001for Mary. Do we have Mr. Uh, it is 7 o'clock. We'll call to order. Please jog to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, that leads us to roll call. Joel Johnson here. Eli Clyde here. Natalie Melffeld here. Joseph Quinn. Mary Shoefeld here. Ali Stansbury here. Robin Taylor moves to item three consent agenda. Need uh motion to approve consent agenda as submitted unless there are any questions. Motion. Second. Shoefeld. Yes. Kich. Yes. Meltd. Yes. Stanbury. Yes. Johnson. Yes. Item four, public input. We have one uh Peggy Lmore. Is that already? Mhm. Um, I just am concerned about the what's going on with Department of Education and wondering how our funding is with that, how
002much we get from the federal government and if there's any conversations with the state or superintendent are talking in the county about how to solve any problems with cuts or delays and when that money usually comes in, those kind of questions. I I could cover that a little bit in in my report. Okay. Yep. Appreciate it. Um All right. That is Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Um that leads us to Mr. Kryson. You have presentation ready. Okay. Thank you. Um so, uh this past uh weekend we had our school play at Middle School. And so two faculty members that I would like to recognize uh are Miss Lowour and Miss Toé. Please stand. [Applause] They have a short presentation they'd like to give you. I asked you a PowerPoint what the play was
003about. So, they did a great job. It was uh we had over 50 students um involved in the production of the play. I mean, you know, to have middle school students remember a Chromebook and their Chromebook charger to go to class and just the challenges of that is difficult. Let alone taking kids who are very quiet when you see them and they get on stage and they recite these lines and they have this booming personality that takes a lot of work. You know, that cannot be easy to do. So, uh it was fantastic. We had a uh a dress rehearsal last Friday at the end of the day for the entire student body and first time ever for the entire student body. Whole student body, a whole faculty, everybody was there to see it. So,
004it helped get some of those nerves out. And then uh that night we had a uh our first show from 7 to 8:00 on Friday night and then again on Saturday night. It was great. Kids did an outstanding job and it's because of the hard work of these two. So wanted to [Applause] recognize it. You know, it was a good show. It really was the best in a long time. It was really good. Every year is good. Yeah, it was good. It was very good. I was there and I loved it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks, kids. All right, that'll move us to item five, reports. Please stop me if you have any questions as we go through. 5.1 revenue expenditure report. 5.2 fund balance uh comparison report. 5.3 special education revenue expenditure
005report. 5.4 impact fees. 5.5 Impress report. 5.6 transportation report. 5.7 technology report. That'll move to 5.8 administrative report. Starting with 5.8.1 superintendent report. Dr. Yeah, I'll address this department of education a little bit. So, in all honesty, we just don't know a lot. They just haven't told us anything. Uh we don't know what a cut to the Department of Education really means. Here's what we do know, though. Schools are uh overwhelmingly controlled by uh local control, local taxes. Uh, and in our case, we get minimal money from the state of Illinois, but it's it's enough when you look at your overall budget, you need it. We get very little from the federal government. But what's important about the federal government funds is that it is your ID grants and it's your title grants. So, who
006does that impact the most? That impacts our students who need the most. um students uh could be intervention, it could be special education, it could be breakfastes, lunch, all those things that um we need assistance in helping make sure that every student is given the same level of education and that there's equity involved in it. Um as of now, we've not been given any um notification or hint that title grants and ID won't be funded. um for that to be cut, there's a lot of other legal things that go into it. So, looking at the Department of Education and the cuts that could come to it, I don't see those as things they're going after, but I'm not an expert and as you know, you could turn on the news tonight. It might be different.
007Um but I can tell you this, uh the amount of money that we get from the federal government, if need be, we can make up in our local budget. Okay? So, we may have to tighten up in other areas, put on hold maybe a fix or something like that, but we will be able to, if need be, cover the money that we have to to make sure that, you know, our most vulnerable students or those who need things are going to be taken care of. So, other than that, I think we'll we'll wait like everybody else and uh we'll continue to see what the state tells us and I think they're kind of waiting to see what the federal government does, too. Um, moving on from that, uh, I put up a a list on
008my report tonight. I wanted to show, uh, everybody, uh, the board, public, community, whoever looks at this, these are the things that we're working on right now. We know that we have our life safety audit that took place. Um, these are things that we're working on going into the summer. You'll notice a lot of it has to do with uh, not the most exciting things, but important things. Uh, we're we're continuing to replace uh, our fire system. We're getting quotes on right now. We know that one of the things at RGS, one of the big things that we needed to repair was our fire sprinkler system and the pump that does that. Again, you don't notice this, but it's a huge part of the safety of our school. We redid the pump last year. We've
009re uh done quite a bit of the piping. Uh we right now have decided that we're going to budget in and just try to get the entire east side of the building done and then as soon as that's done go down and and the other side and get all the fire sprinkler lines replaced the pumps new and then that's taken care of. That's also important because when we looked at our um long-term facility study that we did 2019, I think it was, or 2020, one of the big things that we had to get done at RGS was the fire uh sprinkler system. So, we're kind of knocking that off the list. It's is a priority A. Uh some of it's priority B, but we're taking care of it over a year to to two summers.
