001All right. >> It's 7 o'clock and I call to order the meeting of the uh school board district 2 meeting. And if we could all rise for the pledge of >> 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. >> Well done. >> Sounded so much better. >> It did. We should have them come every >> All right. Uh, roll call. >> Katie Casey >> here. >> Joel Johnson >> here. >> Natalie Mailfeld >> here. Joseph Quinn >> here. >> Tom Schwarz >> here. >> Mary Shoefeld >> here. Ali Stanbury here. >> Terrific. Moves us to item three, which is consent agenda. We need a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Motion. >> Second.
002>> Hold on a minute. I do before we get into this, I I do I would like to change the consent agenda um for the uh the the uh AP approval. >> I'd like to pull the invoice from Joselyn is Aquardo from the consent agenda uh for further review. Questioning validity, >> we need to go back and do a little research on that invoice. >> Okay. And so if it is if we find out everything's okay, we'll bring it back next month. How much was that invoice for? $59,000. >> Okay. >> I like the due diligence. >> Okay. >> So then we need a motion to approve the consent agenda with the item brought forth to us by Tom Schwarz. Make a motion. Second. I apologize for the motion. >> Oh, motion was >> there.
003Uh, Tom and then Joel. Second. >> Schwarz, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Stanberry, >> yes. >> Shoefeld, >> yes. >> Casey, >> yes. >> Mailfeld, >> yes. >> Quinn, >> yes. All right, that moves us on to uh some recognition. I think we have some singers, right? A whole fifth grade group of kids are going to be singing to us. >> Haisley is not afraid. That's for sure. >> They weren't even fretting. That's impressive. >> Amazing group of folks. If anything, we're all over here so everybody can see you. We usually put everybody in front of you organized. Now, we work in the library. I know you know organization. My tall friends in the front, taller, and the tallest. Do we have it? Okay, Mrs. I'd like to introduce everybody to Mrs. Arma,
004our librarian. She has the most creative, positive, loving care for the library and for these students in front of you and everybody at RGS. She came to me earlier in the year and said, "I have this idea. What do you think?" And I said, "Let's do it." And her idea was the fifth grade librarian, junior librarian group. So, she has found this incredible group of fifth graders that do some really cool things in the library. We'll let her talk about just a minute and then we'll take an opportunity for photos. Go for it. It's just been amazing. What started out as just coming in and wanting to help shel books has turned into really like a peer tutoring opportunity. Um they do everything from shelving books to helping craft materials for younger classes. Um you
005know cutting art supplies um working with kindergarten and who um I teach during their lunch recess. So they come in and they help them shop the book fair and write wish lists. And um recently we just taught them how to check out books using shelf markers. And almost every kindergartener had their own little assistant to help them. And uh we have this isn't even the whole group here, but every day I have my assigned students and extras wanting to come in every day. I've been so blessed to have them. They're an incredible group and the response from our other students has been very positive too and I'm sure this will be something that we continue into the future. So, thank you everybody for coming out. Um, do you guys want to quick introduce yourself? Just
006say hi. My name is so everybody can get a name to a face starting. >> Go ahead. >> My name is Laya. And um, yeah. >> Um, my name is My name is >> My name is Hannah. My name is Piper. My name's Eleanor. My name's Tessa. My name's Leila. My name is Sophia. My name's Hayden. My name's Emily. >> My name is Joanna. My name's Char. Thank you guys so much FOR an incredible job with all their expanded offerings that we've been working on this year. >> Mrs. Aruba, thank you so much. We appreciate all that. >> All right, so this moves us into the remainder of the meeting. You are all welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting and the public input and all the great spreadsheets. You're welcome to stay,
007but you can also go too if you would like to. >> That's up to your mom. >> I like that. >> I know. Yeah, I think that's >> I agree. I agree. There is now room for other people to sit. >> Okay, terrific. We have a few sticking around. I like to see it. Um, all right. That moves us on to public input. And I do see that there are two Cheyana and Corey that would like to bring something to our attention. So the floor is yours. >> Good evening board members, community members, parents, and students. My name is Cheyenne and I'm Cory Marco and we are both eighth grade students that attend Middle School. We are here to address the matter of wearing caps and gowns for our eighth grade motion. For it has
