001to call to order this board of education regular meeting Tuesday March 18th 2025 at 702 can I have a roll call please Mrs Theodor here Mrs MC Phillips here Mrs vot Barfield here Mrs deck here Mrs La here Mr barardi here Mr Cho here we have a FL on stand for the fled Alle let pledge Ali to the flag of the United States of America to the for stand God [Music] indivisible mly would you read the mission statement the mission of nor School District D is inspiring educational excellence and nurturing environment celebrate the success so today G school is celebrating our seventh and eighth grade writing class our that our students so we have the eighth grade students here along with the teacher Mrs Krueger if you would like to all stand up we'll come
002over here so this class is a semester class so seventh grade has this course for the first semester while eighth grade is in Steam and then they switch and then eighth grade gets writing and seventh grade goes to steam so Mrs Krueger worked with our our eighth grade students and what they did is they were able to come up with a little theater that they came up with and they did all the work so I'm going to turn it over now to Mrs Krueger who will explain um so I started with eighth graders in in um January 27th and so they had been working in ela reading the play The Diary of an Frank so I thought a great way to transition to our class is to now that they know how to read a
003script let's write a script so the students um got to choose their own groups and they got to choose um what type of play they would like to write and then we worked uh together the format with stage directions um some uh summaries and we make U play bills to to represent their place and enough from me but here are the kids I think it was good to to do this assignment because it helped us to learn to be more creative and think about new things to do with a te in a short amount of time can you tell us oh I'm Avery um I'm L frco and I think this play was really helpful because we learned to get over like obstacles and challenges in short amount of time cuz like rting a play
004all on your own is not very easy and we had a short amount of time to do it I'm and we all got to like brainstorm a bunch of ideas and be creative and imaginative and we all got to be together and work as a team um I'm on Lisa and we got to work together at creating our own play and we got to incorporate people that we wouldn't usually incorporate I was MAA and I think that it was a good opportunity to learn how to write a play and be with our friends I'm Max Z I think it was a very creative way and we got to express our ideas and make whatever we want and socialize with others so not only did they write the script they also um made props um some
005used sound effects and then they actually had to present it in front of the class uh so it was a very the project took about two and a half weeks for us to from start to finish so very very proud of them they all worked really hard and as you can see through the play Bel they have all different types of genres of plays we have Mysteries we have comedies we have um some drama a little you know so it was um it was a really fun experience for all of us and we have a video that we're like to show you [Music] how do do this yeah can behind and [Music] take our let's [Music] go oh my gosh guys look at the sky wow guys what time are we going back to the
006house matter to me Alison yeah Melissa do you want to go Melissa guys Melissa so we've just showing you a very short one minute clip of of the uh video of what they did from start to finish and then we placed some of the um the Builds on here for you and then we provided some for you so we just wanted to highlight this program and share this with you we're really excited about it they're doing amazing and wonderful things so we thank you all and now we' like to take a picture with the Board of Education and our writing our udents so board if you'd like to come on up no not it is not they actually kidnapped the wrong person [Music] yeah no no I don't know everything supp than thank you of
007course you are welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting but we do understand if we need to leave so thank you Mr for talking about our class that is only our second year of off this is our second year of offering that for you recall we started fifth and sixth grade uh writing also just so that we can give special time for writing sometimes Mi with the LA get lost a little bit so for writing is great thank you very much [Music] Mr action item consider motions to moove the agenda as presented no as presented can I have a motion Molly call please Mrs La yes Mrs de yes Mrs Theodor yes Mrs MC Phillips yes Mrs her Barfield yes Mr barardi yes Mr Chio yes motion motion passes um recognition of visitors
008thank you correspond is there no not public participation yeah uh for request none and if there was as published in the website you could read it administrative reports superint my report is in myuss very good thank you special education Mr Masters yeah so just two really quick things I really wanted to thank the administrative to cover while I went uh down to Champagne Illinois for the IAC conference lots of interesting conversations about various topics and special education attendance homebound instruction even artificial intelligence in special education so I really appreciate this team for helping support while I was away um and then also uh our recent uh success that we had was we had Scoops and stories for our tiger tots our little preschools so that was fun for our whole families to come get some
