001She's going to have to find it. It's not the same. >> Oh. >> She [clears throat] actually might. She's been there since May. >> Hang out. Amy. >> Was this it or not? >> Was this the decision? >> The first one, yeah. >> So I have the other one now. >> Perfect. >> Do you >> We'll share it. >> You know you will. >> You'll have it. [laughter] >> Put it in the packet. >> That's fine. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Maybe have us do one of those as their official. >> Great. >> You just need to put it in the packet. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Okay, yes. I will fix that. >> All right. And now, here we are. Welcome to the Lake Bluff
002School District 65 Board of Education meeting. I would like to call this order meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. Lauren, may we have a roll call, please? >> Sure. >> Lauren Brickstone. >> Here. >> Andrew Carlson. >> Here. >> Richard Driver. >> Here. >> Tim Kunesh. >> Here. >> Lauren Hirsch. Here. Carrie Steinbach. >> Here. >> Ann Hill. >> Here. >> Please stand for the pledge. >> 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. >> All right. Anybody want to read the mission, vision, and motto? I did it last time. >> I can. >> All right, Lauren. Go. >> I have it. Um our mission is to ensure economic achievement and personal
003growth for all students through innovative and engaging educational opportunities. Vision an inclusive community of motivated learners who are inspired to change the world through exploration and collaboration. And our motto excellence in education and enthusiasm for life every student every day. Thank you so much. We welcome comments right now from our staff, parents, and constituents for public comment and welcome another opportunity. Okay. Moving on to reports. I do not have a report. Happy summer. All right. I just have a couple of items. So, number one I want to congratulate Tim who is now a Lake Division ISD Director at Large. >> [applause] >> We need to go to division meetings now. Yes. Tim. >> [laughter] >> Congrats. >> We appreciate you Tim. >> Um and the other quick announcement I have is that um the Lake
004Bluff Police Department reached out to ask um due to all the closures in town and some limited parking, they might um be posting some signs that would invite community to park in our school lots on the 4th of July um if that's okay with us uh and I felt like I know it was it was in between board meetings. I know they're going to need uh permission for us to do that. Um they're kind of saying they're going to wait and see but they're thinking they might have some limited street parking on the parade this year. >> As a former parade committee member, they usually use it for staging and parking for >> For middle or elementary? >> Middle. >> Right, but they want the elementary lot. >> My bad. >> Mhm. >> I feel
005like it makes us a good community partner. >> Yeah. >> I didn't see a problem with that. >> No, it's great. >> And they would probably do the same with the park district if needed also, so I think we can support that. It's not a use of our It's not really a use of our facilities. It's really just the parking lot, but >> We've had others. I remember like for the fourth or the fireworks to like September fireworks. I probably Yeah, we had to vote on that. >> I think they were asking to use our inside of our >> Oh, in case there's in case there's weather. Weather, that's right. >> And this one I feel is a little bit different >> Yeah, that makes sense. >> because they're not asking to use our facilities.
006But I will remind them that we do require a vote per policy if they want to use our facilities. Uh yeah, and that is that is all I have for my superintendent's report. >> Thank you for that. >> Oh, sorry, one other thing. We're a little light administratively today. Our administrative team is on a retreat with District 70 in Libertyville. The two teams joined together for a learning experience with a couple of coaches and it was a great I was there for a day and a half. I came home a little bit early, but the team was really uh we had a great time for the last two days just kind of doing a little self-care, doing a little reflection, thinking through some intentions for next year, and it was just a great and productive
007two days, and I decided they should probably stay there and continue to enjoy, and I would handle the board meeting as well as Kevin who's here for Jay tonight. >> Yeah. >> Lucky us. >> Yeah. Lucky us. >> Um that was Lisa's way of saying she's going to be talking more than Jay. >> So much more. >> Yes. >> So we'll move on to our discussion and presentations. First up is our consolidated district plan. >> Right. So this is a plan that Tracy would usually present because she writes the plan. The consolidated district plan is how we would use all of the federal grant money that we are allocated title 1 2 3 4 and IDEA flow-through grants. This is an annual process that we go through. Um Tracy talks with our team about what
008our administrative team feels our needs are for uh special groups of students who uh qualify for additional support. I've included um the memo here as well as the entire uh the entire plan. Um and this just requires uh board approval. So, I did have and wanted to highlight that I had one question um from a board member and I thought I would just share it with everyone here. Um that we have non-school public school eligibility in the grant this year. And so, the question is, does What makes a non-public school eligible to share grant funding? Does the school need to be within the district boundaries or just have students attend who reside in the district boundaries? So, I'm just going to explain for each of the grants. For title one, private schools can access funds
009if there are students in their private school who are Lake Bluff residents and are identified as low income. They get a proportionate share of the funds for any students who meet those criteria. For title two and title four, private schools can access funds if there are students in their private schools who are Lake Bluff residents. They get a proportionate share of the funds for any students who meet those criteria. Title three, private schools can access funds if there are students in their private school who are Lake Bluff residents and are identified as English language learners. Then they can get a proportionate share of the funds for any students who meet those criteria. For IDEA and flow-through, private schools located within the Lake Bluff school district boundaries can request proportionate share of funds for students with
010disabilities in their program regardless of if they're a resident. So, that's the difference. So, the IDEA monies go to schools that are located within our boundaries. Um Um and then another question was if the grant funding was not being shared with the non-public school, would it go to District 65 and the answer is yes. And then when those share when those um funds are requested, Tracy meets with someone from the uh school and all of that is um worked out together. Any other questions on the consolidated district plan? >> This is just for FYI. We don't vote on anything to approve or not. >> We'll approve it. We'll approve the plan. Yeah. And this is just an annual >> Okay. Um sorry. Are you okay? >> Okay. I had the same thought. I was just
011going to say what you're going to say. >> Okay. Um the District 65 family feedback loop, um there is a presentation in the board packet tonight. I don't feel like we need to go through all of it, but as a reminder, um we surveyed our entire community three times this year because our goal was to improve um our parents' um perception or reality of being informed about their own students' progress. Um and we surveyed all parents in the fall, winter, and spring. So, October, February, and May. Our biggest response was in the fall, 114 uh respondents, 80 people in the winter, and then we only had 10 people in the spring. Um maybe people thought that that uh they'd already filled it out, so they didn't need to fill it out again. >> Um I
012think people just don't do stuff in the spring. >> Or maybe that. >> [laughter] >> Maybe that. Um but I think what we what we learned um was that the big idea is that our parents appreciate direct communication about their child um in the form of emails. They also appreciate consistent communication through Seesaw and PowerSchool, and they appreciate when our teachers are equitable in their responses. So, in other words, um, if parents have kids in multiple classrooms, the frequency being equitable, um, between kids is really important to them, and that's not something we've hit the mark on yet. So, we will continue to work on that specifically with regard to Seesaw and PowerSchool, and making sure they're updated on a regular basis, to make sure that, um, classrooms are posting on Seesaw in an equitable
