D214 04/24/2025 Board of Education Meeting

001Test test test one two test test one [Music] We are a destination cafe and we offer craft food and beverages, meaning we make everything fresh on site when you order. And all of our food and our beverages are prepared and served by adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. And then lastly, just say the name. Tom. Here you go. Enjoy. My favorite part of working at Jerry's Cafe is definitely interacting with friends I've met throughout the years and the expressing machine. My co-founder Amy Philpot and I opened Jerry's Cafe for job opportunities and a staggering statistic tells us that 80% of adults with disabilities are unemployed. I believe differently and this is the place where our employees can work and feel proud and contribute and can see that they have value and purpose and they are

002given the responsibility that anyone would be given in a job and we expect nothing less than them to perform at their highest level. So we see great success in every single employee and their independence and their offerings and activities here at Jerry's Cafe. the large hot white chocolate pumpkin pie with whipped cream. It is to die for. It is delicious. It's amazing. Well, the uh favorite part of uh working here is that I I get to serve customers. I am a cashier. They understand to include people with us with exceptionalities. I wanted to tell you, I've been watching you today. You're really good at your job. You've been doing I always I always like to serve customers. Customers go first. We are super proud of our partnership with District 214. District 214 has been a

003supporter from the very beginning of our foundation and several of the schools have done fundraising and helped us get our doors open to Jerry's Cafe. Proudly, we have 12 or 13 graduates from the district 214 schools who will work at Jerry's Cafe as our active employees. This is where we do our salad prep. This is where we make all the salads. And then over here is the sandwich line. This is where we make all of our sandwiches. I have worked here since day one. I love it here. I love my supportive team members and I like serving customers. Here is one chicken Mediterranean trip salad. We know that our community members have lots of choices, but we're hoping that you will come and choose Jerry's Cafe. Thank you. When you come inside and engage with

004our employees, you feel a sense of joy and you will start your day feeling the best way that you can with a joyful heart and knowing that Jerry's Cafe has provided you with delicious coffee, breakfast, or lunch. [Music] Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. All right, welcome to our 55th year of putting together an incredible community service project through our SOS class here at John Hershey High School. As you can see around me, it is organized chaos, but it is an incredible day for our students to serve our community by packaging and collecting food that's going to be going to local food pantries in our area to support those in need. We're really happy to be able to do the food drive here at Hershey because it really just brings the whole

005school together and we are able to help our community and bring the energy with everyone here. All right, take it out. For the past, I would say about two months, we've been kind of working together with SOS, Junior Leaders, baseball, and we've all gathered together. We've done bag and tag with 12 different communities, and we've all come together, and it's really amazing to see the turnout. And then later on, we're going to be visiting eight local food pantries, and it's really exciting. We're just thankful for everyone who's helped each other along the way. It's been really fun. It's a team effort, but it's been so fun. Prospect Marching Knights are heading to DC. [Music] We're in Washington DC. [Music] Prospect Marching Knights were invited to travel to Washington DC this year for Veterans Day. So,

006we're taking the band out um to our nation's capital. We're going to do some great tours of some of the monuments and the museums and a lot of the sites of DC. Um, but it all culminates with performances on Veterans Day. Um, so we've been working really hard to prepare and we're so excited for our students to have this opportunity. Throughout the trip, we had a few opportunities uh where veterans would actually see our group of students out out and about and spoke to our students. Um, so in addition to uh touring these places, our students were able to actually interact with a number of veterans over the course of the trip, which kind of made everything a little more real and genuine and authentic. So, our first day in DC was really impactful and

007gave our students sort of a big picture overview of the city and some of the history and really set the stage for our performance day coming up. So on Veterans Day, our morning started off with a performance at the Lincoln Memorial. There we were right on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial facing the Washington Monument. Just a really special opportunity for our students to have a a really great place to perform. It was an honor to perform on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the PMK where so much of America's history has taken place. The experience was very impactful for me. It was a unique opportunity that I have never had before and it was something that I will cherish for the rest of my life. One of our students, Emily Pollock, was also

008asked to deliver a speech at the Lincoln Memorial. I've always wanted to help people, so I'm going to serve my country. More specifically, I want to become an officer in the military. Her speech was really wonderful and got a really great reception at the event. In fact, after the event was over, I had a number of veterans come track me down to tell me how great her speech was. And actually, they wanted to meet her and take pictures with her because they were so moved by what she had to say. My father served in the Navy and so he instilled in me like the value of um serving and like caring for our veterans and those who serve us. And so being able to thank them today and um place medals around their and welcome

009them home was really impactful for me as well. United States for it was an honor to play at the World War II Memorial today. It was such an honor because music is a way to share emotions without using words. Our performances in DC got a lot of really good responses. Um, one of them, a story was told to me by one of our chaperones that there was literally um, a Marine veteran who was at a performance at the Ewima Memorial who was literally in tears watching the performance and just expressed to our chaperone how much it meant to him that this group of teenagers from from the Chicago area had come out there and was was performing. Um, and he was just really moved by it and uh, I thought that was just a really

010neat neat story to hear coming out of the the performance. So any trip like this uh takes a lot of time and energy to put together. I feel really fortunate that our school was very supportive of this endeavor. We had a bunch of parents who traveled with us and did anything they could to make this a great experience for our students. Um I'm so glad we were able to bring our students to DC. Uh Veterans Day seemed like a perfect time to bring them and uh it really just in the end I think the whole trip turned out really really great and I'm so happy we were able to make it happen. [Music] We're super excited to have the 911 never forget mobile exhibit here at Hershey High School. As the truck arrived, we had

011Hershey parents out front with some patriotic balloons. We had Hershey students lining the the sidewalks. We had some, you know, many American flags like they would show on the honor flights. The spirit was high. Good morning. And I'd like to welcome you to the Stevens Silla Tunnel Towers mobile exhibit. We have a 50 50ft trailer approximately 1100 square ft exhibit. We travel our nation to commemorate the brave sacrifice of the firefighters, police officers that gave their life that day in the greatest rescue and recovery effort in our nation's history. The reason we're here is at Hershey High School to come educate our youth uh on the happenings of that day, but also the the happenings of the days after and to let them know that it was a huge tragedy. It was the single largest

012loss of life day we've ever had. It was also the large largest rescue we've ever had as well. but just all the good that has come from that tragic day. And they're they're going to learn things that they they can't read about. Uh they're going to hear stories that some have never been told, some have been told many times. Steven Silla was uh one of the 343 firefighters that died that morning. He was getting off duty that morning. He was going to play golf with his older brothers. Heard the plane strike. heard on the news that the plane struck the building, turned around, drove back to his firehouse, squad 1, located in downtown Brooklyn. They had already been dispatched to the disaster. He got his gear, drove his own truck to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel

013where he dawned 60 lbs of gear, ran 2 and 1/2 miles through the tunnel, mustered up with the rest of the firefighters, and gave his life that day, honoring his oath that he took to protect life and property. So, this is about remembering. So we want people to remember obviously for adults to remember and for the kids to learn. So we don't want this forgotten. It's not taught in most schools in in America and they have the privilege of talking to people who are there. You know we can't talk to people who were in the Civil War or these other moments in American history. But they can I think that's pretty special. Thanks for having us. And this means more to us than you. This means a lot to these kids. And these kids have

014been great. They're very respectful. They listen. It's uh it's nice to it's nice to see a special thanks especially the FDNY crew to the silver foundation to solders journey home to district 214 to all of her I I'm grateful for everybody. A special shout out to Bill Dustin for the for the magic spirit. Special shout out to Chief Harris Arlington Heights Police. The coolest part about this project was there's like a whole bunch of people that were on it and did it. It wouldn't have happened without a whole bunch of people. The list is just too long. And to me that's that's actually a good thing to celebrate. [Music] This is the uh Rolling Meadows band alumni event. So, we decided to uh get the band back together. This year being the 40th anniversary of

015the Jazz Meadows Festival. So, it was kind of an opportunity to, hey, can we bring people back at homecoming? I had talked to some of the previous band directors. That's Len King in the 70s, 80s, early 90s. We have Bill Jastro and David Bogs from the 90s. Then of course Chris Booty who retired several years ago. Those people set the foundation for everything that we have here. I'm giving you my I'd have paid money to be here today. I really would have is one of those things that I I paid money to be. This is the banner where your closest friends were really at in high school. So, you're with your closest friends and regrouping after 40ome years and going, "Holy cow." Mr. King is the reason why I'm here today. Not just at the

016school, but what I do in in life. I owe everything to Mr. King. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have gone to college. And if I hadn't gone to college, who knows what I would be doing. You know, some of the stuff that we we're doing right now is like we never stopped doing it, you know. You know, just to be around these guys again and just hanging out. 40 years seems like a long time, but it seems like it's kind of a short time, too. You know, this is fantastic. I mean, I I knew it was going to be good, but not this good. 52 of my actual students are in this group. I get a lot of feedback from them telling me how much they they enjoyed the music program with me

017and how they appreciate music and for for their life. That's really special because to know that they are still thinking about me and what what we did here. It's it's just very satisfying. Well, I flew back and I'm glad I did, you know, especially to see Mr. King. He meant a lot to us. He just brought in the jazz and I mean, we had world class, you know, experience that kids never would have had, you know, a real depth of of exposure to great music because of Mr. King. I'm glad I got to see her. It's so fun to be back, though. I love it. My family's here. They're so excited. So is my family. Yeah. My son's here, my husband's here. So, it's really great. If you are on the fence of coming, whether

