Committee of the Whole Meeting August 11, 2022

001I call to order the August 11th 2022 Committee of the whole meeting of the Board of Education Hinsdale Township High School District 86 we are meeting in the burdge transition Center conference room and the time is 6:02 p.m. yes could you please call member H here member hman here member Walker here member Hansen here member James here member lenthal here member Waters here perfect please stand if you able and join meting the [Music] pled states God indivisible withy and justice for all all right we're going to move now to our good news uh latest news information update from our school I'm going to pass it over to Dr Hardy good evening uh on August 8th our campus has opened and hundreds of students showed up to begin a new season of very competitive Athletics this

002week hundreds of students have been practicing working out and working hard under some very interesting circumstances through construction and everything else to get ourselves ready for what we believe will be very competitive seasons for District 86 and so on behalf of principal Walsh and I we would like to say welcome back to all of our student athletes we wish you well and we thank you and your families for constantly representing uh District 86 and yourselves with honor integrity and a very competitive Spirit we also want to thank and welcome back our coaches and our athletic trainers our entire staff that are supporting our students teaching them and caring for them when none of the rest of us are around and so thank you to all of them for caring for these Treasures that we have

003have a great season on behalf of uh hensdale Central and hensdale South welcome back athletes terrific we're going to turn now the superintendent's report thank you president H I just have a couple things I'd like to First give a shout out to assistant superintendent sh Moore we had our first summer uh District job here last week and it was extremely successful we have so far secured nine new substitute teachers um through that process and additionally we have 15 candidates for PE professionals were interviewed um during that day and so was extremely successful and we want to thank chery and her te and and actually um Dr Smith's team that were over there inging that day I had the opportunity to go over to H Central and they were um fairly busy the entire time during

004the job fair so nice job so thank you this morning um also uh as part of our goal four strategic plan strategy 10 11 speak to creating opportunities for Community voice in our school district the parent applications for Pac closed today and I'm happy to report that we have had 41 parent applicants 51% of those respondents are from the attendance area that represents students in grades 6 through 12 and 49% of the respondents are from the hint South attendance area that also represents students in grade 6 through 12 Administration and chair Hansen will be reviewing the applications next week and we will be tning the final composite for the 2220 school year it was so nice to see so many applicants from our fether districts stay tuned for our August 25th meeting we will be

005sharing the 2223 school year updates regarding our safety and security measures including a new tip line called navigate 360 that we'll be introducing a new District mobile app that families can easily access many important facts and um tiip lines and other things specific to the schools for One Stop shopping um and also we will have our summer construction updates health and wellness and operational updates so stay tuned for the next meeting on that topic thank you very much keep on moving now to um item 4.1 audience communication the board with audience comments for up to a total of 30 minutes speakers will have 3 minutes to address the board uh will will not be exceeding time tonight that we will be talking as you know a little bit later uh policy for first read about

006uh public participation school board meetings and the expanding of that 30 to 30 minutes up to 45 hasn't been passed yet that's up for first read tonight uh then up for second read passes extensively at the next board meeting um in August as a reminder board meetings remains of the board held in public not open for Town Hall meetings and board members will not engage the public during public comment board members will keep this in mind as we conduct our meetings allowing the public to provide input at the time allotted on the agenda to ensure multiple voices in the community inform board deliberations we have four people signed up to speak tonight the first one is Kim Naro good evening uh when I met with Chris coino last fall I really appreciated how he presented

007grading alignment no matter what class you're in grading will be Universal to me that means scale weight what goes in each bucket retakes extra credit L work etc I'm disappointed that d86 dismissed the evidence that I had showing that chemistry honors last year was not aligned at Central chemistry honors is very different if only tests count versus tests quizzes projects labs and homework this variation should have been nipped in the bud as soon as d86 was made aware of it but instead I was dismissed and the data I shared was accused of being non-existent um the D said DC said she spoke with the teachers and they said it was the same but sixth grades is way different from like 30 when I met with Chris last fall I noted that he said in 2021

00822 course teams would align by school but 2223 would be across district and I was really disappointed to hear that we've backtracked and that's been pushed off three more years um we took the DC's out of the classroom for three years for alignment to align grading those three years are up it should be done um so I'm urging you to look at where we are and make it done um in 2022 23 H stale Central it was the third year of grading changes at Hinsdale Central in the name of alignment um they adopted 910 for honors and AP um they adopted 7030 for G level classes but this year they've moved G level classes to 910 which kind of makes no sense um it looks like an academic Central wants to be at 8020 uh

009the English course teams are at 8020 the two new courses in English Department are 8020 but kinale South has adopted 9030 for all English courses so a kid in AP l or AP Lit or actually any honors class at Central is going to have 9010 and that same class at K sou will be 730 so my proposal is with 5% of the courses which is what he calculated first did I calculate 69% of the courses are 7030 why wouldn't we just adopt 7030 across the board so that we're aligned and then we're not asking kids to switch over and over and over again three years of change in grading is enough than comments next up is Lisa hmar hi thank you my name is Lisa hmark and I'm here to talk about the national sex

010education standards otherwise known as NES um which apparently District 86 has adopted an imp but which I'm here to alert parents that um they've been radically reamp um at the end of last year and going into this year um to include standards for K through 12 that are completely age inapo um school districts can opt out of these and I'm asking parents um to ask their school boards to opt out um as I'm asking d86 to opt out but if they don't um I just want here to make parents aware that you can opt your child out and you most likely should after you look and see what is being taught at which age groups um if you want to know more about it um you can go to awake il.com um and find out

011very Det um but let me just give you a few examples um so in Gres K through 2 that's kindergarten through second grade um kids are learning the medically accurate names of the body parts including genitals so in case they didn't want to say they broke their leg they broke their femur but of course they will also know words such as penis um vagina Etc so they're also going to be taught in K through 12 to define gender gender identity and gender Ro stereotypes and Define reproduction and explain that all living things have the capacity to reproduce but is that true maybe men can be pregnant I don't know maybe that's what they'll teach them grades 3 through five they're going to have the role of hormon sexual feelings masturbation and the role of hormone

012blockers now mind you um that they can start homeor and blockers at age 13 without parental permission so you might as well take advantage through 3 to explain what that is to them along with 35 the difference between six gender transgender gender nonbinary gender expansive and gender identity grades 6 through eight naturally occurring occurring variations in human bodies intersect Bas circumcised and intact penises and to that they are to recall sexual orientation recall recall from where oh yes third grade um to define vaginal oral andal STS in Gra through 8 um and methods of contraception and how to access them Gres 9 through 12 differentiate between sex assigned birth and gender identity and gender expression and be able to access credible credible sources of information about sexual orientation credible in whose judgment this is time

013for parents to be awake alert go to awake il.com and if your school does not object you ought to opt your child out and protect them from parent age inappropriate sexual education thank you thank you for your comments next up is Richard [Music] Morton good evening my name is Richard Morton and I'm a resident of the d86 attendance area since 1979 last night while I was on my way to attend the d86 special meeting the one you know that did not list any of the allowable exceptions for a closed session imagine my surprised when I found no marked accessible parking within hundreds of feet of the transition Center's front door imagine my surprise when I pressed the switch to operate the door to gain access to the transition Center and it was inoperable imagine my

014surprise tonight when I pressed the same button and it was still inoperative you spent $ 39 million of our tax money and more and you've significantly exceeded the $139 million referendum and despite this urgy of spending I wonder how you could have overlooked these tiny gestures gestures of humanity it's not a matter of word use or handicap that's a label that demonstrates a bias it's about a common courtesy it's about a basic humanity and I'd remind you that you've all been made aware of these things on at least three separate occasions so I ask you tonight what's it take to get your head out of the S and fix what is simple thank Youk you for bring to our attention now we have K Gallow listed here but I don't see she and I read

