001One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right, moves us on to roll call. >> Katie Casey, Joel Johnson >> here, >> Natalie Mel here, >> Joseph Quinn >> here, >> Tom Schwarz >> here, >> Mary Shoefeld here, >> Ali Stanberry >> here. >> Okay, moves us on to consent agenda. We need a motion to approve the consent agenda as submitted. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Schwarz, >> yes. >> Stansbury, >> yes. >> Shoefeld, >> yes. >> Mfeld, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Quinn, >> yes. Motion is approved. That moves us on to student recognition. >> All right. Thank you. Um, so I want to start with just talking about in Mr. Augustine's US history class, uh, students were tasked with, um, creating a silent
002movie, uh, for the early 1900s. He sent out the video and said, "These students did a pretty good job on this. Watch this." I was in my office. I heard these secretaries out laughing and like, "Oh my gosh." You know, there's like a an applause coming from outside my office. They said, "You got to watch it. You got to watch it. When I watched it, I was blown away. The topic they chose was prohibition and organized crime for their silent movie. Uh the movie was so good. I I didn't know kids could do that honestly. Like it was it was amazing when I watched it and I thought, well, that is who I'm recognizing at the board. Like that was my first thought like, okay, now I know what I can do at the board
003meeting when I when I'm going to recognize kids. [laughter] I know these four have got it. I don't have to think anymore about it. These guys did it. Uh so I wanted to bring them up. um and and recognize those guys. You guys come up here. >> They're very excited to come up. [laughter] >> They always are. >> So, I'll introduce them. First, we have um our top gangster in Chicago. This is Leo Monaco. Leo's our top Chicago gangster in the in the film. Our top Chicago cop police officer. This is our Elliot Ness of Chicago. This is Dylan No, our bootlegger here. [laughter] This is Noah Zabadney Raider. And while he doesn't appear in the film, creating all the music and editing the film is Liam Clark. >> Nice. Nice. >> WOW. [applause] >>
004I shared it with you so you have a chance if you haven't had to. I know some of you have seen it already. Um the the like I said, it's incredible. It was shot in the basement of the old courthouse in Woodstock. Correct. So they so it's real it's the real deal. Um and uh yeah they did a great job. Several hours editing and creating the project, an hour and a half um writing the script, two hours filming. They put some serious work into this. So I want to take take a moment and just recognize the work that these guys did on that that assignment. Job guys. [applause] It was incredible. So, well done on that. Any other student recognition for tonight? None. Okay, that moves us on to public input. >> Oh, yeah. Well,
005I'll get to that in just a second. Uh, this this would move us into public input. I don't see any public input um on the agenda today. This is the part where if you're a student, you don't want to be here or parents who don't want to be here with their students, you can be dismissed as we go into board stuff. If you like to stay because you're super interested in board stuff, see you later. You're >> welcome [laughter] to you guys. >> Okay, moves us into reports. I'm going to go through the reports. I'll pause in between each one. If you have any questions, please speak up. Uh so item 61, revenue and expenditure reports. Item 62, fund balance comparison report. 63, special education revenue expenditure report. 64 impressed report. [clears throat] 65 transportation
006report. That moves us on to 66 administrative reports and the superintendent report. Good evening. Uh two things I want to talk about um briefly here. Uh the first one is our health life safety bond update and uh the building and grounds are going to talk a little bit more about that as well as uh the building project coming up this summer. Um we have submitted as I've reported all the priority one and twos with a few of the threes to the state for you know to have them look at it and waiting for their approval to come back. Once their approval comes back then we can start those next steps. Uh, I think we'll have to have some fiscal conversations about um how far we go with things. Do we want to do all three
007schools at one time? Do you want to do one and then move on? Those are all things that will have to take place. We talked about it. It may be good at that point to have a committee of the whole meet uh and have a presentation, have Allison present, and then go through everything. Uh I'll give you some time to talk with our legal about the um bonding laws and those types of things to make sure that we're where we're supposed to be. And before I move on from that, Allison, do you have any other update for us on that right now or is that where we're at? >> I think everything is Yeah, it's it's in the machine and and working through its process. So, >> right. >> I think they typically say that
