001It is 7 o'clock. Let's call to order the April 23rd, 2025 dragon meeting. Start, please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Lucy roll. Joel Johnson present. Elie Kle. Natalie Mel here. Joseph Quinn here. Mary Shoefeld here. Ali Stansbury here. Robin Taylor. Uh so kind of help kick this one off. We will need to vote for a secretary for the day for any signatures. Um you be willing to stand. So I'll vote for Natalie. Is that a motion or is that a vote? Second motion and you can voice vote. A motion for Natalie. Second. All right. All in favor? I thank you. All right. We move on to
002item three, consent agenda. Please stop me if you have any questions as I get through or no, sorry. Uh motion to approve consent agenda as submitted. Motion second. Shoefeld, yes. Quinn, yes. Stansbury, yes. Mel, yes. Johnson, yes. Okay, moves to item four, student recognition. Good evening, everyone. Thank you everybody for coming out tonight. We're super excited to recognize our FPS future problem solvers group from Richmond School this evening. Um, if I could have everybody stand and join me up front here, including Rhett and everybody their certificates. This incredible group called Temple is competing on Friday downstate at normal uh against a bunch of other groups. It's going to be incredible. Hey, August. and Owen um competing against others across the state. Um this is super exciting this ride. This is her first year with RGS
003with RGs. Um so I just wanted to recognize this incredible group. Again, amazing work. Such a cool thing this community does coming from a great community that has never done this before and deep appreciation what this group brings to our school. So, thank you so much to Miss and to our little group of students. [Applause] Thank you so much and best of luck to you guys down. [Applause] Can I just ask between Spring Grove RGS and Middle School? How many do we have going this year? It's like a big group because our buses are at maximum capacity. That's fantastic. That is absolutely fantastic. You can stay. I already told them they can go. Kids are like, "No way." Right. Cubs Dodgers are on. That's right. Show was up when I walked in. Okay. Uh that
004will now move us over to item five, public input, which we have none signed up. Uh that moves us to item six, reports. Please stop me if you have any questions. Item 6.1, the revenue expenditure report. Item 6.2, fund balance comparison report. Item 6.3, special education revenue expenditure report. Item 6.4, impress report. Item 6.5, transportation report. Item 6.6, impact fees. Item six, item 6.7, administrative report. Starting with 6.7.1, superintendent report. Yeah, good evening everybody. Um just a couple things tonight uh as we take a look at coming into summer and some things that we're working on. Um all our projects for the summer for the most part are set and ready to go. Uh I shared with you a draft version of a 10-year budget that Mr. Link had kind of put together. Uh the
005idea behind it is we know that we have our priority A's, B's, and C's. Um, and we know we have our large projects we need to do, but while we're doing those things, we need to make sure that every year we're setting money aside to do other maintenance, like for instance, tough pointing of the buildings, uh, windows, uh, small sections of roofing, um, and some of the other things that you don't necessarily think of until they're broken. So, I want to thank Mr. Link for working on that. uh and when we finalize that, we'll go ahead and share that with uh the the board, but we'll bring it to building and grounds before that and take a look at it. So, I feel that we're very well covered for fixing and replacing things over the
006next really five, six, seven years. Um and then the other thing is our long-term budgeting and just looking at our district and where we're going and where we're investing our money in. Uh again, we're going to continue with our focus uh not on just new programming and things for students, but on our buildings, particularly when we look at Never Sync Middle School, that will be our our top focus. Uh getting that uh up to date with HVAC. Uh but we also have other smaller projects to keep going on the other two buildings. So, our long-term budgeting has that in mind as well. And as we get that budget completed, we'll bring that forward. Thank you very much. Any questions for Dr. Okay, we start item 6.7.2, assistant superintendent curriculum report. Good evening everyone and welcome