018it's debating about whether to come or not, you should definitely come next time. It feels like a long time ago, but in some ways, like you never left. Like, I'm like, "Okay, we're going to go march over to the stadium and we're going to play for the football team." So, yeah. Okay. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey, Da. [Music] Thank you to all the alumni who are coming here today. I mean, some people are traveling across the country. I know one of the directors came from Arizona. Um, and that's a testament to really what this event is about. And it's bringing people together through our shared love of music and how music has changed our lives and shaped who we are as humans. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] Good evening. Fioro, Heinman, Palmer,

019Ralph, Walker, and Croitzer. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you for the pledge of allegiance. I'd like to call up Superintendent Dr. Scott Ro. All right. Th Thank you and good evening everyone. Uh I'm excited to welcome uh this group of students up uh to join me to lead us in the pledge this evening. This group of students represents u all seven of our high schools and they are members of the uh the superintendent and president's uh student advisory group. So student voice and developing student leadership is is vital in a high school district like ours. And they have represented their schools exceptionally well this year. We have a mixture of juniors and seniors uh from each of our high schools that I'll invite to come over and introduce themselves and then we'll start the

020pledge. So Paul, you want to come kick us off? Hi, my name is Po Sarvski. I'm from Wheeling High School and I'm a senior. Hi, my name is F Oall. I'm a senior at Prospect High School. Hi, my name is Osar Alva. I'm a junior at Wheeling High School. Hi, I'm Jack. Uh, I'm from Buffalo Grove High School and I'm a junior. Hi, I'm Sai Dala and I'm from Vanguard School and I'm a senior. Hello, I'm Ramis and I'm from Elkrove. I'm a junior. Hello, I'm William Corley and I'm a junior at Hershey High School. Hi, my name is Colin Wadinuki and I'm a senior at Hershey High School. Can you please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands

021one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [Applause] Thank you students. Next is the approval of the agenda. Does any board member wish to con remove anything from the consent agenda? Hearing none. Can I have a first and a second to approve the agenda? There's been a motion and a second. Please call the role. Palmer, Heinaman, Dustling, Furo, Ral, Walker, and Croitzer. I. Motion carries. 70. Thank you. Can I have a motion and a second to approve the open and closed meeting minutes from April 10th, 2025? There's been a motion in a second. Any discussion? Call the role. Furo Ral Dustling Hinaman Palmer Walker and Croer I. Motion carries 601. Thank you. Next on the agenda is uh board recognition. I'll call up Mr. Mgi, please. Thank you. Uh good evening. Uh

022Vice President Walker, would you please join us up on stage? Uh while we celebrate the accomplishments of our outstanding students this evening, it's important to recognize that many of our students and staff are deeply committed to multiple activities and sports and some may not be present tonight due to unavoidable scheduling conflicts that arise from their dedication to these pursuits. Uh we'd ask that you please hold your applause until all the recipients of each award have been presented. Uh first up, uh will prospects Veronica Zenida please come up. Veronica was named to the Illinois High School Association Allstate AC academic team, an honor given to the top 13 male and 13 female student athletes in the state. She excels in the classroom with a 4.54 GPA. On the track and in cross country, Veronica has led

023her teams to five IH IHSA state trophies, including a cross country team state championship in 2022 and a track and field team state championship in 2024. Individually, she has earned six all-state medals, including twotime all-state in cross country and fourtime all-state in track and field, as well as being part of the 4x 800 meter relay state championship team state championship team three times. Congratulations, Veronica and coach Pete Wtermouth. [Applause] Will Diananna Vergen from Hersy please join us on stage? Hersy High School senior Danna Vergen received all state recognition for the second year in a row during the Illinois Congressional Debate Association state finals. Diana is a four-year veteran and co- captain of the Hersy debate team. The all-state team is composed of the top 10 students in Illinois as determined by the number of best

024speaker nominations received over the course of five months. There are over 600 students who compete for this prestigious honor and Diana is only one of 10 to be named to the all state team. Congratulations Diana and coach Tom Smith. [Applause] Uh, will prospect student John Bazula please come up. Unable to attend, our prospect students Max Harganan and Brendan Ziggenhorn. With over a million students taking the ACT each year, earning a perfect composite score of 36 places these students among the top academic performers in the nation. Achieved by less than 1% of test takers annually, this rare accomplishment is a testament to their exceptional academic ability, dedication, and perseverance. This accomplishment marks the beginning of what we are confident will be a future filled with continued success and remarkable achievements. Congratulations to John, Max, and Brendan.

025[Applause] Alex. Okay, perfect. Perfect. Uh, will the Illinois High School Dance Festival students please line up? On March 5th, dancers from across the state auditioned for this prestigious Illinois State Dance Festival. 40 true performers performances auditioned and 15 were selected to compete at the state level. Of these 15, we are proud to announce that several our schools had dances chosen to compete in the state showcase at Riverside Brookfield High School on April 5th. The student choreography state showcase features the strongest student choreography in the state of Illinois. From Buffalo Grove High School for Trill choreographed by seniors Kyla Carrison and Don Park, Alex Anagasakos close. Isabella Kafaro, Emily Dulaney, Lacy Gourd, Sammy Cosna, Katie Mason, Uh, Don Park. Unable to attend this evening are Kyla Carrison, Molly Fitzimmons, Lydia Gun, Victoria Ruez, and Danny Zenini.

026Congratulations to the Buffer Grove dance team and their sponsors, Michelle Carrison, and Hannah Baselini. [Applause] from Hersy for Never Break the Chain choreographed by senior Brooke Andre. First up, Brooke Andre. Hannah Stophus, Annabelle Thompson, uh, Lynette Vez. Unable to attend this evening are Sophia Hammer, McKenzie Podman, Isabelle Hinman, Julian Jacob, Zoe Colada, Maya McCall, Satie Nelson, Taylor Pierce, Jordan Rudabush, Satie Talbot, Isabella Variano, and Michaela Winrob. Congratulations to the Hershey dance team and their sponsor Christine Wedell. [Applause] from prospect for smooth criminal choreograph. by junior Sophie Nunees, senior Mia Spott, and junior Zara Tanay Teneva. Apologies. Uh, first up, Emily Lemana, Lucy Newman, Kelly Nennis, Sophie Nunes, Lindsay Riser, Natalie Schneider, Mia Spotc, Zara Teneva, and unable to join us this evening are Emma Zagarov, Sloan Figuro, and Eva Lapis. Congratulations to the Prospect Dance

027team and the directors Melanie Monik and Nicole Stoultz. [Applause] medals uh from Roy Meadows for Incipid choreographed by senior Haley Kurrick and junior Mia Marcetti. Uh Brianna Perez, are you here this evening? Okay. Uh unable to attend uh from Roaring Meadows, uh Tessa Boruta, Avery Gapsis, Mario Jackman, Haley Kurrick, Lexi Lang, Mir Marchetti, Vanessa Noak, and Bella Pedman. Congratulations to Roying Meadows Dance Team and their sponsor Christina Vari from Willing High School for Illuminate choreographed by sophomore Jenna Key. Ayia Batco, Jenni, Sophia Lucas, Viancea Pina, Paulie Sherefki, and unable to attend this evening are Arian Emma Marazaro, Roshelle Baluma, Elena Castello, and Emma Shinbuk. Congratulations to the William Dance Team and their sponsor Samantha Zavan. [Applause] Will the DECA students please line up? In Illinois, there are 55 DECA Association of Marketing Student Chapters with

028over 3,000 members. The Illinois State DECA competition was held from March 2nd to March 4th this year. The following students were named state champions from John Hersy High School. Tia Shaw and Sydney Vo for entrepreneurship team event. Cullen Wanutki and Faith Wright uh who is unable to be here tonight for travel and tourism team event from Prospect High School. Bodie Anderson for entrepreneurship individual series. Matthew Faul and Sebastian Parks for hospitality services team decisionmaking. Alex Stika for quick service restaurant management series and hospitality and tourism professional selling from Rolling Meadows High School. Yashwant Cherakuri for business services marketing. Congratulations DECA students and sponsors Dan Vesper, Andrea Ishtark, Chad Freshley, and Joe Nent. Congratulations. [Applause] Art and Writing Award winners. Please line up. The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards are the nation's longest running and most

029prestigious recognition program for creative teens for drawing, painting, photography, and mixed media. Each March, regional awards are determined by a panel of jurors who look for work that exemplifies the program's core values: originality, technical skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision. Entries are judged blindly without information about the students age, gender, ethnicity, or hometown by some of the foremost figures in the visual and literary arts. Tonight, we are proud to recognize the following students for receiving Illinois regional awards. Silver Key award winners Bianca Lang, Amelia Lukanuk, Jude Ayala and Tiffany Su were not able to join us this evening. Gold Key award winners Victoria Jervasi unable to attend. Charlotte Wind Key, Silver Key, and Visionary Award winner, Madison Osland. In addition to her gold and silver key awards, Madison was honored with