008come to our attention that the option to purchase them has been removed from the school website. Based on the review that offers the website, it appears that caps and gowns are no longer being considered, which many eighth grade students don't agree with for their own reasons. One of the biggest reasons being that it feels like that you are slowly erasing our promotion. Therefore, the celebration of achievement that it symbolizes. But this achievement that we're celebrating isn't just that that of our grades. It's the fact that we have made it through. We have built connections with people. We've struggled to make new friends. We've managed to stress that tests and assignments can cause. >> Some argue that our promotion overshadows our high school graduation, but we believe celebrating our growth now doesn't take away from our
009future goals. It only builds momentum to reach them. Either way, both are large accomplishments that deserve celebration. And anyway, our graduation takes 40 minutes at most. And when we all and it's where we all get a moment of appreciation. Additionally, some students can't graduate from high school and making our experience of eighth grade promotion more meaningful. Caps and gowns transform us from a group of students that could be at any event to a unit of young adults graduating from middle school. Caps and gowns are a memory that we can hold on to for the rest of our lives to remember everything we made it through. They are part of our childhood, our lives. They show that we accomplished something great, something of importance. We only get to graduate middle school once in our entire lives.
010Caps and gowns pro provide a sense of uniform that helps us feel united and ensures this ceremony remains formal and focus on our achievements. Even if we can't buy caps and gowns from the school's website, we should at least have the option to be able to buy and wear them. Of course, not all students in our school care about having caps and gowns, but it should at least be an option. Even if no change comes from the speech, it's important as students to stand up for what we believe in. Lastly, so you as the board members have a visual, in the last few weeks, we have compiled a list of signatures from our peers who are in agreement that caps and gowns should be optional. In total, there are 70 signatures, including one teacher. We
011thank you for your time and consideration on this matter. >> Thank you both for coming here today. Uh very well done and we appreciate you providing this information here. So, thank you. Uh, with no others for public input, that moves us into reports. I'm going to go through the reports and if you have any questions on them, I'll pause momentarily for you to bring those questions forward. So, the first one is 51 revenue expenditure report. I see none. 52 fund balance comparison report. I just have one question. Um as I looked at it um it looked when you're comparison comparing the year end balances December through the previous years um looks as though this year has been fairly positive in comparison to previous years when it comes to that balance. Right. >> I just want
012to make sure as I look at that is there any anomalies there that we're waiting for as far as expenditures go? income that should also be coming in or is this a pretty good comparison of previous December? It >> it's a pretty good comparison. If you remember last year, I believe we came out 500,000 in the black, right? >> Which was the first year through some of the the cuts that have been made or or efficiencies that have been made that we kind of got that back after CO and I just like you, I look at that every time and I think it's a fair comparison. Um, I think we're in a good spot right now, a little bit ahead of where we were last year. Yeah. Uh, for savings and um, obviously things that
013can change that, right? Uh, large HVAC issues, roof issues, but I think we're we're definitely in headed in that right direction. >> Denise, if you have anything you want to add to that. >> So, as comparison two years ago, you remember we had all the extra line that were spent down. So that was part of the reason why it looks kind of like we were okay then it dipped and then we're okay then because that extra money is no longer so the expensive reason is why the expenditure dipped but this is a very good comparison of where we should be and how we should meet. >> Okay. Any other questions on that report? >> Okay 53 special education revenue expenditure report. 54 impact fees. 55 impressed report. 56 transportation report. There's one on the transportation
014report. Um at at the it last meeting, District 157 approved a three-year bus lease with Midwest Transit. And I just want to um you know thank uh our transportation department, our leadership for the efforts in um you know reducing those costs as much as possible. I think Tommy shared with me we reduced three buses. >> We uh >> so last year we sold off one of our leases to another school so we got rid of one. This year we're going to reduce our fleet four. >> Okay. Four buses. And then also I appreciate the competitive pricing and reaching out to all of the um uh competitors uh to Midwest and ultimately securing uh the best price. So I I appreciate all those efforts. >> Great. What was the the savings again? >> Well, there's unfortunately
