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04/24/2025 Herrin CUSD #4 Board Meeting

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YouTube / Herrin CUSD #4
Date
2025-04-25
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Williamson County, IL
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4,656 words · about 26 min
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2026-06-28

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001Items to be considered at the regular meeting of the board of education rescheduled for Thursday, April 24th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the unit office conference room, 500 North 10th Street, Heron, Illinois 62948. If everyone would please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This time, Mrs. Hastings, would you please call roll? John Hutchinson here. Susie, here. Daniel K here. Kelly Green here. Steve Young here. Dave LS here. Steve Robinson here. This time we need a motion, a second, and a roll call vote to adopt the open minutes of the meeting held March 25th, 2025. Second. Daniel Kay, yes. John Hutchinson, yes. Kelly Green, yes.

002Dave LS, yes. Susie Etheton, yes. Steve Robinson, yes. Steve Young, yes. This time we need a motion and a second and a roll call vote to adopt the closed minutes of the meeting held March 25th, 2025. So move. Second. Kelly Green, yes. Daniel K, yes. Susie Ethereon, yes. Steve Robinson, yes. Dave LS, yes. Steve Young, yes. John Hutchinson, yes. Do you need to read that? Okay. At this time, Mr. Wilson will present the certification of the members elected to the new board. Yes. Uh, from Amanda Barnes, the Williamson County Clerk has certified the consolidated election results, the canvas of votes, and this was uh from the election on Tuesday, April 1st, 2025. um in the order they are written on the page and the number of votes received by each candidate. We have Cynthia L.

003Miller 687 votes. John Hutch Hutchinson for 672 votes. Steve Robinson 739 votes. Brad Blakey 613 votes. Jason Stem 425 votes in a ride in with 327 votes. And that is the official results of the conso election on Tuesday, April 1st, 2025. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. We need a motion, a second, and a roll call vote to declare the winning candidates as duly elected according to the canvasing report presented by the Williamson County Canvasing Board. Second. Steve Young, yes. Dave LS, yes. John Hutchinson, yes. Steve Robinson, yes. Kelly Green, yes. Susie, yes. Daniel K, yes. At this time, we need a motion, a second, and a roll call vote to adjourn send die to dissolve the old board of education with appreciation to all who served. Susie Edertton, yes. Steve Robinson, yes. Steve Young, yes. John

004Hutchinson, yes. Daniel Kay, yes. Kelly Green, yes. Dave LS, yes. At this time, we want to recognize our retiring board members, Mr. Danny Kay and Mr. Dave Louns, with and say a sincere um appreciation for the years of service. So, if you will be let us honor you. We have some plaques to present to you for your your years of service with much appreciation and gratitude. I have a presentation to David LS from 2013 to 2025 in grateful appreciation for your years of outstanding service to her unifor and to Mr. Daniel K uh for the year serving 2017 to 2025 and grateful appreciation I'll start that over grateful appreciation for your years of outstanding service to her community unit number four board of education thank you Danny K yeah we appreciate you guys Mr. Locks

005Mr. Okay. Thank you so much. Well, guys, thank you. Okay. At this time, Mr. Wilson will administer the oath of office to Mr. Robinson, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Miller, and Mr. Blakey. Have those other board members come, you guys. There you are. You guys can stand up. Uh board members that were just elected, go ahead and stand up. I won't make you raise your hand. What we'll do to make this a little more simple, uh, since you all have the paper, is that correct? Since this is an entirely too long of an oath of office, um, what I will do is I will get you started with the first paragraph there and then after that you guys read together instead of trying to repeat after me. Does that make sense what I'm saying? So for the

006first paragraph, repeat after me and then after that you're on your own. Okay? Read it together. All right. So I and state your name. I see Robert do solemnly swear domly swear that I will faithfully discharge the duties I will faithully discharge the duties of the office of member the office of the member of the board of education board of education for heron cusd number four in accordance with the constitution of the United States in accordance with the constitution of the United States the constitution of the state of Illinois and the laws of the state of Illinois the laws of the state to the best of my ability. All right. I further swear that I further swear that and you guys can read together. I shall respect taxpayer interest. I shall encourage and respect this