013way. Um, again, when we started down this road of kind of closing down the Instagram accounts, you might remember this is where we started. Classroom Some classroom teachers had these Instagram accounts, some didn't. There were definitely disproportionate amounts of posts in some classrooms, and we tried to move everything to Seesaw. We're still trying to help people understand, um, how to use that tool most effectively, and then also trying to get some teacher consensus on what's reasonable. Um, we don't While we want our parents to feel informed, we also don't want to add a ton of work that takes away from instructional time when teachers are posting or, um, uploading work, and so that's just We haven't hit the mark on that yet, but it is a goal for us, um, for the future. The other
014thought that we had was that potentially, since we didn't get a lot of engagement in the spring survey, um, that we might only survey after parent-teacher conferences. So, in the fall and in the spring, um, parent-teacher conferences really are the main way that we would hope that teachers and parents are communicating about how students are doing, and we're hoping that they do feel the most informed after those events. And so, we feel like if we survey after those two events, we'll have a pretty good idea of how the system is working, um, and whether or not they're getting what they need out of that kind of capstone communication experience. Um I think it was helpful for us to get a pulse on it this year. The one thing that I would say is well, direct
015email communication from a teacher feels great and it does, it's incredibly um time intensive for teachers to do, especially in an equitable manner. Um and so we will continue to work on realistic expectations with regard to how often our teachers can communicate with each parent um in a narrative way about their child. I saw a note in this that maybe one of the parents or some of the parents responded with they recognized that that's extra work and I don't want to put more work on teachers. But that seems to be what the parents want. Yeah, maybe shifting away from Seesaw and I don't know. Curious if this will be a town hall. It might be. >> Okay. >> Now, it might be and I think we might be in an even a better spot to
016present kind of what our thoughts are. The other piece to this puzzle and is um it's not addressed here, but I think it's part of a system of communication is report cards. Um we've known for a couple of years that our elementary report cards especially need some revamping. Um that is a project that we will be working on next year. Um Kelly has already started talking with the LBE SPTO just to kind of gather some feedback initially about what they might like to see differently in the in the report card. Um because that's another big tool that we have to communicate individual progress. And as far as I'm concerned, you know, this the report card is a tool for parents. We don't use it internally to communicate with each other about how students do. Um
017and so we really want to design a report card that addresses what parents the questions parents are asking. You know, what is most relevant to them? What's most understandable? And at the same time balancing that workload and making sure that it's feasible to um actually complete a report card like that for every student >> three times a year. Do the um elementary school >> Sorry, my head kids in elementary school for a while. >> But that you would get a Friday newsletter every Friday. >> We still do. >> Does that still happen? >> We still do those. Uh but I don't Parents don't Why not like not every grade does it. Some not every Friday. Some post on Seesaw the Friday newsletter. >> It should be some kind of communication. >> And then there's some
018and there's like email. Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. Um my question is is that not the type of information parents want? They want specifically Johnny did this this week, Susie did this this week. >> One of the comments was like I'm going to read it cuz it's anonymous, but it said um It was I love I appreciate hearing about my kid I'm Oh, I am sensitive about not wanting to add to the teacher's workload. I am mostly just curious what he's like at school. So, they just want to know what their kid's up to, which made me reflect on my report cards growing up. I don't know if you guys had it, but it wasn't just my grades. There was a lot of like >> How much you show absolute delight in the class. >> No,
019it was almost like a comments and behavior grades, right? Yeah, so it was like how much you get a plus or minus for like talking too much. [clears throat] So, I always got negatives. >> [laughter] >> And that was like the only bad thing, but like there were other things on there like can't [clears throat] sit still, I don't know. And this was the '80s, so whatever it was. Sounds like that's what parents are more interested in. >> And I also can see how the report card maybe isn't filling that void either. So, if they're not getting direct communication and the report card isn't necessarily addressing that, then I can see and understand why parents are feeling a little bit out of the loop. >> Sure. >> Okay. >> I do I will say I
020like the idea of our tools working to inform them more than putting that workload on the teachers. >> Yeah. >> Um there was one other piece that I'll address later, but um enrichment continues to be an area where parents want more information, not necessarily student progress, but more like program information. And we have um we have a video in the works with um explanation, more visuals of what happens in those classes, what the teachers are doing with students. Um that'll be ready for the fall. >> Yeah. Like they want the curriculum for it. One of the comments was I would like to see a clear science and social studies curriculum. An aesthetically pleasing Canva poster is productive information. >> We're we're going to address that. So. >> AI report card magic. >> Yep. >> Can
021do that for report cards. >> Maybe. >> Just AI >> I don't think we're going to do that though. >> [laughter] >> Um but anyway, it was helpful for us this year. I I feel good about continuing them for a couple of times just to keep a pulse on it because it is a goal for us and um I mean try to improve. >> Was Were the surveys just to the elementary school? >> No, they should have been to everyone. >> Cuz then it only shows like >> Pre-K through five grade level distribution. So, that's really what it >> In the report, yeah. >> I wonder if that's all we got. Or maybe that's all we >> Yeah, that's all that we got in the survey. >> Or that all that was got. >> I
022mean are middle school parents also asking for this information or is it more elementary school? >> I mean it's definitely more elementary parents that are asking for it because I think the the portal fills up a little bit more of a gap. Absolutely. >> Um Mhm. >> But the other thing is we've talked about too, and you guys heard from Joe and Kathleen, those like uh communication cards that have come home from the middle school, um the bluffer cards that are coming home. Like, there's been a lot sent home that way from the middle school, that back-and-forth communication. And so, even though we do the pause postcards and the >> And the phone calls at elementary, I think the elementary school, again, some of it's pulling back, right, from the Instagram piece. >> Yeah. >>
023Like I think um for some parents, especially coming out of pre-K and daycares, like there's a lot more of that picture view into the classroom. We can see your student all day long. And um we are trying to pull back from that. That's not kind of where we want our teachers to be spending their energy. It's more of a flow for some teachers and not others, and that's again not an equitable experience. So, just shifting that shifting that a little bit to like bigger district-wide school communication and then direct communication more about student progress. We'll get better. >> Well, thank you. You want to keep going? >> Sure. Yeah, summer book club. There's not much to say other than um our new book club is um started. We're reading Never Enough by Jennifer Wallace. Um
024that was a parent suggestion. We have about, I don't know, a little over 60 people in the book club so far. I sent out my first update. And just this afternoon, um got a package in the mail from Jessica Lahey, the author of Gift of Failure. She sent me her new book and saw that I had written about her in one of my blog posts and will be speaking at Deerfield 109 and invited me to attend. So, I reached out to see if maybe we could have her to come to one of our book club things, and we'll see. Um so, it's kind of neat that there's that's coming circle full circle, and it's been a really fun thing to do every summer, and I think people are starting to look forward to it maybe.
