001Okay. I was I was at the bowling alley talking to Mrs. >> She might be ready. I will call the meeting to order. Our first order of business is the pledge. So, if I can ask the Antioch ambassador to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Miss >> Mr. >> H. >> Mr. Pagney >> here. >> Miss Jacobs, >> she will be late maybe a half hour. >> Miss Dixon here. Miss Carol here. >> We have a Thank you. Government students, we have to have four of our members present or we don't hold a meeting. There was only seven. Even though this full of people. There's only seven board members. So, if only three show up, we
002can chitchat. Jot that down. I'll make sure that Mrs. Walsh. Bullying, harassment, racism, sexism, and hate speech have no place in Community High School District 117 is committed to creating a rich, equitable, and respectful learning environment for all. We believe in our mission statement, which is ignite passion and discovery in every student. We'll continue to develop ways to extend the thinking, learning, and the opportunities for all our students, our staff, and our families. To that end, it's critically important that we are explicit in stating that bullying, harassment, racism, sexism, and hate speech of all kinds are not acceptable and have no place in our district. Please work with us to discourage, report, and address these hurtful behaviors. The next item on our agenda is the opportunity for the public to make comments. The opportunity to
003speak to the board is provided for members of the public who have a comment to make about the business of the board. The board appreciates hearing from stakeholders and values your thoughts and questions. The board strives to make the best decisions for the district and public input is always very helpful. The board must protect the civility and decorum of this meeting. Please be respectful of the duties of the board and the democratic process in your comments tonight. Please state your name and address and address your comments to the board. Please limit your comments to three minutes. Please be factual and courteous and the board requests that you not make statements that are personally respectful or condescending to members of the board or to our staff. To the extent there may be multiple speakers addressing a
004single issue, I reserve the right to limit the number of speakers making public comment of a repetitive nature andor limit the time allowed for that public comment. The board does not respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during the public comment period. Would anyone care to make any public comments? If not, and seeing no one stepping forward, we will begin with our presentations beginning with athletics. >> Yeah. So, it's my honor to introduce two of our most uh tireless working administrators. I thank them for another late night. They were laughing. They're like, "This is an early night for us." So, thank you, Mr. Mike from Antioch and Matt Wright from Lace Community High School. So, thanks for your time tonight. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Floyd. Good evening, everybody. I would be remiss
005if I didn't with appreciation on behalf of the student athletes and coaches of Anna Community High School at Lakes Community High School for all the ongoing support the district 117 uh district administration and board of education continues to uh infuse into our programs. Our uh our student athletes have a a wonderful outlet to live out their passions in the competitive educationbased environment and that's directly due to your ongoing support. So we appreciate that. It's uh hard to believe that it's been another year of Antioch Sequoid's athletics. It certainly was action-packed since last winter. So, we're going to do a little bit kind of a year in review and a can here for you to give you a 10,000 foot view of all the great accomplishments our Secoids are experiencing in the fields of play in
006the arenas. Last year was our first year of uh girls wrestling. Historic year for them. Uh the program has grown tremendously. Uh at open house last was last night, two nights ago, uh we had 41 incoming freshman sign their name is having interest in girls wrestling. That is exponential growth from the very beginning. Um last year we had four allconerence selections. These are all varsity accomplishments and uh four sectional qualifiers in girls wrestling. Uh our historically successful boys wrestling program uh enjoyed seven allconerence selections. We also host an IHSA regionals. We're very proud to continue to feature our community by hosting uh postseason tournaments and contests so that uh our student athletes have the opportunity to to compete at at a high level in front of their home crowd. Um those state qualifiers for the
007boys are listed uh on our presentation. Our dance was successful on an individual basis in which we had three allconerence selections. In our cheer competitive cheerleading season last winter, we had all conference selections and two all state collections. So, Kayie Feainer and Leilani Son are still cheering in college when I was freshman um and were all state selections last year. Our boys basketball program had two NLCC allconerence selections and we hosted the IHSA sectional tournament in boys basketball here at Community High School. Our girls uh basketball team also had two allconerence selections and one state all state selection in Heidi Rathman. Uh we do have a shared team in the winter with Lakes Community High School and that is our D117 boys bowling seagulls. Uh last year was their second season of competition. Uh there
008was tons of improvement. Uh they were in they they ended their season at the regional level. Uh but we are hosting ISSA regionals for the first time ever. at Antioch. It's going to be at Lakes Bowl and Round Lake. And uh this year we have more lakes holders than we do Antioch bowlers, which is kind of a coin flip from last year. So that continues to be uh to be in flux as to what school uh is most involved in that program, but we're sure proud of proud of our boys bowling program. Our girls bowling was a little bit more successful altogether. They were sectional qualifiers as a team and Abby Les was a state qualifier as an individual. Moving on to the spring for the sequ our baseball team had five allconerence selections. We
009hosted the IHSC regionals in that sport as well. Uh the NLCC player of the year was Evan Schmidt. So he was the best of the best as far as our Northern Lake County uh baseball players. Girls soccer enjoyed two allconerence selections. Uh on the during the boys tennis season, we hosted the NLCC conference tournament. I believe uh Lakes hosted the sectional tournament. So we do in tennis and boys and girls season because of our awesome tennis complex we tend to rotate season to season who host conference and who hosts IHSA sectionals. Uh our boys track and field team at 31 allconerence selections. Uh and we were state qualifiers in the 4x100 and 4x400 relays. Um those relay teams are listed there. Outstanding individuals were Carson Lanners who was all state in the 800 meter run
010and Brandon Marx who's all state in the 300 meter hurdles. Our girls track team won the conference and indoor season and enjoyed 33 allconerence selections. Uh two outstanding uh seniors last year were Rosie Gonzalez who's running right now cross country and track at Ball State. She was a head LCC champion in two separate events in a state qualifier in a 3200 meter run. Cindy Walker qualified for state in the high jump and she's an outstanding athlete as well. Our boys volleyball team had three all NLCC selections and our boys lacrosse team also had three all NLCC selections uh including Noah Brryer who was the conference goalkeeper of the year. Um to kind of uh set the uh standard for spring competition, our softball team continues to be exceptional. Um it has been for a very
011long time. numerous accolades, NLCC champions, IHSA regional champions, IHSA sectional champions, and super sectional qualifiers. Uh we also hosted regionals. Um Sam Hiller was an all-American, which which is obviously a huge honor. All region, all state, and all area. Uh Tegan Skyler was all region, all state, all area. Claire Skyler was all state and all area. Andy Web was all state and all area. And man was all area. That along with seven allconerence selections is a testament to the hard work of our lady sequence on the diamond. Uh after a long summer of preparation, we're back at it this fall. Uh and a little wrap up on on some of the historic accomplishments. Our golf teams uh both competed uh at a at a pretty high level. Uh but in their individual and team competitions,