007free expression of opinion on my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before a board while respecting the privacy of students and employees. I shall recognize that a board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a public board meeting. Shall recognize as a part of the board of education I shall accept the responsibility for my role in the equity and quality education of every student in the school district. I shall foster with the board extensive participation of the community, formulate goals, define outcomes that set the course for Hamilton School District number four. I shall assist in establishing a structure and an environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through the sound organizational framework.

008I shall strive to ensure conscientious assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law. I shall serve as an education's key advocate on behalf of students and our community schools to advance the vision for Hampshire Community School District number four. and I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision board has created fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship, and personal development. All right, very good. Mer, Mr. Blake, would you like to and you get a seat this evening? Thank you. Never the change. Sorry. This is the seat. Let's see. I guess Mrs. Miller here by Go ahead and have you do it now. Excuse me. Say it again. Do

009you do this now or have a do at this time? Mrs. Hastings, would you please call the role of the new board of education? John Hudchinson here. Susie Etheertton here. Cindy Miller here. Kelly Green here. Steve Young here. Brad Blakey here. Steve Robinson here. At this time, the superintendent will be appointed to conduct the election of the new board president. And we'll open the floor for nominations. All right. This time, as President Pro Tim, I would open the floor for nominations. Uh, nomination for president of the board of education is first. A nomination need not be seconded. So, I just need a a nomination for president of the board. I nominate Kelly Green as president of the board. Any other nominations? As one person is nominated and only one person is nominated, the temporary president,

010me, will now instruct the clerk to record a unanimous vote for that member. Okay. So, I would like to announce our newly elected president who will continue as president, Mrs. Kelly Green, uh, president of the board of Heron Unit 4. And at this time, you have the opportunity to further with the rest of the nominations. This time, we call for a member to make a nomination for vice president of the board of education. Steve Robinson. Do we have any other nominations? Since one person is nominated, I would instruct the clerk to record a unanimous vote for that member. And that would be Steve Robinson as vice president of the board of education. At this time, we need a nomination for secretary of the board of education. I nominate Susie Etheton. Do we have any other

011nominations? Seeing as one person is nominated, uh, Mrs. Hastings, please record a unanimous vote for that member. The newly elected secretary of our board is Miss Susie Etheertton. Moving forward, we need a motion, a second, and a roll call vote to approve the following appointments. Clerk of the board, Mrs. Brook Hastings. District treasur, Mrs. Rachel Wright. Alternate District Treasurer, Mrs. Brook Hastings. Cafeteria and activity bookkeeper, Mrs. Brook Hastings, alternate cafeteria and activity bookkeeper, Mrs. Lindseay Craravens. For board committees, um, we need to have a selection at this point in time. Um, finance committee of two members, six bank of two members, facilities usage, two members, and a governing board for special education, one member. Um, we call for that second and the role or I'm sorry, the motion in a second for discussion with regard

012to the committees. Do you have a second? Second. Susie? Yes. Steve Robinson? Yes. Steve Young? Yes. John Hudchinson? Yes. Cindy Miller? Yes. Kelly Green? Yes. Brad Blakey? Yes. Do we have volunteers to serve for the finance committee? Who's on there now? Was Mr. LS are you on and Mr. Dr. Young? Dr. Young. I'm sorry. Steve Young and Kelly Green. Sorry, that's genius. We keep it that way. We can keep it that way. Keep it that way. Yep. Sick bank. Sick bank is currently Susie Etheton and it was Dave LS. Mr. Hutchinson, would you like to serve on that? I'll do that now. Okay. So, Mr. Hutchson, facilities usage. We need two members. I'll I'll do a facility if I can. Any other volunteers? Who was our previous? It was Danny and Dave. Okay, we need

