001and welcome to the first meeting of the school board for the new year. Uh it is January 26, 2026 at 7:43 and I'd like to call to order the meeting of the Lyall Community Unit School District 202 Board of Education. Miss Sims, could we have a roll call, please? >> Sure. Uh, me Miss Domenico, >> present. Miss Foster, >> present. >> Mr. Helderly, >> present. >> Mr. Naggler, >> present. >> Miss Novasel, Miss Novasol is not able to be with us due to a work conflict this evening. >> Okay. Um, Miss Sims is here and Miss Alman >> here. Present. Thank you. Okay. If we could please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
002under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Next is our Lyall 202 mission statement, which is to provide our learning community with the essential education, skills, and experiences for future success. and we'll keep those thoughts in mind as we meet this evening. Item four is public comment. Uh I don't think anyone in the audience, but do we have anything uploaded for public comment? >> We do not. >> Thank you. Item five uh is our consent agenda 5 A uh A1 through 5 A8. Is anybody want anything pulled from consent? No. If not, I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. 5A1, board meeting minutes. 5A2, payroll pay orders. 5 A3, vendor pay orders. 5 A4, personnel. 5 A4A, extra duty employment. 5 A4B, classified retirement. 5 A4 C classified employment. 5
003A4D certified employment. 5 A5 designation of persons to prepare a tenative budget for fiscal year 2027. 56 Lawn and Landscape 26 Oops, sorry. Lawn and Landscape Maintenance Services 2026 renewal. 5 A7, authorization to release close session minutes for public inspection and destruction of audio recordings. and 5 A8 approval of agency settlement agreement. If there is no discussion, I entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> I did have one, sorry, one question there. I know there's a couple of retirements we saw, but they were not in the consent agenda. Is that just more of a timing thing or >> We approve all retirements at the April meeting. >> Got it. Thank you. So moved. >> Second. >> If we could please have a roll call. >> Mr. Helji. >> I. >> Mr.
004Nichler. >> I. >> Um, Miss Foster. >> I. >> Miss Dmenico. >> I. >> Miss Sims is an I. And Miss Alman. >> I. Thank you, Miss Sims. Item six is our financial information. The board acknowledges receipt of the following reports. 6 A, financial report. 6B, treasury report. 6 C, investment concentration and collateral report. 12312025. Uh I didn't I don't believe we got any questions submitted in advance. Does anybody have any questions now on those reports? Okay. Item seven then is our discussion item. 7A is the progress report on superintendent's area focus fiscal year 2026. And I'll turn it over to you Dr. Philippia. >> As I mentioned uh a few of these will be covered in over open open session. And there's a few that are specific to individual employees which we'll cover in
005close session. But um quickly giving you an update. I can't believe the year is almost halfway over or is halfway over. Number one was uh in the area of finance as we know when when we looked at the financial projection. Uh it looked like the fiscal year 2027 next year we were going to start to see a deficit. Um the three of us have been working really closely on almost a weekly basis to kind of dig into what those numbers are. um what the highs and lows in terms of risks are. As I mentioned before, transportation and special ed are kind of the two variables that have really knocked our budget out of whack. But in looking at basically like 2% of cuts across the board, we do think that we'll be able to make
006next year a balanced budget. And so, um we'll give you an update in April. uh we'll let you know what we think the 2028 and beyond looks like and then start to we will bring you a draft of possible areas to make those cuts. Not that we need to do anything this year, but that'll give us an opportunity to start to talk about what those cuts might look like. So, more importantly, next year if we need to start talking seriously about those cuts, we may very well have a vision 202 help us if we're like we don't know whether to do this or to cut that, what that might be. But we don't want to start that process now until we actually know what that deficit's going to look like and whether or not we
007can push it off to 2028, which at this point we're pretty confident we'll have a deficit in 2028, not in 2027. So this is somewhat premature when you later see the vision 202, but again we'll have a list of potential cuts for consideration for 2028 when we do the projection in April. In terms of vision 202, um I think we implemented most of the feedback we got from our April 2025. A lot of it was about communication and so we're focusing on communicating more and more in our weekly emails from the principles. Jenna does a great job in doing our monthly updates. And then with our quarterly reports, there was some information people asked about specifics of that we want to make sure we highlight and specifically about. Number number one, what we do to
008support students in general. I know we talk a lot about special education, but what do we do to support students who don't have an IEP? Making sure we cover that in our newsletters that come out in email, but also the ones in the mail. And then there's been some talk about enrollment. We've seen a blip over the last few years. What does that look like? What do we think it'll be in the future? How does that impact the capacity at our building? So, we'll make sure we get that information out too in that quarterly report. [clears throat] Solicit feedback from the elementary and high school. If you remember, um Mr. Martzoff did I think a wonderful job meeting with I think 20% of our students at the start of this year. I kind of wanted