015at last night's meeting and had um said that she was going to speak tonight she's not here that's F we'll have the second audience me in the second half but um I do know that an was going to speak so if she made take resp it's a sign up thing we we have we we ask people to respect the sign up sheet sign up by 6 o' um and so she wasn't able to that's fine we'll have the second one in a little bit and those who didn't get a chance here at the first will be allowed to speak at the second I think I we still have plenty of time in our 30 minutes that's allowed under board policy is there but we have also traditionally not but we've also always respected the sign

016sheet the 6m cut off for the initial uh this initial one here that that has not been a practice that we deviate from at all otherwise we're providing preference to people who show up late and that's not something that we're looking to do we have a second session we've changed the location of our meetings and as was just explained this woman came here for the first time time tonight and like many people that come here for the first time have a little trouble finding it can we allow her some Grace and let her speak since is speaking I will open up to the seven board members to present their opinion I from my part um I don't want to make a habit of of doing that and using the excuse I was running late because

017we have people who come here and sign up and that come early to sign up and we respect that we respect their being there at that table and going with that policy but if the board wants to speak that's fine you want to speak Jeff yeah I was lost the first time I came here and I actually directed Two community members in successive meetings here because it is difficult to find I we agree with you Eric that we don't want to make a habit of it but I do also agree that the circumstances are extenda relative to getting laws coming here when you Google it of course it takes you to the original d86 Center so I'd be I'd be open to allow that to occur forut um so we have meetings at hinel Central

018hinel South the transition or yeah the transition Center over by IND library and wonderfully this new building here um so if being new i i would support to do that because it's a new building the first time but not to that Kath so who we I'm sorry just for the rec I'm sorry um minutes just make sure you state your name since I don't have it sheet thank you umef my name is an Huber um we live within d86 uh I'm concerned about two things the first is I'm really confused about what is going to be taught in sexed I have read the policy I don't understand the policy I have seen the chart it makes no sense to me I have looked at the panoply of sexual preferences I don't know why children are

019being taught that I would like to see specifically what pictures you're going to use to teach children uh and I I I I want to see it I want to see the books so I can talk to my kids about this because it's a lot and I think it's not appropriate to say oh we approved this three years ago and now they just revised this and look at there's this beautiful chart which makes no sense and says nothing and doesn't really tell you what the hell's going on uh but you should have showed up and I'm like I just need to know what you're going to be teaching our kids so I can talk to the kids okay uh I mean I'm not aov or whatever I just want to know what is going on

020and I am confused and I I really try to keep up but I and if you're going to talk about appropriate you know what's going on that I think you have to talk about the FDA um uh requirement of of a side effects caused by the puberty blockers that are harming these children whose Minds will not be developed until they 26 these are called GnRH hormones and when they're injected into children they could cause swelling of the brain headaches loss of vision t Etc I mean like you just if you're opening this box this Pandora's Box you got to tell them the whole thing and there's a lot of stuff and this District needs to teach things that will prepare them for college and they can I mean we don't need to go down all

021this please and anyway if you're going to go down this road you need to tell us what you're doing what you're saying who's saying it and we need to know beforehand please not afterwards okay we got one chance with these kids you heard that okay my next question to the board is uh with regard to the baseball team in the spring the the baseball team played LT and some woman wrote a letter to the superintendent accusing the Hinsdale Central team of some bad bad things and immediately uh at the athletic director and uh principal Walsh and all the coaches in investigated and said no problem nothing happened the LT team has come out and said nothing happened uh hensville Central has always been up upright and never been a racist Community where is the apology

022from this District where is the apology from our superintendent where is the management from this board president held where is your direction to these people to correct what is being said about our village our community our entire District thank you thank you on to committee reports 5.1 the August HR committee and I'll turn over to chair Hansen for her report so the HR committee we met on August 2nd um and discussed the following uh we have an update on the hiring for the 2223 school year um and a review of coming retirements we discussed the job care that was going to be held on August 4th which about earlier very successful um an employee referral bonus program and um we discussed that substitute teasure pay rate will be increased to $150 a day and is

023expected to be cost neutral due to the fewer internal substitutes being needed and we discussed Spates law um which is requires an employee professional Cod of conduct policy and training of staff thank you any questions for chair hon we're going move on then the policy chair hman okay uh policy committee met August 8th to review policies for press issue 109 update uh to address an administrative request for review and the board request for review and in the public content part of our agenda is a uh a which list the policies and the action and the timetable for the action so I'm not going to go over any of that information in detail uh we will be acting on some of those policies uh on our first read due to um statutory timelines um other policies

024will be presented for first read and the turn for approval on second read at our August regular Action meeting um and uh one of the actions we're doing involves we sending a a policy and instead uh giving discretion to Administration to deal with the issues specifically defining how credit for past experience can be granted to certified staff uh and giving the administration uh the discre to deal with that through administrative procedures rather than than through um policy and and that will be um the recision of that policy will be presented tonight for uh for Action tonight to provide immediate flexibility and recruiting Because as you all know there is a shortage of uh staff and schools uh Nationwide and we need to do everything we can to attract the best um so that's uh what

025we covered in the meeting and then when these policies come up for Action if anybody has any questions about them I'll be happy to answer them are there any questions about the policy uh committee meeting or chair H's report no I actually I had an opportunity to attend the policy meeting um and have been trying to attend the committee meeting I find it very interesting but I wanted to note that um member James had also requested a discussion about the policy that was approved um in we're finding here not finding the word implementing the national sex education standards um and I obviously couldn't come in at policy meeting but I do want to say that um I wasn't aware that these standards were approved in 2020 and it's my understanding that the curriculum from ISP

026hasn't been sent out um and that those particular standards were not in my board doc with you provided to the boad policy um so while the committee did determine that no neic steps would be taken um I believe the committee makes a recommendation and the board could have a discussion if the full board chose to um as these standards and Ice comes out with more information over the next month well I don't intend to go into a discussion a substantive discussion over board member James request other than to state that this policy was brought before committee the on sex said was brought before committee uh perhaps 2 months ago and there was full discussion there was uh information presented at the time the committee voted unanimously the voted out of committee and to the board

027level and the board voted unanimously to adopt the policy until that procedure has been completed and for that reason uh the committee determined that no next steps would be required regarding a policy that already adopted ined by the school board although to be clear every single policy has been included by to be clear every every board policy has been approved by the board not always unanimously I'm pointing out the fact that it was approved unanimously I think that's significant think about that it was approved unanimously okay new information has presented because the is yet to drive curriculum which in my estimation warrants consideration and definitely discussion possible action by the SCH board I'll say if the administration after they get the the curriculum feel that there's a need to come back to us for a

028change if it triggers for example our policy on curriculum change much like we've seen for uh the maass changes that were proposed where that was a substantial change to the curriculum the administration brought that back to us for a vote on it um we actually had two votes on it as a matter of fact but uh so we could see sexed um to align with the nscs that curriculum could come back here if Administration feels that it warrants a substantial change from what we currently have if it doesn't as we've had these n NSS standards now for a decade um if it's not substantial change by it doesn't trigger that that uh that procedure for the vote then it won't come back here but we're going to have to the administration to to review that

029when it comes out and if something happens there where they feel to be in alignment it will come to us for a vote we have the ability at that point in time to review the information review the recommendations and then take action on our own may we have after the committee reports we have some policies for first read as well as two policies for Action uh policies for first read one we also discussed previously 2 230 uh which is public participation at school board meetings petitions to the board again this is talking about changing that 30 minute maximum uh or that 30 minutes we talk about right now to a 45 minute maximum um again nothing else from the substantial changer though we do have uh within there the board could vote um to extend

030that beyond the 45 minutes um in the mean if we feel that there's a need that um if there's you know a ton of people sign up and we to go an hour then we can go around and do much like we did tonight a quick little vote we can extend that time as as needed that's 2 230 we have 580 on court Duty which is recommendation to accept um changes in press issue 109 to extend Court Duty and jury duty language to all employees um by answering yes to the questions as proposed we have two additional policies on fees um and reduce free and reduced the food so this is 4130 and 4140 the board had a previous conversation there about moving um the poverty level uh number up to 185% uh and there's

