001I'd like to call to order this board of education regular meeting Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 at 7:01. Can I have a roll call? >> Mrs. Mama, >> Mr. Kj >> here, Phillips >> here, >> Mrs. Barfield >> here. >> Mrs. Theodor >> here, >> Mr. Bardi >> here, >> Mr. Jussio >> here, Now for let's stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Mission statement. The mission of the North School District 8 is inspiring educational excellence in the university and growth. Celebrate the success. So we're going to start with this is November. November 15th is uh board of education recognition day. So, we're going to start with our celebrated success by celebrating our board of education and uh
002thanking our board members for sincerely we appreciate your work. Um I as we were just talking about this is an unpaid position. You volunteer your time and it's not just this once a month meeting. is reading all the emails and following up and um making sure that you are um up to date on policy and working together to make this the best school district for the students of Georgia school district. Your your leadership makes a difference and what you do every day to help our um district grow makes a difference. So, thank you very much. We have a little gift for you, for all of you. Um, and we do appreciate all that you do for us here in Orangeville district. >> Thank you. >> I didn't attach these, so you're good. No. >> We're
003also just going to go into a second thank you today. And these this thank you is to both of our assistant principles. We want to recognize Mr. Prebble uh who was um given an award at the Illinois Principles Association back in October. He wasn't at our last meeting, but he was recognized by IPA which is the Illinois Principal Association in the Lake region for his service as the state director for the Lake Region of IPA. He was elected to this position by his peers in the lake region um after serving as the lake region director. He is no longer obviously in the lake region. So he has moved over into the west cook region and is uh currently serving in the west cook region board as a a board member at lunch. So Mr. probably
004thank you for your service and we we are so happy that you have left the region and are joining us here in the West Cook region. So, thank you very much. We realize at the time when we hired you level thank you very much. And also we want to welcome back Mrs. Gulo. Uh we're excited to welcome her back from her time at home. Picture of Gia here. Uh and today at Lee was Disney Day, so she's dressed for. >> Uh we're grateful to have you back in the building to support our students. We all missed you and we're glad you're back with us. Thank you. >> Those are our celebrations for tonight. >> Very good. Thank you. Anything else? Okay. Action item. Consider motion to approve the agenda as presented. Um, can I get
005the motion? >> Motion. >> Lori. Jim. Um, all in favor say I. >> I. Post say. Motion passes. Recognition of visitors. Thank you. any correspondence? >> Yes, I actually do have two correspondents tonight. I was uh had two things shared with me. I got this little note that came from I believe it is from Miss Henderson's class at child school, fifth and sixth grade art that says, "We are thankful for you. Thank you for helping us grow." And this beautiful picture for the board of education with all the student signatures on it. I can pass that around for you to see. and also a certificate from the Illinois Association of School Boards congratulating the Norwich School District 80 on being an active member of the Illinois um Association of School Boards. So, uh those two
006correspondents I share participation any uh foyer request there are four. Uh they can be found at the website as published every month. On to presentation. So every year on uh at the end of October, Illinois school report card is published. At that point we are able to see uh the growth of the schools in the district and then also compare them to other school districts uh within Illinois. So as I always do in November I present to you our report card. Our annual um design summitive designation for both of the schools was commendable. So commended leans the overall performance was not in the top 10% of all schools but it did have no areas that were underperforming in student groups and uh was not in the lowest 5% of schools. Uh and if it was
007a high school graduation rate of 67% which we are not. So really the only difference between exemplary which is the highest rating and commendable is exemplary is those same qualifications except it is the top 10% in the state. So you can't really say you have to get this number to be the top 10% because it changes all the time depending on what the scores are. I'll go into that a little bit more when we look into the individual school reports. Uh there are three other areas targeted support comprehensive support and intensive support. uh we almost never see those so I won't even talk much about those. Uh so the Illinois report card has two main areas that they pull information from. Academic indicators which are the areas that are in the dark blue and then
008social quality I'm sorry school quality and student success indicators. So going over the academic indicators, 75% of our report comes from our English language arts growth, our math growth, our English language arts proficiency, our math proficiency, science proficiency, if you have a fifth grade or a seventh grade class taking the assessment, and then our English learners progress to proficiency. I'll go over those in much um deeper detail as we go through each school's um performance on the student um the school quality and student success indicators. We're currently only looking at chronic absenteeism which accounts for 20% of the score and 5% on the climate survey. That's that survey that comes out every year, the five essentials. the to get the 5% score in the five essentials. It just you have to meet the threshold of
009having families complete it, not be in a certain level of um of how they grade, but just that they complete it. There are some other areas that the state is looking at adding on in the future. However, they haven't done that yet. things like um preschool through second grade through third through 8th grade qualifications on student mental health and then looking at finals. So here is what we call the house for Giles. Giles was at 72.22 um on their overall index score which is scored as I mentioned incommendable. So if you look at ELA proficiency, they were able to score 7.5% which they did have all of those points in ELA proficiency only 6.59% out of the 7.5% points in math proficiency. And ELA growth 18.54 points out of 25%. Math growth 12.82% out of
