001e e e my apologies it is 602 so let's uh get this business meeting of Urbana School District 116 started uh we're called to order roll call please member Staten member Jones here member Hixon here member Baxley here member langendorf here vice president exom here president palowski here we have a quorum um are there any additions Corrections or modifications to tonight's agenda no hearing none uh now it would be time for citizen statements if anybody here present wishes to make a statement before the board please fill out a golden Rush sheet that located in the back of the room and hand it to our recording secretary Lori Johnson we don't have anybody this evening uh there is no call for an executive session after tonight's meeting so the chair would entertain a motion to approve
002tonight's agenda so Mo second all in favor say I I um and is there a student B report tonight no Enjoy your spring break uh board reports any board member wish to give a report this evening go ahead Sher okay uh I Ben I don't know if we want to chime in here but Ben and I attended the uh orientation for new sixth graders over at the sixth grade um Center it was held at the middle school and it was standing room only there were seats available but still standing room only but it was a really good turnout um and I I'm not a parent but as a community member who wanted to know what was going on it was full full of information and you can see the amount of work that has been
003put in regarding um the student schedule the teachers that are going to be there the um expectations of behavior and I thought that it was related really well um and then all the students who had questions that was really wonderful because they're just as concerned about you know going to a new building um as parents probably are and as we are as well so it was really nice to um to see their questions and their concerns that were being answered and um Miss Carr gave lots of reinsurance to everybody that there's a plan and there's a procedure and she's available for anybody so that was really nice I don't know if you want to chime in well I think you covered everything I I concur it was well uh well received I believe I'm excited
004about it and my kid is excited too with the amount of attention he had he wasn't paying much attention to it but yeah he was listening though I mean he was there he was there I yeah okay um so that was the first thing the other thing that I wanted to say last time that that I didn't have my notes about uh Jennifer Hixon and I did have opportunities or made the opportunity to meet with anybody in the community um over at the wellness center I don't know exactly what day it was okay oh long time ago last week ago Monday and um we just wanted to make sure that that anybody who want wanted to talk to us about what it meant to be serving on the board if they had any questions we
005were available as it turned out they were very welcoming to us for being there nobody showed up but we were available um they were very welcoming and we were able to um have the uh community room to ourselves um we had coffee available um there's a coffee machine in front and and we're were able to use that the only thing was missing I think we could have had a sign out in front of our door so that anybody was there could just stop in so we took the chance of meeting during the day and um I was hoping because of the procedures that we did um decide on that maybe in um April that we can switch it and maybe two um board members can meet in the evening and then may again during the
006day and then June in the evening we could go to the wellness center they're available for us on Mondays or Wednesdays I mean Mondays and Fridays or we can pursue what we had initiated um possibly with going to the library um there's parking at the wellness it's easy to get to um so I mean that's something that I wanted to bring up for possibility thank you Sher any anyone else uh proceeding with our agenda let's start off with an action item for administrative Personnel items Angie can you provide context for the board sure miss Williams you want to join us at the table so we'd like to welcome Miss Katrina Williams um who moved to the champagne orbana area um a little bit over a year ago with her husband um and she is a
007dedicated educator and instructional leader with over 20 years of experience and instructional leadership curriculum development instructional design and professional learning facilitation as the current director of student achievement for young audiences charter schools in the greater New Orleans area Katrina plays a critical role in enhancing academic performance through data- driven strategies targeted instruction data analysis and collaborative teacher support with a passion for empowering Educators and students alike Katrina is committed to fostering a growth mindset and building capacity within School communities prior to her current role Katrina has served as an assistant principal mtss 504 coordinator dean of curriculum and instruction and instructional data specialist she is initiatives that improved student outcomes and strengthened instructional practices on a school and District level Katrina has a proven track record of aligning curriculum with State Standards analyzing assessment data
