001[Music] Sorry. Okay. We are at school district and we are here for public to consider the district tenative budget for this school year and 230. It is 6:06 p.m. and Mr. >> Mr. B here Mr. Gir >> here roll Martinez >> here McIz >> here Mr. Mr. Warner [Music] stands one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. [Music] Moving on to section two, public comment and now public comment for the public hearing portion. We will have regular board meetings after this. Um so for anyone who'd like to address the board hearing please do sign up. Um please be aware that comments made during this time are not as dialogue. The board reserves the right public comment and exercise that right in this meeting. Individual do this. We also ask all speaker and that
002is Jeffrey Power. Good afternoon. My name is Jeffrey Secretary Executive Vice President on behalf of my president Dian Palmer, Secretary Treasur Richard, Executive Vice President Scott 35,000 members statewide and the more workers here in blue. Um, as this is the budget hearing, I just want to make sure that as you guys go through your budget process, um, that we make sure that one, our workers are paying the market rate. Uh, these workers are passively unpaid given the market rate around the area and that that you do not cut their wages and benefits and and they're sick days. I was told that I think Christmas Eve. So, as you do your budget, you need to do a budget that reflects all of those things. Thank you. [Music] Thank you. Good evening. My name is Joshua. I'm
003father to children in the district for over 13 years. Um I'm a consulting data architect um which is just a fancy way of saying a data nerd but I my specialization in finance is help build their own weapons and their own forecast I'm also the father of the state island and I chair our finance committee so I just like to say from personal experience that when you are looking at a budget in this case of over $75 million taxpayers policy. It is absolutely that as elected officials, if you take the time to understand that gentlemen, we need to make sure that the district's priorities are aligned with your needs. So, I just urge that you see this as an opportunity to do it in a way that's more. We have public budget presentation. Um, and
004as a reminder, the two budget is on. Good evening. Good evening everyone. Um, I'm representing the fiscal year 2026 budgetation. Um, Sorry. [Music] So in regards to the every year as for this here [Music] public hearing for today's meeting of the budget also on which is the 26 to 2026 budget which was on August 19th education was the board of education board of education and uh Board of Education has the ability to review the budget as December 19th today hearing. Um board of education ultimately will decide whether they want to hear the night. Um, September 30th, uh, the district must adopt the budget based off of and then on October 31st, um, the deadline to submit the budget to Disney. Um, history over like the past five years in regards to um, just the funds
005of the district as a whole. Um, as you can see, um, starting with fiscal 2021, beginning balance is $44 million. Any balance uh the united um budgets our balance is $69 million. So every after every year there there has been an increase in the funds in the fund balance for for the district. Um reasons primarily would be that we had to receive funds utilizing federal grants opposed to utilizing local funds. Um we also had bond money that we were uh able to spend to uh improve our you know some of some of our facilities and infrastructure and then also um with the implementation of EDF which is evidence based funding. Um that did change the the game in regards to state funding for school districts. Um for various years uh the district was under tier
006one funding. These past two years uh the district has been in tier 2 funding. What does that mean to your future? We were able to get more funds because they were in the lower tiers. Tier two, they're still receiving some of that money from the colleagues, but not as much is available to them to the fiscal year audited budget. Um I have broken it down by which means it's by expenditures are by salary purchase services by ultimately in regards to the um adapted budget fiscal 2579 million uh we spent uh 70 million which is um roughly 89% of the budget was spending in regards to local revenues or ins level revenues. I broke it down from local, state, and federal. Um, out of the $76 million we received in the district received $78 million, which
007uh we received 102% uh in regards to revenues. Now, that is, you know, when I saw this as well, I said what happened. Um, the district has been applying for the property tax grant every year and this past year we um the district um were registered before awarded the grant. So ultimately um the state um said gave us the funds for this grant of roughly $2.7 million. So this means that property taxpayers within the community are going to seeking relief of um funds in their property taxes this coming um 2026 budget. Um I broke it down by once. 10 is education fund, 20 is building, 30 is services, 40 is transportation, 15 social security and Medicare, 60 capital projects, working and life safety. In regards to total revenues anticipated to for the district to receive
008is is roughly around $73 million. In regards to expenditures, it's around $79 million. Um, breaking it down a little bit further, um, I wrote down the, uh, the revenue by source, which is, uh, uh, the property taxes, other local revenue, evidence based funding, state, another title. What I also shared here is a four-year timeline of how we have been receiving funds based off of these um categories. And if you specifically look at fiscal 24 and fiscal 25 under property taxes, you see that fiscal uh 24 we received $34 million in property taxes. In fiscal 25, we received 31 million. And in regards to funding fiscal 24 um the district received 21 million and then fiscal 25 it went up to 24 over almost $25 million. Reason being is that we receive property tax relief right