01025%. Uh the pink box there is your English language working towards proficiency. Uh 3.65% out of 5%. Chronic absenteeism which was 13.72% out of 20%. Science proficiency. Science is of course tested at GIS. So 4.39% out of 5%. And then they have the full score of the five points for the climate survey because they met the threshold of enough families taking the assessment. So this is kind of interesting. This first time I'm showing you this chart. These were the cutoff scores of where the cutoff was between comprehensive and targeted and exemplary and commendable. So as I mentioned Giles was 72.22 22 on their total index score, they would need an 81.99 to be at the exemplary level. So if you look back at those scores, um like for example, if you looked at chronic absenteeism
011and that was up another eight points, then looking at that overall score of 72.22 22 could make a big difference and could possibly put them into the top 10% of performing schools which then would be the exemplary. Do note that commendable is a a something we should be very proud of. Um it means our students are doing well and they're moving forward and as we go through the scores you will see that looking at Lee their overall index scores was 73.29. Lee had all of their points upon ELA proficiency and math proficiency. And then in about the 16th percent growth and math growth 4.70 with um English language learners towards proficiency growth product absenteeism 14.94% and then of course the climate survey they also met the threshold of the 5%. So that's a lot of
012information. What does that all mean? How do we put that together? Before we do that, we'll take a look at where Lee fell in the categories between comprehensive, targeted, and exemplary. Lee was at, as I mentioned, 70 73.29 on the index score, and 81.99 was that break between um commendable and exemplary. So again, uh, we're talking about 78 points of a difference between if they had pulled up those seven eight points to get it to the exemplary spot. So before I go into individual scores and what happened with I for district 80 and compare it to other school districts with the report card, I want to make sure that the board is aware that this year Illinois did something that they are calling they rightsized the AR scores. So what they did is they went
013in and they looked at the IR scores compared to all the other states that have an assessment. Maybe not necessarily taking I but taking an assessment that is in the same world, same idea as I felt was that they had misaligned that was also misaligning students. And in this they felt that there were students that were act performing very well in schools and they gave us examples of actual students that were going on to you know high performing um colleges that you know weren't um getting uh T proficiency on the I and they were saying where's the mis where's the the disconnect here? So they felt there was a a misalignment in the performance levels. They also felt with that misalignment that the benchmarks were identifying the wrong students who needed additional support or who
014needed acceleration. And then to add to this confusion, each state assessment had a different number of performance levels with different thresholds. Here, for example, is uh all of the states with where they were with their proficiency levels. So you can see Illinois is last in the highest of um proficiency level, meaning that if you were taking an assessment in ELA or math in Illinois compared to the national assessments of educational progress, you had to get a higher score in Illinois to be proficient than in any other state. In fact, if you looked down at Virginia down here, um it's quite a difference where Virginia was coming in at about uh 220 and their cutff scores and Illinois was above 250 on their cutup scores. So, Illinois rightsized the cutff scores. Why is this important? Well,
015uh it's changes how we look at the scores moving forward. It also doesn't allow us to compare apples to apples anymore. So, we can't take last year's third graders, for example, and compare where they were in proficiency to this year's third graders or this year's fourth graders because the test goal point moved. So they they've really redone the um the cutoff scores and they have a lot of research. Um I'm only giving you a very small snippet. If you'd like some more information about this right sizing, I certainly can share that with you. But they what they found was when they were looking at the levels of SAT and the ISA test and the AR test the levels didn't align that the sections of what was emerging what's developing what's proficient and what's exemplary weren't
016aligning with I so their goal was to make that all align to college and career ready expectations so the example here are the new aligned benchmarks for proficiency. Remember proficiency, there's growth and there's proficiency. Proficiency is how a student masters at at targeted um learning outcome. So starting in grade three in ELA, their their cutoff scores were 750 and all the way through from third grade down to 8th grade for ELA. They now have changed those. They're actually different in every grade level. And you can see as you go forward, they actually increase from third grade up to eighth grade. So it's not the same level of looking for 750 any longer on all of the third through 8th grade students. The same look they made that change in math. Interestingly, when they did this
017research, they felt that science was actually under where it should be comparing to all the other states in the nation. So, when they looked at this uh national assessment of educational progress for math, I'm sorry, for science, they actually found that Illinois was further down than the rest of the states. So, you can see here the new cutoff scores actually raised So they were $7.99 and they're now 8 to 12. So again, we're not comparing apples and apples anymore. It's like 2025 or 2024 results are are um going to be looked at differently. Now moving forward, we don't expect Illinois to make this change again. They spent months and months and months of research and looking at these cutoff scores um and to make this decision to write size. So they now have unified performance