008once it's been submitted at the state level, it can take it can take up to 90 days. That's kind of their commitment. Um, usually we see it come back faster than that, but it kind of depends on what's in the queue. >> Yeah. And and as you know, when we look at where we're asking to use the bond money at, the the middle schools are our top school and um RGS would be second and then SG has the the smallest of the needs as far as um HVAC, roofing, and those types of things. So, I'll keep you updated on that weekly on Friday and then when we get that back, the building and grounds team will meet again. We'll review that with Wald and then we'll suggest the committee of the whole. Um, the next
009thing I wanted to go through real quick was our replacement cycle. I wanted to show you where we are over the next five years uh on replacing devices, not only for uh staff, but for students. Oh, if I can get this to work right. If you take a look at the chart that I gave you, you'll notice that it's broken down into student devices that we need to replace with Chromebooks or iPads. um you'll see the price that it's going to run us over the next five years each of the years. Uh below that will be uh staff devices that are outdated. We know that. And so instead of having to buy all new staff devices in one or two years, we're trying to spread that out a little bit. Uh and then we know
010that uh the elementary school uses a lot of the the touchcreens and those types of things. They've had those a long time. they need to be replaced and those that don't need to be replaced or or don't have them, we want to get those into the classroom, the uh touch flat screens. So, you'll notice for the next two years, uh we have an amount there that we're going to set aside in the budget to make sure that we get the um interactive flat panels into the classrooms that need them. And then you'll notice the next three years, we won't have any expenditures in that area. Uh, one thing we may want to consider as we go forward is how do we fund the Chromebooks? That's a discussion that we've had. The high school funds it
011a little different than the elementary district. Um, if something that the board wants to take up, we can talk about in a committee. I'd love to do that. I'll have our tech director there and we can go through it a little bit more. But this gives you an idea of where we're at. Anything changes, I'll update it. All right. Any questions for Dr. Linton? Okay, thank you. That moves us on to 662 assistant superintendent reporting everyone. A few updates from the literacy team. I've shared earlier in the year that the team looked at a number of different products to review for our K5 reading ELA programs. Um the team shifted away from that for a number of reasons. first is that the wonderful product that we have right now uh teachers are getting really good
012at using a high amount of fidelity and we're also in our first year of reveal math which is our new math program and so we know that folks need more time with those programs [clears throat] to really get better at them so we don't want to throw another one at them. Um the team is looking at though uh grades three through five uh phonetic programs. uh there's a few gaps in there grades three through five with students and we've noticed through teacher uh teacher um acknowledgement and through testing that we have to focus on that a little bit. So the team's looking at a couple different products there um hopefully over the next uh month and a half we'll be able to settle on one. So excited about that report card team um a couple
013months back we got the approval to start looking at standard based grading and standard based report cards. So the team has been uh reading a lot of literature talking about different ways to roll this out, share it with staff. We surveyed the staff and got their feedback on it. We talked to other schools to see how they go through went through their process. These schools are open to having a site visit so we can go out and talk to their teachers and see their actual um report card and see what it looks like. Um the next step in the three-year phase is to have a parent focus group. So, we're going to work on that and over the next two to three months, we'll have a couple meetings just to get parents feedback on standard
014based grading so they're aware and understanding what their thoughts are on it. The last thing is professional development. Uh the Illinois State Board of Education has limited the number of professional development providers that school that teachers and administrators can use to earn professional development. Every five years a teacher has to earn 120 hours of professional development and administrators have to earn 100 but have two adminmmies. So there is a way that we can grant professional development or folks who get it earn their professional development from nonapproved ISB locations either schools or companies or workshops since we're close to Wisconsin. Some people take the classes up there. They're not Illinois state approved. Some folks will take courses online from universities that are outside of Illinois. So we have a process that we work together at the
015union to provide those for our staff to make sure that they have their 120 hours so they can reertify their uh their lensure. Any questions? Okay update [clears throat] moves us on to 663 uh middle school. >> Evening again. Um so in the second week of February, our student services team uh pushed into classrooms to talk with students about resiliency. Something they want to work with our kids on just handling adversity um tools that they can use. Um they worked on positive selft talk, the importance of trying new things even if you're feeling uns uh unsure, uncomfortable, pro problem solving, how to ask for help, you know, and the proper channels to go through to seek help in a school. Um they ran a a pre and post test to see how the students felt
