001considered at the regular meeting of the board of education held Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the unit office conference room 500 North 10th Street. Everybody to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> The other >> here >> at this time we recognize anyone who would like to address the board recognize that person comments statements or as you're limited to 5 minutes in duration. Would you like to address the board at this time? If not, we will move forward to the consent agenda. Need a motion, a second, and a roll call vote to adopt, accept, and approve items listed and not extracted from the consent agenda on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. >>
002So moved. >> Second. >> Cindy Miller. >> Yes. >> Green. >> Yes. the other day. >> Yes. >> Moving on to special reports at the prek center. Last month they celebrated their shoes with outstanding behavior at their golden party. Students enjoy snow cones, glow sticks, and great music, which was a wonderful way to recognize those who consistently make positive choices and set a great example for others. The terrific Tiger Award goes to Emory Ellie Temperance and Watson. Um those students have shown excellence in their effort, kindness and leadership in the classroom and they had their annual pumpkin patch event which was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who helped make it a fun and memorable experience for the students. And last but not least, the classrooms were decorated with Halloween themed decor for their for
003their outside doors to their classrooms. The creativity and teamwork shown by the student staff were outstanding. Jessica Anderson and Heather Cannon's class one earning an ice cream and cookie party for their class, popsicles for the PM class, and then LAP's class won second place earning cookies for their class. At Heron Elementary, 384 students had perfect attendance for September, and that's awesome. Congratulations to the September attendance trophy winners, which are second grade, Mrs. Mofield, third grade, Miss Severs, fourth grade, Mrs. T. Gerald. Fifth grade, Mrs. Watson. They completed the first attendance challenge for grade levels versus grade levels. Third grade filled the pumpkin the fastest with 95% or above attendance for October and they earned an extra recess. Congratulations to the September accelerated reading trophy winners who are second grade Miss Hardwick. Third grade Mrs. Bennio,
004fourth grade Mrs. Joen, fifth grade Mrs. Moore. That is fantastic for 384 students with perfect attendance. Um, moving on to the junior high school. Um, the following students were honored as student of the month for the month of September. These students were selected at the beginning of October for demonstrating the tiger trait of respect throughout the previous month. Sixth grade were Jackson Truit, Jackson Harrison, Chris Lindsay, Bryce Lacy, Alana Clay, and Maddie Dupong. Seventh grade students were Paisley McFarland, Sky Lindsay Grayson Harrison, Jerica Snider, Fiona Fletcher, Elise Williams, and Key Bush. grade, Jackson Makabe, Gavin Bell, Leila Win, Max Manzanic, Logan Barlage, Symphony Cudy, Isa Boss, and Ellie Forbes. Congratulations to the boys cross country team who finished third at state. Max Manzanic finished second in the boys race at state and that's the highest
005individual finish for a boy, which is wonderful. And the girls cross country team made a state appearance as well with Matilda King finishing in the top 10 at number nine. Competitive dance traveled to Bloomington on Saturday, October 25th for the start to beat the statewide solo duet and trio competition. Paisley Green placed fourth in junior high jazz solo. Paisley Green and Lauren Martin placed third in junior high duet. And Paisley Green, Lauren Martin and area placed first in junior high trio. In addition to the win, will be showcased at the IDTA state finals competition in Springfield on February 14th. Congratulations to our Heron Junior High School students. And moving on to the high school, um her high school is hosting the class 2A regional last night tonight and then on the 30th. The boys cross
006country team placed first at the conference meet. They took second and advanced to the sectionals at Maton next Saturday. And the coaches are extremely proud of this team, their commitment to the program and each other. So her parent cross country the top five scorers were Mason King in 10th, Nolan Frost in 11th, Miles Ell 13th, Maddox Burks in 18th, Braden Davis 24th, and the sixth and seventh runners were Sam Jol in 46, and Nathan Jones with 59. The math team fresh off the fall break took off the rust and looked sharp in Belleville. Our SMC week three ribbon and medal winners are freshman W with sixth. Sophomores Nathan J with first, Garrett G with third, juniors Logan G with first and a top overall score, Michael B in second and Sylvia J in seventh. Seniors
007were Tyler G with first, Nan G in sixth, Jack P tied for eighth. With team, we have Nolan, Sylvia, Reagan P, and Netty K in second place with one more week to complete before the team trophy is awarded. Girls tennis, Brooklyn Brandon, and Gigi George advanced to the state tournament. They fell short for advancing to the final round. Congratulations to them for representing Heron. The Heron chess team competed in their second tournament of the season. The team fought hard and finished second in the freshman division, fight for third in the high school division, taking home the first two team trophies of the season. Varsity scholar bowl um heads to Marian face off in the first SIA meet of the season. Tigers went two and one winning against Salem and Edwards County and the JV Scholar
