001order at 7:03 p.m. the roll call. Laura Brickstone present. Andrew Carlson >> here. >> Richard Driver >> here. >> Tim Pennich >> here. >> Lauren Hirs here. Anne Hill and Carrie Steinbach are absent today. Prior to starting, may I have a motion to to nominate myself as president promp and Amy Cotnik as recording secretary proemp for this hearing. >> So move second. And >> all in favor and the next meeting too. >> And the next meeting too. >> Uh all in favor. >> The motion passes. We can now transition into the BINA hearing. The board will begin a public hearing to receive public comments on the proposal to sell bonds in the amount of 57,000 $5700,000 for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of the district. All persons desiring to be heard will
002have an opportunity to present written or oral testimony with respect to such proposal to sell such bonds. Now for the discussion. The reason for the proposed issuance of the bonds is for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of the district. Is there any discussion or are there any additional comments from members of the board? Amy, have we had Oh, >> I was just What's the timeline for when again, just as a refresher for when >> there's a 30-day petition period um before the board can approve a parameters resolution and then when what? So, that would be done in November and then the the bonds would most likely be sold in December. >> Okay. >> And close. So, November is the last board action that needs to be. Uh, yes. Done. Okay. Thank you.
003>> Any other questions, comments? >> Amy, are there any other written testimony concerning the proposed issuance of the bonds that have come in? >> No. >> Um, to the public, is there any oral testimony or public comment concerning the proposed issu is issuance of the bonds here? Uh, all persons desiring to be heard have been given an opportunity to present oral and written testimony with respect respect for proposed issuance of the bonds. May I have a motion to adjourn the hearing? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Amy, can we have a roll call, please? >> Laura Brstone, >> yes. >> Tim Penn, >> yes. >> Lauren Hirs, >> yes. >> Andrew Carlson, >> yes. >> Richard Driver, >> yes. >> The motion carries. The hearing is a You should probably wait until 7 7 15
004Five board of education meeting. I'd like to call this meeting to order at 7:15 p.m. and on for roll call. >> Andrew Carlson >> here, >> Richard Driver >> here, >> Lauren Hirs here, Laura Brastone here, Tim Pennich >> here, >> and Anne Hill and Perry Steinbach are both absent today. Prior to starting, may I have a motion to nominate myself as president promp and Amy Cotnik as recording sear promp for this meeting? >> So moved. Second. >> All in favor? I The motion passes. Now we can transition into our regular meeting. We are going to start with the pledge of allegiance. Please stand for the pledge. >> And the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation with liberty and
005justice for all. >> Now for our mission, vision and motto. Richard, >> I would be glad to do that. Um, our mission ensure academic achievement and personal growth for all students through innovative and engaging educational opportunities. Our vision is an inclusive community of motivated learners who are inspired to change the world through exploration and collaboration. And our motto is excellence in education, enthusiasm for life, every student, every day. >> Thank you. Uh now it's time for public comment. We welcome comments from our staff, parents, and constituents. The board president will determine the format, ground rules for comments in the best interest of the audience and agenda. Comments are limited to three minutes. Anyone has anything to say? And nope. All right. Time for reports. There is not a PTO report. I think the first report
006is alliance. >> Hello. Hello. Hello. This is going to be a nice short one. So, first of all, um this will be my last time doing this report because after four or five years, Greg Watson uh will be taking over the presidency of the alliance from me. and Jennifer Sparty Finn will be taking over the treasury. That's as of 25 seconds ago when I said online here. Um the main things we've got going on at the time are we've uh launched the fall grant cycle. Um we have on December 6th is our kind of big event coming up um at the gallery in Lake Forest where we're going to be doing a live auction for some of the artwork uh that we have. There was in or it hasn't come out yet, I don't believe,
007but there is an article coming out in the >> it's going to be the November community bulletin. >> Thank you very much. in the November community bulletin will be coming out. That's where you will see President Greg Watson speaking. Um beyond that, we you know had um Sunrise Rocks last year. We are doing well financially. So looking forward to the grants. uh for the December 6th event, we are and this will be in the community bulletin. So, we are kind of pitching it as helping to raise money towards the district's looking to fulfill the um kind of revamp of all of the AV stuff, which I know from Kevin is like a quarter of a million dollar uh budget or item line items. So, we are not saying, "Hey, we're looking to raise $250,000." Nor