009over here. So then moving forward, we're not going to be seeing um the the property taxes as high as we did in 24 because of that. Overall, it allows to almost $73 million in uh this question. in regards to uh fiscal 26 expenditures by project broken down once again by uh salaries employee benefits purchase services supplies equipment other purchases and nonline equipments. Um there is that fouryear trend that we see of how uh we have been spending uh the funds in regards to uh the salaries. Um there being that this is a budgeted amount, we did um account for negotiations for custodians, parapros, secretaries as well. And um along with the um recently negotiated CPA from the teachers union so that the you know those salary increases are applied to fiscal 26 along with the
010additional increases that are within those uh that's in regards to um employee management. Um we're still funded. So that um that line item is usually it'll vary depending on and uh and just just other factors but at the end of the day it is estimated uh that we may um expend around $79 million and I would also add equipment I have allotted some additional cost for potential of any construction projects that we're going to be um working on this move here and uh this is the patient that kind of um ended up working a little bit better. So ultimately if you look at salary and uh benefits it amounts to 58% of the total expenditure budget in regards to purchase services which is the gray area that's 20% which is our food service or transportation
011and our contract and hires um supplies miscellaneous for whatever is needed teachers needs you know so on and so forth. And then capital is in regards to anything um in excess of $200 and uh just um facilities improvements bigger equipment boilers. I'll add there's a green area surface and other section which is technically our Eisenhower clock and then our box. This is just another way to see the expenditures by fun. Um the blue section is the education fund which technically should be always the largest portion in regards to where we're expending which is at 76%. And then the smaller orange section is going to grow at around 10%. And then we have transportation at 5.7%. Thank you. Moving on to one question said it but it's hard to hear. Um in object code 600 other
012purchases we have $8 million. I don't remember what that is. Can you clarify that codes? Like what are some examples of things that we purchased in that? >> Um other services and um our bonds our bonds are over uh $2 million that we pay every year. That's not included interest. And then um it's our private tuition um where we outpace uh uh some of our students and primarily the co-op which is very expensive that we came to put together. Is that for facility improvements as well or is that >> uh the 600 the 600? No, the 500 is the facilities improvement. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. So, um I I ended up adding a little bit more in regards to salaries just because of the unmet. um also in regards to life safety or
013the 500 fund you know in regards to possible potential projects that will be approving this year so that we are sure that we're able to have those funds available to expense in regards to the reason why the um revenues are lower because the property tax because if we received those those funds in April 2025 if we didn't receive that grant we would have received that fiscal year 2025 and we would have eventually seen that in fiscal year 2026 because they would have included our property taxes. So that roughly you know 2.72 you know 8 million has been sh it's like we received the money in anticipation of those rece um that that's the reason in regards to that change in revenues um for the most part you know if that was um in school year
01426 and then if we you know didn't have any projects or we got minor projects I know there a lot of unknowns in the board will be directing on how to move forward any project. Um there's what we said it's to a certain extent or it's not that it is not [Music] It's when we uh receive the it's basically in regards to the education fund operations management transportation But those are not more [Music] that comes and that's where you would and then also in regards to the district ability to sell bonds as well for any future construction projects and then engaged in regards to the um the situation that we have going on here. Um so that's just something moving forward. US. [Music] I would like to propose Take awayations. Any other question? [Music] Okay.
015>> Yes. Yes. >> Roll. >> Yes. M Martinez. >> Yes. >> Mr. [Music] I will It's all right. [Music] Again, we are [Music] >> here. Here >> Martinez here. >> McInness here. Mr. Good. [Music] Jesus Christ. [Music] Please be are not [Music] preserves right. [Music] We do have public comments. I do ask that you uh be respectful of your time tonight. Uh so we will now comment. >> Good evening board. I just came to share with you uh that I've had in communication with Mayor Island and it appears as though one district 13 collaborate on an exciting grant opportunity that would help alleviate some traffic issues in and around schools. Uh I I shared this with the superintendent earlier today. There's a few items that she's going to need to get out the assistant superintendent
016for much needed information for this grant. The grant uh paperwork is due by October 15th. I do not have a timeline, but I will keep you updated. [Music] My name is Angie B. I live in specifically Vermont. My parents have been a part of district for as long as I could. We have been parents against gangs, PTA. I've been involved in everything you can think of when it comes to district 11. I had I have a brother who was assaulted by one of the teachers at your school when he was a junior house and we had a situation with that and then I find out again that another student was assaulted and I don't want to get into any more details other than the teachers be aware that you should not put your hands on.
