001Dan Troy? Here. Thank you. Uh first of all, I'd like to welcome you all on this very inclement day. Nice of you to actually come and risk risk all you getting wet and everything, but it's really a delight that you made the effort and you're here today. So, thank you for that. Um the next item is the Pledge of Allegiance, and I've recruited three of our students to lead us in the pledge. Ladies, if you'll stand up. The flag is behind us here. Go ahead. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Thank you very much, ladies. Uh there is an attendance sheet in the lobby if you'd like to register
002your attendance, please feel free to sign that, and we will note your presence then. Um item two on the agenda, they have we have minutes for both the uh regular session of April 13th and the executive session of April 13th. I know there's been one correction uh to the executive session. Is there any other corrections? Has anyone got any corrections at this time? Motion to approve the meeting minutes. Second. I. Abstain. I. Thank you. We just made it. Um item three on the agenda, the recognition awards presentations and public hearings. In the GHS tradition of excellence, here we are. And uh Mr. Rogers is on his way up to share with us about some students. The board is going to step around here uh as Mr. Rogers brags on you, and then um after he's
003announced your name, come on up and start with the Mr. Troy on that end, and we'll have you um group up here in front of the lovely curtain. Uh Mr. Rogers, always cool to see the different than you know, diverse things that our students are doing and being honored for, so glad to hear about this tonight. Take it away. Yes, thank you very much, Dr. Barrett, and thank you very much to the board for this opportunity. Again, uh we joke that it's a a monthly, not even monthly, a bi-monthly affair, which just indicates what great students we have at GHS, and that is certainly true again tonight. So, we're introducing two groups, and I'm going to start with the students who competed in the Illinois Design Educators Association state competition back on April 11th. These
004three students, um just to give you a little background, um Mrs. Oxler, who's here this evening, uh assists these students and enters them into a Crosstown CAD Cup competition against Batavia. And the agreement is whoever wins that Crosstown CAD Cup, that qualifies that team or that group for the regional competition, which is held at Waubonsee Community College, and then all of these schools in the Waubonsee region are eligible to compete. And then the top three um competitors at that regional competition qualified for the state competition, as I said, which was held on April 11th down at Illinois State University. So, we were fortunate to have three students, and I'm going to introduce each student, and as I do so, I'll share um what they competed in. So, Blake Bulio, and as you can see, and
005board members, you I think saw the memo. We have a long list of students, but a very small crowd this evening, so we'll be recognizing everyone so that they can be viewed on TV and hear their name read, but uh Blake Bulio was a state qualifier in 3D machine CAD. Grant Conley was a 3D assembly model modeling second place winner in the state competition. And finally, the third student, Zach Evans was a state qualifier in 3D modeling. The person who is here, Mrs. Oxler. Come on up, Mrs. Oxler. >> [applause] >> Come on up. Uh Mrs. Oxler, along with Mr. Lucas Kilmer, uh they teach our Project Lead the Way courses along with Mr. Simon Selly, and um Amanda, yep, stay here. We got to take a picture. Yep. Solo shot, right in the middle
006there. Uh Mr. Kilmer and Mrs. Oxler and Mr. Simon Selly teach Project Lead the Way. Mr. Kilmer and Mrs. Oxler were the ones uh assisting our students as they got ready for competition. So, congratulations to those students. Thank you to Mr. Kilmer and Mrs. Oxler. And then our next group tonight is our math team that competed in the state competition um at Illinois State University. ISU is a big host of a lot of these competitions. So, back on Saturday, April 18th, our students competed in the state math competition. They qualified for state by competing in the regional competition at Benet Academy back in February. So, we're going to go through a long list here, and as I read the names, uh they are either a state qualifier, or they were part of some uh team
007competitions, or they may have perhaps placed as an individual. So, I'll mention that as we go along. Starting with Claire Austin, state qualifier. Addison Brinks, state qualifier. Joey Shintala, state qualifier. Come on up, Joey. >> [applause] [applause] >> If we didn't make it clear, if you're are here and you hear your name read, you're going up and shaking hands with Mr. Troy, and then working your way down the line, and then posing for a picture. So, Joey, stay right there, and your teammates will join you in a second. Matt Cortez. Matt was part of the junior senior eight-person team that took sixth place. Isla Cunningham. >> [applause] >> Isla, am I saying that right? Yes. All right. I know I've been known not to get that one right. Isla was a part of the also
008part of the junior senior eight-person team that placed sixth. Evan Eberhardt was a state qualifier. Landon Finale was part of the junior senior eight-person team that took sixth place. Zach Feucht was a state qualifier. Tyler Haney Tyler placed fourth in the state as an individual Algebra II student, and also was part of the junior senior two-person team that took fourth place, and the junior senior eight-person team that took sixth place. Think Tyler wins the prize for most awards downstate. Tyler Hoffman was a state qualifier. >> [applause] >> Kirill Lunin was a state qualifier. Giana Oxler was part of the junior senior eight-person team that placed sixth. Where is she, Mom? Yeah, she's on her way to drop it. I'm joking. I'm kidding. Do you want to go get her certificate? All right. Jonathan Papasavvas was
009part of the junior senior eight-person team that took sixth place. Claire Reeve, another member of that eight-person team. >> [applause] >> As I said, Claire was part of that junior senior eight-person team that also took sixth. Emmy Rios >> [applause] >> a member of the junior senior eight-person team that took sixth. Ella Rivier a state qualifier. Vicky Romanova was a state qualifier. Addison Ryan, state qualifier. Raul Sanchez, state qualifier. Alvin Tang >> [applause] >> Alvin was part of the junior senior two-person team that took sixth place. And Samanch Tripathi was a state qualifier. And that rounds out the group that competed and well, first of all, qualified, and I should uh share some of those students who are not here tonight. It's pretty logical. They were not able, after qualifying, to make the trip to
010compete, so I think it's logical that they probably didn't feel it was necessary to come accept their award. But nonetheless, we are very proud of all of our state qualifiers and very proud of these students who are up here tonight and who took the time out of their schedule to come accept their certificates. And as all of our groups do, we're always very proud of how they represent Geneva High School, not just in math competition or in the IDEA competition, but just how they conduct themselves and represent Geneva High School in a first-class manner wherever they go. So, thank you all very much for everything you're doing and I have to say I shudder to think of the math problems that they were trying to solve at that competition. Before we get this picture, I