009him to do it his first year thinking that would be a great way to get a land lay of the land, but having realized doing it year number two was probably better because I think that they trust him. They have a relationship with him and they were probably much more open. But I think he did a great job talking about the type of feedback we had, things we want to continue and then areas that we definitely want to consider making some changes to. I'm still hopeful to be able to do it at the elementary. The questions are going to be I think different than we saw at the junior high in high school. But I do still think that their voice is very important. It's just working with chat. I mean to come up with
010some questions to actually maybe elementary specific that I realistically think would be coming from the teachers because they have the relationship the teachers you know when a guy comes in like me and says tell me about you. I think it they would better be those types of conversations with the teachers to really get some feedback as to what's working, what's not working, what would you like to see different in your school besides a pool. So we will look at that in the spring time period. [clears throat] Again, item number three talks about the budget reduction options with the talking to the community. I think that's about a year in advance and so we'll delay that in terms of focusing on student learning, the impact of the instructional coaches. We are, and I mean this sincerely,
011we are so fortunate to have Nick join the team and I think Vinnie has been incredible. And so, um, we've worked hard to put together, I'll use the word rubric or framework to be able to evaluate the impact. And so, uh, we've meet regularly and putting that together. We've communicated that with the coaches so that we have it on our planning calendar now that in June we'll be able to report all that information to you to to show the type of work that I'm able to do, the impact they've had on student learning and uh, and show that not only has it made a difference here, but the people we have in place are the ones that really made it a difference. So that'll be a presentation in June. In terms of exploring artificial intelligence,
012um those two individuals that I just mentioned have been giving many many presentations in terms of how to be able to utilize AI. Uh they've had a number of afterchool presentations I've done and we've seen a cross-section at all three buildings. And so it's not specific to a building, but we've had a lot of people come after school for those types of events and walked away with I think a lot of really good ideas. Um, but having those coaches on staff, being able to come in embedded within the regular workday has been huge, too. So, it's one thing to go to a conference and say, "Now go do it's something else to have a partner to be able to walk in and actually work with you." And so, still trying to evaluate the impact. Um,
013but we'll definitely bring you a presentation in June related to that. One [clears throat] of my past passion projects for what seems like forever now is utilizing our data system. I think I've shared one of my biggest frustration is we get a IR once a year. I don't know what we do with it. I mean it it kind of gives us a percentage of those that are proficient and not and by the time we get it those students are typically already in the next grade and we don't get to see the questions. We just kind of get some general themes and so we're working really hard to be able to say well maybe I ready that we take three times a year will really give us that detailed information on a timely basis to be
014able to make a difference. And then we also have just the regular assessments we do through like bridges or my perspective and the ELA program and trying to get those three things to tie together. And so we've met multiple times with I Ready. They've reformulated where those cuto offs are because if you remember I changed everything this last year. And so I Ready when we met with them was still trying to re kind of formulate how those correlate. Uh but we have a connection at I Ready. They have a brand new individual that they've hired who meets with districts such as us and they said wait until you take your winter assessment. We have that in place and so now we're meeting with his name is George to kind of crossch check to be able
015to say I ready tells us this 80% of the time they are accurate in predicting IR. So then we can focus on I ready but then we want to take a step back and be able to say well what does bridges tell us? Can we say something to the effect of if a student gets an A or B, they have a 75% chance of pass passing I ready? And if they pass I ready, they're pretty, you know, expected to pass IR. Like we're just trying to connect it because starting with I AR is just not enough information. And if we focus too much, and I know I again I'm talking way too much on this particular topic. Students were doing really well at the junior high level in ELA. They were getting A's and B's
016and we're very proud of their work. we would get their I AR results and go wait what just happened and the problem was the curriculum we had wasn't to the level that we needed it for the students to pass an IR and so that showed us that as much as students were getting A's and B's they were not having a rigorous enough curriculum to do well in IR and so by having a way to be able to connect those three it's going to be able to show that there's not a diluted curriculum it's not to show that it's a teaching practice like we'll be able to know on a regular basis and not be surprised when we get those final results. Um, and so Jason is really leaned into hard meeting with the assistant principles