008implementing School Improvement strategies and supporting Educators through coaching professional development and instructional modeling Beyond school and District leadership Katrina is a published author and recognized conference presenter sharing expertise in differentiated instruction grammar and literacy strategies and data informed teaching practices she holds a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in education a recipient of multiple teaching and leadership awards Katrina continues to make a lasting impact on education by equipping teachers and students with the tools they need to succeed Katrina is excited to bring her passion for Student Success and instructional Excellence to Urbana Middle School in the arbana school district um Katrina it is our pleasure to recommend you to the board of education to serve as um the assistant principal at herbana middle school and she if you notice is supported here already
009by um Miss Kars principal Kars and also um Derek eely um here to came to support Miss Katrina so that's what we have for you this evening the chair would entertain a motion from the floor to approve administrative Personnel items in section 9.1 I move for approval second we move to second any further comments or discussion roll call please M Jones yes M Jones member Hixon yes member uh Baxley yes member langendorf yes vice president exom yes president palowski yes congratulations and welcome to the district so Miss Williams if you will hit the little button to turn green so that we'll be able to hear you and just it's a little button there you go there you go I just want to you know thank you all for giving me the opportunity to be a
010part of your school district I'm looking forward to everything um that Urbana has to offer for me and it's quite different from the south and so I'm getting used to the weather um but I'll get used to that but I'm so excited to be here and I hope to represent you guys well and making a positive impact on your community and I also wanted to my husband is the reason I'm here he works for Canadian national railroad um and so that's why we're here in Illinois yes welcome yes we're we're happy you're here thank yes and on a personal note during um it was quite impressive the homework that Miss Williams did prior to her interview she um really brought um a lot of information to our team it was quite impressive so we're excited
011to have you as a new member of the orbana family y uh we do have two administrative reports uh this evening the first up is a first read on our 2026 2027 District calendar okay so I'm going to keep it brief and hopefully spend more time uh with questions so as you know um we approved the 2025 2026 um calendar last week and as we shared with the board um we basically took that model and mirrored for um 2026 2027 I did just want to point out a couple of additional changes um and so things that we put in the last calendar but also um something new um we did survey our staff members I know we didn't send anything to parents but we had a a a very overwhelming response to survey data from
012staff um and one of the comments that we heard a lot and one of the things we asked about was really incorporating um a cultural calendar which we've shared that already but also um incorporating more of the religious observances that our families um for for our families um and for our some of our families who have very specific um cultural um just cultural holy days and just cultural observances and so um as we uh put in our 2025 2026 calendar uh we kept yam kapor um this school year yam kapore is on a Monday um which is September 21st you'll see that listed there as fall holiday a lot of the discussion we had with the last calendar we just approved was just the the idea there wasn't a reluctance to including the holiday it
013was just that the fact that it fell on a Thursday and just all the conversation around you know student attendance and um you know will students be um returning on Friday I've already received a couple of emails from parents who have said it's going to be really difficult for them having you know CH finding Child Care on a Thursday and then you know um just that that was some of the issues that have already been brought to the table so I've emailed um a couple of people in District and said hey what are some things that we can do um to support families who are going to struggle with having Child Care on that Thursday next year um so we're we're going to try to pre-plan and kind of get in front of that but
014the um one of the positives which we'd already agreed as a calendar committee is the fact that yam kapor falls on a Monday um for 2026 um really is uh really I think um easier for us in terms of um not stopping instruction in the middle of a week week um not um H having our older students who we know sometimes um have those uh really particular struggles with being absent um they can come on Tuesday and we can still get a full day of four four days of instruction in so that um is there for September 241st we kept all of our other um uh big things that we talked about in our survey for staff is we we kept the student L parent teacher conference nights uh where they fell um in the