025So. >> That's awesome. >> [clears throat] >> Yeah. >> All right, moving on to your superintendent evaluation. >> Yeah, so as a reminder, um I am evaluated every year on many different competency competencies as a superintendent. I should have logged into this system ahead of time [clears throat] to make sure that I was ready. Um but >> Taking notes. >> [laughter] >> Exactly. >> that is your evaluation. >> I didn't understand the assignment ahead of time. >> [laughter] >> Um but at this point in the year the evaluation is complete and I always like to give the community an idea of what those competencies are again and what our process is. So at the beginning of each school year I do a self-evaluation many different competencies that are aligned with national standards, national leadership standards.
026Those are in several big categories, relationship with the board, community relations, staff relationships, business and finance, and instructional leadership. And in each of those categories as the board knows there are multiple indicators that I rate myself on and then that you have a chance to give me feedback on once during the midyear evaluation which is more of a narrative as you know and then at the end of the year again where the final evaluation is determined. We do use a system called SuperEval which is kind of helps us to compile all the information and again is aligned with what many other districts use and aligned with national leadership standards. So um once that is complete, I know that the board then discusses it without me in closed session and then those results are presented to
027me um by the board president and vice president and this has been our practice for the last 6 years. Um so, I am grateful number one for um oh, and I also there is another section of annual goals that are aligned to our strategic plan and my annual goals are always reflective of the metrics that we have in our strategic plan and then those goals are also what I use um as part of the evaluations for all of the administrators in the district. So, everything is aligned. Um so, I am grateful number one for your participation in that process. Um many times I've presented to um a triple I on this process and it is always surprising to me how many districts don't engage in this and it is incredibly useful for me as a
028superintendent to get your feedback mid-year and end of year. Um I think it helps both of both sides to have a good conversation about what leadership is looking like in our district and what can use improvement. Lots of great ideas have come out of that. Um for me next year, some of the things that I'm looking forward to working on is growing that two-way communication between um board, administrative team, and community through our town hall um meetings and continuing uh with what we just talked about in improving communication on student progress with parents um and continuing to do so. I don't know if you wanted to add >> Um two things I wanted to add. One I didn't tell you about, but it's a good time to discuss because it's come up from multiple people
029about how well you think this process is working and if we truly need to be evaluating on every single competency because not everybody does um and that's a lot of work for you. Um and just kind of throw it out there from thoughts from people and what they you questioning some of the percentages in the um >> Oh, yeah, the waiting. The waiting is um >> Just think things like that. I love [clears throat] the >> I don't know how you know, ultimately the final kind of number that comes out of it if that's used for anything or noticed. But, you know, some of the waitings are are questioned. >> [clears throat] >> But, um I I I signed up for the webinar that was recently on the um and it was it was really
030on SuperEval. >> Mhm. >> Um but I did find out as some of you have mentioned schools use all sorts of things. You know, including, you know, just you know, pencil and paper and kind of group meetings and um you know, um you know, the one thing about SuperEval is that I also learned. I mean, it's it's very time-consuming for for everybody. I mean, especially Lisa puts a lot of work into this. Um and you can evidently you can you don't have to use every all all the bells and whistles in it. You can kind of fine-tune it and maybe eliminate some of those steps um you know, or some of the >> the competencies >> competencies or something um just to make it a little less so that you're you're really focused on the
031the key ones. Um I mean um you know, with your communication skills and your and your knowledge and everything you do a great job with like um you know, the board relationship. So, I'm I'm not too worried about that. Okay, and then it's a natural for you. But, I mean, know, those are just things that we, um to maybe streamline it some way. >> So, do you mean like, um, like say the board relationship part, like we would answer one question about that as opposed to five? >> Or just take it out. You can't do that. >> So, and from my understanding, you need to take out, like if there's one thing in the section that you want to evaluate, then the section shows up. >> Okay. >> But, um, maybe, I don't know. >>
032I don't know. I know, I I mean, they didn't go into detail as to I just understand that it can be >> We can definitely do that. >> Can't be done as easily. >> You know, you you can tailor your own package. And, um, um, and I and you're the best judge of, you know, the effectiveness of all of the time that you're going to put in there. And if, you know, if there's something you think is, um, doesn't warrant that much, you know, uh, time or effort, then I'm sure we'd be, you know, happy to consider that. >> I agree. And then I go back and forth on the other end of it. This is setting up, you know, future superintendents, future board members for learning how to self-evaluate. So, I I'd be worried
033if we took something out, and then we start losing sight, maybe, of things. So, yeah, I wouldn't want to take a whole chunk out, but I do think that some of them are redundant. But, how do we do that? >> Because in that, one of the sessions applied. I I mean, I remember writing it down, like most people don't do the whole thing like we like we are in definitely the minority doing that. >> Yeah. >> Um, but I also know you like getting all the information. So, I don't want to take that away from you by limiting what we >> And vice versa, though, when we read all the things that she's putting in there, they're like, you know, it's like a walking resume, basically, for you. So, I don't >> I mean, I
034historically, like when I came in, as you know, like, we were in the middle of COVID and things were a little crazy. And also, my predecessor's evaluation was incredibly long. >> Mhm. >> It was homegrown through the only one that had participated in it. Um it was something that the board created um I'm sure with tons of thought. Um but there were, I think, over 60 different areas in which she was um evaluated. And graciously, like, the board at the time said, "You know, is there anything like out there that's different that could help us streamline or whatever?" And that's when we picked up SuperEval. Um >> And if you think, I mean, that process was way more time-consuming than SuperEval. >> Yes. Yeah. Especially for the board president. >> Yes. >> I think to
035compile all of the like pen pencil and paper >> [laughter] >> Um but I think that and you know what, honestly, I haven't gone back to reevaluate the system in a while, like, the capabilities of taking some certain things out. So, what we could do, um I would be open to just sitting maybe the three of us and talk and making a proposal and then bringing it in the fall of some areas that I could maybe focus on and take some areas out. I think that would be helpful for all of us. >> I think that's a great idea. >> Yeah. >> Could we maybe get feedback [clears throat] from other board members just if there are some areas they think are helpful or not helpful or if there's other things that should be added
036to. >> Yep. I will do that um in my next board update. >> Um one one other suggestion, you mentioned your goals were so one and I don't know how you measure this, but one goal is that now we've got the the whole team, I think, in place for the the elementary school. Uh you know, focusing on you know, the the um grade level teachers being able to focus, you know, work closely with Matt and Matt in language arts with with all the teachers and the we've got the you know, the the science and um uh social studies group and now we've got good support for I mean the whole team. We've got we've got a team in there. Somehow just you know, it's a big investment, but just um keeping close contact and I
037don't know if that's measured in you know, in a uh you know, meetings with the team regularly or or whatnot, but that certainly needs I think um just some shepherding and making sure that it's meeting its its full potential or you know, >> Sort of an implementation goal. >> I Yeah. Yeah, I think that would be the good word for it. >> That's a great suggestion. So, along with um the evaluation if there aren't any other questions, um that is according to my contract how the >> That was my number one. >> Oh, sorry. My number two was that we uh that we agreed um to support your increased up 3% full staff. >> [laughter] >> I can't stop my filter. Um and so as we all met and agreed, we appreciate everything you're doing.
