ever would have thought of. Um in the last eight years, it's made exponential progress. And so these are going to become uh jobs for for future students. They're going to be, you know, technology is is probably being used and you're probably fighting chat GPT in school and things like that. Maybe it's an opportunity to partner on uh you know, on technology with students. >> I too turned down a media request after the first reading at the city. Um, I typically uh would never speak to the media before the board of
031education has an opportunity to discuss an item such as anou that's up for approval. Um, I wouldn't operate on any sort of assumption before you all have an opportunity to discuss it first. So I think kind of a similar situation once it gets approved all the way through. My intent was to inform the administrators and potentially do a joint press release similar like we did with the changes to the homecoming parade. I think it shows um a strong partnership. I think it shows a strong agreement and help clarify who is responsible for what. and my intent was just to give a talking point sheet to the principles that they could clarify with their staff. Um certainly open to additional action steps, but those were the pieces that I had planned to do. >> And we
032can and just kind of continuing off that once it's operational, we can uh we can deploy that from anywhere there's internet. So theoretically, we would be able to have maybe a demonstration or a classroom, uh, you know, whether it's I don't know what classes you have going on right now, but some sort of tech or some sort of computers or anything like that. We could we could demonstrate it in this room. We could launch it from anywhere that was a a computer screen and and uh demonstrate that and and really, you know, get people interested in avionics or unmanned aerial vehicles, technology, policing. you have the partnership with the area career center and criminal justice program that Mullen students go to. So I think there's a lot of opportunities where we could connect it to
033education. >> Thank you for that. And Dr. Savage, if we as board members could get a copy of those talking points that you're giving your administrators, that would be great. >> Sure. Absolutely. >> Definitely. >> Just more curiosity. as well. So, like do you already have your staff members that are trained, ready to go once this is all approved to deploy and especially if it's available 247 that you have individuals that are are ready to utilize this at any time? >> Yeah. So, interesting that uh if you are current under current law the the prior to our new program, you have to be part 107 certified through the FAA. It's a pretty lengthy process. We have 11 people that are already certified to operate our uh four drones that we have now. Uh under this
034new program under beyond visual line of sight, we get an agency certificate and then we can train uh our staff members inhouse. So in theory, I don't know, we haven't delineated the entire program yet uh on who's going to be trained. I'm going to start with the command staff. So, it's a supervisor that is in charge of it, see how it goes. And we have supervisors at the MO Police Department on duty 247. Uh, we also um have reached out to our dispatch center that controls the 911 thing, 911 calls, uh, to possibly train dispatchers as well. Um, ultimately, it will fly on its own once you enter in a GPS coordinate. Uh, but a human has to be at the screen. uh and then it it the camera flies horizontally and does not record
035until it arrives to the location. So once it arrives to the location, it will point down and then a human has to turn uh recording on. So uh from a perspective of student uh privacy, when that drone is launched, unless the incident was at the school, it's not recording anything on your property. Um, and so then once the drone uh flies to that location and the camera points down, it gets to the GPS coordinate, the human being actually has to physically click a toggle switch on the screen to institute the recording. Um, also just get in the lead weeds a little bit here because it's affiliated with Axon as it's flying uh on the screen. It's augmented reality, meaning that it has Google Maps, it has different layers that lay on top of what you
036see on the screen here. And so even though it's flying horizontally, it's going to display maps. And so you're going to be able to basically see uh satellite image of the of the of where it's going. And then blue lights are going to beam up like Star Trek from wherever there is a police car that has an Axon device in it or a body camera that's on the uniform of a police officer. So um then the drone will know where all the law enforcement resources are in that area and then when it when the camera turns on it will be able to see thermal or uh real life. It'll be able to see what's going on. You'll be able to see like police officers and they'll glow blue with a little blue beacon. And so
037the operator will be like the be able to because it's I tell you what, if you've never tried to navigate from the air, uh it's much different than driving or walking on the ground. Like you could run out of here and you'd know exact I'm running down 52nd Avenue. But if you're aerial to this, you're like, uh, not sure where we're at. Somewhere by South Park Mall, right? It's much different. So, it be able to say, "Oh, that person's on the left." And then it'll have augmented maps on the top of the screen that the person's seeing, right? Be like, "Okay." Because you're looking down, right? And it'll be able to see uh street street lines on that mat on that screen. So, >> awesome. Thank you. That's really Yeah. >> Well, anybody else? >>