016and students results were that 82% of our students uh self-reported having above average resilience. That's a positive uh we felt and and the student services team was pretty excited about that. Uh school celebrations, our music department of the solo and ensemble contest on Saturday, February 7th, we had 80 uh students participate in our music program. um they perform in front of a judge and and receive a score. Um I listed the students who received a one or perfect score um at the contest which is obviously very nerve-wracking and so it's quite an accomplishment for these students. And then of course under that I included some of the slides that the uh the student services team uh used when uh talking to students about res. >> Terrific. Thank you. Any questions for Principal K? >> No.
017All right. Thank you. That moves us on to 664 and Richmond great school. >> Evening everyone. Uh so we are getting ready for spring training. I know we're all dying for spring break, especially some warmer weather and some sunshine. But we've been working on getting ready for the IR and the big testing season. By the way, we did make it through the nape. Not as painful as we thought. Uh but we have the I coming up next month. We have as a district um math uh March 3rd through the 5th and ELA the 10th and 11th uh with makeup soon thereafter. But RGS has been uh working with students on just kind of how to keep that test anxiety at bay, how to make it a positive experience. Uh but also working with the regional
018office of education uh instructional coach on different strategies that the kids can use for writing to help them uh get that ready to go. Um again, Mr. Malik with the uh food services department has designed a lunchroom cafeteria menu that actually focuses around spring training and a baseball theme, which is exciting. and everybody's getting into the mood with dress ups and all those good things, too. So, that's coming up. And then, uh, in terms of celebrations, we celebrated 100 days of school. So, I'll stay there. We're also celebrating kindness month and all sorts of good things going around the building. Uh we've had staff doing pieces of artwork, great conversations with kids, um and creating all sorts of things around the building to celebrate kindness, including the Valentine's Day and candygrams that student council did
019in conjunction uh with teams, uh but also sharing those candygrams with different students from around the building. They sold over 500 of [snorts] them, which was incredible. Uh, and then I think what was really cool was the Valentine's Day cards that they created for seniors uh, in the county. Those totally hit home. I think everybody loves getting a piece of snail mail these days, especially when it's not a bill and it's something that's handed by a student. Uh, so that was really cool that they created a bunch of cards to hand out to a bunch of seniors in our area. And that was it. >> Any questions? No questions or comments? Thank you so much. That moves us on to last but not least, Spring Grove Elementary. [clears throat] >> Thank you. Uh we were
020going to do cash incentives for our students for IR, but we didn't. But uh I wanted to start with our our curriculum. We're looking um our content team met recently met and looked at our our Winterflex diagnostic um report. And I kind of put in there what our our goal was. So, at the end of the this school year, we wanted 67% of our K5 students um to perform on or above grade level um using the ISL learning greeting strategies. And uh currently um we are at 59% of those students uh which is a 10% improvement already from the fall. Um so we feel that we're well on our way to to meeting that goal. Um for math uh our goal was for having 70% of our K5 students to perform on or above grade
021level um using numbers and operation flex the flex diagnostic with focusing on those word problems and um we were pleasantly surprised and happy with 81% of those students um being being on or above which was an 18% um improvement from the fall. Uh so we we like I said we were very happy with that. Um we're going to continue to to keep that 70% low because we don't know what the end of the year um diagnostic may look like, you know, if it gets harder. So we felt we're just going to leave it at that 70% since it's new to us this year. Um but again, we were very happy with um where we're heading, you know, as a as a school. um school celebrations like RGS. Um we celebrate our 100th day of uh
022of uh school, our kindergarten, first grade really they go all out with that and have activities. Um lessons are all focused on 100 days. Um they wear t-shirts. I even bought one this year and um you know participated and um but they were really excited and I love seeing all the different shirts and this was one of my favorite ones um from one of the kindergarters that was wearing theirs on that day. So uh it's good. We have parents that come in um to help out in those classrooms as well. So um so it's it's a good day. >> Great. Thank you. Any questions? >> Oh, it's a Spongebob shirt. >> Spongebob shirt. >> Yeah, Spongebob. Yes, it was. Yes. >> So, which one did you buy? >> Did you buy a Spongebob shirt, too?