011realized our math team is coached by Mr. John Thomas who is not with us tonight, but Mr. Ryan Esterbrook who's here. >> [applause] >> And Mrs. Mary Klinkey is the third member of the coaching staff. Now we can get that group photo. Very soon we'll have a chance to come up after I'm done. Yes. We're smiling, right? Please go ahead. You want a picture with your child. All right. Everybody good? All right, we're going to take one more photo. No, no, with mom. There you go. >> [laughter] >> Anybody else going to let their mom get in there? >> [laughter] >> Well done. GOOD JOB. >> [applause] >> ALL RIGHT, ONCE AGAIN TO THE BOARD AND DR. BARRETT, thank you very much for this opportunity. We We always enjoy presenting those awards to you, but
012this was seemed a lot more fun and frankly a lot more fun than math usually is, so. Thank you. Yeah. I guess somebody told them told everybody that you don't have to stay, so you're you're good to go. Next on the agenda, Brian Peterson will present an overview of the 2026-27 cap facilities capital projects. So, I think you'll all be surprised at all of the great things that are taking place around our buildings. Please. Tough group to follow there, huh? Thanks, guys. Um Thank you all for having me. Um my name is Brian Peterson. I'm the director of operations for the school district. Um today we are going to be recapping on 25 fiscal year 25 26 capital projects as well as discussing 26-27 capital improvement projects and uh hop right in. To start, we're
013obviously at Geneva High School. Um important to note the green checks just um signify that these projects were completed and closed out in the 25-26 fiscal year. Um so, we have the air handler and chiller conversion. Uh that was consisted of seven air handlers and um the chiller you see down there bottom middle. Uh we had the gymnasium fan installation which had fans installed in both the contest gym as well as Mack Olson gym. We have the library renovation which I know has made a huge impact over at the high school. They love that space. Um we modernized two elevators and we replaced the makeup air unit in the maintenance garage. At Middle School North, as you can see the far right, we had the track replacement. And at Middle School South, we replaced a
014section of failed roofing. As well as um we had quite a bit of interior painting that I wanted to give a shout-out to our painter as well as the summer painters. Um They did a great job. Really brightened up the school and made a big difference in there. Again, um feel repetitive with the mechanical work, but that's going to be a common theme for the next handful of years as we um you know, catch up on some of our deferred maintenance that we've got going on. Um but we had the chiller replacement as well as the chilled water pumps. The fire alarm replacement and that was at Harrison Elementary School. Um and then again at Heartland, we had the chiller replacement as well as chilled water pumps. And the top photos are of Hart- or
015I'm sorry, Harrison and the bottom photo two photos are of Heartland and then the fire alarm panels at Harrison. And you'll notice at Mill Creek Elementary School the VAV actuator valve replacement. Um that was one of the projects that was not completed in 25-26. Um that will be rolled over to the 26-27 capital project. Um but we did uh complete an elevator modernization at Mill Creek. Um and then at Fabian Elementary School, the bottom three photos are the LED upgrade. So, that is in the library there. So, did brighten up the space, make quite the difference there as well. And then we have the Keslinger bus garage. Um we had the parking lot expansion and additional propane tank installation for all their propane buses. And we are going to hop into the 26-27 capital projects.
016It is important to note that we're discussing these projects, but they were they have been already approved at previous board meetings. So, this is just a kind of recap of some of the work we're going to be starting on June 1st at the end of the school year. So, at the greenhouse, we have the greenhouse or I'm sorry, yeah, we have the greenhouse glazing replacement. We have the paving and site work at the east parking lot and student drop-off. The boiler house fire separation wall. Uh tennis court replacement. Server room split system replacement. And some masonry and roofing work that we're going to be taking care of some uh masonry leaks. I wanted to share this. This is kind of a broad overview of um you know, how much work we'll be doing at the
017high school. Kind of showing we'll be a little bit everywhere on site, so. Um to the furthest right, that is the staff parking lot as well as that little strip in between the parking lot and the high school. That is the student drop-off. So, that'll all be replaced. Um and then we have down at the bottom some boiler house work. It's that top photo to bring that wall up to code. And then obviously in the high school, we have the split system replacement as well as greenhouse replacement. And last but not least, out at Burgess Field, we've got the eight tennis courts to be replaced. And down there at the bottom, that just shows some of the shape of some of the asphalt and concrete in the areas where we're replacing. And then again, some
018additional photos just for context on the why. So, the top photos are of the greenhouse interior and exterior as well as some of the the bottom photos. Um Bottom two are the tennis courts. And at Geneva Middle School North, we have the uh boiler replacement and chilled water pumps. Health life safety work, all category A items. And then at Geneva Middle School South, we're going to be replacing the emergency generator. Uh fire alarm upgrades. An elevator modernization. And then we have um as well as at South health life safety uh category A items. And then also window blind blind replacements. So for this, um this is obviously a print. Outlined in red is what the new system is set to look like. You can see in the new boiler plant, we have five boilers versus
019the right side where we have the two larger ones. So this is essentially going to give us, you know, higher efficiency, smaller boilers for better control and optimization of our building, as well as we should see some cost savings. And then again, just some photos to show you of the current condition. Um the top photos are of the boiler plant. And then the bottom photos, um that is the elevator that's going to be modernization modernized at South. Um one of the older devices at South, as well as the generator at South that is coming up on 31 years old. And the additional work for 26 27, we've got Fabian Elementary. So we've got mechanical piping repairs in the hot water system. Mill Creek Elementary, we have masonry cleaning and tuck pointing. We've also got that
02025 26 rollover project for replacing the VAV valves. And then the LED lighting upgrade. At Harrison, we're going to be replacing two domestic water heaters. And at Kessinger bus garage, we have the mechanic pit replacement. Um if any of the schools weren't listed, we do not have any work [snorts] coming up there this summer. Again, some additional photos to show you some of the shapes and the why behind it. Um the top photo is a leaking VAV valve. Um you have some of the top middle ones, Fabian leaking pipes. Harrison's water heater. And then at the bottom there, we have the uh oil pit at Kessinger bus garage. And the last slide here is uh Mill Creek Elementary School. This just shows you some of the deterioration on some of the masonry work and the