01520 2025 calendar um um we put those in front of fall break again which is something that our staff overwhelmingly said that they preferred so that is uh still there um we also no changes to Thanksgiving break um we did um keep our uh the extra day that we added we did not add it to the first semester um one of our challenges is always that first semester is um a little bit shorter and second semester we're always looking for days so um you know kind of not adding that day there uh was a decision um that we didn't make with the committee but I think what we decided to do is just as good so we didn't add the day to the December um 22nd um that Monday or Tuesday for students um we
016were afraid if we added that extra day um for Yam kapor on Monday December 21st students would not be coming to school so it was an ex is something we just felt like um didn't make sense for our for our students to expect them to come back on December 21st and then staff would have to um be there um on December 22nd so what we did instead is we added that extra student attendance date to the end of the year and we're going to close out the year on a Friday which makes sense um so second semester is where we added that second um student attendance Day on May 28th um um that Friday we would have without that extra day ended on May 27th so going one extra day at the end of the
017year just made a lot more sense than trying to add um a student attendance day on Monday on yeah Monday December 21st for our kiddos um we have added another religious holiday one of the I think one of the biggest areas of feedback that we did receive from our um staff members is that we have a lot of our students um um and we continue to Reg register new students um at King School especially and middle and high school who um are observe um robinan and um ID and who are um Muslim families and so overwhelmingly our staff um very lots of comments around we should be recognizing that and so we did do that this year um and we put in a spring holiday March 10th on a Wednesday so same thing with um
018having a break a day off of school in the middle of the week um we're going to have to be very intentional around um if we can plan some kind of schools day out for families so they have an option for child care that day that would be great um so we'll really try to problem solve with our people um to get something in place for that because it'll be very similar to what we're going to experience next year with yam kapore being on a Thursday um is having a day off on on a Wednesday kind of just breaks the week apart there um but having um student L conferences being right behind it will help a little bit so um hopefully all of our students come back on Thursday as we uh get ready
019for conferences on Thursday night um spring break no changes and then our spring holiday is still there Good Friday and um Staff Development Day mirrored to the same time um that we had it for this year coming up so those are the big changes board members any questions gu the question I have is is is uh when would this be coming to the board for a vote at the um meeting the first meeting in April okay April 1 is it April 1 yes April 1 I just wanted to to add this is what Synergy looks like and this is why we have a calendar committee or a committee of parents and teachers and administrators and community members is because we get not maybe the best but the best with what we have to work with
020and I think that that everybody was listen to it didn't matter how you voted if you had something to say and if it was useful we could work that around and and come up with something as as good as this I mean we can give all the uh cultural um handouts and calendars but what the reality is what happening in in the schools and I over the weekend I didn't know this before but over the weekend I learned that one of the elementary schools on yum Kipper this year had a potluck and they called it a feast and when parents came and had a concern about it their their the response that they received was well there's no other day to do it well there's not too many of you anyways and I think that
021yeah I think that that's the message that they received so had I known that before I I certainly would have conveyed that during the calendar committee so people would so participants would have known um what the response was and also the feeling that that because champagne did had a day off we did not that led other families to go to Champagne instead of Urbana schools so I think when we say we we honor diversity we are welcoming this is a calendar that demonstrates that so I'm happy that the calendar committee was able to put something together that is so wonderful thank you thank you and and I do think um we are doing whatever we can at the administrative level to help educate our administrators as well I know we sent out a lot of
022messaging um at the beginning of Ramadan um to make sure our administrators had a plan for you know our the students who celebrate Ramadan fast for a whole month and is really um hard to go to the lunchroom every day if you're fasting for a month and watch other students eating so we made sure people had alternate spaces for our students to go um if they're fasting for the month Mon and so just making sure you're having those conversations ahead of time and so um our buildings have a plan and it isn't you know a surprise and you know we're just kind of telling kids well you figure it out so um we had a lot of teachers who Advocate and um our staff members had a lot of comments to say in the survey