008are we saying, "Hey, we're looking to raise $30,000 for microphones." Because by the time we get the microphones and the time the district raises the rest of the money, those microphones might be defunded. So, we are raising money to sort of earmark that. That's how we're marketing that. We also the Susan Brewster fund um she passed away last year and there was a call from some of her former colleagues and friends and family to uh raise money for a bench in her honor. Um the money that came in was uh five times basically the bench amount. So there is now like there's a Jennifer Harris fund in the alliance. is now a student unlisted fund that we're working on sort of nailing down kind of like mission for Jennifer Harris is for reading enrichment literacy
009etc. Um, I'm trying to figure out sort of what the understood fund should be about. And that is all I have. Does anyone have any questions before I go? >> I just want to thank you, Michael, for your leadership over the last >> five years of the alliance. You have and the alliance have done a lot for a lot of our classrooms and families and kids. We really appreciate your >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. All right, moving on. There's no president's report tonight. So, on to you, Dr. L. >> Yeah, just I wanted to give a brief update on the family survey that we texted out about our kind of progress monitoring we're doing on how parents feel informed or whether parents feel informed about their own child's progress. It's a goal we've
010decided to put out for ourselves this year to get better at doing that. We got 165 responses to the survey which is really good. I think the texting made a big difference. Google just kind of clicked on it. It's very short survey. Um all the grades were represented with just a like a minor um like there we have a bigger group in fifth grade but just by a little bit like 16% the rest are about 11 10 to 11 or 12%. So every grade was represented. About 65 or 66% feel very well informed or mostly informed. So we have about 35% that are in those bottom three somewhat slightly or not at all uh informed. In the top two categories, anyone who answered very well informed or mostly informed got one question and that was
011what updates are you receiving that make you feel so informed? And those overwhelmingly were emails directly from the teacher. their child's own comments or report cards and conferences. And then any parent that answered in the bottom three categories got a question about what would you like to see happen more so that you could feel more informed and overwhelmingly emails or messages directly from the teacher, their child's own comments or school works at home. Those were kind of the top areas. So both buildings have access to all the raw data. They're looking at their building leadership teams. There's some comments that parents made um about some things that we're problem solving around and just going to try to get better at this throughout the year. I'll do a bigger presentation once we've done all four. We're
012planning on doing two before winter break and two after winter break and then just kind of presenting out on our progress through the year. Any questions? Right on to the discussion and presentations. Uh up first is Austin Johnson. >> Just as a reminder, we did um decide together what we wanted for our presentations this year um at the board meetings and this was a top um vote getter for hearing how um safety and security are going in our district. So appreciate Austin being here to give us an update. Did you do your presentation on YouTube? I'm just >> sorry. Sorry. You love T. >> Yeah, >> it's weird. >> I know. >> Do you want me to do it? Would it be better if I can? >> Is it an issue with your there. >>
013Yeah, it was on there and then it went back >> and it's also like totally >> just don't do anything. Don't do it. that I >> I did share it with you. >> You did. You want to see if I can do it? >> Yep. We want one. >> It says it's already in use. >> Are you connected to it? >> It's really That's the >> screen, >> but we could switch it around. >> Do you want to do that? >> Yeah, maybe. >> Will they try to figure out the true north? >> Yeah. >> Um, okay. So, our True North update, as you are aware, we are working diligently to reorganize um True North and we uh small working group presented the redlinined and adjusted articles of agreement to the last the leadership council