012we face a lot of the North Suburban teams that are pretty uh pretty phenomenal golf teams as well as our uh our competitors over at Lakes. Uh in the boys side, we had three allconerence selections, two sectional qualifiers, and on the girls side, we had three allconerence selections. In tennis, we had six allconerence selections on the girls side, and we hosted IHSA sectionals. In cross country, Carson Landers was back at it this fall as an all state qualifier in cross country um and and qualified for the state race down in Poria. Football had 10 all uh all conference selections. We hosted a a round one playoff game here at Anyak Stadium and Owen Shay uh was a standout honore with all state honors as well as the conference defensive player of the year. Uh our
013flag football team from its very inception just like our Eagles over there are are very very successful, very very competitive. Uh the SE points this year were regional champions, sectional champions that qualified for the state series uh falling to Whitney Young in the semifinals, quarterfinals. Uh we had two all state selections which are sponsored by the Chicago Bears, Tanner Lwig, our quarterback, and Reese Wingsland who is a receiver and safety for us. Boys soccer uh had one allconerence honors volleyball had two allconerence selections and our field hockey which doesn't play IHSA sanction but we have a parallel organization called the Illinois high school field hockey association uh so they they select all conference honores and we were fortunate enough to get two honores and play in a playoff game against Lyola. And that's uh that
014wraps up the one kind of review for the sequence. I'll turn it over to my my partner in crime, Matt Refe. >> Uh thank you, Mike. Um and before I get started with my portion, I would just like to echo what Mike said. Um I think this past weekend with the uh we were able to host the all the lights cheer and dance on Saturday and Sunday. Um so you know student athletes from a lot of schools were here with 104 cheer uh routines and 68 dance routines. Um and many from places you know much bigger schools with with larger tax bases and things like that. When those students come into our school, our district, our area, they are blown away. They don't have what we have. It's really cool for our kids to see
015that and appreciate that much more uh that maybe they would otherwise. So again to echo Mike every in this room uh for all of the support behind the scenes to allow our kids to have this much success. Uh so thank you very much. When we rewind to last winter uh we'll start here with girls wrestling. Uh last year we had five allconerence team members and Josie Larson was a state champion. Uh she was 29 and0 with uh all 29 were pins, 27 girls were in the first period. Uh so she had a tremendous tremendous season. She was also part of the the uh inaugural team state championship the year before. So uh definitely someone who left that legacy behind. Um she's wrestling now division one at Sacred Heart University and she's she's doing a heck
016of a job. So very proud of Josie Larson on the boy side on the mats. We had two allconerence team members and two sectional qualifiers. Uh dance had two NLCC selections. Cheer had three NLCC selections. Boys basketball had one. girls bowling were the regular season and tournament conference champions. Um they won the regional as well which I don't think I included here. That was the third regional in a row that they have won. Um girls basketball had won all conference team member and our D17 co-op as Mike mentioned. Boys bowling is housed here at Antioch. Girls gymnastics is housed at Lakes. Uh so our seagulls last year had one sectional qualifier and she qualified in all four events. So, very good, especially because um you know, we are we're on the road all the time
017um because we've got to get gym space to get everybody ready and all of those little things. But it it worked out really well and it's it's just nice to see both schools working so well together. So, that was our winter of 2024, winter 2025. As we get to as we got to spring, our baseball team had two allconerence team members. Girls soccer had seven and they won conference as well. Um also won the regional. Boys tennis had six allconerence team members hosted sections. Boys track and field won the outdoor NLCC championship by half a point over Grant High School. 17 allconerence team members. I've listed the state qualifiers as well as Hall state Walter Wilmer Cure. Girls state, excuse me, girls track and field had 13 um allconerence team members and Michaela Williams was
018the lone state qualifier for the ladies. Boys volleyball had three allconerence team members. Boys lacrosse had four, excuse me, boys lacrosse had four and we were NLCC co- champions um as well this past fall um between Lakes and Antioch. Boys and girls golf, it was it was a battle quite often um as as Mike mentioned. Uh but our boys and girls teams were fortunate enough to both take first place in the conference tournament. Both also uh having the conference champion medalist for the boys across who went on to take six at state and a wearing it on the girls side. Um, conference champion as well. So, that's that's really really cool on on the links for us. Um, and uh, again, fortunate to have the access to to the facilities and the resources that we
019do. Girls tennis, two allconerence team members and we did host sectionals this past fall. Boys cross country, uh, we hosted sectionals as well for girls in boys cross country. Cooper Sumi, our one allconerence runner and state qualifier on the boy side. Matt, a freshman, uh, qualified for sectionals, has the entire team. She's one of five allconerence team members. Flag football champions. We had the NLCC defensive player of the year, Talia Dwey, and an all state quarterback, Mattie Lure. In tackle football, we had nine allconerence team members qualified for the playoffs. And 98.3 WRLR recognized coach Jason as the area coach of the year for the success this season. Boys soccer four all conference team members. Girls volleyball had four allconerence team members and one conference. So from the winter to the spring through the summer
020and the fall both at uh Antioch and Lakes busy for sure, successful for sure. And we're just appreciative of again everybody in the room for giving us that opportunity. Thank you very much. >> Very impressive. Any questions? >> I would just uh ask for one bonus question and we didn't prepare this in advance. Uh you had so many accomplishments we had to pack your 10 minutes of slides with accomplishments, but if there's one thing that you attribute the success to that you leverage going forward to continue improve, what's you describe as a driving factor of all success? >> I think both buildings had large amount of that are here for the right reasons to help kids and to give them opportunities. Um I think the best example is girls flag football. Two years ago it
021didn't even exist and now in the district there was nearly 100 athletes. We've got flags hanging on the walls. We've got everything and we've got kids competing in the summer and in college. It's I think it's just good good solid adults in front of our kids and that's why both of us are choosing our kids. >> I would echo those sentiments. It's tireless dedication on behalf of the coaches who have a very thankless job and sacrifice a lot of time from their own families to pour into our student athletes as well as a strong feeling of connection to the community. Believe that our our secrets are very proud to represent Antioch and we've always taken on that kind of underdog role when uh when facing the rest of the state that might have larger populations
022or more resources. So that's what I would Your support is is completely appreciated by everyone. Thank you very much. Appreciate. >> Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Keep up the good work. It's great. Fantastic. >> Thank you. And continuing our theme of jobs that are uh major work commitment and take tireless uh dedicated people to do them. Uh we have Amber Cornelius. I also want to thank Carrie Click, her counterpart at Annity High School. pretty major family commitment tonight. So, we appreciate being here to share your work. >> All right. Um, thank you so much for listening and I kind of want to echo what um, Mike and Matt were saying. The commitment of our school board to allowing our students to have the extracurricular experiences that they do is incredible. Um, our kids can compete