018levels where they're really looking at below proficient uh approaching proficient proficient and then above proficient. I had mentioned in I don't know if it was last month or the month before how we were starting to look at our mastery connect I think I mentioned to you we're looking at above proficient as an area and then maybe using these same words uh moving forward with our scores as well getting rid of mastery because what does mastery mean by mastery would be proficient and then above proficient approaching proficient and um below proficient. So that's something our district is working on right now and that would be unifying these performance tiles. So here's really um a very interesting piece of this. The national percentiles corresponding to the new Illinois proficiency benchmarks are now putting math at a much
019higher level than ELA. So what does this mean? This means that students have to perform at a much higher level in math to get proficiency than they do in ELA because um as you can see there, especially 8th grade math needs to be at a 69 percentile in order to be at a proficient level in the new Illinois proficiency benchmarks where you C ELA is staying pretty steady. Um starting in the 50 percentile in third grade and then ending in the 48th and in and 8th grade. It's not really even moving that much, but a great deal of difference between 55th percentile and 60th and so what would we expect to see? Well, there are three main things that we would expect to see this year. That there's a significant variation in the rigor across
020grade levels and subjects for ranging from the 45th percentile to the 69th percentile, which we just talked about on the last slide. Most districts will see a steady drop in math proficiency from grade 3 to grade 8 because in order to get proficiency in math, you have a higher level of need to get there. And most districts will show significantly higher proficiency in ALA comparing to math. So those are the three points to keep in mind. And this is not just for us. These this is for uh all of the scores in Illinois when comparing the new rightsized ELA and MAP and science scores. So what does that mean for us? Well, here is our student proficiency. And remember, proficiency is whether or not students have mastered a common high standard. So think back about
021the last two months. We've had presentations about standards and mastery connect and meeting standards. So there are standards that are taught in the classroom that then transfer over to the same standards that that are tested on IR. These aren't new standards. They're not new things. These are the same things that we are teaching in the classroom. So here is our overall student proficiency results in ELA. We were 31.6% not proficient and 68.4% proficient. I didn't even pull out last year's scores because they rightsize them this year. So I I'm comparing that one to lunch. So we just need to look at what they are for now and go off of what they can what they will continue to be as they grow. Um 68% is a very high percent. Really proud of this work. Here
022it is by grade level. Uh the first two points on there, the summary and the grade 3 through 8 are the same obvious because our district is um has only one building with each of those grades. Uh so we can look at starting in third grade and ELA would at 63, fourth grade at 69.2. 2, fifth grade at 63, uh, sixth grade at 68.2, 7th grade at 68.7, and 8th grade at 76.9. We also, I will compare these to the same districts that we have around us that we have been. So, that'll help kind of put some some uh meaning, a little more meaning to this, too. Looking at our math proficiency and this is if the students know the standard or not. We are at 44.7 um with proficient and 55.3 at not proficient.
023Do remember we expect math scores to this actually has a higher math score than last year. Although that's not fair for me to compare, but we do expect math scores to not be as high as ELA scores cuz the bar on math scores is significantly higher than the MLA. Here are math scores. Um, of course, the principal spent a lot of time with the teams looking through this. Two outstanding grade levels I will point out here, third and fourth grade. both of them at the mid or high 60s in math 68.1 for third grade and 66.7 for fourth grade we do see a decline then in math of fifth through 8th grade that is something that we are aware of and we do have some plans which I will go through with later in my
024presentation I should point out last year in fifth grade that was a completely new curriculum uh we have changed up fifth grade quite a as well this year. Science um we had 53.8% in proficiency and 46.2% in that proficient. Looking at that, you know, we're only talking about fifth and eighth grade. I'm sorry, I think I said seventh earlier. Fifth and eighth grade taking science assessment. So, science assessment eighth grade 63.1, fifth grade 42.6. Actually, when we get into comparing these numbers, these numbers are actually very high. Really happy with them. Very well um happy with and proud of these scores overall. Now, let's look at our student growth. So, student growth percentile describes how much a student grew compared to their academic peers who took the same assessment who started at the same grade,
025same subject with the same score. So, if Frank and I were both fifth graders and we had the same score in in fourth grade, how much did we both grow compared to each other? So, we had 51 52.1% growth in our overall on our growth for ELA and 49.2% overall growth for math. Growth is important. It's something we have to look into or proficiency is definitely something that we look at uh with a different lens um because that is if the student knows the standard or not but growth is important. Now, comparing student proficiency in ELA, uh I took the area uh schools that we commonly are compared to uh that are uh in West 40 that are in our area that we work with in the Light Norwood Association. I do always add Park
026Ridge, which is not in West 40, which is not in the Light Norwood Association, but they're close by. We get compared to them a lot. So I do always put that. So looking at student proficiency in ELA, uh, Park Ridge came in at 78.6%. Union Ridge just really slightly above us at 69.8%. Um, and then we were at 68.4%. You see the next the rest of the numbers going down from there. Uh, so if I took park range out of it, we're second in that list. Very very low. uh a couple of of points off from Union Ridge. What is that six that stop one point? Looking at student proficiency in math, we find ourselves in pretty much the same area. Park rate being at 68.7, unit of 51.6, and then we were at 44