014at the last meeting. I think it was September 19th. Um we had a very positive response, meaning there were very few questions. Uh most superintendents have prepped their leadership council member very well. Um at this point where we are in the process is each district then needs to bring back those articles of agreement, bring back the discussion to their own boards to kind of settle on our intention to declare at the November meeting of whether or not we intend to remain in the cooperative. My recommendation is that we remain in the cooperative. We've been working really hard to do that. Um, at this time I believe we have 15 of the 18 districts that are solidly committed based on just kind of discussions that we've had in open or between superintendent. Um, Glen View for
015sure, I I believe is still going to withdraw and then there are two other districts that are still in consideration. It should not impact our financial model at all to only have 15 districts. Um and so my recommendation is that we continue to stay with a cooperative and the adjusted structure that I presented before with all of the changes to the governance um the financial model as well as the program moving to one therapeutic day school and moving to that tuition based model. So, um, with that, are there any board members that feel you want to discuss that or think about proceeding with withdrawal? >> Say 15 of 18. >> 15 of 18 are looking solidly committed. And I know Dick had asked a question about how many students we have in the program in
016um, outplaced at TR North right now and that's four. So, um, that that will not be the case in a few years. We don't know if we'll have more students, but we have a couple moving out. Um, but we still have students accessing um services as well through Tier North. So, that will will be able to continue for most of our students. There's just a few programs that are sunsetting. So, do I have um board consensus to announce at the November meeting that we intend to stay with the cooperative? >> Okay. So what that will entail is at our November meeting we will have to vote on a resolution to resend our intent to withdraw. So, and then we would do that after we have gotten kind of verbal consensus from the districts at the
017leadership council meeting. And then once we have the amount of districts who are committed to stay in, then we'll know what resolution we'll be passing in December, which would be to reorganize and adopt the new articles of agreement or to proceed with dissolution. I highly doubt we're going to be looking at dissolution. And I think at this point we're going to be looking at um reorganization and then the new executive committee which will take the place as the sort of operational governance you know body will have a short meeting after the December meeting to organize that'll be the superintendent to organize have their organizational meeting right in December and then begin meeting in January and that is my true date >> and so this would be go into effect forin the next school year. >>
018Yes. So, the only part of the adjusted articles that's going to take place mid year is the shift in the governance structure just so that we can have the superintendent around the table leading the reorganization. Um there's going to be a lot of staffing issues that are going to be happening. All of that stuff in the spring. Everything else, the new finance model, the therapeutic day school, like those kinds of things will happen in the summer. or so between this school year and next year. >> Thanks for all your hard work and seeing this through to a logical, you know, a logical restructuring that that I think will help everybody. Yeah, we're really proud of the work. And just as an update, we did and are talking with uh the two interim superintendents, Jim and
019Jimmy, um Jim Nelson and Jimmy Gal, to have them stay on for an additional year because we do not feel like we'll be ready to select a new executive director when we really haven't even gotten in deep on the reorganization. So, um, there's a small group negotiating a extension on their contract for another year so they can help us through that. So, I think that stability is going to make a big difference. So, thank you for your support as well. I know it's been a roller coaster for the boards >> and thank you to you and so much more. >> It's a lot of time. Yeah, you guys have put into it. >> Yeah, Tracy's gotten >> so much. We appreciate you. >> A lot of work. >> Yeah. >> Are you ready? Okay, we're
020good. All right. Good with our safety app. Back to Austin. >> Trying to do this. >> Slville. We can't hear. >> Why did you say Bill's fault? So, >> 100%. >> Nothing with nothing bad here. >> Never. No. Okay. >> All right. Um, thanks for having me and sorry that I messed up that great introduction, but highly coveted presentation that people wanted to hear. Um, first I wanted to start with, you know, an appreciation for being a school and a district that has culture within their safe u the safe culture of safety with embedded within the district. I mean, our parents really want to know what's going on with safety. They care deeply about the buildings being safe and secure. Uh our teachers, they're on board and they're promoting that culture of safety every day.