031uh related changes that we need to make into policy in order to be in compliance with that so those are upated for first read uh on those on those four policies for first read you have any additional uh comments before we move on to the two action items heing none we're going to move to 6.4 this is an action to resin policy 532 certified High policy credit from past experience um is there a motion to resend policy 5 32 certified hiring policy credit for past experience so move second motion hman second Hansen um this again is presented as a recommendation um Administration to the policy committee and then coming back to us to find how credit for past experience can be granted a certified staff um is assistant superintendent Mo it's looking for you I

032knew you were here walked in together uh comments uh before um we discuss uh you know the the purpose of this recommendation is simply to allow us to Grant experience credit that doesn't come in the K12 setting but it is 100% relevant to what we would be hiring the person for as written the policy confined the credit to only granted uh working in a six uh grade 6 through 12 uh under the teaching license so it it would exclude things like social workout at DCFS or speech language pathology work in a hospital which is 100% transferable to hear so that's really the only purpose we're still keeping the cap at seven years to be fiscally responsible um but this would just allow more flexibility we've got to move fast to get the candidates to accept

033and then to bring them to you for approval thank you very much and as we know we at previous meeting had as part of an action item um the temporary uh suspension of 532 in order to pass to pass um the hiring of speech pathologist and so now this comes back to us to Simply resend that um that policy any any additional discussion or comments from the board well I I defin I have some comments on this I attended the HR committee this month and the policy committee where this was discussed um and I'll start by saying I do have confidence that Miss Moore is going to make hiring decisions in the best interest of students but with the financial landscape and the sheer number of retirements we have over the next few years um

034I am personally uncomfortable resending the policy and implementing an administrative procedure in its place um the administrative procedure provides little to no oversight by the board and without transparency we can't ensure accountability I have concerns um as we Face these retirements in some departments we're losing almost a whole generation of teachers and then balancing that experience level um so the policy allows for granting it but I also firmly believe that teaching is directly transferal teaching and there are exceptions for social work and other providers but somebody coming from the business world having never taught a day um without potentially maybe with a teaching certificate but no experience in the classroom isn't really a three-year teacher necessarily and so um with that said I do have concerns about turning this over and um not having the

035checks and balances with the policy fors us if I could just make a a comment you do get the Personnel Report with every meeting and you get the candidate profile sheets with every meeting which does State the specific experience that each candidate has so to the extent that you felt uncomfortable with one of my Rec recommendations or the the next person who is in the seat you could certainly uh state that you don't want that person hired um but this would allow for that flexibility to bring forward a candidate for your consideration and you could decide no or yes but without this change I can't bring that person forward so I felt that it worked okay when we exended it temporarily with the social work situation my concern is not and as I prefaced that

036you going to anad f the reality is though the board has no access to the administrative procedures and they can change and so if you leave the district and we have a new administrator and we don't see those changes to the administrative procedure that is my concern understood I will say that it took two weeks to get this um approved that candidate could have left in those two weeks in fact she was hanging on um and the the person prior it was a different situation but the person prior accepted the offer and then sended so we risk that two we gap of them being hired at Li's Township for Downers growth so that's all I'm saying um I know that we had a discussion and um in in and um also in policy I believe

037and uh knowing the landscape and also knowing the uh challenges and that we want to attract the best candidate that's what we've always said it's always been the VIS vision of this District I think our Administration and who in your role assistant superintendent Mor has done a wonderful job um and we just need to be able to uh like you were saying have them presented to the board and then that's where we that's where our role comes in um not before that that's not what the the um the board has has purview to um and and remind me I feel like this was a specific for since specific to this District so it is not a policy that exists I I am unaware of other districts having this type of procedure in a policy these

038are typically administrative procedures um also to be clear the hiring process starts at the building level the principles know and the department chairs know what uh they're looking for what the best candidate they look at every candidate who applies and they uh select the most qualified candidate that they feel would meet the best needs of the students so this is not a me or this district office this is a um building level decision that is is we're attempting to support that decision but again if that's if you want to keep it in policy that's fine I'm just telling you the risk to that is you're going to delay the hiring process in particular situations and then we will also have candidates perhaps again I I gave this at the policy I had a a candidate

039uh or a teacher in my prior District who actually was a medical doctor an MD and he switched careers and became a biology teacher didn't seem right to start him with the 22y old kid so we were able to give some credit for that experience which was extremely valuable in the human anatomy class that he taught so this is where these individual decisions on the on the ground where you've hired us to make those and to give us the tools to do it so that's that's why we're asking again at the end of the day if it's policy I'll work with it I'll do the best I can no and I'm sure I understand why you're asking for this and and completely agree and you know given the war for talent I understand what you're

040saying that we really do need to be able to act quickly so that we don't lose candidates thanks for comments we have a motion and a second you would please call r m p i m hman i member Walker I member Hansen I member James I'm I'm voting I but I would also like to preface this um this vote with the fact that I had asked for view access only to the administ procedures as part of this change member lethal I'll prace that without view access to admin procedures on voting n number one I would Echo Debbie sentiment regarding chery you do an outstanding job you can be more than trusted to try to process that's both transparent and then in best interest of students the teacher hire or the faculty or staff m h

041and of course the taxpayer um these times that we find ourselves in are not infinite uh but I do believe in taking it out of policy we run the risk in the future of having it buried on the administrative side which I'd otherwise prefer in the interest of driving fiscal Prudence over timeing knowing the transparencies available and hoping we can adapt swiftly um to suspension of the policy versus this broad change um that that would be my reason for voting out it sounds like we were 52 there passing that uh the resending of that policy we move on to 6.5 uh this is um approving policy 7 col 285 anaphylaxis prevention response and management program has presented on first for compliance with Public Act 102 413 um do I have a motion and a second

042for this action so move second person any discussion or done this um Dr nurses I overie she was able to come to policy for us yeah so essentially this policy is just to have us be in compliance with the public act and so essentially what it used to be called was a food allergy Management program it's now been changed to and aapo so it's it's changing the wording that's what you see throughout the policy and as previously stated to be in compliance with Public Act that is stated I believe um it was in 2011 that District had put in place the food allergy management plan which was a big victory for families that had children with food allergies which became epidemic in the early 2000s and now it's being broadened since food isn't the only

043cause of anal access in school it can be exercise induced it can betin latex or it can be a first onset allergic reaction to a food in a high school setting um kind of coupled along with this is the passage of um undesignated epinephrine in each school and the ability for First Responders to now carry epinephrine um even police officers following the death of gr and own NSE so this has been in place for a while it's um hugely valuable to families children and teenagers with good allergies um and while it's a change in me it's not a change in concept so happy to see it updated and hopefully yeah I um this has this uh law regarding dealing with an antic shock and Prov administering ens is a long history over the last 20

044years and it is uh so refreshing to see that the has been responsive to realize that this is truly an emergency and that what we need to do is dispense with um with uh with procedures which may endanger a child's life because uh treatment cannot be immediately administered so um we come a long way and it's it's it's very good that where we're at now uh when I first started practicing School law representing School District we didn't even have a statute that address this so we come long way which is a good I person glad to see that we had this in policy and that it's been made as a major issue from just family experience with a sister who was death allergic to to nuts and that was one of those things that you

045juggled back in the in the 80s and the 90s until you know people knew how to work fens people knew what fens were and certainly now everyone's there far more awareness of again not just food related right of these issues are in the need for immediate treatment you can't just wait you have your your a narrow time frame so again just a chain glad to see this there I I just want to say just make sure that I'm in compliance here um I kind of reversed some of my words so this is um I said the I kind of move things a little back so I know there's a motion to approve I'm going to say I again Debbie and and Kathleen going to make you say one more time is there a motion to