038Thank you, Chief. >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Moving on to number four, approval of minutes. Uh I have a motion to approve the minutes of the open session of the regular board of education meeting of June 23rd, 2025. >> Second. >> Uh all in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Uh do we have any public comment? >> No. Moving on to the consent agenda. Recommended motion board of education approve the actions contained in the consent agenda as presented. >> Show move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Jason Frell, >> hi. >> Lindsay Hines. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Laura Sbertson. >> Hi. >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi. >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi. >> Chad Des Smith. >> Hi. Uh number seven, approval of memorandum of of understandings
039between the city of Molen and the Molen Cole Valley School District number 40 for the school city partnership agreement on public safety trail and infrastructure. >> So moved. >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh any discussion hearing? None. Can I have a roll call, please? Lindy Hines. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Laura Severson. >> Hi. >> Audrey Adamson. Hi, >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi, >> Jason Frell. >> Hi, >> Cha Smith. >> I opinion number eight, approval of memorandum of understanding with Project Now Head Start. Recommended motion that the board of education approved the memorandum of understanding between Project Now Head Start and the Mullen Pole Valley School District number 40 for the 2025 2020 26 school year. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. Jeff Mayis. >> Hi. Laura Severson.
040>> Hi >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi >> Jason Frell. >> Hi >> Lie Hines >> Jenta Smith. >> Hi. >> Number nine. Approval Mullen Cole Valley School District strategic pace goals and new set of community commitments. Uh the recommended motion of the board of education approve the Mullen Cole Valley School District's pace goals and new set of community commits. Second. >> Any discussion? Dr. S, any clarification? >> All right. I just want to make sure um everybody should have a copy of these and I did send these to you um a number of days ago so that you would have an opportunity to look at these. Um these are in draft form. So, we have a little bit of time to make any edits or to collect any um last
041minute feedback that you have. Um we have um more goals than we have had before. So we continue to be very ambitious um to continue to push for uh improvement in our district and to continue to take on more and more so that we uh can meet our goals. We have a lot of um multi-year goals this time around that you will see especially three-year goals. Uh there are a number of 2028 goals that we are very excited about. Um and a lot of these uh came directly from the brainstorming session that the board of education had uh back in May. And I hope that you recognize a lot of that language. We worked on these uh for several months and we really spend a lot of time hours and hours on and hours on
042every single word. Um, a lot of these goals come from the data that we have available to us. We're still waiting for our report card data, our IR data to come back. Um, the data comes from the, uh, board of education brainstorming session. We look at our five essentials data. We look at our MAP data and we put it all together. Um, the five the five essentials data that comes from our staff, that comes from our students, that comes from our parents. It all gets put together. Um, I also in this draft form uh wanted to add an additional layer taking the feedback from the board of education this past spring and wanted to really clarify sort of the um type of goal that each that each one is from a quantitative goal to a
043qualitative goal to which one uh is actually a work product. So you'll see that additional layer to each one as well. So, apart from reading every single one aloud to you, I just wanted to open it up for any comments or any questions that you might have for any additional clarification. You also have an acronym sheet for the first people goal out there at your um tables. So, any questions on our draft pay schools? Ideally, I would like to um have these uh finalized by um hopefully next week so that we can get our new posters ordered and get ready to roll these out to our staff and administrators, our all administrator welcome back uh session is August 5th. And that's really the timeline that we have to to begin launching these for the new
044school year. But I'd like to have this opportunity for a final review from the board of education. So, I'd like to open that up for any feedback or questions that you might have. >> Dr. Savage, maybe one question on the environment. Um, the discipline referrals, those those two programs, are those externally develop, you know, owned and developed and that we're utilizing them within our district or did we develop those in house? >> No, they are absolutely externally developed. They are um national uh programs um widely uh successful and used across the country. Um we had some school improvement dollars and we're very excited to be able to bring these programs into our district. Uh they come with a strong professional development package and this is part of our um Lincoln Irving Willard um combination bringing