013Okay. Cindy Miller. Thank you. And a governing board for special education. We need one member. That was me. Would you like to continue? Okay. Steve Robinson. Thank you all for your service. We need to set a meeting time in place. Um, is there any discussion with regard to what day will of the week, month, etc. will work best? We I would propose let's not do Mondays if possible. Is there any uh hesitation in keeping the schedule that we have now, which is the fourth Tuesday of the month at 5:15 here at the unit, I'm sorry, 5:30 here at the unit office. I'm okay until we discuss that in July. I'm I'm sorry. Keep it the same in in April and May. I'm sorry, May and June. June, then we'll discuss July. That works best for

014everybody. Is that amunable to everyone on the board? Okay. Mr. Wilson, would you please inform our new members about the code of conduct? Uh, yes. We have a code of conduct that our new board members will have. We have given that to them and they are aware of that. they will conduct their trainings as required by uh Illinois Association of School Boards. So uh that conduct is is heavy on the ethics side of things as well as awareness of open meetings act um performance evaluation reform act. So our two new board members will be uh conducting or be participating in in that training. Thank you. At this time we would recognize anyone who wishes to address the board. When recognized that person should give their name before making their comments. Statements are asked to be

015limited to five minutes in duration. Would anybody like to address the board at this time? Hi, my name is Mara Engel. Uh I work at Heron Junior High School, have for 29 years. Um I'm basically here just to thank um everyone who was involved in putting in the new gym at the junior high. Um I was teasing Miss Mr. Low and and Mr. Robinson about uh you know what we should call the gym and it should be Engle waited 25 years for the for maybe a memorial gym at that point. I don't know. But um no I we are super excited uh myself and Mr. Lucans and uh we already have ideas on what we need to do and we really appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you for those comments. Mrs. Dingle, anybody

016else that would like to have comment this evening? If not, at this time, I would like to um ask for your grace. Heron High School lost a student this past week, and I would like to have a moment of silence for Mr. Wy Reed. Thank you. Moving forward, we need a motion, a second, and a roll call vote to approve the uh items listed and not extracted on the consent agenda presented Thursday, April 24th, 2025. Second. Steve Robinson, yes. John Hutchinson, yes. Brad Lakey, Steve Young, yes. Susie Eton, yes. Cindy Miller, yes. Kelly Green, yes. Moving on to old business. Mr. Wilson, do you have a update on our construction projects? Right. Yeah. District construction, Brad Kaiser from AT Mitchell couldn't be here this evening. Um that gym, as Miss Engle says, getting very nearly

017completed. Uh we're still waiting on the floor to be completely dry. They do have all the stain, varnish, everything down in there. Once that stain of the floor is dry, they will come in and put the bleachers in. Um the bleachers are actually sitting in that ConX at the um on the street just adjacent to the gym. So, they are here on site. Um, that installation should take a couple of weeks to get it done. They are working on the concrete parking area to the east on the south side uh of the entire school, but on the east side of the new addition, uh the parking lot's going in there. That should be finished up here in this week. Uh weather permitting. There will be three, I believe it's three outdoor basketball courts that go

018in there as well where the playground area will be for the students. They'll still have some grassy area once we get some grass growing there. again. Um, but the outside uh project being finished up as weather permits, everything goes accordingly. They could be done with everything May 16th. Um, we still have some things on our end, for example, the scoreboards. That was something on us that we'll take care of, but we have those lined out, ready to go in. We're just waiting for the floor to be done so we can actually get on the floor and finish that project. um a couple of loose ends in the kitchen just on things that were not done to our satisfaction and those are being uh taken care of. It's just a time to get those items refabricated