021limestone coping. And why we're going to be cleaning that and resealing all those joints. Any questions? Questions, anyone? >> [snorts] >> More or less just more out of my curiosity. I know it's not not part of the capital plan, um but over at the high school where we're doing the paving, that speed bump, if we had to do that, would that have been a city project or would that be ours? Because it goes all the way across into our area, right? So it's technically in the right-of-way. So although it is city property, if we wanted to get rid of that speed bump in the entirety, we would have to cover the cost of that. Anyone else? It looks like you've got more to say, Brian. Yes, lucky you. All right. So the next one is
022the preliminary O&M budget. Uh this first slide is introducing some of the team. So we have um part of our O&M team, we have Todd Latham. Uh myself. Kyle Johnson, who's the maintenance and grounds coordinator. Tom Sheridan, who's our custodial coordinator. Tim Baker, safety and security coordinator. And then we have Veronica Munoz and Ashley Bringhouse, who are admin assistants. Uh the 26 27 staffing, so we have 55 full-time and 27 part-time associates. And that consists of um our building, you know, our administration here in the office, custodial, grounds, maintenance, HVAC, security, and technology. And to dig into some of the numbers, so our uh estimated local and state revenue, we have a estimated local revenue of $14,820,161. And then a state revenue of $2,150,000. And consisting of, you know, property taxes, interest income, and rental
023fees, and other things. Our salaries and benefits, um our projected 26 27 budget for salaries is $5,962,818. And our benefits projected at $1,327,631 for a grand total of $7,291,449. Um and it is important to note in this year's budget, we do have the O&M working conditions agreement, so um there's a little you'll see a little bit of a take of an increase, so we do have a 4 and 1/2% increase for all employees in the department. And our professional services, um preliminary budget of $3,930,681. And a lot of this is um contracted work, architects, engineers, training, software service agreements, um things of that nature, any contracted services. And I do think it's important to note with the way the economy's going this day these days, I know we do see it's kind of substantial year
024over year. We're seeing anywhere from vendors um coming back with five to upwards of 10% increases on labor rates, materials, and things of that nature. Um and we're also trying to combat that, um changing our preventive maintenance cycles, um increasing how often we're checking on certain areas of the buildings and things of that nature, to hopefully try and catch things um before they become too severe or to where we need to contract services out. Um And then we have our supplies and materials budget projected at $3,058,505. And this consists of, you know, everything to all those parts and supplies to keep our buildings running. A lot of flush valves, a lot of outlets, a lot of switches, things of that nature. And as well, I believe, yes, we do have utilities in there as well.
025And then we have our capital purchases are $150,000. Um and then we have our other services, contingency, and non-capital. So we have other services budget of $1,000. Contingency of $40,000. Non-capital $550,000 for a grand total of $591,000. And this is our dues and fees, contingency fund, a replacement of equipment or new equipment. And this is our five-year comparison. Um so year over year in our local versus state, you can see um the you know, the previous three years from 22 23 to 24 25, a pretty substantial increase in our local revenue. Um whereas our 25 26 to 26 27 is pretty in line and even killed right next to each other. Um Down at the bottom, you also see our salary increases, um 25 26 versus 24 25. That was when our new working conditions
026agreement did go into effect, so we did have a substantial increase to um bring some of the employees up to their wage up. Um but down at the bottom, our estimated total expenses, you could see for our 26 27 year, we have $15,021,635. And our revenue minus expenses of $1,948,526. Um our next steps are going to be finalizing our salaries and benefits, confirming our uh year-end fund balances, finalizing our capital plan, and then preparing our fund 60. Anybody have any questions or comments? Yeah, just uh one quick question. When we went with the new um working agreement, one of the issues that was an issue prior to going into this was keeping our um the positions filled and we had a large turnover. Um have we seen an improvement over the last 2 years as
027we as we move down that [snorts] um process? No, absolutely and thank you for bringing that up. Um within that salary I do want to point out right around the 24 25 year um when we started talking about that and enacting it, I will say part of that increase is not just our salaries for employees increased, but also our overall retention of employees in those departments. So, I think in the past years we might have been operating for example, down 15 custodians, two grounds, two maintenance, whereas today we sit um full in our maintenance department, full uh in our grounds department, and then I believe we're two to three short in our custodial department versus where we sat, you know, two to three years ago. Anywhere from 15 to 20 down. So, that does make
028a substantial difference and yes, I do think that the changes in the O&M agreement did help retain people as well. Anyone else? Thank you, Brian. That uh the last point in question Paul's really good as well. It it highlights the fine job that you're doing and we appreciate it. >> Appreciate you guys. Thank you. Thanks, Brian. Thank you. Item four is safety and security presentation by Tim Baker. He can do more than take pictures. Jack-of-all-trades. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, every year about this time Mr. Baker comes and just gives us an update on um the things uh you know, that he can share uh about um where we're at with our safety and security procedures. Um so, uh this is this is that time. Um and you know, as as I said, obviously there are
029things that uh Mr. Baker's working on behind the scenes constantly that we don't want to share or or won't be talking about, but um it's just good to have this opportunity to talk about all the things that are happening. Um and I'm glad to have Mr. Baker here to share those, so. I touched to this microphone earlier, so I'm hoping it works. You're not connected yet though, Mr. Baker. I'm not? No. There you go. It's coming. There you go. Escape. Yeah, don't hit escape. >> [laughter] >> I should have my microphone up there to say stuff like that. Sorry. There you go. From the beginning. I think it should pop up there. >> [clears throat] >> I just realized that uh as part of my conversation I I just want to explain uh this is
030going to be my last presentation this year uh cuz I'm retiring at uh in July. Uh but it's been an honor to have an opportunity to come here and take pictures and do other things here for the the board here and I want to say thank you to everybody. But uh the whole goal of safety and security is to make sure the the school is safe for the students and the staff. And everything there's a whole bunch of uh uh wizards behind the the curtains to make sure that things are are safe for the students and staff to make sure that they the students can uh uh work in in learning a safe environment and the teachers can be uh working in a safe environment knowing that things are okay. And so, the things I'm