027uh.7. uh fourth to uh Franklin Park very very close to us here at 44.4 and then obviously you can see the rest of the numbers in the 30s until looking at our science proficiency scores we were second to Park Ridge on this uh in this area 68.4 for Parkridge 53.8 for Norwich uh just slightly above Union ridge and 51.9 I think it helps uh when you look at them compared to other districts because when you're just looking at a number like okay what does that number mean and where does that go from here? Um so I think these are always valuable areas to look at. Now I'm going to bring us through a couple of the other areas that remember when we looked at the house where those points go into decisions on if you're
028commendable or your exemplary. So comparing our chronic absenteeism which I really have to commend Mrs. Gulo who was with us last year as the assistant principal and I know Mr. Prebble is working very hard on that this year on cutting back chronic absenteeism. As you've heard us mention many times, something happened when people came back from CO and they felt school was a little bit more uh optional and uh and and we have a lot of uh a lot of issues with that. So, Mrs. Gulo, Mr. Prebble stay on top of our families to make sure that we're giving support when needed and also getting kids into school. Huggage at a 9% chronic absenteeism. Unridge and Norwich were tied at 14. I should point out in this case I am looking at Elwood Park as
029well. Elwood Park is a unit district. So that is a big difference. So please keep that in mind. So Elwood Park runs from preschool to high school. That is the only district on here that is a union a unit district. So you're going to see some differences on absenteeism because a high school absenteeism is different than an elementary school absenteeism. But also you're going to see some financial difference because a high school budget is different than an elementary school budget. High school salaries are different than elementary school salaries. So please always keep that in mind when you see a park included. Uh other areas that are important to note uh student teacher ratios which you can pull on the student report card as well. Excuse me. Uh Norwich and Elwood Park coming in both at
03019 to1 on student um well it's teacher to student ratios. So 19 students to one teacher. You look down at where Union Ridge is there. 16 to1 park rates 14 to1. Could that make a difference? Yes, sure. Is that an excuse? No. But it is something the whole package has to be looked at. That needs to be kept in mind. Roads uh 10 students to one teacher. Now we shift to looking at some financial information. Looking at the operating expenses per pupil. This is calculated on how much the school district on average spends to educate each student. This is a way to measure how much money spent on daily operations. This does not include capital funds. So please keep that in mind. There money in 90 and 16 capital funds. That's not included. So average
031spending per student roads actually tops the average at $27,000 per student. Mannheim we now see up on the top area $21,000. Union range is 17 which is also tenor there at 17 and Elwood Park uh Shilla Park River to follow. Norwich district 80 $13,000 we spend per student um on average to educate our students. Looking at teacher salaries, Norwich comes in on the on the top middle side. Schiller Park um leading the the low side of 62,735. Park Ridge average teacher salary is 96,943. Nor average teacher salary 72,920. Average administrator salaries Norwich is on the lowest. Roads is the highest at 153 304. Park Ridge is 129429 and then Norwich comes in at 11372. I thought El Park was a little low, but we do have to remember Elman Park has so many different levels
032because of that high school with the deans and sharers. Um, and so you're talking about just a lot more people involved in the administration to to be able to be on the high side but also one on the low side. Um, I end with um, you know, as I mentioned, these scores are not something that we just present to you in November and then we say, "Okay, that presentation's done. Let's move on." um our grade level teams, our principles. I um actually present this to our both of the schools, talk to them about our budget that we've passed as well um uh later in the school year. But we, you know, we've also been looking at our school improvement plans and we have the GIS school improvement plan that is uh looking for 70% of
033our students to make their individual growth goal and I ready math and I ready ELA from their fall benchmark to their spring benchmark and looking for their office um discipline referrals to decrease by 10% from last year. And then we're looking at a lease. Lease structured a little bit differently. So please ask questions if you don't understand this one. I already comes up with a growth goal and then a stretch growth goal. So the growth goal is where you want the student to be in their growth. The stretch growth goal means how much farther you want them to go on their growing. So not just meeting their growth goal, but stretching even further. So Lee saw a great deal of stretch growth last year. Um so they targeted their growth with 75% of their students
034who met their stretch growth last year to meet their stretch goal again uh for the second time in math and ELA from fall to spring. If you might recall, Dr. Rabiola was given an award for my ready for um his growth at Lee and the amount of stretch growth that was at least last year. So they are hoping to do that again. Um tier three um position for uh their tier their uh tiered fidelity inventory which we call a TFI. Right now their score was zero on where they were for tier three for their TFI. This is their uh support that they're given for students that are in tier three for social emotional needs. They're hoping that score to be 10 out of 26. That's a big focus that they have on their um social
035emotional committees that meet on on Wednesday and there is um I mean I could talk probably for an hour after this on how much information is available in the Illinois school report card and how you can compare it to a plethora of other districts. Um, I usually stay with our districts that are in our line and Norwood Township and then I'm throwing park range. Um, but I of course can give you information about any other districts that you might like to see. But I again I want to um really reiterate how happy I am with our student proficiency uh ELA growth. Um I know we're working on our math growth. Um I know everyone's math growth is is struggling right now uh because these scores are not are higher to achieve. Um however that's not