010Um the other thing that you're going to notice, uh our maintenance crew, by the way, I can't say enough about them. uh they have done an outstanding job. Uh Mr. Link through working through combat rebates, we are now replacing every single light in the district um including gymnasium halls uh those types of things at zero out-ofpocket cost. So they're all going to LEDs. That is an incredible savings. I know when I did it for the other district, uh even with rebates, we came back to where it was going to be $2 $300,000. So, this is a a very positive thing and there's some long-term savings just in energy costs there as well. The other thing we're going to be working on, the same company will allow us to go through and they will audit our
011HVAC equipment, boilers, um, air conditioners that are in the window still, all those types of things. And they have rebates for that. So, if we qualify, it doesn't mean we get all new boilers for free, but what if we could get $200,000 off that boiler? And so there's some significant savings. Again, I think the crew that we have doing this, we have the right people in the right place at the right time. Um, and we're seeing a lot of positive things come out of it. You can see further down on the list, a lot of things are happening over spring break besides just the deep cleaning and things that go on. As I talked about with the library, we're now not only going to paint it over spring break and clean that up, but we'll
012be getting estimates for new carpeting. Um, we're going to be putting in the uh rear entry vestibule doors uh at RGS and going through again um looking at uh changing filters, doing types of things. So, I won't go on through everything, but um a lot of our our life safety A and now B things are being starting to be taken care of. Final thing I'll say, um when I met with Mr. Link, I met with Denise. We're talking about developing a one-year, threeyear, 5year plan outside of kind of what we're doing. Um, for instance, we know things like uh having to replace the grout with the brick and stuff at RGS is an issue and it is at NMS. Um, so we're going to put aside $33,000 a year each year uh will gives us
013so many linear feet um and within about three years we'll have all the buildings um tuck pointed and back where they need to be. So doing things like that as well as we're looking at putting aside another 20,000 25,000 a year to get all the windows at our RGS taken care of too. So really a lot of positive things happening and I'll update as they continue to get done. Excellent. Thank you very much. Any questions for Dr. Okay, I move to item 5.8.2 assistant superintendent of curricular report. Dr. Meeting everyone. I hope you're looking forward to the spring break. I know the kids and staff are just a few updates uh about Reveal Math, our new on board for next year. We had training for K5 teachers on March 7th. Um it was really really
014good training, a lot of great information that the trainer gave us. We did a follow-up survey with staff to determine which areas they wanted to have some more detailed uh trainings on. So we have we have that information. We hope to have those two the four of them scheduled out before the end of school. So teachers are ready to go into summer with all that information. Our next two trainings are for NMS math on May 2nd and common link common lit for NMS on May 2nd also our next sifting and the teachers are still doing a great job developing their professional learning communities on our scope and sequence and standardized testing. Any questions for Dr. Moes to 5.8.3 SG principal report Mr. Um so we have officially begun our sign up for our kindergarten kickoff
015um which will be June 3rd. That's going to be both at Spring Grove and Richmond. Um so these are to uh get us uh some parents of new incoming kindergarters a chance to uh meet the teachers but also to participate in our our screening process um so that we can make sure that we're ready for the students when uh they enter in the fall. Uh also, um everyone, new families and current families will be able to um start uh the online registration um for the 2526 school year starting on April 1st. So, I know uh the tech department has been working on making sure that's uh getting ready. Um so, we're just kind of looking forward to to starting um another year even though we're still in our current one. We're always forward thinking. Um
016we have to plan for that. um some school a school celebration. We've been doing um a readathon. Um our PTO's um been participating. Our our whole school has uh we were aiming to log in um 20,000 minutes um and hoping to raise $10,000. So um we're coming to the end of that and we've had a lot of businesses um who donated um some prizes and so um each day uh they were 10 students were chosen for these certain prizes. So, um, just kind of, uh, instilling that, uh, you know, love for reading. And then tomorrow night, if you have nothing to do, if you don't want to watch the NCA basketball tournament, um, you can come to our reading nights. We have that from 6:30 to 8. Um, we've got a lot of different activities