023in so many things. We have so many opportunities outside of the classroom and those opportunities make our students more well-rounded, happier, healthier, better individuals. So, I really appreciate your commitment to allowing those activities to happen. Um, so first of all, just wanted to shout out our mascots for a second. This is >> Azie and the Cardinal Crazy. Um, both of these costumes are new in the last year and a half or so, so we're excited just to have like these beautiful mascots that can represent our schools at sporting events, at public events, and your buddies. I love that. Um, so today we are going to learn a little bit about the program offerings that we have. Um, I do have some data that I would like to share with you specifically in regards to one
024of our schoolboard goals, our 100% participation goal. So, we've got some data on sports and we've also got some data on clubs and activities. And then we're going to talk about some challenges that are associated with that data collection and also some celebrations that we have. So a little bit of that data piece. We went through all of our fall sports and all of our winter sports and our spring sports and you can see how many sports we offer, how many athletes are participating in those by season. And you can see that the numbers are staying pretty staticish. We've had a slight decrease in the number of students involved across the district in our sports. Again, a slight decrease, but not anything that's super substantial. Obviously, we don't have data yet for spring. We'll be
025having that in the upcoming months. Um, but we we've increased the number of sports that we've had with the advent of Girls Flag. So, we're we're doing great things with that. Clubs and activities. The data for this is a little bit interesting. You might look at some of those numbers and say like we have that many students in the district. You're right. It's because it's as a student athlete, you can't really compete in more than one sport during a season. If you're involved in clubs and activities, the world is your oyster. You can join as many as there are days of the week. And because most clubs meet twice a month, you could be at a different club like literally every every day if you wanted to. We do have clubs that meet um like
026literally every day you can go to something different. We have club meetings Monday through Friday. We have competitive activities that are meeting also during all of that time. So when we compile our data and we pull our data from Infinite Campus where we're registering our students um as a ninth hour, it's not disagregating like this individual number of students are involved. It tells us how many students have been registered in clubs and activities across the board. So you might have a student who's involved in four, five, six things and it's counting them for each thing that they're involved in. So like take my son for example. I'm I'm another community parent. Uh he's in marching band, he's in pep band, he's in pit band, he's in German club, he's in ski club. Each one of
027those counts for for those numbers. Um so you can see our numbers from last year. It's gone down a little bit this year, but that's because we don't have all of our data in yet. We have some activities that only happen in the spring. So bass fishing hasn't started yet. We don't have those numbers. We have theater productions that we don't have numbers for yet because those happen in the spring. So we're not expecting an actual decrease in total participation across the board. We just don't have the complete data set yet. We are still hovering around 80% engagement. And just as a reminder and for our our students here who are visiting from government class, the district has tasked us with having 100% of students involved in a sport or a club or a competitive
028activity or attending three events. That's like 100% that is a very very lofty goal. We acknowledge that. So we wanted to take a look at where we're at and what are some barriers to engagement that we have. So, first of all, we're excited that we're still hovering around 80%. We obviously want to increase that. Um, we've identified some barriers that students are experiencing. Some kids are saying they've got jobs where they can't be doing things in school because they're they have to do things outside. Club sports are huge. We have a lot of students who are playing hockey for the Lakers or who are involved in competitive cheering or competitive ice skating. So, they're very involved in doing something that's filling up their cup. It just doesn't happen to be tied to district 117 extracurriculars.
029Um, same thing with outside activities. It might not be a competitive thing. I interviewed a student whose dad runs sound for this amazing technical thing. So, he's always working with his dad doing sound and lighting and DJ stuff. So, that's really big for him. It's just not tied to D17. There's also family and cultural obligations. Um, so that's preventing kids from getting involved in our stuff. A lot of kids sit at tech campus as a barrier for them. They're so involved in what they're doing at tech tech campus, they get back kind of late and by the time they get back they're kind of like, you know, I just can't get to a club or activity or sport. I just I can't do it. And then of course there are some kids who are just
030not interested. They've said, you know what, I don't want to join a sport. I'm not athletic. don't want to join a club. There's not really anything that that that's interesting to me. Those kids are probably going to some events, but not the three that the district requires to be counted as full participation. So, we'll have a kid who might go to homecoming and might go to a football game, but you're not at three. So, they're not considered engaged. Um, we also have a fair amount of students who are in our schools after school. So, you could argue that they're that sense of community. They're they're liking where they're at. They're interacting with other students. They just aren't doing it in a formal way. So, at Antioch, they have homework hangouts where there are kids who
031go not I mean, they do homework, but they chitchat and they're they're there to be social. They just don't want to be social at a structured club or anything like that. At Lakes, we have the ping pong table. This was gifted to us by our student council last year. We have kids who will hang out and play ping pong every day after school. They're being social. They're liking being in the building. They're not part of a club or an activity. So, in a lot of ways, our schools are functioning as sort of that third space where it's it's not home, it's not work, it's a place where people can build community, but it's just not structured. We did some more data collection. We talked to the other schools in the NLCC to see where they're
032at in terms of their participation. You can from the schools that we were able to get data from, we're doing great. I'm very proud of that number. We've worked really, really hard for that number. Um, so when you compare us to our peer schools, we are, like I said, doing really, really well. Terry Cleneck and I are also members of the Illinois Directors of Student Activities. So, we're actually both on the executive board for that. and that's activities directors from across the state of Illinois but largely focused in Lake and Cook counties. We asked them for their data and you can see that there are some schools that are positively blowing it out of the water. Those are your really competitive schools. So like Lake Forest is at 94.1%. Um Stevenson is at 93%. Deerfield
033is in the mid9s. Some of that is because how competitive those schools are. I I met I'm a Stevenson alum. Everybody I knew was in a club or a sport or something because you needed to make sure like, hey, I need I need this really impressive resume for college. Part of it is also how they track data. Every school has their own definition of what engagement means. So, some schools said that they were tracking things like participating in spirit days for homecoming. So, if you dressed up for spirit day, bam, that's a point. Some schools were saying instead of having to be at three events, one event counts. So if you went to the homecoming dance, bam, you've met that that mark. So because everybody has a slightly different definition of what engagement is, the