021They work through things, they train, they do all the things that we need to do. So, uh we we're in a great spot in that sense that we think about this often and we make sure that our buildings are safe and secure for students, staff, and and anybody visiting. So, just starting with that being said, just a couple of things that point out that we've already done last year. Just as a reminder, you know, we started to really work on our terminology. As you can see, those are the terms that we use. We put a a gu a classroom action guide in every single room that it could even be found. It gives quick bullet points to the teachers on what they need to do in each of these scenarios so that they can remind
022the students and really be the leaders in an emergency situation. when you put a just a room located um in case there's visitors or somebody in a room doesn't know where they are and emergency does happen, they can call 911, tell the exact address and what room they're in. Uh we continue to communicate with our community, put together a safety guide and sent that out last year. Uh it can still be found on our website. So there's a lot of information embedded on our safety and security website which Kevin has helped with. And we also got some numerous people trained about 29 to 30 people trained in uh CPR and AED last year to go along with our cardiac emergency response plan that we had to put into place. So those are just a reminder
023of some things we did and things that we're moving on to. The biggest one that has come up this year um over the summer you all know that we put in of wireless locks and some hardwired locks throughout our buildings. These are in every single classroom, some of our offices. This is what they look like. There's two different forms you can see of the wireless lock and then the big black card reader. That would be a hardwired um lock that you would see around the the building or district. And I think they're working great. I I appreciate all the work that I've done with Jay and Kevin and Andy because it really takes the technology team facilities. Obviously Jay Jay knows it in depth as well. He works within the program and the software all
024the time. we kind of work on that together without having everybody on board, but they're working great for the teachers. The feedback that I'm getting is that they appreciate it. It's fast, it's easy. You just simply scan your fob right over it. It opens the door. Um did a quick little walk around today at both the buildings and doors are closed, which is great. There are some open and we openly talked to the middle school uh teachers and the elementary teachers. They're getting used to having doors closed at all times. It's not that they don't want to or that they're, you know, going against anything. They just they're like, "Oh, I for just forgot." So, I'll walk by and principles will walk by and they'll just wave at them and close the door and like,
025"Oh, thanks. Thanks for the reminder." So, doors are locked and closed. I I would say well over 95% of the doors easily are closed and locked at all times, keeping our kids safe. We know that's the safest way to keep uh our kids and staff safe behind doors. So, really appreciate the staff for their efforts on that. So, this is um we continue to refine some of the things that we need to do. We've connected our our ability to lock down the building, lock down all the doors, uh sound off an announcement that tells the building that they're in lockdown all at once. It it deactivates the cards and only gives the ability for police and fire to come in and respond. So, it's it's a really awesome system that we have in place and
026really appreciate that, you know, the money that went towards putting this into our buildings. It's it's a great thing to have. Um, another thing we started this year is uh safety week. Early on in the year, we we sent out a video every day. Um, really tried to engage the community, the parents to talk with what they were going to do the next day, the drill they were going to go through. We had the police and fire do a video. So, uh, the welcome video start off with me kind of welcoming and saying hi and going over a couple of things about see something, say something. Uh, we involved the fire department. They did a fire evacuation video and a weather video. And then I did another run high defend video and we finished up
027the week with our police department doing a great job on a bicycle and pedestrian safety which continues to kind of unfold with the ebike situation and you know not riding those ebikes down in the business district which I know is a tough thing but it uh it's good and being publicized by them and they're doing a great job there. So save the week I think was a hit. We're going to move it a little bit later next year. We decided that as we were just getting into our routines in a building and kids are still trying to figure out what's going on. Teachers are getting in a groove, we wanted everything to be settled, kind of let the school year get going. So, we'll start that. It'll be I think in early October is when
028we decided next year is we're going to have safety week. We'll do the same sort of thing. Might even have some new videos and and new features in there as well. So, looking forward to continue on that tradition. Um, one thing we're going to get done this year, which will be great, is we're going to get back to working with our police on run high defend or active shooters with inside of the building. So, in January, we have a couple Wednesday teacher uh meetings and we're going to do a run high defend drill. This is not with students. This is after school. So, the buildings will be empty. It starts with a little bit of a PowerPoint going over what is run, what do you do during a run, what would you do in a
029hide, what would you do to defend and talking through the optionbased scenarios that teachers have and what could they do? We'll answer a lot of questions. It'll be a lot of give and take, you know, answer me, ask anything, kind of what if questions. We'll go through that, talk about it, what they could do, uh, should we happen to run into a unfortunate situation like that. And then we might even do another scenario. There's other scenarios that we can run through. It doesn't it's not all active shooter training. It's not all about just that. We'll do other scenarios during that time such as what if somebody was in our building and wasn't wearing a lanyard like we we wear during the day. What would you do? How would you approach them? Those types of things.