046approve policy 7285 anaphylaxis prevention response and management program as presented upon first read for compliance with Public Act 102 d413 so first very good my mistake uh all right so we've had our conversation we have a motion in second any additional comments you please call member hman member Walker I member Hansen I member James I member lethal I member Waters hi member Hill I and that passes now I know the next item on the agenda um as posted is 7 the public hearing the public hearing has a 7:00 start time so we will loop back around to it but right now we're going to bypass uh the public hearing and we're going to move on to uh to eight uh eight is the consent agenda uh the consent agenda items consist of items minutes business

047Affairs Personnel policies contract renewals and administrative Tas T that are routine in nature for they have been discussed with the board and are now presented for approval any item may be pulled from the consent agenda for further discussion and consideration all items on the consent agenda are approved with a single motion unless removed before the roll call vote does any board member wish to remove an item from consent for a separate vote Yes I'd like to remove 11.1 which is the adopt approve the resolution adopting the e-learning program which is 1111 is actually an action item that's not on the consent then forget that disregard so no um nothing being pulled then may I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda as presented motion hman second leth motion hman second leth

048please call member Hansen I member James I member lethal I member Waters I member h i member hman i m Walker I okay we're going to move on here we still have 16 minutes I could Vamp I could do a song and dance but um so we'll go to 11.2 approve substitute assistant director employment let me just get here so uh is there a motion to approve the agreement for a substitute assistant director of special education at hinzel Central at a per DM rate of $600 as present Walker second Hansen motion Walker second Hansen is there any discussion or assistant superintendent more you have any comment or no real comments it's just the fil hearing none de could you please call all member James hi member lethal I member Waters hi member H hi member

049hman I member Walker I member Hansen hi very good all right we're going to move on then to section 12 we'll begin with the president's report this is the part where I could Vamp I guess I won't I don't have much to say you know at this point in time U as Dr Hardy said we've seen our athletes uh come back to the campus we are welcoming the students again they're starting to walk the campuses and the Halls um the school year is close to upon us um and I'm just I have no one as we know in in the in the high schools or at the transition Center but it's always an exciting time of year um as the kids are getting ready to see their friends again to engage with new topics in

050class and I just look forward to a um you know a healthy and energetic start to the school year that's all I have here for my report tonight we'll move to 12.2 future agenda item requests are there any agenda item requests that board members wish to make I have a few um I I guess I'll start with I would like to update our public um discuss updating our public records policy 2 250 specific to addressing the preservation of District records item number one sorry about that so updating our public records policy 2 250 specific to addressing the preservation of District records that was the first item um I would like the board to address view access to administrative procedures including those restricting access uh to schedules for students meeting idph and policy requirements that reference

051the first day of school um I we could you repeat that last because I couldn't I couldn't quite hear you I couldn't hear you so I would like view access to administrative procedures that's really the for board members for board members okay at this point we have policies we know that the administrative procedures are designed to help Implement those policies however we can't see those and those can be changed at a moment's notice as we've discussed earlier regarding the policy to that we just resented so I would like to see those discussed and obtain view access for board members in the interest of transparency he did you say something about schedules or did I just missar that no I I I was mentioning you know specific to a couple of the administrative procedures um that

052regarded the release of student schedules but there you know I'm really interested in seeing all the administrative procedures any other board members have oh you have more oh I've got more I would like to uh review and correct our district or chart which is posted on our district website um I did know that there is an updated or chart on the new revamp website in the HR section I brought this to the attention of both our superintendent and our board president last week while I do not know who authorized the new granular version of our work chart there are three very important items that have been removed the board reports to the public the public is no longer visible on that work chart the treasurer and the recording secretary both report to the board and

053those two uh two roles which are very important to the functioning of our district are not listed as reporting to the board I feel that those are important to address and I don't know when that changes I don't you you said review District organizational chart but that chart is legal Administration organizational chart labeled pursuant to board policy through CO3 I think it is if you so do you want sorry so how do you want me to record here correct District or so on the website is that a future agenda item for Action it it is because it's not been it it was changed without board approval and without board discuss appr correct so be there's there we could have a discussion on it there are there's there's one that appears in the cafer there's one

054that appears on the website as a little more HR Focus again admin related um that you have that there can you can have that as an item and we can talk to admin in the interim about about that about that or chart it may also be that we have several different work charts that say the same thing but are for different purposes but you have are you so typically what is posted on the website is what's included in the the financial reports later on the cfer reports um so my intent and bringing this to our board's attention is to ensure that the appropriate or chart is included in that in those reports and that the clear hierarchy of we may still have several different work charts because they're us you look at organization you might

055have multiple order charts you have a master but you might have one that's divis one that's based on school so understanding and knowing the email chain that we had back and forth said that we could have a discussion about about a a master District work chart that could be on the website perhaps under the board um the board section allowing the other individual areas to have their own Arts specific to them that doesn't have the same granularity of of focus um that's I think it's a correct District or I think it should be a discussion on um a district work chart it's not as what we had is incorrect to be clear policy 330 and this is what other school districts do also you look at everybody else's it says a superintendent shall develop an

056or chart indicating the authority reporting relationships for school Personnel so that's it so the superintendent reports the board the rest of us report up and that's what this or chart is it's an administrative procedure similar to uh you know that follows the policy so that just to be clear we can put anybody on this that you want but this this chart is to comply with this policy sure and and the superintendent reports the board and the board reports the but you're not personnel and that's what the policy says so that's why I just explaining to you why it's that way and the Press administrative procedure begins with the super we follow the Press administrative procedure we we can also create a district Port that's for you guys to figure out I'm just sharing how this

057was created because it last year's kaer report includes the order chart as I'm referencing with the public at the top and I think that's an important distinction uh you know that allows the community to be aware that they are participants and partners in our role as d as directing our ad Administration and our Board of Education in the policies that we actually implement we have it on there so we'll have we can have the discussion on there and what the board would maybe want to have as an or chart that we have under the board section of the website that is not in the same sense or under that policy that you and Cher talked about but one that that we decide on that can have public board superintend Etc so I just I just

058did a Google Search and simply typed it in Del District 86 or chart well we not having a discussion right now what I'm saying is what comes up is a measure that was passed by the board in a meeting of May 7th 2018 it says for the board's consideration there an updated district office orc chart the HR committee review the orc chart on April 9th of 18 and recommend passing it to the entire board and of course if you click on the attachment it shows the or chart with the public at top which is currently L well we can review what was passed back then as a part of the discussion that could have been something specific to that time again this is not the time for that discussion but we will have that on

059as a future agenda item we can do a little work in the in and see what we can talk about together as aard more okay if I can just here there's a statut there's a provision in the open Mee act that talks about your organizational chart so before we go into any sort of discussion I think it would make sense for us to make sure that we have that we're in compliance with theun act regarding the organ that's required to be posted and that's something that can be done administratively and then if we want to talk about uh other organizational charts fine have that be a future Enda item I'm looking at this from perspective of what is required to comply with the law and that's what I had asked initially last week and was

060and don't have a response on that we have it on here as a future agenda item and we can have some questions asked behind the scenes before it comes back to the board sure um I would also request that we have an overview of the district website refresh um I recently became aware that the district's longtime motto a tradition of Excellence is missing from the website when I asked about that I was told that it's pursuant to the approved board approved strategic plan I can't find anywhere in the Strategic plan where it discusses a tradition of Excellence but it's been a long time um so I would like to discuss and review some of the updates that have happened and where those two those may have been we are four minut we are four minutes

061by the way from our uh suspending the me so I have one more that's fine um this would have been this will be later on in my board comments uh but I am requesting that the nses curriculum changes be addressed at both the PTAC meeting as well as shared with the community prior to the implementation to allow those families wishing to discuss these changes with their children the opportunity to do so and to understand that those changes may need so board agenda board agenda item to discuss is this something that you want so um to talk about with uh with Pac add that to a Pac agenda item I would like it added to a Pac agenda item as well as a communication to the community at a board meeting yes yeah I would add

