3.12.2025 Facilities and Regular BOE Meeting

001I but I I I to all right it is 5:30 on Wednesday March 12th I'm going to call this facilities meeting to order um I do not believe we have any public comment so moving right along Dr G so I want um I want to kind of give everybody an update because as we approach the summer I want to kind of start aligning some of our summer product just together I also kind of want to make sure everybody um is on the same page of where we're at especially with the expenditures and things like that are happening and so in reality there's two facilities that we're looking to address over the summer that have needs that um need to be addressed and so the first one is uh the high school so you have three

002things here at the high school that and I put them on your on your agenda in order of which we probably need to get them addressed the first one I don't think Nathan brought it um the plumbing so our supply lines currently are from 1952 pretty original yeah galvanized steel supply lines um a few weeks ago one of them created a leak so they had to replace it well the problem is with uh was it 70 years of corrosion as soon as you put that on and you try to beat it off with a a pip wrench all of that corrosion then seeps into everything else and we basically had black water until we washed it all out before the kids got there now the good news is but good as you do it all

003goes close to the staff bathroom because that's the the the final spot problem is we have another leak so um they're not going to replace that portion of the pipe they're going to do like the old submarine clamps um for for the time being however that is that is a very big b a very small Band-Aid on a very big wound so in reality we need to replace the supply lines from Bo room all the way to these bathrooms rough estimated by acual Plumbing about $100,000 that is for two two and a half inch supply lines that run about 200 feet through the pel tunnels and that and they have to take out the old one because they have to hang them in the tunnels you can't just lay it on the ground obviously um

004so we would have to bid that out hopefully 100,000 is high but if 100,000 is high then realistic 880,000 is still a big number and that's that's best case scenario so that's something that has to get done um the more we kick that can down the road the worse is going to get cuz we are going to start having more and more issues the second one um it hasn't been as big of an issue this year but as spring rolls around and we get more uh uh storms last year was a problem so the brick facade on this side of the building a little bit at the elementary so as I explained this um I'm not meing to offend anybody but I'm going try my best so this is your brick your your brick wall

005okay brick is obviously porous and so what you do is is when you when you design buildings you create a channel that goes between brick wall and sidewall and that channel takes all the water as it goes through the brick and then it finds a weeping hole and sends it right back outside which is a great idea when you have it as a long-term idea and you don't use aluminum tape to hold together the um channels so what has happened we don't know where but we have those aluminum tape has somewhere broken away and so if it if it rains hard enough from the East that wall just gets bombarded with rain and so water immediately goes through gets onto a channel and then it finds its way and it starts weeping through and we'll

006always get water in the athletic hallway because it finds the I beam water finds the way and it drips through there so every time it rains really hard we probably have trash cans out there not enough water to where it's creating damage but it's enough water where every single day every single time we're like hey now the solution we're hoping for is uh Nate's going to contact a Mason uh a masonry person and we're looking to actually get those bricks sealed now they say it's not the best idea because when you seal the brick it doesn't allow for it for water to go through instead it's going to go straight onto the roof right now I need a water to stop going through my brick option b which I cannot recommend and I hope nobody

007would want this is to basically rip off the side of the wall and find out where the tracking is broken um otherwise there's not a good solution you either you either rip the wall apart to find out where this aluminum tape is broken and you fix the tracking which is lots and lots and lots of money or we try to see if sealing this and then maybe we engage with um a roofing company to make sure they pitch it just a little bit more so when it does hit that brick wall it comes down and it gets funnel a little bit better I can't promise you sealing the brick cuz it I mean the best you can do is the best you can do but I can't promise sealing it is still going to stop

008it but hopefully at least minimizes enough to where as it travels it evaporates or it stops and it doesn't leak as bad and that's the side on the end right that's that's the East Side yes back or the and like if we were ever to add on we would add on to that wall so it's the second story so the the the uh basically the side of the gym is that the side of the gym Mike like where the green hous is and things like that no for come this way on top of the um on top of the science science Wing So if we ever need to add on that's the wall we would be adding on and knocking out or whatever correct to the gym yeah or you would add it on top

009of the science SP yes if you're looking to a second floor and then it would probably address I mean I don't for see that anytime near near future but as far as you're talking about redoing it if we do have to add on it's going to be taken out anyway yes so that's even if this is a simple fix it's probably eventually going to be taken down in or eventually adding on it may be 5 10 15 20 years but yeah I I mean Miss Black will still be here but I'll probably charge um but I mean how long would that do they have an idea of like how long would that last is that something you have to this sounds this sounds bad I shouldn't as superintendent in it but I'm I'm I'm an

010open book I can't promise you this is going to actually fix the problem but it's the next thing that we can try cu the allowing it to continue just happened is is not helping us out we thought that it was the roofing problem we thought it was a weeping problem we got both of those fixed when t uh total Roofing came out and did the um the flood issues they looked at it they addressed it we we thought it was a cocking issue they've reced everything we thought it was a flashing issue they reflashed it we I mean everything we could think of we we've tried and now it's to a point where we now have to see if it's not just the brick itself how much does a steel cost that we haven't looked

011into yet but I just kind of want to give you guys a heads up I can't imagine it's we're not talking hundreds or tens of thousands of dollars just and maybe a couple grand um but when that comes up I just want you guys to be aware and then how long like is that something that we would have to consistently reeal because then it wears or so those are questions to ask when phenomenal question um well then the other question would be what could be the negatives of that like you said if it's good to have the thing yeah I don't want to do this and then trade it for bigger issues like Foundation or something like that your big negative is going to be you're now the water you're going to have now have

012more water that originally would go through the the Brick and be tranel through is now stopping dropping down Foundation which we've already gutter or something yeah or something okay yeah so we've had people look at this and we've tried to repair it before so this is just the next step in in problem solving yeah this was actually originally with Mike sta we engaged uh toal Roofing dided a couple different options for us they they were always really good about trying something out I mean they were open they're like we're not sure if this work but you know we're going to give it a shot and hopefully this fixes it uh we've tried and then Nathan took over and just hasn't done anything with it sorry I take it back Nathan's done a great job is

013it causing sorry I for there's camera on is it causing any damage the at this time okay I mean it damages some ceiling tiles that's it's a downpour sideways rain but if it's a drizzle or something there's nothing going on in the okay like this Friday when we're supposed to get a big storm on Friday but the last storm that we got anything so that so then we're heading garbage cans ketchup the water when the kids are in the hallway and that's so so that it's not just the ground so it's not just dripping onto the ground well yeah but still you know so and then the last one um uh it's another one the original price we got was 17 grand and I and Nathan and I agree it's probably not the right number

014um so in the again not a big need but in the small gym old Den as as slay would have called it but um in the old gym the units that provide heat are obviously suspended in the air and I know we have at least one hbac expert here um we all know that heat rises so in the winter time when it gets super cold that's kicking out 90 95° air that's staying on the roof staying on the top and so it never really comes down so what Nathan and I have looked into and Nathan may have found a better solution is kind of like at the at the Den there's a massive fan that pushes the air down what Nate is suggesting is getting smaller fans that actually go up into the rafters right

015by the um the output of the unit and just having it blow down that way so you you have you had a look so so in hopes that that would then so he obviously he would come it would then Sky likee your house it would push you down and then you would circul cold air up um so I think the big expense there is just running there's not power at the in the roof of the old gym um so that's kind of of something we're going to look at but not anything that needs to be addressed until a potential summer or potential winter U but the most important thing is notifying the the committee and I guess the boards since you're out here um that plumbing is going to need to be bit out I'm

016not happy about it but it is what it is it's a 70y old building well and that's the problem when you start updating things you start figuring out oh well if you update this then you have to update that it just kind of roles unfortunately any questions about the high school um the plumbing is that something that can get done in the summer yes I yeah I I wasn't sure what we already had like booked through the summer because usually that's booked out the only thing we have here is we're getting the doors done in the summer through the Mish Grant oh um it's not on here but Mr hurling said probably next week you'll be out here trenching for the lights over so that should be coming out pretty soon it's just going to