030the visionary award at the SS show on April 13th. This is the top recognition at the state level awarded to young artists whose work demonstrates exceptional conceptual depth and innovation. The visionary award celebrates those who push the boundaries of artistic expression, conveying unique and inspiring ideas through their chosen medium, process or narrative. Congratulations, Prospect students and teachers and teacher Lee Kristofferson. [Applause] The 2025 Illinois State Bar Association High School State Mock Trial Invitation was held on March 15th and 16th at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois. 51 teams with over 500 students participated in the ISBA State Championship. We are proud to recognize the following students for the outstanding performances. From John Hersy High School, Charlie Balachandron, outstanding presentation as a mock trial witness. Heidi Fritz, outstanding presentation as a mock trial witness. Turac

031Shaw, outstanding presentation as a mock trial attorney from Rolling Meadows High School. Stella Butler, outstanding presentation as a mock trial witness. Matthew Pachchunka, outstanding presentation as a mock trial attorney. Harrison Swain, outstanding presentation as a mock trial attorney. Congratulations, Hershey and Rolling Medal students and sponsors, Jodie Blazic and Shawn Radcliffe. [Applause] The Rolling Meadows High School Winter Color Guard had a standout season in the Midwest Color Guard Circuit. They delivered their best performance at the state championship, capturing the SRA Chaponsky Division title by just 0.06 points. their second consecutive championship win. As a result, they've been promoted to the SAA division for the 2026 season. Amelia Agari, Heidi Barrera Garcia, Alexis Boch, Just sage bogan. Genevieve Bourne, Matt Brejo, Corey Cintron, Emily Cully, Leah Jinus, Kani Flores, Maria Graia Tan Regalado Jasmine Taylor, Oie Zabriski,

032Fabian Perez. Unable to attend this evening are Grace Manola, Emily Pollock, Jasmine Cortez, Vallejo, and Ryan Viliger. Congratulations Rolling Men's students and coach Tiffany Ferguson. [Applause] Will our College Board National Recognition Program scholars please line up to be recognized? The College Board National Recognition Program recognizes outstanding students in five national recognition programs which include the National African-American Recognition Program, National First Generation Recognition Program, National Hispanic Recognition Program, National Indigenous Recognition Program, and National Rural and Smalltown Recognition Program. Students are considered for this recognition if their GPA is 3.5 or higher and they score in the top 10% in their state on the PAT or earn a score of three or higher on two or more AP exams by their junior year. We are recognizing four schools this evening and the remaining two schools will be

033recognized at a later board meeting. From Elkrove High School, Amber Damian Zariela Miles, Jack Para, Orion Patel, Diego Ramos, Omar Solomon, Kira Vasquez, Max Washek unable to attend this evening. Kala O'Brien, Iva Rristac, Maria Smith, Spencer Tuana, Amy Patel, Mitri Patel, Arur Pilnney, and Stella and Waters. I'll go take a photo. Uh, next up will be Hershey High School. from Hersy. Evan Gross, Elizabeth Hydrickch, Liv Pelig, Tiana Vergen, Olivia Wowski, Maya Whitner, Jacquellyn Watalik, and unable to attend this evening, Natalie Zuber, Marina Tablova, Gabrielle Dudis, Sophia Johnson, Olivia Mola, Savvatorei Marabati, Maxim Mariv, Dominic Po, Eva Shikkick, and Gabriella Gabrielle Benas. Pause for the [Applause] photo. Hold on. Next up is Prospect High School. First up is Noah Alanis, Julian Dugan, Alexis Gotanis. Nardi Jimenez. Alexandra Kusek, Amelia Mazowski, Turth Patel, George Petrov, Megan Tleo,

034Olivar Vega. Unable to attend this evening are Daniel Vaky, Victoria Yachenev, Caitlyn Bay, Bartos, Chervich, Sha Duga, Boris Deitrov, Amelia Krojovka, Victoria Kirki, Octus Lapis, Augustus Lapis, Adam Lakowski, Alexander Martinez, Alexis Mutier, Hapa, Ria Patel, Mia Railon, Jonathan Seraniano, and Oliver Whitak. [Applause] from Wheeling High School. We have Adrien Alvarez, Roelio Cisneros, Ariana Ellis, Damen Ferraru, Ariel Losner, Scarlett Patricio unable to attend this evening are Jennifer Dawson, Sarah Deusc, Gabrielle Griffin, Emma Lawren, where are you? Oh my I'm so sorry, Paulie. Polly Sheski, give it up. Student advisory. I was in a meeting with her before the meeting, so I apologize. Polly, sorry. Uh Gabrielle Griffin, Emma Lawren, Dana Patino Farooki, Kaylee Rivas, Ariana Salaska, Andy Zumba, Marian Abbas, Hunter Adams, Alan Aguilar, Yahir Aguilar, Emanuel Dona, Miguel Gonzalez, Janette Graves, Alexander Herrera, Eduardo Lagunes,

035Erdie, Gabrielle La, Sansa Popa, Jacob Rapala, Omar Raji, as Katrina Ubiat and Kathleen Vin were not able to be here this evening. Wheeling High School [Applause] We will now be recognizing our national merit program uh winners. The National Merit Scholarship Program is an annual nationwide academic competition for recognition and scholarship. About one six 1.6 6 million juniors from approximately 22,000 high schools annually enter the national merit scholarship competition through the preliminary SAT national merit scholarship qualifying test. The highscoring students in each state, less than 1% of US high school seniors are designated as national merit finalist. The Steven D. Barry Award of Excellence is named in honor of a former District 214 superintendent. Dr. Bry impacted the lives of thousands of students through his nearly 40 years in education. The medallion given to our national

036merit finalists measures lifetime learning, recognizes dedication to study and sacrifice of free time, recognizes parental support and encouragement, acknowledges their future academic and leadership potential. Will the following National Merit finalists please come up when I call your name? unable to attend. From Buffalo Grove, Ethan Chow, Arur Belgalv, and Anthony Safna from Elkrove, Olivia Britto unable to attend. Kenneth Anne and Jacob Pedornney from Hersy. Nicholas Georgopoulos, Danna Vergen, Owen Wade from Prospect, Anna Lzama, Liam McKenna, James Mor Olaner Rosanne Landon Wenbo Elliot Dunn and Victoria Kirky was unable to attend this evening. From Roaring Meadows High School, Te Pratapati Tahazi Pratipati. Congratulations to our National Merit Scholarship finalists. Grove's cheer team. Uh, please line up. Joining us from Buffalo Grove's cheer team this evening is Angelina Bachu, Maya Codell, Sophia Gaglaniano, Juliana Magleaniano, McKenzie Matsuda, Kai

037Ma, Sienna Mcome, Elias Mendoza, Belle, Negi, Carly, Normaly, Melissa, Rios, Caitlyn Saddowski, Benjamin Chaps, Maddie Wong, If Zedi. Due to tryyouts and other activities this evening, several coaches and the following students uh were not able to be here tonight, including David Cardardoso Bodi Wald, Michael Blanca, Emily Kuransza, Jaro Graciano, Ethan Lebron, Pamela Pomeulu, and Connor Schlacter. Uh tonight we are honoring our competitive cheerleading team from Buffalo Grove High School's school for their efforts at the IHSA state championship in Bloomington. For perspective, this is a cheer program that has accomplished the following over the past 14 years. 14 top 10 finishes, 13 top five finishes, eight state trophies, and four state championships. This year they won their eighth state trophy with their second place finish at the IHSA state meet. Additionally, Angelina Bachu and Carly Normaly

038were also named to the allstate cheer team. Congratulations Buffalo cheerleading team and coaches Carson Mcuan, Matthew Mayor, Jeffrey Seagull, and Jacquellyn's Zerbal Zerbble. Congratulations. [Applause] Um, I'm going to introduce uh Millie Palmer. She'll have some closing thoughts. Wow. It's a full auditorium and you know the kids that were honored here tonight will be doing this for a a few board meetings. It's always so incredible to hear the achievements of our students from academics that you think that can't possibly that kid couldn't possibly have gotten all of those things through to the athletics to the fine arts. Our student athletes and performers and dedicated professionals go above and beyond the effort level of so many of us. These are our future leaders. These are our community leaders. These are the people that'll run our businesses, the

039people that'll run our country. They spend countless hours devoting their efforts, their time, their dedication. They listen to their their coaches, and they work so hard for what they have achieved. I'd like to have us all give them one last round of applause. [Applause] I'm just blown away by what we saw here and heard here tonight. But you know that time and effort takes more than the effort of the student. It takes the effort of the parents, the friends, the family, the guardians, the grandparents. It's a support network. So, if you are here tonight to watch one of your students, I'd like you to stand up as well. I know for a fact that there's a lot of snacks, a lot of laundry, a lot of driving around, a lot of cheering on the sideline

040at home, a lot of pep talks, a lot of extra effort that come out of you to help them achieve what they have achieved. So, if you could please rise to be recognized. [Applause] Thank you for all your time and effort and support of these amazing students. I really appreciate it. And on behalf of the board of education, we know that they couldn't have done it without [Applause] you. So, this concludes the uh student recognition portion of the meeting and we are going to take a little recess here and continue our meeting. And later on in our meeting, we're going to recognize three retiring board members. But I thought you should know that uh we're losing three great people, but I want to recognize them right here. So, Miss Palmer, Miss Rock, and Mr. Walker,