045the staff together and bringing a new system to those schools was really the launch of that as well as um the improvements that we're making to the Aspire program as well. So great questions. Thank you. I noticed that the um it was in the agenda for tonight for approval of ECRA um as a data tool for the district. All of the quant quantitative measures there are they um measures that we will see being utilized in that data set that you guys are purchasing from ECRA. So we definitely are going to expand our relationship with ECRA and use them as our learning partner with our uh 103 school improvement dollars. Uh we have an existing relationship with them. They help us with our report card analysis and our comparative analysis that we started last year to
046look at our performance up against 10 different districts that um are similar to us in demographic. So we have that base relationship and then we also are using them for our multilingual cohort as well. And so yes, they are going to begin to help us to strategically look at our performance data in deeper ways than we have before. So they are going to help us with some of this analysis and train our principles. They're coming in actually to provide some professional development in August and September to help our principles to be able to uh understand deeper analysis to promote that improvement as well. So you're absolutely right. >> Thank you. And then my second question is is there an opportunity um under the people goal to include students as a part of that stakeholder committee
047on um the plan for implementation of AI um especially at the high school level. I believe that um last year Aaron's um daughter was um an exemplar in showing us that our students really are thoughtful when it comes to their own learning. So, if there could be some consideration of opening up, you know, a version of that for students to give impact um input on that, that would be great. >> Absolutely. We hope to have representation from all of our stakeholder groups, and this is really a function of the new legislation from Isby. ISBY, as you know, is having a statewide committee. this law that was passed for them to create a statewide committee to create this new statewide guidance and uh we are getting ready to sort of mirror that at the local level
048but yes having representation from every stakeholder group I think will be important uh for the people in regarding the asen sort of programmatic uh pieces is that the hope that some of those be implemented this year or more of the planning components um of that I guess in terms terms of the timeline of achieving >> ideally both. It's going to take us some time to begin to put this together. We really need to look at the personnel. We really need to look at developing the program. We've got some ideas from other school districts. Um learned a lot this summer actually at the model schools conference. Um, I was able to visit with some folks in other states that are doing this work and helped me to figure out how to put some of this work
049together and how to look at staff in different ways. You know, our high school counselors have a huge huge case load and there's this constant battle between academic advising and counseling and how can we utilize our high school staff to do more with less. Right? So I spent some time with Chris Moore this summer and took a deep dive into looking at that and it might even come down to looking at this from a completely different way and and approaching this. So ideally it might take us the first semester to kind of build the plane and develop this in hopes by spring we can start um start to implement. So ideally both. Thank you. >> Anybody else? I have a roll call, please. >> Laura Cersonson. >> Hi. >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi. >> Ramona
050Dixon. >> Hi. >> Jason Ferrell. >> Hi. >> Lindsay Hines. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Jeta Smith. >> Hi. >> Okay. Moving on to number 10. Approval of the first reading of updated board of education policy 2260, the informed regent procedure and 22 265, title 9 g procedure. Recommended motion is that the board of education accepts first reading the updated board of education policies 2260 uniform grievance procedure and 2265 title 9 g procedure as presented. >> So move. I would like to Are we waving? Yes. Yes. >> I would like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to stand for both first and second reading. >> Second. >> Okay. Um so we've got a motion and a second to wave the second reading. Um any discussion? >> I have a roll
051call, please. >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi. D N D N D N D N D N D N D N D N D N D Nixon. >> Hi, >> Jason Ferrell. >> Hi, >> Lindsay Hines. >> Jeff Mayus, >> hi >> Laura Seerson. >> Hi, >> Vic Smith. >> Hi. >> Okay. Number 11, approval of first reading of updated board of education policies for section 5 personnel. Recommended motion that the board of education accept for first reading or revised board of education policies for personnel section 560 expenses as presented. >> Go ahead. I would like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to stand for both the first and second reading. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Hearing none. I have roll call, please. >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi. >> Jason Ferrell.