017on a regular basis and trying to put together models to be able to make that correlation. AI has [clears throat] been really good at taking a lot of information and being able to analyze it to kind of correlate those. But what we're trying to do is get rid of the friction so that all of these correlations can happen essentially by AI or a software or a computer so that I can make a decision today, see the impact and know that by the time those students in the spring take that assessment, it's going to do well. And I'm not trying to put so much weight on I just one more test, but that's the one that's on the school report card. That's the one that ranks every school district. And so I don't think that is
018a true measure of the great things happening in a school, but it is a measure. as much as we can do things well in advance so that there's not surprises. I think ultimately that's what we're trying to do. Anything to add about the heavy work you've been doing with the teams? >> No, I just reiterate what Dr. Philippiac said that I I've just been really happy to to meet with the assistant principles regularly. I've learned a lot. This is my first experience deeply working with Kate education. So, it's been a little bit of a learning curve for me. So, I've appreciated Miss McCormack's time and Mr. Erikson's time uh that I've taken quite a bit of. Uh but yeah, we're we're really trying to again, as Dr. Philippiac said, really connect the local curriculum to
019what we're seeing on these normed and state tests. I think once we can draw that tighter connection there, um and the teachers already do a lot of work here, but we're trying to remove some of the heavy lifting from doing the the data work so they can do the analysis um and and really spend the time in the instructional practices and the responsive nature of what we want to provide our students. Um, and again like Dr. Philippia said, if we could reduce that time spent on the actual putting the data together, they have more time to actually work with it and um, provide our students what they need. >> I'll get Jason to call me Keith at some point, too. It just we're easing into it. So, thank you. Um, [cough and clears throat] on
020a personal note, uh, Jason is actually at the stage two. He's getting his doctorate now. And so, he's gone through the program. He's resigned up and he's he's say I do this publicly to commit you to it. But uh [laughter] but I'm really excited to uh hear that he is putting time and effort outside of the workday to be able to kind of get across the finish line. And so um at some point we'll put him on the planning calendar to share what his topic is and give us regular progress updates to hold him accountable. but he's leaning into it hard and it it's been really great to have a partner here that you've got just so much background to be able to meet with the team and keep moving this project forward. So, >>
021it's great. Think of it like a race, you know. [laughter] It's >> going to be a long race. >> It's not. >> Um, [laughter] moving on to the next Oh, we're just starting tonight. Um, partner with College of DuPage to offer dual enrollment. Um, it personally pains me when I look at some of the courses offered by some of our larger neighbors. I think we do a lot of incredible things, but we are small in terms of our size. I feel like from my own personal experiences and going to high school and seeing it in my own kids, relevance is their biggest challenge. And so if we can find courses that really resonate, they look forward to being part of my mind. I don't want to say more importantly, but it is important to maybe
022plant that seed about what's next. And so because of our small size, like I look at some of our staff member and they're already doing so many uh different courses and we're really trying to focus on dual enrollment because AP is awesome. The rigor is there and you've got a chance to get a three or higher and possibly having a transition. Dual enrollment is pretty clean. like if you get a passing grade, you're going to get I meant to say dual credit, but um of course that transitions. And so the team at the high school has done a great job to compare some of our neighbors to see maybe things that we're missing. We've had multiple meetings with College of DuPage and they said absolutely we'll have somebody come out and teach a course for
023you. It will cost you $4,000 per course. And so to find out that if there's some courses we want to offer and we don't have staff that in the short term are able or willing to teach it that our partner right up the street is willing to come out and teach courses. And so at this point the team at the high school has narrowed it down to about four different courses when they look at our course catalog to some of our larger neighbors of courses that they offer for dual enrollment dual credit. We can argue about what that term exactly means later, but basically you would get high school credit and college credit. And so if it's COOD teachers teaching it, we know 100% it's going to get credit from COOD. The ability to pay