017be oh no it be any well you still have the cafeteria bathrooms someone will be here just Cas it is we'll approve you a p app so then the next one is the elementary school Windows plumbing and playground yep all right so here's the update on that one um again and again I put them in order of um as a superintendent of matter of importance to me in what I think needs to be done so the windows um you have all new HVAC in the entire uh Elementary area and if you drive by the elementary and simply look at that third floor second floor however we want to designate that I mean you it's part of the board with some shingling over top of it it's it's an atrocity so I had the Architects look

018at it first their number came back at 170 to get those windows replaced um Nathan had a just a a window I might have been the same people that fixed the windows at the junior high Forest might be the same company uh look at it 100,000 from him so and that is so that second number was taking all the windows that were that you could open and breaking it into thirds you have two nine one you can open two n one you can open so there's still some um so that helped it out and then they're putting um it's no long right now if you look at it there's still that was about 2 feet of particle board they would do a metal flashing over that instead make it a more permanent thing instead of

019wood would have f um but we I had hoped to get Windows the whole way but you know we got to save money somehow so if that's something we're losing money because of that because of the windows we are I mean it is what it is so that would have to be bit out um so that's kind of your big project at the elementary along with that going on to the plumbing um one of the biggest issues in terms of bathrooms at the elementary is the second floor bath the second floor I mean it's just it's a hot mess um it does have the new floor one side those bathrooms um we're starting to have problems now with the the pipes backing up because again they're suspended they're 70-year-old pipes and you can't really Reign

020them um during the school year so what we need to do is we need to have a plumbing company come on and basically re we're hoping that they can Rod them but there's a high likelihood that if you Rod a pipe that's 70 some years old it ain't sticking together so we're probably going to have to get that that process fixed also we need to update the bathroom itself I mean it's it's concrete floors it's uh the Stalls are just old the toilets are old um so that might be a secondary project at the elementary this is separate from the plumbing that because we're doing the plumbing in the first floor still yes this is separate than the toilets that are being replaced um those those are more just we want to make sure that

021we have self going down toilets this is a completely different entity and then go ahead do we have any idea about um you have you heard are they still going to do that maintenance Grant again next year so that comes around every year 50 yeah it's 50,000 matching Grant um so yeah that's okay so maybe that could cover I mean there's stuff we have to get done this summer but you were talking about updating the bathrooms or yeah yeah that's that that 100% true and then the third thing on there is the playground um I know I approach the subject uh probably a year ago with the board made them aware of the the Dirt Pile that's out there and um I know it's grabbing some more traction again um so Nathan did a measurement

022for PTO PTO had someone go and look at it they wanted to rubberize the floor um the guy actually called Nathan back and informed him it's about one $120,000 do that 160 that does not include a requirement for the school to then go in and excavate 10 in of ground to lay six 6 in of rock as a base before they can pour the rubber eyes and as respectfully as I can say it I understand wholeheartedly that I don't want my kids playing in third I just gave you guys about $300,000 of things that need to be fixed I can't rationalize $75,000 for rubber rice Brown um I will continue to engage and explore options um is this in place of like the mulchit there or what so actual ground this goes around the mulch

023so it's kind I if as I understand if you go to like the like a town playground and you walk on it it's like real soft rubbery so they're replacing anything that's dirt with that the multi area State mul areas and I just found out today Nate point for me they can't do it on Hills so even the hill that's there you're still running on some grass and then well that and I would think that did they say anything about having more issues with water with being a hill and the water going and molding cuz I know that's an issue too if the water gets under there and then it molds and then you have that issue of allergies and things like that because when they step on it little mold spores are popping up

024and I would hate to spend 7,000 I'm just thinking of the rain like if it's supposed to be that way and we excavate and flatting it you could potentially be flooding playground or the building yeah if you really change that landscape did the I know has the retaining wall helped it all yeah there's no cor no erosion so far I mean it's we put it in in the fall but so far it's it's better the grass came back real quick in front of there too so it's helped some I mean it's not great but it's getting better slowly but shortly and again if you want to make it I'm not suggesting this but I will say it so it's on the public record the superintendent did say this if you want to make it aesthetically

025pleasing you can kind of do what you do with the soccer field you can build a retaining wall to that way you cut away the erosion and you put grass there you keep kids off it for two months you install a sprinkler system and you grow grass there problem is watch Wimbleton grass grass when you run on It Go goed it's a thing my opinion you're wasting money but at least it's going to look pretty for a little bit and there's no there's no good way around this I mean it's it's just aad I mean the other option is concreting and all say that kind concrete or asphalt but that's just more dangerous Miss Black has an opinion on this no I was just going to say even um trying to receed it that's happened

026twice since I've been there and we've kept kids off of it all summer and it hasn't yeah within a week or a month of them playing and I'm not saying that we wouldn't but we probably have to do like the highest quality grass seed that there is and keep the kids off there for like an entire school year for it to you know what I mean grow I mean you just think every recess 450 K I mean every single day for hours at a time yeah the sum now that baseball season's starting that's where all the young playing and stuff yeah so what I'm saying is I'm not ignoring it guys I really am not I I know there's a problem there but there are so many higher needs that I have to fix in

027this District yeah all due respect I got to allocate money that we have to to to problems that are going to stop us from having school and having no water supply at the high school is a significant problem blowing money out the window literally because we have holes in the side of our buildings is a problem um I know those aren't aesthetically pleasing things as a taxpayer I get it if you flip houses you don't see it but I mean when 7-year-old things they fall apart that's my old man my dad's 70 he's falling apart don't mean it Dad he he doesn't watch these all right um seal coating uh yep so every year we've we' we've created a nice little cycle um and Nate's going to make sure that I say this right so

028this year we have the high school drive which we will be reinstalling the angled parking excuse me we have the elementary superintendent ding elementary teacher lot and then we're going to address some of the again hatching at the junior high and then we're going to have whoever does some estimates for us assess us and whether or not they believe that can wait another year and have that on next year or if we I'm just going to say you need to do it but uh kind of do a formal assessment of whether or not we should do it this year or not um so probably have those estimates I would guess April to approve we probably won't have I'm sorry not April May you probably won't have them next month um but just want to give

029you guys that's the cycle we're going with um so yeah strategic Plan update so this fly through this um so if you remember back in 2023 it might have been what was that second year superintendent um I provided you guys the the district strategic plan it was 3 through 28 um so believe it or not I do pull it out on occasion I kind of review it to see where we're at because again I want the goal is by 2028 it's not it's not 2025 it's 2028 however if you look at the facilities aspect of it out of the 16 items that we have listed on there that the board approved back in 2023 2022 we've done 13 of the 16 which is significant um we are way ahead of schedule um and so twofold

030one I want to make sure you guys understand we are doing things it the ship turns slowly but we are doing stuff around here we're not just sitting on things we're not sitting on money we're trying our best to improve the things we need to improve but secondly um over the next year or so um I'll do respect Larry not with with Larry on the board because I'll need a new board member to kind of make that plan moving forward um or Miss I don't get political or or Miss Hans or Miss brenenstall um for the uh in town SE once that happens I want to kind of go back and start reviewing our strategic plan facility related to see where we're at and then maybe amend it a little bit not change the 2028

031kind of have a realistic goal in mind um because I don't want to create a 5year plan for facilities and keep the other ones on three more years um and then as I think I told Mr we can add the pl playground on there the soccer field I know is still on there the track's still on there um even though we don't do something it's still getting addressed and being accounted for um so I just want wanted to kind of give you guys the heads up that that would be coming down the PIP lines good to have goals I'm sorry good to have goals oh I love y um do we have any other things we do anything else um okay I said that two things uh Miss aeno asked me to and I thought

032it was a great idea I am getting a price uh I'm not sure if you guys have seen the wall pads yet I think I sent youall a picture they look great uh I thought they did a great job they still have to come out and cut out some of the things um they're going to come out when they do the window uh relining uh Jake said that they're just waiting for a warm week you would have thought this week would be great and then you look at Sunday or Saturday it's back down to 40 so I love Northern Illinois weather uh just awesome don't know why we live here so we're in the process of that I did measure out with uh Dr quasney um I think he said it's $299 a pad twoot