031going to cover today are just a quick uh explanation to some of the things. I don't want to I spend 45 minutes here talking about the safety and security stuff, but the whole goal is to make sure that as the students are walking out the building we're setting up the safety and security for the next school year. So, the summer time projects that that start literally they're going out to the buses and stuff like that and we're gearing up for the beginning of the school year, checking things, making sure everything is working properly, putting work orders in so the other guys in O&M uh can take care of and and make sure that uh equipment is working and up to speed. It takes a a lot of time to get this all done with our
032safety team and then once they're done with that, then they can move on to uh uh the other things they have responsibilities for over the summer. But uh I'm going to put my glasses on cuz I realized that uh I forgot to get that little clicker thing to be able to do this and stand in front of the podium and just uh talk about the things here. But we're in our third year of the uh safety and security uh camera upgrade system and what we've had in our district here is an opportunity to replace a lot of the old cameras and we've gotten the Jamestown High School done with uh 65 new cameras, both the two middle schools uh have about the same amount of cameras there. And then also Williamsburg Elementary School, Harris Hill
033School, and the bus transportation garage, which I was really happy to get that one done uh for that cuz we have the pro new propane tanks and such over there. But the the goal is to get the the schools replaced with all the cameras. We had a lot of some aging cameras in the the focus for next year will be the the last four schools uh in this, which would be uh Western, Fabian, Mill Creek, and Hartland. Those are schools that um they don't need the the amount of cameras that the uh uh I was talking to the business uh man right over there that there's not going to be as expensive at the Jamestown High School cuz the four schools don't have as many uh cameras over there for that. But there is a
034a need for uh such for the uh the uh safety and security for the uh the buildings and stuff. I just want to kind of glaze over every year we do the the six drills. If you've ever had an opportunity to be at the schools when they're doing uh the fire drills or the bus evacuation. Bus evacuation is the most entertaining I think. The bus drivers are very committed to making sure that uh the students understand the concept of uh evacuating out the back of the bus and such. Uh but the focus I want to talk about where uh we have a five-year program that we've done with the uh I love you guys program for our safety uh parent unification. We've done the first year we did the Jamestown High School, second year with
035the two middle schools, then we split the elementary schools three and three. And so, we've completed all the uh all all nine of the schools with the training for our staff in case there's a a need for a parent unification. And I what I want to explain to that is I I can only use one hand. I'm like a one-armed fisherman cuz I got to keep this close to my uh to my uh uh basis that we have a plan that can pretty much cover just about everything. But the reality is a lot of our plans, anything that's going to happen in our district though, the more likely things than 99.9% of things, a power outage, you know, a lightning storm. That's why I was I was joking with Brian with the lightning was kind
036of close here earlier. I was hoping the power wasn't going to go out cuz I wanted to uh get through this uh presentation here tonight. But the a power outages uh uh a uh uh something breaking, you know, water in the building, no water in the building. All those things where we have a parent unification or the need for it. Some of these are so simple that, you know, that we don't need all the resources, but we are geared up to to handle the big ones. And so, we can do the little ones relatively easy with the core group of people at the schools and also uh the staff from this building here. They're just kind of I would like to describe them as the rapid deployment force. They would come over and assist the
037school in in reuniting the children uh with their parents and such to make sure that everybody gets home safely cuz that's our biggest responsibility. And the uh I never understood what the annual review was until I when I first started and and uh my former boss told me this is going to take a while and I'm like and 2 and 1/2 months later I was like, "God, this took a long long while." The whole idea of the annual review is to get our first responders, our school administrators, getting all the information collected from our district, how many students, how many uh students that may have special needs or is uh wheelchair bound and stuff that uh that the first responders they don't need to know the students' names, but they just need to know, you
038know, where things at. And in reinforcing that uh you know, we added a AED at the Jamestown High School. The fire department was happy to hear that we we now have 11 AEDs at the Jamestown High School. But getting the information, getting everybody together. It's a lot easier for me to talk to the board when I'm when I can make eye contact with you and and and look at everybody else in the room. Uh to not have the opportunity for the our first responders to be together in the same room to answer questions uh from our administrators or the the questions that they may have or the administration might have about the uh uh the police cars, the fire trucks, and all the different things that happen. We had a one annual review that uh
039uh I thought I was the star of the show until the Kent County deputy walked in with the most the cutest dog ever. Uh and uh I might have been third fiddle, maybe fourth fiddle to that uh annual review meeting uh because everybody was infatuated with the dog and uh uh but it was just one of those things where I just learned that everybody that these dogs are so fun and they they calm everybody down immediately. And it was just it's a really great resource for us to know that the fire department or the sheriff's department or the Jamestown police department has another dog, too. Uh if anybody knows the name, I I forgot I forgot to pull that name out of my hat before I start this presentation. But it's all about making sure
040that our community overall is is ready and safe. That's a safety and security is all blended in this, but everything we do in our district is to make sure that the everything that happens in the classroom is going to be okay because all the other people around it are making sure the buildings and you know the lights are on, the heating is on, the air conditioning is on, the uh there's security people just to make sure everybody's safe. If there's a situation that happens and we've had these happen before where schools have had situations that come up and they've done the really good thing because we have a lot of uh uh information that uh comes on. This here on the right hand side is the uh uh posters we have at the school districts.
