001Mhm. >> Mhm. >> All right, I'd like to call this meeting of the Lake Forest District 67 67 school board to order. Um, we begin each meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. I invite all members of the board, the administration, community to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over their heart and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Going to begin our meeting this evening with the Deer Path Middle School's Green Team. They are spotlight for the board tonight. Nicole, do you want to take Ready? >> Okay. Oh, better. All right. Well, thank you again for having us here tonight. My name is Nicole Birmingham. This is my co-sponsor, Sandy Jardine. Um we head up the Deer Path Middle School Green Team. Um but you're not really going to be hearing from us
002tonight because these are the fabulous folks who do all of the work. We are only here um because of the amazing efforts that they have given to this club. I will though acknowledge we did start the club at the end of the 2021 um school year with a our first ever green locker clean out and then um we're in full force for the 2021-2022 school year um with a handful of members, but over time it's grown and now we have over 30 active members. A select group of them are here tonight. Um so we have Bella Krantz, we have Moss Marks, we have Grace Wickline, we have Christopher Burden, we have Tucker Gaspar, we have Miles Malloy, and I think that I get everybody. Okay. Oh, and we do have Michael Krantz, although he is
003not presenting tonight, but he is in the audience. We're grateful that he is here. Um and without further ado, I will pass it over to our green team of students. >> We are a group of uh students at Deer Path who plan on finding better solutions to helping the planet. >> [snorts] >> Um our initiatives, we have um done everything from composting in the lunch room to raising money for wildfires and participating in the garden fair. We also are partnering with the Illinois Green Schools project with Miss Angulo over there. And we who and they help try to give schools like help get them more like energy efficient. Um, we did three self-assessments and our energy impacts, we got out of possible points, we got there were 29 possible points and point we got 12.5.
004And wellness, possible points were 11, we got full points. And in energy or liter- environmental literacy, there were 16 and we got eight for a total score of 31.5. >> During our walk through with the building facilities manager, we examined the HVAC system, lighting appliances, and analyzed utility costs. Occupancy sensors in most classrooms, but not all, are working properly. Teachers forgot to turn off TVs after school and no way to make the turn off automatically. And most classrooms have LED lights, but the hallways do not. Our ideas range from large solar panels to small smart outlets, but we landed on LED lights. Benefits of LED technology. Energy efficiency significantly reduces power consumption. Durability offers a much longer lifespan than a traditional bulbs. Safety contains no mercury or toxic chemicals, low heat, reduced emission, and minimal
005fire risk. Improved learning environment, behavior, focus, and well-being. Strategic plan alignment and portrait of a learner. Transformative and equitable resources. Lake Forest School District 67 will develop sustainable and innovative facilities and resources distributed in an intentional, fiscally responsible manner. This transforms learning experiences and opportunities while helping to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality staff. Citizenship. Demonstrate personal, civic, social, local, and global responsibility through empathetic and ethical behaviors. Contribute and take action to make the world a better place. With the help of Tim Dunn, we decided to replace the emergency lights that are on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year with more efficient LED lights. We also worked on a mini education campaign for the staff about the value of turning off our TVs and ensuring our occupancy
006sensors were operational. T8 fluorescent tube uh 20,000 hours a day uh 20,000 hours divided by 24 hours a day equals 833 days or 2.3 years. The annual CO2 emissions were about 86.9 kg of CO2 per year. With the LED fluorescent tube retro fit 50,000 hours divided by 24 hours a day equals 2,000 and 83 days or 5.7 years. The annual CO2 emissions were about 40.7 kg of CO2 per year. >> Um with the help Mr. Dunn, uh he we donated uh to electrician knowledge and time and labor to install the lights. Uh we got $1,000 um from uh one source, another thousand from another, and 515 from the spirit. >> Uh our plan is to replace 24 of our 40 emergency uh troffers in the 78 hallways. Uh the financial overview, the cost uh Lithonia
007is uh 2 * 4 low profile LED and $102.14 each. Uh the total investment be uh $2,000 or $2,451.36. Um and we would want we'd like to install them over the summer during uh the other um construction on the building. >> Um anticipated impact 64.5% less power cost and carbon and carbon footprint and um than fluorescent. Six um $651.79 annual savings for the 24 troffers. 30,000 plus hours average um average additional lifespan before replacement. Key takeaways. Sustainable uh sorry. Sus- Sustainable impact over time. This project saves money against raising electricity electricity costs, red- um reducing energy complement- consumption and um shrinks our carbon footprint. Creative arts uh arts expansion. Classrooms in the creative arts hallway are sig- hallway could significantly benefit from the upgraded LED lighting. Future vision. We hope that the We hope the