062that we don't know if there's any changes yet but right and I I would add to that you stole a couple more of my agenda items I would simply add to that at the very first possible meeting post the ISP creating this particular curriculum which is yet to be released but expected soon I would hope to have agenda it and added for the immediate Committee of the whole meeting for the board to discuss in front of the community those particular and specific curriculum requirements and at that meeting for the following Ram meeting uh Action meeting for a possibility for Action to consider opting out so I would Echo her Debbie excuse me Peggy's request to First hear this no later than the first meeting successive to the approval for the implementation or the distribution of

063the curriculum from is probably 90 seconds more no she stole all oh um I'm first of all on the chart um I'll try and do this 75 seconds um I think I had requested to discuss policy 2110 and it seems to have disappeared because we never had a chance to discuss it um specifically the role of the president I think was on there for a while and I don't it tonight but then um one thing we haven't looked at um I proposed an agenda item to discuss the performance of our current Law Firm if the board should explore other firms giving RIS given Rising legal fees and having been with the same firm for almost a decade with other service CL session top you know with other service providers you know we routinely look at

064our food service provider our transportation provider our bookstore provider and this is not one that um in my time following board or a board um we've actually investigated so um I'm proposing that okay and we have these added and if there are more that come up we will we come back to that and we're going to be coming back first after the F carry which is almost upon us we coming back to action item 11.1 but at the moment we are going to move back to 7.1 I'm seeing 7:00 on the screen down there okay get to the official language here all right so we're going back to uh to agenda item seven this is a public hearing is there a motion to suspend the committee of the whole meeting and convene a public hearing

065on e-learning so motion Jeff Waters second please call I'm sorry the member Walker I member Henson I member James I member Leo I member Waters I member hell I member hman I all right I now call public hearing order it is 7:00 700 p.m. let the record reflect that this is a public hearing conducted by the Board of Education of Hinsdale Township High School District 86 on July 28th 2022 notice of tonight's public hearing was published in Chicago tribute Pioneer Press West notice of this hearing was also provided in writing via email to District 86 parents and staff on August 9th 2022 along with the meeting notification first look we're going to be going to 7.2 this is a report on e-learning program on July 1st 2019 Public Act 101-12 amended the school code provision

066on e-learning days allowing School District with e-learning programs to use e-learning days in rle of emergency days if they are one adopted by School Board resolution following a public hearing and two verified by the applicable Regional Office of Education by September 1st annually um assistant superintendent for academics Dr Cino published in board do of terms of the district District A6 e-learning program for board and public review uh assistant superintendent for student services Dr Carrie Smith will now present the e-learning program thank you so as you stated the uh memo is in board dos from Dr cabino I just want to essentially sum it up it's what we are asking for is the approval of the district's e-learning program so that we can initiate e-learning in the case of uh emerc which you know you can

067think of as inclement weather what we used to do as a snow day this allows us to enact e-learning rather than adding on those emergency days at what we have typically done at the end of the school year so if we requires the renewal of the of the program every 3 years and that is what we are asking for [Music] today thank you very much here so we have as a part of this uh as part of this agenda item uh 7.3 is public comment on the e-learning program um uh is there let's see first we'll start with I guess uh administration of any comments outside of Dr do any board members have any comments on the eing program right now you can also wait for after the uh the public to have their comments

068here at this moment so I I had previously asked if this was in any way shape or form related to co learning and the answer that I received was was no so this is specific to e-learning specific to what we would previously refer to us SCE right right so yeah back in I'm sorry go ahead I was to say this is renal here of this but program that is exent um that said it's a replacement allowing us to use those days even though the kids may not like the loss of the snow day it does allow you those days not to be add there on the end of school year allows the learning a continue of learning which is a phrase that we've been mentioning here since roughly mid-march of 2020 um in a lot

069of times so um I'll say right now if any members of uh the uh the community here have any comments please step forward to the microphone is that your name hi kimaro um this year here we had a couple of snow days that were e-learning days and there was a very broad range of what was expected um we had some teachers that expected kids to get on at the time their class was at like 8: a.m. there were others that said by 1:00 I would hope that we make this Universal because um it if you have a snow day and you get to do your own thing you should get to do your own thing you shouldn't have to get up and be there at 8:00 a.m. when it's asynchronous cuz it was not synchronous

070it was asynchronous but if you didn't sign in in time for class you would count it as absent so there needs to be a universal um is it going to be class time is it going to be everybody Checks In by one which was the original I think when we started e-learning I don't know if um anybody can correct me on that did we or on learning was it just check in by 1:00 the board can't talk so I wish Chris coo was here because he wouldn't answer that question but that would be something that would be fantastic to have is that it is a universal um everybody has to check in by one o00 and as as questions are raised after the public that comment we will make sure that as any answers are

071available they provide those do any additional members of the community wish to comment on the e-learning program state your name and start yours um Andrea Flynn H um as a parent I don't prefer the e-learning instead of the snow dat only because as an educator myself I have a lot of concerns um about student disengagement with e-learning and especially at RIS vable populations I don't think um this is a great format for them um and I think there's a challenge in terms of reaching and determining engagement for some of those students so um as a parent I'm opposed to e-learning instead of the addition of face to face time at the school year any other comments from our committee members does admin wish to address either M's comments or anything um certainly the M that

072was provided there's an FAQ link up it's the first attachment you click on the set AQ and within there walks you through and this is what is um SAR previous current school year and it specifically States right there that it is universal checking n one and it walks through what all the requirements are the teachers are to share with students um further on board in each semester it's all way out there and there any specific information have answer any specific question a quick question is there an administrative procedure created around this e-learning at all or is there anything that specifically provides that guidance what specific question you're asking me that FAQ it walks the teacher through the expectations ref to theq I suppose yes guidance for our teachers um what the requirements are yes it's

073all in there um are there any changes to this uh e-learning program from the prior three years no we just know what it means Rec we got to practice it we had the non snow day but we had to call the snow day and then we had the real snow day that we got to practice it and I think central had an electricity day so we got to practice it three times last year for different reasons so yes any additional board comments admin comments or one last chance for the public comment hearing none with no additional comments or clarifications from admin of the I will call for the public hearing on e-learning program to adjourn at 7:08 p.m. uh in adjournment the board will reconvene the committee of the whole meeting session all those in

074favor please say I I I any opposed hearing none uh we will reconvene an open session of the August 11th 2022 Committee of the whole meeting uh as a regular Action meeting at the time is 7:09 p.m. and right now we're going to be going down to 11.1 and so 11.1 is uh approve the e-learning program as presented and adopt the e-learning program for implementation for 2022 2025 District wide in accordance with 105 IL cs510 d256 is there a motion to approve the e-learning program as presented and adopt the e-learning program program for implementation from the 2022 2025 districtwide in accordance with 105 ilcs 5/ 10-20 56 so move hman second Walker motion hman second Walker any additional discussion I actually I have a question that just came hear me I understand that you know

075by Statute we have to put this in place but as a district We could decide like one day or not going to implement learning my C I believe that happened in the Elementary District where they just chose to do a sow day so not every single day that we are forced to be home for um a power explosion or um whether we can choose not to take it but then it gets C on it's a yes no um so first of all we could not exceed the number of these types of days that's currently on the calendar for emergency days so so about if you recall those really cold days maybe 5 years ago there was that that string and then we had snow so those actually exceeded more than five and so like in

076that case we'd actually have to bring a whole calendar back and so it's it's a both and and so you you're you cannot use more eing days and you have emergency days already approved on the end of your calendar so it's always what have to be revie by the board helps any additional comment on the board hearing none dad would you please call the member 11 i m Waters would pre my n vote by first applauding the Community member who came up here to speak about the advantages of inperson learning versus remote that particular Community member and the community in general may not be aware that relative to a recent proposal that the Maj of the board certainly not the entire board approved early release Wednesdays which will result in less hours of Total instruction

077over the course of the next school year relative to prepandemic uh hours of instruction so we all know the tremendous gaps that have been created for learning for the children Less hours of instruction is still not has still not reverted to prepandemic levels and inperson instruction certainly drums learning all day long I vote no member h i member hman I member Walker I member Hansen I member James i1 motion passes all right we're going to go back um are there any other board members that have future agenda items that they would like to Grant 12.2 I moving your microphone okay um all right well then we're going to move on to 12.3 this is board comments so we set aside again time on our agenda for board comments the section of the agenda is not