034data doesn't always mean exactly the same thing. Also, a lot of the schools that have those truly like amazing participation numbers are using a tool to collect their data that we're not currently using. Um, the gold standard is a firm called FiveStar. It allows them to get more robust data tracking and that's how they're able to kind of get that those really robust numbers. Speaking of tracking participation, we looked at how we're gathering our data. This is a lot on tech. Our tech department has like they have done so much work to help us lift this and we really appreciate that. We're scanning in IDs at a lot of events. So, we're scanning in IDs at football games. Um, sometimes we're scanning at non- football games. We scanned in at some basketball games, not all
035of them. We're trying to scan in at some theater performances. We've tried to scan in at some uh concerts. We're doing really good at scanning in at student council events and dances. We don't tally spirit days. And at Annioch, we have some survey data that they've collected. So we've got those leads projects where we've got some teachers who are working on different administrative projects during a release period. The teacher at Antioch, Megan McDonald, who's working on this as part of her leads project, has gathered some survey data about what Annoch students are doing that is considered involvement where maybe we weren't able to get them on those scanners. Um so with that we acknowledge that there have been some challenges with this. We know that the current methods of data collection can be cumbersome and
036unwieldy. Uh I need to find people who are able to attend events to scan IDs or I have to be there to scan IDs. Sometimes it's hard to even pin the kids down to get them like hey no I need your ID. We need to scan you in. Um, our current reporting system provides us with a po postmortem instead of live data. So, it's sort of after the event or after we have a chance to like really sit down and look at the numbers. We don't always know in real time who's engaged and who's not. So, that makes it hard to have those conversations with kids to say like, "Hey, what are you doing? How can we get you involved in something?" We also have a lot of student interest in starting new clubs. That
037doesn't necessarily align with gaps in participation. I will have students coming to me who are already involved in like five different clubs. You're like, "Hey, wouldn't it be great if we started this other new club?" And yes, it would, but like that's not helping me meet that goal because you're already involved. And I'm so glad that you found things that spark your interest, but we need to make sure that we're hitting everybody. To that end, though, we have started several new clubs in the last few years. our black student union, our uh loiquid platinos, uh our south Asian student association. So all of those are really speaking to populations that we have not ne necessarily served in the past and those clubs have been tremendously successful. Uh Lakes Women in Leadership is another relatively new
038club, tremendously successful. So we're we are tapping into some of that. Um, and again that definition of engagement because it's different depending on what school you're at, what district you're at, that can be tricky. If a kid goes to two events, can we say that they're engaged? Can we say that they're not engaged? That that's what our current definition is. It's it's an interesting question, though. >> So, with that being said, I do want to brag a little bit about all the cool things that we've got going on. These are just some pictures from all sorts of events that we've had going on. Um, Annioch brought in some BMX bikers for a really cool assembly. Lakes, I'm so incredibly proud of this. We uh were able to gather over aundred toys in a toy drive
039in like three weeks that were then donated to the Salvation Army and we got to be on TV. It was really cool. That came from my clubs and activities. My esports team won the state IHSA Mario Kart Championship. So incredibly proud of them. Um we've had our dances. We've had all sorts of great things going on. Um our BSU has been really popular. We've got our Eagle Pal and our secret sidekicks. Both schools have started hosting a big game. Um, so we're really excited about that and just that increasing of diversity and inclusion. We're all we both started hosting an inclusion week. That's incredibly important. Last year, both schools sent teams to IHSA state for chess. Both schools sent teams to state for math team. Both schools sent students to compete in FCCLA at state.
040Anniac sent bass fishing down to state. So, we're doing all sorts of great things. So, I just wanted to correct on us for a moment and then Terry and I both really look forward to being part of the strategic plan this year. We can't wait to be in those meetings and talk about how we move student engagement farther and just see what we can do about it and what the community thinks is is how we should be measuring this and what we can do with this. We have a lot going on. It's so it's so much fun now. >> If we go back a decade or so, there was no such thing as focusing on student engagement >> and that's not too long ago. >> So, we've come a long way and I'm impressed with
04180%. We know it's probably better than that. >> I just I'm delighted when I look at the numbers and see where we are in terms of our schools. I'm so incredibly proud of that work that we're doing. And I think the fact that we're being so targeted about it speaks a lot to us. When we make those decisions and we're intentional in our work, we can do really great things. I just love too the fact that at the schools they're you know, some kids are willing to just hang out and just hang out. It's like a safe place for them that we've created and um you know, it's not engagement per se, but they're not busting out the doors to get out. I don't want to be here anymore. You know, it's great. what Mike
042and Matt were saying, it's it's those relationships. We have so intentionally worked on creating positive relationships with our students. They have they know that our schools are safe places. They know that our schools are places where people support them and want good things to come. So many kids and things are reason. >> Thanks for a great presentation and thanks for the little post in the middle that said D17 is better together. Sure. >> Thank you, Amber. >> Ryan's gonna kick off our next presentation here. >> For those of you in the audience who don't know me, my name is Ryan Miles. I'm the tech director for the district. It's my pleasure to introduce two of our deans uh to talk about school safety tonight. So, with that, I'll turn it over to Thank you. And
043I know it's just Mr. and myself that are presenting, but the other two deans um couldn't be here right now. Uh definitely do help us out quite a bit in everything that we do. It is not an island. It is community that helps um including all of you guys, the students. There needs to be buying from everybody. Um the way we do our our house trainings and all those kinds of things. So I do appate that we are doing. >> All right. So, we are and have been an Alice certified district uh since uh we started using Alice. I want to say like eight years ago. We've consistently done that, which means we have 75% or more of the staff members uh that have uh completed the the training module, the online going through and
044doing the alice drills that that are listed on here as well. done those. Um, it takes a lot to do that. It's not very um intensive, which is always nice. They've changed it over the years. Um, I know when Alice first came out, it was very um it was tough on a lot of people uh social emotionally and they had transitioned that to help with uh making it more comfortable for everyone to learn and go through the ALS program. We do use Navigate quite a bit. We use it for several things. There's an educational piece to it. Uh I just talked about. We also use it for um reunification. We use it for the attendance piece when we go out and do our drills. So, that whole thing is is intuitive. Um all of our
045uh safety manuals are loaded up into there. Everything is kind of housed right there in the in the EMS. We use it uh like I said for the educational component. We use it for our threat assessments. So, it is um a hub for a lot of things that we do use. uh training a new staff. We every year we do any new staff member does get trained within the first I would say three or four weeks of us uh starting school with that. We do have a policy uh state has a policy that within the first 90 days we need to do some sort of intruder drill. So that's why we always do it early as early as we can so we can get everybody up to stuff and on par with everything. And that's