023>> No, I did not. Mine was more of uh tally marks. >> Tally marks to get to the 100 days. >> And I had a student that told me that's not 100. And so, I'm like, well, that's kind. [laughter] >> Great. Well, thank you for the updates. Um, that moves us on to 67. Any FOYA requests? None. [clears throat] >> None. >> Any old business? >> None. >> Then that moves us on to new business starting with 81 and it's approving the increase of student lunch fees by 10% >> 10 cents. [laughter] 10 cents, not 10%. As recommended. >> Yeah. So the 10 cent is the maximum you can raise it per year. There were several several years we never raised it. Uh with inflation, we've gotten to the point where we're losing money, which
024we're never trying to make money. We're trying to just break even on lunch. Um but to just try to keep up with the increased cost of food and everything, we're going to recommend 10 cents this year. Had we passed 10%. So that'd be 38 cents. >> Wouldn't have been a huge shock, but it's only 10 cents. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve or will we start with first? Do we have any questions on the on the increase? >> We did 10 cents last year also. >> Yeah, we did. >> Yeah, we're still under >> we'll be comparisons and what the cost of the meal was. >> So, I do have a question though. >> Yeah, >> because you can only do 10 cents a year. >> Mhm. And if inflation's 3%, we're at
025384, this means it's going to go up 11, 12, 13 cents every year and in fact start to grow faster and faster than that. If we're only capable of achieving 10 cents, then it's become more and more costly as time goes on. >> Yes. And that's what we've seen not just in our lunch program, but anything where we have outside vendors that we're having to buy supplies from, particularly with food, um the you see it at the stores, it's just a significant increase in price. So the 10 cents just is a little bit and then uh the district meets the rest of it out of our our funds. >> I guess my follow-up question to that is at what point, let's just say 10 years from now it's we're adding 10 cents and it's now
026not $3.80, but it's seven bucks. >> Yeah. >> At what point has there been a point in the past where the state has said, "Okay, well now you can do this and catch up." So, what we do is we use this uh federal school lunch program and hopefully that will regulate it a little bit more or we'll get a little bit more money back from them to match that. Um but it's not always, you know, dollar for dollar. >> So, there there are some adjustments that can take place. Um it's just uh not at this time. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions? >> How much do our meals cost? >> What are they right now? It depends on what vendor we use and how much the ratio is for the free reduced kids
027versus the paid lunch kids. Um and it also depends on what the rate of reimbursement is from out from the uh state. So we really don't have until and this is what is this is based on is an an audit. We get audited from the state like every two or three years. Um, so next year we'll receive an audit and we'll come back and and redo the payment check. >> What do we charge right now? >> We charge 265. >> Yeah. >> Would this go into effect March 1st or not until next school year? >> Next school year. Yep. >> Any other questions? Seeing none, uh, we need a motion to approve the increase in student lunch fees by 10 cents as recommended. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Mailfeld, >> yes.