017I understand frustrated I work retail. I get I get kids are nominated and everything but protocols. There's rules and people should this should be investigated and let everybody know what's going on. Well, it's really not my business. It's my business citizen. But as far as the parents are concerned and not helping the situation, it should be a team. It's a team effort. It's a team effort and they have the effort to raise your children and it's getting this to understand and step up and deal with the parents and talk with the parents and try to come to something like they did when my brother was assaulted. The other situation I want to talk about is the disrespect of Latin America. If someone works for you, they do not have to speak the English language. I
018would like it if they did. I'm pretty sure you would, but be disrespected because you did not speak the language in America. Trump doesn't even have a problem speaking Spanish as long as you're a legal citizen. If that person is a legal citizen, they should have the right to speak the language they want. You should not disrespect it in any hands. Now my suggestion to you is I would follow Trump when I was trying to figure out what his rules are and try to go by letters. Once I said again the community, the whole district from custodians to teachers to substitute teachers from the kids that go to school here. It's a community. No one's getting bullied. Everybody should know about it. Everybody should be concerned. but to disrespect grown adults who are working for
019not paying enough them cutting their wages and harassing them and ignoring them and not letting them speak because they speak a different language than all. >> That is not the district I grew up in. That is not the district authority my mother Rebecca was involved in. My father was involved in that's not the district we have. remain prepared to get things and I suggest I really go back with the thinking caps on embrace what happened and started it and try to kiss what you guys know. I'm not quite that educators. I understand people speak a different language and as far as the United States concerned people speak English but English was not the first language in this country. This country was changed by Native Americans. You guys will be here. [Applause] I I want to
020address one of the assaults that the young just mentioned. So the second assault was somebody died and I know for a fact that the police said that the case was closed because the case there was no evidence found. There was nothing that was shown. There was nothing that was said. Everything that that the person was abused by, you know. So I I remember to stop listening to the social media and actually find out what happened before you go and threaten somebody. If you scared to go home, make them scared to walk home. Watch walk school work. Find out what happened before you guys accuse people of stuff and you don't know the whole story. We are power. Good evening once again, superintendent Kay President Ro and Steam board members. I'm Jeffrey Howard, executive vice president
021global 73 and on behalf of the 35,000 members of SEI, my president Diane Palmer, my other officers who are here with me tonight. It's sort of difficult to be up here. I can't believe that we have to come up here and have this conversation. We represent the custodians of maintenance workers here at the council school district and we're here tonight to call on the district to end the races and anti-UN practices against our members and asking you that you are in contact with FA. You know, we negotiate with over 200 different entities all throughout the state of Illinois and I've never heard of one being called with racist policies. are currently have difficult losses, but I've never heard of them having racist policies in 2025. This is crazy. >> Since 2020, the administration has repeatedly
022retaliated against our youth stores and workers, and employers have been punished for alleged violations for those violations. Administrators have informed workers and union representatives that they are not permitted to speak any language other than English during disciplinary hearings while communicating with each other. Let me say that again. Workers are not permitted to speak any other language to their representatives other than English in a meeting. That's right. >> Not standing today. They have told union representatives they are not allowed to speak in disciplinary hearings at all. The administration has refused to implement arbitration awards that were in the union's favor leading to lawsuits costing the district thousands of dollars. Amen. >> The administration has failed to follow aggressive discipline procedures outlining our contract. >> Amen. >> After only the administration has rejected all of our proposals,
023including staff training for lockdown and law enforcement events. These are the workers that keep these schools clean and safe for the students. And the staff will be denied by this administration. It's time for you to step up and treat these essential workers with the dignity and respect they deserve. I take it. [Music] Fore! Foreign! Foreign! Foreign [Music] speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. foreign speech. [Music] Foreign speech. Foreign speech. [Music] And it shows every day when somebody calls in sick, no one comes in to fill in. Instead, the rest of us are forced to take on their duties on top of our own without extra pay. On top of that, we don't feel respected, and there's no way to hold management accountable when workers are laid off or punishers speaking up about these issues. We work
024hard to keep our school safe and clean, but we shouldn't have to do it under these conditions. Especially, I feel that I feel a lot of discrimination and racism, and that shouldn't be the case working here. So we deserve fair shouting fairly in a workplace where our voices are heard and respected. [Music] Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I would like to express concerns regarding the proposal to eliminate custodian seniority. Custodonians with years of experience are are not just cleaning facilities. They are custodians of safety, knowledge, and consistency. Seniority reflects the deep understanding of the unique needs of each school and the ability to respond quickly and effectively to any issues that arise. Removing seniority undermines the value that these experienced workers bring to our schools. By disregarding seniority, the district may unintentionally
025create a sense of instability among this custodian staff. Long-term employees who have invested years in this community community might feel undervalued leading to a decline in morale and possibly even an increase in turnover. This could result in a loss of value expertise and create challenges in maintaining consistent quality in our schools. Sorry. I urge the board to reconsider this decision. Thank you. Heat. I heard that. [Music] is to be assumed. [Music] General [Music] Good afternoon. My name is Patricia. As a custodian, I work hard and every day to keep our school clean and safe for Blue Island community. But I have been overworked and disrespected. I faced racism on the job and was even told by management not to speak Spanish while working. That is discrimination and it's wrong. Custodians says we deserve dignity and