041could you please [Applause] stand? Thank you for your dedication and commitment to public education. Thank you. We are in recess. Thank you. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, heat, [Music] heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, we have reconvened from the theater with uh student recognition. Uh, next on the agenda is public comments and no one has signed up. So then we will move to the superintendent report. Dr. Ro. All right. Thank you. Um, you know, a little bit

042of a different twist this evening for, uh, superintendent report. I actually want to highlight some work that's that's, uh, that's ongoing in the district that is very exciting. So, uh, ceue up the presentation. Uh, we have been working on, um, you know, generative generative AI is is almost two years old, about two years old. um and it has really taken the taken the world by storm and is only going faster and faster as the days go on. Um I want to share with you a little bit about um what we've been doing, what you know some of our our great teacher leaders have been doing um to prepare our system, our schools, uh our staff, and and ultimately our students uh for a world that will most definitely be impacted if not defined by uh

043generative AI. And I'll take you back to something I've shown a number of times. We saw this on opening day when Dr. Daget was here. This concept of today's rate of change is the slowest that we will experience for the rest of our lives. Um, and that rate of change and how quickly generative AI has taken hold in society. The chart on on in front of you is the length of time that it took each of these very very famous, very popular platforms to reach a 100 million users. You know, Netflix, it's a part of our daily daily lives at this point, took 10 years to have 100 million users. Uh Instagram, two and a half years. Chat GPT, it took two months. Uh just to just to put into perspective the rate of change

044and how quickly people are jumping on. Um and then obviously you approved our strategic plan the last time we were here. So, I think it's only appropriate not only to notice that in your agenda this evening, our strategic planning goals are tagged um in with each of the the agenda items. Thanks to Mrs. Keys for figuring out how to uh to do that, but also our aspirational beliefs and you know, I've targeted agility is non-negotiable and this is the primary place we're going to have to be agile and change with the demands that uh that face us in society. So, with that, I'm going to turn it over to Katie Page and Tim Kiaak and then ultimately Dr. Bazinski for what's going on uh in the world of AI in district 214. Artificial intelligence is

045already changing the way teachers teach and students learn. One school in the northwest suburbs is really embracing AI in its curriculum. CBS 2's null Brennan shows us what students are learning in Buffalo Grove. Hello. The best teachers connect. I love it. With students. Last block. Oh my. I know. I know. Hi co. Hello. At Buffalo Grove High School. Hello Tim. How are you? Tim Kak connects from the first day to the last. Literally last class of their senior year. So it's bittersweet. A lot of emotions for many of them as they're wrapping up all four years. And they get to do it here in our education academy class. Grab a screwdriver, please. The seniors in Mr. Kiaak's class hope to be teachers themselves someday. Are you ready? This past semester, ready, set, go. They've been

046learning to handle a new tool. This exercise, come on, is just a metaphor for artificial intelligence. It took six of you to get how many in? Three. Three. And I got an 11. It's a tool, but you need to learn how to use that tool. Has anybody here heard of chat? GPT40. The teachers of the future. I'll type in the full one for that. like Andy Goons experiment with an AI chatbot that can help them teach. I am using Chat GPT to create a 45minute lesson plan. Spits out a whole lesson plan with the different parts of a lesson. Lesson plans are just the start. Yeah, I think it can be really useful when it comes to things cuz it allows you to just quickly generate ideas. It's going to change everything. But even if

047AI can teach, there's something about a teacher you just can't replace. AI can't replace a relationship. And like just being a teacher is creating relationships with the students. And you have made me a better teacher. I'm about to get emotional. If a teacher can't find the words AI can can you give me some parting words to inspire them as they're going to be future teachers. As you stand on the brink of a new chapter, remember that you began your high school journey in a unique way, remotely, adapting to challenges that no other generation of students has faced before you. This resilience and adaptability are the very qualities that will make you exceptional teachers. The world awaits your contributions and I believe in your ability to make a difference. I hope this helps inspire them. A

048little AI assist to make one last connection. Take the next few minutes again. Stand up, relax, and enjoy your time here as we wrap up. N Brennan, CBS 2 News. It was sweet to see the emotion in their faces there at the end. Thank you, N. I'm loud. I just sounded like I was on there. Now I'm on. Uh, so I'm Katie Paige. Thank you for having me. Uh, let me get my notes here just so I've got them. So that was spring of 2023. So here we are sitting two full years later, spring of 2025 and Buffalo Grove set us on this path of AI. So at the beginning of this year um we had staff writing their very first prompts in chat GPT. Now at BG their staff was already very well verssed

049in this but across the rest of the district still very new even to today. Still very new. Um, we moved a little bit forward into the school year after lots and lots of professional development and organic uh change across PLC's and staff showing staff. Um, we landed on using Gemini for all of our staff. We have the free version. It integrates seamlessly across all of our Google workspace which is fantastic. Um, but staff were using it so much by about uh I want to say November. I'd have to ask Chris exactly when we did this, but um they were running out of tokens. So those of you that are new to Generative AI, as you start to use it, you only get a certain amount of asks per day. And then you're working on your

050lesson plan and you hit enter and you're waiting for it to tell you something wonderful and it says, um, sorry, come back tomorrow. And so staff were like, "We need the paid version of this. We're running out of tokens." Uh, so we have about 380 staff now on a pilot um using the premium version and once they started using it and all of their colleagues saw what that was doing, now we're getting more and more and more requests um for the paid version. Staff are still using chat GPT as well as the free version. So they're they're using both so that they've got kind of more tokens in a day. And then where we are now, um lots of staff, I would say most staff that I run into are using generative AI at least

051weekly and students. Um and we're looking forward to what this is going to look like in the next school year. We have an innovation and change committee that's going to be starting um with some of the board members here are going to be on uh which is great and we're going to build capacity in the buildings um for all of the teachers the cool things they're doing with Jenner AI they can share with each other and it will continue to grow in that way. So we're looking forward to that. Moving on. There we go. So, I'm a physics teacher by nature and I really love data. So, I'm new to this position, instructional technology. And as I started to meet with staff this year, I kept track. 30 people on this morning professional development virtual.

052I sat with three English teachers at El Grove, you know, and I just kept track on a spreadsheet. And as of this morning, I was at 1,032 staff contacts as of today. And that's just me. There's so much going on in the buildings that it doesn't represent really all of what's happening with professional development and and talk around uh AI and education. We do this through professional development sessions in the morning. I have open office hours um inbuilding PD strands and then also industry leaders uh like Apple of course because we're iPad and MacBook district but um even like class kick defit all these platforms are pushing in to give some PD to our staff as well. One of the first things I did this year was start a website for staff so they had

053a one-stop shop to come and find things that they might need. Um, so they can go there to get policies or AI tools. Um, any of the PD that's been offered, we make sure that it gets loaded there. Lots and lots of how-to videos for them to take a look at as well. And then another new thing is a newsletter where I can share out and highlight some of the staff in the district that are really using generative AI like we saw in Tim's class. And then other staff can read about it um and and reach out to see how they can use it as well. As far as parents in the community, I worked with district 25 and I was at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library providing some information to parents. Uh this was

054back in the fall. We had lots and lots of great questions from the parents that showed up there. And looking to the future, next year we're looking to implement some sort of like a parent academy for probably freshman or new students to the district to introduce them to our instructional technology, generative AI, excuse me, that sort of thing. So that's pending for the future. We are also then um seeing now students using generative AI in the classroom. I was actually in a classroom at Prospect today where students were using um chat GPT to generate images of a Rub Goldberg machine and then they were using Keynote to animate those images which is kind of fun. For staff that need extra support with this I have a graband-go content for them on the website as well.

055they can just take slide decks to use right in their classroom to discuss the ethics if that's what they want to tackle. Um we have a support an action and a resource for them. So here's an example in the middle. And then additionally with the help of um Paul Fees and some uh some other staff around the district, we have updated the digital literacy course for students um to include all of these things. And with that, Tim's going to talk about calculators. Um, imagine what it was like to be a math teacher back when they introduced calculators in the classroom. It's usually how I start out the PD sessions. Think of the tension that they felt that students aren't going to know how to do math, that students are going to cheat, that students are

056going to be distracted. And yet I'm currently a parent of two high school students and I've had to pay over $100 for each of them to have a graphing calculator because it's a requirement in their class because they can do exponentially more with that tool. That's why I'm passionate about AI. It's not because it's a cool tech tool. It's because it's changing our culture. It's changing the workforce and it's changing education. And as Katie has said, I am so enthusiastic and encouraged by our staff across the district. At Buffalo Grove High School, we've had two years of PD Strands in the morning, and it has been the most requested PD strand that we have run. And staff are leaning in. They are excited to learn about how to use it, the history of it, creating,

057sharing stories and experiences, uh figuring out best practices that they can use with students. And our students are doing awesome things. And as an education teacher, they're vulnerable. They're transparent. They tell me all about how they're using it. And and we have we have students that are are creating, designing, but even recently AP students are creating their own study guides and their own practice tests using their own notes from their classes so that they can study and prepare. For the ACT test, they were creating their own passages to read and questions for them to study from. We have EL students who are using it to translate passages. I had a young lady who's using it and as she puts her writing into AI, it cranks it back so she can learn better vocabulary as an