036an excuse on not continuing to work on. We have many plans in place. If you go into the actual uh school um plans uh lots of different um ideas that we're working on in order to bring those up and Dr. Rabiola and Mr. Riyaki will um provide you with the uh growth from the winter comparing uh fall data to winter data um in January once we have that all combined. 8th grade is going actually Giles is going to be taking that the growth in December. Mr. Betty has a letter going out to eighth grade parents to make sure that they are aware that that growth is used for placement effort. I believe Thursday >> Thursday at 9:00 a.m. it'll be released. >> So any questions from where? >> Very well together. >> This isn't board
037book. So if you want to go back and look at it or if you'd like to speak about it, please let me know. Thank you. On to administrative reports. Uh Mr. Superintendent, Mrs. G, anything? >> Um, you know what? I do have two real quick things, but I don't >> special education, Mr. Masters. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, I wanted to take the opportunity to uh kind of look forward as we're ending the trimester kind of getting some preparation in place. Um first thing is actually wanted to make a correction to the report that I had made earlier. Our December 16th preschool event is cookies and cocoa. Uh it is going to be just preceding the board meeting. So, it'll be a nice little opportunity to celebrate college before we get into things. But, um changing
038the name there. So, um, additionally, uh, we are planning to have our next preschool screening that will happen on December 19th. That's a part of the process, uh, when we talk about the preschool for all. Um, so it's really just making sure that we're making, uh, they're kind of assessing each child's developmental needs as they come into our programs. Um, another uh, upcoming event is going to be our special education data days. Um, this will be something that we've done for the past several years and basically looking at all of our students with uh IEPs, looking at their goals, seeing how many of them have attained their goals, and if they have not, what are we going to do in response to that to help them continue to maintain their growth. Um, so that will
039be coming up after the Thanksgiving holiday. And the last thing is uh just as a uh future reference in on April 7th we will be having our next special education parent night that is focusing on social work and social emotional and behavioral support. Um so we encourage anybody who is interested to spread the word. We'd love to see uh as many parents as we can >> building reports China school. Mr. First of all, I'd like to thank each of you as board members for all your support uh at for us at Gile School. We really do appreciate it. We appreciate all the time and work you put into your roles. So, thank you. Um if you're at Gio School, hopefully you get a chance to kind of walk through. We've completed our first phase. Um
040our stairs that go up to the uh the seventh and eighth grade wing, there's 22 steps. all have now uh our uh pride, positive, respectful, responsible, inclusive, determined, and engaged. And then uh positive quotes for our students to read as they're walking up those stairs. Also, I'd like to report that the athletic pickup and drop off has been moved to Colum Avenue, entrance 3, seems to be going really well. I communicated with Conway Bus Company to make sure they are aware of that change and I communicated with all of the coaches at GIS and make sure they're aware of it. Uh, so far it's only affected girls volleyball um because they're still in season and it seems to be going really well. And that concludes my report. >> Thank you school. Thank you. Uh, I'd
041like to start by congratulating our third graders who had the best attendance for the second month in a row. So, um, our third grade was able to, uh, lead off the housing parade. That was the incentive for the month of October. Uh, our culture and climate committee put together different incentives for each month. And, uh, we also, uh, Mr. Prebble, um, make sure to track the attendance on a week-by-eek basis. We have a bulletin board that's set up so as students come into the building they see who's in the lead and how things are looking each week. Um so we have really been trying to uh focus on that attendance. Um like Mrs. Guzik had shared with the Illinois school report. You know five of the points out of those seven that would get us
042to exemplary are those chronic absentism. And I know it can uh somewhat seem annoying to get those emails and the reminders about attendance, but there is a reason why we're doing that and making sure that we're supporting all of our students uh with their attendance. Um on another note, just want to put out there, we are going to have our middle of the year assessments coming up right after Thanksgiving break. Um so want to make sure everyone is aware of that. I'll be uh putting that in the tracks on Friday. Just a reminder about that. And then once we have that data, we'll be looking at that before winter break and putting some plans for our tier 2 and tier three interventions that'll start up after uh the new year. Kind of seems crazy. We
043talked about that already, but we're in that phase. That concludes my report. >> Thank you. Discipline reports trials from Mrs. school. >> We have three students with their first offense in school suspensions for violating policy 7 colon 190 number 91 11 and 23. And then we have one student first offense in school suspension for violating policy 71 190 number 23. And lastly, one student second offense in school suspension for violating policy 7 col 190 number 11 in number 23. And that concludes that you Lee Mr. Pre Lee has no behavior report this month. >> Thank you. On to board committees education. Uh nothing to report this month. Board policy and development. Uh there the committee has a meeting December 2nd. We'll be reviewing the 700s. As we all know, our discipline reports are 90% of
044the time something offices. Tonight you also have 120 from the press and the um the uh little snippet page that tells you what it's about and then the actual language uh that is being suggested on the committee looking into that as well. But anyone else that wants to read that we'd love your input in that as well. um building grounds. Next month, board me, the new architectural firm will take on they will be presenting uh the life safety. >> Oh, it's a facilities plan. >> Facilities plan. Yeah. Um behavioral intervention, nothing to report. Negotiations with human resources, nothing to report. finance. Uh, I'd like to call Timmy Dor. You'd like to take the floor on this? >> No. >> You ready? >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, you all have the a copy of the presentation,