033pads and we were looking at6 18 ft so it's going to be around the same price he's going to give me an exact quote to get those two at the junior high done if you're go to the junior high and you stand on the free throw line look at the basket because of when uh previous administration when you guys got the well you were here when you got the bleachers what you did is you you mov the gym over a little bit like the baskets in the in the court and the things on the wall didn't move and so now if you look at the basket like the wall mats are right there and then you have like 7 ft this way way with no wall mats that's the wall that my son hit his

034head on yes so we're going to I highly recommend we get that fixed and that taken care of and on the other side the door actually you actually can run into the door if you go a couple feet uh Jake y Jake did say you can put a mat on that wall so he's going to give me an idea of what it would cost to extend that pad into the the wall I'm sorry the wall the door frame get that taken care of just update it just across you watching the kids play volleyball the girl y know seeing some of them dive in I'm like oh my god oh I was going to ask you know in the gym they have whenever they go to state or whatever they get the big state is there

035one for the junior boys I can add that every week yeah so if they finish well the the placards are I have to ask Brandon it's the placards I think are fourth or better but I have to confirm with with Brandon four yeah oh they did so then is probably getting ordered Brandon's the coach he wants to see his name everywhere the way he is but yeah that's yeah that's probably um on you might even have it on he might also wait to see what the rest of the season brings so he kind of gets a discount you know girls and then one other thing that has made my life miserable the last um week and a half uh we're having problems with both of our gym floors we have cupping we have we have

036at the high school we just had them done two years ago we have cracks forming we have um boards that are starting to separate we have all kinds of problems are they not under warrant yeah this is it one year so that's where we're at now I have had I've engaged with um the company that did the remediation and he's been out with the people who did the painting they said well we don't know the real problem it's probably just a humidity issue and a humidity issue I've engaged with Gallagher who is our insurance company and so our process right now is a I'm waiting for the company out of Iowa who installed the actual gym floors to come out look at them I'm a realist I don't believe any company is going to come

037in and say yep at half a million dollars is our problem we'll take care of it so I'm in the process of engaging our insurance company Gallagher to have an expert thirdparty engineer come out and tell us the problem and so a third party engineer will have have a a formal this is the problem this is what caused it and then we engage whatever group we need to engage with okay but it's not been a pleasant week and a half so if if we um if we engage a third party engineer does our insurance is that something that our insurance pays for do we have to pay for that okay so is if they find that it's a warranty issue can we go back to the warranty to company to or like what it might

038warant so what happens is a a company that does an installation if it's a faulty installation they actually have insurance that covers themselves and so if Gallagher comes back and says you know what yeah it's um you the wood you chose was was was bad wood because you it's both um they say hey you guys are liable for this your insurance company needs to pick it up and then it's taken care of um so and then we would get our our deductible back from that so yes if it's a moisture problem they didn't um they didn't fully finish the moisture it's a it's that problem then they have insurance for that so okay it's not it's not dangerous to play on I don't we have PE classes I don't anybody it's not tripping Hazard but

039it's two years old and it looks it looks like it's 20 years old and we want it taken care of before do you remember what are warranty but it was I mean we forance correct if this was 20 years 20 years then then I wouldn't have a be yeah so um so that's I'm only providing good news to this committee today uh can I go back up to all just like the plumbing and stuff um so that's needs to be done now so where will right I'm like we can't push that to the next year's money the budget so where's so we would probably look to bid it out and get it done over the summer depending on how we wanted to pagle it if you guys wanted it done the second you know schools

040out uh end of May we want them the first week in June it would be on this fiscal budget depends on who it is if you say we want it done in the middle of June then it rolls into July one it's under next year's budget so I mean which might be something we discuss when we talk about how we may have to put technology on this budget in the actual board meeting once those bids come in I think that is a great conversation to yes and then I know I think it was a question was asked about the buses this would be the same idea it wasn't in the budget but that's why you have reserves so when you pay for something that's an overage it's pulled out of the reserves um okay all

041right um any other I don't think we've gotten any more public comment for facilities good you good buddy okay I think chair all right and then I do a motion toj right motion to adjourn second yes okay it is 6:03 p.m. on March 12 2025 I am calling the regular board meeting into session noting absence of no one please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I ALG to the flag of the United States of America to for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all okay I have noting no public comment guess a recognition moving on to the approval of board minutes sign need a motion to approve the board meeting minutes of February 12th 2025 as submitted so move second Perman yes Bel yes Flores yes Missour abstain

042lcking yes jenko yes Hansen yes motion Carri um next up would be the approval of executive board meeting minutes so I need a motion to approve the executive session board meeting minutes of February 12 2025 as submitted so moved second vote Yes scores yes Missour flicking yes duchenko yes Hansen yes Herman yes Carri um next up are the March 2025 expenses that were in the board packet does anyone have any questions concerns or anything about those any excursions no I need a motion no trips to approve the March 2025 expenses as submitted so moved second Flores yes Missouri yes flicking yes duchenko yes Hansen yes Herman yes Bel yes motion Carri next up is the treasur report welcome back Mike thanks for having to read this back in the saddle again uh the balance in

043the supernow count at the end of February was 4,161 7316 outstanding checks total 48338 uh February payroll expense carryover 69,0 20594 evening that adjusted bank balance at the end of February at $ 4,501 3342 lunch program balance 9,544 and press fund at 5,000 totaling 4,144 18790 the investment balances at the end of the month were 5,516 2683 leaving the balance of all funds as of February 28th at 9,660 21473 February receipts total 7687 475 and expenses 1,612 22390 the individual fund balances at the end of February were education fund 6,214 30789 building fund 97399 94 Bond and interest negative 34,1 19089 Transportation fund 1,627 43 imrf 10782 982 working cash fund 361,662 fund balance 42222 93 and life safety 572,000 maintenance Grant 21, 375 school lunch program 72 free lunch 8608 and special milk $23.50

044that was a big one um no real estate distributions and fund balances are in the P all right does anyone have any questions or concerns no okay I need a motion to approve the Treasures report as presented so moved second M yes flicking yeschenko yes Hansen yes Herman yes yes Flores yes motion carried next up our staff reports starting with Miss Black good evening everyone just wanted to highlight a couple of quick things on my report we did have quite a bit of interest in summer school so we will be having summer school this year we will be getting those um information sheets out to teachers and start talking to parents about that also while we will greatly enjoy having Mrs Garcia with us um we just transitioned this week Mrs Fara is now going

045to be the is now at the junior high and she also um earned her ten year status so that was exciting as well um a couple of fun student things on Friday we will be having our third quarter PBIS celebration um I think it's going to be pretty fun the kids are going to be rotating through three different sections of the of the school three different stations I bought some black lights um glow in the black lights balloons some tape um for some games we can play in the gym in the sensory room we have a photo booth and the kids um I also P camera the kids can um get their picture taken with some fnny props and in the multi-purpose room we're going to have one of those big little cash cubes things

046that the kids can um everyone's going to get a chance to get in but um different numbers will be drawn from different home rooms and then they'll get um to collect some prizes based on it so it should be fun um and then we are still working on and putting together our I our I incentive so we're going to um have the third fourth and fifth graders earning tickets for coming to school on time having your Chromebook charged um the teachers said positive attitude so kids are you know positive as we can expect or hope taking the test a funny one that came up when we were brainstorming different things we can give students um tickets for I didn't realize that some of the students when they take their math test never even use a

047piece of paper to do a math problem so using scratch paper on the math portion of your test can be something that you were to take for which I think that's a great idea um so miss openis and some of the other uh staff have also been working hard to get some free donation prizes so as students earn their tickets they'll earn different things we have Culver donated a whole bunch of stuff um to us already McDonald's donated a whole bunch of stuff um uh Mrs Lon donated some Razor scooters new razor scooters uh Mr bomb Gardner has given us some money to do with ADV advice and PR should as we see F so hopefully it'll get the kids excited and working their hardest on the test any questions okay great thank you Dr

048FY good evening I will start with um some of our I information as well to pck you back off of um the elementary school so we are testing here coming up on March 27th is our going to be our first test and we're going to do math first so 3 days in a row and then the next week we're going to do two days in a row for our Ela um testing and then Dan later so we've been prepping hard um a lot of writing a lot of reading math all of the things um a lot of extended responses all that good stuff so we're really hoping that the students take it seriously and and do well um we've been trying our very best we're going to do the incentives that did last year which