038You are highly effective in everything that you do. We are lucky to have you. Let's stay focused. >> Sure. Here and here. >> No, thank you. I was a little worried when you said it's my lucky resume. >> I know. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> I mean, I also, you know, >> Yeah. No, I appreciate it. >> download it now. I'm just kidding. >> [laughter] >> I appreciate it. And that 3% is in line with the rest of the administrative team, which I appreciate. >> Bless your heart. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um okay. Uh moving on to the social media report that's coming to us from Allerton Hill. So, as you all know, we work with Allerton Hill Communications to support many different initiatives in the district. And one of the big ones that
039we started with, really one of our first initiatives was social media. It's it's always kind of a hard conversation because as you know, it's really important to us to use technology um effectively and just as much as we need it and not too much. But the social media plan for our district is really how do we put positive information out there? How do we get the stories out there of things that are working in the district? How do we get parents engaged in seeing inside our classrooms while balancing privacy for our kids? Um which has been a bit of a tough like line, you know, to hold. Um and I'm really pleased with the results of this second semester report because even though we've really shifted what kinds of stories we're telling and shifted more
040towards less kid faces and more student work and program reports and celebrations, we've actually increased even with our social media engagement with parents and community. So, we've done less posting which quite frankly was a little bit of a concern for Allerton Hill when we said we wanted to post less [clears throat] because they were nervous that our engagement would go down, but actually our engagement went up. Um so, across all those social media platforms, we increased our audience, we increased our views, and we increased our engagement while decreasing our posts. And that to me is a great thing. So, Facebook continues to be our most popular platform. Obviously, the kids are not on there. This is for adults. But our everything has sort of grown while again reducing some of those posts but having more
041comments. And the engagement on Facebook is pretty amazing in terms of the increases. So, what you can see though is really people really appreciate recognizing our students, recognizing our staff. Those are our top five posts and that's something that we really value. I think as a leadership team is recognizing people publicly and so obviously people really respond to that. >> And that's one of the things we want to talk about is recognition. >> Yes. On Instagram, similar pattern. Audience increased, views increased, posts increased a little bit but you know, we saw a lot engagement was down but the rate I think I think that's okay because this is not our biggest platform. But again, they really like seeing our staff recognize some of our student [snorts] work. And then you can see obviously our educator
042of the year posts were really popular across the platforms. LinkedIn is one that we're trying to have more of a presence in. This one is more for attracting and retaining employees. And so the things that are posted on LinkedIn are different. This is not as much about student recognition or staff recognition, it's more about district getting to know our district. What do we believe in? What do we value? What would be attractive to a potential employee? And so we've kind of reduced those posts but actually have have seen [snorts] an increase in the audience size and views. We're trying to we've spent a couple years trying to figure out what's the best thing to put on LinkedIn. And so um >> I don't really I don't think of it as such a social media presence.
043I thought you just went but when I go on now I see it's way more like you congratulate people. >> Mhm. >> It's and it's active. >> And again, it's really more on the employee side and the employment side. So, uh, again, staff recognition. Um, we've tried to really recognize when we have, um, graduates from Lake Bluff or entrepreneurs from Lake Bluff, you know, just highlighting the community accomplishments. Um, and those seem to be resonating with people. Um, but, uh, really feel like this is a celebration for us. Um, it's sort of a necessary evil. Like we there are people that only get their information on social media. Um, and so it does need to be part of our communication strategy. And, um, I'm really happy that it continues to improve and be helpful for
044us. So. >> That's great. >> Um, I know that we, uh, Dick, you had a question, too, about kind of what other things, uh, that Allerton Hill helps us with in terms of their engagement with our district. >> Yeah, this is this report very useful, very helpful. But, >> So, again, Allerton Hill helps us with our monthly communication email that goes out to the entire community. Often times there's stories that we want to put in there and they will interview teachers and staff and put the story together, put the pictures in there, kind of organize and format all that content for us. They, um, take the lead and deal with most of our community calendar that we sent out and we send out to everyone's mailboxes and that's our primary communication tool to people who
045don't have kids in the district. So, for us that one is really important to make sure we get a brief financial picture out there, we get a brief student achievement strategic plan update out there. Kids' words, we're having parents kind of send in pictures and quotes now. Um, they want to be highlighted a little bit more. We've had more parents every year kind of nominate their own kids to be in the calendar, which is kind of fun. Um, Allerton Hill also coordinates on the Bluff, which is our quarterly newsletter with the park district and the village. And actually that is a money saver for us. We used to spend money for that publication with the person that put it together for us. And now Allerton Hill is including that in our price, and they invoice
046the park district and the village outside of us, and so it's actually a money saver for us. And it also goes along with our brand, which is nice. Um, the videos for social media, any of our strategic plan updates and community presentations. So, for example, when Matt and I um, present together, Allerton Hill will often take the lead because they work for both districts, and so they can coordinate the presentations, make sure we're presenting on similar things, make sure that we're giving information to both communities that, you know, um, is helpful and coordinated. >> And those are presentations going up on social media? >> No, those are Sometimes. I mean, but actually those presentations I'm talking about are when we present to realtors or like the newcomers club or when uh, we did our board
047Schivel Lerner update. Like, since they work for both districts, they can coordinate those things. Um, they also help us with our community wellness task force branding and initiatives. So, the screen-free summer initiative that we have, and you'll start to see more posts from the community wellness task force. Allerton Hill is designing um, that uh, initiative for us and um, helping all the organizations in town have a streamlined kind of communication around screen-free summer. So, they help us with special um, programs like that, too. So, other things, but summer book club, ads for community publications. We put things in the chamber booklets, we put things in the 4th of July booklet. They help us with formatting those ads and kind of taking a look at the rest of what other people are putting >> So, all
048that gets run through them? >> Oh, yeah. >> Okay. >> Cuz what we're really trying to do is get [clears throat] that brand to be consistent. Get people noticing when they see the gazebo, they think of us. Um, and I know there's a lot of things that go into attracting quality candidates for positions, but this is my top thing is I and it has been working. We have great people that are applying to our district, um, and I think some of it has to do with our presence on social media, the fact that everything looks kind of similar, they start to recognize what's coming out of our community, and that's really the goal for me. >> Okay. [clears throat] >> Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? I'm going to move on to our OBMS French
049program. Teresa? >> Okay. So, um, a while ago we presented the board with, um, a recommendation to sunset the French program due to, um, declining trends in enrollment. I know this is a really difficult decision. Um, we've gone to vote once, and it was, as you remember, a historic tie. Um, and after looking up what we do with a tie, um, we realized that that, uh, recommendation failed because it was a tie, and so the board asked us to come back, um, to outline a little bit like with the program continuing, how would the administrative team go about implementing that program knowing that we have declining enrollment, and as you remember, I talked about our first priority would be to hire a part-time, um, in-person instructor. We we cannot in good conscience say that online
050is the best, um, but if we cannot find a part-time employee, then we would be looking at the Eleanor Virtual School as a very good second option that lots of, um, districts, uh, use, and we would feel comfortable with that. Um, that does afford us a little bit more flexibility if we go up and down in enrollment than like a part-time person might, um, and it will allow us to just kind of provide that program for any number of students. And then in the future, if we start to see a resurgence, then we might reconsider, but at this point we don't see that. And then of course we had a motion to reconsider the motion, which is why it's again on the agenda tonight. >> Okay, so this is a really good time for discussion.