052>> Hi. >> Lindsay Hines. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Laura Severson. >> Hi. >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi. >> Ch Smith. >> Hi. >> Number 12. Approval of first reading of revised board of education policy 510 equal employment opportunity and minority recruitment. Recommended motion that the board of education accept for first reading the revised board of education policy 510 equal employment opportunity and minority recruitment as presented. >> I'd like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to stand for both the first and second reading. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Uh hearing none. I have a roll call, please. >> Jason Frell, >> hi >> Lindseay Hines. Hi, >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi, >> Laura Severson. >> Hi, >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi, >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi, >> Jenta Smith. >>
053Hi. >> Right. Number 13, approval of first reading of revised board of education policy 520, workplace harassment prohibited. Recommended motions of the board of education accept for first reading the revised board of education policy 520, workplace harassment prohibited as presented. I would like to play the second reading and allow the first reading to see both first and second reading. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. >> Lindsay Hines. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Laura Severson. >> Hi. >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi. >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi. >> Jason Perrell. >> Hi. >> Jet Smith. >> Hi. >> Number 14. Approval of first reading of revised board of education policy 5100 staff development program. Recommended motions that the board of education accept the first reading of the revised board of education policy
0545100 staff development program as presented. >> Like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to stand for both the first and second reading. >> Second. >> Uh any discussion? >> There's a roll call, please. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Laura Severson. >> Hi. >> Audrey Adamson. Hi >> Ramona Dixon. >> I >> Jason Frell. >> Hi. >> Lindsay Hines. >> Jack Smith. >> Hi. >> Okay. Number 15. Approval of first reading of updated board policies for section six instruction. Recommend a motion that the board of education accepts for first reading the revised board of education policy 6150 home and hospital instruction 6 and 6310 high school credit for non-district experiences course substitutions re-entering students as presented >> I would like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to
055stand for both first and second reading >> second discussion roll call Laura Severson. >> Hi >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi >> Jason Ferrell. >> Hi >> Rosie Hines >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi >> Ch Smith. >> Hi. >> Uh number 16 approval of first reading of updated board of education policy access to electronic networks. Recommend a motion that the board of education accepts with first reading the updated board of education policy 6235 access to electronic networks as presented. >> I'd like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to stand for both the first and second reading. >> Second discussion. >> Just one question on this one in terms of the optional subheading. I know that is existing on this one. Is there anything I mean as we
056move forward with some of our conversations as part of the PACE goals or anything that we will be adding because then the next one that we're we'd be approving is also the district's boards who are choosing to adopt the use of artificial intellig I guess on so we're at the 62 351 >> yeah that AI field was added in response that was why it was all by itself there was a new section >> just wanted to make sure it was correctly >> y >> thank Uh, any other discussion? >> Uh, roll call, please. >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi. >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi. >> Jason Ferrell. >> Hi. >> Lindsay Hines. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Laura Severson. >> Hi. >> Chet Smith. >> Hi. >> Okay. Number 17, approval of first reading of
057updated board of education policies for section 7 students. Recommended motions that the board of education accept for first reading the updated board of education policies 750 school admissions and student transfers to and from non-dist schools and 7340 student records as presented. >> I would like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to stand for both the first and the second reading. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Ramona Dixon. >> I. Jason Ferrell. >> Hi, >> Lindsay Hines. >> Jeff Mayus, >> hi >> Laura Severson. >> Hi, >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi, >> Jetta Swift. >> Hi. >> And number 18, approval of first reading of revised board of education policy 760 residents. Recommend motion that the board of education accept for first reading the revised board of education