008the school and district will continue replacing outdated fluorescent lights with efficient LEDs across the the faculties. >> Thank you guys very much. That was great. Um we just spent a long part of our meeting going over ways to try to save money and you've you've you've solved a small problem for us on your own. So, I appreciate you addressing environmental efficiencies from the our district. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Uh >> [applause] >> and green team, we do take a photo with the school board. If you can come on up. >> [applause] >> We have a second spotlight report spotlight this evening of the CIC learning report from Dr. Ken Osborne. Good evening, everybody. This is a great segue. Uh to jump ahead, we're going to jump right to that slide. Thank you, Dr. Fitzsimmons,
009cuz this was the essential question that the District 67 team wanted to ask CIC when they came to visit. And that is about as perfect an example of active and meaningful participation as you can get. Um so it's really just inspiring to see what they did and uh and how they did it, too. So, uh I'm sure Dr. Fitzsimmons didn't plan that, although she's a very well-planned person, so I could be wrong about that, too. So, we are skipping ahead because you have a long meeting, you have a lot to cover, so we didn't cover the first nine slides. It's background into the process. I'm happy to answer any questions about it. Um some of you I've gotten a chance to talk to before, um but I'm happy to be here with you and talk
010about the the report itself. You have the executive summary. I have just highlighted a selection of commendations and recommendations from that came out of the process. So, there are over 60, actually, in total. So, this isn't all of them, and I'm not going to even talk about all of these. I'll leave them up here, highlight a few, and then leave time for questions at the end, so you get a sense of what came out of this. Uh I can always answer program uh process questions. I did meet last week with Dr. Montgomery and Dr. Fitzsimmons in great much greater detail, and I'll be following up with Dr. Fitzsimmons to work with her and the team about what what happens next and how can I support that as much as possible. Um so, first, I'm going
011to highlight some select commendations and recommendations that were related to that essential question that the district wanted to hear some feedback on. And we encourage districts to ask questions they don't actually know the answer to, otherwise, why go through all that work? Um so, the the team that visited came up with just These are just some of them, and I'm going to highlight a couple on this slide. And one is that establishment of CHAMPS and Kagan cooperative structures to contribute to learning environments that make access to meaningful participation possible. There's actually a little bit of a theme in the report where our team noted the work that's been done to make the learning environment one where active and meaningful participation actually occur. We take it for granted that it just happens through action, but there's
012a lot of ground work that effective instructional practitioners make. And some of them are through things like CHAMPS and Kagan cooperative structures, which you're not fully implemented yet on Kagan, but you're making progress. And the other reason I highlight is cuz that's an investment of time, money, and resources by the district, and that was noticed by our visiting team as an important component of making active and meaningful participation possible. And likewise, another investment is is in that co-teaching model. And the observations of the visit team members were that that co-teaching model is effectively increasing students' opportunity to participate in the classroom, which is something you would want co-teaching to do very much. And so, that was something that rose to the top in our team members' observations. Um and you know, it comes up in
013other parts areas other recommendations about how might that look in other areas where it isn't currently being used if you wanted to increase participation in other areas. Go ahead to the next slide. And then on this slide, um just a couple observations. And because the interesting thing about the essential question was it wasn't just about students. Okay, it was about the community. So, how did different members of the community actively and meaningfully participate? And so, one of the recommendations is to consider how the belonging pillar that's a key piece in that strategic work implicates teachers and staff members' active and meaningful participation. There's work being done on that right now, but it's always an ongoing question because um you know, the main thing that we have teachers do every day is go into the classroom
014and work with our kids. So, when we're always looking for other ways for them to be actively and meaningfully participating, it's a challenge because of schedules and resources. But, you have this amazing belonging pillar, and that really struck our visit team as something that was powerful, not just in its messaging, but in how it was organizing the thinking of staff members in the work. So, we would encourage continuing to think about that in terms of teachers. Um and then the next one at the bottom here, we already know that SEL work is getting ready to get looked into different options, different opportunities. And so, we think it's an it's a good opportunity to keep that uh belonging, you know, focus clear, but also thinking about as um the district looks into the options for social