051Um Anybody have anything? >> Um it looks [clears throat] like that it was like 18 students this year, roughly? >> I don't >> 17 or 18? >> I think you mean right now that were enrolled in >> In the Yeah, 25, 26 sixth [snorts] graders. >> In Oh, incoming sixth? 25, 26? >> No, the existing sixth grade. >> The existing sixth grade. >> Is that a historical number or trend factor? >> Yeah, I don't have the exact number. >> It's just on the graph. >> Yeah, the declining. It's under 20. It's on the Yeah. >> I don't have the exact number on my computer, but >> And then the future pipeline is right about I guess that same level of 15% 15 >> Yeah, I mean it depends like the further out you go, the
052less students are committing to it. So when we surveyed [snorts] our third through fifth graders, [clears throat] the further out you went, the less students were committing. But obviously that's conjecture on the parents' part, you know, they're not having to commit to anything when they fill out a survey, so >> All right. All right. >> Right, we can't count on >> Yeah. >> on that. >> We can't count on the ones who say they're going to, and we can't count on the ones who say they're not going to. >> Because they could change their minds. >> For sure. Um I know that we have a very big increase in Spanish participation. Does the decision to sunset that program have any bearing on hiring another Spanish teacher. >> No, it doesn't. We're going to have to
053hire another Spanish teacher regardless because >> But that person could cover all the students theoretically. >> Uh the additional Spanish? >> Correct. >> Well, we would have two we would have two Spanish teachers at that point. >> Who would be able to cover >> Yeah, the the enrollment in Spanish. It has gone up and the class sizes since we've stayed with our one Spanish teacher or about one and a half I think we have uh our EL teacher has taken over some of those classes also, but we would look to have just two full-time Spanish teachers because we also need the support for our multilingual learners and we cannot keep um kind of like stealing from that program to get our Spanish program numbers down. Um but our classrooms really at the middle school aren't
054they're not even sized really for 26, 27 kids. It's pretty crowded in there. Um so regardless, not this year, but next year we would have to >> [snorts] >> go ahead and hire a full-time Spanish teacher regardless. >> Okay. >> I don't I don't know how to say this. Um I don't love the idea of virtual French program. I I understand how we got here, right? I mean I understand that it's very difficult to find a part-time French teacher. Um and so that if we want to keep this program that that is a sure way to keep Yeah, I I do understand that. Um but I think if we were to keep the French program, I think that our families really want I want us to be able to really offer a quality program and
055I'm not sure that online school fits that. Um I don't think in in people asking us to keep the French program that was necessarily what they were asking for. >> Right. And that's something that we don't know would happen for a couple more years. >> But that's That's a possibility that we in 3 years the incoming sixth graders might be finishing French on the computer. >> That's where it's going. >> Yeah. >> Just depending on that hiring process. >> I feel the hiring process could be tough based on just what I've seen digging around. There's not a lot of people applying for French positions. >> And particularly part-time French positions. >> would be tough for them. >> They're not I mean, you know, there are less and less districts that offer it. And so there's
056less and less people going into it. And um just because those opportunities are fewer. But it doesn't mean we might find someone. That would be our goal. But it would um to your point about Spanish, it would be an increase in cost from where we are now to keep it because of the Spanish. >> Right. >> It did feel like it would be a decrease because you'd be going to be part-time, but we would still need to hire that full-time. >> An additional full-time Spanish teacher. >> Yeah, that's coming anyway. Right. >> You know, I think there's >> [clears throat] >> I mean, if we got you know, 12 to 15 students, which is you know, one class, um and we've got some we've got some time, um you know, that to me it's worth
057it's worth continuing and seeing if we, you know, if we can get a part-time teacher. Um you know, and just seeing if these options seeing how these options can play out. Um I mean, if we only had, you know, 10 students, 11 students, I don't think it would be worth it, but if it's if it's over a kind of a benchmark of 12 or 13, you know, I think it's worth giving it a try. >> But sort of that point, what if we only have 10 in 2 years? You know, then we're like or the other point, if you have a student who wanted to take French, but the only option we're left is virtual and the parents like, I don't want my kid doing virtual French. I'd rather have them do Spanish. >> I
058just worry that even if we have 15 students committed right now by >> That that could be a brand new part-time teacher, not brand new, I'm sorry. A part-time teacher for virtual in 2 years. Cuz the current teacher has retired in 2 years. So, their eighth grade will look different. So, wait. I agree. Try. But then I look to the future and we just don't know how many are coming in and then if they find out that it's going to be virtual cuz we've exhausted our resources, then what if we just have nobody? I don't know. >> There's an uncertainty level there. >> Yes, thank you. >> Yeah. >> It I know historically the middle schools asked like if you're starting in one language, we'd like you to continue that. Would if French continues in
059in eighth grade, if someone's like, well, I don't want to learn from a computer. I'm going to jump back into Span. Like is that >> the hard thing with offering the two languages is it does complicate the schedule because you have more kids going to different classes. If everyone is sort of enrolled in Spanish, then we would have some flexibility in terms of what levels of Spanish we offer at different times and for different grades. So, for example, we might be able to offer a level one in eighth grade to a student who hasn't taken Spanish yet because we have that flexibility in the schedule. Um but if we're offering sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade French, sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade Spanish, then that complicates where we need to put kids and how
060we would need to change our schedule. We might not have like level one, level two, level three available to all grades whenever they need to start. But that was a plus on just going to Spanish because we do have some kids that come into the middle school maybe needing intervention and not able to take Spanish right away. So they do an intervention class first and then in seventh grade they're ready for a language, but we really can't put them in seventh grade Spanish. We would need to put them in a level one, but that's not available in the seventh grade schedule. You know what I mean? Um >> It'd be sixth grade if classes are full and >> So simplifying it it feels weird, but simplifying it would actually give us more options in that