024$4,000 and have a teacher show up just for one period a day to be able to teach those courses. We're really excited as we continue to explore that. Next steps are the high schools looking at the course catalog. We're making sure we can do this with COOD and then to see what sort of students have an interest. It's one thing to offer one more course, but we want to make sure these are the courses. And so I'm envisioning something to the effect of here's six options. Which ones are you most excited about? And maybe two will kind of float to the top. In addition to that work, we're working with DEO/TCD to be able to do similar to a model now. We have students get on a bus, they go there for a period of
025time to take these courses. Why not also have some COD courses there, too? So that [clears throat] even though you may have three kids who want to be able to take a course, that's too few kids to realistically have some conversations about learning, you're really going to want to be closer to like a 10 at a minimum. And so maybe through the TCD model in addition to what we're talking about doing at Lyall specifically by having instructor there to offer more academic courses at TCD because we already have buses going there. And so that's part of our strategic plan there. We're in the middle of a strategic plan uh at TCD and I'm hopeful that that will become some of the things that float to the top in terms of offering some more dual credit
026courses and the academic side at TCD. Any questions about anything I've talked about up until now. Again, this is just kind of the midpoint of the exciting things we want. But as much as I want to put check marks next to these things, all these things take time. So even these dual credit courses, it's not for next school year as much as I want it to be. It's a process. And so, but it's part of our regular conversations. One of the things that >> Oh, sorry. Sorry. I had one quick question about the dual credit courses. I just thought of it as you were talking. Um, right now, is there ever an opportunity to have if there's something that really piques a student's interest like you said, the relevance piece where we can have them
027I know not ideal, but like e-learn cuz some of the COD classes are 100% online. Yeah. So, it's not uncommon that they take it in the summer or after hours, but uh I think there's certain board members here that you can meet with that have had their own kids say, "I'm going to take that course so that uh it frees up my schedule to take other courses." And so, that's that's an incredible opportunity. I'm just trying to figure out how to embed it within the actual school day. So, it's not school day sports and this additional course. >> Yeah. >> Your It does. Yeah. if there's a way to like have a period where it's dedicated. I'm sure within the school it'd be easy enough for us to find them space in the high school
028where we could have something where the online um classes at Cood I know they have a lot of great offerings um that sorry if I'm cutting you off but yeah there there would be >> either in person with embedded within the school day maybe it would be a zero hour maybe certain school students would go to a certain part of the building and just have an online course that's actually taking place at Cood maybe they get on a bus that actually is going to TCD and they could take some courses there So there's a there's a lot of opportunities. It's just wanting to have relevance and if possible, not only get high school credit, but also credit that would transfer to college cuz I know these things, but when you live these things, they resonate
029even more. And with my girls being juniors and seniors in college, and they and most of their friends are graduating at three and a half years. Amazing. saving the money on being able to transfer all these credits in, but also having some control over your schedule to be able to maybe have uh more balance in terms of what how many courses you need to take every semester. So, I could talk about this for hours, so I'm going to move on to the next. Um, she's elementary sale, if you recall, Chesterton Academy, uh, next year is the end of their lease period. um they really want to make a lot of improvements in that building, but they lease it. And so they don't want to put the money into these improvements like a an expanded stage
030or things within the classroom, even modernize certain rooms unless they know they're going to be there long term. And so one of the ideas that they floated was to be able to buy the building but not the land, knowing that we want to keep the land. I've been following up with them, but they have a lot of moving parts within their organization now. And so there have been some initial conversations, but I think realistically it'll come into next year when they're looking are we willing to extend it? What might that look like? For how long? Does this make sense now just to actually buy? So, um, part of the discussions, there's not a lot to update other than they're still seriously considering it. Uh, in terms of junior high renovations, exploring the option of installing
031new ceiling tiles and floor tiles. It's kind of funny to read out loud, but it's just a passion project. again like I look at what a difference in the the classrooms um and the commons area, what a difference the lighting and the ceiling tiles uh and the floor tiles have made. So, uh Dave has put in the maintenance grant the possibility of doing that, but it's really just going to be the leftovers of beyond the work that we're going to do at the high school and the auditorium. But I'm going to keep pushing it and at some point hope that we can find a way to do it. Maybe if the tiff money plays out, who knows? Um, >> you know, Keith, I think I may have said something about the new lighting in the