058EL student. We had entrepreneurial students who today they did presentations, but in Karen Roberts class, they were dreaming up a business and used to have to sketch it, but now they can put a prompt in AI and generate a visual of a storefront for the store that they want to design. I can go on and on and I know time is limited, but I want to highlight two two moments that have been very powerful. We know that our population is changing. We have more EL students in the district and that number is increasing. And good EL instruction involves two things. One, it's your content. And two, it is the acquisition of language skills. And those two need to be married together in an EL classroom. And one strategy for EL education is to incorporate images

059into your lessons so that non-native speakers can use vocabulary and images to bring those things together. Our EL coordinator, Ann Wyatt, came up to me and said, "I like to introduce this poem in my class and usually I'll take a list of vocabulary terms and then I'll go online, I'll find pictures and I'll create a whole presentation so that I can share those terms with my students." And in just moments, we put those vocab terms in a prompt and we created a collage that incorporated all those vocabulary terms for her students from Clorox bleach to clothes pins to an augur to beats to a forcyia uh bush on the left side so that her students can incorporate those vocab terms and those images. The way we can become efficient and leverage this tool to support

060our students is remarkable. And I'm even more excited about what's to come. As a teacher, I would love to be able to customize and personalize learning for every student. If I were a math teacher, as I was a physics teacher, if I can have a unique problem for every one of my students based on their interests, that would be amazing. But when you have 30 kids in a class and you have five classes, that's 150word problems to write to make it unique for each. And yet I created a spreadsheet of a group of students using best practice, giving each student a number, not their last name, not their personal information, but incorporating their hobbies, vacation ideas, foods that they like. And you could take it a step further, their reading ability, their math proficiencies and

061deficiencies, and collect a picture of that student. and I attached it and I asked it to create a word problem for each student. 12 equals 6x that incorporates that students likes and interests. And you only see a glimpse of two problems, but it generated 28 problems. Every one of them unique to each student. And that's where I get excited. And that is still on the horizon where we can personalize learning for our students. And so I'm excited and I'm thrilled to have an administration that supports us both at the building level and here today. So thank you. Yes. Seconds. A matter of seconds. It's it's fascinating. Good evening. Chris Bzinski, tech director. Um, I've been around school technology for a little over 20 years and I'm going to stand here tonight and say this is

062probably one of the most exciting things I've experienced. Um, maybe second to the concept of onetoone computing for students. Um, just because the transformational nature of what that did for learning. Um, this is so exciting for me as a professional because of the opportunities that this creates for students and for staff, my team included. Um, we will be taking advantage of artificial intelligence in our work as well. But beside that, I'm here to talk a little bit about the we got your back. We're here to support and that's what we do in technology. That's why we love our jobs. Um, a little bit about what we will what we'll continue to work with in terms of supporting students. Um, we've had a big focus this year on creating safe learning environments. We've made some modifications

063to some filtering, some things like that to help kind of keep those guard rails in place while students are really learning appropriate use of artificial intelligence in their learning. Um, making sure that all students have access to the the appropriate AI tools that they would need. Maybe keep some of those other tools out that maybe we don't want to have yet. Um, those sorts of things. One of the biggest ones for us is keeping an eye on data privacy practices. Um, a handful of years ago, the state of Illinois passed a law that we all thought was going to be incredibly annoying. SOAPA, all the data privacy stuff. It's still annoying, but it's monumentally impacting our work here because it it's forcing our edtech vendors to be open and honest about how they handle student

064data. And that's so important to what we do as edtech professionals. Um, so we're keeping a real close eye on that. Some of the ongoing work that's going to be big in our our notsodistant future is continuing the conversations about what does it mean to be a safe student online. What can we as a district do to help kind of overwatch what's happening on our devices just to ensure that students are in a safe place while they're while they're learning. So that's some of our focus in supporting students. In terms of supporting staff, these are the fun ones for me. Um we want to be a part of that fostering a mindset of failing forward. Try things. Try new things. Give it a shot. I hear so many staff members say, "Oh, I'm afraid I'm

065going to break it." Well, I'm here to say I don't think you can, and if you do, we're going to be right there with you to help support and figure out how to fix it, whatever it is. Um, so that being said, this technology has really only been available for a couple years. We're not the experts in it either. We're all learning this together and and myself and my team, we we're all committing to standing right along with our students and our staff to learn through this, right along with them to ensure that we're keeping up with their needs as those needs change. And then some of the ongoing work with that is encouraging and assisting with our staff developing their own AI tools. There's some really neat things that are available right now for

066our staff where they can take their an example would be their own documents about their own course notes for one of their courses. Put that into a chatbot of their own that only they can use, only they can see and start asking it questions. And to make something like that for a teacher could take about five minutes and it's their content, their questions, their chatbot and we want to help support that development too. So that's where we're seeing our role in in supporting all of the greatness that comes from artificial intelligence and we love the work that's happening already. Um and again the techn is here to support it. So we're we're loving it so far and we can't wait to see where this goes. So with that we take any questions you might have

067or comments. Board members questions question. We're waiting for the question. Go ahead. Go ahead. Of course. Go ahead. First of all, thank you very much for coming and presenting to us. I think it's great to see a cross team effort, everything from district to each building. Um, I think it's excellent that building resources because, you know, it's it's easy to advertise and say go do it, but unless you provide the tools, it it really doesn't go forward. I saw the um the video about a year ago. And when I saw it, I I'm in science and I part of my current role is actually involving AI and more on the machine learning. And I worry obviously bringing this to the classroom, right? I mean, we want to make sure that our students think critically and

068they can validate the information, but I truly think that, no pun intended here in the video, you hit the nail on the head there, that when you have what you can do with it, and as long as that we are educating our students, there's a time and a place for everything. Just like Andy said in the video, right? there's a time and a place to develop relationships and you can maximize that relationship building while you're using this AI tool to do other things. So, I I'm really excited. Um I I this is the generative large language model. That's great. Please keep in mind the machine learning. We want those engineers. We want those STEM students and and so I'd like to see that incorporated somewhere down the line and I challenge you to do that.

069But thank you so much. Really excited. Um I'm sorry I didn't necessarily have a question. I guess I could ask, do we have a plan for the machine learning yet? And I realize this is just early stages, right? And and we saw what it did in two months, but have we thought about incorporating, let's take physics for example. Yeah. No, we haven't gotten that far yet. Okay. But I'm glad that you brought it up for sure and I you know what I think one of the beauties of being in education and with technology evolving so quickly challenging the students to do it and bring it to the classroom. I mean they have the answers because they they have the time to go and search this information that's at their fingertips so much more than we

070do as we're doing some of the other things that we're you know we still do manually. So but I I would challenge Yeah. Thank you. Thanks Mr. Dustling. You know, one of the things I guess speaking of technology. Thanks. Um, you know, one of the things that is critical in my mind and Katie, you mentioned it. You went to Arlington Heights Library. You know, as you look back as a parent, what did your student come home with, particularly my age or most of us here, some books or uh a calculator or something like that? uh it was difficult to understand that now parents are hearing about AI and uh the things some some are negative some are positive but I don't think there's a real understanding and I think it's critical that we get the

071parents educated or at least put out the opportunity to educate the parents so they understand what their students are seeing because this is this is way over bringing the book home and and you know working with pencil and paper uh you know, so I I really I would really would appreciate getting uh uh involved with whatever you're doing to educate parents. That that would be uh that would be delightful. Thank you. For sure. There's a parent academy uh on deck, just not quite ready to go, but for sure it is uh at the at the front of our thinking. We have added some language to the registration materials for incoming freshmen um that that just states very generally that we have um that we're using generative AI along with other instructional technologies such as iPad

072and they're just acknowledging that they understand that they're it's it's a step one right and so it's a step exactly so yeah that's that's the plan is to to invite them in as learning partners. Thank you Miss Palmer Bill. Can I add to that just real quickly? Sure. As a parent of two high school students, even a step beyond just talking to parents about how students are using it. I've been using it to help tutor my own kids for content that I don't know. And how exciting would it be to teach our parents how to put a prompt in to help support their students at home? Because I have helped my daughter with stuff that I truly have no idea. and I was able to go on AI and simplify a concept that she wanted

073to learn about and then together we were able to learn it together using AI. It was really a cool experience. Thank you. Thank you. So at my firm we use AI daily. Everyone at the firm uses it. And some of it is just if there's a tricky piece of communication and you're trying to send a message using a particular tone, you can draft your prompt to say being friendly but firm. Convey this message and it'll give you samples of language. It helps us to draft and to get our thoughts together. It is not a replacement for the actual what do I want to say? How do I want to say it? And I think that's one of the problems. People think of AI as a replacement for for human competencies and it really isn't. It's

074a tool to look at where your what you want to do and how you want to do it and what your options are out there very quickly um and very easily. And sometimes we'll write prompts like four or five different ways to see what the differentiations are. Um so I really appreciate that you're using it in the um in the in with our students or teaching at least some of our students about it. I'd like to see it go further into every area of study because eventually the way we learn everything is through human language, right? Even our math problems, we have to understand concepts. They have to be described to us. And so, you know, not every kid's gonna understand the same way. And you could manipulate um the prompts to or it teach