058policy 760 residents as presented. >> I would like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to stand both first and second reading. second. >> Uh any discussion? >> So just just for clarity purposes, this out of all the policies tonight, I noted that this was the only one that had a local level change in it and you guys just eliminated that option one as it wasn't something that was applicable to our students. That that correct? Because everything else was just footnot underlines and everything. But this was one that we felt the need to eliminate. Number one, which was something that alluded to um paying >> allow allowing students in tuition free. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. Because um our board um last year had chosen to um not adopt the policy to
059allow students to um out of boundary students to enter in tuition free. So that was eliminated to not pose a conflict. Okay. Any other discussion >> hearing? None. Have a roll call, please. >> Jason Perrell. >> Hi. >> Lie Hines. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Laura Severson. >> Hi. >> RJ Adamson. >> Hi. >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi. >> Cha Smith. >> Hi. >> Okay. Number 19. Approval of first reading of updated board of education policy 770, student attendance and truency. >> Recommended motion. >> Sorry. I'd like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to stand for both the first and second reading. >> Spell second. >> All right. Any discussion? >> Hearing none. Can I have a roll call, please? >> Lindseay Hines. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Laura
060Severson. >> Hi. >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi. >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi. >> Jason Ferrell. >> Hi. >> Jeta Smith. >> Hi. >> All right. Number 20. Uh student recommended motion of the board of education accept for first reading the updated board of education policy 7190 student behavior as presented. >> I would like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to stand for both first and second reading. >> Second. Any discussion? >> Hearing none, please. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Laura Severson. >> Hi. >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi. >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi. >> Jason Perrell. Hi, >> Lindsay Hines. Chad to Smith. >> Hi. >> 21. The recommended motion that the board of education accept for first reading the updated board of education policies 7200 suspension procedures and 7210 expulsion
061procedures as presented. >> I would like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to stand for both the first and the second reading. >> Second. >> Uh any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. >> Laura Severson. >> Hi. >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi. >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi. >> Jason Perrell. >> Hi. >> Lindsay Hines. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Des Smith. >> Hi. >> Okay. Number 22. You recommend a motion that the board of education accept for first reading the updated board of education policy 7250 student support services as presented. >> I would like to wave the second reading and allow the first reading to stand for both the first and second reading. >> Second. Uh discussion >> hearing none. Add roll call please. >> Art Adamson. Hi. >> Ramona
062Dixon. Hi. >> Jason Frell. Hi. >> Lindsay Hines. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Laura Severson. >> Hi. >> Ch Smith. >> Hi. >> Okay. Number 23. The recommended motion that the board of education accept for first reading to adopt the new board of education policy 7255. Students who are parents, expectant parents, or victims of domestic or sexual violence as presented. So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussion? >> I would say because this is a new policy and stuff, I think it makes sense for us to maybe take a little bit more time to look it over those have not had a chance to do so. It's a big one. >> Yeah. And it like everything else that preceded this, it included that new code. So we had already approved some of those other
063components of it. So, >> I'm very comfortable with it because it's just ensuring that that well-rounded education is taken in consideration. >> But yes, we can hold on. Yeah, that's what you all do. >> All right. Anything else? I have a roll call, please. Ramona Dixon. >> Uh, wait a minute. So, what are we deciding? >> Uh, so this is just going to move it to a second reading. >> Okay. Okay. Perfect. I >> uh Jason Perrell. >> Hi, >> Lindsay Hines. Jeff Mayus. >> Hi, >> Laura Severson. >> Hi, >> RJ Adamson. >> Hi, >> J Smith. >> Hi. >> Okay. 24. Recommend a motion to the board of education accept for first reading to update his board of education policies 7310 restrictions on publication elementary schools and 7315 restrictions on publications high schools
064as presented. I would like to wave the second reading and allow the first readings to stand for both first and second reading. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Hearing none. And I have a roll call, please. >> Jason Perrell, >> hi. >> Lindsey Hines. >> Jeff Mayus. >> Hi. >> Laura Severson. >> Hi. >> Audrey Adamson. >> Hi. >> Ramona Dixon. >> Hi. >> Ja Smith. >> Hi. >> Okay. Now on to reports, requests, and open discussion. Uh Dr. that. >> All right, I have a few other notes, but before that, we have a proposal for approving new policies. After you just approved two and a half pages of policies, you'll be happy to know that the new press update just came out. So, isn't that exciting? Um, I actually have to give credit where