049is similar to the tickets but we were talking about and considering instead of doing the raffle we were thinking about taking um that that ticket that they earn and it's for the same types of things you know showing their work being there charge Chromebooks um putting forth effort taking their time um not putting their heads down and you know finishing the test in five minutes um but to redeem those at lunch for snacks and treats and that's probably a good Vine for j i love food motivated yeah so chips candy pop gum um asking the kids what what do you like so we were planning on going to Costco and Sam's Club to try to get them um in so that's what we wanted to do this year instead of having them all thrown and

050then we only get a handful of winners so we thought that would get more Buy in we're also going to do incentives probably same thing food for if they improve from two years ago to this past year so I already have and and actually it was almost every single student which is awesome and and it doesn't have to be that they met or exceeded but just that they showed grow so even if they were still you know within the ones or they moved up from one to two um so they don't have to be a four or five just that they showed some growth so we're going to be giving those incentives away as well we waited until now to do it because we're trying to generate some what's a good idea cuz it's so

051weird it takes so long to get them back so like you take the test and they don't even get their results until September SO waiting till now I mean that's a really good idea because then it's like oh look do get something for it and it's fresh that's idea yeah pump them up get them get them ready and know oh we will get the reward so exactly what you just said so that's why we waited and then we're going to give those either next week or probably the week after so it'll be literally right before the test starts so that's where we're at for the I and then the only other thing I kind of wanted to share um is that we are as you know in the midst of deciding and making a decision

052on what we'd like to propose for our Ela curriculum which is theas my perspective so we're going to have a parent night next Thursday and we send out information we're just going to invite if any parents would like to learn more about it we'll kind of go over all the highlights show them the materials and ask you know if they have any questions about that so that'll be next week and like I said we'll send out information and one other thing I did want to mention is that Yahira um Esparza from the elementary school she did start this week working with our e students so it's been great we've been having her at our building as well as Mr G Andi for half a day as well so our El students will get some more

053support and and um right now she's kind of doing push in but she is going to be doing some small groups as well outside of the regular classroom so we're kind of working on her schedule she has one um she's with the kids all day but just kind of tweaking it to see how we can best support those students does anyone have any questions have they done they already did access testing right February okay yeah we waited until you know the trans we waited to transition her over to thank you Mr Meyer hello um couple of personnel issues that I don't have on here but just an update um hopefully tonight I'm assuming that you will agree to hire our new um uh well drama sponsor um that I think will be great um I

054give you some more update later if if everything works out next time uh also interviewing two secretaries or administrative assistants this Friday so hopefully I'll have an answer or have a candidate this has been a trying um Adventure so hopefully that will work out wonderfully um so I'll give you more update on uh baseball and softball start next week uh track starts this weekend so our spring sports are getting ready to go band grams always a hit I just like to touch on that because the kids like it um besides getting out of class all day the kids do like going around and disrupting classes or the district office or whatever else and Jason pre our staff's been really good um and the kids do a great job so I like that I need to

055update on the mathletes I said only at the time of the at the time that this was finished we only had two um but Mrs uh shovin sent me something yesterday so now our Algebra 2 Team also uh qualified so we've got uh seven or eight more people going no six so uh more going um two states so now we have eight to which is great because Movin usually has around 15 and she's kind of disappointed so at least we've got another group in so I'll give you an update later um with the results uh hopefully after the April state competition sorry I wanted to point out the KCC kids uh we do have three indiv no sorry four individuals um that made the National Technical Honor Society with that I also want to state

056that we are going to raise the price if you miss or skip um kacc next year right now we are $10 we're going to move up to 15 because now if I remember correctly it's costing us two grand a kid ises that sound right so we're going to raise the we're not going to raise the 150 bucks that it cost to get in the program we're just going to raise the Miss right now if you're okay with that aspect of it and that's only if it's not excused if they're if they're Miss because they have a doctor's and you provide a note you are not charged I just wanted to clarify each time you you have to that you have to pay if it's not excused with they doctor know y or we do yeah

057or we yes like a mental health we can do we can do certain things College bu we'll we'll work with people for sure yeah yep but we're going to move it up to $15 I just want to preface that I'll probably put that in our our new I don't know if I have to put it in the handbook I can't remember but I know I just wanted to tell you I think there is a line tell you the cup on that and I think I think that was it any questions band kids went to the RVC Honors that was last night Jason's going to write something up for me there Jason for next month Jason's also or sorry Mr Hodak's also going going to write something up about us going to the elementary and beat

058your Manor that's always a hit those it's great and then they love going to Pizza afterwards it was great last night the food the food I'm sorry we had 19 kids there last night it was wonderful so were great and the the most principal players too yes like yeah good yeah they did a great job Pete P so and parents of high school students should be getting the school links emails from Mr sarney to approve your child's um not schedule but just hopefully we're keeping everybody involved so you can see what you're doing U Mr SAR is still visiting classroom he was there today as well he should be getting that cleaned up within the next week and we're work Joe and I or yes working on working on schedules for next year also working

059on act stuff um getting rooms Proctor going to do that on Friday as well so we have a lot lot going on it's great good stuff thank you thank you Dr gayam I wasn't nearly as busy as n Meer seems to have been but it RS off leadership down so um today uh we had one foil this past month it was uh satisfyed uh before I have Miss content come up I'm going to have her do our special ed presentation um I do want to do uh two updates for you guys well one's kind of an update one was a video I shot out there but I wanted the families to know that I also s it here in the open board meeting um first off um Duo dogs update Chuck I can't remember your

060last name I apologize Chuck from the Southland voice has reached out I think he's going to do an article um about the therapy dog and the pro process of that I know he reached out to me had some questions Andy dog facility dog um and so um Chuck's been very good to work with so look forward to that article um and then secondly I made a video about the attendance policy and again I want to reiterate this and stress this this is the first year that we've done this I have zero interest in backing off and trying to change course this policy is all about Communications with families as of right now if I'm not mistaken principal please correct me the Will County roe has actually only engaged with I have three in high school

061four four total families so as as as you may or may not be seeing on social media we are not sending people to jail we are not calling the cops the SRO does make appearances the SRO does have very good conversations with our families um Hees make them aware hey you're absent we get it how can we help what can we do in my world and if I'm wrong with this I apologize I'm a bad superintendent I don't think communication is a bad thing with families I get it if your kids sick we want them to stay home if your kid has the flu keep them home we are not we are not coming at you with cops and with the Roe so we want to make sure that's clear it's a very very very

062very bad idea very bad idea to set my kid to school and make the school send them home because then the school can't do it that's not how it works okay if you keep them home you give us a call the ladies in the offices have done a tremendous job they mark it down and you know Billy was absent called off yes it's unexcused but we're not coming after you we're just making you aware hey just want let you've called off 10 times all 10 of those you've let us know thank you for the communication is there something we can do just to give you a heads up you're probably going to see us again at 1200 and again at 15 that's not a bad thing so I'm not about to pull back and start

063stop communicating with family it ain't going to happen on my watch okay so that's what my video said I want to reiterate that we're not out here to get people even when Monica comes out here she has wonderful conversations with them she has not taken anybody to jail she's a very nice lady she another line of Def defense another line of assistance that she can provide families we want kids in school obviously not not if they're sick if they're sick call at school say they're sick keep them home and if you get an email if you get a letter it's not meant to offend you it's not meant to scare you it's all in informational peace and so we have gone through we have amended some of the language to take away the word Trent

064and made of absen absenteeism reports we just want families to know about about things full disclosure I get a phone call at 3 my daughter was at three absences and I got a phone call okay I didn't get upset so folks I'm get sick keep them moment any other questions about my report before I hand it over to miss Compton Mr Duncan [Music] help I've been looking forward to this well she got the sub in the class all day today so she is super ready to talk about this it's good to stay in the classroom every once in a while put you in your place yeah those three-year-olds certainly put me in my oh it's very humbling sometimes to go down so no hey were really cute on the first day get on the but