026respect. We should not be overworked or silenced because of who we are or the language we speak. We are here to keep our schools clean and deserve respect to our work and respect to our schools. I don't know. Thank you. We have commentary. Okay. Thank you everyone. Um, moving on. I would just like to comment and I guess thank the board for allowing me to attend the Illinois School Board Super Saturday. So that was my Saturday and I had a lot of fun and made some connections with other people. So thanks [Music] All right. First off, [Music] I get [Music] Someone [Music] his colleagues and guests. It is my privilege to recognize [Music] commonly known for her outstanding contributions to the daily operations county school district. Patty serves as the secretary academy across the entire
027district. In addition to ensuring that students and staff at Paper Academy have everything they need for a successful day of learning, Penny has also become a trusted resource for families navigating both housing and stability and school attendance challenges. Throughout her tenure with the district, she has stepped in as a secretary in nearly every building, ensuring school daily operations, and she has played a vital role in supporting the registration process for families new to our schools. No matter where she is for what task she is handling, Patty approaches her work with exceptional customer service. She greets others with a friendly smile and is always ready to lend a hand. Cook County School District 130 is a better place because of dedicated individuals like Patty who willingly step up to help what excuse me wherever and whenever
028the need arises and she's not here unfortunately tonight but she was definitely honored and recognition. So thank you. Good evening. The student services and accountability department. I am proud to recognize the extraordinary efforts of our registar Danielle Baralda, our data specialist Edith Castillo and Gloria Hernandez and our receptionist Lindsay Lehawks for student registration. During a period of exceptionally high demand, this team demonstrated remarkable dedication and professionalism. They worked diligently to maximize the number of available appointments for residency verification, ensuring that as many families as possible were supported in a timely manner. They coordinated closely with one another, managed appointments efficiently, and adopted an all hands-on deck approach to address the needs of our community. The team went above and beyond their typical responsibilities to complete critical student registration tasks that might otherwise have been delayed,
029such as responding to phone calls and emails, answering parent questions about registration and residency, and providing technical support to families throughout this time. They maintain the highest levels of professionalism and courtesy. Their teamwork, adaptability, and commitment exemplify the values of this district. They extend their sincere appreciation to Danielle Baralda, Edith Castillo, Goya Hernandez, and Lindsay Lea for their exceptional service and for the positive impact they have made for our students and families. Good evening. The uh administrators of Ever Middle School would like to recognize 8th grade science teacher Jennifer Baker for her outstanding dedication and commitment to students. Miss Baker consistently goes above and beyond to make science engaging, relevant, and enjoyable for all learners. She is a reliable leader within the school, actively contributing to our tier 1 PBIS team and supporting a positive
030school culture. Her creativity, enthusiasm for teaching, and willingness to give extra time each day exemplify the qualities of an educator who truly makes a difference. Step into her classroom and you see it immediately. Miss Baker is a role model for both students and colleagues, and her impact is felt throughout the entire tour community. Congratulations to Miss Jennifer Baker. Whier school is proud to recognize Mr. Quan custodian at your school for his outstanding dedication and contributions to our school community. Quan consistently goes above and beyond in his role for seeing and addressing issues before they arise, supporting staff in countless ways and serving as a mentor for both students and co-workers. He plays a critical role in keeping our staff, teachers, and students safe each day and has generously shared his deep knowledge of the building
031with me as I begin my role as principal this school year. Quan not only ensures our school runs smoothly, but also helps others develop their skills, modeling teamwork and leadership every day. Above all, he is a genuine, kind, and dependable person whose commitment and positive attitude makes Whittier a better place for everyone. Congratulations, Mr. Ro. Thank you so much. Congratulations everyone. [Music] Good evening. Last month, our student advisory board members were inducted into this year to sit on the board of education as the student voice component of Cook County School District 130. I have only, you know, begun to meet these lovely students as we just started the school year and we're already off to a great start. I, you know, appreciate all of my time with them. I appreciate their parents for, you know,
032giving them to us in this capacity. were really excited for a great year. And when I worked with the students to talk about what they might want to say, they decided that it might be nice just to share something that they are excited about or that they look forward to with regard to their position on the student advisory board. So, we're going to go ahead and let them share. Uh my name is Donald Noah. I'm excited to be at the student advisory board because I believe it will be a very good opportunity for myself. [Music] My name is Sophie Krebs and I'm glad to have the opportunity of being on the student advisory board and I will try my best to make any difference that I can on in district 130 from just my name
033is Kalia Brown and I'm thrilled to be on the truth board because I believe that by having this opportunity I will be able to share what students want and need. My name is Destiny Taka and I'm happy to be a part of the student advisory board because I want to be able to share what other students think should be done in order to improve our education. My name is Kaylin and I am glad that I have been given the opportunity to give other students a voice. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak. We're looking forward to a great year and you know much more to come with this great work behind me. Thank you. [Music] Good evening everyone. My name is I'm the director of early childhood and today I get to share
034with you and invite you to celebrate with me some of our graduates from our honey university. And I did this presentation last year before the new board members joined. So I will be repeating it and share with you the intentions for today. So I'll be introducing to you the um curriculum that we use at Vorta's opening doors. We'll also share our journey through Honeybee University. Present the timely curriculum titles. We'll get to congratulating the graduates that are present and those who couldn't make it. and then I'll share our next steps with regard to our funding university and I will give credit where credit is due. So a pentas opening doors their um mission really is to building a better future through parent leadership. So this is a parent leadership program. A penas opening doors is