015there's really not a savings because we were on a 5year bus lease, >> right? >> And 5 years ago, obviously buying a bus was a lot cheaper. Um, and we're looking at significant increases, but I think overall, uh, we did not increase as much as I thought. I think we're, without being exact, about $120,000 more than we were 5 years ago with our our lease, >> which in in uh with when you're buying 33 new buses and you had all these market changes and stuff is is not as bad as I thought. >> Okay. Y >> thanks. 57. Uh we move on to administrative reports and the superintendent report. >> Yeah. A couple things here tonight. Uh one, we're continuing on with our annual um roof replacement at Denver State Middle School as we have
016over the last four or five years. We did our um walkth through uh pre- bid walkthrough. So it'll go out to bid. We'll get the um lowest qualified bid. We'll bring that back in the next month for approval. Uh, ideally, we'll hope we'll get some savings because we're also going out to bid to replace a roof at Richmond Burton. Um, sometimes you can pick up some savings if the same company comes in and do does both elevations. Uh, our special education uh, audit is uh, part one of it is complete. Uh, the qualitative part and uh, last I talked to our consultants. They are currently putting together that report. will be sharing it shortly and I will pass that along. Um hopefully I'll be able to do a presentation on that in February. We'll have
017to see at what time they get it to us. Um and then finally, as we look later tonight, we're going to talk about um health life safety bonds a little bit and those types of things. And you had asked a little bit about uh what is a little bit of the uh outline or the timeline for those types of things. And I just kind of wanted to let you know we are ready after tonight to submit to the state all the priority one and twos and possibly some threes in an application to the state which takes about 8 to 10 weeks for them to go through and approve or not approve certain items. If they do approve those for us to go out and bond health life safety funds for that, um we would then
018start to go through the process of uh you know meeting with our architects and engineers to look at you know blueprints, what needs to be done, the scope of things, all of that throughout the summer. Uh then we would want to make sure that we're getting uh with the state forformational community nights. I think what we'll do in the fall is do one at each school and show what we're going to do if we do go forward with this, the things we're going to fix at the school, how it will improve uh the education for the students and the upkeep of the buildings. Uh and then you would go out to bid for the first set of bids probably in November, come back approve in December at the same time that you would hold a
019hearing on whether you're going to use health life safety bonds for those approved items. So it is going to be really almost another year process. Um this spring we'll be sending out in the newsletter kind of a two-page spread um the money that we've spent on things like roofs and health life safety and HVAC out of our own funds what we could expect to spend going forward if it was just our own money and what the health life safety bonds would do to help us get all schools back to where they need to be. So a little bit of the timeline um and we will each month talk a little bit more about that as we get more information on each step of that process. Okay, any questions? I think more information will come from
020the other updates that we have, but uh appreciate that update. >> No problem. >> See no more questions. That moves us on to 572, assistant superintendent of curriculum report, Dr. Enrich. >> Good evening everyone. Hope you're all able to stay warm in this uh cooler weather. We've been having a few updates. The literacy team has been working over the past several months to identify or at least evaluate different reading programs. Um after we looked at four different programs, we settled on uh staying with the one we're we have. Uh part of the some of the reasons are fidelity. The teams are really starting to hit their stride with using our current reading program which is wonder 2017. We're still in the ongoing phase of reveal map which is a major uh task for our teachers
021to take on and so we want to make sure that everyone's comfortable with that before we look at any new other new products. Uh the cost is pretty significant as well. We're going to onboard something new and the cost that we have right now for our current products is not as high as what we're being quoted. And then also looking at uh pivoting a little bit away from the the current books is to look at some targeted intervention for phonetic awareness and phonics for grades three through five. So that's a quick update uh from that. We'll let the staff know about that tomorrow. Uh KLC started to review their math standards to go into the guaranteed vowel curriculum process and that's all part of the standardbased report card as well. So everything's starting to link