009ice cream and have some great story time for our littlest tiger so that's my report thank you uh building reports child School Mr B I like to highlight two things today first of all tomorrow our seventh grade Junior Varity uh girls basketball team will'll be participating in the light and Nord Athletic Conference Championship game at West lien high school tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. so we're hopefully we can uh we can fill West Liden uh they will be versing Manheim school manheim's always a tough tough competition so good luck to Our Lady lions and then my second is I'd like to congratulate uh to the members of the Giles concert band who earned a superior division one honor the highest honor possible at the Illinois grade school music association District SE 7 organizational contest this past
010Saturday at River Grove School the Giles band members performed along with 11 other Junior High bands from the suburbs the band members were responsible for preparing three Works in contrasting styles that were judged by three band clinicians in the areas of inot tone quality balance blend interpretation and Stage presence the students were awarded first place medals that they will wear on their uniforms at concerts a permanent award will hang in the Giles Band Room great job concert band so thank you thank you Lee School Dr R thank you so uh our students have been enjoying a Lego unit that um they've been participating in during their C class with m our Ste teacher um it's been really fun to see them tinkering around with that doing a little bit of coding getting things to move
011and uh seeing that come together has been really exciting um and also just wanted to highlight um that we have I testing coming up for third and fourth grade uh March 24th and 25th as well as after spring break April and 9th 10 11 just want to share out those two pieces of information thank you good thank you discipline reports gilo is and I will take it thank you we had one in school suspension and violation of board policy 7 col 190 number 9 and 21 we had one in school suspension and violation of board policy 7 col 190 number 579 and 21 we had one out of school suspension and violation of board policy 7 col 190 number 579 and 21 we had one in school suspension and violation of board policy 7 col
01219 79 and 21 we had one out of school suspension and violation of board policy 7 col 190 number 79 and 21 we had one in school suspension and violation of board policy 7 col 190 number 9 10 and 21 that concludes my report thank you thank you Lee Mrs arens no report than four committees education nothing we don't already revie monthly regular board meeting board policy and development uh I'm sure superintendent HK will address that in uh discussion building and grounds um in the coming weeks we're going to be discussing uh architectural firms and uh I'm sure other thingsam will be coming up discussion behavioral intervention nothing to report negotiation and Human Resources we had a first session with meat and we'll discuss in closed session Finance nothing new since passing the budget last
013month Communications nothing currently report uh no Park District I understand the committee met with u the committee met earlier tonight at 6: p.m. would you like to Sure uh myself Maria Michelle and gar met with nor bark um and our discussions continued about potentially using our fields for some of their programs um so we'll talk about it in close but in tradeoff they said they would maintain our Fields cut the grass um get that one field on uh at Le uh looking good again got some dirt and some lines for them to play uh they're talking about t-ball um but we also did mention about saccer having home games again possibly using Norge Park so that's up for uh there we'll look at their schedules but they um seem like they would accommodate if their
014fields are available but we'll we'll talk about the contract and and close in more detail but was a good meeting I thought that's it that's it Frank thank you discussion Idol this is thank you uh today in consent I have the student and parent Handbook of for approval we haven't seen this in a couple of months uh basically what we're adding to it is some language about uh Google and um Google is has asked us to include this in our students and parent handbook uh questions about like how Google uses personal information how it's collected um what information Google will close on the child's personal information that's all outlined in this section this new section that went into the student and parent handbook the student um handbook I'm sorry the handbook committee is meeting tomorrow
015it's the committee of the teachers and we are running through or going through the students and parents handbook to see what kind of update toight need to anticipate next year changes in laws and such we may not get all of that until May so we'll probably look at one more update of this handbook but you we're always looking at updating it when we've had a delay in registration as you know um the board did approve the registration date of starting on March 1st however we've run into a problem on the power school Portal uh for returning students so right now our hope is March 24th I will send out information on Friday to families we do also have six State set up for preschool and kindergarten registration that is done in person preschool and kindergarten
016uh preschool because we do need to meet with parents regarding the PFA Grant there are some things that need to be completed by parents in order to qualify kindergarten we do need to get a deposit for old day or the fees paid for curriculum depending on what option family chooses and then we also have some dates for new students to start um registering for 2526 so we're going to be in fast mode on 2526 as soon as we start registration we'll load fees as soon as we start registration and just keep moving forward preschool calendar is in your board packet today couple of things are different about the preschool calendar your typical calendar for a school year is 176 days plus four Institute days which is 180 days the preschool calendar is 165 student attend