045too, because sometimes I know the numbers are kind of hard to see on the board. >> Oh, loud. Mr. Um, the first thing we're going to look at are the fund balances. And this is the same process we go through with the budget. The fund balances really guide many of the decisions we make in the business office. So just like when we're creating the budget, we need to look at the fund balances. When we're creating the levy, we need to look at the fund balances cuz we need to know how much money we have, where we have it, and where we need money. Um, as of October, our fund balances were just about 6.3 million total. If you look in um at the end of June, they were about 9.7. The reason there's such a
046difference is because we haven't received any of the fall tax dollars. So, we've been spending money without getting any money back to replenish it. Some of our fund balances, if you look at TOR, TOR has a very small fund balance, but that's not a place that we're going to do a resolution today. And that's okay because out of tort we pay two bills once a year. We won't have to pay those bills again until next July and next se September. By then we'll get this fall collection of tax dollars. We'll get the spring collection and we'll be fine. Um education and transportation, that's where we're going to look at a resolution later because that's where we're lower on balances after we pay the November bills. And then if you go on to our next sheet,
047this is um public act 103394. We also looked at this um during the budget. We're going to look at it again. It's almost exactly the same. There's some slight differences from the numbers we got from the draft AFR, but we are still well below the 2.5 time ratio we would need. So what this public act says is if that if you have a cash reserve balance in just the ED fund operation and maintenance fund that is 2 and a half times your average expenditures over 3 years then you would need to do um a fund balance reduction. We are well below that. We don't have to worry about doing it. But one of the reasons you would need to look at it during a levy again is because if we were at that, it might
048change what we levy or how we levy. If we had 2.5 times in our operating funds, we might not need to levy that much into them. But that's not a problem we have. This worksheet is what we use to create and test the levy. So on this sheet, there's a lot of information that um comes some comes from the county and some comes from us. If you look at the very top towards the left, you're going to see it has the consumer price index on there, which is 2.9. So 2.9 is what we will get and then it has our EAV. So on your tax bill, you'll see what your EAB is. This amount that's on here, the actual total EAB is what our EAB is for the whole district. For every um body that
049pays taxes, what is the total EAB? So you can look at what your EAB is and compare it to that EAB and see how big of a piece of the pie you are. Because if your EAB, if you look at it year-over-year, goes up, but our EAV doesn't go up, that might be a reason why you would see that your tax bill went up more because you became a bigger piece of that total pie. Um, then we have what's the estimated like what do we think we might change next year? So, we put a percentage in there and then we put a an amount for our estimated new property because 2.9 is CPI. So, that's all the new money we're going to get except for the amount that we get from new property. Usually, the
050amount that um is like the EAB of new property could be around 2 million 3 million. this year was 800,000 and a couple previous years it was 9 million. So we never really know. We don't have a way to know. So the reason I put 5 million in there is to test it because on this sheet is where we put things to test it cuz if I put in 100 million then I probably underlevied. So I wanted to put in some realistic amounts. And so once we put in all those factors, we put in the existing extension. So if you guys remember from the past, we've talked about the levy. There's three parts of it. There's the levy. The levy is the ask. What am I asking the county for? How much money am I
051asking them to give me? Then there's the extension. So no matter what I ask for, that's not necessarily what I'm going to get. The extension is how much the county says this is what you're actually going to get. And then there's a third word which is collection. So even if my extension which from the 2024 levy comes out to 11.1 million then there's actual collection. How much of that are we actually going to collect? Which we do usually collect about 95%. So on this sheet there's a lot of like I said those different factors that go in. So we put the prior year extension we put all the CPI the EAB all of that and then we start creating the levy. So if you look in the green column that's what we put the amounts
052for the actual levy how much we need. So for every fund except for the ED funds I put in how much money we need. Then whatever's left, we put into the ad fund. So when I create this levy, we know that we're going to get 2.9% CPI plus new construction. But if we go over 5% then we have to go over the through the truth and taxation process which we don't want to go through that process. So what we do is we go up as high as we can without going up to the 5% and then we adjust down from there. So, we put in everything we need in every other fund and then we put as much as we possibly can into the ad funds to stay under that 5%. So, if you look
053at this sheet for the caps levy, which means all of our funds except for the bond, it has a 4.92% increase because the bond, the county actually puts the amount that we need to make our bond payment in. We only have one bond. Um, we have a small bond payment. It's 136,000 next year um is what I'm estimating that they're going to put in. So that is a very small amount that we have in our bond and levy fund. So once you put that in, it's actually a decrease. So the total levy comes out to 4.82% of an increase. On the next slide that this is what Sorry, I was trying to show that This sheet is what actually the levy looks like. So this is what we then send to the county. We use
054that worksheet to put everything in to test it to make sure that it's an okay levy. And then what comes out is this levy in front of you. And then on my last slide on here, this is a clear presentation of all of that information. So the 2024 tax extension, our total of our cap funds, so all of our funds except for that bond fund came out to around 11.1 million. Then with the bond, it's about 11.3. The draft levy that we created um for the capp funds is a 4.92% increase. And then once you include the bond payment overall, it's 11.8 million, which is a 4.82% increase. The final column that I have here is our projected extension. So what do I think that we're actually going to get? Even though we're asking for