022together nicely and report card update. We surveyed the staff and the general consensus from the staff on report cards is it's needed and necessary. Uh so people are looking forward to it and so but their concerns are professional development training for it and consistency. So the team started doing the book study um and reviewing literature. We're reached out to the regional office of education where they've done a really nice job expanding uh training for folks um in Mckenry County which is really nice. We're also looking for site visits for other schools that are standardbased report card and identifying a pilot team. So some of the uh updates there uh coat testing that's the test we have for second graders to identify students for advanced math. That planning is underway and it'll probably be in April
023we'll do those tests. Thank you. Any questions for Appreciate the report. That moves us on to 573 NMS principal report. >> Good evening. Um so I wanted to share with you that on January 16th uh building leadership team. uh we met uh for our SIP day and discussed the 9010 grading scale getting the staff input more um looking at different grading scales where they thought where they felt comfortable. Um it meeting lasted exactly an hour. It was very productive. Um we do have a lot to talk about when we meet with the curriculum committee next month. I'll be sharing the results of that with with the committee and kind of see where we want to go from there. Um, winter diagnostic is is finishing up and teachers have talked about how tough it is to
024get it done with everybody seeming to have the flu all at once. Um, so trying to get that finished. We've been working on that. Uh, school celebrations, the drama club has started the spring play. Uh, work on that. We've got 32 students involved. The play this year is Hardboiled, a nursery crime. Uh it's I've mentioned before it's fun to watch the kids who do not talk in the hallway who are very very quiet in the lunchroom which it doesn't mean anybody's quiet in the lunchroom but there are kids who are quiet in the lunchroom and they get on stage and they their persona totally changes and you see something that's really fun to watch. So it's it's uh looking forward to seeing that. That's on March 13th and 14th. And also our wrestling team is
025uh our wrestling team is really good this year and off to a fantastic start. Um uh the junior I'm sorry, Johnsburg Junior High Wrestling Tournament on January 17th. The team placed second overall. We had uh what 11 wrestlers with the top 10 finished the various weight classes and two wrestlers earning an individual championship. Wrestlers aren't real big on pictures. They you know they kind of just get off the mat. So I'm I'm I'm working on getting more pictures to add to the to the uh board with their success. But that's kind of where we stand right now. >> Great. Thank you. Any questions for principal pre? See none. That moves us on to 574 SGE principal report. Principal Fitman. >> Thank you. So, as Mr. P said, uh we've been working on the winter self
026flex diagnostic assessment as well. Um it was supposed to have been done the 23rd but because of the cold day um Dr. Dr. was kind enough to extend it um a few extra days for so our students could finish it um and we forget with illnesses as well in the building. Um but it's really nice because the whole purpose of EXL Flex was to shorten the assessment time um which it has. Um we now have students who are getting done in under an hour um some even sooner than that um due to how many times they're in the actually arena. So, it's really cut two to three days of assessments in one area to under an hour. Um, so it's really been nice um for us to do that. So, we're going to be reviewing
027that data again, seeing the growth um and if we can uh graduate some students from intervention and see if there's any students that may need um some additional support. Uh we also did our um spelling bee um for fourth and fifth grade and um it's always a a fun time. Um and I was happy to announce that Gavin Laui is a fifth grader. He was our school winner. Um and our runner up runner up was it's not Rocky, it's Ricky, although probably like that name is next to the eye in the keyboard. Um so but he's a fourth grader and uh so they were really happy. And the thing with Gavin, he called it his redemption year. um because last year he was the first one out when he was a fourth grader and he
028came back this year and won it. So, >> wow. >> Very happy. He was very happy with that and so he really studied hard and um so they'll be moving on uh to the regionals and uh so we wish him best of luck. >> Great. Where uh so I see the FPS regionals are on January 19th. Where are the regionals held for that? >> Middle school. at the middle school. >> February. >> I think the dates might be wrong. >> Oh, it's February. Yes. Thank you. >> They already have. >> Oh, that's right. That's right. >> February 9th 19. Yeah. >> Okay. Terrific. >> I was rushing to get it done this month. >> Well, good luck to the problem. >> Good luck to rocking. Um, any questions for Principal? Thank you for the report.