041On the back of your ID cards we all have cuz I think I see most of board members with the ID cards on the back of them has a very quick plan uh of action to what to do in the in the moment. Cuz you can't expect people to do 20 different things in emergency. We're lucky if we can do two, maybe three if you're really if they practice a lot. And the whole idea is to have a poster uh at the schools. So because one side on the left hand side is what the students should be doing or what the students can be doing. On the right hand side is for what the adults should be doing to make sure that they're aware cuz this is not just uh the teacher responsibility to make
042sure the school is safe. It's also the the students' responsibilities to make sure the school is safe and they work together with us to make sure that it's a very safe environment. And uh the I spoke about the the back of the ID cards. It's very simple. If there's a hold and I'll give you an example, the hold is when a kid throws up in the hallway uh and they go to a hold is because they want to clean that up so they don't have 30 other kids seeing it and then throwing up all over the hallway. Uh and uh or the teachers getting sick or the smell and stuff. It's just to keep everybody in the classrooms and move on. And uh uh and going to a secure. If we ever have a squirrel
043break into our buildings, we had a squirrel here in our our building one time. It was a free-for-all for about a half hour until Audrey came with a box and finally trapped the trapped him and got him out of the building. So everybody everybody lived happily ever after. Uh and so all these things are there for us to know what to do when something pops up and we go, "Okay, that's uh you know, it's to evacuate." We know how to evacuate. The teachers have practiced it, the students have practiced it. Our kindergarteners, first graders, by the time they get to high school they've done it uh what is that maybe 24 times? Uh and they're they're very familiar with what they need to do and how to get out of the buildings and such. And
044the parent unification sites I I had uh the uh document I sent earlier. I had missed it. It was uh it's updated for all of our buildings cuz we have a primary parent unification site. We also have secondary sites because we can't we can't just have one plan and no other plan. We have to have a a plan A, a plan B and a plan C. So most of our schools have a plan A, a plan B and plan C regarding a parent unification if it need be. And then we're moving on to the safe school tip line. I really like I'm not sure who in this room came up with that title, safe school tip line cuz it's I always like to tell people this is not about getting students in trouble. It's about
045a student that is maybe in crisis and needs some assistance. We have a whole plethora of people that can come in and assist if if we know a child or a student is is having some difficulties, having some struggles, having some anger issues where we can get them help for them and de-escalate uh the situation before it gets before it gets out of hand. We all know towns and all across America have had situations that have occurred, but a lot of times if there's uh early intervention with maybe it's tip line, somebody says something, somebody calls somebody, somebody passes information on, it really helps to make sure that the students and staff are are safe because we can help them because it's like anything. If it's if their problem is this big, it's it's so
046much easier to fix it than if it were this big. So the tip line is really is is a very good tool for us to try and help the students. And again, it's not to punish anybody, it's trying to help them and and keep them in our schools. Our Raptor system is the if you ever come into our buildings, Raptor is to make sure that people that shouldn't be in our building are not allowed to be in our building. And it's a very effective tool. It's uh people feel safe. I was just at Waubonsie a couple days ago and they had a parent uh parent teams coming there. I wasn't sure what exactly what it was, but they had uh everybody's raptored in. They were just handing these things out. People are checking in. They're
047actually looking at the ID cards to make sure the the person that was picking up the ID card was the person in the picture. It's a very effective tool for us to make sure that those that shouldn't be in our school are not in our buildings. And then the Raptor system and stuff uh we can add other private alerts if we need to that has to do with maybe building specific. And all that is is confidential information. And our security cameras I kind of touched base with about those that it's it's not to really get students in trouble. If you've ever anybody been at Best Buy in the last two or three years? You walk into Best Buy and there's a guy at the door normally in a bright yellow shirt. He's got uh he's
048working in the cameras. "Hey, how are you doing, sir?" as you're walking in the door. "Hey, ma'am, how are you doing?" making eye contact with the person in hopes that they don't steal from Best Buy. He also has got a mouse. He's moving the cameras around to let people know that he is watching the cameras. So it lets people know, "Hey, we're being Please don't steal from us." But it's a good way of just telling people not to be doing something and then demonstrating, you know, that uh that we're watching. And it's not it's very nice. They're always the nicest people in the world when they're doing this, but our camera systems at schools is to to keep our students from not making bad choices. And a lot of times I think if there's a
049camera they're going to go like this one right there that's staring at me that I thought I was hoping it was pointing at somebody else while I was talking, uh but thank you for maintaining it over here on me is to make sure I'm I'm covering everything I need to cover. The uh drill observations that we have uh when we go out for drills, I'll try and uh monitor and watch those. Our red bags we you've heard me talk about our red bags we have in our classrooms. Those are for emergencies and the teachers bring those out if the building has to evacuate. They've got student rosters and all the information that they they may need if they if it need be. Uh that's in those red bags. There's a whole bunch of stuff on
050that. And we do other compliance checks throughout the whole year. If there's a you know, if there's doors slamming not working right or any different things, the fobs, access points aren't working or if a board member's ID card stops working, I can I I turn it back on really quick as soon as I get a phone call from uh the boss uh to make sure that they you can get into the board meetings. The uh one final thing I'll be talking about here is the uh uh staying up to date on practices. Our district has uh a lot of things that go on in our district, but there's a lot more in our greater the greater community. We meet every month during the school year at the regional office of education and kind of round
051table discussions about what's happening uh now the communities. What happens in Aurora sometimes makes up to here. You may have heard what happened in uh where they're doing the uh senior assassin. One student showed up with a assault rifle looking squirt gun uh at an elementary school and uh there was a massive police response to that. Uh and they're not supposed to have be doing this at schools, but these things can trickle down uh and we just want to be prepared for these things. We push information out to the schools to make sure the the students understand this is not something for school property. And then my final one I didn't change anything from last year on this particular uh slide because uh the training is so important for for all of us for everything
052we do in our district, but also that the uh I don't know that we have a a complacent uh school district or staff. They're very much involved in wanting to make sure the the students are safe and successful. And then my final thing is any Questions, anyone? Dan. Just have one uh not really for you, Mr. Baker, but maybe for Mr. Peterson and um Dr. Barrett um with with Mr. Baker's retirement and I believe our resource officer in at the high school um changing over, will there be any overlap because with uh a lot of institutional knowledge leaving, I think uh it'd be important to have that. Absolutely. We're we're working through that process right now and we've already um with the new uh resource officer at the high school, he's already been in at
053the high school and met and I know he's working with our current resource officer uh Detective Haney. Um our team here has had a lot of conversation about this transition with Mr. Baker already and um so we're grateful he's given us a little bit of runway here uh to be able to do some of that planning. So we recognize that's going to be an important need. Great. Thanks. Tim, thank you so much. Uh I'm assuming you'll have a little more time to get in that pool this summer. Okay. That's just us waiting. Do this for the next person. Thank you. And then remember to exit out of this. Thank you, sir. Next item is public comments. Bonnie, did you receive any requests for comment? No. Would anybody like to say anything now? This is your