015uh emotional learning curriculum and instruction, can you use active and meaningful participation as one of the lenses through which you evaluate that curriculum and instruction? Is it helping promote that active and meaningful participation? Because if it's important enough to ask the question about and seek to develop answers to, you want to apply it to anything new that you're going to do. And SEL is a perfect opportunity to do that. Go ahead to the next slide. So, there's a lot of great uh observations from our team here, and you can see in a couple places where there's a lot of good work and progress that was observed by the team. And I'm just going to just going to highlight one here, actually, cuz it hasn't happened yet in all our visits. Um but actually, we did
016focus groups with students. And in one of the focus group, more than one student noted that they've had teachers come back from professional learning and implement that learning in the classroom, and it's come up that they just brought that from the professional learning. First of all, that's what you you hope for that to happen, not the comment per se, but that it was commented upon was was rare and a sign that the teachers are very explicit in a positive way about how their professionalism connects to what they do with students in the classroom. Just thought it was a unique thing that happened and a very positive thing, too. Um, let's go to the next slide. Um, and you know, at the beginning of the visit, uh, the district makes a presentation and they did talk
017about the growth data on the Acra report. I've used Acra extensively, very impressive data, uh, in growth and we saw that both in them deeper data that was presented, um, and we felt from all the other pieces that we put together that, you know, it was clear that there is a shared vision and environment for change. In other words, it really feels like people are on the same page here, um, from teachers to parents to students and that that is a real contributor to that growth. The challenging thing about the CIC metric is that to to kind of hit it out of the park, you have to sustain that growth over time and that's kind of a holy grail for us for us when we look at like Acra data because Acra always raises the
018bar. Once you've hit that growth, to actually hit blue again, you have to go even higher. So, you know, fingers crossed that that happens, but all the right work is going on for that. Um, and then also, I do want to point, this isn't the only bullet point that mentions it, but there are other ones that talk about uh, the parent community and their relationship to active and meaningful participation. Um, in my interviews with three of the board members, this came up because it was a very explicit important place, um, but in multiple cases, whether it's access to active and meaningful participation or actual, um, perspectives being sought out, those things are happening in the Lake Forest 67 community and they're contributing to parents and guardians ability to actively and meaningful meaningfully participate. As I
019say in my conclusion and I think it's true for high-performing districts, right? It's an ongoing cause and result of, right? Your excellence is a cause of that ongoing desire for deeper, more meaningful participation and reaching towards excellence and it's a result of that, too. So, this is just a kudos to you as a community. Uh this one is about our indicators and I will tell you that we have some incredibly rigorous indicators in our uh rubric that we use. And so, we always highlight these and I just highlight a couple here that are really a charge for all the districts in CI C. They've been a challenge, but they're really I'd say deeply impactful ones. So, we always encourage districts to think about both performance-based assessments, which are ones under definition in the rubric that
020are usually interdisciplinary, inquiry-based, long-term, and involve some version of connecting the work to a community outside. So, what you just saw here are really perfect examples of performance-based assessment. Um and then the other one is metacognition. So, one of the challenges in metacognition is that often times we ask students, "What did you learn? Tell me what you learned today." or at conferences, "Tell Tell us what you learned." And we've gotten very good at that. What we have not really yet hit a home run on is telling me how you learn best. Getting students to reflect, "How is it that you learn best in a given situation so that I can adapt and differentiate and maximize what you learn and have you become a self-reflective learner so that in the future you can control your own
021circumstances and become even more effective as a learner as a result of that reflection. So, those are two areas are all our districts work at very hard at getting better at. And then this last one I'll just talk about briefly is um when we talk about we want to talk about consider how developing consistent practices for supporting student needs related to social emotional development that goes to the earlier part and executive functioning can increase student access to learning including active and meaningful participation. So, executive function functioning continues to be I think a challenge across all grades um and as we increasingly look at the impact and work with digital learning and its impact on executive functioning um we think it's a good time to consider if you're going to look at executive functioning, how do