019is I think the right word there. Um the Janine Coffee and I have been in the kitchen. Our plan right now is to use that kitchen the very last week of school to serve student meals so the cooks have a chance to run through there and and get a feel for that. Um, but that's all I can think of as far as finishing up. I mean, we're down to the nitty-gritty. It's very close. So close to the punch list at this point. Very close to the punch list. Yeah. I saw in minutes we're going to do breakfast and lunch. I'll talk about that here in a second. Okay. And that will be out of the junior high. Correct. Okay. Very good. And tomorrow, how many more years do you have? Four or five. We're still

020So, you'll get to use the gym for four years. That's right. Who's going to fight over that gym? You or Justin? Uh I Yeah. I think it should be yours until you retire. And you have a tiger in there. Yes. I think that's exciting. It It's It's been It's a nicely done facility. We're super excited about And we will have an open house to get everyone in there prior to actually running that full tilt for the students and staff. So, we will have an open house and that that should be soon, next couple weeks. Okay. Moving forward to our solar energy. Yeah, the solar energy project. If you can uh recall a few years ago when we started this, this is the same solar energy project at Herren Elementary. About the time that we started

021this, so did everybody and their brother in the state of Illinois. And so, Amaran got very far behind on the engineering for these projects. So, that is why it has taken it so long to get it going. um on the on the north side of the elementary school, the district owns an additional about 15 acres and so it's swampy, it's undermined, can't do much with it. So the district uh the board at that time decided solar panels would be a good route to go. This is that same project. It's just finally getting to the point we've got the engineering done. Keystone is the uh company that is putting the solar system uh solar array in there. um they are getting ready to pay nearly $1 million to kick this off and get it going. That

022has to do with Amarind. Some of that money goes to Amarind and some of that goes to the uh project itself for clearing the land and starting that construction project. A lot of engineering still to go. Um however, that system will give us a chance to greatly reduce our um energy uh cost in the district. Um it's estimated right now we pay about eight and a half cents for our energy. That's going to put um at least the elementary at one cent for our energy rate. So in one year's time, the first year that's going to probably save us approximately $40,000 at least savings in in energy cost. And in addition to that per acre, we will receive $1,500 a month per acre for the life of this lease, which is 25 years. So, an

023additional revenue stream for the district depending on how many acres it finally ends up being. Anywhere from 8 to 13 is what they think it will be. So, a little revenue generated for the district. Um cost savings with energy. So, that is good news. It's just still coming. I just want to run that past you because it just in the uh middle of March got the final approval from Amron to move forward to the next step. So, for the district, um our approval, our contract is all good. Nothing has changed on that. This is just an update. Estimated two to three months for a little more development design, another three months for engineering and permitting, and then they'll start getting things ready to roll actually on site. So, I would say it's going to be

02426 before we start seeing no cost, no cost to the district. They'll pay the property tax on it. They will pay the uh take care of the maintenance of that facility, grass, trimming, etc. Uh no cost to the district, right? It's a savings to the district and a and a slight revenue stream to the district as well. So, that's the solar energy project. That was an update um just because it's been so long since we've uh addressed that. Okay. Any questions for Mr. Wilson with regard to that? All right. Moving on to special reports. Um the Heron High School band received a first place superior rating at the IHSA state band and choir contest held in Murersboro with a a chorus receiving a second place excellent rating. Um, the band also played at a tree

025planting ceremony on April 17th to commemorate the 125th birthday of the city of Heron. We have two new 20 new hall of fame inductees for this year's sports banquet and they are Cassidy Ray who uh participated with girls bowling and she graduated in the class of 2017 and the 2016 girls tennis team. Right now the her tiger journalists are competing at the state competition. They qualified out of the sectionals and the ladies tri lady tigers track team won the West Frankfurt Lady Redbird Invitational with 109.5 points. Boys track, we have a new school record. The 4x800 team which consisted of Mason King, Nolan Frost, Whan Hall, and Braden Davis. Um they set the record at 8 minutes 3 seconds. They are ranked number two in the state across 1A, 2A, and 3A classes. and the