065credit is due back there. Aaron Turstrip um had a wonderful idea and I think it makes a lot of sense. So most of these policies that you approve have very minor changes. They come to us from press. They have a footnote change. They have a very minor change such as a one-word change, a grammatical change, or something of that sort. Or it is simply a five-year review and they have to just update the date. So I would say a good chunk if not three4s of these most of these are simply that. So Aaron had a great suggestion to take all of those and put them in one board letter in one recommended motion, one agenda item. And what we would do as a proposal with your permission is we would number them. So let's say
066there were 17 press policies that fit under this footnote five-year review minor change and we would number them 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and we would again put them in one board letter one agenda item so that if you had one that you wanted to pull another great suggestion talking through some of this a little bit with Audrey in advance if you had one that you wanted to pull similar similar to how we do with items in the consent agenda. It would be very easy to pull that one out and make it its own separate agenda item so that there wouldn't be a need to list them all out separately and moreover wouldn't be a need to write 27 27 different separate board letters that are basically repeating what's in this press update.
067and this press update could be attached in board book. So that's our proposal and something that we would like to do if you're comfortable with that. And then obviously for the new policies that are completely new legislation and we did have some of those they would proceed in the similar way. So looking for feedback on that proposal. So I think that will work with the >> footnotes, the strikethroughs, the underlines. If you just gave us a blanket one that said these are, >> you know, 6 col 50, you know, all of that >> and then if we had a separate line item within the agenda for new policies, >> so footnotes, updates, >> check, and then new policies. new polic new policies would continue to be their own separate item. >> So we just have
068one basically like almost like a consent agenda item just for the >> the press policies that have very little change. >> Yeah. I I >> as long as it's a non-issue with everybody else. I don't have an issue with it. It's a lot less reading 27th agenda. >> And I and I love the idea of being able to pull one if you wanted to discuss it further. I think that makes sense. >> This would also include not just new ones but ones that we know also have significant change or something that is Yeah. So just >> have that summary of like ensuring the this you know basically the change is the insurance student success law like >> correct all about you know and that could be >> you know quote right parentheses down like the
069same same >> right. So any policy identified as new or that is complex in any way would be a se continue to be a separate agenda item and then you as the board of education could make that determination if you wanted a first reading a second reading or however you wanted to do it. But any of these that meets these three criteria, a footnote, a minor change, or a five-year review, we would make one agenda item numbered out kind of like a consent. That's a great analogy and then you could you could pull those as you wish. So we could try it for this next press update. Um if that's something that you would like to try even though you just did a bangup job reading all of those separately. >> Is there this might
070be a stretch but is there a way that with that particular consent consent item that all the because you'll still have to provide us the uh the actual drafts of the board policy. would you still because the board agendas during these times are like a like 200 pages. It's like another addit. So is there a way of putting those board um agenda items? You know how when you board book when you click that button put the um agenda item behind that >> is that could just be in one they all be together >> and if we didn't want to print them they yeah we would have like >> just one PDF animal is one PDF >> 120 >> perfect good suggest >> good job Aaron >> thanks >> thank Couple of other notes. Um, registration
071day uh was on July 22nd was a great success at the PE center. We have a lot of new students, so we're certainly excited to uh see our numbers come through on the first day of school. Um, it was a great uh another great amazing partnership with our Molen Police Department giving out free school supplies. We had free haircuts and school health link was there providing physicals and immunizations for families and students. Um, also want to give a shout out to the entire district administrative team and all of our principles and support staff who were there executing this very well organized event. We will have a makeup registration day that will be being promoted out very soon, if not already on August 5th, and that'll be another opportunity for families to um do what they
072need to do to get their kids ready for the first day of school. Um, today we hosted our very first ever new administrator induction day. We have 11 leaders that are new to their positions. Six are current district employees and five are new to the district. It was a full day of onboarding with each district department um as well with their administrative mentor that they received. Um we had 16 Molen High School students participate in our summer CNA certification program taught by two of our nurses, Don Carneahan and Rachel Adams. and we're very excited to host our very first ever pinning ceremony on August 4th at 5:00 pm in the BPAC lobby. So, we're very excited about that. Um, another item we learned today that the remaining federal funds that were initially frozen uh due