007to our maybe our third day of spring. So few updates from our board goals. KAT testing was administered. It's complete. All the makeups are done. So a big shout out to all of our secondary teachers, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Hamlin, Mrs. Weber, Mrs. Kuzman, Mrs. Leverier, and Mrs. Monister. Uh we had our second round of reveal math training that started um in early April. finish those up. It was a a great uh recap of what we did the first time. So, we're really getting some better understanding for reveal math for our teachers. And teachers are still working on the uh professional learning communities with their scope and sequence and common assessments. And later in May, we'll have our literacy and numeracy team meeting to round out our year. Thank you very much. Anybody have any questions
008for Dr. Okay, moving on to item 6.7.3 RGS principal report. Good evening again. Uh just want to give kudos to our book madness group of Mrs. Level, Mrs. Marks, Mrs. Bellman, and Mrs. Bodan for organizing our annual book madness. Uh the winner was Oh my gosh, what was it? Hug and sticky. Huggy and stick. Sorry, the other way around. Uh it's a hysterical book. Kid favorite. Uh so kudos to them for organizing it and again sharing love literacy with all of our GS spring concert. We wrapped up our concert season for our singers and recorder players. We have second and fourth grade concerts. Um Mrs. Flores again puts on a stellar performance with the kids. It's incredible to hear them at the start of the week um versus when they get to the actual performance.
009There's so much growth. They do such an incredible job. Uh and then of course our level of professionalism uh with them is just amazing. uh school celebrations. We've had our PBIS uh minute to win it second round where kids got to take part and we will have our last round of that coming up here in May. Super fun there. And the kids heart challenge was again the kids met their goal for the year. So because they met their goal, uh we got to uh organize pie in the face for staff members to take part in. We had a students versus staff most winningest uh classroom or earning classroom against uh them for dodgeball which was a lot of fun. And then we also had uh Mrs. Johnson and I running around with pigs because the
010kids did such an amazing job. So we just had a lot of really good things going on and we look forward to continuing that into May. How was dodgeball versus the staff? So, originally it would have just been Miss McConey's class, but because you're talking about a bunch of adults versus first graders, um the fourth grade most earning class who would have been uh Miss Cerson's class also took part. So, it evened it out quite a bit in the end. All right. But we all win. We're all winners. Any questions? All right. Item 6.7.4 principal report. Um so we'll be uh hosting um the highintensity summer school again for both um freshman grade school and Spring Grove. And so, um, the dates will be from June 9th to June 26, Monday through Thursday from 9
011to 12, uh, p.m. And, um, this year, uh, between the two schools, 83 students, um, were recommended, uh, to participate. Um, that's compared to last year, uh, 105. So, it's gone down um, drastically. Um I think it's also due to part of um the new UFI um phonics program that they're using in K12 as well. Uh that's really seem to be helping our students. And then I did look at the year before that it was around it was 93 students. Um so again it's gone down um dramatically and that's in both math and and English language arts um that they will be uh uh participating in and typically we keep those class sizes to around five um to seven. Um but this year I'm anticipating to be right around the five student mark because of
012the numbers. Um and then I did put in here about our uh FPS students as well. Uh we have eight that are going to uh the state tournament. um they will be recognized next month. So we decided RGS is going to be tonight and then Spring Grove will be next month. Um so they will be uh participating and hopefully um they'll have some medals too. Um so that's what we're looking forward to. I did have the opportunity this year to go and see the uh see them at the regionals, do their skits. Um that was the first time I've ever done that. Um I felt like I was watching the PBS after school special. But it was it was really fun to see how they designed their um costumes and um things they could do
013with a a paper bag. Um so it was it was really uh good. And then we do have our concerts coming up. Um May 1st is our fourth fifth grade concert and band and then May 2nd as our grandparents special person's day which is in the morning. Thank you very much. Any questions? I move to item 6.7.5. West principal. Good evening. Um, so recently our our seventh grade advanced ELA students have been writing stories and creating picture books to share with younger readers. Um and then on April 17th, uh those that seventh grade class walked over to RGS and shared those stories with uh with students in uh at RGS grades kindergarten through fifth grade. Um they do call it a book buddy experience. I know our kids really like it. Teacher said it went