032halls, but it's actually the commons where you can see the old and the new at the same time, and you really can see the difference there. So, thanks. >> Yeah, the it's it's those the conversion of what was central to be classrooms has made such a difference there. Uh, in terms of when you go into the classrooms that were renovated, it is such a different feel from when you go out in the hallway. I appreciate us painting the lockers to, you know, make them look a little bit more modern, but um even if we need to chip away at some of these smaller projects, knowing that we've now targeted 203rd, 2029, 2030 to issue more bonds to be able to to continue to try and rank some real progress in that building. Um, as I
033mentioned, there's a few other things on my list when we go into close session. Those are more um employee specific, but that is the general things that uh we talked about a few months ago when we started the school year and I think we're making progress on all of them. >> Anybody have any questions for Dr. Philipp? Okay, thank you. Thank you for the update. Appreciate it. 7B is our freedom of information requests which were in file or in our >> No shortage of those, that's for sure. But yes, >> I'm sorry. There's no shortage of those, that's for sure. >> No one will. >> On 7 C, public comment followup. Uh, we had none from last month. And 7D, uh, you're on again with the superintendence report. >> Um, I won't read all these
034to you. I think, sorry about that. Um we try and do our best to kind of summarize these, but in general at Lyall Elementary, um there's a period of time within the last few weeks we just felt like things weren't as manageable as we had hoped. And so they've put in kind of some increased things to be able to have a bell schedule, expectations, meeting a lot with the students of just kind of what we want the building to look like. And I think they've made a lot of progress. But in addition to that, one of the things they've added is the great kindness challenge. And so, um, really making that a major theme, I think, is is helping to see the improvement. And then within that, which I won't read all to you, they've
035they've kind of put some things beyond even their building in terms of clothing collections to be able to help those of needs and things of that nature. I don't know if you've had a chance to attend any of these. if you do see them in the emails that go out um from the LRC, Stacy Weekes, you know, she does such a good job of making the middle of that building in the library, the heart of the building we had always dreamed about when we looked at pictures before it was built on any given day. There are so many students in there so much activity. It's been incredible. But one more layer of that is she has authors come in and so we wanted to highlight they had the royal library event where one of the
036monarch nominated books author came in and uh kind of shared you know what goes into it what's it like and makes it more of an activity and so again if you ever see one of these listed out please just reach out to Jill Shriber she'll definitely have you there but it's really exciting to have those types of events happen where they celebrate books talk to authors and maybe live a little bit more than just actually reading a book. So, another great event at the junior high. We wanted to highlight that they have a new book club and the the focus this month was actually confidence code for girls. I think that we're short of engineers in the United States, particularly uh girls in engineering. And so, they really wanted to be able to get people
037to connect that this is something maybe I'm good at. This is something I'd enjoy. I mean, my older daughter um didn't really know that she was going to be into it and started being introduced to it and suddenly she's like, I don't know why, but I seem to be really good at it. And so, that's her major in college. And so, um introducing that at the junior high level when you're already starting to feel like what do you want to do? What do you want to do? And you're like, I don't know. These types of events to be able to see yourself there, talk about with peers and other people really make a difference. And so, we wanted to highlight that. first semester honor role. We had 94 sixth graders, 92 seventh graders, and 75
038eighth graders that uh received the honor role. At the high school, this is a rather long list, but we had a number of Illinois State scholars. Uh a lot of their names are listed here, but we're really proud of the hard work and the achievement at our high school students. One of the really powerful things I think we do at Lyall Elementary that I'm not sure happened elsewhere is having our eighth graders come over and actually start to visualize what freshman year looks like. We had a huge turnout with that. And I also think one of the most powerful powerful events, but probably one of the most scary events for students is to have real students get up there and tell their story. And so we had a number of students get up there and
039talk about what it was like when they first came and at the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior level like what that might look like. Just so when students see, oh my gosh, I'm going to this building. It's only a few blocks away. Um, [clears throat] you know, how different is that? What can I do to find success? Who should I talk to if I'm nervous about And so I really think it was well attended and uh wellreceived. [clears throat] Number of winter activities that are listed here. Girls basketball, boys basketball, wrestling. Um we had math, DECA, and Scholast Scholastic Bowl. And wanted to take a moment and highlight the incredible DECA uh event we had today. It was scheduled for Friday. Somebody canceled school on Friday because it was cold, but DECA alltogether got cancelled.