035the nation's first evidence-based compreh comprehensive training program developed by and for Latino parents with children ages 0 to 5 that can be adapted to any culture. This program uses a two generational approach that builds parent leadership skills and knowledge to promote family well-being and positive outcomes for children. Also with the understanding that the first five years of children's lives are crucial for lifelong learning, social and cognitive development. Opening doors helps fortify parents knowledge and skills to be to be their children's first teachers and make their home their first school. And so the purpose of the bringing is twofold. So honor and fortify parents with the knowledge, tools and confidence to support their children's success and to be effective advocates on behalf of their children. And also support parents to become champions for children and for
036their families in their community. So it's in their home and in their community. So where this all began. So in 2019, way back when, we had a team of staff members, 10 staff members who participated in a week-long training. It was a train the trainer model. And in after we were trained that following fall, we started with our original cohort of parents. We had two cohorts, one in English and one in Spanish. And then the pandemic hit. It's a 10-week program. We made it to week nine. Never made it to week 10. So, we didn't get to graduate our first group of people. Fast forward 2024, we started doing some planning in the spring. We invited families in the fall. Oopsies. Oopsies. There we go. Um, we started our new 10e cohort. Um, one English,
037one Spanish. And then in 2025, we did our winter invitations and had our second cohort of families. And then tomorrow begins our third round of honey university families. So our tech curriculum just to go quickly we start with reminding parents that they are their child's first teacher and their home is their child's first school. So there's a lot of value writing. There's a lot of purpose with what I want for my family during that first session. And then we talk about child growth and development. The power of words, healthy mind and body, nutrition, social emotional well-being, media, technology, math with come with me. Um, let's get ready for school as they're transitioning to kindergarten and then how to be advocates for their children here championing for their child's future. And then we graduate them in
038that 10th week. So at this time I would like to congratulate not all of our graduates were able to make it today. Um but we do have some so we're going to make them stand and be seen and then we will um acknowledge our families. So from our Spanish speaking side we have Daisy Brown Maria Cordova is Maria Lucia Maria Martinez Meisa and Domin who is one of our virt educators that I invited. and she was actually interested in participating as a student. So that was wonderful. On our English side, we have a few here. [Applause] Evelyn Hernandez, Megan Joy, Alicia, [Music] and this is our graduation room. This is where we graduated. I'll show you a nice little picture of what that looks like. And these are all our graduation. You can see the
039control. It seems like 10 weeks is a long time, but did it not go by fast? It went by so fast. And so what what we decided as our next steps is we can't just leave you after 10 weeks. Come back once a month. So at the end of last school year, we were having them come back once a month. And we were just checking in. We were like checking in on the curriculum. What are you applying? What's working? Where are you struggling? Or just any topics that they wanted to talk about as a group because they created this connection one with another. And then our plan is for this year to start another cohort which I said starts tomorrow is in Spanish, Thursdays in English and then we um also will start another one
040in January. Now I do have a little bit I don't want to end the sadness but it's it's hopefulness. So we also planned as part of our next us to have an evening all dad honeybee university and we came to say we had four English and four Spanish. We need at least 10 to make it really worthwhile. Um, so we had to pause that and we'll start in January and see if we can get some more parents to come. Um, credit where credit is due. I'm thankful for the principal of Horseman School, Miss Alicia Smith. Um, who allows us to hold space there for the families. And then my three parent educators, Alisa, Elizabeth, and Ashley. And then my four um birth to parent educators, Abby, and Maria, because they help recruit families for our
041our honeybee university. And then Jessica, our secretary, DNF and Evelyn, and also supported with the child care. And then our infant child and mental health consultant also came out to a couple of the sessions to support parents. And then I'm thankful to Dr. McCay for allowing us to continue with this work as well as the school board for allowing us as well. So [Music] Good evening. I am Melissa Boy. Usually a flicker when I was practicing this. I wanted to welcome you all to make it intermediate. Um I giggle because I was trying to find pictures of the school entrance, but a fun fact is we don't have a school entrance. Um we're like this perfect little square in the middle of a campus. Uh so we shared primaries office. Um so we don't this
042little square in the middle. But so I'm Louis Boy. Um I'm the principal here. This is actually my 11th year in the district. Um I started off at Hill Middle as a assistant principal. I moved to PRP as an assistant principal and this is now my sixth year at Men Hill Intermediate as the principal. Some facts about NHI. Um super exciting. We have 175 kiddos this year. Uh we serve four communities. We have Presto, Robbins, Blue Island, and Alston. And we have a 94% attendance rate. Might be a little higher, but we giggle because kids just love to come to school, which is a good thing. Um our mission statement, our vision statement, um our mission was really when we decided to to create the safe and supportive environment was a huge thing for our
043kids. Um you could and being kind, being respectful, being responsible, a lot of those, but safe and supportive environment just seems to be a theme this I would say moving forward in life just when it comes to schools. One of the biggest things that we spent a lot of time on the core values of Nathan Hill and the median um and we chose the ABCs of Nathan Hill and that's admission, belonging, and compassion. And as a staff, we felt like that summarized kind of what Nathan Hale is. So, not only do we have just our general ed fourth and fifth grade, we also house um we'll be proud of I should say, we have the DH program in our building. That's the deaf and heart of hearing that um intertwin with our kiddos. Um we
044also have our dual language program that's fourth and fifth grade. We have an English and Spanish side. We also have our ICP program. ICP has always been a part of Mayale campus. We now get to house them in our building. This year they actually have a classroom in our building. So our fourth and fifth graders are part of us for real. Um this year we also have a fourth and fifth grade crossing in our bathroom and then we just shared a bunch of pictures of these. So a fun thing we like to do at Nathan Hill is put together songs and dances and embarrass ourselves. So I'm going to click this. You're going to see some great things that happen here. It was hard to present in September because we've only been in school for