078for board deliberation may be used by board members to offer their comments for the record each board member may offer these comments for up to 10 minutes for Roberts rules for a total of 30 minutes for all comments are there any board members who wish to offer comments that I can offer a few comments um I haven't had a chance to do another construction walkth through I did one at the beginning of Summer and we'll do one um in the next few weeks when elementary school goes back um but we did see pictures of the south pool filled and pools always look better with water in them um so that looks good um and I've driven past um given that our field is still closed in hensdale drive past the um pool old pool entrance

079of central probably four times a day and that particular entrance is looking spectacular um as well and I was in central today um in the student services office and that looks fantastic um on that note um I also wanted though to Circle back um and I don't know where this would fall so I'll do it under my board comment to Mr Mor who had an issue last night and then another issue today accessing our building and accessing um parking and I'm hopeful that the administration will um especially since we are planning to meet here um throughout the summer look into how to make sure that the door button is working and that um there's the state and nearby B depart um third um and not hearing back I'm just going to bring this up tonight

080so that the full board is aware that um on last Friday in the early morning um I wrote m um for committee change um I currently serve on Finance on the insurance which is the employee benefits committee which only meets a few times a year and then I also serve on the post session minutes Review Committee which also only meets a few times a year so My committee vote is quite low and I have requested um more committee participation if possible when I requested my committees um as most people know maybe not some of our newer administrators um I you Lobby for an academic committee for the better part of last year um and was unsuccessful however in late May after graduation met with superintendent Apprentice Dr Cino building principles um to discuss some of

081the topics that I thought needed to addressing and they were going to be moved over to PC so I formally requested to be added to PC in exchange for member person who um serves on six committees that you know meet by large monthly so I'm hopeful that you can facilitate um the addition onto another Committee pte in particular for me um I have receiv received acknowledgement I know you want to have a conversation with K but having not put back I wanted to bring it up um to try and ask the process since that calendar for p has been released and I'd like to make sure that I can put those dates on the calendar you have mention I do I wasn't sure if you were going to respond this is not deliberation so okay

082um I have two topics that I'd like to discuss tonight uh first is regarding the policy committee that we had earlier this week as you know our role as a board is to provide guidance to the administration through policy the care carefully crafted and non- descripted agenda item discussion of board member requests to revisit policy approved by the board was my request to discuss the policy 660 specifically the section related to the national sex education standards first off you know the policy committee is choosing not to to recommend that the board not honor my request to revisit the policy in part because that policy was already approved and to my point earlier all policies in our policy manual have been approved by the board I did discuss the new standards and my concerns the NES

083standards with the first edition were released back in 2012 those were updated in 2020 with a much more extensive Edition second edition the standards were developed by a uh organization called sexual information and education Council of the United States a national nonprofit organization that according to their website advances sex education as a vehicle for social change last year the state of Illinois became the only state to adopt those nses standards and included an opt out option for school districts to allow each district the option of developing their own sexed curriculum or not implementing one as a whole without directing which program to use as Guidance the guidance that we had in policy committee beginning as early as March of last year was that we've been following some NS the NSS es guidelines previously so this

084is really no change you know if my fellow um policy committee board members chose not to consider the changes that I brought forth so what does that mean while our district has been following those standards without much push back those standards are now required according to board policy so without much discussion in either the committee or the board table other than the implication that there's not really much change because we're following those standards today the policy was updated to direct the administration to use those NES NS standards if for any reason the district finds that the sexual education there's another program that they prefer the board has directed them to just follow the NES standards in their entirety I requested and obviously do not know yet how that will impact our curriculum at d86 since

085those that curriculum has not been released by buy yet interestingly in my opinion Miss lethal's request to add an academic advisory committee could have provided some of that Insight however that was again rejected with the expectation that any academic concerns could be discussed at Pac again we haven't seen that in PAC but I would request and as I did request in future agenda items that those be addressed and be released to the community prior to the implementation of those standards for my second topic and Miss hman please note that I will be discussing process in my statement and not releasing any confidential information there is no reason to interrupt my comments at this point regarding the Clos session meeting minutes that were not approved by the board majority at the at the last meeting there

086is a clear attempt to cleanse any written record of written files that we find unpleasant to be clear closed session meeting minutes provide a summary of a closed session meeting they are not routinely released to the public they are however accessible by both current and future board members without a written summary of those close session meeting minutes as required per policy 2on 220 which states in part among other things that the board secretary shall keep written meeting minutes of all meetings both open and closed meeting certain standards include including a quote summary of the discussion on all matters proposed deliberated deliberated or decided that's just in part as a matter of process the board named a recording secretary Miss Kowski who very aptly drafts our meeting minutes in cases where that reporting secretary is not

087in attendance that responsibility falls upon the board secretary for those February meetings when I was the board secretary I drafted those meeting minutes according to standards noted in policy 2 220 for our meetings after the board reorganization in April Miss Walker is now the board secretary and that responsibility Falls to her for those meetings after that point I voted against the meeting minutes that she drafted at the last meeting because in my opinion they do not meet those minimum standards the impact is that future board members as well as current who want to go back and revisit what those items were that were discussed will need to listen to several hours of close session verbatim recordings rather than expeditiously reading a summary of that discussion it's important to note that those February meeting minutes rejected

088at our last board meeting are still not being presented to the board I'm eager to find out who will be recreating those minutes now that we're 6 months later after those meetings actually occur are we following our old board policy in my question in my opinion that's that's what my concern is and let's let's see let me ask each of you when you read a board policy for example this policy 2 220 then review Clos session meeting minutes and are reminded by a fellow board member prior to voting on that policy on what is being voted on and know that it does not meet in my opinion again that policy that we have established then how are we able to vote on minutes and disregard that policy hi I just wanted to walk through a

089few different items um first on behalf of the district I would like to offer my apologies to a passionate long tender and esteem member Morton of the d86 community at last night's meeting and again today here at the transition Center a Mobility impaired Community member was first unable to locate any accessible parking spots anywhere near the main entrance after getting to the front door the button as we heard earlier was not operational fortunately d86 has a staff member who was quick on the scene to offer assistance opening the door for Mr Morton many thanks to that responsive and helpful discri the 86 officer I can't emphasize enough how fortunate we are to have such an outstanding committed and Laser focused security detail here in d86 hats off to Kevin Simpson d86 is director of security

090into your entire staff Kevin will be sorely missed when he when he retires here in October assuming of course that a current security officer fills that role we can all rest easy knowing the job is in steady and strong hands our security officers have lengthy experience in law enforcement and understand the levity and importance of their work your efforts do not go unnoticed and are greatly appreciated by the students their families the faculty and staff here in District 86 thanks to you all second regarding board email community members can and often do send email to the Board of Education the email address is Boe at Hil 86. org several months ago you may recall that we had to inform the community as the website now does indicate that your email goes to all seven board

091members and to the superintendent Tammy prentis I also recently found out that also goes to a ninth person Chris Jess bua d86 is director of communications this is not mentioned on the website I would encourage you Chris tonight to add that note to the public website to provide maximum transparency fiscal Prudence as it relates to cost increases across various dispenses here in District 86 I did not remove legal bills from the consent agenda this evening for only one reason because they weren't posted I have removed them each of the last few opportunities and what have deceived me had they been posted as the several magnitude increase in legal bills is alarming and warrants both inspection as well as consideration pandemic changes of Labor and materials is a narrative we are all well aware of and

092have been for quite a while the district's balance sheet is not immune from elevated costs and we've seen that play out recently and to name just a few labor as it relates to faculty and staff referendum projects both from labor and the material side our food vendor quests recent elevated contract the recent higher bus contract and the higher taxi uh contract proposal that I believe was at our last meeting and of course this list does go on and so too District 86 must go on in order to do that and to navigate with confidence in this inflationary environment we as a district need to be judicious on the expenditure side and look for any and all opportunities to harvest savings we still have to complete referendum phase four and have decisions to make that could