028>> Quinn, >> yes. >> Schwarz, >> yes. >> Shoefeld, yes. Stanford, >> yes. >> This motion has passed. That moves us on to A2, approving the Dippers Middle School summer roof improvement bid. >> I'll let Tom if you want to take that or if you I'd be glad to go through it, too. >> All right. Yeah. Um, we met, you know, we met at the with the buildings and grounds committee yesterday. We reviewed the the roof uh specifications, the bid tabulation. Uh, I believe we received bids from, I think it was seven contractors. >> Yes. uh with the the low bid being distinctive roofing from the Rockford area. Um bold, you guys vetted the contractor, so contractors reputable. Um so, you know, we had uh we had a good turnout. Uh we've got the apparent
029low bidder vetted. You can see by the bid tabulation that u you know, everybody was pretty pretty close together. You'll get you know, some outliers that happens, right? uh but uh but otherwise we get good interest in it. Uh the I do have a question though uh on this and that is warranty uh for the base bid is what is the warranty for this this roofing system. That was something that >> we have a 20-year system. >> 20-year system. Okay. And that's and that's what I'd like to see. I know some um districts will go with a 10. They offer a 20 and [clears throat] that is a >> 20 is fairly standard. Some if you want to pay a premium, you can look at a 30-year. Um, but 20 is pretty typical. >> That's
030great. >> This is a fully inherent throughout the rest of the groups that we've done. >> Yeah, that's that's pretty well the the standard on, you know, s, you know, building owners that are going to sustain ownership. And it's great to uh great for maintenance. Uh, it's going to be night and day difference for Chris rather than a ballasted roof. So, as far as maintenance going forward, I'm glad to see EPDM rather than TPO. Um, but yeah, so we just we we discussed the the specifications, the um um the results and and we're happy with the turnout. One thing I'll add to that, if you remember four years ago, we have we've been doing a really good job managing funds. We see that that's increasing every year. We're increasing the work we're putting into schools,
031which is wonderful. But all the roofs at NMS need to be replaced. And that's a multi-million dollar, you know, thing to do. So four years ago, the board, we sat down and we broke the school into different roof elevations. And so this is just a continuation of, okay, we're going to do this elevation this year. Next year, we're going to go take another elevation and do that. Now, depending where the bond money goes, we may be able to do them all at one time. The other thing I'll add to this is that $50,000 of this will be covered by a state grant. So, we'll use our um our annual grant we get to be able to put towards maintenance or or fixing facilities of 50,000. As long as we match it with 50,000, we'll get
032it from the state. So, that reduces the cost quite a bit. So, I noticed this bid was about 15% less than the other ones. Was there something that stood out in this bid that would have caused it? Was it just labor or was there something in their process um that would have brought this bid down significantly less than the other ones? >> I I I think what I've seen is that often times it depends on the company. If they have a lot of jobs set up, this is a this is a smalling this is a small roof job in comparison to what some of those companies are doing. And so sometimes they'll come in and bid and they'll just bid higher than what you normally would pay. And if they're the lowest bid, then they
033get the job. but it's not something that they're competitively bidding. So, when you start to see the lower bids, you generally start to see the companies that are willing to take on these smaller jobs. Maybe they're a little smaller company and they're more competitive. I don't know, Tom, if you find that at your job. >> Yeah, exactly. A small job like this, uh, 2500 ft² is a nice filler job and especially like you say, maybe smaller companies with, um, you know, you know, less resources. Um, so, so yeah, and you're always going to get the outliers. Actually, these are, these are pretty, I mean, I've seen some that are like, you know, double, you know, and these guys just throw darts at a board and it's like, hey, if they get it, they can pay
034overtime premium labor. They can even sub it, you know, and still make money. So, so yeah, these are all um I think I think when it was bid, it was a good time. I I think they're all um, you know, they're not like left field stuff. Uh but but like you say the um you know the smaller contractors the ones that really sharpen their pencil on this um you know I think one of the challenges on this job is you've got a pre-cast deck you know so when you tear off all the roof material and you go back it's it's much faster to you know fasten to a a metal deck you know than to drill tapcons and do it's much more labor intensive so that adds cost so most is someone more familiar with