030So, we'll run through that with staff. So, looking forward to doing that with the police uh in January. Uh the next slide just kind of goes over that we we had some safety projects that we really wanted to get going. This was mentioned last year. We wanted the wireless card access on the doors. We got that done. We wanted to get safety going. We got that done. Uh we want to start a district safety committee. We're meeting with parents and the community on November 5th at the library. We're we have that we're looking forward to. The teachers have done a great job with our locked door policy. And obviously I just mentioned that the run high defend training is coming up in January. So all the things that we wanted to do we're doing. And
031then future things we're looking into is just the continuous full integration of all of our systems. So there's a lot of technology that goes into our systems, the cameras, the card readers, everything just being combined into one and how we can get alerts. We're going to continue to refine that. So that's in progress. Looking into some new radios. We're we're really we have some older radios. We're looking into how we can find some new radios and how they may even integrate into our safety system. So, that's in the process. Um the Lake Blood Police Department also is working on their connectivity within our building. The last thing we want is the police department to be in our building and responding to an emergency and then drop their call or not be able to communicate with
032dispatch. So, we're trying to find those areas and I'm working through that with them and the radios they have. Um, we need to get all their staff chain and stop the bleed, which we will get that done because our nurses are also trainers and able to do that. And then some upgrades in our vestibule. We may even look at moving the guest visitor system into the vestibule. So, we don't even have to let people into our building. They can sign in before they get into our building. Um, you know, it's we are safe. When people get into our offices, they can't get out without us allowing them out and giving them that permission, but I'd rather see that happen in our best. So, we're looking into ways that that could occur as well, along with
033some new video intercoms. You can see there at the bottom, we're looking into that we'll be able to communicate with them, anybody coming into school outside the building, and it's a beautiful camera footage of that entrance area as well. So, a lot of good things there. Um, the other thing I just want to highlight is, you know, we continue to promote and I appreciate Lisa and Rebecca and Libertyville. We're kind of on our speaker run here circuit. We're we're going out and talking about what it's like for small districts to come together and have a shared safety director. And I think we've seen success. We were able to speak down in Springfield um at one of the superintendent functions. We're going to be going to triple I other ones >> and Tim will be helping.
034>> So we're really looking I appreciate the the what we're doing together. Again, this is safety and security really is a an effort from everybody. It's not a oneperson show and we have the buy in. We have things going in the right direction and we'll continue to do things and I'll keep assessing and auditing the building and seeing what we need to do to move forward in a in a safe and secure way. Just to add to that too, um, one thing, I'm glad you mentioned the presentations. We were kind of surprised we had superintendents from our area who came to see our presentation, we thought just to be kind and support us, but actually they were like, "No, no, we're looking into this model, too, and we really like how you're doing it and
035how it's going." And the other thing I want to mention, although it's not specific to Lake Block, but Austin is along with two other um directors of safety in the area, kind of leading the way for the LC Smart initiative and the um go kits and the reunification plans. And I just have to commend him for taking on that additional responsibility. It's going to be helpful not just to us, but everyone. um reunification is a beast to plan and to find places that will take your district in the event of an emergency and and allow you to set up an entire reunification system. Um and so I think it's great that we're all working together on that, but I just want to highlight that um Austin's talent is evident as he's leading in that group
036as well. So um we're just really grateful to have him here. Any questions? I there's also things that we accomplished last year. I mean, little things, but they all add up. I think we've improved the windows with with reflective stickers on the outside to >> Yeah. with the room things and the police and all those little things add up. But I did read in one study where the the one most effective uh deterrent is to close door. >> Yes. and you know that an intruder is just not doesn't want to take the time to try to get through. So I appreciate your emphasis and continued emphasis on the policy of keeping the doors closed. I mean, you know, and it's not easy, but I think we got to get, you know, the students get involved