093that should be guided with fiscal Prudence leading the way the vote on the levy is just a few months out and minimizing impact to taxpayers should be our primary focus without diminishing the learning environment for the students or for the teachers current labor contract expires in the summer of 23 and net negotiation is CPI sensitive to the 2020 final CPI reading of 7% I encourage you the community and have done so before in these last few meetings to pay close attention to the finances here in District 86 revenues are and direct revenues are directly and largely attributed to you to all of us taxpayers expenses of all classifications should be carefully considered input from the community to that end is both important and impactful as the board moves forward in the planning process in my

094estimation the district needs to as always be fiscally responsible but given the INF inflationary environment we find ourselves in now that charge should be elevated to intense fiscal prudence and responsive budget appropriating to the nses national sex standards Illinois as was mentioned is the first and the only state to adopt these standards this proposed legislation was signed in a law last summer by Governor pritzer I mentioned some of these details and I will repeat some this evening at the last board meeting with some other information school districts can opt out of adherence to these standards school districts that do not opt out however are not required to have families opt in to the curriculum but as mentioned earlier families that choose to can opt out I spoke to Chris coino and Dr coino encourage me

095to feel free to reach out to him the superint the assistant superintendent of academics with any questions you have about the curriculum or how to opt out there are intense levels of transparency and information provision that must be adhered to by Administration and this community and this board member expects exactly that to play out so if you have any questions feel free to talk to Dr coino about the curriculum or how to opt out please also reference and I'll read this link which which is on the district website and the information is identical for both schools the link is central. Hinsdale 86. academic SLP hyen Health hyen driver hyen education SL health-education it's the same link for South you just start with South versus Central School Districts can and have opted out of adhering to

096these nsds standards in droves in fact data indicates that out of 554 school districts here in oint only 20 school districts have decided to adhere to fully follow these nses standards with 534 opting out District 86 however currently is not one of them currently d86 will be bound by law to strictly adhere to those curriculum guidelines which have yet to be delivered by the isbe I proposed an agenda item this evening to drive conversation around this topic at a full board level not in policy and a consideration for a measure surrounding inherence to be voted upon uh with the option to opt out with respect to the NS standards and as it relates to equity how can sex at Equity be achieved across our district when several feeders have already opted out of these standards

097from NS nominally well over half of our feeder students that attend our feeder schools have opted out of these polarizing NES standards and this board member speaking only for myself believes District 86 should do the same I encourage Administration in the line of equity to in the spirit of equity to make the same recommendation as the district is simply unable to achieve equity for future d86 students given the opting out that's occurring at the feeder level for informational purposes I've had some Outreach from several community members relative to the upcoming election in April of 23 for information um the next election is on April 4th three seats will be available here in District 86 to become a Schoolboard candidate one must file a statement of economic interest and obtain uh 50 signatures or 10% of

098the voters so in our case 50 signatures these documents and the county clerks receip for your statement of economic interest must be filed with the county clerk no earlier than 113 days before the election and no later than 106 days before the election d86 is traditionally posted all of the pertinent details for upcoming Board of Education elections in a board packet so keep your eyes out on that board packet for the newly refreshed on the newly ref refreshed District website and feel free to contact the district's director of communications Chris jasa who would be happy to guide you to the board packet when it's posted thank thank you Chris for making that available and finally as some have please feel free to reach out to me for any and all questions you may have regarding

099board service it's important work and as we are all very aware elections matter lastly I wanted to payg you back on something one of the commenters made earlier with respect to the baseball initiative and to put it very short and sweet The District administration owes an apology to the community the district you Mr Jess Gul were very quick to release information and to share with the media what became a narrative of of perceived guilt of these baseball players only to be proven inaccurate and false which certainly was not your intent nor am I indicating that it was but as fast as you were to engage the Press you are now expected by this board member on behalf of the community that was slighted to issue an apology thank you do any of the board members

100have comments to make hearing none we'll move on to 13 administration business I should that 13 we have 131 and2 Financial reports and treasury report CFO Stevenson any comments thank you president H all right I just going to highlight a few things on the financial summary report since this is uh fiscal year end report uh for 22 please note that the financials are un audited that are being presented here uh the auditor will be back our goal is the uh October Ram meeting to present the final um audited Financial for Crystal year 22 and present the comprehensive annual financial report at that time uh that being said uh there should not be significant variances um in the numbers that are being presented um so the fund balance um page two of the report uh basically

101shows if you look really at the our main focus really on the operational side of things you can see on the top side we're kind of that's all the funds you can see that we're spending down uh that Capital project funds for the referendum um vast majority of that will be spent down the remainder of that will be spent down this year and we'll just carry uh small amount remaining that's for phase four projects over into phisically year 24 um on their operational activity side you can kind of see the the fund balances for each of the funds um generally by the 420 policy um we consider the actual reserves of the district to be the operational ending fund balance so we would exclude operations of Maintenance and capital projects would leave us about I

102think was about $22.7 million in what we would consider the actual kind of financial reserves uh for the district flip over to the next page uh summary here basically for the fiscal year we're projecting about a $2.2 million surplus in uh the operational activity about just another 750,000 of that was directly related to the Self Insurance Fund uh which had to do with uh claims being lower than anticipated um the remainder of that uh we can get into but I'll jump over I guess to go you go down to the next page uh a couple variances that we had on the the revenue side and it's conversation I guess every time we talk about budgets or anything else uh replacement tax uh we had significantly uh more Revenue in the replacement tax which is a

103reflection of um Illinois's corporate uh replacement tax so that was significant higher than than the initial budget um the other items on Revenue side wasn't many significant other um variances uh interest was was slightly higher obviously we saw interest rates really kind of start to to come back up towards the end of the fiscal year which did provide some benefit we had gone in kind of planning the interest rates to be uh unchanged uh started FC year and things changed obviously very rapidly uh in that area um other than that though those are really the only two big kind of outliers on the revenue side uh jumping down to expenditures uh we had kind of talked about some of these items already obviously we carry a few vacancies um with our buildings and ground staff

104throughout the year and with our uh instructional AIDS uh supervisor staff um as well so that provided or created I guess some favorable variances um versus what we're budgeting on salary and benefit items uh you can jump down to the next really other um expenditure items we we've had you know some continued favorability it's kind of like a lingering cover favorability with when it comes to some like supplies and material items uh travel is another one um so some of those things have just kind of continue forward while some accounts kind of had normalized um this year compared to a couple of the prior Co years uh there's still some lingering areas where we're not completely I don't think the budget's not completely or the expenditures have not completely returned to uh preco um kind

105of allocation of of the resources uh other than that um I guess only other item and note you can jump down to the last page um so this was not updated uh when the July inflation report came out so that is we'll have that updated for the for the next board meeting um but just where kind of things stand right now uh for f or for calendar year 22 the uh pel is trending um to be over the 5% cap at this point um I guess anybody's guess based on the July report if things are stabilizing or reversing at all um but we'll continue obviously to to provide updates to the board as we continue in through the rest of 2022 if there are any questions though on the the financials please let me know

106so you know I've had several conversations with you about this in the past couple days but I think important to me was the explanation on the reserves and what the expectations are uh with that and I think uh you explained that it's between 15 and 20% is what the guidance is and so with our budget excluding Capital um referendum type work is about 125 million and so the amount in reserves right now is right in the middle of that street correct between 15 and so the my rough calculation after we we had talked today I I would say it's about 21% um the other adjustment that would have to be made uh when we look at so basically we take the um the ending fund balances for um all of the funds except thatb Services

107which is the 30 fund and capital projects which is the 60 fund and we divide that by the um the revenues for the year but you ALS we also have to exclude the revenues we show and our in our for for the self-insurance fund because it's a subf fund it's really the movement it's really just like when we do a transfer we we take money basically from the Ed and onm fund when people um have their um every paycheck and they they make their contributions to the Self Insurance Fund so it's an expenditure and then a revenue to the Self Insurance Fund Auditors don't recognize any of that since 11 fund is a sub fund so it's in their minds none of that money actually moved anywhere it just stayed where it is so you