023around um the population of the students that were serving and we need to be culturally sensitive and culturally competent for what we're doing so I agree Sher I think a lot of voices were heard um either people who came and talked to me personally I know board members have people who talk with them so I do agree I think a lot there was a lot of voice and um choice in you know what we are doing for the next two years for our calendar once approved so anyone else right thank you uh moving on our last administrative report tonight is an update on our strategic planning process all right so you have two documents in front of you oh well okay yeah so this one you did not need so you can put the one
024that stapled away um that is for program counsil for Thursday sorry um you do have a fly fire which is in color um that I will be sharing that out very soon with um people who are either signing up because they're interested in being on the um uh strategic planning design team or um people who are going to be volunteering or principles I know are going to be going out um and asking you know some of their stakeholders to represent their buildings in this space so um and we have people from the community so I already already have a couple of people who I've said hey if you're available on these two two dates um please set it aside so you can be part of our planning team um so this is just that kind
025of invitation flyer um and then we have a RSV RSVP uh Google form the other um form that you have is just kind of our our process and what we're what a little bit about what we're doing so at the end of this I really hope to have a nice uh representation of our work through the process so this represents a lot of the engagements that we're currently still um going through and so um I'm still out going through uh different spaces I'm you know I just had the Spanish bpc group last night uh will be having a conversation at program Council on Tuesday I mean Thursday um we have two of our uh five School Community listening sessions already completed we've been to Dr Williams for Dr Williams and uacs um on Friday night
026Yankee Ridge multilingual tomorrow night I'll be at Leo and then Thursday at Thomas Payne and then after break um we were able to uh set up the ivanho visit I'm really excited about that if you remember I was trying to get some of those um really specific neighborhood uh spaces where we have some of our families of color who uh reside and live um and the only one so far that we've been able to um set a date for was our ivanho um families and that'll be on March 31st hopefully it'll be warm enough to be outside because they don't have an inside Space so we'll be outside at the Pavilion um so we'll have to have a rain date in case it rains and then we'll be a king and um so I just
027wanted the board to kind of see some of the areas once this is all complete and we have numbers to put here we'll be able to put the totals of you know all the people that we've engaged either through a small group or through a special group or um we have a very specific signin form that we're having people fill out when they come to community meeting spaces um and then of course all of our folks who are participating on the portrait of a graduate design team so um I think my main goal tonight was really to have a conversation with the board around who is going to be representing um the board on our two days on August 16th is that 17th I can tell you a little bit about what those days look
028like I was trying to get this to Lori to print but our principal's meeting went a little longer so on the 16th and 17th um we'll be at um IH hotel we as you know um when we went through our budget we have a very specific budget amount for strategic planning um I looked at using some of those bigger companies to come in but they're so expensive so um there groups out there who come in and will do strategic planning for you at the cost of just4 or $50,000 and you know no big deal um travel yes plus travel and you're paying for the airfare travel or whatever so we've decided not to do that um and we are going to go to ihotel we I felt like we needed to be away from our
029buildings and one we don't have a space during the day where we can put 50 or 60 people so we will go to IH Hotel um we have a big breakout room planned and a big um we'll be in one of the bigger rooms and then several breakout rooms for day two um I am planning and I've been working with uh one person in particular through Luda um he's a retired superintendent who um is very successful and has started his own kind of doing this work on his own as a consultant so I've had a couple zooms with him um and so I think he's going to help facilitate um the sessions with us because there are a lot of things that we're going to talk about in our day data that aren't um just
030aren't positive I we've been having those conversations about um cultureal climate discipline some of our student learning data and I think it'll be helpful to have an outside person to help um facilitate some of those conversations and so I've been zooming with him talking a little bit about our process talking a little bit about some of our engagements and so I'm hoping that he will be the one um who will just kind of help walk us through and facilitate so it doesn't have to be me of the whole two days um or our district directors doing it all so um we'll spend the first day um really just kind of setting the stage a little bit and looking at some of our overall District data um and then we'll unveil our portrait of a graduate