065there we go all right so I am just GNA give you guys a little update about what has been going on in our world of special education you see I'll SC here sco back if you're at home and you want to see this I'll make it available on the website we'll put this presentation on the website so if you're at home okay um so first I just want to start off like I do every year with an overview of where our staff and our student population is um not a lot has changed in the world of Staff this school year um we did obviously add on um a an early childhood teacher this year mid year um we were very very lucky to find somebody who had the C ification to teach Early Childhood halfway

066through the year and also had the ability to leave their previous position and income work for us um and we got really lucky um we got somebody who I had worked with previously um teaching here at the high school so I knew her and I knew her strengths and I knew she would be a great addition and she's been great with our early childhood students so um these are where our numbers were when I did this this presentation two days ago I can tell you right now I just got a phone call we have another family moving in students coming so that is the trend that we're seeing um our numbers are not going down they are only going up um if you look at just kind of I looked at my case loads um

067for my teachers last year at the elementary school um each teacher on average was at about 17 students on their case load this year they're at 18 um the junior high went from 19 to 21 and the high school went from 22 to 25 so you know if you look at I've got three teachers at the high school so you're looking at we're getting about we got about nine kids this year so um our numbers are definitely going up and they have been the past few years so this isn't anything that I didn't expect um looking at our other programs that we are um afforded the opportunity to have our students attend with soic um our cab program we currently have nine students life skills program has 13 um we have two students that attend

068fiser um we have three students at the education center in inton and then um outside of our stoic programs we do have two students that attend programs um at different locations one being Mena and Bradley the other is a KCs we have one student each at those programs um overall um in this area of student attendance we we were at 28 last year and 29 this year so what not a lot of change there um I will say and I'm going to talk more about our AC program but we it's been nice working with soic um with their staff we've had them come and help um provide some training and just um they do a nice job of coming out and help give facilitate some ideas and strategies that we can use um so we've

069been able to keep more students here in our EC program which has been nice um some things that we have done this year districtwide um last year I talked about our teach train Thrive um Workshop that was districtwide we implemented part two of that again this year um teacher response to it over the past two years has been has been positive so I was glad that we were able to continue that this year um Master teacher is an online training program that we implemented for it's specific for our Paras which is nice because so many times we have PD at school and you know we're we're digging in the I data and doing all these things and it doesn't necessarily always apply to the par Educators and but they are so important so um I've

070met with them and I talked with them about you know what what do you want what would be helpful to you what is useful to you you know we don't want to waste their time either and we want them engaged and because they are a huge part of what we do um so we purchased this program and they've been working through modules online on PD days and I the response um from them has been very positive they said that they like it they feel like it's engaging and they are learning and that's you know at the end of the day what we want is for them to feel more comfortable with working with the students um soic has come out and done some trainings this year they've done our CPI training um they did another

071districtwide training on deescalation strategies um and then just a few weeks ago um it was the day that it snowed really bad because everybody went home y um we we pivoted really quickly and the a month ago yeah um Grace who is one of our soic administrators did a training with the Paras um and it was she said it was great she said they were very engaging they were asking questions and it's um really focused on you know topics that they needed support and working with students um on the autism spectrum just wanting more knowledge and and different strategies and working with behaviors and things like that so um that was great um something that we've started to implement that I think has been very helpful is um when we have students that trans transition

072from fifth grade to sixth grade and then from 8th grade to high school we hold IEP transition meetings where the teachers get to meet the stud students for a little bit um but what we've started to do is actually have the teachers go for a day they go observe they follow you know the fifth grade schedule around so they get to see how the students engage in class and they get to see how the Paras support them in the in the gened setting and in the special education setting um and we were really lucky because obviously you guys know we have some movement with teachers coming for next year um two of the teachers that were just hired at the last board meeting are currently working here so they've even been able to get in

073and see the students that they're going to be working with next year so I think that's been great um and the other thing that I forgot to mention on here is um we implemented this year all of our eighth graders um with I APS are currently enrolled in a co-taught English class at the Junior High that has been very successful and I'm really excited that we're going to be able to continue that on over to the high school this year we previously did not have that opportunity so um to be able to keep the students in the general education setting with the support um is something we're really excited about so um so then the rest of my presentation I kind of focus on the Early Childhood Program just because that has been I think

074our biggest success um this school year and in the and I will say probably the biggest hurdle we had to get over at the beginning of the school year um the program has just grown tremendously um I know even over the summer I had a conversation with Dr Gam and I I remember exactly where I was and I was on the phone with him and I said we probably could have two classs right now if if you if if you if I had them we could fill them I knew we could fill them I have kids on the waiting list people calling all the time um we just so you know we started the school year at 14 students we are at 24 students um and I had two more that are starting this week

075so to be able to have a whole another classroom to put these students in has been huge um and you know it it I just cannot thank you enough for supporting that um I know there was a purchase of a USS to be able to get the students to the program so I'm very appreciative of the support um with being able you know our thought process is the more students that we can get into our Early Childhood Program hopefully we're going to you know reach them sooner and they're not going to need as much support as they grow older that's all you know that's our end goal is to get them in the general education setting as much as possible as they grow um so 14 of these students are going to kindergarten next year

076so that is going to be a huge group going to kindergarten that has had the opportunity to be in the program so I'm glad to see that um but don't worry it's not like we're not going to we have eight kids um being screened in May for next year and we always get moving so I know that the classes are going to be filled um we are um and that is something that we added this year too typically we've always had only two days of screenings um this year we decided that we needed a third because the first day of screenings that were in beer I think we had 20 students and I think 19 of them and the screenings just so you know are offered to all of the members of our soic um

077locations and 19 of the 20 students were beat your kids so it's not slowing down um so again even in May to still have eight kids to be screened is a lot so I know know that the classrooms are going to be full um we are having a and I just put some pictures on here just to give you a little glimpse of what it looks like over there um this is um Miss Michelle she's one of our Paras just working with some of our students and then um the mulch at on the playground was a little wet so we're kind of improvising right now just to get the kids outside and get some fresh air in um this is another one of our peras working with one of our students on our one of

078their new tricycles out in the parking lot we kind of have a area it's safe for them to play right now um and then this is again Miss Megan our our speech pads and our OTS are still coming over and providing all those services to our students um and then this is mvin our new teacher they this was during story time I was over there um it's it's been fun I am over there as much as I can be to support them and and to lend a hand when needed um if you want to get a closer glimpse of what's going on over there um Friday we are actually hosting a little open house from 2: to 3:00 for our elementary school teachers cuz I think um they missed seeing the kids and and um

079they they were very interested in what the Early Childhood Program was going to look like so we're hosting an open house for 2 to 3 and we invited our teachers um and then on March 25th from 3:00 to 3:30 um we are bringing our I know it's not ideal time for a parent open house but we want the parents to see what we've done and all the hard work that's been put in place for the students so um we have another open house on the 25th for parents to come and see the program too so um I Mr scha I didn't thank him but I do want to thank him too because moving an entire program in the middle of the school year was a lot um we got it done over 3 a and

080and the staff miss vvin and miss Barber and and the Paras that work with them were instrumental I couldn't believe when I went over there the first day when all the boxes were there it kind of made he start to panic about how are we going to get this all set up in 2 days but they they were rock stars and they did so oh and Mr Duncan yes he did all of our technology work and got the internet up and the all the things um the TVs are there and that they use I I was in there today playing calendar on the TV and doing all the things and so you know I I have to say I'm I'm kind of waiting for everybody was like oh my gosh something bad's going to happen

081and the first day the power went out like funny story one of the students said our new school is broken the power went out which was really cute but thank goodness it went back on after about 5 minutes so so far that's been like the worst thing that's happened so things are going well um we're working on getting I know Mr Duncan just ordered it today um just another safety measure we're going to have a doorbell with a a kind of like a ring camera so we can see who is coming to the door parents have to come and pick their kids up and things like that so so that's that's what I have are there any questions all I would like to re Miss Compton's worked very hard to make this successful and as

082you can tell it's it's paying off it's uping out a lot of kids and I don't want to commend also what was a plus of who is in the classroom at the elementary now oh yes so good question um So currently miss aisi and miss GZA who are our kindergarten and our first grade special education teachers were sharing a classroom so now miss Gara is going to be able to move and conveniently the old EC classroom is right next door to the kindergarten classrooms basically so when she's ping kids she's going to be right there and be able to use that space to to meet with kids so yes good questions and the bathroom is right there too thank you thank you I forgot two things one I want to make sure I thank Josh