008Bowl team headed to Edwards County to finally join in the first SIA meet of the season. Chorus members of Nor Simmons and Holden Busberry and members of the Treble Choir, Katie Clandin and Caitlyn Dodson competed and were chosen in the ILMA District 6 Festival. That concert will be held November 22nd at Bville West High School. Passing of the torch held the second annual passing of the torch event football complex um at the last home football game. The class of 2026 met the class of 2038 at the 50 yard line to exchange gifts. Our incoming Tigers have a bright future. We celebrated with cupcakes and juice after the event. Thank you to the her family outreach program for helping with the event. The first family night was held on October 4th with um Halloween classics on
009the scoreboard. Snow cones, cotton candy, face painting, hot dogs, and more were all there. And thank you to the Heron family outreach program for helping with that event. And then last but not least, of faith was held at the Heron High School with over 300 students, leaders, and community members coming together from all over southern Illinois to worship Jesus. This program is supported by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. So, congratulations to all of our Tigers. Thank you for representing us well. Um, just one more thing I would say is congratulations to our her football team. It takes guts every week to go out and represent and you know, you may not win. Nobody quit. Nobody gave up. And I think it speaks to their character. And so we wish our football team >> mentioned this
010before. I know we can't put that in a high school. Can your accomplishments be put in your private? >> Yeah, they highlight a lot of that in there. >> They do. Yeah. just like the community somehow get some of this information. I don't know how to do it. >> Yeah, I know we probably only reach 25% of our community through our socials, but I know everything comes through social media that was mentioned there this evening. Um, you know, how to put all those accomplishments in the paper with Steve. I don't know how exactly. Yeah, some of the highlights we could get in there maybe do a better job of that. I'll talk to the guys at the paper. Very nice. >> Oh, I know. I know. It's fun to see your name on the paper.
011>> Congratulations. Great job. >> Within our packets, there was a parent teacher conference report. Does anybody have any questions with regards to that? Now, we're going to move on to new business and Mr. is going to discuss our $19 million of bonds. >> Yeah. So, this is a resolution we've been working towards for quite some time. Uh these are the bonds that were um the district decided to do this back in 2013 and that was built in such a way that they would come due at this time and we're pretty sure there wasn't going to be enough money that they would have to refund the bonds to make the payments. So, these are all based on sales tax revenue. Um this isn't a new issuance. This is a reissue. We are adding some years to
012the life of these bonds so that the payment gets into a position where we can make the payment annually with sales tax revenue. Uh the payment will be somewhere in the neighborhood of between $900,000 and a million dollars. We'll see exactly what that comes out to be. So that's an affordable payment for the district based on sales tax and still leaves us with a good amount of money in our sales tax yearly that we can put towards projects need to be completed in our district. So this is a reissuance of bonds. Um not to exceed $19 million and that payment schedule will run us out through 2045 is what that will run us through. They were originally planned through 2035 adding 10 years on to them so that we can make this payment for affordable
013for the district. We're not adding anything new, just completely refunded. >> Correct. >> Any questions or concerns with regard to the reissue? I guess my only question was we're going 20 years now out what we had. >> No, the the original bonds is 2035 and our decision was to go 10 more years or 15 more years. >> So the original bonds forecast 2035 we're 10 years on those that was how we get them into a position for us. Our options as the board were 10 to 15. >> Any other questions for Mr. >> See none. I need a motion, a second, and roll call vote to approve the resolution providing for the issue and sale of not to exceed 19 million of refunded ultimate bonds of the district, providing for the pledge of certain revenues
014to the payment of the bonds, and providing for the levy of taxes to pay for bonds if the pledge revenues are insufficient. >> Billy Green, >> yes. >> Sydney Miller, >> yes. >> Eton, >> yes. >> Steve Robinson, >> yes. Yes. >> We need a motion, a second, and roll call vote to authorize the high school bookkeeper to establish the chess club account in the high school activity ledger. >> Second. >> Steve, >> yes. >> John Hutchinson, >> yes. >> Steve Robinson, >> yes. >> Kelly Green, >> yes. >> Miller. At this time, we need a motion, a second, and a roll vote to close the meeting in accordance with section 122A of the Open Meetings Act, citing the following exceptions as contained in section 122C. Stute the discipline to consider the approval of closed
015minutes, discuss the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, evaluation, and dismissal of specific employees, and to discuss litigation. Yes. >> Robinson. >> Yes. >> Young. >> Yes. >> Green. Yes. >> We need a motion to second and a roll call vote to the committee to open session. >> So Robinson, >> yes. >> Young. >> Yes. >> Miller. >> Kelly. A motion, a second, and a roll call vote to adopt the closed minutes of the meeting held September 30th, 2025. >> So movey, >> yes. >> Robinson, >> yes. >> Green. >> Yes. >> Miller. >> Yes. >> We need a motion, a second, and a local vote to approve the following personal recommendation as presented. the resation of Christy Conquer as prek coordinator at the prek center and to post a vacancy for the cook at the
016junior high school >> yes >> Miller >> yes >> green >> yes >> having completed the items on the agenda a motion a second and a roll vote to adjourn the meeting until the next regular meeting Board of Education scheduled for Tuesday, November 25th, 202. >> Yes. >> Thank you everybody.