031we're getting very close um we are now down to about four competencies and skills so we have a couple more that we're talking about um and then we'll take some of our district data and that portrait and start that first day really just talking about our why and really looking at our mission statement um and then what we value and then day two we'll be just really getting down to the nitty-gritty and setting a goal um for a priority area and um really pulling out all the data so we're going to have so much data a lot of it very qualitative lots of antidotal data through the conversations that we've been having with parents um we have have the survey data that we'll share um and I'll share some of that at one of our
032next meetings prior to this so the board board members who aren't going to be there can see it so I'll do that at our first um at our study session in April um so we have the themes we have the strengths but we really want to focus our conversation on um some of the opportunities for growth that we're hearing from our community um so a lot of the comments that we've been looking at I know the portrait of a graduate team got to look at with two very specific questions in our survey about what um what as a stakeholder stakeholder of the community do you see um as what is needed as a skill for our graduates and so some of the comments and some of the um stories that people told in their comments
033um just some of the reflections uh we had about 50% about 49% of the folks who took the survey were parents but then on the flip side about 40 to 45% were uh staff members so the um but it was really interesting that a lot of the comments were very similar so our staff and our parents are seeing some of the same things um that we do have some of our students that have gaps they do need to be critical thinkers and better problem solvers and um and so I think the data we've been getting has been great the inperson conversations have been fantastic um people that that are feeling really comfortable sharing um you know these are some of the things that we really think you could do better one that I'm going to
034point out because it I have heard it in every single person inperson space that I've been in is a parent has said to me and um one of our skills is communication for the portrait of a graduate we've been talking about but I've had a parent say to me in every single one of these spaces that they would like us to have one system of communication they I had a this was an example from last week a parent said I'm a second grade family I started in early childhood I have had to learn a new platform every single year than my kid has been in school they had to the teacher want my teacher was using something in early childhood I went to first grade and this teacher loved class dojo this teacher loved clever
035this teacher loved seesaw and now my my my current teachers using remind I mean it is and the parents said I'll I'll use whatever you want just teach me one thing that I can learn from kindergarten to you know 12th grade and so um I was I've been really surprised because that hasn't come out in any other um way and it's it's kind of overwhelmingly coming out it was in our survey responses um it's been in the in-person conversations but having these one-on ones with people and just sitting down in these little small group settings people are sharing that a a person shared that in the Spanish um bpack meeting last night that they also feel like they just want to learn one Platform One app and I I will use that same app and
036so we're looking at a couple of those um and I know it'll be hard because our buildings love you know we have one building who loves seesaw and everybody loves seesaw and we have teachers who love Class Dojo and we have teachers who love remind and I think we're all this is going to this is one of those moments this is why I'm using this example is this is one of those moments where having something come through so organically through the Strategic plan is is going to help us be able to go to schools and say our parents are asking for this and this is something that we really need to do and it'll be hard to give up the thing that you love but here's something that we found that we can all use
037and so um I think that is kind of just one of the examples that I wanted to share I think that have come up um through surveys through in-person conversations through small focused groups through big groups so um so yeah I think we're going to have um a really interesting two days so I'd love to know who would like to be there with us for those two days oh okay Jennifer anybody else I I would like to but the fact that it's a Wednesday and Thursday when I'm oh yeah during I mean it's it's really hard for me to get I understand anybody else okay anybody else all right so Sherry and oh you're oh it's in April you'll still be here we won't be switching the board till May no no [Laughter] no no