046what it says up there. We have uh since Ryan took over, we've had several safety huddles districtwide, which includes all of how both lakes and annoy um administration at both lakes and any district personnel. So, it is it's quite a a lift on Ryan to do all that, but getting together and talking about what we're what we're doing, what needs to get improved and things like that really does help. So, do appreciate that. One of the other things is our safety partnerships. I kind of mentioned them a little bit with the Lakeville Police Department, the Antioch Police Department. We do have SRO's in our buildings and we do um lean on them quite a bit and they they we utilize each other for information and just um helpfulness on hey what do you think about
047this and that kind of stuff. So I know I do know at both schools the SRO do go over and talk with drivers edes and those things. So, they do utilize the SRO's quite a bit um for things like that. I know they do. They're always up front with with us athletics. I know they're at one of the entrances for ANIA as well. So, they are highly visible and seen all the time. Um we do have and we've enjoyed out for a good long time. Um we have six at Lakes, six at Antioch. Um and they they do a tremendous tremendous amount of work. They are here from 5:45 in the morning until 10 o'clock at night when everyone goes. It's not the same person, mind you, but they are staggered throughout the day. Uh,
048but they're always here and they have a ton of overtime working all the events that you guys just saw presented um between activities and athletics. So, all those there's there n 99% out of 100 there's a there's a how person that is helping um the doors on those. So, we do appreciate them as well. Um, we talked about the first responders with Anniac Lake Villa. We also um have Lynenhurst Police Department that we have a a good relationship with, but I would be remiss if I didn't talk about the fire department as well as the rescue. So, we do they we do use them. Um, and they're great when they come up. The Lake County Sheriff's is also another one because there is we're not just all in the town. So, we do have the
049the five uh numbers uh house. So that is county and so we do have a good relationship with the Lake County Sheriff's Department as well. We use them sometimes to bring uh the dogs in uh to come to the school and even out into the parking lot sometimes. I'm going to skip down a little bit and go to inner quest since I brought up dogs. We use inner quest and those are the dogs that go through the parking lot and they even come into the uh school. Thank you. And even the locker rooms and we'll just If anything does hit, we we talk to the students and the parents and let them know. >> Those are the cute dogs, not >> those. Yeah, those are the fluffy ones. Those are Yes. >> Um we do
050have a good relationship with Lake County Row. Um they have pushed really pushed a safety collaboration not just with uh District 117, but it is across all of Lake County and it's fantastic. Um they keep they keep working on it and strengthening it. You have the stop it notifications. It's Well, you guys don't have, but we have them in case there's a situation that's not on district 117 property, but um one of our surrounding schools or feeder schools, it lets us know that there's a situation going on if they reported something. >> Recall that you approved this last year. >> Right. Right. And so we're we're strengthening that a little bit more and we'll be going to um this LC smart, which is I love you guys. If you don't know what that is, it's
051uh a good reunification program that they that has started. Um and I know I've been to a couple of them and a lot of people uh are transitioning to that for the reunification piece because it is very well ran. Um if you do it properly, um we do have Bluepoint. If you guys look here, there's Blueoint Pole station over here. They are strategically placed around both schools. Um and that is for our intruders. Um so if there's situation you can pull that that blue point will um light up. It lights up all around the school. Um there's certain things that happen like the uh electromagnetics uh actually close the doors and they should be locked. So it does kind of house people into one location um and makes it more difficult for that intruder to
052move around the building. That being said, that also goes out and pushes it can go to stop it and also goes to what's called the emergency 24 which alerts everybody in the area and then some that there's that there's active shooter or a violent person in Lake High School. So, it's it's a fantastic quick response uh program. Um I we already talked about the navigate 360 so I don't want to bring that back up again. and coming soon and Ryan's gonna talk about this in a little more detail and 911 inform. We are looking at another option for navigate which is uh if it works as shown is more intuitive than navigate. >> Yeah. Hi. So, I'm going to kind of talk through a little bit of something that I think, you know, a lot
053of this is important, but I think the key piece to keep in mind is as a student body. Um, we have great students, athletes, and um the students at both schools, there's a lot of buying that goes on their part in terms of taking these serious, taking the drill serious, understanding what their role is. Um, we've really kind of talked about see something, say something. Um I I think you know the fact that the students feel comfortable coming to the dean's office or student services to report something if something is not going right or there is something that might be off. They're really good about reporting it and that that also helps to make both buildings safe. And one of the things that we utilize we take panorama surveys um quite frequently in both buildings.
054And one of the questions that is is asked of the students is about safety and security. We have seen a gradual increase since 2018. So since 2018 the sentiment within our student population I would also within our staff population is they are feeling more safe. They are feeling more secure. And as I said that is something that is is vitally important. I don't think anybody truly understands the lift with safety and security that does take place. And you know, I know everybody's saying thank you to you guys. I want to thank the students first and foremost because without them, we wouldn't have the same security that we have in this building. So, the student body is truly something amazing and is something that has made district 117 a safe and special place. But I also
055want to thank Arianne Herren, our business manager. Um, Miss Heron has given us the ability to implement certain things to make the district safe without her ability to listen and help us in implementing certain things. We wouldn't have all the great things that we have and then she brings it to all of you and all of you have listened and heard what she is saying and what we're saying to make district 117 a safe place. So I just want to say thank you and I want to thank the student body as well for all their data shows that our students feel safe that blue bubble is the national and the IT guys standing up here with these gentlemen oddly but not so oddly I mean our safety systems are becoming more and more technical uh
056as we progress uh into the pages here. Um, and uh, I'm just kind of an addon to the team, more more interlocking elbows so that we're we're more in tune uh, with some of these higher level systems. Some of them are aging. You can see some of the the the years of each of these systems. Um, and we're going to we're going to talk a little bit about addressing some of that in the future. Um, but we have we have great student device safety. Um, we do have great uh great facilities and great communications. Um, good alarm systems. Uh, one of the newest things is Kurt's talking about our 911 inform. Uh, this is our E91 platform. Uh, and uh, we have a new geoence uh, that's going to go live next month. It's a
057911 geoence. So students, if you're if you're participating in cross country or you're practicing on the football fields that are that are kind of distance from the field. Uh you can kind of see our our new geo fences here. And so if you dial 911 from a cell phone, the 911 operator will have this map, this exact map and a dot will be on the map of where you call. Uh so increasing their awareness of where you're at. Um and uh just a real neat technology feature that hasn't been available very long and we're we're signing up for that. uh and in February we'll be will be online. Um and so you know giving giving those operators uh it could be seconds could be minutes extra time to get to a person uh getting there