075them how to put a prompt in to get an answer in language they understand. So, really love that it's happening in district. Thank you. Well, you gave a given a Oh, go ahead. I have two questions. Um Tim you kind of mentioned how it's kind of changing the way um teachers teach. So so my first question is um what about students and how they learn? Is there any thought process as to how we are going to uh transition kids to how they learn because it you know the dynamic seems to be changing just major major changes. So how do we get the kids to follow the same path that the teachers are? Well, in terms of learning, you know, I think I go back to the calculator concept. The tension is what are some foundational

076skills that we need to know before we launch into that calculator. And when we talk about writing skills and and understanding the tone, you can make the case that in English we still need to know some basics before we can actually see what's generated by AI to determine if this is correct. And our English teachers have been doing a tremendous job for for two years uh at BG wrestling with how do we navigate this? because just like the calculator disrupted math and physics, it has somewhat disrupted English and writing, but they're navigating it amazingly well and they're able to isolate certain skills, but then open it up to use the tool where students are writing, they're putting it in AI, and they're able to get the feedback and use it. I think students are seeing

077the efficiency um and the creativity, and dare I say, I think most students recognize when it's appropriate. my students have have given me the feedback that they really appreciate it when I say for this activity I encourage you to use AI and for this one I don't want you to and they said co I really like that because then I know when it's appropriate and when it's not and so we're all navigating figuring out those best practices um and I think the learning and the learning for teachers is figuring out what are those foundational skills but then once we unpack that we're able to do exponentially more just like we can with the graphing calculator okay and And then my second question is um the the middle schools and the elementary schools. I mean you

078have a situation where if the high schools are starting to use it now you got a whole subset of students coming into our buildings that probably are not familiar with AI and how do we get them up to speed? So, um, luckily in in my running around the area because I was new to the role, like collecting information from 211 and going all over the place, um, I've met some great people that are in similar roles uh to Chris and I'm now uh invited to the area tech meetings and they're tech directors, but really at the middle schools and elementary schools, they're they're kind of a me plus Chris plus Paul, you know, that they they do all of the things. So I go to those meetings and uh we share all of these things.

079Um so it's great. So now we have 214 and district 25 and district 21 and district 23 and so we're all sitting at the same table um discussing what's going on. So yeah, we're trying to make sure that that's uh they want to make sure their students are prepared. The problem um I that I will mention though is that chat GPT and also Google Gemini have a their terms of agreement is 13 and up. So really, kids shouldn't be using the generative AI platforms um in the middle school and elementary school. So they're just talking about like how they're getting their staff on board. And Mr. Kak kind of started to to dip into where I was going to go with the point following Miss Palmer. Um the initial concern of of plagiarism and and

080you know and policy and that conversation. I just wanted to share Mr. Mr. Kosk was able to set up an opportunity for me to go today actually to view how an English classroom at BG is using uh it's called lockdown browser and what it does basically is it it takes a student the teacher has the ability to control um a writing sample a writing assignment and through that browser they aren't able to leave that Google doc or whatever their their writing prompt is. So it it it it creates a really like um an a a a secure testing environment for them to create their thought and the positive outcomes of it really are there's no distraction. Cell phones are in the caddy on the on the wall already. Um and the student is is locked

081in instead of I have this homework assignment due next period or and they they don't have the ability to do anything else. So they're getting more accomplished with the help of the teacher in the room. the teacher was raving about the impact that she's seen. Um, but I use that example just to share that struggle that the rumble that they've been having of how do we use this and and not be afraid of it. There are some some protections that we have in place. And then from a policy standpoint, I believe we are well positioned uh with what's already in place in terms of plagiarism and how that's managed to to welcome this technology in uh and not be afraid of it. And the other point I wanted to make is, you know, we talk

082about this fail forward mentality and it's a luxury for us to be able to sit at this table and for me to sit in this seat. Um because this conversation came when you know Tim Kiac uh pulled me aside one day at at BG and says, "Hey, I've got an idea and I'm I've got this going. I want to build the staff PD session with uh with Jill and and and Jeff at BG and let's see where it goes. And it it went so well that our next conversation was okay, we've got Katie Paige joining the team in instructional tech who's doing a phenomenal job. Um but let's scale this across the district. And they've taken it and and with Chris's help with on the backend side, they've just run with it. Um, and this

083is the type of of innovation and driving forward that we need that's happening uh in great collaboration with um with teachers and administrators across buildings. And while I don't think anyone can say they're a leader in artificial intelligence, I think we're pretty close to the top of the wave in education, but we're never going to be a leader because it's going way faster than any of us can keep up with. And I'm not sure we want to be so far out in front. we want to kind of be able to watch it happen and figure out what works for us. So, kudos to you. I I appreciate you all coming and sharing your work with us tonight. Uh, and I'm really grateful for your leadership and what you're bringing to the district. So, thank you.

084Mr. Heman, could you just give me a surface view of privacy and security from the student user or from a backend side? Yes. So, as I me as I mentioned, one of the one of the neat things that we're required to do um with any sort of system where we would share any sort of private data is actually have agreements in place with those organizations and those agreements control how they store data, use data or frankly don't use data is actually what the law says. um and what happens to the data when we say they should no longer have it. And so all of that's documented in those agreements from kind of a district um kind of legal perspective. Now, one of the really nice things about our work with Google, Google Gemini, and because

085we are so heavily involved with um call it the Google sphere, if you will, all things Google that our students use, um the entirety of our district's work in Gemini is contained within a bubble of just district 214 stuff. That's what I was hoping to hear. So at no point in time is anything that we put into Gemini used by it's never reviewed by a human being. Um it's never used to expand Gemini's large language model. It stays entirely within our bubble and that's not something that we can even change. That's not an option for us. Now once you step outside of kind of those four walls of Google and use Chad GPT and OpenAI as the example, we don't have licenses for for that platform. They're available but at an additional cost. Okay. But

086even with the free versions of Chad GPT, there's settings that we've encouraged all of our staff to set so that their information that they put into the model is not used to expand the model to help with that privacy. So, we're really taking those steps to to really keep a close eye on what's the data that's being used, how is it being used, where does it go. And and like Tim said up up front, there's there's a lot of things that that even our staff can do. You don't have to put a list of student names into Genai. Give them each a number. Have a piece of paper with their numbers to match them up when the information comes back out. So, we can do those things to help keep ourselves nice and safe. Thank

087you very much. Okay. Wait, wait. I have a last thought. So, after listening to all this, and I I love the use of AI, I think that it would behoove the district sooner rather than later to come up with our guard rails and our protocols that we're expecting staff to follow as well as students to follow and to have those someplace where everyone can see them so that if and when an issue happens in the future, we know we can point to that and say this was part of our code of conduct this was you know so in code of conduct for example just plagiarism through AI I mean adding adding things in it's a it's a project comb through everything well actually it isn't much of a project because you could take it all

088you could upload it to AI and you could say add add AI guard rails to all of this, please. And it'll spit it right on back out. But I mean, I think it needs to be a published it needs to be published on so that everyone is familiar with what those rules are. So, we have um guidelines at the beginning of the year. Uh I had probably about five to 10 staff from each building join me in helping to write um a guide book to AI. uh we were following CPS's model of what they have and then after many discussions we paired it down to just guide lines because we realized pretty quickly it was a fool's game to try to start to say specific things about specific things because everything is moving so quickly.

089So we do have um district 214 AI guidelines on uh published on the website that I created this year that all staff have seen and and it's been made available to them. Um, there are also I have all sorts of things that they can just pull from the website to post in their classroom like Tim was talking about, you know, like a stoplight. Green is okay, yellow, you better ask. Red absolutely no AI. Like those kinds of things as well. And the word plagiarism, um, would like just to take a quick moment because that's a big one that comes up when you talk about AI. And uh as I mentioned our our English department and and Scott alluded to the division head at BG and myself early on I spent a lot of hours in

090her office wrestling through this and her first year there were so many issues that they were challenged with plagiarism as students were using the tool and so forth. The problem with a lot of the AI detectors is they're using AI to try and detect AI. And so there are not a lot of AI detectors that are are phenomenal. and then you get into some real gray area. However, what Scott got to see today, our English division had said to me two weeks ago with a smile on her face after two years, we've had no issues this year. Because as English teachers are using what's called the lockdown browser, as Scott was saying, they can't take pictures, they can't do anything. They're locked into the prompt and they can't use anything else as a resource. and

091they're more actively engaged because they're doing it in class. They truly those that are using it have had no issues and it's a simple setup and we're excited to continue to train staff and it's taken some time to figure out those best practices but in terms of that word they actually are getting to a point where there's a solution and it's been a really good smooth solution. Okay. I just have one quick question. Um you mentioned that you are planning to discuss this with parents or at least try to educate parents. I I know that when we do at the beginning of the year the um the curriculum day where everyone gets to follow the students schedule. Would there be consideration to hosting something like this like we do either with our student services program

092or something because I mean this is significant and new and it I'm sure that it's a concern of most parents who don't understand it. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, anytime we could get in front of parents to make it more clear, I would rather the communication come right from us, from teachers and from us as a district than than their kid just coming home and saying, you know. Right. Right. And I mean students can even present at that so they can say what they're doing. Yeah. Exactly. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank you Dr. Row and thank you staff. Um, so moving on, we have uh item nine, the consent agenda. Can I have a motion in a second, please? So moved. Second. Motion in a second. Please call a roll.