108basically for the most part just ignore the the revenue for the Self Insurance Fund and then you would obviously ignore the debt service and um capital projects Revenue as well and then divide that I came up to just over 21% so we'll repost you know obviously that's one of our kpis that we track is that fund balance percentage and we'll post that when we have the audited financials but it' be right around that that territory thank you for that report any other questions or comments for Josh okay we're going to move on then to our audience comments 14.1 we not here did we Financial rep yeah I do not have any comments on the Trey report for start question um audience comments we'll hear comments uh following our board protocols and policy 223 anyone who

109is interested in addressing the board they step forward each speaker will have three minutes to speak to State your name hi Kim Naro again I just want to make sure we talk about the shortages of Staff um um AIDS and all that had a huge impact on our family this year and I think that you guys need to think about the fact that from period four through period 8 there were no Proctors available to monitor kids who needed testing in the conil central building so basically that's over half of your day that you can't take tests and like we were told we were going to have mat was going to have to come back and take test after school but after school there's only three days a week that you can use the testing center

110um he has one-on-one testing so it doesn't matter you still have to hire somebody to sit with him to test and there's no reason that those people shouldn't be available to students from period 4 through period eight of the day it's a hardship a lot of kids wasn't just my family I heard from several families that their kids were unable to test during the day and were being told that they had to test either school or after school because those people were being used to monitor lunch room and there's a very different piece to this accommodations are guaranteed by law and they should be available to kids when the kids are available to use them so if you have a study hall four five four five they were saying we have nobody who can help

111you with a test there was nobody available so please make sure that we're fully staffed in special education because it's just an added stressor to not provide the accommodations these kids are guaranteed by law thank so I attended the policy committee meeting and was really kind of Taken by the disrespect shown by board members hman and Hansen towards the third board member pedy James um who tried to raise revisiting a policy um dealing with the sex education uh it's clear I went back and looked through board docs to try to see what was available to the community to learn more about it I found nothing we had to do searches on Google to get more information so I I thank you for trying to get this board board members not just two who are in

112the majority of one committee um to discuss an important topic I was also Disturbed at that meeting and I'm glad that you raised it again tonight to learn that board members don't have access to even see what an administrative procedures exist in this District can't access them can't ask and have them shown and there was push back given to miss James at the meeting so I find it particularly ironic that seven board members who are elected by the entire Community can't access administrative procedures but apparently Mr Jess schula the director of communication has access to every email that the board members receive unless I misheard that's that's correct okay so that is unbelievable and I would like an explanation tonight for the community from the board president but most importantly from Super attendant of this

113District as to why community members privacy when they email the board about their children or whatever they might email just the board about maybe the superintendent gets to see it but why would the director of communication get to see it that's shocking and it's not anywhere on the board website because I immediately check to see if there's any notification that if you send an email to the board Mr J SCA gets to see it he wasn't elected he's not a ninth board member eighth board member it's disgusting I didn't quite hear because there was a lot of fan noise Miss James's request for her first agenda item which had something to do with a review of The District's records retention act um not sure if she gave a reason I plan to ask you about

114that after the meeting why you're asking for that um I looked at our records retention act apparently we're supposed to comply or you're supposed to comply with the Illinois records um retention act so if that's not happening is that why it needs to be reviewed I'm just not clear what's going on here but everybody has to listen to what happens at these meetings because clearly there's something up so um I'll be asking you about that after the meeting thank you thank you does anyone else wish to address the board Andrea Flynn um the first thing I wanted to speak to was just some of the concerns that have been raised about the sex ad um curriculum and policies as a psychologist and someone who's been actively engaged in teaching and researching in this area um

115since well I hesitate to share how long it's been is that will indicate my age but several decades um I've never seen a scientific study showing that provid children or adolescence with information about their bodies about their gender identities or their sexuality is harmful um I've never seen a single scientific study showing any of that and so just to sort of qu some of the fears of some of the community members that maybe you know their their children are being damaged or this is developmentally inappropriate from a psychological perspective I I I could say professionally that's not the case um the second thing I want to say is that the tension and the tone of a lot of the people who spoken tonight is really troubling to me um I just feel like there's a

116high level of hostility among a lot of people um in this room community members um board members not the administrators fortunately so thanks for um professional um professionalism in this way and certainly not all board members but it's really shameful and shocking and I'm really disappointed um I I can't imagine how anyone could get anything done in this environment I'm really saddened by it I'm ashamed that my kids have to go to a school where parents are talking like this to the board um and um board members are speaking to each other with such tones of hostility um I I don't think you know how you sound or where you've gone psychologically but um it's disturbing and I've had my child here and I hope he doesn't ever act like that um I'm sorry but

117it's it's really um a race to the bottom the way some people are talking to each other in this room any else yes um my name isk I would like to EO just about everything that yvon Ivon said um and in kind of um just response to what the previous uh woman had just said um I think that as parents we have a right to be angry we a right to be angry because there's such a lack of transparency and um yes we can say things respectfully but we still have a right to be angry when things are being when we can almost without fail um know that a lot of time it's just going to be a 43 vote a 43 vote a 43 vote and what was super interesting is that when ion

118spoke I noticed that three board members actually sat and looked at her the entire time the other four May B here and there and so really Peggy you're correct we the public we pay all our tax money for 95% of it for schools for proper education of our kids so we should know what's going on we should know what the curriculum is and we should be listened to and we are part of who the board answers to and yeah's tension there's some tension with the parents there's tension with the board members and I would say that um yes some of the administration uh definitely has tones as well so um you just need to be transparent you need to listen to all sides and you need to start um reconsidering policies that maybe weren't fully

119known when you had an initial vote on it such as the NB uh standards okay more information's coming out so how you can say oh it's policy we voted on it and we're not going to look at it anymore is personally and in my opinion pathetic that you are willing just to go down that road and not rec thank you hello again uh my name is an Hub within U I live within d86 I'm just going to read the title of the uh Tribune article that I was talking about earlier alleged racial slurs at Hinsdale Central under investigation which comes directly from Chris Jula and that investigation was over two months before he said that meaning he didn't pick up the phone and talk to the athletic director and the entire all of the Poli

120all of the policies that you guys have in place and that is still out there it is circulating to this day nobody said this there's not been a press release that has come out and said it's done everybody's absolved LT said there's nothing that happened here you know people still think that this was a racist baseball game and I know you may say well that was one game and this lives on it goes on and these are like kids I just want please think about these kids and what this does to these kids when you say that and don't correct it it's not a big deal just an error was made everybody was clear thank you very much and then that can be a correction in the Tribune and it can be Tagg and then

121we're all cleared just please protect these 20 boys they boys uh secondly with regard to the e-learning uh I'm sorry I don't remember your name but it's um not everybody learns the same I have one kid who is you know great with her e-learning and that'll be fine and the have the kids a space k it when it comes to e-learning it doesn't always work I mean I know it's hard to fix but as a mother it just it doesn't always work for all my kids any thank you you have any additional comments hi Mar down um so my topic tonight is organic produce um this is all right um I actually my Garden's been going crazy this year and um I just prepared a little kit for cat she's not here tonight so someone

122please take this home fresh mint fresh organic Italian parsley tomatoes and some Chi mix so I'm going to leave it here and take it I can Dr it all right that is all thank you for your comments generous any additional comments at this time how can you talk that I don't know um again a musical number jazz hands spir fingers well with no additional comments or action uh we're going to call the meeting adjourn the regular board meeting at time being 7:55 have a motion second to aurn the meeting all those in favor say I I all those opposed say nay 755 we are thank you very much can I just clarify if anyone has any question questions about Board of AD elections I do play a role as the aison between the district and

123the DU County clerk's office and I would be happy to help you with any questions related to that