058quicker. So um I mentioned some aging systems um and some future safety considerations but first I wanted to take a take a moment Mr. So we can talk about some rapid deployment planning. >> Yeah. So um Mr. Onset mentioned this earlier. We we are very fortunate. We have a great working relationship with our local law enforcement um between Lindhurst Lake Villa Annioch. The county has approached us and they are very interested in coming in and doing a rapid deployment exercise. Um that way one familiarize themselves with the layout of their building, how they how their practices work. So we kind of give them an idea of how in the event there was an emergency, they can come in. There will be other agencies possibly involved, but how they would enter the building, how they would
059sweep the building and all that stuff. Um there's conversations doing that sometime in the spring, this spring when uh school's not in session because there's a lot that goes into it and it's we can't do it when everybody's here. Um but that is that is beneficial to them, but it's also beneficial to us. Um, and you know, once again, it's due to the partnership that we have created with our local law enforcement. And I've watched the communications go back and forth. And I want to I want to thank Dr. Barry for taking the leadership role of uh making sure these these things are capable in our busy schedules, our facilities being used. Um, so thank you Dr. Barry for stepping in and being a good voice for that. But it doesn't happen these things don't
060without good leaders that are standing beside me and sitting around this table. Um it really doesn't when we're looking forward to um you know improving some of our some of our aging systems. We're looking at a cops grant application uh for the upcoming summer. Uh those those get awarded uh in the winter of 2020 the winter of 2026 uh November December time frame. Um we we've uh met with the grant writer uh talked through some of our strategy of how to write the grant for our benefit. He thinks that we have a good a good chance of of getting that and it's a it's a 75% match. So we put up 25% and the Fed puts up 75% up to $500,000. So um we're going to be looking into that for some of these some
061of these things that are listed here. Um with with communications, phones, radios, and a few things on the interior for locks and various things around the building. So, um, a lot of a lot of things going on for improvement, constant improvement. We can always improve in some of these areas, and we're going to keep going. Um, so we really can't do this u, you know, we're we're a safer school system together. This isn't everyone thing. This isn't just a three people. talking to you leaders at the table. It takes the kids uh to be vigilant. It takes our adults to really take it seriously and we appreciate all the support we get. >> What questions might you have? First off, I'm incredibly impressed with how you guys are. >> So there's there's preliminary conversations going
062on right now. So a lot of the conversation is occurring with um commander from the police department and commander. So they're kind of having conversations right now and then they're going to take it to the deputy chiefs to kind of work through that. Um, one idea that we have right now is that they would utilize the second floor and they would work through the second floor and they would do a small scale with the hopes of eventually doing a larger scale rapid deployment. Um, due to the number of new officers that have been hired and so forth and this would give us an opportunity to get those officers in our building, understand where the the boxes are, how to utilize those boxes, and then also how layout of the building looks. So I think it's
063going to start off with kind of a smaller scale, but it is something that they're going to look at trying to build on eventually. >> Ryan, for the benefit of our students and for some of our board members, would you define cops so they don't misunderstand CO? >> Yeah, it's a it's a federal uh it's a federal program. It's it's u for uh building safety um building protection. So fire police, fire can also do those grants. So our local police could apply for it. Our local fire can apply for it and local schools can apply for it. That's the that's the root of how it works. >> And we would put in 25% of the cost of that federal government. >> That's correct. >> Stands for community oriented policing services. The idea is that federal
064funds can be used to augment institutions in the community. So it's not just on the police to keep us safe. They can make the hospitals and schools and services. We have come a long way a long way with this. And it isn't because we wanted to because we had to unfortunately. And the fact that we're moving forward looking at this is fabulous. gives everybody peace of mind. Not only the people sitting in this room, but the people in the community who don't have kids in the school who are just members of the community. It's important for everyone. So, for the students, you know, you're hearing presentations tonight that kind of give us the board members updates as to what's going on in the district. After their presentations, we'll actually get down to the business of
065the board. But you're hearing things that you don't on a dayto-day basis in the school and this is important for you as well as us. So I think great presentation because it gets rid of that anxiety when kids actually stay in school. >> All right agenda and again for the students we don't inter But because this is a school and you are our students, I'm going to interact a little bit, which I've done with other students in government class. So, and uh of course in Mrs. Walsh's class, she's going to ask you this question tomorrow. So, the next item is the consent agenda. And it's kind of if you were to paraphrase this, it's kind of the government saying to us, we're going to give you the consent to just pass a bunch of stuff
066with just motion one one vote otherwise we have 30 or 40 or 50 items that we have to vote on individually these are things that are considered routine so this is the consent agenda all items listed under the consent agenda and I'm telling them all items listed under the consent agenda are adopted by one motion unless a member of the board of education or the superintendent requests that an item be removed and voted upon separately. Consent agenda items or matters that the board and the superintendent agree are routine and in nature and should be voted on with one motion to conserve time. Tonight's items on the consent agenda would include approval of the regular meeting minutes from December 11th, 2025, approval of the close session meeting minutes from December 11, 2025, approval under the personnel
067report of hiring of certified staff, approval of hiring non-certified staff, approval of hiring long-term substitute staff, approval of hiring in positions, approval of agreeing to volunteer volunteer positions. Approval of any student teachers brought into the district. Approval of any reclassifications of any of our personnel. Approval of all resignations that have been given to us. Approval of all retirements that have been asked for by the retiree, potential retiree. Approval for all requests for extended absence. Also approval of bills and payroll under funds 10, fund 20, fund 40, fund 50, and fund 80. That's where and approval of the Freedom of Information Act request for those responded to. So rather than read every one of those things by name, by number, I'm going to recommend that the board approve all items under the consent agenda as presented.
068I will ask for a motion to that effect. >> We have a motion by Mr. P. >> Second, >> a second by Miss Pritchard. >> And we will do a roll call vote. Beginning with Miss. >> Yes. >> Mr. Peg, yes. Miss Dixon, >> yes. >> Miss Carol, >> yes. >> Miss Jacobs, >> yes. That motion passes and it saved us four and a half hours. Now we move on to the business office. Uh I have three items for this evening. The first one being um the second reading of the approval of the 2627 fees. U you may recall, I don't know about you, but it seems like December was a long time ago, our last meeting, but we did talk about the 2627 fees for the students. We specifically talked about the recommendation that