026Herren Tigers took second place in the Heron boys invite. We have college college signings. We have Colobby Coffee who will be wrestling at Mckendry, Turner Fish who will be bowling at SIC and Nick Huard who will be participating with both bowling and baseball at Vincens. 13 students competed from three schools this weekend at the Illinois NASP 3D competition in Danville with five students qualifying for the national compet competition that will take place in early May in Louisville, Kentucky. And congratulations. We have students that earned Illinois State Scholar designations and they are Sydney Aerson, Ellery Blakey, Vince Champion, Kaden Green, Whan Hall, Emily Hosman, Joshua Jones, Chase Lam, Carter McCree, Delaney Restbo, Evan Wigs, and Laney Wright. And that's quite the achievement, and we're super proud of those Tigers. Um, at the North Side Primary Center,

027Mrs. B. Pro's class won the attendance award for March with a 98% attendance rate. Kora Orso was the attendance winner for March and she received a $10 gift card. The Illinois Principal Association student recognition dinner was held on Tuesday, April 15th with two first grade students recognized and they are Sawyer Dickinson, I'm sorry, Sawyer Dickerson and Maverick Clawson. Mrs. Murphy organized the Kids Heart Challenge at NSPC and they raised 200 I'm sorry 2324.34 the American Heart Association and they also held the Tiger Cub for future kindergarten students in March and April with 78 future NSP students and families in attendance um at the junior high. By the way, I saw the video for the shimmy and I'm wondering if any of our administration wants to demonstrate that for us at this time. Okay. All right,

028that was very, very nice. Okay. Um, the Heron Junior High School Scholar Bowl uh team enjoyed a successful season. The eighth grade team had a 6-3 record and the seventh grade team finished with seven wins and two losses. They came in third place overall at the Southern Illinois Junior High School Bowl Association Regional Tournament, which is the first trophy that Scholar Bowl has brought home since 2005. Um, on Friday, March 28th, the band participated and performed at IGSMA organizational band contest where they received an overall excellent division one rating from all three judges. And in the in golf, on April 14th, the golf team hosted their first ever home golf match at Pine Lakes with Landon Holt House taking first, Lucas Wright with second, and Asher Henson with third. The boys team finished first overall,

029and the girls team finished second. web where everyone belongs. Um they held their web Olympics this month for sixth graders. Sixth graders participated in different physical and academic challenges led by the web leaders and the web coordinators to earn points for their teams. 23% of students attained perfect attendance for the f third quarter as well. And lastly for the junior high school students who were recognized who achieved high growth and high scores on their AR exams. To qualify for these rewards, students needed to get a four or five on both ELA and math or improve their score by one point on both ELA and math. There were 73 eighth graders, 86 7th graders, and 66th graders that achieved that goal. Um, at Heron Elementary, we had 49 out of 710 students with perfect attendance for

030March. And HS celebrated 22 Timely Tigers who had perfect attendance for the entire month of February. and they will celebrate 62 Timely Tigers who had perfect attendance for the entire month of March. Last but not least, at our preK center, um they had a fun-filled extravaganza event which was a huge hit with 111 attendees including families, students, and staff. Um six incredible students were their terrific Tigers for the month of April. And all those students were recognized for their outstanding behavior, kindness, and growth for that month. So, congratulations to all of our Tigers over all our schools. We're super proud of you all, especially our Illinois State scholars. Um, great job. Moving on to new business, our summer lunch program. Mr. Wilson. Yeah, summer lunch program is something that we we've done with our summer

031enrichment program where we've served breakfast for our students um here in the district, just those who are coming into our summer enrichment program. uh in some conversations I've had with parents and staff and community members as well as some experience I've had in other districts, uh the benefit of being able to provide some food to our students during the summer, I think is something that we can do and really um not only offer that basic need of food for our students, but continue fostering those relationships during the summer, keeping some contact alive between adults and students, and uh and honestly, just it it's just a good positive thing we can do for our community. So, I talked to Miss Coffee, Janine Coffee, and Cassie Burgess. We've been talking about this over the past few months,