083Daisy from the fire department he actually came in last Friday or two Fridays ago our last PD whatever day you guys didn't have school 28th the 28th he came in we actually did a full scale all staff uh CPR training so everybody who was there on Friday is not fully CPR trained they have their own little card so Mr Daisy and I want to say about nine of his um helpers came out it was it was phenomenal he did a great job very happy with how that went and then uh Joe's going to be putting on online he doesn't know yet but he's going to be told here in about 10 seconds the five essential survey is now out for families and parents and so we're going to start blasting that out we need parents

084to go online uh the link will be sent through an email but it'll also be on the main page right there across the top says please fill out the five essential survey and so that is now opened why is it important to fill out because that allows us to have feedback from the community and from families about how um how our schools are doing well and it's also a part of our summative designation that gives you whether you're exemplary that is true as well but it's more important that we get information for our Comm but I'm just saying it does when everyone wants to talk about how the schools are rated that is a big part of it is the percentage that get completed not what the ratings are so much but the fact that

085they're getting completed so yes that is something that the stakeholders can do to help at this school look at you all those Buzz words she W that yeah it's in red Larry um next is our committee update um I can start my meeting is tomorrow so I don't have any updates because it's tomorrow night in bbon a other than nothing's really changed Aviation still there that got added there are only so many slots for every school to get in because there's like 14 schools that go so I'm experiencing that now of more kids wanting in certain activities than not when Bailey did it I don't think I guess multimedia is not as popular correct but that'll be interesting to see it's kind of like if they win the lottery or not sometime this month who

086gets in what um oh yeah beer had their dinner oh yep they had their um the Education Foundation had their dinner it was at cdme it was a a very beautiful location it was a little different because they did um wasn't like the the wine you know pairing but it was it's very nice I won some couple good prizes so they have not informed me of any meaning to talk about how um successful that event has been yet but I hope to hear her for the next meeting I also want something guys want but once I mean I bid the most money on something that's you didn't get out bid I mean it's wi I didn't I kids are winning does the youth commission have anything coming up um the momon dance registrations out there

087um we have a big group this year as of this morning good so um we're just put going to be putting the final touches on that and dance is coming up in a couple of weeks um we have a meeting I think next week so I'll have more information for the next meeting was their theme oh umer yes it's Wester okay I I thought that I saw that but I wasn't sure I was like remember West my wasn't all the cuteness um the PTO so I they're meeting is the same time as our facilties meeting today um so I talked to Kristen and she said they were mostly going to be talking about raay craze they're doing that again this year they took a year off last year um and it's going to be the

088week before and the week after Spring Break um and they were discussing um what we talked about facilities about maybe using that money for the next couple of years to help pay for if we decide to or whatever we decide to do with the playground but to help pay for that um or if we decide not to do anything we you have funds somewhere else but that's all um for the booster club we have two scholarships that we're giving out to students so any senior interested in applying can follow the links that Mr star sends know on the Beacher website um that they can apply um and there's different requirements um they can list and an essay they're going to write so um the other thing is we're just planning some spring events so as

089soon as we get some things stifi we'll put that out there but nothing else hugging along good um uh the beer scholarships are out there they're due March 28th I believe um just make sure you always apply and just a reminder that there are three scholarships that the committee does um offer for four-year College twoyear as well as trade so get those essays written and I think Mr Myer actually has QR codes uh in the hallways for those so and they I've got email parents and I missed the chamber meeting I was out of town they have to is the golf usually before towards the end of the year right in the next couple months is the golfing September okay I couldn't remember it was end of the year beginning the year okay that okay

090moving on to Old business I don't have anything there but is there something that needed added nope nope just kind of placeholder okay so next would be the executive session so I need a motion to proceed to Executive session for the purpose of 5 I LCS 120- 2c1 so moved second CL yes duchenko yes Hansen yes Harman yes Bel yes Flores yes Missour yes motion carried okay I call the March 12th regular board meeting back into session at 7:04 p.m. um next up is new business um is there anyone that needs anything I know other than you separated out for the employment okay so first up I need a motion to acknowledge the resignation of Gina Duran as school crossing guard move second dko yes Hansen yes Herman yes belt yes Flores yes mour yes

091fing yes if I may miss Bel thank you um I actually engaged with Mr Bob Heim who is Ema's the EMA uh supervisor and I told him that the next crossing guard I get I want EMA to train um I even asked if he has somebody because it's a district stien it's not a union stien if he had anybody so uh we're currently I had one person email me interest in to potentially do it so um I guess if there's anybody in the community that you know who would like 15 minutes before school and 15 minutes after school that would like to be trained by EMA to do crossing guard Duty um that way we can kind of keep our staff helping the littles since we took three of them over to EC we're little

092the short staff there helping them get them uh into the school I think that's my plan is to get a Community member who can spare 20 minutes in the morning in the afternoon so we have one so as of right now but good okay thank you um next up I need a motion to approve the employment of Max Albert as full-time bus driver Juliana as high school volleyball assistant coach and approved Kate Landis as volunteer High School girls softball coach so moved second Hansen yes Herman yes Bel yes Flores yes mour yes Fickling yes the CH yes motion Carri um next up I need a motion to approve the employment of Kelly is it GOI Goki as High School drama sponsor so move second Herman yes Bel yes Flores obain Miss yes flicking yes duchenko

093yes hon yes motion Carri um next up is the discussion of press plus 117 the updates were emailed twice to us from Dr Gan and I want to thank M Mur um I know it's a very busy time and Miss flicking snuck in before the board meeting to have her meeting so uh Stacy was kind enough to just open this discussion up to full board during the meeting itself um I provided you guys the front page is like my Cliff Notes typed out um through each one of them and then I also attached the 76 pages of actual documentation um just want to clar on 4170 even peace we actually bought an AED for Peace Lutheran so there is an AED over there so that is um that that is met 510 the public health

094Act is specific to Staffing staff members it's not students that's under the staff uh portion of that and then the one that you all need to decide and consider is on 6135 right now the policy is in place that any student it's called the accelerated program if you meet or exceed You by default are are placed into the highest level of that course the following year now that law actually takes effect in a few years so you guys actually have the autonomy to remove the word meets until that time and just have it to be exceeds either way I mean either way Steve reaches out to to parents and obviously you guys your school links knows what um your kids are asking for it's up to you if you want to take it out it's

095no big deal if you want to keep it in there it's not but I can the parents always opt out 100% okay Y and say no but it would just automatically say this is what you're qualified for doe would that maybe help streamline it a little better for the guidance counselors and the scheduling or what is Steve W yeah I mean I does it make his job my how it's been working you guys never hasn't you guys haven't done it here yet he's he's currently doing it but I think he kind of informally talks to kids first um if you want my opinion and what Steve's opinion exceeds um that's how it I even though it could change by then I think exceeds is the easy conversation um and it also it sounds kind of

096bad it also kind of takes that teacher out of it because if a kid meets it and then my teacher well they met it it was a good test but this is AP yeah XYZ I don't your kid might not be successful here I want it' be more successful here um I would say exceeds but I would say I'm sorry I would say take out the meat just from experience my question is when the kids go to register do they is a conversation with them not just from him but like do they hear from the AP US History teacher like this is my expectation just so you all know before you pick it what this course is like uh so like Mr her and himself phone go in there but Steve goes into every one

097of the classrooms every every one of the grade levels in in every English class and says yep these are the classes these are the expectations if you're going to take AP US History that is an AP class there's a summer course part there's an expect yeah the difference between the honors and the regular cuz I know sometimes my kids have looked and been like can I go for m one honors so geometry HS and some kids do and some don't yeah so like as long as they're clear about what each level's expectations are yeah I think meets is that great area where yeah because I mean those AP courses some of them are really difficult yeah and you know you want to set the kids up for success and don't want to make anyone you