093Testing. Yes. Fioro, yes. Hinaman, I. Palmer. I. Ralph. I. Walker. Yes. And Croitzer. I. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Uh, item 1011. Uh, motion in a second to uh, approve, please. So moved. Second. Motion in a second. Any discussion? Call the role. Walker. Yes. Palmer. I. Dustling. Yes. Fto. Yes. Hinimman. I. Ral. I. And Corder. I. Motion carries. 70. Motion in a second, please, for 1012. So moved. Second. Motion in a second. Any discussion? Please call a RO. Palmer. I. Ral. I Dustling. Yes. Fioro. Yes. Hinineman. I Walker. Yes. Encryer. I. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Motion in a second for 1013, please. So moved. Second. Motion in a second. Any other any updates? Uh Dr. O, Mr. Keely, for this? No, this is just the request for the uh non-bargain staff in the food

094service department. Um uh the increase is there before you. Uh I do uh respectfully request the board approve the new salary schedule for uh the 2526 school year as presented. Discussion board members call the role. Palmer I. Fioro yes. Dustling yes. Heinaman I. Ral I. Walker yes. And Citer I. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Uh 1021 please. Motion in a second. So moved. Second. Discussion. Call the roll. Walker. Yes. Palmer. I. Dustling. Yes. Vero. Yes. Heinaman. I. Ral. I. And Croitzer. I. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Motion in a second please for 1031. So move. Second. Any discussion? Call the role. Hinineman. I. Fioro. Yes. Destling. Yes. Palmer I. Ral I. Walker. Yes. And Citer I. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Next on the agenda is board member updates. Um I've asked the um board

095uh we're going to do something a little different this evening and uh ask them to forego their updates. um to recognize uh three board members who will be this will be their last meeting. I'm trying not to cry. You got it. Um, you know, Sunday night I'm sitting at home and um I'm watching uh uh The Sound of Music and it brought back so many memories of when I was a kid in Catholic school that all the Dominican nuns had us learn all the songs from the Sound of Music. So, I'm gaily singing along and there's the song about climb every mountain, climb every mountain, forward every stream, follow every rainbow until you find your dream. Lenny, Millie, and Andrea, there's been some mountains that you've climbed in in your board tenure here, and crossing

096that stream was kind of difficult at times. And I don't know if uh your board of education tenure was your rainbow, but I hope it was your dream. We were not alone in that. You know that. So, you know, we all faced it. We all are better for it. And I didn't practice any of the songs, but if you want to say, do you want me to sing? I'm willing to work on a quick dance routine with the board members. So, um, my sound of music, I I've got more to that, but anyway, but your commitment, uh, and dedication to public education has not gone unnoticed. And, um, someone who has been around for a while. I've seen a lot of board members come and go and I see how hard that you all have

097worked to make this district the premier district. And so, um, I've asked the board members who are still staying as you're leaving to, um, give a little update, a little, uh, a little, um, thank you. And I'd like to start with Mr. Dustling. Really? Yes. Oh gosh. You're up, Bill. Oh gosh. Oh, he's going up. Whatever you want, Phil. Come on. I'm sensing a roast, but I'm not sure. Now it is. Cool. Um, Andrea Rogue, seven years ago, she and her family, husband JJ, son John, son Josh, moved into our neighborhood. Matter of fact, she lives right across the street from me. Um, shortly after moving in, Andrea and a couple of ladies decided that we needed a block party and they arranged it. Um, games for all the adults and children. Everybody brought food.

098um nighttime movies under the stars, music. Uh it was a great event and it continues uh every year. When 214 when a 214 board member decided not to run for reelection, uh I thought of Andrea and her ability to organize the block party with great flare and thought she would be a good person for the board. She was organized. She was friendly. She was conscientious. She was intelligent. She was involved in research and development and was a testing manager for a farm. She also had a son, John, who was entering high school, which was good. Uh, and another son, Josh, who would soon follow, and I think Josh is just about done. Uh, I asked if she was interested in running for the board, and she was shocked. She thought about it for a while

099and decided that she would run. I introduced her to the other board members. They liked her as a candidate and uh she was elected to the board. She has been an outstanding member of the board for the past four years. It was not easy for her. She attended all the meetings. She attended uh all of the activities of both of her sons. She had a job that she had to do that required many hours. Um, so it was not that easy. As a board member, she has always focused on how to make things better for the students and staff. She took extra time to meet and understand the staff and all operations and always had penetrating questions to better understand things. She worked hard um and to understand how to do things better than they

100were being done. Due to her recent promotion at her company uh with expanded responsibilities, uh she decided that she would not have the time to devote as a board member and would not run for reelection. Andrea, thank you for your board service. We will miss you, but you'll be across the street. And I will see you, your husband JJ, and your sons, and we'll remain friends. Thank you. [Applause] Mr. Heinman. Um, I'm gonna sit here. Okay. I hope I can make this quick. Um, I get to recognize Lenny Walker. After eight years of service on the board, Lenny is stepping away from the board to pursue some important personal goals. And while he might say he's just a simple man, those of us who have worked alongside him know that simplicity in Lenny's case has

101always meant clarity, honesty, and heart. Lenny didn't come here to make headlines or to chase accolades. He came to do the work. The quiet, steady work that keeps schools strong and communities grounded. Whether it was advocating for students who needed a second chance or making sure every decision kept kids at the center, Lenny brought his values to the table. He spoke plainly, but he always spoke the truth. And when he listened, he made people feel heard. In a world that can get complicated, Lenny reminded us of the power of keeping things simple. Put the students first. Treat people with respect. Do what's right even when no one's watching. Thanks for showing us that integrity doesn't need a spotlight. Um, thank you, Lenny. [Applause] Mr. Fito. Okay, all right. I have uh I have Millie. Oh

102gosh. Okay. So, uh the seven of us that sit up there, um none of us are experts on education. In fact, none of us have really worked in education with the exception of maybe Alva. You got an engineer, a data scientist, attorney, couple sales guy, another guy who also was in the military and both of you guys are also were uh professional entrepreneurs. And then there's Millie. Um my old district, District 26, um we had a lawyer on the board for four years. and we didn't have many legal issues, but every now and then he would throw out some ideas and some thoughts from his perspective and it was always very interesting. And with district 214, it's a district that, you know, is almost 10 times the size of my former district. And there are

103certain times where we do have issues going on. And when we have those issues, it's always interesting to have somebody who has the perspective from a legal side. And I can tell you personally that there's been times where Millie interjected some legal ease into the conversation which added value and sometimes it went way over our heads. I mean, a lot of times I'd write it down and just bring it back to my wife and say, "She said this, does this make sense to you?" But there was so many times that Millie just pretty much said something to think about from her perspective and her expertise or skill. And I can say honestly there's been times where I've kind of changed my thoughts on some of the things that was being said because I started thinking

104out of thinking of it from what Lily me from what Millie mentioned and that is really important is that sometimes it gets lost that all these people that sit up here we're not experts on education but we do bring things to the table and Millie brought a lot to the table when it came to the legal perspective. That's number one. Number two, um there's one part of the job that is the most difficult part of our job and it doesn't happen in this room, it happens in that room and that is student discipline. And so often we have the decision that we have to make which impacts people's lives. And the one thing I could say about Millie and Andrea and Alba is that during those conversations, they all wear the mom's hat. The hat

105I don't wear and none of you guys do either. And so often I would look at the three of you and see your thoughts because most often the parent that was in that room representing the student whose life we were going to drastically impact is usually the mom. And there was many times where the three of you, specifically Millie, you you showed your your care and concern for people that you didn't even know. And it showed that besides a board member, you're a tremendous mom because you truly cared about the situation we were in and you felt empathy toward the people that were facing that decision. So, the contributions you have made as a school board member have been phenomenal, but the contributions you make as a role model, as a mom, are even more

106in my opinion. So Millie, thank you for everything you've done for District 214 and thank you what you've done for the rest of the community. Thank [Applause] you. All right, I'm going to add my two cents and I'm I'm going to uh go right down the row here. Um, Andrea, I want to thank you for the intentionality that you bring behind your questions and your focus on how data supports the directions and decisions being made. I always tried to predict them and I didn't get to work with you long enough to be able to, but you've challenged me in a productive and positive way that has made me better and helped our board find consistency uh and process and focus. you get the question master title without a doubt. Um, and I say that with

107the most positive intent. Thank you for pushing us and having high standards for the district to aspire to meet. Uh, most importantly, thank you for being a great advocate for the district and all that you do. Uh, Millie, I want to thank you for bringing your full self to this team. uh your passion for students and families as Frank said uh is evident and the pride that you have shown from your experience as a parent to a board member uh was quite evident uh and you positively wore that on your sleeves with your emotions and I respect that. Um, your passion for the operations side of our work and desire for the renewal of our buildings to take priority has been impactful. My favorite of the discussions is easily the ones surrounding portable restrooms. Uh,

108you have been a wonderful advocate for the district and through your stories you have brought this team into seeing the good in all that we encounter and I appreciate that uh in you. Lenny, uh, as Mark said, to put it simply, because you say it, you're a simple guy. Um, but you're more than that. You are a leader. From your time at Wheeling and the PTC to your involvement in the arts, in the boardroom, you've been a tremendous advocate for our district, the student experience, the lead, and leading the way in doing what is right because it is right. Uh, you are a tremendous leader in all aspects of life, and I know that I am better for knowing and working with you, and you will be sorely missed in this team. You have helped