055a 4.92% increase, how much are we actually going to get? Probably a 3.3% increase. All of the amounts will stay the same because we will ask the county to leave every amount the same and only reduce the ad fund cuz that's where we put all of the extra money. So the ED fund I'm asking for 9.7 million will probably get about 9.5. Last year when we did the levy process when we uh we projected that we would actually get a 3.75% increase. But when we actually got the extension we got a 3.55% increase. And so we were the projection for what we actually got was off about 21,000. So we're the projections are usually pretty close to what we actually get. So even though we're ballooning our levy to make sure we capture all that
056new construction cuz we're not we don't know how much we're going to get and we're asking for a 4.92% increase, most likely we will get a 3.3. Does anyone have a question? So, this is the taxative levy. We have to do an action item today to pass this. Um, Mrs. D'Vorah will continue to look at it, check it over, and then in December we would then pass the final. Not expecting any changes really, but We do have some time to finalize that. >> Thank you. >> For committees, communications, nothing to report. Nor Park District, nothing to report. Two discussion items. >> Okay. Just give you a little update. the superintendent advisory committee. Our November meeting actually la met the last week of October um due to my absence um in the group was great. Um
057but then we focused on our local state and federal school um district finances. So we talked about what what money do we get from local sources, what money do we get from state sources, what do we get in federal sources. Um I think it was a great meeting. Wonderful. We have a couple new members this year. here. They've been giving some wonderful feedback. We also took a nice little uh tour of Lee from anyone who wanted to stay for that. We are meeting December 8th and I'm going to be talking to them about this report card data that I shared with you today. Uh we're also going to be meeting over at Charles. Substitute pay. Um, I have been communicating with you that the districts around us have increased their substitute pay, which is great.
058Um, however, it does cause us to lose substitutes cuz if somebody can get paid $20 more down the street, they're going to go do that. So, I am proposing today that the board take action and consent on a increase in the substitute pay. Um, we had an increased uh substitute pay. Gosh, I can't tell you exactly when. Not since I've been sitting in this seat. Uh, so I'm proposing $160 of a for a teacher. This is the first time we actually are proposing a separate amount for a pair professional substitute. So if someone comes in and they're going to be a pair professional for the day, Travis is a little bit different in their role. then we would stick with the 140. And then if one of our district pair professionals substitutes a teacher, we
059of course would bring them up to the $160 amount uh because that would be fair to them. So that would be adding $3 onto their hourly of our our because many of our pair of professionals can substitute um and can uh because they have sub certificates or actually some of them have teaching certificates. So I am asking the board to take action on this tonight. Also on the agenda tonight is the intergovernmental agreement with the O'Hare Noise Compatibility Commission. Uh this has been in effect since 1996. I believe we've been uh partners with them since then. Uh several five-year agreements. So the current agreement ends December 31st of 2025. We would enter into another 5-year agreement with them uh December 31st of 2030. So about every month we have a meeting um and I sit
060on this board to look at uh well we look at a lot of things. We look at uh how many planes are coming in on what different runways at O'Hare and what kind of um noise um complaints and or changes have been made. Excuse me. Um so we would like to continue this for another three five. Tonight we have two resolutions that the board is going to um is asked to take action on. The first is a loan from working cash to the educational fund for one um $1.5 million. And the second is a loan from working cash to transportation for $50,000. Now, we've talked about this um quite a bit the last few months since taxes on the Cook County tax bills have gone out. Thank goodness. Please pay your taxes so we can
061start getting some of that money in. Um and once that money does come in, we'll be able to move uh the money back to the working cash fund. However, right now we temporarily need to borrow from ourselves. We have about $2.9 million in working cash currently. Okay. Um yesterday, uh Dear Sers and I met with the village, uh to follow up on the items you would you wanted me to speak with them about. We had a couple of new things. We looked again at lighting in both buildings. One of the suggestions that they uh came up with is apparently in Chicago they're they're doing this double light system where they have a a street light but then they also have a lower light that comes out just to light up the sidewalk walk area on
062the same pole. So they felt that if we did that on Oral and then did this over here, did the same thing over here on Courtland, we would actually be able to lighten up that area on Oral um and bring more light down, not to the houses on Oral, but just down onto the street, the walkways where the kids are, and then also to the parking lot area here at Lake. So they are looking into that. um they that would require them to change out the poles. So, I don't imagine this will happen overnight, but they are at least willing to look into it. We talked about opening up three different areas outside of Lee here as school permit parking. Currently, those areas are no parking standing stopping areas. So, they're not currently areas where
063people who live in the area can park now. But in those three areas, we we measured out we could get about nine lee school staff parking spots. So that would require uh a little change with the cleaning of the road schedule and then new. So they are working on that. They're supposed to get us some um some new sample signage soon. We also discussed that Giles the uh the sport support. However, looking at all the options, the village really agreed that moving the sports over to column as Mr. Bki spoke about really is the safest thing to do. And then the last two areas we talked about flashing stop signs agile. This is my last slide and um speed indicators and then a visitor parking spot at tiles. Oh, buildings and grounds. Uh Thanksgiving break.