045a month. So, we went back a year on the kind of added little things that we had, but we did end the video um with a video that we created as a staff last year to crush the I um it were famous in there. I've embarrassed myself. Uh my staff is embarrassed theirself, but we did it for the kiddos. The kids are involved in it. Um it was an amazing video. It'll last about another year and we'll have to get some more kiddos in it. Um, but we wanted to show that because it's last year, but it's September. So, this is the great things that happen here. It'll pause for a minute before the final video pops up, but it was a lot easier to show you a video than just standing up talking. [Music]
046[Applause] There's behind the earth. Gather close and he will show our sore and low from celebrations. We'll show what we do. Every step forward, our pride shines through in reading, writing, math. Watch our skills ignite. With every achievement, our future is bright. In science and more, we create bright. We're evil flying high. Curiosity is our guide. In our we culture and ability. We all have a home here. We're a family. We're learning together. It's the place to stay. Each unique learn shines each and every day. is happening here. [Music] Students all play [Music] strong. So we always walk hardest. families of the beach to edge. There's coming in here. There's here spread wide. Our future in you sore. There's nothing we can't do. There's here. There's here spread wide. Our future's image [Music] happening in
047here. There's here's here. >> So, the next item is our video where we all embarrass ourselves. myself. You're already [Music] shy people. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Yeah. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Yeah. Heat. [Music] together. There's nothing we can't do. You got this. The moment is here. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Applause] This video was about we made sure every staff member including our secretaries, our care professional, our custodians, everyone were involved in it. It was shared with the kids and it also showed the excitement of the kids and what we got. We do learn I promise but we do have opportunity. So thank you so much. right here. [Music]
048>> Um, good evening everyone. My name is Bill Shay. I am the director of buildings and grounds here at District 130. On behalf of myself, Dr. board of education. We have asked our district architect and me to come up here this evening to share with you um a facilities assessment plan that we're going to undertake over the next year. Um so Mr. Jacob will walk through it here his presentation there's three key areas we're going to focus on walk through them um as we progress through this progress or process there'll be progress reports along the way participating about the 3month bar 6 month and 9 month mark come back and report some information back it's really exciting for us because it's going to shape the district over the next 5 years and the next 10
049years so um So, I'll turn it over to Mr. J. Grab that microphone of education and the community of Mr. Thank you very much for having me here tonight. Um, we have a little presentation to get through here. I'm excited to um give an overview of what's coming over the next year or so in terms of facilities planning. It's going to be hard to top the last presentation that was just made, but I'll do my best. There's a lot to uh intro with facilities. Obviously, the district has a lot of square footage. Um, got a couple of slides here that's going to show us an overview of it. Tony Tony has a working out. This is all. Eight. That's all. [Music] We have to love technology, Right. This is touch screen. probably Well, I know
050it's not Okay. >> Well, I can give an overview. I don't have to do that. We can't get a tour. >> Well, I'm going to I'm going to start here presentation boards. That's fine. The district has about 677,000t of space. That's quite a lot of facilities to work through. Um we know as uh planners that we have communities involved um four communities that is going to be very important in terms of making sure that we're planning for the students that arrive from each of these communities and the facilities. We know there's about 2900 students um across 13 facilities. Uh the most interesting thing as we started the review of the facilities is the district has about 54% of square footage that is 50 years or older. And though that's not always a bad thing, it
051does mean that typically those older facilities will involve a lot more um funding and resources to continue to make vibrant and usable as a school facility. Um so that is going to be an important part of uh what we have to do as uh planners and as architects in terms of looking at that square footage and what that means for the future of the district. Um part of what we are undertaking over the next 12 to 14 months is a master plan for the district. And what the master plan is envisioned to involve is three key aspects. uh when we look at facilities, it's not just looking at the nuts and bolts. It's not just looking at life safety. It's not just looking about the educational advocacies, but it's all of those three components to
052be able to arrive at a good plan for the district and its future. So when we think about the number one component of life safety that's critical because it involves obviously the safety of students it involves the safety of staff. It has an eye on egress. Um the capacities of the building where we have enough exits out of rooms in an emergency. Um all those factors play into the health life safety. Our schools in the state of Illinois were required to undergo a life safety assessment of facilities every 10 years and the district has records of that. I will be working in conjunction with the district to uh determine where they are at the last 10 year life safety, what items are still open and what needs to be worked on and eventually closing those
053items out on a report that gets filed with this at the um Illinois State Board of Education. That's number one step of a facilities assessment. You can imagine looking at 677,000 square ft of space. That's a lot to get through. um especially with facilities that are aging and becoming older each day. Uh the second component of our life sa our master plan is the physical facility side of the survey and that is above and beyond life safety. That's more of the nuts and bolts. That might be things like looking at roofs, uh condition of masonry, windows, doors and hardware, uh casework, finishes inside the building. Um it even goes beyond the walls of the building and site. So parking lots and sidewalks, things of that nature all fall under that category, the physical facilities. Uh
054the third component then is the inadequacies. And as architects, we um always want to remind our uh communities, our our board of educations that education continues to evolve over time. And as you look at facilities that are 50 years and older, a lot has changed in education. And so we have to also have our eye on facilities with the notion are they continuing to serve the students and the staff as they should in 2025 and beyond. Um the most important thing that has kind of happened over the last 20 30 years is the safety and security of our buildings. uh back when I went to school, you know, we we didn't have lock front doors and then we have like the secure entrance. So, that's something that's going to be looked at across the district.