032and um from the options that we have available, uh the best plan that we think we can put forward this year is to continue doing our breakfast for our summer enrichment program students and but also adding a lunch, but not just for our summer enrichment students, but for any of our students in the community, 0 to 18. uh doesn't have to be a kid in school even just any any student zero to 18 can get the lunch. Um we have to follow some guidelines though seamless summer food program uh one of those guidelines is if we're going to serve a meal here in Heron we have to do it in a dining setting in a congregate setting. So that we like to do at the junior high school give us an opportunity to use that

033kitchen and get it going a little bit better kind of centralized in town as well. Um students who want to eat there, they can go there, dine in. They can actually sit outside in the commons area if they'd like to as well. Um but they can request a lunch. We're working on the form. Eli's building a form that uh parent can access it, request lunch for that day. That way we know how many meals to prepare. And then in addition to that, um we would also like to deliver lunches to our rural areas, Hurst, Bush, Freeman, Spur. Um those three areas are designated as rural. Culp for some reason is not Janine's trying to get that twisted with the state and see if we can't find a way to get Culp in on this too

034um and have a drop point there. So the plan will be for um the same method. The parents will have to request a lunch and we'll deliver two days a week um probably Tuesday, Thursday, could be Monday, Wednesday, we'll see. uh but they'll have to designate which location they're in and if a family how many meals are needed for the family. We'll deliver those meals out there. We're going to work with our outreach worker staff and they're going to help us with that but get meals out to our rural students as well. We'll do that combination of breakfast and lunch in June and then in July we'll do the lunch only following the same format. So doing that um Denine's figures for labor for the entire summer probably estimated between $10 and $12,000 for labor

035um to do this and then food costs she thinks will be less than 10,000 but maybe not even close to $10,000 because there's so many different ways we can get food for our students. So um let's just say for less than $20,000 we have an opportunity to feed our students throughout the summer. Uh I think this is a good idea. I'd like for the board to approve that and that's my recommendation this evening. I definitely oppose not including culp in this. I don't know how in the world we can serve Freeman Spur, drive a bus past Culp and go to Hurst and Bush. There's a church in Culp. Yep. That there's no way that we cannot serve those students in Culp stopping by that church. Yeah. We're not done figuring that out. I know I

036can do these things, but we're still working on how we can get culp food. It may be something that we can drop off and I'll go out on the myself. That's where we are too, Steve. Can we how can we get food out to them? So, just being fully transparent. We don't understand either why Culp's not included in that rural designation, but Janina is working on that. She is this through the state? Yes. It's what's a national school lunch. It's the designation that you have from the national from the feds what your school is considered and what your areas are considered. It's just beyond us. So Janine's working at it. She's trying to find that sweet spot where she can get it done. Um she made a little traction today but didn't have a final

037answer for me. But yeah, I'm I'm with you. We'll figure out a way. Okay. Any other questions for Mr. Mr. Wilson with regard to the lunch program? Not. I would entertain a motion, a second, and a roll call vote to approve. New business. Other new business. Oh, sorry. It's okay. Motion second. A roll call vote to approve the summer food service program as presented. Susie, yes. Steve Robinson. Yes. If we can get Calvin included. John Hutchinson. Yes. Kelly Green. Yes. Cindy Miller. Yes. Steve Young. Yes. Now moving on to the Durham Bus Building. Yeah. This isformational only. So the bus building, Yield Sunnyside School, is being um it's been condemned essentially. Uh Durham Transportation. They they've had that building now from the district for several years. It was in bad shape and the district owned