029That moves us on to 575 RGS principal report principal toy. >> I want to talk about the ISL, but I get to let you know that we're taking the date in February. The date is the national assessment of educational progress dictated by the federal government. We were chosen at random to do the ELA portion taking two hours out of 50th graders time next month to complete at random. uh they basically have a number of they have our CIS uh information and can pull at random 50 children uh to test if they are opted out then another child gets put in that place. Unfortunately, the results are not shared with us or their parents or anybody else. It gets go goes into this big pot of information that the federal government says look how all our
030fourth graders are doing. It's great excited. Um I mean the plus size I will say is At least they do send in support. They conduct the testing. Our staff help supervise and help kids out. We do plan on having snacks and things available. Students that are not testing will be in a regular classroom like with their teacher um going through just some kind of basic review and support, not learning anything new. So, we're not putting kids at a disadvantage. Yay. Let's get to celebrations. Um we already talked about our junior librarian. Awesome program. I'm very excited that we have it. We also ran our spelling key and congratulations to fourth grader Lily Rats and our runner up was Perkins. We're excited for both of them. It was a very nailbiting, jittery event at RGs. You
031can tell there was a lot of excitement. Everybody was running really warm. We had the whole audience take a deep breath in and out because we were all very excited. Um, but it was a a wonderful event and we're excited to see how Billy does and really honestly can't compete in place. And then we had the resource fair last week. Um, I know we had probably not the best turnout we were hoping for because of the cold weather and everybody's trying to find daycare the next day uh for the cold day, but our um groups that did come in appreciate networking with each other and having that time to work with each other to see what else they could do within the community together, which I think is is a plus. and the families that
032were able to attend took advantage of everybody that was in there uh including kids in need which offered clothes new clothes for students and I know they weren't so excited about clothes some of them were um but new toys as well so it's kind of like a second surprise for them but it was um a good event we are looking at the committee to have it during a warmer time of year uh and maybe coincide with some other things and then um one adjustment to our the 100th day of school February 2nd. >> Terrific. Any questions? Okay, thank you for that. That moves us on to 58. Any foyer requests? >> Yeah, we had quite a few this month. Uh we had one from company Divine 180 security systems as support contracts. Uh we had
033to review that. Want to make sure that we weren't giving away any of our uh security systems or things like that, but they are entitled to cost. Uh we had two from the Henry Times. They wanted full-time pair of professional contracts and vendor contracts over $1,000 and then smart procure which is a vendor purchase order info that they quarterly request. >> Okay, any questions requests? All right, that moves us on to item six, a public hearing regarding repair of school grounds in Nippersync School District 2. Um, I hereby call to order the public hearing regarding repairs to school grounds for NP Nippers School District 2 on January 28th, 2026. It is currently 7:28 p.m. So, here's the purpose of the hearing. Dipper School District 2 is requesting approval to include itemized priority 3 health life
034safety items in the application along with priority 1 and priority 2 health life safety items being submitted to the Illinois State Board of Education. This approval would allow the district to seek health life safety bonds for priority 3 repairs to school grounds. And at this time I will uh now open the hearing to public comment. Is there any public comment on this? Do we comment within the board? Any board comments? I see none. It's eerily quiet. Okay. Hearing no public comments. This concludes the public hearing at 7:29 p.m. That might be the fastest public hearing ever. The board will consider and vote on the related resolution later in this meeting. That moves us on to item seven, old business. Do we have any old business? >> Not tonight. >> Okay. Now we move on to