017going on. Um, we have a magic show going on, book bingo. Um, got reading with Loki. Our our student council will be participating in a reader theater and lots of other things going on. So, um just a lot of activity, you know, happening um in the last two weeks for us. Any questions for Mr. P? Moves to 5.8.4 and principal report. Mr. Cruz, hello again. Um so, recently uh our sixth grade class uh took part in in Greekfest, which is a unique experience, um to to see. All the students are in totas. Um the teachers dress up. Uh and they have a lot of they they walk in the gym representing their city state with banners. Um and they go all out in the contests and watching students run full speed in togas and relay
018races and you know they trip on it. They fall down and they get up. They don't even break stride. They get up and they keep going to win the relay race um to represent their city state. It is really fun to watch. Um, Miss Chase uh is out and she has a long white uh wig on. She looks like a Targaryen if you've seen uh Game of Thrones with her long wig. It is it's quite a scene. Um the kids love it. Then afterwards they finish with traditional Greek food as it says here with euros bakal grape juice. So it's it's really cool to see if we walked in and didn't we weren't ready. I don't think you'd be surprised what it looks like for sure. Um, and for school celebrations, we had two students,
019uh, uh, student athletes, I should say, uh, this year qualify for the state wrestling meet. Um, uh, Finn Rkkins at the 70 lb weight class and Sam Renorf at the 145 pound weight class qualified for state this year and both being their first time qualify questions for Mr. Gos 5.8.5 RGs principle. Good evening everybody. Uh so just a quick update on our book madness. We are down to our elite eight kids continuing to vote for their favorites. We'll find out who our winners are in April. Uh Mr. Kevin and I have both completed the with all of our students. Uh so kudos to all of our staff members who helped us and our students get through that pro process. It's a lengthy one. Um so we are now getting through that and looking forward to
020the fifth grade ISA next month. Um so kudos to them. Second grade at RDS had the benefit of getting the um RB honors bio students out to do some experiments and share their love of science with us. It was amazing. The kids loved it. Uh for those of you who have never seen elephant toothpaste, it's an experience. Uh so they made that for us and uh can see some of these kids growing up to be scientists someday in the lab. It's pretty awesome. Uh, Schoolhouse Rocks would like to thank, you know, Mr. FY got to join in the fun in this too with his school. RB for inviting us out to see Schoolhouse Rocks at RB. Uh, kids really thoroughly loved that as well and thank you for very invite. school celebrations PBS is still
021going strong and kudos big congratulations to our FPS team who will join us at the next board meeting uh to be honored for all their amazing work uh coming up at the competitions. Thank you. Any questions from the staff? Okay, now moves to item 5.9 for your request and we have none. Item six, old business also we have none. moves us to item seven, new business, uh 7.1, updated student handbook for new middle school for 2025 2026. Yeah, I'll just quick we put this on here uh for board approval. It's uh goes through the Illinois principal handbook. It's kind of a general handbook that's put together for the state of Illinois and then it's customized uh to to the school as well. So, uh Mr. increase if there's certain specific items you want to point
022out or if there's anything new just uh the discipline committee talked about some things and obviously cell phones um we have not solved cell phones I wish we had but we have worked um at looking at what to do with them um and one thing we wanted to do this year was uh align our consequences for using guns closer to what Richmond Burton was doing I I I think it's harder for kids we want kids when they go to high school to already understand the expectations that they know how it works. They, you know, that's kind of I think our job is to prepare them for high school. And so having a similar consequences, I think helps. I think it helps parents. I think by that time, you know, if your student has has or
023your child has been through the process for three years, by the time they're a freshman or sophomore, you kind of know what to expect as do they. So, I thought that was important and that was a major adjustment to next year. And we don't need approval. I just looked at it. We just need to present it. Okay. Any questions on the student handbook? Uh, moves to item 7.2, committee updates. I'm not sure we have any. Yeah, I believe we have any at this time either. So, so no new updates at this point. Um, that'll move to item eight. I need close session. Need a motion to enter close session to consider information pertaining to the appointment employment dismissal performance discipline and compensation of employees of the district. Motionfeld. Yes. Shfeld. Yes. Stansbury. Yes. Yes. Johnson.
024Yes. We'll stay in here so everyone clear session here. That was quick. [Music] forget about it. I realized he wasn't here to elaborate [Music] Are you coming or