098know have to make a a choice that might not be for them or even some of the class take the verbage out meets and just say there's a child that's interested in one of these classes and they're just at the meets level do they have the opportunity to take that class at the meets level even though the verbiage is not 100% it doesn't it doesn't remove them from the possibility it just doesn't automatically default them into that and I do like the idea of clear expectations I think those can be explained a little bit more between using classes just so they know what they're now in a couple years though as as of right now meets will be in there yes that is I want to say it's 2728 school year yep okay 2728 until

099legislation changes you never know yeah so who knows yeah completely Chang so that's two years from now okay so and then um about the the waiver for the course completion like how like how do they demonstrate that that Mastery in lie of the course it's a great question cuz I've asked the same thing I the only the only one I came up with that I could think of that was clearcut you kind of do it now as driver's ed you requireed driver's ed as part of your as part of your Illinois uh thing if you take driers outside of the school there's a p that's put on their transcript it's not an a b or c because they don't take it with us so that's the only specific one I can think of that otherwise

100maybe if I want to take us I don't want to take us history I take the final and get it I don't know I think that is kind of wishy-washy I I don't know how that would work I don't I generally don't I guess could you do it like the entry exams for college like if you passed out of like you know American government yeah that's what I'm saying if you give I know you do dual credit but if you maybe took the exam but I don't we don't do that but I guess there are some schools that may it might be for bigger schools who they do those I I think this is definitely they can do those those like seminar classes where they can choose and they just kind of do it on

101yeah their own any or yeah like or if I have this English class it isn't really an English class but but it kind of aligns with this secondary English class and instead of taking that I think Miss Hanson's correct on that um so I mean that's that's complet that's a second option you guys have you can put it in there and before anybody gets waved obviously we can come through you guys and say we haven't waved anybody there's nobody that's asking for a waiver it hurt clear it doesn't hurt because it it provides an opportunity but it's not like you don't have anybody ask for right now and if somebody does ask I assure you Mike's going to be in front of you saying this is the this is going to be the procedure that's

102only one Steve might be in front of you guys saying this is the procedure and before that even happens because it's your guy you guys have to approve anything that gets for uh policy or not for handbooks it would come before you anyways okay but you're not going to break my heart if you think it out just I mean this is also just the first reading as well yeah I mean it it just seems like I I don't know but CU if they're like oh is it going to create more issues in work if we're if we're having it in there and then it's like oh you can wave this course completion you know I mean kids are here to get an education so so I guess another one would be we have a student

103who took PR State not College through us but a Prairie State College course for outside credit I would think that would be something that she could come back and or here sheep she sheep um hey I took this class can I get out of my senior English class I think that would be a valid way of proving it um is it also something that could be used for special education that would be a do I don't because but that that would be another question I had because sometimes like I know my own daughter for senior year since we implement into that whole extra study hall and we tried a couple things throughout her High School career here it has caused some issues with her getting her requirements now going to KAC at the same time

104so like getting all the PE and stuff so that allows you that's a different if if you need a class in to graduate you can actually that that wouldn't qualify here there's other waivers that you would complete for that I was just trying to think of everything possible that could be used for like would it apply to us somehow to where we should have it in there just as a just in case kind of you know but yeah I just thought about the prish day would be very State because that's one elective the issue my kids went into is what's their other elective because you need two years of a foreign language if you're College Bound but they don't want to drop maybe a Foods or a band or something else so I think if

105there's something in there that tells us cuz I ask that question because mine do not want to drop a certain class but they're going to need foreign language what are the options for students whether or not they actually get a letter grade here because they're not taking it here yeah and it may not be a graduation requirement that's W be well no because they do these fig of a foreign language coming out this is in lie of a graduation requirement so if you want to talk SP maybe maybe Mna as a Spanish one teacher has a hey this is my Spanish 2 test if you can tell me if you can pass my Spanish two test to start out with you have that graduation requirement of Spanish one we can wave that year and allow

106you to walk into to Spanish to and now you have one your two years of credit that because I know foreign language I believe in what a year or two they're going to require two years which severely is going to limit some students depending if they're going to choose KCC or Prairie State on another elective that's something that is a future idea maybe is yeah so keep something in there because that might do something figure out a way allow them either they can take it somewhere off and they can show proficiency either through what do we consider accredited and or or something so the kids still can get two years done and still not drop art or band or Foods or whatever I don't think I don't see a bad reason for keeping this in

107I I truly don't think Steve's going to start walking in Mike's going be like Whoa man is this not I like the option yeah it's better have the option if it does come up than trying to figure out how to change things to accommodate is there anything else in there that's um and then no 810 is um officially makes you the spokesperson of the board even though by default you work and then I I continue to be the spokesperson of the media spok those are kind of all your big ones um the training that um any new board member has to go through I as I I new stuff but it's already when you get when you're elected or when you're brought on board you have to go those courses anyway and so I can't

108say this 100% certainty but I assume they will add that as part of your training that you guys yeah it'll be the module I'm I'm sure in may they give you what 60 or 90 days to get it all it'll just be added on there I would assume with your open meetings act and all that you have to do oh another question and then I they would allow that and training that they're putting in it um to pull in one to like I would assume to current board members too because that's something none of us have my guess is um through uh usually it's just when you get elected so like the open meeting act open meetings act like stuff that we did when we got elected was completely different we got the updat been

109looking to um you know with the with the trainings that they offer too because I mean it's like I mean obviously if that's something our new board members that maybe that's something that all the board members should it may be something we have to pay for it may be given or whatever part that's say part of our member but if you want to do it in addition to just not when you're elected it may be additional I'm guessing sometimes they do that where you can buy Katie's real close with the people down there I'll find out let you know okay anything else any others I don't have any other questions um it was kind of like we already talked I emailed you about the one and we just touched on it too with the verbage

110so y just staff yep and I and I did run through a few of these with Mr gleon just to make sure anything that was on 116 which you tabled and now has been washed away is not in here so it's it's separate there's not there's nothing connected to any of the title 9 items so when I do my do I need to say that we're taking off the meats for the one cuz it's not as presented we're changing that right uh yeah say uh you could your motion would be to um approve the first reading um as submitted with the amendment of removing Meats in policy 6135 with the amendment moving and then what I'll do for your for next month I'll remove that from it itself yeah presented when you do a second

111reading you can read as presented okay I need a motion to approve the first reading of press plus 117 as presented with the amendment of removing meets on second pH yes Flores yes mour yes Fickling yes tchenko yes Hansen yes Herman yes motion um next up is our ihsa membership for next year yep you renew this every year yep so I need a motion to approve the ihsa membership for the 25 26 school year so second Florence yes mour yes flicking yes tchenko yes Hansen yes Herman yes yes motion Carri um next up was the technology department increases that we were emailed about how the prices are going up and um the savings or the decision I guess we have to make is if we want to go ahead and order on this fiscal year

112the next fiscal year to save some money um I do feel like with the sale of the land that is going it'll go back into this budget so we do have an in increase on paper for this fiscal year that could cover it as far as how the budget is shown um so if we're thinking about that I think that kind of does help because it's not like it's going to put us in a deficit or anything like that we are going to show that increase that we didn't budget for um originally when we did the budget um do you want to discuss what the what you emailed us sure I can answer any questions in short you know my vendors have been telling me that by the week things have been changing and um

113a lot of the quotes within days they're going to be invalid and as I've gotten new quotes each quote's like 20 to $50 higher per unit and the units are getting well some are out of stock so it's just becoming we're getting worse computers for more money and um it's just something that I wanted to let you know that was happening just a specific supply chain I guess with computers so you know if if it didn't matter if we bought it now versus two months from now uh it would probably save us some money the two columns I put on your report the PDF was 10% 20% increase and I have already gotten quotes that include that 10 and 20% because any F once our current quotes expire which I got a week to a

114month ago they will be forced to use the new quots and the the manufacturers are kind of holding them to it um so I don't really know what's going to happen I will mention too that there is a chance that when we approve this it does take them longer than the companies are expecting to ship them and we may not have to pay till after fiscal year anyway so it could be that we buy them but we don't get them delivered until May or June and then we just can submit it regular I just wanted to let you know of the what was happening and if you know if you wanted to authoriz something now that might save us some money if you want to just stick with the folks we might get in the