069um we discussed during facilities finance committee meeting where we um looked into taking the senior uh fee for the admission for athletics. So you're talking football, uh, boys basketball, some wrestling, and then, uh, plays and musicals. So, and looking at that data, you might recall that it would be, um, not bringing in less than $5,000 in revenue. So there in the packet, you see the attachment of the the fees, the proposed fees for next year. Everything's the same except again for looking at those athletics of five for adults, three for the non district 17 students and then zero for seniors and then for the fine arts 75. So it is recommended to approve the 20 26 27 student fees as presented. >> And with that recommendation, I would entertain a motion that the board approve
070the 2026 27 student fees as presented. Motion by Miss Dixon, >> second by Mr. Py. Questions or comments? >> You know, I work. >> Yes. >> Yeah, I I forgot to bring them with me, but I think I mentioned last time in some of the surrounding schools. >> Yeah, I agree. >> Excellent. >> Other questions or comments? Are you done? Roll call beginning with Mr. Pton. >> Yes. >> Miss Dixon. >> Yes. >> Miss Carol. >> Yes. >> Miss Richard. >> Yes. >> Miss Jacobs. Miss >> that motion passes. >> The second item is just an annual housekeeping event in January. January. We always um ask for your approval to stay in Skip, which is the suburban school cooperative insurance pool. that program that we're part of for this uh calendar year along with approving
071the premiums for the um casualty and or property and liability insurance and also cyber insurance. So um you can see there that um the base premium increases. So again for liability property so crime or automobiles uh and such schoolboard legal um that increase is a 4.6% which you can see over the last few years is the lowest it's been. been a good year of claims for the 67 members that are in the in the skip co-op. And then cyber premium increases um that's a 20.4% increase. Um not as large this year but still increase the the big thing now as you can imagine is dealing um the big discussion was AI and what's happening um in the world today as we all know. So that's 20.4% % increase. Um, one other thing that I just
072wanted to share actually this is three meetings in a row >> like a hockey puck. I I wanted to bring this to you guys as far as one thing they discussed in the meeting. It was beginning of December. We also have two meetings um one in May, one in December. And they introduced this water sensor program. Looks like a hockey puck. I know some of you have these in your home, I've heard. Um where this is just um obviously a sensor to to um sense any kind of problems with water if it's too high or you know we have a pipe break or whatever it may be, god forbid. But um we are opting into this program. additional fee as far as you know our increase but um all not all schools but we were
073able to opt in where we basically said this is the square footage of our buildings they're going to send these pups um to us hopefully here they said January February so it should be sometime soon so we can set um these pups up around the building these it's basically they they um are Bluetooth so that we can uh connect them to an application that we can have on our phones. So something happens and it's the weekend then it triggers or anytime it triggers that there's water and that we can come in and check things out. They had shared some different stories with us and I was talking with Chris about this earlier that they shared a a school district in Iowa that had over 400,000 gallons of water in their school. And um they they
074only knew about it. It happened on the weekend. They only knew about it because the fire marshal had been contacted saying that over 10% of their water had gone down in their water towers. >> So we don't something like that to happen that you you have these I mean these pictures were unbelievable. They had um a classroom that their the um teachers desk was almost all the way underwater and we looked for like how much is 400,000 gallons? It's several Olympic size. So, let's not have that. >> Um, we I'm assuming we'll put them around like different types or boilers, things like that. But they'll give in the package they give us, they'll give us all that information. One thing we need to we need to be strategic about is um in a way hiding
075them depending on you know whether you know access points different things like that. So we'll know more when we get it and I can share more information but I'm hoping it comes soon. I had to give three uh three contacts. So I gave um basically Ken Mel, our facilities director, and then both ours and Tims. So we'll see it. I don't I don't know. I said when they come, please let me know. I want to go check this out. But that's happening. So there I feel that the again 67 members are always different ways. You know, a couple years you might recall the cyber um the different cyber toolkit what they call it of the different things like the way we've been doing the fishing and different things like that to make sure we're we're
076doing smarter things to make sure um you know we're just being smart with what we're doing in risk management. So, it is recommended to approve membership retention and renewal in skip for the time period beginning January 1 to December 31st of 2026 at a base premium of $284,19 and a cyber premium of $60,819. With that recommendation, I would entertain a motion that the board approve the membership retention and renewal in skip for the time period January 1st, 2026 to December 31st, 2026 at a base premium of $284,19 and a cyber premium of $60,89 by Miss Dix. Any questions or comments? Dr. Floyd asked if we had recy that raised the floor >> that came. So I mean there was moisture but raised >> so anything's possible. As long as there's no other comments from me
077or anybody else with Miss Carol >> Mitchard, >> yes, >> Miss Jacobs, >> Miss Simpson, >> yes, >> Mr. Mix. >> Yes. And the last one is capital project update which really there isn't one because there was no new expenditures and the baseball ce >> the next item on our agenda is governance. >> First we have our board calendar. >> So uh students in the audience you has been recognized by the ISB, the statewide organization for its governance. They were selected present twice the last two years at the statewide conference. Uh they were on the cover of the statewide journal this month. >> Uh but one of the things that they're recognized for in the new governance is first they're valing continuity and consistency every year trying to make all of our processes better and
078the other thing is transparency and this calendar is an example. So you'll see in the packet board, this is our annual calendar for the upcoming year. And as you know, we change this as things go. Sometimes we push things back or move things up to uh make processes go the best. But it's kind of like our major draft outline of when you'll hear presentations, major business office presentations like you just and government items when they will come to the board. And this is public to the committee on our website. Just click board of education. It's like the second link there. board of education agenda. So if you're ever curious like hey I really have some thoughts about our science curriculum like to hear what the board hears about that you can look on the calendar
079and you can see our science presentation is coming up in March along with fine arts and you can watch that board meeting at home or you can come watch. So with that I would ask the board to approve our upcoming board agenda for the school year and with that recommendation I would entertain a motion that the board approve the agenda calendar as presented by the superintendent. by Mr. >> Sec. Any questions, comments? None beginning with Miss >> Jacobs. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dixon, >> Carol. >> Dr. Waller has our next one. >> So, we have a new overnight field trip request that is being actually made in place. One that was approved last school year that was for a trip to Hawaii. So that trip ended up being cancelled due to a lack of interest.
080And so this is for the fine arts student to take part in field trip to New York City. This would be in March 2027 to perform learning experience other recommendation. I would entertain a motion the board approve the overnight field trip to New York City to perform, learn, and experience cultural enrichment dates are March 22nd to the 27th of March, 2027, not this coming. >> Any comments or questions? Any other comments or questions? We'll do a roll call beginning with Micros. Next we have second reading of policy 716. This one we just changed the name of the person responsible for this policy and our new director services. So I would ask the board to approve policy 716. With that recommendation, I would entertain a motion that the board approve for policy 7164 meetings as presented.