038no April 16th 17th no but I do think it makes sense and if and if no one applies you could always apply you know oh I'm not used that one honor you're right um did okay Sherry and Jennifer yeah and they are both um representing the board on program counsel which is where we have a lot of um conversations not this week I know yes not this week but um our program Council group this week is going to do a um something called a SWAT analysis which is uh you talk about strings um W is weaknesses we don't like to use the word weaknesses but like needs and challenges o um is opportunities and then T is threats and threats means it's those what are those barriers that keep us kind of for doing some
039of the things that we know we should be doing as Educators so we're going to have them break up and really talk about culture climate student discipline because that is a huge area that everyone has been discussing and then um they're going to be able to choose between that area or um student learning and student achievement and so because we can't have 140 teachers be there with us um in person they this is a way for them to get their voice into the conversation um so they're going to break up in groups and um kind of talk about what are the what are the strengths that we have in these areas but then what are our opportunities that we can grow from a teacher's lens um and then we'll collect that information from them and
040then on day two we're going to have so much data to share we'll have qualitative data we'll have survey data we'll have these uh SWAT analys um breakdowns from our teachers so there'll be a wealth of data to really um help us inform what our priority areas need to be we already know we're going to have one of them be um facilities and finance for um the long-term facility uh project things that we talked about at our last meeting but then we need to decide um as a group what are the other big areas um that we want to have as priority areas so that that'll be day two so thank you Jennifer and Sherry for volunteering oh okay Lola says she would like to do it so now you got to do okay Sherry
041what do you want to do Lola says she'd like to okay so you have Lola okay all right we can only have two for Oma yeah yeah we can only have two people well she said if no one else wants to do it when she volunteered fine okay or you guys can talk and let me know how about that okay it's fine okay okay so Lola would like to so we'll have Jennifer and Lola okay thank you guys more I'll keep get bringing you more updates between now and the 17 16th and 17th okay sorry I can find my agenda again um we do have a list of action items for a consent agenda uh 11.1 are our minutes for our February 18th business meeting February 20th special meeting February 25th uh District parent teacher
042advisory committee meeting and our March 4th study session uh 11.2 is uh approval for February bills for payment uh is being requested in Advan because this meeting uh is coming a week early because the spring break and we don't have all the numbers yet there'll be a follow on uh action item on a future agenda with the actual numbers but this is authorizing our office to make the payments 11.3 it's a list of regular Personnel items 11.4 is interfund loans former working cash to onm for $400,000 from working cash to Tor for $200,000 from working cash to imrf for $200,000 11.5 is a ihsa membership renewal 11.6 is a resolution authorizing and directing the sale or disposal of District property in accordance with state law now this includes DPW library books various technology items various
043old Machinery Parts filters carpet squares damaged paper towel dispensers and a variety of paper products uh a new account approval for 11.7 being requested for the welding Lab at arbana high school 11.8 is a garbage disposal contract extension uh with gfl environmental for sanitary hauling and Recycling and our last item for the uh consent agenda is a walk-in cooler replacement bid um being awarded to David hul mechanical uh verbana for 374,000 $850 uh does NB wish to have any of these action items removed uh to be a separate individual action item I do um I'm just the walkin cooler is that something that we just can get some more information about before we vote on it uh yeah yeah we can we can uh remove that extended agenda and deal with that separately yeah it's
044just so much money that I would just like to have a little bit more information sure so uh the chair would then entertain a motion uh for a consent um for consent agenda items from 11.1 through 11.8 say is there a motion to yes I move that we consider 11.1 through 11.8 on the action items this evening approv okay is there a second a second uh for so for the entire consent agenda uh is there any any uh further comments questions or discussion uh roll call please memb Hixon yes member Baxley yes member langdorf yes vice president exom yes president palowski yes member Jones yes uh motion passes uh next up would then be 11.9 for the walkin cooler bid is there a motion for the floor for this single action item I move to
045um consider what okay I move to approve the walkin cooler replacement bid is there a second a second so now we can actually ask questions and discuss well I'm glad Quest is still here so if I need some backup on this they can help me um it's just uh reached the end of its life um we put a lot of money into it um it continues to um have leaks in it uh through the roof um a few years ago we went in and put a bunch of uh spray foam on top of the cooler to keep the kind station from coming through the cracks where it's seam together and uh that's even failed at this time so um just time to upgrade uh do a more energ energy efficient cooler um they'll be the