035item eight. And wouldn't you know it, item 8.1 is approving the resolution for repairs of school grounds in Nippin School District 2. Um, >> so >> do you want to make any comments on this first? >> Yeah, let me make a comment on this. So, we know that over the last several years we've been working on trying to get uh the state says priority ones, these things need to be fixed within a year. Priority twos are you need to get on this in three to five years. There's a law that allows you to go out and get health life safety bond money to fix those things and you put an application together and you send it down state. That's what we're in the process of doing. However, we have a small amount of priority three
036items that also need to be fixed while we're doing the twos. Meaning that if we're replacing this walkway, we may have to replace a curb that was a priority three. We want to include that curb to be part of the bigger project. So, what we have to do is hold a hearing because it's a priority three, not a one and two. And then we've had that and now this resolution will give us the authorization to include those few items in priority 3 into the larger application which um I filled out the paperwork already. I think you'll have some to sign and then Allison is right there. Allison will be taking that application and sending it down to the ROE and to the state and then we'll wait for eight weeks to 10 weeks maybe to
037find out did they approve our priority one and twos all of them some of them and did they include the priority threes and then that'll be the next step >> sorry Tom what was the estimated value on those priority threes >> I believe it was 22,000 >> that's right >> it was the Am I looking at the wrong sheet? >> Are you just on just once? >> Yeah, >> I was relatively low >> compared to your that we're trying to add into it. >> So you're you're adding your priority one and twos are going to be 99% of the cost. >> Yeah. >> These would be much smaller cost. You're talking into the millions with priority one and twos. >> Yeah. And so their leg logistics to to couple them with these priority ones and
038twos like you said, but like you say, the the values on them are a fraction of the rest of the work that just makes sense to do it. >> That was my understanding of it as well. And and again, just as a reminder, and you've already u discussed this, but the priority ones and twos are 99%. It's a large number. Priority threes in the life health safety um matrix uh clearly aren't a part of what is considered to be immediate and needs immediate attention. But you brought up an example. If you're redoing walkways and you have a crumbling curb, crumbling curb might not be something that they say you need to replace because there's a life health safety issue. But if you're already paying the people out there to do the walkway, fix the curb
039instead of having to go out and fix it later. >> And there's painting areas, we'll we'll want to repay while we're doing this. >> And remember, this is just for the application to see if we can get approval. Mhm. >> Once you get approval, you find out what you had approval for. There will be have to be a whole another discussion within the board >> as well as a hearing for the community to decide do you go forward, how much do you go forward with and and where are we at with it, >> right? >> So, this is a really a first step in going towards fixing all our buildings. >> This is really about the state saying, "Yeah, okay. Here's what you can do." Right? >> Now, you guys discuss >> what do you
040want to do? >> Y. >> Okay. Any other questions on this? >> I see none. So, we need a motion to approve the resolution for repairs to school grounds as submitted. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Yes. Schwarz, >> yes. >> Stansbury, >> yes. >> Casey, >> yes. >> Shoefelt, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Quinn, >> yes. This moves us on to 82, part-time business assistant position. >> Yeah. So, I'm going to start out and I'm going to turn this over to Denise. We have uh this has gone through 157 and approved. And what we're looking at is we use a system as as parents, you're familiar with it as Skyward. Uh that really goes back into the early 2000s. The basic what it is, it's it's not very high-tech, but it does everything.