064We're finishing some painting and >> our third grade hallway and our fourth grade hallway that still need to be painted. So, they're going to start working on some of that. And >> thank you, Dr. just gave you a little bit of a freezer there. Excuse me, >> especially cuz I couldn't talk. We had a water pipe main that's coming into Giles on the South Park uh brick. It has a hole in it. This is main on our property. The village, we are working with the um the company that works for the village. So, the village has been supportive of us. However, this is on our property agile. So, we are looking at fixing that. It's about 4 ft down. We already dug it. You see it? Um, it's about an $8,000 fix. We uh started
065seeing some pooling of some water. Uh realized something must be going on there in the south side of the building. That is by the gym. Uh so, this also will be fixed over I think. We have to outsource that. It says it's about $8,000. One thing I also wanted to bring to your attention that currently we only have 16 students signed up for Washington DC with two parent chaperones if we're bringing along to district 80 staff which would only be 20 individuals much uh lower than we had in the past. One of the things we might want to consider what does is they do an every other year trip. every other year. One year this the seventh and eighth grade go to Springfield. Then next year the seventh and eighth grade whoever want to of
066course go to Washington. This might be something that we want to consider if our numbers continue to go down. The issue of course is as you bring less people the price goes up. So I don't think we I think it's too late to consider that for this year but that could be something in the future. It is something that Camilary does. They do it quite successfully. They usually have about 45 kids at uh DC and that's a mixture of seventh and eighth grade every year and then the next year seventh and eighth grade go to uh Springfield. So just something we should consider. That's my report. Very sorry. >> Thank you very much. I think I'm done talking. >> Yeah. >> Uh consent agenda. I need a motion to approve 15A through 15D. Can I
067get a motion? >> Motion. >> Bang. >> Second. >> Lauren. Uh any discussion? about any of this. No. Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose say nay. Motion passes. Action items. 16 A. Consider a motion to approve the adoption of resolution authorizing loan from the working cash fund into the educational fund. 16B. Consider motion to approve the adoption of resolution authorizing loan from the working cash form into the transportation form. 16 C. Consider motion to approve the 2025 tempested level. Can I get a motion? >> Motion. >> Amanda F. Any discussion? Can I have a roll call, please? >> This is um Phillips. >> Yes. Mrs. Theodore. >> Yes. Mr. Pjack, >> yes. >> Mrs. Urban Barfield, >> yes. >> Mr. Bardi, >> yes. >> Mr. Kusio, >> yes. The motion passes.
068>> And any board comments? Anything? >> Okay. I will need a motion to adjurnn to close session to consider to uh disc I'm sorry to discuss the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees and review of close session minutes. Can we get a motion? Motion Lauren. Um roll call, please. >> Sorry, that was Renzo and Lauren Mr. Bardy. Yes, >> Mr. Rofield. >> Yes, >> Mr. Ker. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Mc Phillips. Yes, Mrs. >> Yes, Mr. >> Yes. So, motion passes. We will meet in close session at 8:9 now. We'll meet at uh just after 3:15. We are now back in open session at 10:19. Go to 19 personal action items. A resignation consider acceptance of resignation from Yana Sage district professional consider acceptance of resignation Ra Sha something great ELA
069teacher. >> Can I get a motion? Motion second. >> Amanda Fanny. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Mc Phillips. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Theodore. >> Yes. >> Mr. Coljack. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Herb Barfield? >> Yes. >> Mr. Barardi? >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Motion passes. I need a motion to adjourn this meeting at 10:20. All in favor say I. I. All >> oppose say nay. Meeting is now adjourned.