035pre-cast decks and things like that. >> Okay, [clears throat] >> questions. >> I think Dr. Lynn had mentioned this at one other meeting that the high school was also going to be doing some roof work and possibly using the same contractor. So, I was wondering if that was talked about at all. >> So, we we bid them right about the same time. The high school had another they're doing the same thing. We're taking elevation by elevation kind of minimize cost. They had 1,600 square feet they're doing this year. And I was thinking that the same builder or or bidder would do it, but actually we ended up with two separate biders. So >> there was no >> So we couldn't get a deal. >> There was no cost savings by having the same one. >>
036Now as we go further, we have some large roofing projects over there to do. And maybe when we start larger projects at D2, there may be some increased cost savings by combining both districts same time, having their company do both of them, >> right? and and you know that's something that you know we didn't discuss at the committee level but you know talking about the savings with the high school district and and our district doing roofing projects right summer projects I don't know how it would work because they're two separate districts but could you offer an alternate to like hey what would your price be if you were to get both jobs what would the reduction be for each project you know I don't know if that's possible because of the two separate districts, but
037something we could look into. >> We'll have to look at the legality of that if we can bid them together or if they're alternate or not. But we'll certainly look into it. >> Yeah. If they if because I think it would be great if they know, right? Cuz if bidding separately, they don't know if they're going to get the other job. So, if we maybe offer an alternate, like you say, if it's something we can do, you know, maybe we'll get some better numbers. >> Other questions? Seeing none. That moves us on to the motion. So, uh, we need a motion to approve the 2026 NMS summer roof improvement bid from Distinctive Roofing, Inc. in the amount of $117,37. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Shoefeld. I'm sorry. Schwarz, >> yes. >> Shoefeld,
038yes. Stanbury, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Milfeld, >> yes. Quinn, >> yes. You caught it quickly. Motion has passed. That moves us on to 83, special education review phase one. >> Yeah. So, we've completed phase one of it. Um, as I told you, there's going to be two phases to to this project. Uh, as we audit or we call it a review of special ed with our consultants. Um, you have an executive summary that's you you have. Uh I am going to meet with each of the staffs to go over that with them and and kind of talk about what the review suggests and what it found. I can tell you right now so the special ed director [cough and clears throat] uh Dr. Miller and assistant director Jennifer Brunswick are already working
039with me. We've met we're breaking down this first review and the first thing they recommend and I totally agree with is develop a strategic plan, a five-year strategic plan. We know that there are things that we have to change and improve for the quality of our students, our parents, um, and cost savings to the district. So, we started going through that. We're looking at some of the recommendations, uh, MTSS, which is, uh, a system of interventions prior to being classified with an IEP. Are there interventions that we can do that will help get a student? Maybe it's something with reading or speech. We can do an intervention without classifying them with an IEP. See how it goes. If it doesn't, then we can always go back to this. It's also something that we're looking to
040improve schoolwide. Not just a special ed population, but our our general ed population. And MTS can also deal with discipline instead of just you do this, this happens. There's a progressive discipline to it. Uh and a restorative piece. We are looking at changing the administrative structure um as to how we administrate special ed and looking to do more of a distributed leadership model where um this is something I'll be working with the union on looking to find someone within the building that wants to take on a little bit bigger piece of the IEPs and overseeing them as the LEA. Uh a couple other things we're going to look at defining our our programming, improving our PD and revisiting co-eing. So those are some of the topics that we're looking at. There's a lot of work
041that has to be done underneath the topic. How is it going to work? How many years does that take? Is it a one year? Is it a quick win? Is it something that we can, you know, make implementations next year? But it's going to have to be an ongoing change for the next two to three years. So I'm I'm very happy with the direction it's going. I think that the end goal is we want to provide the best service for our students that we can and this is going to get us there. Phase two is going to start here I think in the next week or two. Um I have to follow up with them but phase two is all about the IEPs and service minutes. >> [clears throat] >> That is the phase that's