046same size um I don't know what else to say about it but it's we put a lot of in the past five six years we put a lot of money into it for uh like Motors um just everything in general it's the end of its life cycle what is a life cycle uh they say about 20 years how old is was this was um more than 20 years yeah um when I I've been here 21 years maybe um it was in then and I remember like they went in and they like uh tried to reseal all the seams at that time we replaced a lot of Motors um uh and then I mean we've always had that little drip in there and then you know you can't have that in a freezer it turns to
047ice and then when they're with a chisel or a like a hoe or something breaking up the ice um and then with the cooler itself too we always get just get condensation in there coming through the um roof onto the floor thanks for that we've done a lot of a lot of fixing on that to it probably should have been done I remember uh Oda and Kevin lson talking about it and Kevin's been retired for 10 years or more so it was talked about then replacing it yep both both this cooler and the old high school cooler were things that kept Oda up awake at night yeah talked my ear off about both of them so anyone else uh comments or questions com uh roll call vote would be in order then member Baxley yes
048member langendorf yes vice president exom yes president palowski yes member Jones yes member Hixon yes uh we do have another set of individual action items these happen every year about this time uh where according to the school calendar we uh are informing staff members uh that uh they are being dismissed or their Grant funded positions are um can't be uh confirmed at this point and we're have to inform them that they they uh they're going to be Rift of a pending approval of of future grants so there's a number of resolutions here that we take very seriously that can be read off one at a time um that uh we're doing basically to meet state law uh 12.1 uh is a resolution authorizing honorable dismissal of a full-time teacher there's there's one person affected here
049I move to adopt the resolution authorizing honorable dismissal of one full-time teacher as presentent is there a second second second it moved and seconded any comments or discussion roll call please member langendorf yes vice president exom yes president palowski yes member Jones yes member Hixon yes member Baxley yes 12.2 is a resolution authorizing honorable dismissal of full-time Grant funded educational support personnel with a 30-day notice um there are eight people affected here I'll move to adopt the resolution authorizing honorable dismissal eight full-time Grant funded educational support personnel as presented second second any any comments discussion yeah I meant to say this before I'm sorry I've been in this situation and it's not easy um to not know um at the end of the year during the summer if the money's going to come through I
050think the situation now is even worse um heard that 50% of the people who work for the Department of Education we're going to get fired tonight the US Department of Education so who knows what we're going to have to deal with but um in a a situation where we're where we want our people to to our our employees to stay where we value them and then we have to do this is is terrible as I said I've been in this situation almost every year as an adult ed teacher and the one thing that I was very concerned about is um whether or not I had at leased health insurance over the summer and I've been um guarantee that that our employees will have that if they have that during the the school year so I
051feel it better that that we're watching over them that they were caring for them and that we want them to return if if things turn out favorably which we all hope thank you for that Sher any further comments or or discussion roll call please vice president exom yes president palowski yes member Jones yes member Hixon yes member Baxley yes member langendorf motion passes 12.3 is a resolution authorizing honorable missal of full-time Grant funded educational support uh personel a 45-day notice uh there's one person affected here I move to adopt a resolution authorizing honorable dismissal of one full-time Grant funded educational support personnel as presented second comments discussion roll call please president palowski yes member Jones yes member Hixon yes member Baxley yes member langendorf yes vice president exom yes 12.4 is a resolution authorizing honorable
052dismissal of full-time educational support Personnel 40 to 5day notice as three people affected here a move to adopt the resolution authorizing honorable dismissal of three full-time educational support personnel as present it second any further comments or discussion vot call please member Jones yes member Hixon yes member Baxley yes member langendorf yes vice president exom yes president pal yes uh 12.5 is a resolution authorizing dismissal of part-time Grant funded educational support Personnel 45 day notice as one person affected here I move to adopt the resolution authorizing dismissal of one part-time Grant funded educational support personnel as presented second roll call please member Hixon yes member Baxley yes member langendorf yes vice president exom president palowski yes member yes motion passes um 12.6 is a resolution authorizing dismissal of part-time grant-funded educational support Personnel 30-day notice 13