022you think of it not just by itself like I'm a more organized student but as a way to ensure students can then access learning and participation even more than they could if they weren't practicing those executive functioning skills. In that way it's often a way to open up conversations with teachers and with families about why it's important and how to get better at it. So, just some next steps and I say this I will be as much of a support to Dr. Fitzsimmons and the team as they want me to be but you have an amazing team. They're very accomplished. They're very thoughtful educators. They're great to talk about teaching and learning with. One thing you might not know is that you know Lake Forest 67 is the fourth district to have a visit and
023the 67 team has been involved from the beginning and I feel like I could call up your team members on my own and just start talking about this stuff. They're so engaged and excited about it and they've taught me so much about how I can be better at it. So, if I do get the chance to facilitate with Dr. Fitzsimmons, I will, but I'm sure that they'll do a great job. As an example, just you have over 60 of these commendations and recommendations and as I say in the report, the expectation is not that you go do them all or create a checklist. The idea is you look at the important work you're already doing and which things that come out of this can help you drive that work and multiply it even more in
024a concerted organized way that maximizes this visit and what it made possible as opposed to treating it separate as something like, "Oh, they they saw that. Okay, we'll go do that." That's not the most the way to have the most impact. So, I've worked with other districts on how to facilitate this report into something that's more meaningful. And I'm at your beck and call when you need me for that. And other than that, that's my presentation and I'm happy to answer questions. I know you've already had a long night and have another report coming up from Dr. Montgomery. Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Osborne. >> Okay, thank you very much. Have a great night. >> Okay, and with that we will move on to the president's report. Uh the president's report tonight's going to
025be very brief. I want to thank our board members for being here so far for 4 and 1/2 hours. It's been a very long run and I want to thank the staff, the administration, uh and our faculty for a terrific end of the year. Um it was a very good school year and the end of the the end of the school year is kind of a magical thing place around here both at Everett. I know where my daughter went to school and around the high school and all of our all of our schools. So, with that I'll hand it over to Dr. Montgomery. >> Thank you, kind sir. Uh we will start with the presidents excuse me start with the superintendents report and we are going to cover a few items prior to moving into
026our year in review. So we'll start first with celebrations around the DPM graduation which happened just a few weeks ago on Monday June 1st. We celebrated 178 graduates and it was a fantastic evening for the community and grateful for the participation from select board members as well as student speakers who I think did an exceptional job. >> We've had so much going around the district at Sheridan we had Snowy who visited our winners at Sheridan for the spirit of 67 cross town challenge. We also had Miss Emmy visit our preschool little sharks and we are excited to welcome them as kindergartners this fall. We also at Cherokee had some members of their third and fourth grade student leadership team gather to place ceramic bunnies that they created in the Becky Bell Memorial Garden. Huge thank
027you to GTG grow to grow. And spirit of 67 for sponsoring that. Also at DPM some of our former eighth graders enjoyed the beautiful weather to sign yearbooks always an amazing part of the end of the year and then at Everett they had their fourth grade celebration and they participated in a spirited game of Everett Jeopardy. Just also wanting to take a moment to thank the spirit and the APT for all that they do to make these things possible for us. We are also inviting families to join us at the Lake Forest Day parade on Wednesday August 5th. If you are live streaming this with our audience out there please scan this QR code and let us know that you'll be joining us. >> Thank you Dr. Fitzsimmons. Every June we offer a year in
028review that highlights key moments from the past school year and there's much to celebrate and much to share. Uh there's three buckets of information that we're going to talk about. First one being student voice, then move to community engagement, and finish with board priorities. Uh beginning with student voice, in addition to SLS and Stew Crew, which are student groups on both the east side and west side of the building, uh we've been working hard to involve our students uh in other ways to get their direction and insight as we continue to make decisions. Uh two key events I'd highlight, uh the first one is something that happened with past graduates, but they are now the uh moved forward to the high school, and they participated some of them participated in the joint board student mixer,
029uh which happened this spring, and we got feedback of how we're doing with the transition, what happened in DPM, their experiences, as well as what happened in Lake Bluff Middle School, so we can continue to improve. And then, just prior to graduation, I had the annual round table with eighth graders, uh where we spend about an hour or so together asking them what's going well, what uh are areas of improvement. Um tell me your uh teacher that you connected with the most and why, and each year I walk away with um more information than I had imagined. They are thoughtful, they are caring, and I'm grateful that we have such amazing students with us. We'll move into community engagement now. Uh the the main event from this school year, in addition to the board mixer,