042going to give you the data. Um where we'll take a student who is classified with an IEP, break down the number of service minutes they have from general education, special education, time with a parent, time with an interventionist, and we'll be able to get a really good look at um how many people are using speech therapy, occupational therapy, student wise, and do we have enough? One of the things we we feel is that we may not have enough individuals in certain areas. This will align to what the state says you need to have. You know, x number of students, x number of minutes, you need two OT's. That's what the next phase will be. The other thing it will do is we're going to use a template uh kind of a universal template for IEP
043writing and we're going to go through and and kind of improve on how we're writing the IEPs. Not that they're not written really good, it's just there's some variation from case manager to case manager. And we want to make sure everything from a legal standpoint is is sound and that if that student leaves, we can give that folder to the next school, they can open it up and go, right, okay, this is exactly what this student needs. So, I'm excited about that because I think it's going to be a benefit to our our students, but also a real benefit to our teachers. So, that's kind of a an overview of where we're at. I It's going to be an ongoing improvement, like I said, from now on the next five years, the plan. And we'll
044come back each month and update you where it's at quarterly, uh, starting next year. Um, the special ed director and assistant director, whoever they also deem they want, will be giving the board a quarterly report on that strategic plan, giving you data, giving you feedback, answering questions. >> Okay. So I I think it's really in the long run it's going to really benefit us. >> Great. Any questions? >> And again, phase two, you're looking at finishing that around in in around May. >> I I think it'll be finished before then. Um but I think our um disagregate of all the the numbers and things like that might take us till May. We think it'll take about two weeks to go through the IEPs with the consultant. So the idea is that a case manager will
045sit with the consultant, go through three IEPs with the template, and then they'll be asked to go through the others doing the same thing. We're we're looking to gather service minutes. We're not looking to rewrite things. Um, and so yeah, two weeks for that and then it'll probably take us about four weeks to get all that put in a format that we can show something for. Okay, [clears throat] any other questions? Okay, that moves us on to 845, excuse me, 84, the five-year project projection report. Yeah. So, we do a a five-year projection every year. Um, I want to reiterate though again, we always project revenues less and and um expenditures a little bit more, particularly now with the um the inflation we're seeing. Uh, if you look though, last year we were around I
046think $18.2 $2 million around this time and we're right about there again. So, the good thing is we're not dropping a million dollars a year. The funding coming back in from the state is meeting what the state for the most part claims they're going to give us. And we've been able to through cost savings, through attrition, through other means really tighten fiscally what we spend and still provide some really good services. So, this is a worst case scenario. Um, and we can always go back and run numbers, too, if it just stays even as it has been the last 2 or 3 years. You know, we're we're we're getting the money. And last year, I think we ended up with about a $500,000 surplus that we can now take and put back into the buildings.
047Um I I believe again unless we have a major issue with buildings, we'll be right back in that that in the black $5 to $600,000 again. The big question mark always is Nipperync Middle School. We spend at least $100,000 a year in service and repairs to the boilers, to the HVAC system because it's so old. So pending no major issue, I think we're on track again to have another good year fiscally, but we want to present things. Inflation starts to go up again, the state cuts our money, the federal [clears throat] government doesn't come through with its money. This is where we would end up. >> Any questions projections? Okay. All right, that in concludes new business. Moves us on to committee updates starting with 8 51 buildings and grounds. All right, so uh like
048I said earlier, we met yesterday. Um we, you know, talked about the roof bids and and specs there and then, um an update on the the bond progress like Tom shared earlier where they're at with the you know the u amendments being submitted to ISBY and we expect those in sometime in April. Uh we started the planning for the committee the whole meeting uh for uh to to occur after we receive the um the approved items from Isby so we can um so we can uh discuss all those projects in detail. Uh we also reviewed uh just quickly uh the annual healthife safety inspections. Chris shared that uh Springrove Elementary had their inspection yesterday. I think uh I think you had the RB the high school nippers middle school and RGS today. Is that correct?