054chance. Okay. Next is legislative updates, item five. All right. Thank you. I have just a couple things I wanted to go over today. One was a specific bill Dr. Barrett had brought to our attention. It's House Bill 5107. Has to do with panic alarms being installed at our schools. Um this particular bill did pass through Let me get it up here. Uh through the House and is now in the Senate. So it did make that deadline that I had talked about last time and they're working through it. I I read through it. I did see a keyword in there uh in uh the legislation the proposed legislation that says that the districts shall consider >> Consider. the use of the mobile panic alarm system. Um so I think that's a key that kind of gives
055us some flexibility as a district because this is an unfunded mandate if it does get passed. So we are always sensitive to those things and and we just heard a safety presentation so we know that we're thinking about these things and we have procedures in place for that, but hopefully with that one keyword in there that will help us, but we'll see how this one moves along and then and should it get passed through the Senate, I'll let everyone here know how that ended up. So that was one thing. Another one I wanted to mention that was brought to our attention has to do with one of um a constitutional amendment that's related to what they're calling the millionaires tax. This was a 3% surcharge on a portion of a taxpayer who has a net
056income that is greater than $1 million. dollars. This particular proposal is not something that can just go through the House and the Senate like we're used to. This actually requires a constitutional amendment and at this point it it appears that it's not going to be able to move forward because this is something that would actually have to be voted on at the next general election, but it doesn't not appear it will make it through the process so that it gets on the ballot, but if it was something that continues and I think it will be continuing to have some sort of discussion that 3% surcharge they're estimating would be an additional $2.2 billion annually for the state. And what are they going to do with that money? 50% is going to be distributed to provide
057property tax relief and the other 50% would be distributed to school districts on a per pupil basis. So I just wanted to mention that as a possible future amendment that could potentially help us out, but I don't know if how far this is going to go. We've heard these things before. Specific taxes on people who make a certain amount of money each year, but we'll we'll see what happens. There's one other bill that came up in our finance committee. I'll let Dr. Barrett talk a little bit more about it, but it has to do with the mega project bill which is another bill that's moving through that has to do with mega projects. It's basically kind of about the Chicago Bears and their new stadium, but it does have other implications for potentially us. I'll
058let him talk more about that. Yeah, thanks Jackie. I just think it's important for us to to keep an eye on this one. This mega projects bill is the Bears bill. You know, there's this whole negotiation going on trying to keep the Bears in the state and all that kind of stuff. And so they're um some members of the legislature are working to try to come up with some kind of grand bargains and compromises to potentially have like this mega projects bill that if big projects come into a community, there would need to be negotiation with the local taxing bodies. There would be structures in place if something like that happened. That would look a lot like TIFs look now. And so I just think it's important for us to be mindful of that. I
059know there's not a chance the Bears are coming to Geneva, but the thing is we don't know what other implications there could be in terms of like if data centers would be included in this and there's a lot of talk about that. If you have other big projects, you know, like they're looking at and on the the far uh east side over here. Like could there be implications for something like that? So I don't know. I just think it's important for us to watch that because as we know and have seen with TIFs once once that's there and those things can start happening and then they're going to be there and there's just going to be more of them. So I just think it's important for us to be mindful. Thanks, Jackie. And that concludes
060my report. Yeah, and that was the smoothest segue to the superintendent's report I've ever seen. Please, Dr. Barrett. Thank you, sir. Just a few quick topics and thank yous mostly to hit tonight. First, I just want to give huge thank you to our administrative professionals. Last week was administrative professionals day and we have a team of approximately 40 awesome individuals who just make such a difference in our school and in our community every day. We're really grateful for that team of people and you know, we try to highlight at each meeting like different groups that are just doing great things for our community and this was perfect timing with admin professionals uh day just being last week. So we're really grateful for all they do to keep things running so smoothly for our faculty and
061staff and our kids. Also just this was timely as well because Mr. Baker was presenting tonight. Um and I just want to give a few thank yous about our safety and security. And I do want to start. I hope he's not too far away and can hear cuz I do want to say a huge thank you to Mr. Baker as he is preparing for retirement. Um as you heard and as you know, he does a lot to help us prepare for emergencies, but I am also truly truly grateful for this role and for Mr. Baker when those emergencies do occur. Um cuz to have someone that you know will just be there and be on it when those things happen when you're sitting in this chair makes a huge difference and I can say candidly
062if I were to think of the hardest moments I've had in this job, most of them Tim has been the first person to talk to me because something happened. And I'm just grateful that he's always there and that we have somebody who has all those connections and is is so willing to go out and be out in our community and our schools try to keep us safe. So grateful to the board for having that role and Tim, thank you for for being that person. Um So you know, and to that end, that role partners a lot with our community partners and I do really want to thank them as well. You know, just in the last few days I've been connecting with some local police officers, connecting with the chief about the fire chief about
063some things. Um so people don't always see those connections happening, but they're happening a lot because we're making sure that we're doing the right stuff and and keeping safe. So want to thank all of our community partners and you know, as Tim noted, just every member of our community who does all the little things to help make sure we're staying safe. And the last thing just thought it would be valuable to make sure we address this. We haven't done in a while. As you know, we're preparing for a big student information system transition. This is going to be a massive massive shift for our district. And our our technology and data staff have been doing so much work behind the scenes and some of that work has been trickling out to in front of the
064scenes a little bit. The final stages of data conversion are underway. The amount of work that our data team has done to take all the data that's been in this system for two decades and get it all converted to be in the new system in the right way. They've been working hard and and they're getting close. We've had several user training sessions and a lot more are planned over the summer. There's a full communication campaign in the works and we've talked a little bit about this. That we're really starting with our focus being on our staff before we get to some of the communication and opening up some of those tools for our community, but that doesn't mean we're not preparing for that. We just want to make sure we start with the staff before
065we then transition to the community. And the one thing that I think why I think our community probably knows a little bit about this if anything is because we've accelerated some of our year end and beginning of the year processes like verification and registration and all these kinds of things to help us be prepared for this transition. So thanks to our families for working through all of that with us. Um and we know it's it's different for this year, but it's going to pay off in the long run when we make this transition. So thanks to families and again, just thanks to all the time and effort from folks behind the scenes preparing for this system transition. We think it's going to go well. That's all I have, Larry. Thank you very much, Dr. Barrett.