073to programmatic review at the federal level are now slated to be released to school districts. Uh this is great news and so potentially our allocations for title two and title three that we had been yet to receive are now anticipated to come through. So we're waiting for uh further guidance uh from ISBY on this, but it's certainly a great sign. We had been sort of in a a holding pattern on this and we're we're at least happy to to hear some good news and some movement on this. Uh that is very good news for our school district. Um, each year the Illinois State Board of Education hosts its board of its board meetings outside of their boardroom a couple of times a year and meets in school districts around the state. And this school year,
074the Molen Co Valley School District has been selected to host one of their meetings. So, the ISBY board meeting hosted in Molen will take place in March and it will be quite the event. It'll be a multi-day event. It'll include district presentations to the state board, a leadership lunch for district school leaders, board of education members, student leaders. Um there will be school visits and a lot of pomp and circumstance. Um a representative from Isby has already been here visiting our district office to look at our um meeting location um and was very impressed. So, I'm not sad that I didn't have to take this individual to Allenale. Um, I think it would have been quite a different story. Um, but she was very impressed with this space and all of the additional meeting uh
075and breakout spaces that they will need. Um, and I think it's going to be a great event. I look forward to keeping you informed as more details emerge. However, one detail that I'm aware of now is that we will likely need to move our own March Board of Education meeting as it will happen right around that same time. Um, our March board meeting, I believe, is scheduled for the 9th and so it's going to be right around that time. So, I think right after winter break when we come back, we can start looking at potential dates to move our meeting. um their event will be at about a 2 and 1/2 day event right around that time period. And so um I will uh send dates to you and more information on how you can
076be involved if you like. But they look to invite uh community leaders uh legislators and uh it'll be uh quite an interesting event and bring a lot of um positive light to our community and I'm very excited about that. Um, a few other items. Our school district will also be hosting the Illinois Schoolboard Association Blackhawk Division event in September. I think they just sent out a save the date event if you guys saw that. Now, Jason has been involved in that event as well. Um, typically the event uh consists of a catered meal, a guest speaker, some professional development opportunities, and network networking with other school board members in our region. um our district will will receive a credit for a free professional development session with ISB as well. So if you recall I think
077last year a representative came and did a session with our board. So we'll have an opportunity to do something like that again and so further planning will take place but that event will be here September 16th. So more details to come on that as well. Jason, anything else you you know about that? Usually when they do these events, it's a chance to really show off our district. It's a great chance to student leaders are usually at the whatever school it's being held at. They're doing tours of the high school or whatever building it's held in. Um there's usually a really beautifully carried meal. There's I mean it's it's a big deal. It's a good chance for us to show up and so uh I think it's a great chance for us to probably do some
078kind of unveiling of the the new football field would be a nice chance to do something with the margin of the football field since there's so much time being put into that right now. um this this place, our high school, we got a lot of options. And so I think this is something that I take pretty seriously as a way to to show what Mullen's doing, especially in the Luda area for this and and then get some ideas that I go to all these and I steal ideas from other schools. So hopefully we can give those ideas take back to their schools as well. >> Very good. So we will post that as a board activity on the evening of September 16th. Um, and if you want to mark that date and we look forward
079to more uh planning. And then lastly, the city of Molen is hosting a familyfriendly party in the park at Browning Field on the evening of August 5th. You might have heard something about that. Um, that is also the evening of our makeup registration day. So, Candace and I are going to uh take over the booth at that event. We want to make sure that our school district is present and represented at Party in the Park. There are over 35 community um organizations that will be represented. Um it'll be uh from 5:30 to 7:30. There'll be live music, food, kids activities, lots of giveaways. And so we look forward to representing our district at that community event as well. And again, that's the evening of August 5th. So that's what I have for you tonight, Mr.