040And we had so many students, I can't even remember. I want to say like 60 close to 60 >> 60 students who prepared for this. They were looking forward to this. They wanted to go to state. And so Katie Corinick, I think I'm saying her last name right. Philippiac's a hard one, too. But she took this weekend and created a whole event on her own with DECA. DECA wouldn't supply any of the questions. So she went in, she even admitted use chat GPT, but created these same experiences. And so there was a number of us, I think it was five of us today that uh volunteered to be judges. And with those 60 students, they had a DECA experience right there at uh the junior high. If you follow the high school on social media
041at all, uh Mr. Mart did a number of pictures to be able to show the the excitement um the hard work that we saw, the professionalism was amazing to try and n we had to come down to the top six students that we're going to send to state. And so it was one of the hardest decisions. The students were amazing, but uh Katie did a phenomenal job of very well could have said, "Yeah, it got cancelled, but spent her entire weekend putting together all the packets and having us be able to do something probably equally as powerful uh right in the building." So, we did want to celebrate all her hard work. And then I think uh Mr. Marky, you actually uh had a leadership course at the elementary building. Did you want to talk
042about that at all? >> Oh, yeah. So, I had the opportunity to visit the elementary and our little lion leaders, which was an outstanding event. They meet, I think it's every Tuesday. Um, and I had the opportunity to to share some ideas around leadership with them and meet with them. And it was great because they're actually getting ready to kick off their mentoring of the um our prek through I think it's first grade students that they come down and then mentor and buddy up with. So, it was great to get a chance to to meet those students and spend some time with them. >> I understand Dr. Philippiac will be next. Is that >> I hope so. >> I I have chat working on my speech. So, yes, >> you do. I heard the questions,
043>> but it it has been about 6 months since Jason has come here, but I don't know if you've ever met someone that feels like they've always been here. And so I cannot say enough positive things about the way that you've been able to like really get to know us, respect the things that we've done, but yet also have some ideas on how we can improve and and just really digging in. I mean, he knows the students, he knows the staff, he brings a bright perspective, but just it feels like you've never not been here. And so just wanted to let you know that um all of your hard work and the connections you made I think are really making a difference and we're fortunate that you were willing to come to Lyall. >> Very
044happy to be here. Thank you. Dave's okay, too. >> We echo that for both of you. [laughter] >> So, there's your midyear review. >> All right. And then finally, I I cannot believe we're talking about next year's kindergarten registration, but like it is one of those those stressors that five sections, six sections, what does that look like? And so as soon as we can get that information out, Jenna's already ordered a stack of uh signs to be flooding everywhere and get it on social media that registering for kindergarten doesn't happen 2 weeks before the start of school. We need to know the sooner the better to build the relationship, plan for start to build those class sizes. So uh for all of the millions of people watching the YouTube video now, please, if you have
045a kindergartener for next year, please take the time to register. We really appreciate for our planning. And that concludes the superintendent's report. >> Well, that was excellent. Thank you. I uh I I just want to also give, you know, I not necessarily a part of that report, but >> I was so close to getting an A, but please tell me what I missed. >> No, you didn't miss anything really. Um not a thing, but uh just a kudos to the elementary school. If you've had a chance to look at the principal's message that's been coming out, it's kind of like a series of social social emotional behaviors. And I'm sure that kind of ties in with what you initially said about, you know, working with the environment and some things that are going over there.