061language. over the course of the three years. >> That's a really good point that I hadn't considered and I do like to know that. Um I will say for my part and I know I wasn't here and I'm the reason this is back on the schedule. Um but for my part, the uncertainty of knowing we can offer a quality program leads me to want to vote to sunset the French program. I hate to say that. I too in coming into this district with young kids loved the idea that there were options. Um but again, if if I we can't guarantee that it's going to be a quality option that is great for the students or that the families would want, then I think it's better to focus on programming that we can offer as a
062quality option, that being Spanish. I also know that the high school has multiple different languages and that kids can go in French one or whatever level one language they want to try at the high school and still get quality education and come out with that ability to speak that language. So, you know, we're not shutting the door completely for these kids. One last thing I want to say is that none of this is a reflection on Madame Soustack who has been incredible for >> almost a >> I don't even know how long. >> And builds our Yeah. >> She's Yes. Yes. >> She built it. >> Yeah, she's she's just an incredible instructor and so I'm I'm sorry that you know, to see it go this way as well, but for me, my vote would
063be to sunset it. I know we're not actually voting now, but I'm just telling you >> [laughter] >> Um because I don't love the idea of online school. It's it's the lesser of two evils, I guess it's safer for me. >> Thank you for your perspective today. Anybody else? >> I agree with what Anne said. It's hard to take away an option from our students in our community, but um if we're not able to I guess if we're not able to offer a French option that's equivalent to the Spanish option, it's is it worth offering? >> I don't see why why families would choose the French option if the Spanish option is just going to be a better quality. >> Yeah. >> It's still food for thought. We'll be voting on it eventually. We're going
064to move on. Do you have a true north update? >> The only thing I want to say is congratulations to Laura Brickstone as had our first as she's been to our first meeting and appointed the um governing board chair. So, >> [applause] >> I don't think we're going to have any more lemon candy. >> No. No. Yeah. She's got it. Carrie's going to sub for me today. Um I am super grateful all joking aside super grateful that you're doing this and um uh True North has had a rough kind of year reorganization but I I even talking with John and Jimmy in the last couple of weeks like things are moving along and we're really excited for year two and I think you're going to be awesome um leading that that group of young people.
065>> And shout out to you and Tracy because Tracy especially you guys have put in I think this happened because of our team. I do. I'm going to take credit on behalf of our team. >> I love all of her. >> I'll give her a pass. >> I know. I'll give I'll give lots of credit to other people too but um yeah. >> Since she won't toot her Right? Never toot her own horn. >> Um so thanks. And no other updates for True North. >> Good job. This is good news. >> Um the non-certified staff update is literally just the addition of one um LBES tech uh that will be we're looking to hire um now that we have moved Sylvie Bold into our tech manager position. Congratulations Sylvie Bold at the end of this
066meeting. Um hopefully and I don't think there's going to be a problem with that. Uh so I'm >> [laughter] >> recognizing >> Sorry. Don't cut me >> Uh but uh recommending that we hire another support person for LBES as Sylvie transitions to the district office. So. >> Thank you. And now we're getting to the >> [laughter] >> We'll give Lisa a break and we'll move into our treasurer surety bond and presenting is Kevin. >> I'll definitely give Lisa a break. Um I have three quick items to discuss. These are all annual approvals so these are just routine ones that we go through every year. Um the first one is the treasurer's surety bond. And so the school code requires the district to bond our school treasurer, which happens to be Mr. Jay Khan. So wherever
067he is at in the world today, [laughter] we are bonding him with some bonds. And the insurance, so that's 10% of the cash on the final day of the school district's most recent fiscal year. So for us, the 10% of that amount is about $2 million, so that is the the bond limit. And at that amount, the premium comes out to $1,374. Uh that's pretty much exactly the same amount as last year, give or take like 50 $50. So we are looking for the approval for the bond from Liberty Mutual, which is also the same um insurer that we used last year as well. So uh does anybody have any questions on that one? Okay. All right. On to the next topic, which is our workers' compensation. This is the annual renewal that we have
068for workers' workers' workers' comp. Um and we are going with Accident Fund Insurance Company of America. Uh the amount of renewal is $28,679. Our broker did obtain three different quotes. Um and Accident Fund was most competitive. That's the same one that we used last year, so the renewal does reflect an 11% decrease from last year's premium, which is exciting. We don't really hear about anything decreasing nowadays, so >> things in workers' comp. >> Yes, we're keeping our employees safe, and they're keeping each other safe. Um because we do have a positive experience with this company, and it's a competitive rate um renewal, we're looking to approve um working with Accident Fund again. So does anybody have any questions on workers' comp? No? All right. Our last one, the most exciting one, is the bill pay
069resolution. Um since we do not have the board meeting in July, um, this is the board is giving authorization to pay the bills, um, throughout the summer without having a meeting so that our vendors, some of our vendors are still able to get, um, paid in a timely fashion. Um, the resolution does state that we'll send bills to the board and you are able to like review the, um, the bill the bill the bill list. Um, review them, take a look at them. If there's anything that you need to pull from the bill list, we are able to pull those and not pay them. Um, if you do want to pull something or have any questions, you could reach out to Jay or Lisa directly. Um, and then the resolution does also state that, um,
070in August we're just approving these bills retroactively. Any questions with that? >> Just as a historical note, you may or may not remember our July meeting was always about 10 minutes just to pay bills and given everyone's schedules are so crazy, we've decided in the last couple of years to allow ourselves the ability to pay bills unless you're concerned about anything and then just not have a meeting in July. >> Appreciate it. That's good. >> Well done, Kevin. We will move on to our press packet second read. You remember we went over this last month as well. >> Yeah, so all the, um, policies are listed on our agenda. Thank you to Amy for all the typing on that one. Um, we did have a few questions to ask. So again, our our procedure is
071that the policy committee reads through the policies, answers the questions or recommends answers to the questions and then this is an entire package goes to the board for its approval. So, um, board policy 2:200 had a question about posting, uh, notices and agendas for special meetings at the location where the meeting is to be held in addition to posting at the main office. Um, the default answer there from IASB is a no and we are recommending no on that as well. But, um board policy 2:20 for board meeting procedure had two questions. Um the first one had to do with restricting the addition of discussion items by district residents on an agenda to the beginning of the regular meeting. The default answer from this is no. We also recommend a no on that one. But,