037in that, too, right? You know, um, but I had one one question. Have we ever thought about um or considered what to do uh with like a lockdown drill during like the lunch period? >> Yep. >> Um, which is an extremely difficult, you know, time to do it. But >> yes, >> uh, you know, just teachers have some idea of what to do during a lunch period or something. Is that feasible? >> It is. It is. And we we will do that. I'm continuously working with uh Nate and Joe and Kathleen and Kelly, you know, and first before I say that, I want to thank them because they're really at every staff meeting promoting the locked door policy and the staff are buying in. So I'm although I'm not there every day, when they have
038their meetings, they emphasize it. So appreciation to them to for continuing that. Um I have been also even with a fire drill trying to change up and and challenge the staff. So just we have a fire drill the other day last week or I believe it was last week and I blocked an exit so that the staff had to think about what is their secondary exit. How would they get out should something be occurring in that area. So we are I talk to the principles about when we can do these lockdown drills and we will continue to push ourselves and do it at different times. They're really good in the planning phase with me of even recognizing, hey, let's let's do some of these drills in the morning, some in the afternoon, and then we
039got to hit the middle of the day as well. So, we we plan on doing that. Absolutely. And it is important. You have kids in a large open space and they need to know we need to be able to communicate with them what to do. A couple other things just to add to that. We are doing, if you saw that terminology, the hold in place, the secure building and teach, all the teachers wear that. Not only are we doing the mandated drills of the fire drills, the tornado drills, the lockdown drills, we're calling those terms out during the day so students hear it and then the teachers can have conversations about, hey, if we hear a hold in place, here's what we would do. If we hear a secure building to teach, here's what we
040would do and why. And we're not in any danger. this is what we need to do during that scenario. So, we are continuing to make those plans and and prep our teachers and our students a little bit more. >> I and I'm just going to put this one other thing that I thought of is crisis communication. We have an app crisis go that is >> cumbersome bit and hard to navigate and just having Austin as a um kind of support for all of us figuring out how to use this app has been tremendously helpful because it's it's um we need to have it but it's also not intuitive. There really isn't a very intuitive app for crisis communication that will send out alerts and give people instruction. But we've also had a lot more practice
041with that too and it's going a lot smoother. So just lots of things are going better. So yeah, great investment >> questions. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> All right. On the IASB resolutions committee. >> So I did not have anyone send me any resolutions that you want to discuss. So I'm assuming that the whole board is good with the IASB recommended. um actions. If anyone has questions though, Tim has uh as our delegate uh elected delegate, appointed delegate and watched some webinar. So if anyone has questions on these, he's fully prepared to go make our voice heard at the delegate assembly. >> Otherwise, we'll go with the recommendation. >> Everyone y reflections. So, we did something new this year and um we typically have a board tour when a
042new board member comes on, but sometimes those are in the summer at different times when the building isn't totally full or busy. And so, we offered the opportunity for board members to tour each building in pairs um with myself from in most cases two of the three I was able to make, but with our principles also and just ask questions and see like a normal kind of spot of time in classrooms and get your questions answered. So, I just thought it might be nice for anyone who did attend a board tour um to share anything you saw that you thought was going well. >> Go. >> We went together. >> Yeah, >> go for it. >> Um first, just thank you to all the principles and assistant principles for taking the time to show us
043around. Um I thought it was a wonderful experience. I was um kind to go off what Austin was just talking about when we were at the elementary school is I not Lauren and I I think both noticed that the doors were were closed and it seems a lot of the classrooms have doorbells now for when students are um going to the restroom or something. So that was was nice to see. Um, it was also interesting to see uh we went into all if not mo most if not all of the fourth grade classrooms and seeing the same lessons being taught but in a different way. Um, it it was great just to see that in in action. It's not something I think I appreciated before I saw that. And um just having the opportunity to