046But they've spent a lot of time talking about bullying and and impact on students and behavior and um I just thought it was really good not only for students but for anyone else, parents and whoever else. >> Yeah. And though I am an educator and talk about social emotional learning and all of the things, uh the tips that they've been giving for the questions to ask at home have been really helpful um in our family. So I imagine they are for other families as well. So just >> Well, I'm I'm confident Mrs. Shriber and her husband Chris are watching right now. So you can look at the camera and tell them directly. [laughter] >> All right. Anything else? All right. >> Mr. Held, you want to talk about uh the events from this weekend? How
047did that go? >> Uh, science Olympiad uh competed in Rockford uh this past weekend and I don't remember all the medal counts but it was significantly more than last year and they actually one of our teams beat one of the national champions >> teams. So that program is just going great. I mean the kids have such great energy. It's really fun to watch. Um, but like Lyla was well represented in that list of a lot of tough schools. And so what Miss Blashley and Mrs. Keer do, that's a practice uh competition so they can get ready for the next one. So they they kind of go in with some level set like we're just here to get used to this and lot some new kids in there. It's a fantastic way to do it, but
048they end up like exceeding all expectations. It was fun to watch these kids and you know for those who know science or dudono you pretty much it's not a sport you can watch your kid in so it's a whole lot of drive up get to Rockford at 7 a.m. and uh you know wait wait wait wait wait wait and to the end where they have a big uh gathering in in the gym and the kids are going up and they you know getting the awards they all come down everyone cheers but it's a really a neat thing so but there was exceptional I wish I brought the list of all the the the awards but it was pretty pretty high medal count >> there's a great post I think on Facebook or >> I saw
049one this weekend it had all the kids like lined up in a big picture and Lyall had so many medals it was really neat so that that it's always really high energy and such a great experience to go. >> So, and now there's a booster club for >> I was going to say next month we may we may have a we'll be voting on a booster club to support that. So, thank you. >> All right. Going on to item eight, which is our committee's reports. 8A is the facilities master planning did not meet. 8B finance. >> Finance did meet. We did go over a little bit, but there was an important tiff discussion and a few areas of celebration. >> Okay, great. Uh 8 C, uh it was like a day without sunshine, but policy
050did not meet. Um [laughter] and 8 and 8 D, vision 202 did not meet. Uh nine was our board representatives reports. Uh 9A, home and school organization, and Kate attended and a write up is in file. Thank you. >> It's in there. It was a great meeting and just um that May meeting date for I'm not sure which one of us is attending that may change. So that was in the report as well. They'll let us know when they have a final date. >> Great. Thank you. >> All right. Um 8 or 9B rather ISB delegate to board did not meet but we have a upcoming meeting. >> We have next Tuesday the 3. We have a the division meeting at the Willowbrook High School. So that's coming up soon. So I'm not sure who
051all is going but >> everybody is going. So our full board will be there. full board. So co we will coordinate transportation through Pam as usual for car pooling. So reach out to her and >> I think Dr. Philippia might drive the >> No, I think we drive ourselves but hopefully you selected the chicken. That's usually the better choice. >> Excellent. So all right. All right. Soord we'll do that and I know if we want policy to meet every meeting, you know, we can >> Oh gosh, no. No, we're okay. >> Talk to Pam about that. >> All right. 9C is intergovernmental. Did not meet. uh 9D LY education uh or lend rather was last Friday morning and um the slides are in file or in our um board packet rather uh 9E uh Lyall
052Education Foundation did not meet and 9F SAS did not meet but >> we do we will meet on Wednesday at 6:30 um though I don't have any information they haven't uploaded their documents so I imagine on Thursday I'll be able to send in uh the documents and we'll generally get the uh minutes by the end of the week. >> Great. Thank you. Uh and which brings us to um item 10, which is agenda topics for future board meetings. Does anybody have any items for Okay. Um with that, I will entertain with item 11. Entertain a motion to adjourn to close session for the purpose of discussing the appointment, performance, discipline, compensation, or dismissal of employees. And that is at 8:19. >> So moved. >> Second. If >> we could have a roll call, please. >>
053Mr. Helderly. >> I. >> Miss Foster. >> I. >> Um, Miss T. Dominico. >> I. >> Mr. Nagler. >> Hi. >> Miss Sims is an I. And Miss Alman. >> I. Thank you. We will adjourn to close session at 8:19.