109this board see through a lens that at times it hasn't had and has made us better as a team for it. You don't always have something to say, but when you do, it's worth listening to. It's impactful and has changed the direction of our decisionmaking on more than 10 occasions uh and making us better. So, thank you for your contributions to the board and district. I'm extremely grateful to have had the chance to work with all three of you. Um, and I have a a little something to wrap up the the last part of of uh of my comment. Um, and it it it I saved Lenny for last because it ties to something that he said that we joke about all the time. It's so true. Like a turtle on a fence post, we

110are the district we are because we had help along the way to get there. You've all helped push us when we needed it and provided the direction to ensure our actions align with our community's values. and I hope that when you look back on your contributions to our success, uh, you do so with a sense of pride. So, it's not her last board meeting, but the great Linda Keys continues in her crafty and creative ways when I approached her and said, "We got to do something with a turtle on a fence post." And so this turtle on a fence post um will serve as our reminder that we need when we need help from wonderful people who care and accomplish our goals, help is just around the corner. And all of you in some way,

111shape, or form contribute to getting the 214 turtle on top of the fence post in all the right ways. Uh but I thank you and your contributions will be remembered for years to come. I'm grateful for all of you and and so grateful for the time that I had with you and hopefully we'll stay connected and you'll be active in our school community. So, we have a a parting gift. So, Lenny, um Frank and uh Bill, you want to hand your um person um the parting gift, please? Thanks so much. Thank you. You can open it. I'll let you. Oh, this is super cool. You want to hold it up? Thank you very much. And what does it say, Lenny? This says our name on it. Lenny Walker, District 214 Board of Education with appreciation

112and dedication and leaders for your dedication and leadership. Thank you guys. Just a small. Okay. So, having recognized our uh retiring board members, we uh have a small gift for those uh uh who are going to be new board members. So, Millie, would you like to start off? I do. Mary Kay, Oops. Mary Kay, I am so thrilled that you are going to be on the board of education here at High School District 214. The board of ed is a special place and you are a special Gail. You've done so much already for the community. I was reading some of the things today and they're really too numerous to go into, but you have worked ceaselessly, tirelessly for our community and for the betterment of our children's lives. And I love that you're going to

113be on this board doing that work. It makes leaving the board is difficult. Um it was a difficult decision to not run again. Knowing that such good board members are going to be taking our seats makes it so much easier. I started my board journey um at Mimi Cooper's office. I was innocently um enjoying a cheese spread um at one of her firm's open houses when I looked around and I was surrounded by members of the board of ed as they were hunting for people to run. and um I got somehow bamboozled into saying sure and um it was a great decision. I know that your decision to run was also a great one. Working with my fellow board members has been um unbelievable. your integrity, your honesty, your commitment to others in the face

114of somewhat public ad advers ad adversaries at times and belittling comments um and some sometimes just seeing the great things like tonight. It's been terrific. But Mary Kay, I have four things that I think you should do on the board. Are you ready? keep them safe. The safety and well-being of our staff members and our students cannot be underestimated as a key feature. Board of the board of ed and our administration has to do everything in their power to keep our students and our staff members safe at all times. Keep your actions student centered. Let that be your north star. Asking for everything we do whether it'll benefit the students, whether it'll be good for them in the long run and good for them now. Whether that's one student or 12,000 plus students. Remember, education

115is for the educators. They're good at it. They they have lots of professional designations. They do lots of training. Um, and what we can do is encourage them to try things and to fail forward. Um, and to provide them with guidance and encouragement along the way. Embrace your stewardship. You are a steward of the public trust. There's money that we're stewards of from our taxpayers. There's the efforts of our staff members. There's the time and the efforts and the trust our students and families are putting in in your hands. Be a good steward. You're going to do a great job. All right. I got a little gift. Okay. No opening until everybody gets their swag. Okay. Um Lenny All right. Wrote a few words to keep it simple because there's because you're a simple guy.

116Well, there's a lot to be said and everybody everybody's words are heard, but I just wanted to say a couple things and um you know, I chose to serve to advocate for students. I recognize that some could not find her voice or they couldn't use their voice. Everybody sitting around me knows that we still believe every student, parent, guardian, and educator deserves to be seen, heard, and supported. You know what? All of us believed acceptance matters. Our differences don't divide us. They make us stronger. To the educators of 214 and the students, it's a simple thank you. You challenged and inspired me and I will tell you, you left a lasting mark. To the board members I served with, I couldn't ask for better collaboration and commitment. It's been an honor to serve beside you.

117Dr. Row, thank you for your city leadership and always keeping students at center. I know you will continue to guide this district with vision and heart. to my family, especially my wife Karen. I got to thank her for her support and the time that she gave behind the scenes that made this possible. You know, I want everybody to know that this was not about recognition. This was not about anything with the family. The family, we have a good family unit. We still enjoy Sunday dinners and we're lucky for that. And I know that some people do not have that luxury. So with this, I asked him purposely not to be here tonight because this is not about what we gave, it's about what we were given. So thank you guys. Joe, you're going to step

118into this role and I have a bit of simple advice. You know, you got to stay curious. Don't rush to judgment. Ask questions. Listen with humility. Lead with compassion. I know you got this. I've served with you on NSSO and I'm happy that you're serving on the board here and I know we're in good shape. So to everybody listening, it's truly been an honor to serve. This experience has laugh has left a lasting mark on me. So thank you to everybody. Joe, I got a swag bag for you. Swag bag. Andrew, you know, when Bill asked me uh about the board of education, I I wasn't too familiar with the board of education. Um, so I had to go do my research, get my data, and I called him over and I said, "Okay, let

119I have a lot of questions." And as him and I talked, I came back to my experience as a student and was thankful for my experiences um, from a very supportive family to outstanding teachers. I've talked about the math teachers time and time again and and I could rattle their names off and and I'm just so thankful for the teachers that I had growing up. I always appreciated thinking the most important thing you could do is challenge your students. And that and that was the mindset I was coming into the board with. Thinking I I can challenge I can help you know raise it to an even higher level knowing that it was at a high level. But the wisdom that I gained and the experience that I gained as being a board member, I

120learned there was something greater than challenge. And that's providing belief in someone. In everyone in every school that I have had the opportunity to work with, to share an experience with, I learned that when you believe in someone, their potential is limitless. This board believes in the administration, the administration believes in the admin at the schools, and I know our school's administrators believe in every staff member. And as a result, they believe in what they're doing and they believe in their students. And that's what makes this district great because our students show limitless potential. So, thank you for teaching me such an important lesson. Vicki, I believe in you. I know that you have already done great things at prior districts as a mom, a as a a career professional. I believe in you and

121you are going to do great. If I had a piece of advice, um, I would share the Japanese term gamba and it means to go to the actual place where thing where the work happens. So where it actually where the value is taking place and I would encourage you to gamma everything and everyone because you know from everyone's perspective when they make a decision they have the right answer because they may not have all the information and when you gamba you'll be able to see what information they have and what information you can bring. So I truly believe in you. I am so excited that you will have this opportunity to experience the great things in District 214. So, thank you for running and thank you for your commitment to District [Applause] 214. Okay, you

122can look now. No, just something from the schools to get you started. And I want to thank all the schools for contributing to the swag bag for our new board members. New board members will be seated at the May 8th meeting. And uh that's when um Lenny and Millie and Andrea's term will be up. There's still some things going on. We have salute to staff next week. Um we have the autobon where our um cars will be racing against one another and uh the CLS over at uh Marriott. So still things to attend but thank you everybody. Now I need a motion into go close session for the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in an educated setting or legal counsel for the public

123body. Motion in a second please. So move second. Um I think we'll probably be in close session for about 45 minutes and we will have action afterwards. Call the role please. Ra I Palmer I Dustling yes yes Hinineman I Walker yes and Corer I motion carries 70 thank you [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] or heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] N. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat.

124Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, now we are. Okay. Okay. We are now in open session and I need a motion and a second for 1311. Mr. Fioro, please. I transaction reports for April 24th, 2025. Second. Motion a second. Discussion. Call the roll, please. Fito. Yes. Hinaman. I. Dustling. Yes. Palmer. I. Ral. I. Walker. Yes. And Citer. I. Motion carries. 70. Okay. Motion in a second for 312. Lenny. A. Motion to approve the job description under 13.12 um for April 24th, 2025. Second. Discussion.

125Call the roll. Walker. Yes. Ral. I. Dustling. Yes. Fir. Yes. Hinineman. I. Palmer. I. And Citer. I. Motion carries. 70. Motion in a second for 31 1313. Please. I move for approval of the administrators agreement of April 24th, 2025. Second. Motion and a second. Discussion. Call the world. Palmer I Walker yes Dustling yes Fioro yes Hinineman I Ral I and Citzer I motion carry 70 thank you motion in a second for 1314 please I move to approve the supervisor's agreement second motion in a second discussion please call the role I Palmer I Dustling. Yes. Verito. Yes. Heinaman. I Walker. Yes. Citer. I. Motion carries. 70. Motion to adjurnn. So moved. I think there was about four. It's going to second. Second. There we go. Call roll. Ral. I. Furita. I Palmer. I. Walker. Yes. And

126Croitzer. I. We have a call. We arejourned. Thank you. [Music] Wow. I don't know. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Wow. Nat. [Music]