044see the the kids engaged, the teachers um teach it enthusiastically teaching the subjects was great. And um then here at the middle school, it was good to see some of the new courses in action, the math course and the um English course. Um just to pop in on those and see what was was going on in those classes. So overall, I thought it was a great experience and I appreciate the opportunity. And piggybacking on what Tim had to say, um it was the doorbells. I one of my questions was, have we had any issues with the, you know, new locks and stuff? And it seemed like everyone was kind of in the groove with it, the doorbells on the doors. A lot of the classes have like an assigned door opener if somebody's knocking. Um,
045and just what blew me away in the elementary was the scheduling. like the fact that we went in four different classes and every single class was doing language arts at the time and we were able to see it. Um that was amazing. And then at the middle school we were in the at the top the stairs during a passing period and it was calm. >> Yeah. >> Like for all those kids to be walking around and they all knew where they were going and knew the rules and I mean it was it was amazing. So, I really appreciated >> having that time to go in. I think we went in probably close to 20 classrooms at least. >> Um, saw a lot of the new first year teachers, which was great. You'd never expect that
046they were first year teachers, but overall it was I really enjoyed it. Thank you. >> I'd say um what you're saying about the first year teachers, I couldn't tell you who the first year teachers were and who the experienced, you know, or quote unquote experienced teachers were. everyone seemed to be so that it was fourth grade. They were all doing a similar lesson, but you saw like a real different spin on each room with different teachers. Lots of student engagement. Um really like going in seeing students not just sitting and learning, but actually talking to peers about what they were doing, you know, reflecting with each other on what they were learning. Um teachers really getting involved with, you know, certain groups, floating around, checking in on students. Um, middle school, yeah, same thing. Just
047lots of, you know, peer-to-p peer learning. Middle school. Um, just everyone, students seemed happy. They seemed smiling. Um, they definitely like seeing visitors come in, especially at the elementary. That was fun. Um, I just think seeing just students learning and just being engaged and actually enjoying being in school was it was awesome. I I got to see some of the enrichment which was really fun to see. I agree that the like I couldn't tell like I know who the new teachers are but they were just they were doing their thing. They were fantastic and it was so much calmer like elementary school when I was expecting um they just they all know what they're doing but they're all engaged with each other but it's it's in my head like the kindergarten room's going to be
048like kindergarten cop and they're all >> and it was very much not that. And the, you know, the elementary school, I got a lot of hugs. It was very exciting. And it was sort of, I was like, "Oh god, I'm going to go to the junior high. It's going to be a different vibe." But we went into one of the math classrooms and the kids were so excited about what they were working on that they were making eye contact with me and they were like, "Look what we're doing. We're" and they were fully engaged, which is not totally typical for junior high students, but they were really excited about what they were learning. So, I thought it was so much fun. So, thank you for letting us do. >> Yeah, I I mean, we're happy
049to do it, you know, every year if you guys want to take a look. I think it's good for you to be there. Another highlight, Carrie and Andrew got a standing ovation at lunch from the fifth graders. That was amazing. I believe one of the Steinback Steinach boys started that. But it was great. >> Uh I think we got to crown some kindergarten and AJ when they were learning Ace. Yeah, it was really fun. It was really fun. And you never know what you're going to see. So, I loved just it's always nice to see it through other people's eyes, too. So, but for sure all of Jackie's work with the teams looking at the guaranteed Bible curriculum is evident and um certainly all the work that we do with positive behavior support and the
050work that Tracy's doing with SS. You can see a lot of it. It's awesome. >> One of the special jobs, the music teacher at elementary, too. >> Yeah, Megan. >> Yeah, >> we went in there. She's doing it was right when the students would come in doing some like breathing exercises just some just calm down strategies and I think I started doing some of the breathing stretch. Yeah. >> Um I was like I think I could use this every day. Yeah. >> So I thought that was just an amazing way to start the class and get the kids ready to learn. >> Great. Yeah. We'll send it out next year. Awesome. Alrighty on to um the action items. The first is the personnel report which I am going to read. Uh so for non-licensed new