041It runs our human resources. It runs our payroll. It runs um all our our school platforms, grades, things like that. Well, it's come to its end and we have to replace it with the new Skyward which is called Q. Um the amount of hours of training alone I included in there. >> Yeah, >> I think Yeah, let me pull that up. There are weeks of required trainings just to get to that point. And you'll see I have it broken down by all staff, how many hours. Um, some of it's, you know, 40 hours in this, 13 hours in this. That pulls all our people that do payroll and benefits out of that job, but we still need to process payroll. We still need to do benefits. We need need to pay bills. So, what we're
042looking to do is hire a part-time individual that can step into that role while we're going through the training and doing the transition from the old Skyward to the New Skyward, so things are more seamless. Ideally, what we would like to do with the position, if it works out, is we have some retirements coming up in the business office. they would be candidates for filling into those positions when this job is dissolved. Doesn't mean that that's a guarantee, but this job would be no more than a twoyear year and a half to two years. And we'd like to, if it works out, keep that person and fill a retirement position. Denise, do you have anything you want to add to So to Tom alluded to the fact so that document you have in front of
043you is it's about 100 120 hours for them just to get trained. That doesn't include what they have to do after they get trained. So what Skyward uh wants you to do is for 6 to 8 months run both uh the old system with the new system. >> So the uh the payroll girls run no less than three payrolls every two weeks. So, they'll be running six payables. Unfortunately, what will happen is is if this check on the old system says it's, you know, $1,000 and this check on the new system says 900, they have to deep go into a deep dive and figure out why this check was only 900 as opposed to the check that was already set up for $1,000. So, it's going to be a lot of six to eight months
044running all these payrolls side by side by side. And then once that's done, they've got to turn around and reenter all that stuff into the new Skyward so that it matches. Um we have also been told that none of our reports, reward reports, reports to the state, TRS, IRF are not compatible. We have to we have to manually um reinvent the wheel with all these reports. So it is a heavy lift. Um, and we're hoping that this part-time person get can uh take some of this uh uh pressure, I guess, you know, from from running everything together. Um, and uh like you know, Dr. Lind said, for the next year and a half, two years so that they can um you know, really focus on getting the sky queue set up 100% so that it's
045not we want to get it right the first time because we don't want to have issues down the line. uh you know as we continue I think as years >> it is a shared service position so the salary would be split >> course >> what's the percentage again >> 6040 >> yeah 60s >> so we're looking at starting salary between 19 and uh 20 dollars an hour maybe 2050 entry level >> okay >> when does this transition take place and when are you guys hoping to hire this new position >> so the transition has already started started. Um they're starting the security for Richmond Burton right now and then in April they'll open it up to the business office where I have to create account numbers. Uh basically reset everything up. Um I would like
046to hire this person as soon as possible so that I can get them trained. Um because we have uh what's called open enrollment in May and that's where uh the employees choose what their new benefits or to keep their old benefits um before they leave for the summer. So, that would be a perfect time to get this person acclimated, go through open enrollment with them, and then uh during the summer, obviously, we're, you know, busy flipping contracts and hiring and um you know, exiting people and stuff like that. So, I in the next couple weeks, I would really like to get this first delivered. >> Sounds good. >> Any other questions? Okay, I see none. So, we need a motion to approve part-time business assisted position as presented. >> Motion second. >> Shoefeld, >> yes.