055Are there improvements that can be made on the safety side of facility should there be safety components, additional ones put in place. Um, it also has an eye on whether the classroom spaces and the collaboration spaces that occur in our facilities, whether those are on track with what we want to have happen in facilities today. And not even what we want, but what we need for educational facilities today. You can imagine most of us that went to school probably prior to the 1980s, you had a corridor system and a classroom on either side. It was a lot of the same same size classrooms one after another. That has totally changed primarily over the last 10 15 years. Environments that involve multiplesiz classrooms, small group rooms where a teacher can pull out uh students to learn
056oneonone collaborative collaboratively with each other um where students can collaborate with each other. Those are the types of spaces that have evolved over the last several decades. That is the educational adequacy side of the assessment. So when we look at life safety, when we look at physical facilities and we look at the inadequacies, those together formulate a plan and a direction that the district should consider moving forward. One of the most important things on the um financial side um that the board will surely have an eye on but as the community um will also uh have an interest in is the cost side. And one of the most important things when we do that is to make sure that we have a good direction so that as plans get put in place that something is
057un undone or taken apart a few years later. Um, just as in our own homes, if you were to renovate a room and then two years later decide to change it, all that money that you had spent to do that is money that is potentially wasted. So, we have to have an eye on the whole picture uh for the master plan in the district. Um, so that we don't have to undo things. Um, certainly everything is under the scrutiny of taxpayers as it should be. So, we want to make sure that the board is presented with data so that good decisions can be made. The process for all of this involves process architects to engineers coming out on site walking facilities getting up above ceilings looking at the conditions of piping roofs things of that
058nature and certainly in inviting those um from both the school side but also the community side to be involved in that input. Part of my presentation that's not showing up is also involving the students. Um that's a key aspect in terms of how to involve students in what they need, what they see to make sure educational advocacy side of the plan is heading in the right direction. So the overall timeline for what we plan to do in the assessment is immediately start a process of reviewing the life safety component and that is set to start um in the next week or two. That will involve us going out looking at all the facilities, looking at those reports that I mentioned on the side of things and seeing where we where where things are done or
059not done and tabulating those. So, this district has the information for that. Um, as we trend into the later part of this year, it will also involve the educational or the physical facility side of things. We want to do that before weather turns on us so that we can get out and look at roofs before the snow on it. And then uh approximately December of this year, we'll start to engage the district in the educational advocacy side. And the way we envision that is to involve staff and key um input committees from the district to be able to have some uh key sessions for the different aspects of the educational advocacies. It's not going to be just by school. It's going to be by a global approach to everything. Um so we we hope to
060work with the district in terms of setting up the right input committees to be able to do the adequacy side return that is going to head into uh approximately June of next year June 2026. And then the final delivery of the recommendations for what to do with the plan is set to arrive um sometime next next summer um early fall 2026. So the whole plan as I mentioned is about a 12 12 month uh process to get through. So quite a bit of work that is going to take all of us both from the architectural engineering side of things, district input, student input, staff and the community as well. So we're looking forward to it. I think it's going to net out a lot of good ideas. Uh it's it's going to be an exciting
061thing to kind of see how the data evolves over the next couple of months and uh we're looking forward to it. Certainly we'll uh we'll have uh points in time here that presentations will be made the board of education meetings so the public can be involved in input. So appreciate it. Thank you everyone. Sorry the presentation didn't come through here tonight, but uh I think uh the intent and what we're going to be doing over the next 12 months is should be clear. So, thank you. >> Thank you so much. Does anyone have any questions for discussion? I'm excited to see >> the district. >> Thank you. >> All right, we are moving on to agenda item five which is our consent agenda. Consent agenda items. Does anybody have any approval? I have a question.
062>> Yes. Okay. Resolution 2026- consultation contact. >> Yes. I'm just wondering this. Have we had contact with Dr. Baker before? >> Um, no. This is a new endeavor. We are working to expand um special science curriculum. And so if um I'm here with Dr. Carol, she is um a former employee of Green High School District 218. She was administrator for science and music coordination. um she was a president of the National Association of Science Teachers and um a writer on the standards for the um next generation science standards. Um so we met with her and kind of see what kind of work she's done with other districts in order to um science instruction in order to um figure out a better understanding of those science standards and how to best classrooms. So we're hoping on
063to provide professional learning to our science teachers. The current plan is to be given by middle school. You're welcome. There any other questions or items to be removed? I would like to >> Yes. I would like to make a motion to remove Q which is the resolution 2026-036 adoption of the fiscal year 2026 budget. I guess I'd move this um to a special meeting of the board before September 30th to go further into the budget uh details and expenditures and um do a thorough analysis of the budget. Do I have a second? I'll second. Thank you. area. >> Yes. Um, this is room. Uh, Mr. Gri, >> no. M. >> Martinez. >> Yes. >> M. McInness. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wter. >> No. >> Mr. Bing. >> No. >> Uh, Mr. Burmeister. >> Yes. Roll.