066Our next item uh is item seven, the board dialogue and topics pending action consideration. Item one is consolidated district plan, Assistant Superintendent Shenita Sims will present present present us with the 2027 district plan. Oh. Not quite. Jane George, you're taking over, huh? Have a Mr. Petry message here. I've heard that computers are going to save us a lot of time. Right? Not sure I believe it yet. Oh, there we go. Okay, well, thank you. It's it's it's hard to believe that next week we're in May and from the office of learning and teaching, Um, we have already been starting the preparation for next school year for fiscal year 27. Um, and part of that process includes the approval of the consolidated district plan. So, just to give you a little idea of what what this
067does, this is the first step in opening and having access to all of the federal grants that come our way. So, really the Illinois State Board of Education identifies three goals here of for this consolidated consolidated district plan that includes student learning, um, learning conditions and elevating educators. So, all of the grants that are attached to the consolidated district plan are right here. We've got the title one, title two, title three, title four, and of course our largest grant, which is the Individuals with Disabilities Education um, Act. And the numbers that I have here are from this school year. We expect that these numbers will for the most part continue into next year. We have seen a small decline each year in these numbers. Um, but uh, you know, we will I will share those
068new numbers with you once we get those approved by the state. But, before we could even apply for these grants, we have to first get approval from the school board to submit this district plan. And so, what does that mean? Part of the district consolidated district plan, we would kind of go in there and identify how we would use the funds should we get, you know, approved for that. So, I would go into each of these each of these grants and share A, how we've used the these funds in the past, and B, how we will continue to use these funds in each of these categories here. So, just to provide you a little bit of background for each of the grants here, title one, improving the academic achievement of the disadvantaged. These funds are
069specifically tied to students that are {quote} at risk. So, in each of these grants, you'll notice there is a non-public requirement that that we provide to our non-public schools. And so, here in Geneva, we have two, that's St. Peter's in Geneva and Mont Manzio Montessori. Title one is also a little different in that these funds follow students that might be attending a private school outside of our Geneva. So, let's say they go to Aurora Christian or any other public school. So, we do reach out to all of these schools. The state provides us with a list. There's close to 30 or so that we reach out and we make them aware that these funds are available. Most decline the funds, but you know, each year at least Mont Manzio and St. Peter's does accept these
070funds. But, here in Geneva, we do use these funds to support our students that are at risk, and that is either through salary positions or through professional development or through supplemental and or instructional materials. Title two, this is uh, specifically speaks to the professional development preparing training. So, most all of these funds are used for professional development for us. The only two private schools are those that reside within Geneva School District are eligible. So, for these funds, they are not tied to where students go. However, only to those private schools that are in Geneva School District boundaries, so which are those two schools. Title four is used to support student in academic achievement. So, what we use these funds for actually is a lot of the things that we don't really talk about on a
071daily, you know, basis. So, think about some of the fun activities that might go on in a classroom outside of, you know, reading and math. If you would ever if you would ever like to come and observe an eyeball being dissected in one of our elementary a cow eye, I should say, being dissected in an elementary, I can make that happen. You can come. But, a lot of these STEM type of activities that we use we use these funds to to kind of balance out, you know, all the great things that go on go on in our classrooms. We also use some of these funds for, you know, health and safety, our mutual grounds presentations, and Aaron's Law presentations. So, that's what title four is for. Again, these are also has a portion of non-public,
072again, only for those non-public schools that reside within the Geneva boundaries. Title three, there were some rumors initially, I believe last year this time I shared that perhaps this one was going might be going away or these funds might be transferred to a different um, grant or title. They're not, they're back. So, these funds are directly tied for students that are receive language instruction for English programming, so our EL students. We have also again a small number that is tied to non-public schools, again, only for those here in Geneva. And again, our largest grant, I believe this one was close to 1.4 million dollars, that's our Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. These funds are used for a variety of reasons from our student by our student services department to support salary positions, materials, curriculum if
073needed, anything really to support our students district-wide. So, I am hoping that um, you all approve the consolidated district plan and how we intend to use these funds so that we could submit that plan so they could open up the applications for each of the title grants. Do we have any questions? Any questions? We had two IDEAs tonight. I know. >> [laughter] >> Illinois Design Educators Association and this one. All right. Well, thank you very much, George. I'll make the motion. I think I we have to make a motion, right? Do we do it now? It can It's not in my agenda, but um, if it if if it is an appropriate time, we can certainly proceed with that. I'll make the motion to approve the consolidated district plan. Okay. Do I have to give
074a year? Uh, for 2027, FY27. Yep. Second. Aye. Thank you. Item two is the designation of auditor. And Todd Latham will present the information and we will have another motion for that, I'm sure. Yes, each year under the Illinois School Code, we're required to designate an auditor that will perform our auditing services a third party. Again this year, as last year, we recommend Wipfli, who is exceptional for us. We work really well with them. They've got a fine-tuned process. We've automated some of that using our cumulative new software to help kind of move through that process more quicker than we have in past years, and they bring in a really good team that works well with our staff. So, it's my recommendation the board approve Wipfli as our auditing firm and designate them as our
075auditor. They'll be auditing all the funds through the close of this fiscal year, June 30th, 2026. Thank you very much, Todd. Do we have any questions or a motion? So moved. Second. Aye. Thank you. Item eight, work study topics and future action consideration. Policy updates, it's a first reading, updated, reviewed, and new policies. And there are Let's see, it looks like about 25 of them. Did I skip one? Yeah, the the support staff. No, it's not on the other I hope this was public. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. All right. So, there are 25 items here. The policy chair will respond to questions about policy updates and reviews for the first reading. Um, so, they've been reviewed by the administration and the policy committee, and we don't require any action at this time. But, if anyone has
076any questions, it's appropriate. I thought I would just add a couple of notes for everyone. So, most of the policies are slight changes, legal reference changes, or just a review, which is very important. It's a requirement to review these every 5 years, and it's just good for us all to have a refresher of the the existence of some of these policies that we may not have to utilize all the time. But, I thought I'd call your attention to two policies. There's policy 2200, and that's types of board meetings, and that one had a question that we had to answer about posting a meeting notice in multiple locations if we have a special meeting, so not just posting it here at the district office, but also posting it at the location of the special meeting. We
077answered no to that question because most often our meeting is here in the district office, so that's where it would be posted. We thought it remained consistent and if someone came looking for a meeting here and it was at another location, the notice would be here to tell them it was at another location. And we have many other ways to notify people of meeting locations that they probably utilize more with online platforms more so than just coming in person. Our second policy was 2220, Board of Education meetings, and the question on that one was if we should take roll call on all matters when we vote when we're during a meeting. And we said yes because that's currently what we do, so we just thought we should match that policy to what we currently do
078in um any financial matters or any other question, we just take a roll call vote. But let me know if you have any questions on the other policies and we'll approve those at the next meeting. Anyone else? I had one and it's really picky, but I was looking at policy 4165. Uh is this the right one? Uh awareness that >> 145. Okay. I should look at my notes before I say it. The migrant students. So >> Sure. on this one on number three, they made a change from stating that it will provide migrant children blah blah blah to provide migrant students. And the reasoning was just that it was an update. But in the same sentence, they use the word children at the end. And I was I just thought that was interesting. So if
079we're changing children to students in one in in the sentence, why are we why does it still say children? Shouldn't that be students? And I don't know if that's a something that we can ask um IASB, but it was just if they went to the trouble to change the word children to students, why didn't they do it in the same policy? See what I'm saying? Yeah, I see what you're saying and I think either way the sentence could be a little confusing. Cuz I I read it differently, but I see how you're reading it now that you're saying that. Yeah, like that they're both. Um we could we could ask about that. Let's let's ask. >> nitpicky. >> Yeah, no, but when I read it That's what you're supposed to do, right? >> Yeah, yeah.