072for question two, um the uh policy asks, "Does the board take a roll call vote on all action items?" Policy Committee is recommending the non-default answer of yes. The board shall take a roll call vote on all matters requiring action, including but not limited to all questions involving the expenditure of money and all questions involving the closing of the meeting to the public. We're recommending that we just go ahead into a roll call uh vote on anything in which the board is giving input input. >> May I take 30 seconds longer to close the meeting? >> Yes. Um and then uh the the last question is really just a demographic question of how many full-time employees that we have, and we are in the category of default at 51 or more or more full- or
073part-time employees. Um Dick, I know you had a question on the policy 5:50. >> Um yeah, is it Can you project that five uh page? I think it's page 20 20 uh >> 210. >> 23. >> Page 23, yeah. I was just reviewing it today, so >> It was just confusing to me. >> Yeah. >> And it sounds like it's it I'm sure it's not saying what I think it says, but it >> What do you think it says? >> Well, it's um it defines um a part-time a um I'm sorry, on-call employee. So, it's adding language to define a part-time a um on-call employee. So, I an employee is on call when the district schedules employee with at least 24 hours notice to be on standby or otherwise responsible to perform performing employment-related task
074either at the district or another location previously designated by the district. So, I mean, that's fine. I mean, it seems like I don't I'm not quite sure who it applies to, but it seems like it applies to almost every employee. Um but then if you go down to number two >> Well, wait. Maybe we should clarify it. >> Okay. >> For two. Just cuz I didn't take it as all employees. I took it as or when we discussed it on call could be like um the the weather looks bad. >> Right. >> So, the maintenance um guys that shovel and plow would be on call to show up early to be clearing the lake parking lots. And or somebody that would maybe take the place of a chaperone on a field trip overnight. Um they
075would they're like a they would be a full-time 24-hour >> if they're not on the premises, but still working in their capacity as an employee of the district. >> Yeah. So, like they shouldn't be doing >> So, an employee with a normal employee contract who's expected to show up, you know, >> They would have to have 24 >> not be >> Correct. They would have to have 24 hours notice to be the on >> No, I mean, like a teacher. >> Right. But they're like 9-5, right? So, you wouldn't this wouldn't apply to them outside of their work hours. >> Okay. So, they would not be considered to be on call. >> Not if they're not doing anything in their employment capacity after hours. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> But they're I mean,
076obviously teachers do stuff after hours, grading papers, you know, maybe answering emails after hours, but that's not what this refers to. >> Okay. Okay, so this is >> This would be like you are designated, we need you in this capacity. It's an after hours capacity. >> Like you're traveling to DC with our eighth graders. >> And we're expecting you to Yeah. Make sure that you're cognitively available. And sober. >> Okay. Okay. >> All right, and then you said number two. >> Well, no, just if you if you interpret I kind of interpreted that as meaning um Well, then it says all employees are just engaged from any of the following. um >> When they're at work. >> When at work. >> But I think that clarifies it cuz it's just a cuz it does say
077for the on-call employees, you know, for 24 hours they're not supposed to have any alcohol in >> them if we give them notice. >> They Yeah, if they're on notice, yeah. Okay. >> Does that make more sense? >> um It Yeah, sort of. >> It actually doesn't give them a time limit. It tells them like if they're considered an on-call employee and they're doing the work they should not be drinking or doing drugs >> or whatever the >> legal word is for it. during those work hours. Yeah. >> Or being drunk. >> If they're on call. >> Right. It's like that they're doing >> Okay. >> And that was that's been in policy. >> Okay. >> So everything but the definition of what an on-call So in other words, they had the wording in there
078for an on-call employee. This is just clarifying what that means. >> Exactly. [clears throat] >> [laughter] >> Ironically, this is the clarification. >> I look Okay, thank you. I have a question on the types of the 220 from the >> [clears throat] >> question one. I thought we were going to and I might be wrong, so I thought we were going to add and the location where the meeting is to be held just in case we have >> hall meeting >> Oh, yeah, right. >> So we went without the default. >> Yes, we went on the yes and I steered steered you wrong. Thank you. >> Sorry. >> No, that's okay. So thank you for that clarification. >> Cuz we're lucky we do it at the district office, but if we ever go elsewhere then
079we would post it elsewhere in the district office. Sorry about that. You're right. >> No, I'm sorry. >> It's in the notes of our last meeting too. >> That's all I have. >> Okay, great. All right, guys. We are moving on to our action with discussion. Still looking for discussion items. We'll start with the consolidated district plan. May I have a motion to approve the consolidated district plan as just presented by Lisa De Alby. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? Okay, Lauren, can you please call >> Oh, sure. >> Laura Brickson. >> Yes. >> Ann Hill. >> Yes. >> Andrew Carlson. >> Yes. >> Carrie Steinmetz. >> Yes. >> Richard Driver. >> Yes. >> Lauren Hirsch. Yes. >> Tim Penich. >> Yes. >> Wonderful. This has passed. Moving on to the
080superintendent's salary increase approval. May I have a motion to approve the 2026-27 superintendent's salary increase as just presented. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Lauren, roll call. >> Tim Penich. >> Yes. >> Lauren Hirsch. Yes. Andrew Carlson. >> Yes. >> Ann Hill. >> Uh, yes. >> Carrie Steinmetz. >> Yes. >> Richard Driver. >> Yes. >> Laura Brickson. >> Yes. >> Okay, moving to C, approval to sunset the French program. May I have a motion to sunset the French program as presented by Nate Wolfmeier and Lisa the alley and discussed at the board meetings in November 18th, 2025, January 20th, 2026, February 10th, 2026, February 24th, 2026, March 16th, 2026, the rest of this year, April 14th, April 28th, May 19th, and tonight. Um, so may I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >>
081Okay, is there any discussion? >> Just to confirm, a yes vote is to sunset the program, a no vote is to elect term. >> To not sunset. >> Yeah. >> Yes, good clarification. All right, any more discussion? Lauren Lee, please call vote. >> Laura Brickstone. >> No. >> Tim Penich. >> Yes. >> Carrie Steinback. >> Yes. >> Andrew Carlson. >> Yes. >> Ann Hill. >> Yes, for all the reasons I stated earlier. >> Richard Driver. >> No. >> Lauren Hirsch. >> No. >> Okay, this motion has passed. Okay, moving to D, we are doing the treasurer's surety bond approval. So, may I have a motion to approve the treasurer's surety bond as just presented by Kevin Finlay. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? Okay, Lauren, please call vote. >> Carrie Steinback.