115future they might be different I've been told they're probably not going down yeah I anyone think goes down I mean I think it would be smart to lock some prices in now because they think we're just we're going to need them regard we're going to need them and we don't know where things are going from here so it would be in my opinion it would be smart sorry for the amended budget but that is what a $225,000 increase at 10% and I've already gotot over that over the 10% increase cuz those prices were on like a month or two and that's not a lot considering in like 3 months it could be it could be a lot more yeah I mean nothing's going down no brainer I I think a lot of Industries are putting

116out notifications and that's it if you look at it it's you know $250,000 well we got $350,000 from selling the property so all in within the same month so it's not hurting our budget even budget for this next year already yeah so we'll have that so we can using an extra 50 potentially yeah if we don't use that money where else would it come from if we don't use which that 350 where else so just want to clarify I know Miss belt said there is it's not like so when that 332 and some change came in after everything was said and done it goes and it goes into your Ed fund you've bought a bus you've bought a activity bus so there $200,000 right there you weren't expecting um so you have that you have

117$100,000 in pipes that you got to fix you have um $100,000 in Windows you got to fix so at the end of the day like when we send a check out and I know you guys know this but we don't earmark it well this 300,000 that were paying you 100,000 came out of selling this and 200,000 outside of title and ID okay it's it's all coming out of the bank um so what you're looking at is again it wasn't this wasn't budgeted this fiscal year so when we do an amended budget you will you already were in the red I we talked about this beginning of the year um so your Ed your education Reserve would would see a hit right now you have $6.2 million in the Ed fund so that number would potentially

118go down 250,000 now again there's money coming in so it's not exactly that amount um so that that's what would happen I would also like to mention that this will come out July 1st so it's not like we're getting something extra this is what we're going to buy this is just moving it up one to two months so we're not spending more we would just probably potentially save more if we bought it a little early kind of like the sale like early sale we're just pre-approving the sale but it's still a budgeted item so it is a budgeted item so it will come out regard it just might cost less if we order it one or two months ahead of time as in right now long it could take a long time because everybody's in

119the same boat so thousands of schools are doing the same exactly and if it is paid this fiscal year I promise you I will not have a $250,000 payment from Joe Duncan for the next fisal year on anything so correct sorry Joe the answer is no don't Wii okay so I need a motion to approve the technology department purchases for $ 25,920 for fiscal year 25 so second Missour yes wickling yeschenko yes Hansen yes Herman yes yes yes motion Carri I will make sure if if and when that payment does come I'll point it out at the board Mee for you um if it is FY that's okay so other items for discussion so if you remember when we started um kind of looking at Chromebooks and heck this was years ago one of the

120things we mentioned was a potential of a senior buyback or senior because the Chromebooks obviously are getting out of out of cycle some of them we still want to retain so we can keep them as extras just for a couple years and so Joe has put together a plan or an idea to kind of again this is year one it's not going to be perfect but Joe kind of that well on the phone where I was sitting were you sitting we were both sitting yeah we sat down and discussed some options so go ahead Joe take it over sure so what we're proposing is for this uh pilot program uh that we offer a device purchase option and really would try to reward the students for keeping their device in good shape they'll get it

121in ninth grade every nth grade we refresh with the new device and after four years it only has it's near the end of its life but you can usually get another couple years and we repurpose those and now that we've caught up and everyone's on the same devices and we've been doing our refresh Cycles now for more than four years we now potentially have almost some EXT extra that we would normally sell back so the prices we would sell back instead of giving it to a company and you know having them make money we are not really making money but we're able to give the give a student that's leaving High School a device that's still good for another two years so they have about two years left on their well they actually have five

122years left on their update cycle but I would consider it getting older when you have a six-year-old computer you're in your seventh year that's usually getting pretty older especially when you're talking about a $300 computer it's not a high-end computer so it's just a program to encourage students to keep good uh take good care of it if they don't have breakages through that are their fault so if like they didn't hit the screen or put pencils in there or drop it um then they can potentially get the same device they've taken good care of that whole High School career and get that for no cost if they do have a breakage or they've been here for not the full four years it would be $50 cost and any breakage or any uh school fees either

123one of those if you have like unpaid school fees or you've broken anything that negate you're not qualified for the program so that's what we were thinking to deploy it out I wonder how many kids have no breakage one I know but we did say a a break if it is a manufacturer or if it's a computer default that's not we're not deeming that as a breakage if if like it's a something bad happened and it's not the kids fault we're not holding that against them right shut a pencil in it corre is so so the kind of recap so if you've been here for all four years of beer thanks for being thanks for being here we are planning to if they want it we're just giving that we we're we're going to donate

124that to that senior on their way out congratulations if you've been here less than four years you know sophomore junior we still going to give you that option but because you missed that year whether it be through technology fees or all these different or or updates we're going to say you can have it but it cost you 50 50 50 it's not bad it's not bad at all for a computer that you're going to have for a few more years however if you owe school fees or if you have broken it and you now are on your second computer have a good luck in the future we wish you well so it's like they have to qualify for so what is so when you said that we sell it back to a comp like what

125like generally what do we get or is it just based on its usage or usually when we sell back a computer it's so well used up it's after that six-year Mark that there's um the screens when they're shut and carried around all day they wear lines through the screens it's almost like it just rubs off and goes into the LCD so pretty much they're destroyed and we usually get nothing to like five or $10 so okay yep nope all right you know the companies probably make money oh and they're charging $50 to $100 for these so we' been providing the same computer at a less price they could buy it on the competitive market and keeping that benefit in the community because they've already paid I mean because then it's I mean for for some

126people college is is a big expense or their next step or their next you know place in this you know moving out into the world is a is a big step so having something that that you know they don't have to get and use you know plus it's an incentive responsibility take care of stuff I like it yeah I it's a good incentive not to break it if you know you're going to and take care of it and yeah not shove a pencil in it espe since most people don't have I had pig that ate a TG yeah I mean most households may have one computer only right because all the kids are getting devices so this is kind of helpful for them to continue to have a device when if they go stay home

127and they go do something afterwards to would this take effect next year or would it be something that could take effect this year we could do it this year okay we also would you know we're going to be gauging participation see how effective it was if 100% of people took advantage of it I know not everyone will qualify we might be a little short on computers so we're kind of estimating that we can probably still provide this and still have enough to slowly refill our broken ones so we're kind of piloting it out but we think we think we could do it yeah you're going to clean it out for them too before you leave all the district there's a de-provisioning process so we take our acid ID sticker off of it we do a

128factory reset and clean it up uh physically and they get to keep the case charger and Chromebook so it's pretty good value because the cases really can't be reused after four years speak the cases uh Joey is going to change to a new case right yeah so in the high school we're going to we're going to switch to a Snap-On case that's like a hard shell think of it like a such a better idea so we're going to move into that and if it's successful then we're going to go 100% bulky because those bulky ones are like fers well that's the problem I hate the is they use them they put papers and folders and everything in those cases and that there'll be other RIS you'll the book bag with their but we'll have to

129see we'll have to see how it works prove that or anything right you can just do it it's the same cost it might even have been a couple dollars less so there's no Financial impact again this is just a first year giving it a shot I know some people are going to love it like with anything some people aren't going to be happy but we'll learn from it this year and then next year we might make it a little bit better better okay okay next up is thanks Joe yes thank you thank you items for the April 9th board meeting you have amended budget for display the second reading of press plus and acknowledgement of tenure teachers will they be here teach I invite them okay I invite them so okay and then also huh

130how many it's a great question superintendent should know the answer to it is two with the high school one at the elementary and I don't think any at the junior so it might be three or four so because your hire just flipped over so I'm going to consider well she's H now yeah three or four and then I'll also list all of the non- tenur renewals that just going to give you a heads up you don't have to do anything with them just kind of acknowledgement of it okay and then upcoming dates just the board meeting and then the junior high curriculum next week that um Dr Cy talked about and then the parent open house for the FED in March that um missc talked about and that's all we have we don't need any

131committee meetings between now and then at at the April 99th meeting we'll probably have to put a schedule meeting for the the month um I'll I'll get the exact dates down and then I'll make sure you guys are provided when those are okay and we don't need any kind of committee meetings between now and then no no okay so I need a motion to adjourn so much second all in favor say i iose a