053people affected here I move to adopt the resolution authorizing dismissal of 13 part-time Grant funded educational support personnel as presented second roll call please member Baxley yes member langendorf yes vice president exom president palowski yes member Jones yes Hixon yes motion passes and that concludes our action items for the evening uh there is no call for future special or executive meeting at this time uh superintendent's report okay so Saturday um our fearless leader for re Across America Sher langendorf here who organized us all and um got several of us to um greet and read so thank you Sherry for your on how many years have you been doing that this is the 25th year you've been doing it all 25 years I did not know that I was chair for about 20 wow that's amazing
054now I'm just a planning committee member that's wonderful well you go and get us all out there so it's amazing I didn't I knew I saw that on something that it was the 25th anniversary and wow it was amazing it's is such a great well attended um opportunity for our Community I really miss not taking my own kiddos but it's nice to just walk I know like just walk around and you know my son and I were reminiscing that very morning and I was like you should go with me he was like oh I remember that and so yeah it was great so what's cool about that is that some of the the uh children that first came are now bringing their children absolutely that's amazing yeah wow so I know Paul was a greeter
055I didn't get to see everybody but this is just us kind of standing with our bags greeting people as they come um I read this year I usually don't do that but I got I read a book um but yes it's a Well attended um thank you Lincoln Square for always hosting it's such a great space because it's so open and people can just kind of wander and yeah it's a lot of fun to just see so many people all everyone from our community teachers parents it's it's a great day so it was wonderful weather too so I think it just brought out everybody was yeah thank you for organizing and thank you for your team um the mayor recognition program I is coming and so of course we saw canita there and uh she's
056started kind of reminding me to help remind students um okay so UHS students get in there and start signing up um if you've spent time volunteering this school year um you can be recognized last year we had more than a 100 students who volunteered more than 10,000 hours so I know that is kind kind of the the goal now and we want to try to beat that especially since this is Mayor Marlin's last mayoral recognition um before she um leaves her seat as mayor and um I know they want it to be really big and really well celebrated since this was um part of um mayor Marlin's vision and her commitment to supporting um Urbana schools and Urbana students so um some of the requirements if you volunteer at least 30 hours during the school
057year you you you get honored um we have students who volunteer 30 hours we have students who volunteer 300 hours so it just depends um enroll by March 15th submit your hours by March 28th and for more information there's a link there and this is one of the pictures from last year so our group gets getting bigger and bigger every year so um get in there and get registered dual language forums this is the time of year we're doing a lot of heavy planning for next year already so um French dual language program your informational night if you're interested um parents come on out on Wednesday March 12th which is tomorrow night um from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. and the Spanish dual language program informational night is Monday March 24th from 6:00 to 7: um
058both nights um for families will be held at the LI in the library at Yankee Ridge kindergarten registration we had this in there last week but we are really trying to promote this any opportunity that we can we need to know who you are if you've got a student at home that will be five years old on a before September 1st uh we want to get them registered for kindergarten on April 10th we'll be at Lincoln Square from 10:30 to 5:30 um so please bring your child if you can um because we will have people there doing kindergarten screening um for more information about what you need to bring with you um to get that process started we've provided a link there as well um spring break is next week so I know um I
059think we're all ready and the weather is really helping to push us in that direction and we're looking forward to spring because the weather is kind of warmed up for us but yes spring break is next week um staff development day is the week after as well as student Le um Family conferences on that Thursday and Friday when we return from Spring Break um so everyone have a safe and Happy Spring Break and relax relate release and then come back ready to finish the fourth quarter strong thank you uh there are series of Foos that were processed that were listed in our publicly published agenda uh at this time the chair would uh entertain a motion to adjourn so move second mov in second and all in favor say I hi hi enjoy spring break
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