017it St um and those are include things like field trips or outside or inside trips are all included in that 165 days and the length of the day must be 2.5 hours what we also have at the preschool calendar are screening dates and home visit dates which are not things that are in the typical uh school calendar so that's why the preschool calendar is a little bit different these are things that are mandated by the preschool for all Grant there are also some professional development dates where the teachers are required to have professional development and the students are that session so just a little bit different of a calendar we currently run this calendar now um nothing is different as far as the breaks and things like that but when there are screaming dates at
018least once a month preschool is not in session when the rest of the schools in Testament for screening or home visits because the teachers do go on home visits year policy tonight we were going to review the 500s but we have decided to put that off until April so today we are only looking at those three policies in the 400s passing them on second read which is cleaning up the Extra Spaces on for colon 11 uh adding local law enfor enforcements on four colon 190 and then on four colon 175 just matching our Curr practice with running things through Raptor and then we'll put the 500 on right now we should see next month in April um 118 from press should be coming out probably we'll just hand you that in paper next month we'll
019have a couple of months to read it go through it and um pass it on first and second read we are expecting a lot of language changes um from the federal government now um pulling down into 118 on what is in the states so that will be an interesting U read once we receive them um uh Derek and I have been communicating a meeting with the village of norid uh regarding some of the asphalt work uh I think we have a meeting on Thursday with with their new uh buildings and grounds individual we've been talking about the work at Giles along Orel and Courtland out here at Lee they are also going to be doing some work on our spring break so 2 weeks from now on the sidewalks that are that are packed in
020the front here atly they're going to be replacing those sidewalks of jws were fine we walked them all they didn't need to be replaced but they will be replaced with some concrete here during spring break we have form of car so they know as well they were able to put a light on in the Le paring Lots when we leaving today probably uh take a look at that so out on the Le parking lot in the middle of parking lot now there is an array light which will light up actually a pretty good amount of the L parking lot there is another spot a little further down towards La Lawrence that we'd like to add that array light to that'll light up like that bus stop area and that back part of the parking lot
021um but it definitely is a a much improved thing with the um village support and then we're continuing to discuss some parking options one of the things that has come up in our meeting is when we talk about putting in um Ada spots at or in Ada spot at gil the the way that it's graded over on the side there is is not appropriate for an ABA spot so they um their engineer was working on um trying to grade that a little flatter so which obviously will be a lot digging that all up and fixing that so that's uh still a conversation that we're having on Thursday I'm sure that would be big part of our conversation so uh we we're very thankful The Village they've been very supportive and we've enjoyed working with them
022so far as um Mr triio mentioned earlier we are continuing an architect search we have 10 firms that have submitted their qualifications so at this point the committee which consists of a representative from NSF um a representative from the board which is Mr cusio and then Comm Bo Derek and I um we're going through all the qualifications we have a meeting on March 26th in the evening we're going to rank the qualifications based on a rubric then we're going to interview the top three to five firms from that ranking and then on April 23rd uh we'll do full day interviews with those three to five ter uh 3 to five firms so thankfully um Mr chbo and Miss Tanny who is coming from MF we're grateful enough to join us on that day during the
023day and then on May 20th we should have a recommendation to the board of education on our final firm very exciting stuff the G's infrastructure Grant has been through its final approval we received our first installment of $5,050 I actually have a copy of the cancelled check if Ione our second inst installment has been improved so this is now a monthly um installment U for $637 we put through a reimbursement every month um if we have a reimbursement um so right now those are both on the installation of the alarm locks at Giles the other area so we're going to kind of be on hold right now I'm pulling additional funds out of this grant because we need an architect to be with us to start spending some of the rest of the dollars as
024you might recall the panels the electric panels are in that Grant the um the ceiling Ailes is in that Grant um and some other areas of the Lal area agile so we'll need an architect to be able to assist us with those points so once we have an architect we'll be able to continue spending that infrastructure Grant just a quick follow up in future reminder April 1st is our local election we have three Board of Education seats that are available and I we've gotten final word that two candidates are running so the board is going to need to uh fill an open position which we go back to what our policy is when we have an open position and we will we would have to uh put out uh information and conduct interviews for someone