047>> Mailfeld, >> yes. >> Casey, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Schwarz, >> yes. >> Danbury, >> yes. >> Quinn, >> yes. This motion has passed. That moves us on to item 83, approving the updated 2627 district 2 school calendar. So originally when we did the calendar um we didn't take election day as a national or not national holiday but a school holiday. We have to by law have that day off. So this calendar now includes election day of November off and so we add one day to the end of the year. As you know, we'll also be adding another day to the end of the year for the cold day, but we do that. We won't need approval for that. We just go into the state and do that. But this one we
048do need approval for. >> Okay. >> Any questions on the calendar is presented. >> Is that the only change from last? >> Yep. Is eighth grade graduation still staying the same? >> Everything should be staying the same. Graduation. Yeah. Yep. All right, seeing no other questions, do we have a motion to approve the updated 2627 the precinct district 2 school calendar? >> Second. >> Stansberry, >> yes. >> Milfeld, >> yes. >> Shoefeld, >> yes. >> Schwarz, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Casey, >> yes. >> Quinn, >> yes. This motion has passed. That moves us on to 84 committee updates. Buildings and grounds. >> All right. So, um, buildings and grounds committee met yesterday and, uh, we reviewed the, uh, the timelines that Tom presented earlier, uh, for the healthife safety work, the proposed
049health safety work. Uh, we also, uh, reviewed the purpose of tonight's hearing, which we've covered. Um we uh talked about and and we you know we discussed and I strongly recommend uh holding a committee the whole so that we can um you know have that have the opportunity to hear detailed project information al together and share the um the work that's been done uh on the buildings and grounds committee. Um, so we discussed asking Allison to come in and talk with us at the committee the whole and uh put together a presentation so we can all have a um a really good detailed understanding of um the process and the scope. So we uh discussed that at length. Um, we also talked about communication plans moving forward and then Tom talked about that with uh,
050you know, with uh, newsletter and website um, information as well as the um, school community engagement opportunities in the fall to discuss these things. So uh those are th that's the agenda and the items that we discussed yesterday. But the biggest piece was uh was that we we feel that committee the whole to bring everyone together and and and be able to discuss the the detail pieces of this uh through a presentation would be very helpful. >> Great. >> So we've had some pretty cold weather. How have the buildings fared? uh through this uh recent cold snap. >> We haven't heard anything. So they're >> Yeah, they're seing us right now. >> Yeah, they're holding. >> Thanks. >> They're holding. You know, when you have a an old building like we do, we know the
051middle school's the oldest, you know, to get the pressure built up in the boiler to keep that water hot enough to go through the whole building. And that pressure can become difficult. >> Yeah. >> Um but there's there's some rooms that are colder than others. I guess it depends uh on what where you are in the line for the water. >> Well, I would actually like to talk about this. >> Yeah, the steam traps. Yeah. >> Um Chris, I really appreciate your time, Chris. Over winter break, uh he was able to take me through and I think we spent a couple hours at Middle School and really, uh dove into the the issues with boilers and steam. And I just want to uh to commend Chris on his his work with our current contractors to
052address the the steam issues and and and he is currently um you know working on all of those kinds of things to make sure that steam um you know steam isn't being lost and what you know what's manageable what he can do. So uh but I appreciate his time taking me through and showing me those things and and unfortunately that's one of the challenges of steam that's why nobody does it anymore. parts and old technology because there's lots of pieces in the system that uh you know if you do have failures they're they're hard to locate, they're hard to find and of course this stuff is um you know pretty well obsolete. So you know you've got to u you know shop on eBay for replacement parts. So like I said, I I just I
053just wanted to uh just mention that that Kristen spent the time with me and uh he is doing you know things to reduce the um you know the steam that is being lost so that those boilers can can keep up but it is it is a challenge with the age of the equipment will continue to be um you know as we move forward. >> Yeah. Well that building was built when they still used steam engines. >> Yes. Yes. So, um, appreciate the update. Thank you for all your help on the buildings. We appreciate that, too. Any other questions for buildings and grounds. >> Have we had any more of that cracking? >> No. >> Any exploding trees? >> No exploding trees. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Very good. All right. Seeing no other questions, that moves
054us on to close session. Do we have anything for closed session? >> I think we'll wait next. walk out sometimes but not >> okay very good that moves us on uh any action there's there's no other actions there so this goes on to adjournment and so uh need a motion to adjurnn >> motion second >> all approved say I >> all opposed same sign we are adjourned thank you thank you everybody who attended Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> We should grab those signatures. >> Yeah, yeah, we should see those. >> Thank you so much. Thank you for all the work you did, too. Appreciate it. >> Great job, girls. Thank you. >> Oh.