081>> Motion by Mitch by Mr. Quest. >> Yes, >> Mr. Peg. >> Yes. >> Mix. Carol next one is a regular item we bring periodically and that's to destroy the data records act. So I would recommend the board approve destruction records prior to May as recommended. With that recommendation, I enterain a motion board does approve the destruction of records prior to May 2024 as recommended by the superintendent. Motion by Dix by Mr. P. Questions or comments? None. We'll do a roll call beginning with Mr. >> Mix. >> Mol. >> Miss Jacobs. >> Miss Yes, that motion passes. >> Next, we have the approval of a new club, Black Student Union. Black Student Union has actually been a club for more than two years as clubs to run without any kind of really ramped up the
082last two years. You can see in their description tremendous activities that they've engaged in as clubs between the two schools, uh movie nights, field trips, and after school activities and education awareness events. So, this is open to all students to blackitage and history. So with that, I would recommend the board approve one black student union at both ACS and LCS. And with that recommendation, I would entertain a motion to board approve one new club at both ACS and LCHS as Mr. Okay. Well, you have opportunity for questions or comments. >> I have a question. So, it's been invest that without spearheading it right people that are interested. >> Any other questions or comments? If not, we'll do roll beginning with Min. Miss Carol >> next we have press policy issue 12. So once again I
083would like to thank Sandy and Bruce for their time where we had discussion. So this is second reading now. So I would recommend that approve as With that recommendation, I would entertain a motion for approve press 12 as presented by the superintendent by Miss Dixon. by Miss Jacob. You got that. >> Any questions or comments? That was a long question. If not, we'll do a roll call beginning >> Mr. Dixon. passes. >> Great. Before I turn over to student ambassadors, I just want to thank them because Central last board meeting, all four of them made time to meet with me at their schools and become inspired about our planning to collect some student voice about our portrait of gradu. So, we have these big community meetings planned in March and April. If you're watching at
084home, there's a form online for you to sign up if you want to be part of those. And ambassador is going to help collect that student voice between now and then our sixies and then hopefully grab the mic during those meetings and share their thoughts. So for >> and for the students that stay now you can hear your colleagues speak. >> Yeah. So who wants to go first? Antioch the visitors go first. >> All right. For the wrestlers, varsity boys wrestling is slowly finding their groove. All while girls varsity wrestling continues to wrestle well as the girls placed first in the second annual Lake Snowball tournament on December 19th. The ladies have an undefeated NLC record after last week's win over North Chicago. The boys and girls wrestling teams wrestled tonight as they host Antioch
085for senior night. The cheer and dance teams for both Lakes and Antioch hosted the fourth annual All of the Lights cheer and dance competition over the weekend with 14 and 68 dance routines. This competition is one of the biggest in the state. Lakes varsity cheer team took six place overall on Saturday and are preparing for their invite this Friday. The dancers performed well too at all the lights competition and will spend this week getting ready for their invite on Friday as well. Boys basketball is up really well as well. They're currently tied for first in the conference with with Lake Central. Over the team attended a six day long tournament with some of the top basketball teams in the state. They have a new record of nine and seven after defeating Antioch this past Saturday
086with a score of 55 to 50. Some key players to the success include Ben who averages over 20 games. Other players include Dorian Poland Carter and Aiden Hopkins. The boys basketball team host the annual Martin Luther King Jun this weekend with seven different teams from around the Chicago area and are looking forward to improving their record. activities freshman on Tuesday night. The class of 2030 is over 300 students attended a welcome session with the late school team. The freshman also meet up with the council to ask any questions. The house was busy with different clubs activities. inviting incoming freshman to see where they will they could fit. This includes fresh to get involved with the school and the chance to see all that has to offer in addition to academics clubs athletics week that will
087end with a school club assembly on Friday. Also the The student put together a casual desk after a boys basketball game that's free will be provided along with coffee at an additional cost. for all students as encouraged by the student to attend. Also, also known as the district the distinct honor of being selected for the all production museum which performed January at the ISU. He was the clue. So he was responsible for building the set and doing the show. He made the set was high schoolers have managed our Eagle series to all state for two days of conferences and stops as well as well as also Eagle has really been focusing on the upcoming upcoming music by the way every day after school and choreography opening night is February 20th at with following shows that
088the following this is a huge production a bunch of students and teachers backstage and on the stage >> we can get started with some overs they love such a Also over the girls basketball team went to the boys competed again. It was a bit of a quiet break in the world of athletics and all sports picked up again when we came back. We will have plenty to report about next month as January and February are very busy months. This week we welcome the ACS class of 2030 for upcoming nth grade incoming nth grade. It was really well attended and showcased the academics and activities that we have to offer at school. It was great to see our students answering questions from parents and peers about their experiences and activities. Our theater department traveled to Illinois
089State University on Thursday and watched the Illinois State High School production of which featured Kayen as a member of the pit and John Stall who acted as the role of Lush. We're so proud of their performance and dedication to the art. We also pleased to announce that the winner play Jamie Jones is scheduled to run on Friday, Saturday. show and all your calendars pride will be hosting their primary fundraiser called the main event on Saturday March 7th. The venue will be the beds and it promises to be a great lot of money that goes to support experiences for the staff and students of AC. Finally, last students will have information about their strengths and weaknesses after also we partnered with elevated lines to provide an ACT prep class that Anything else? Good. >> Awesome. Did
090a great job. Uh well, you said one of my battleships was to talk about the great eighth grade uh night at both schools. So, thank you uh Dr. Barry and Miss Bowen. You did a phenomenal job. I was at Lakes for that night and I got to hand out hot off the press our career guide. Thank you Allen for getting this published for us. This is our first annuals. We'll make this better and better as we move forward. But the neat thing about this is Allan worked with the CNI assistant principles and our amazing CT department to pick like Illinois has more pathways than this. They narrowed it down to pathways that we really offer freshman and sophomore year because we didn't promise want to promise kids career pathways that they couldn't take. So when
091you look through here, the data for salaries and the data for job growth specific to Lake County. So kids coming in as eighth graders can kind of look at a couple different career pathways as they pick their electives, pick a pathway that interests them. And then when they look on that page, when you look there, it says courses available. It's got related clubs or activities. Those are actually things that are at our two high schools. So it's not like general datist. So thank you Alan and our amazing principles. And lastly, I know we have a huge viewership at home. So everybody at home, mark your calendars. March 17th, April 14th are those two big community meetings to work on our port graduate and strategic plan. So you can still sign up. That deadline has not
092passed. I think it's February 20th. So look in your link. I'll put it in the January 5 update email if you missed my last. And that is all I have. This opportunity is now given to the board members to make any comments or ask any questions or make any statements. Anybody? Everybody's quiet tonight because it's cold. So the last thing, thank you all for staying is our close session. Close session is where we as board members go into a quiet room. That's the doors closed and we talk about things that we can't talk about in secrecy until we make them public. There are things in the law that we can do that under. So I will make the statement and then when I'm done we will go to close session. You're welcome to stay but
093most people leave after that. We do come back into open session. We will probably take action on one of the items that we talk about in this statement that I'm making. Okay. So at this point it's recommended that the board enter into close session for the purpose of discussing the following exceptions to the open meetings act. These are exceptions to our open meeting now. The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees, specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park, recreational, or educational setting, or specific volunteers of the public body, or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an independent employee, a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park, recreational, or educational setting, or the public or against legal counsel
094for the public body to determine it validity. However, a meeting to consider an increase in compensation to a specific employee of a public body that is subject to the local government wage increase transparency act may not be closed and shall be open to the public and posted and held in this act which is acts 122c1. Second would be student disciplinary cases which falls under ILCS 122C9 also would be third discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully which falls under 5 LCS 120C21 and finally or not finally one more security procedures school building safety and security and the use of personnel and equipment to respond to an actual threat or a reasonably potential danger to the safety of employ staff of public property which falls under five CA and finally collective negotiating matters between the public body
095and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees which falls under five C2. I would entertain that motion >> motion by Mr. Second by Miss Pritchard. We'll do a roll call vote beginning with Miss. >> Yes. >> Miss Jacobs. Miss >> Mr. Mix had to leave at 7:45. Miss Carol >> passes. We will now go into close session. And everything I said doesn't mean that there's something wrong. It's just all inclusive. And I say it every So we might talk about one little thing in one of those topics and we might just just discuss it and say guess what a little security we got to add a little security we're thinking about or something like that. Okay. So thank you for sticking around sticking around and
096I'll make sure you all get Thanks for sticking around.