082>> Yes. >> Laura Brickstone. >> Yes. >> Tim Penich. >> Yes. >> Ann Hill. >> Yes. >> Lauren Hirsch. >> Yes. >> Andrew Carlson. >> Yes. >> Richard Driver. >> Yes. >> Okay, this motion has also passed. Moving to workers compensation approval, may I have a motion to approve the workers compensation renewal as just presented by Kevin Finlay. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Lauren, please call the vote. >> Ann Hill. >> Yes. >> Laura Brickstone. >> Yes. >> Tim Penich. >> Yes. >> Andrew Carlson. >> Yes. >> Richard Driver. >> Yes. >> Carrie Steinback. >> Yes. >> Lauren Hirsch? Yes. Great. Motion has passed. Approval of bill pay resolution. May have a motion to approve the bill pay resolution as just presented. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Great. Any discussion? Lauren,
083please call the vote. >> Laura Brickstone? >> Yes. >> Richard Driver? >> Yes. >> Ann Hill? >> Yes. >> Andrew Carlson? >> Yes. >> Carrie Steinbach? >> Yes. >> Lauren Hirsch? Yes. Tim Bennett? >> Yes. >> Great. So this passed. We're going to approve outdoor ed trips that was previously presented by Nate Blackmer at our board meeting on April 20th. May have a motion to approve. >> So moved. >> Second. Great. Any discussion? All right. Lauren, please call the vote. >> Tim Bennett? >> Yes. >> Laura Brickstone? >> Yes. >> Ann Hill? >> Yes. >> Andrew Carlson? >> Yes. >> Carrie Steinbach? >> Yes. >> Richard Driver? >> Yes. >> Lauren Hirsch? Yes. Great. Thank you. It's passed. We will move to approval of our press packet 121. May have a motion to approve the
084press packet 121 as presented by Lisa Leali at our board meeting on May 19th and today. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> So as modified by um by Tim's comment. >> Right. So it would have was in our policy committee approved that way too. So I made a mistake the first time I presented it. We will present We will post our board meeting agenda at our district office and the location of the meeting. Should it ever be somewhere other than the district office. >> So that'll be changed to a yes from a >> It is a yes. Yeah. Thank you for clarifying that. >> Do you need to write it >> No. Okay. Just making sure. Okay. Just making sure. I can >> Um so did we We had our motion Okay.
085So Lauren, please call Andrew Carlson. >> Yes. >> Richard Driver? >> Yes. >> Laura Brickstone? >> Yes. >> Lauren Hirsch? Yes. Tim Bennett? >> Yes. >> Ann Hill? >> Yes. >> Carrie Steinbach? >> Yes. >> Great. It has Moving to the approval of our non-certified staff changes that were just presented by Lisa tonight. Do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Great. Any discussion? Lauren, please call the vote. >> Richard Driver. >> Yes. >> Harris Steinberg. >> Yes. >> Lauren Hirsch, yes. Tim Penich. >> Yes. >> Ian Hill. >> Yes. >> Laura Brickstone. >> Yes. >> Andrew Carlson. >> Yes. >> The motion is passed. Moving to the personnel report that I will read right now. Um for June 23rd, 2026, we have the resignation of Stacy Eisman, who is a long-term
086sub music teacher at LBMS, effective 6 1 2026. We have a licensed new hire, Meredith Correra. Position as an LBS 1 at LBES, effective date 8 20 2026 at a salary rate of $101,899 on the salary schedule placement of MA plus 30. The two retirements, Melissa Ellis is a second grade teacher at LBES, effective June 2029. And now Ireland, who is a kindergarten teacher at LBES, effective date June 2030. We have two salary adjustments. Tammy Robarts is the assistant to our CSBO at the district office, effective date July 1st, 2026. Uh current salary rate is $35.38 per hour. It will be adjusted to $40.87 per hour. And still be Wald, who's our technology manager at the district office, effective date 7 1 2026 at current salary rate of $72,800, moving to the adjusted salary rate
087of 90,000. May I have a motion to approve the personnel report as just presented. >> So moved. >> Second. [clears throat] >> Great. Any discussion? Unless >> Lauren. >> Tim Penich. >> Yes. >> Andrew Carlson. >> Yes. >> Laura Brickstone. >> Yes. >> Richard Driver. >> Yes. >> Harris Steinberg. >> Yes. >> Lauren Hirsch, yes. Ann Helt? >> Yes. >> Congratulations. >> And motions passed with applause. I'm moving to our consent agenda. Page one. All right. May I The consent agenda includes the following open session meeting minutes from the May 19th regular board meeting, our treasurer's report, our interest report, our bills report, and our peak car report. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda for June 23rd, 2026 as presented by administration? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion on
088the consent agenda? Would anyone like to pull anything out for a separate vote? Okay. Lauren, please call vote. >> Ann Helt? >> Yes. >> Laura Bregstein? >> Yes. >> Tim Penich? >> Yes. >> Lauren Hirsch, yes. Andrew Carlson? >> Yes. >> Carrie Steinbach? >> Yes. >> Richard Driver? >> Yes. >> Great. The motion's passed. Um we have our FOIA request. Five FOIA requests since our last regular board meeting. The FOIA section of our agenda is simply to report the item and does not require approval, but are there any questions from the administration before we move on? Great. That silence can continue into our public comment, where we welcome people to give us some feedback. I don't think we have anybody. We could give it a minute. I'm just going to call out names. So, that
089being said, may I have a motion to adjourn the 20 No, the June 23rd Board of Education meeting at 8:14 p.m. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. So, all in >> We're voting now. >> No, we're not. We're now voting. Lauren, please call [clears throat] votes. >> Uh Richard Driver? >> Yes. >> Carrie Steinbach? >> Yes. >> Andrew Carlson? >> Yes. >> Lauren Hirsch, yes. >> Tim Penich? >> Yes. >> Laura Bregstein? >> Yes. >> Ann Helt? >> Yes. >> Great. This >> Wow, I was so just because I was looking up there and I said now and I said oh my god. >> [laughter] >> I did the same stuff there too and I was Oh my god. I don't know. I was saying wow, those were good discussions today. Yeah. >> [laughter]
090>> It was good discussion. Yeah, I like that we had >> Okay, so what do you you want