038it. Um I know when Helen Hampton was out there and my mother-in-law, they moved trash cans constantly to catch water and keep our books safe because that's back in the day when we used more books. Um it the mold and the water damage has gotten to be so severe. Uh Durham has decided they just it's beyond repair. So they're going to demolish it and that's going to come up pretty quickly. Um they're trying to get it done by the end of May. Uh so for the last couple of weeks of school and maybe the beginning of next school year, they needed a place to be able to run buses from and store their buses this summer. Um on the back side or I guess it's the um lower part of the sports complex where let's

039just call it the soccer fields. Um that parking lot's vacant most of the time. So they have plenty of space to park their buses there. They'll be able to set up a couple of modular office uh storage containers for their stuff and be able to run the buses out of our sports complex for as much time as they need to. Um we can even allow them to pull one of the buses into a bay and our pole barn out there to do some preventative maintenance, some of the easy stuff. So, we're uh I've been working with Sandy Mabry, the general manager for Durham, and then her boss, Ethan Castillo. um they would sure appreciate it and I I don't need a motion to approve it, but I'm just kind of giving the board the hey,

040here's the plan so when buses start coming off of uh the road out here at uh Bandandyville, right? That's the right one. Not Yeah, Bandyville, that people understand why those buses are coming from that direction. Now, um their plan is to build a pole barn, uh a large enough pull barn to operate as a a shed, a garage for them, and then in addition to that, another post frame, uh added to that. That will be office space that they need as well as meeting space that they need. So, they have their plans. They know what they want to do. It's been approved by their company to do so. It's just um there's one more little wrinkle. They want to try to buy some more land in that area. so to expand their space. But um

041just want to let you know that that's something I've been working in conjunction with Durham and uh just FYI. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. Um at this time, we need a motion, a second, and a roll call vote to close the meeting in accordance with no other new business. Other new business. Do we have new business? I have other new business or maybe it's old business. Okay. I want to talk about the unit office. Can we talk about I can't do it. It's not an agenda item. Yeah. We'll have to table. Yeah. I'm not I'm not opposed to talking about it, but it's not on the agenda. I can't do that. Yeah. On there next time. Yep. Okay. At this time, we need a motion, a second, and a roll call vote to close the meeting

042in accordance with section 122A of the Open Meetings Act, citing the following exceptions as contained in section 122C. To consider student disciplinary matters, discuss appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, evaluation, and dismissal of specific employees, and to discuss litigation. Second. John Hudington, yes. Susie Hudgerton, yes. Cindy Miller, yes. Kelly Green, yes. Steve Young, yes. Brad Ley, yes. Steve Robinson, yes. Okay, we need a motion, a second, and a roll call vote to reconvene to open session. Cindy Miller, John Hudchinson, yes. Kelly Green, yes. Brad Ley, yes. Susie Etherton, yes. Steve Robinson, yes. Steve Young, yes. We need a motion, a second, and a roll call vote to approve the following personnel recommendations as presented. From maternity leave, Megan Malow to be effective in May 2025 resignations. Tammy Waltney as an executive director for the district HF,

043Lexis Lacy as an assistant flag coach for the high school. for employment. Jimmy Humphrey as the assistant maintenance supervisor for the district. Alexandria Greenwood as a social worker for the North Side Primary Center. Sydney Stuck as a JV volleyball coach for the high school. Brianna Reese as a freshman volleyball coach for the high school. Brena Howton as a dance coach for the junior high school. Heather Janway as a custodian for the district. And to post the vacancies for an assistant flag coach for the high school. So move. Second. Kelly Green, yes. Sydney Miller, yes. Susie Etheton, yes. Steve Robinson, yes. Brad Blakey, Steve Young, yes. John Hutchinson, yes. Having completed the items on the agenda, I need a motion, a second, and roll co vote to adjourn the meeting until the next regular regularly scheduled

044meeting of the board on Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the unit office conference room. Some moved. Second. Steve Young. Yes. Brad Blakey. John Hutchinson, yes. D Robinson, yes. Kelly Green, yes. Susie Etheertton, yes. Cindy Miller, yes. Thank you everybody.

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