049>> Okay. Okay. All right. So, um uh once we get the reports back from the ROE, uh we'll bring you more information about those uh those annual health safety findings at the next meeting. So, we'll we'll have that information for you. Uh Chris, do you want to uh share anything generally about the HLS inspections? Was everything pretty boilerplate? Anything? Um >> it's your typical, you know, paper and walls and just >> typical occupied school buildings. Hey, these drapes don't have a flame certificate and you know, hey, you can't use wood blocks to hold the doors open, stuff like that. Okay. All right. Well, good to hear. Nothing major, but we'll bring a um we'll bring a report uh for the next meeting. >> Great. [clears throat] Any questions for buildings and grounds? Okay, moves us
050on to 852 curriculum committee. Katie is not here today, so I think by default that goes to me. Um, [clears throat] well, I I just want to say that what we we uh what we got to today, what we were able to u get to today was a a culmination of about 15 to 18 months worth of work around the grading policy at Her City Middle School. Um along that way, uh we pulled u quite a few schools on what their grading policy was. did some research as to what the trends have been in in grading policies at schools over the last decade or so. Um I want to thank Principal Kryson and his leader B um building leadership team. Um that also provided some insight from their perspective on the grading policy at Nippersync
051Middle School. Uh and so after the meeting today, the board will get some information on what the 7030 grading policy looks like at New Middle School. So 70% assessments, 30% would be um homework. Um and u want you to kind of review that, provide some feedback next month. Um it is going to be the recommendation of the curriculum committee to the board that we move forward with a 7030 grading policy at the precinct middle school. Gets us a little bit closer to the high school which sits at 6040 provides a little more emphasis on the homework um while still providing much of the emphasis on the assessments. Um, and if it was to be approved at next month's meeting to go ahead with the 7030 grading policy, it would go into effect for the 2627
052school year at Pursuit Middle School. But in the meantime, I'll pause to see if there's any questions. I see nothing has to be approved today. I'm done talking. >> Was there anything surprising in the surveys that came back? >> You know, I don't think so. I think initially when we pulled st teachers, students and parents all of them, well, not all of them, a good portion of them kind of all agreed that there should be a change. But like anything else, nothing was 100% in one. You know, some folks kept it as it was. Some folks were gearing towards 6040, 7030. There was, but I think the the the one category that stood out the most across all the categories was that 7030 got most of those holes early out in this process. And so
053we we took those results and then started doing all the research as to what the other schools are doing, where um you know, the economic environment had been trending over the years. Um and took a lot of parent feedback. Uh we had a couple of parents that joined our committee to provide some feedback during this process too. Um just a reminder to those out in the public when you have your buildings and grounds and when you have your curriculum committee meetings these are open public meetings and you can attend those types of meetings to provide your uh to to observe and potentially provide some feedback too. And so this felt like a pretty collaborative effort across the board. Um so nothing but I think I think one of the things that surprised me in this
054process is that years ago um you know around the turn of this century there were a lot of 9010 grading policies then over the past decade a lot of that has shifted to the point where there's like maybe 5% of the schools out there that currently have like a 9010 grading uh policy. they've kind of shifted more towards I think homework's kind of important >> but certainly you need a big emphasis on assessments too but it shouldn't be 910 was somewhat surprising to me in that research >> any other questions okay that's all I have that moves us to close session >> I don't have anything tonight unless someone on the board does >> anybody no Okay. Uh, no need for action items after the closed session. So that moves us on to adjournment. We
055need a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion. >> Second. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> All oppose, same sign. >> All right, meeting is adjourned. >> 7:44. >> No, it's So Vanessa basically bought me like a puppy vest.