014really well. Um I don't want to go into it anymore because I know Laura wants to mention it. So we'll save her perspective on it for for next month or what it means to RGS. But I know from our end uh is very popular and our kids do a really good job with that. Uh for school celebrations, uh we've had uh the Richmond Police Department coming in and visiting with the different classes and just covering some different things on various dates. A few weeks ago, they met with the seventh grade group. Um on April 7th, they met uh with our eighth grade group. And then I think two days ago, they met with the sixth graders. And just the discussions obviously vary with the different grade levels. with eighth graders. It was risky behaviors. Uh
015these kids are getting ready to go to high school. Just some things to be aware of. Um dangers of of things like vaping. Uh problems with social media, things to be aware of what you're posting. You know, it's a really good talk. Um it's interesting to watch because eighth graders at this time of the year, you know, they're they're they're checking out. They're mentally there. You know, it's it's it's we're running out of time here and they know it. Um, and when questions were asked by the police department, there wasn't a lot of engagement. I walked in to the sixth grade discussion and the police officer asked, "Anybody have a question?" 107 hands went up all across. Every single kid had a question. So, a lot more engagement with our sixth graders. It was it
016was really good to see. Also, on April 11th, we had our spring dance. Uh, 300 students, just under 300 students attended. Um, all were very excited to be there for sure. Um and u appeared to have a lot of fun. Uh our eighth graders, not a lot came. They had their own dance on May 15th. They're saving it for that. They're they're too cool now for that dance, the spring one. So they they're planning on the the May 15th dance for just the eighth grade class. Very good. Any questions? Okay, then moves to item 6.8 request. We had two. Yeah, we had two. one from Johnsburg 12 Education Association and the other one came from Smart Vare. So working towards answering those working towards answering to those as Yeah. Yeah. They're all taken care of.
017Cool. Okay. Item seven, old business, which we have none. There's item eight, new business. Uh starting with 8.1 resolution authoriz resolution authorizing participation in the McHenry County Regional State School Program. Yeah, this is an annual authorization. Well worth it. So we're bringing it to you tonight for reauthorization. So anyway, you have any questions as we read through the resolution? Okay. Uh if there's no questions on the motion to approve resolution author as in participation in McCarron County Regional Safe School Program. So moved. Second. Quinn, yes. Mail, yes. Stanberry, yes. Shoefeld, yes. Johnson, yes. Okay, then move. Item two, set meeting date for seating of new board members. Um, so obviously the canvas board just came out earlier. Um, so we'll need to as a as a board um figure out a the next meeting date
018a specialized meeting so we can make sure that we're seeing all these kind of board members. Um those just came up today, right? Yeah. So, um so as we kind of go through this, we'd like to try and obviously get this started getting, you know, well, receing as well as new seating. Um so, as we kind of try and push through this one, um I know it appears that two you know, as I've kind of talked with all of you individually knowing that we're going to have this one. So, in the discussions, it looks like Monday the 28th looks to be the best um across the board. So, if everybody's comfortable, you know, if you're all comfortable, Monday at 7 p.m., if that works for you, correct? All right. So, um, a motion to set
019the new meeting or the specialized meeting date for seating new board members for Monday at 7. So, move second. Sounds good. Second. Quinn, yes. Stansburg, yes. Shoefelt, yes. Milfeld, yes. Johnson, yes. Well, now moves to item nine, close session. Just two brief items. Okay. So, I will need a motion to enter close session to consider information pertaining to the appointment, deployment, dismissal, performance, discipline, compensation, employees of the district. Motion. Second. Mel, yes. Johnson, yes. Quen, yes. Sheld, yes. Stanbury, yes. Just as you get our voices, they might change. Earlier in the meeting agenda, [Music] early in the meeting when we were approving the consent agenda, it was just a little That's great.