064>> Yes. Approve. So we have a motion to approve to approve our consent agenda items for this evening. They are identify A F G H I J K L M N O P and R. I'll make a motion. Mr. >> Yes. >> Did you guys hear? >> Yes. >> Mr. Warner. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Moving on to agenda item six. These are action items. Um 6A is board policy review and monitoring. Um as a reminder at the July 15th board meetings we the board has assigned policy 22 for development and policy 470 safety. Uh so sign and um I would like to [Music] um Is there any question more comments or questions about the board and the post changing is 24. All right, none of the policies. Reapprove >> approve. Mr. G. >> Yes.
065>> Mr. M. >> Yes. >> Roll. >> Yes. >> Mr. Warner. >> Mr. Ber. Yes. Martinez. >> Yes. Moving on to um agenda item seven. These areformational items. Um, does anyone have any questions or comments about anything for 7, which is one of the frustrated course I just want to say thank you for your gift of hours. Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments about theseformational items? >> I just want to say I'm really excited that we have the Bernese Book Bank again. Um I think that's a phenomenal program and one of my books today. So, yay. And I I will note for the Kender Health workshops that parents do have an opt out option. So any parents who are interested in that I think they should probably just contact school. Any other
066questions or comments about items? All right. I will be moving on then. Okay. Moving on to make sure I don't skip anything. Okay. Reports. Um I will deliver the report. I do have just a few comments for those who are still with us this evening. Um, thank you. So, just as a board of the communities that we serve for everything from planning to active community relationships. Uh it's important that we as a board follow established process to build a shared understanding and work together in a way that allows for all the voices of our community to be heard to build out. Um to that end of course takes contract negotiations seriously and the district is committed to working with us. Uh negotiations are ongoing. Um we saw tonight we commitment of SE for its members
067and I personally admire that confident able to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Um uh the board is also aware of the allegations of this conduct against student and of course takes such allegations very seriously and is working with all parties involved to complete the investigation and address the situation. So I would just thank everybody again for being here the children working with us and Welcome to Dr. I have three items. I'd like to first say today is National IT Day and so thank you to our technology department for all you support our schools staff students. Unity Day is coming up. Um there is an order if you're interested in a t-shirt to support the event by Wednesday September 17th community day will be celebrated districtwide on Wednesday and I just want to thank our host uh
068Melissa and the team at each post the building was fantastic and appiate We have committee reports. Do we have any moving on to agenda item communication representatives? Do we have comments from CIA? Can I You have to read it every time you [Applause] teach me. Okay, sounds great. Um, dear Cook County School District board members, I have prepared this statement. This is a statement on the behalf of our president, Sher Sarah of the DA. I have prepared this statement as a response to all of the social media activity and hearing comments that have been occurring in our district and your efforts to be more transparent to the community. I am alarmed at the content of social media posts and comments made by parents regarding staff that work in our district. These posts and comments have
069been going on for a couple of years, but the content has become increasingly disturbing with people commenting or posting things that are completely untrue and not based on facts. These comments have the potential for actual harm to my members and are actually driving people out of our district. In these times, I ask you to please um be mindful that many of these comments are untrue and that you please wait for any process to unfold before passing judgment on any issue. I know that you have promised the community more transparency, but I hope that it doesn't come at the expense of the due process rights of our members in our local. I also share a concern about the reporting of BF board meetings. While we certainly do not want to infringe on anyone's rights to make
070public comments, we want to ensure that the process reflects full accuracy and transparency. Without that, negative comments directed at staff can have a lasting impact, particularly since those individuals do not have the opportunity to respond or provide context in that moment. Taking steps to preserve fairness and accuracy in how these recordings are presented will help prevent any undue harm. Thank you for your consideration in this matter and your time. Thank you. >> We have someone here from 4:30. >> Good evening, Superintendent Dr. President winners award, student advisory board and guest. Um I just want to thank and appreciate Dr. and her cabinet addressing concerns and information needed equipment for our students dignity and app and at this time we have no further concern except for taking things seriously accusation against [Applause] All right, we have
071local [Music] is close session. And I would like to call for a motion to go session [Music] organization. Mine. >> Yes. Sorry. >> Mr. Madison >> here. Yes. Mr. Approved Take a second. All right. here. >> Miss back. All right. Um action after close session item 11. Uh may I have a motion please to approve the superintendent search firm process and engagement. [Music] Yes. >> All right. All right. Next is adjournment. I have a motion please to adjourn the meeting. Second is 10 minutes.