051hires, first one is Megan Greaser, guest teacher, effective date 9:30 2025 at a salary rate of $155 a day. Next is Guyre Parthaban, guest teacher. Effective date 102205. Salary rate 155 a day. Next one is Daniel Alamo, guest teacher. Effective date 1092025. 155 a day. Chris Paputek, guest teacher, effective date 10:15205. Salary rate of 155 a day. Next is Jordan Mooney, paraprofessional at LBES. Effective date 106 2025 replacing Asha Brown at $20 an hour. The next one is Jasmine Flores pair professional LBMS. Effective date is 1014205 replacing Andrew Paxton at $20 an hour. We have no resignations. We have one termination Andrew Paxton par profofessional at LBMS effective date 930 2025. Uh, no licensed new hires, FMLA. First one is Michael Nillis, fifth grade teacher at LBES. Effective dates 218 2026 to 518 20226. Next
052one is Heather McEnroe, paraprofessional, LBES, effective dates 10:21 2022 to 10:27 2025. We have one leave of absence, Amanda Suarez, BCBA at LBES and LBMS. effective dates 319 2026 to 652026. Um, may I have a motion to approve the personnel report as Jeff presented? >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> PCPA. >> Board certified behavior analyst. So that one is the one that replaced our crisis counselor. It should be I think student support. Student support. Yes. Right. Amy, do you mind calling? >> Laura Brickstone, >> yes. >> Andrew Carlson, >> yes. >> Richard Driver, >> yes. >> Lauren Hirs, >> yes. >> Tim Pennet, >> yes. >> That motion has passed. Um, next is the consent agenda. The consent agenda includes the open session meeting minutes. Uh, September 30th, 2025 regular board of
053ed meeting minutes. September 30, 2025 budget hearing minutes, the treasurer's report, the impress report, bills report, and PECARD report. Is there any discussion on the consent agenda or would anyone like to pull anything out for a separate vote? >> Um, I had a question couple of financial questions for for Jay. Um, so this is the end of our first quarter for three, this is three months, right? Mhm. >> So, a couple of items um were over budget for a year to date and I I just don't know if those are um you know like a a trend that's maybe an issue there or if there's something else going on. But one was the um human resources and tech was over by about uh $31,000 or 14%. And the other one was and I didn't know
054what this was PD library and assessment I I think this was in the the uh report by function um was over by 38,000 about 30%. So are those uh causes for concern? >> Yeah, those that's just a function of it being difficult to forecast by month. Um although it is the end of the first quarter, but really it's really the end of the first of only one month of school. So um we just had some expense that came in prior to when expected then most of it's timing. Some of it is one and it's either timing or a one time item that's not going to continue to increase and that percentage will go down. It's there's very little expenditure right now year to date. So 30,000 is a big percentage but by the end of
055the year it's going to be percent or less. So >> now what is what is the PD in the professional development? >> Oh professional oh sorry >> that's not that's not going we do a lot of professional development during the summer. >> Okay. Okay. Um so those should all come back into line and come down to budget. >> Yeah. value that every time either the percentage will be a lot smaller if it's a one time item or it's just a timing thing and we would have spent it later and you know if it was forecast to be spent later. So those are just like the tax receipts are kind of hard to predict. So we were lower on our tax receipts. We expect to get all our taxes. It's just the timing abundance forecast versus
056mentioning. >> Well, that's good. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Uh may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda for October 21st, 2025 as presented by administration? >> So second, my calling vote. Tim Penn, >> yes. >> Lauren Harris, >> yes. >> Andrew Carlson, >> yes. >> Richard Driver, >> yes. >> Laura Brickstone, >> yes. All right, that motion passed. Uh, next is Foya requests. We have three foyer requests. Since our last regular board of ed meeting, details are in the board packet. This FOYA section of our agenda is simply a report item and does not require approval. However, are there any questions before we move on? >> I have a quick question about this. And I feel like we talked about this last time. Do we know how much
057of these are legitimate requests or bots? >> Well, >> we do we do question the senders um as to to verify. >> Okay. >> We ask them to send us verification like their humanity, right? >> Um before we respond. >> So, >> okay. Thank you. >> There's a few there's been a few that haven't been able to verify. >> Okay. >> All right. On to public comment. At this time, we welcome comments from our staff, parents, and constituents. The board president will determine the format and ground rules for comments in the best interests of the audience in the agenda. Comments are limited to three minutes. I don't see anyone dying to give some comments. Uh, may I have a motion to adjourn the October 21st board of ed meeting at 8:00 p.m.? >> So moved.
058Second. >> All in favor? >> Any opposed?