080Why didn't they change both of them to students? >> check into that. Okay. That was the only thing, but um thank you for bringing up the questions cuz I thought that might be how we voted, but now ready for next time when we vote. Great, thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Next, item nine, information. Board meeting presentation schedule, two FOIA requests and board correspondence, three suspension report. This is for information only. Discussion is not required, but if anyone has any questions, I would entertain them at this time. Okay. And then next, my personal favorite, the consent agenda. Item one, personnel report, personnel report that is. Resignations, retirements, leave requests, changes in assignments, full-time equivalent, and new hires. Item two, monthly financials for March. Item three, gifts, grants, and bequests, $500, Richardson Electronics Limited for the GHS
081Robotics Club. Item four, gifts, grants, and bequests, $17,411, Mill Creek PTO to purchase new playground equipment. Questions? A motion? Motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. Aye. Thank you, Bonnie. Next is board member comments and reports. Just to be unusual, we'll start with Dan this time. Yeah, just a couple of things. Uh congratulation to our students on the Tradition of Excellence um award recipients. I think uh um a lot of times we we um revolves around athletics, but uh I love that this time it um had to do with uh math and IDEA. And so um some um some different types of traditions that and as as Mr. Rogers mentioned, um representing Geneva uh very well in their respective events, so that's awesome. Uh let's see, the O&M and safety presentations, thank you for all
082that information. There was a lot of good information in there. Um so for those that are watching, it'd be good to um take a look at those presentations again because there is a lot of good information in there. And then uh um I guess kind of along the same lines, um we just approved the the Mill Creek playground up upgrade and uh I think that's a long time coming. I know that I was telling Dr. Baird this afternoon that I think my middle daughter Mina, I think she when Georgia was there, I think she ran her student council campaign based off of the upgrade to that playground, so that's a long time coming, so that's good. That's all I have. Thanks, Dan. Yeah, I really don't have anything this time. I was out for less
083week and a half, so I'm going to pass on that. Okay. Right. Um I'll echo Dan, congrats uh tonight on everyone who received the Tradition of Excellence Awards. And agreed, it was nice to see different folks from different groups come and see us tonight. And um and for coming out in the inclement weather that we had tonight. So I know that had a factor in um being able to get here tonight. Um I wanted to also mention that I was able to attend the musical at the high school on Thursday night. What a fantastic show. I know many students are involved in that and it was truly just exceptional. I I think the I I believe last year when we did when they did Seussical, I talked about the choreography. Well, this just took it
084to a new level, the way that they were able to dance and sing these pretty complicated moves. I happened to watch the movie the weekend before just to refresh my memory and and and it was really aligned with the movie and and they did a great job of keeping it um kind of like a teen version. Um and but still kept really the all the the contents of what that movie was about. So absolutely fantastic. I'm glad I I was able to do that. Um I wanted to just give out a couple shout-outs, reminders for folks. May 9th is prom at the high school. And every year we have the post prom event for the students when they come back. And it's really important I want to remind folks that they are looking for donations.
085You can go on to their Amazon wish list, you can give cash. They're also looking for volunteers. It takes a lot of people to put on the post prom so that students have a a safe place to go afterwards and and really enjoy themselves. There's a lot of prizes that are given out at the end and I know they all enjoy that. So just a reminder um to everyone to donate if you can. And then >> Jackie, where can we find that volunteer sign up again? Um my guess is it's through the PTO, so it's probably on the high school PTO site. >> I'll I'll get that information and share it in a I know it's also in the GHS Connects [music] that comes out, the um the little newsletter each week, so. >> Great.
086Wonderful. Thank you. Cuz I didn't actually go and look at that. And then the other thing that was they just started advertising it, the the the jazz dinner is on May 19th. I usually put a plug in for this every year. This is where the Geneva High School band and the Geneva High School Blue Tones perform. It's more casual. If you're interested, you can buy tickets for dinner that's provided by Riganato's and enjoy music or you can just come and listen without um having to participate in the dinner part of that. So again, that is uh May 19th at the high school. And that's all I have. Thank you. Stephanie? Great. I will just echo what um Dan and Jackie said about our presenters tonight and um our award recipients. Something that kind of stood
087out to me today was just um how much our staff puts into students and creating some opportunities for them, like with what Mrs. Axler does to team up Geneva and Batavia. And I know that that's not an isolated case, all of our staff does that when working with their teams or their um extracurriculars. So thank you so much because it really pays off for our students in many different ways. Also, I was able to attend the music and musical and just wanted to say congrats to all the theater department and music department. It was a wonderful weekend of shows. I know everyone had a great time and it would just really showed on stage. So great job to all the kids and the staff for all their work on that. And then thank you to
088everyone from the community that came out. They had almost sold out shows most nights, so that was really exciting to see. It's just nice not only to see a great performance, but to see the community come together in that way. So thank you to everybody. And then thank you to all of our administrative professionals. I know like when I think about our safety um plans, I often think that those people sometimes are the start of that. They're like the first face you see in the building, they have to hold those rules really tight and um I just always appreciate them and their thoughts in everything that they do and you see it in that way in such an important way for all of them. And then I know Jackie was giving a little shout-out to
089things ahead. I just we've already started ABC countdowns in the elementary schools. Can you guys believe that? But um just good luck to all of our staff and parents as we get through May-cember. >> [laughter] >> That's all I've got. Thank you, Stephanie. I I can only slightly add a little bit. I was lucky enough with Jackie to be at City Hall for the last City Council meeting where they honored some of our middle school athletes and also some of the foreign exchange students attending Geneva High School. So, that was fun to see. And that completes it the notices and announcements. Does anyone have any notices or announcements? Okay, item 13, executive session to consider matters pertaining to collective negotiation matters between the public body and its employees. Let's see. Here we go. That's a
090nice long one. Or their representatives or deliberations concerning the salary schedules for one or more classes of employees, appointments, employment, compensation, or discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park recreational or educational setting, or specific volunteers of the public body, or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee, a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreational or educational setting, or a volunteer of the public body, or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity. However, a meeting to consider an increase in compensation to a specific employee that is subject to the local ordinance wage increase transparency act may not be in closed session. It must be open to the public and posted
091and held in accordance with the act. So, we have to go into an executive session. We need a motion to do that. I know Stephanie's dying to do it. Motion to go into executive session. Second. Aye. Okay, we will take a few minute break if anyone needs one before we proceed with this meeting. And this is an opportunity for all of you who attended to get away.