080Chad. >> Uh we have no student board members present. Uh, do any board members have anything to discuss? >> Uh, yeah. I I know we got an email about it. I just want to make a just public statement as well. Um, Mike Miliser, you know, uh, tragically passed in a car accident uh, last week and so he was a project manager in a lot of jobs here in our district uh, including the Browning Field uh, project. uh Centennial and Jamie there are doing a great job with the followup and all of that, but uh Mike leaves behind two children who are phenomenal and his wife. Uh the visitation is Thursday at the Believer Center at Christ the King from 9 to 11 and they'll be about an hour break and then the funeral. So obviously
081I'll be there, but anybody else from the district is there to pay their respects. That's a chance to do that for someone whose you know kind of fingerprint is on our district right now. Thank you. >> I said so you said August 5th is party at the park that because she thoughts here you might be able to I believe that is also the national night out. >> It is correct. Yes. >> Okay. So just two I didn't know timing and other stuff so people could bounce between two fun >> well my events but >> yes it is. >> So >> it's a competition >> of course. >> So just check I was like I I know something else is happening that evening. So, okay. So, I think the party in the park, Candace, isn't that
082the city? Who's putting that on? Is that the city? >> It's Yeah, moling parks. >> Oh, their event sponsored by, I believe, a credit union. >> Yeah. So, talk to them, chief. >> All right. >> Hey, registration's pretty. >> Yeah. Yeah. Registration's going to be come to that. >> Three parties to attend. >> You have to get ready for that news interview. >> Yeah, there you go. Proposal back. That's right. >> I might be too busy. >> I just want to comment. I know I spoke to you about this. Hopefully maybe we'll have some students come present um in the future. But I know so my um son Grant is participating in the you know Molen school district city of Molen internship program this summer and I know um Erin's daughter Rowan has participated in
083that. Um and just what an amazing sort of of thing. I mean he's got he's at the wastewater treatment. I haven't talked to him yet today so I don't know how that was. Maybe that wasn't as amazing. Maybe it's not. I don't know. But um but yeah, but he's spent, you know, five weeks now already exploring things in the city. And so just I think the school district we should be really proud of creating those partnerships. And in light of that too, I know that um we have the new position starting this fall then with Todd um last name. I'm forgetting Bimma. >> Bimma. Thank you. Um in terms of hopefully uh creating even some more of those sorts of uh you know hands-on high impact sorts of experiences that our students can have. So
084just wanted to put a shout out. But I think the district and people planning those things are doing amazing things. So, thank you. >> Anybody else? Okay. Um, can I have a close session? Correct. Can I have a motion to go into close session to consider the purchase of or lease of real property and to consider setting a price setting of a price for sale or lease of district property? >> So move. Second. All in favor? Oh, but we did get separate spaces. >> Yeah. So, >> I'm from small town. So, it's popular. Hang on just one second. Can be a Can I have a motion to return to open session? Second. >> All in favor? I >> Okay. Uh recommend a motion that the board of education approve the designation of the Allenale property
085located at 1619 11th Avenue, Mold, Illinois as excess property and to authorize Vince Gallow, chief financial officer to initiate and carry out the approved legal process of the sale in accordance with applicable statutes. Second. >> Uh, any discussion? >> And the roll call, please. >> Laura Severson, >> hi. >> Andy, or excuse me, Audrey Adamson, >> hi. >> Ramona Dixon, >> hi. >> Jason Ferrell, >> hi. >> Lizzy Hines, >> Jeff Mayus, >> hi >> J Smith. >> I Okay. And uh, now I have a motion to adjurnn. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> All right.