025to fill that open position but that all would not happen until after our May 1st reorganization meeting so on May 1st we actually would have two meetings that for that evening we'll do a final meeting of the board that we are sitting in right now we'll end that board we'll review we'll then start up the new board with the new board members um SW at that point we do officer selection committees uh and then we also set the calendar for the next two years so start thinking about if we want to change anything on the calendar otherwise I will probably propose Tuesdays at 7:00 on the thir Tuesday unless the board would like to change our dat think more 93 and that is my report thank you consent agenda I need a motion to approve
02614 a through 14 eight have ation La Mar um any discussion on okay roll call please Mrs Barfield yes Mrs BL yes Mrs Theodore yes Mrs MC Phillips yes Mrs deck yes Mr barardi yes Mr Trabia yes motion passes for coms quick question how's the new lunch going amazing will say that um parents do need to remember to put money into pushcoin um because that needs to get funded and um so and parents do receive an email every time a student takes a lunch um but I mean Mr B sent me a picture yesterday of the students all lined up at gil you had 100 kids getting oh gosh yeah we've gone through over a 100 lunches it's amazing the line is it's awesome oh good they love it kids will come up to me
027and be like Mr Bey this is awesome delicious oh good yeah today was Taco tacos they love or um nachos so they loved them we was to get about 35 PS pick up so last um as you can see from our payment here for just the 2 months to organic life we're paying [Music] $1,457 if you look at oret gorilla that was um for a whole month $ 4,331 so how was [Music] payments so according to the state of Illinois yes parents can wack up a bill up to $500 per lunch before we can stop feeding the students which is not ideal either way we don't want to stop students if they need food we want to make sure we get them food so uh we've been reaching out to families just reminding them that
028you know fees in general should have been paid by now um but just making sure that they've paid their fees we're going to be loading next year's fees very soon so so the the 10,000 that we're showing that is not that's everything that we spent so whatever we're getting in push point we're paying with that as well so it's not what the absolutely okay so it's also I'm sorry it's just a question it's also uh we then have to pay for anyone who is free or reduced and then get reimburse from the state right right was just if that was just how does that work when they go get their watch they get their bad scan I can't say it's easy to put money into the account and uh it's not easy it is oh
029it isy and every time your child takes a lunch you get an email stating it and you're running balance so uh it's working well yeah we're very excited about that we are hoping that we can extend into another year CU currently right now we're in an emergency contract to the end of this year and not have to go through a formal bit process um so we're stay tuned what other schools locally use it it currently right now we are on a contract with Union Ridge with pooer and with Rose M uh Bridgewood High School also uses it but they're not Contra okay they're a company that didn't they never used to come this far north they were definitely much more south house but now they're reaching out to newer area so that's why we have
030probably works well for them I have I have few schools in the same area it's probably good business model PR answer be pretty you know the first year having good results and L people be nice to see if they're like to offer you know if you sell x amount of meals you know just volume based and they people commit for the month and so they know what they they're buying maybe a discount if people like it you know they yes it just doesn't the the Board of Education in Illinois runs how much money we can charge for L that so when we have a contract they have to approve that contract they set how cheaper they would go against they we just have no control over that whatsoever this is a heavy monitored through the
031Illinois thank you I think because of where um the national school lunch program if we weren't part of the national school lunch program you know I think we would have a little more um flexibility with it but we are part of the national school lunch program we have gosh I'm going to say 350 to 400 kids of qualifi for PR yeah make it cheaper actually I think that's like25 comments anything else no I need a motion to adour session to discuss the appointment deployment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or the representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more of the classes of employees to purchase or lease of real property for the use of public body including meetings held for
032the purpose of discussing whether a particular partial should be fired and review of Clos session minutes can I have a motion motion laen second roll call please this vbot Garfield yes Mrs Theodore yes Mrs MC Phillips yes Mrs deck yes Mrs laa yes Mr barardi yes Mr trabuio yes the motion pass pass we will meet for close session at 7:45 okay we are now back in Open session at 9:29 moving on to Personnel action Islands 17A through 17d can I have a motion motion second and roll call please Mrs MC Phillips yes Mrs Theodore yes Mrs OV Barnfield yes Mrs deck yes Mrs La yes Mr barardi yes Mr Trabia yes motion passes Bo meeting reflection all um I need a motion to adour this meeting at 9:30 all in favor say I post say
033n the meeting is now adjourned