030was the Living Our Portrait experience, where we had over 100 individuals representing various stakeholder groups. This is the uh check-in that we did with the community from the original portrait that happened uh 4 years ago, I believe, uh in 2021-2022 school year. And this was a time to look at where we have been and where we want to go in the the about um putting focus for strategic our strategic planning years four and five. The biggest takeaway of this is that the student voice again led the way and their desire to have more experiences like we heard tonight at the start of the meeting where you have more real-world application that is happening within the classroom and the community and beyond. On May 27th, we hosted the first superintendent advisory council of the new group
031and I say new group because some members stayed on after their two-year term and we had an influx of new members as after screening candidates or not screening candidates accepting applications for the superintendent advisory council and that first meeting um covered a range of topics from construction to technology to how we are going to work together as a group and what the members wanted us to hear it in topics for next school year. And there are more topics than we have dates planned for so that just tells me that they are an engaged group ready to be thought partners with administration. And I'm grateful for their service. It's a wonderful group of individuals. There are many ways to stay connected to 67. We continue to figure out what is the right interval to try to
032make sure that we are meeting our student or our community where they are from our community printed newsletter to the website to bi-weekly 411s to our social media platforms. We are committed to outreach and connection to the community to capture the student and parent and community voice. And I thank Mrs. Oakley for her leadership in this area. Moving to board priorities, this is something that we touched on tonight as a board and we'll talk again next week as a 67 board as we look at where our priorities are and where the board wants to go in the future based on the feedback of the experiences we had this school year. Priority one is around academic excellence, priority two is around climate and culture, and then priority three is financial and resource management. Um all topics
033have um continued to be an amazing area of focus for us and uh eager to get the board's take on where we want to go moving forward. >> And I'll speak a little bit to our academic progress. We were extremely proud. If you remember at the beginning of the year in November, we were extremely thrilled to share with the community. This was our first year that all of our schools were exemplary. And then we also, if you want to look at how we compared to our peer districts, this was also a moment of pride for all of us. We went from 14 last year to ninth out of our nine comp districts. Um that was in ELA and math. You can see we jumped to seventh out of 19. And that was comparative. We won't
034know this year yet until the fall when all of the school districts data are released, but one of the things you can see we just got raw IAR data. So we're sharing it just because this is raw. Um we are extremely pleased even despite what Ken Osborne was just saying about our growth. It's harder to continue growing when you've had such growth, but we have already seen an increase in just our 24-25 ELA raw IAR data to 25-26 being 85.7. On our raw math data, we went down a little bit about 7/10 of a percentage point. Not sure what happened there. We are looking deeply at what we are um maybe it's statewide. We'll look in the fall when we get our comparables there, but that is something that we are diving in deeply this
035summer with our coaches and our principals. Um, also, here is something that we're extremely proud of. When we look at our growth, if you look back at 22-23, only 57% of our students were meeting their growth targets. We are proud to say that in this year, 25-26, 82.6% of our students have met their growth targets, which is up about 6/10 of a percentage point. So, we feel we're on a good track. Um, I also like to share on our next slide just a little bit about our high school readiness tri-district partnership. Um, we have been charged, as your board priority states, about that ability to be connected and ready for high school. We have charged our principals to make sure that they are articulating and our students are ready. And under the leadership of Sam
036Paulson, the principal at DPM, he's been leading uh, this group of 65, 67, and 115 leaders on making sure that we have come up with a collective success criteria. So, that per your priority, and by 2028, we should have all of those success criteria aligned and in an alumni survey to be able to give you those metrics that you're looking for. Um, as you heard earlier, we are working very diligently on making sure everyone is going to be Kagan trained. Kagan is um, our our professional learning and those engagement strategies to make sure that all students are participating, all students are involved, no one can hide. And then also the CISD learning walks, that is just what we were hearing from uh, Dr. Osborne. Um, Ms. Young, would you mind forwarding the slides just one
037really quick? Thank you so much. Okay, he's back. If you would like further information on our academic progress, you can see our fall assessment or winter assessment report, which is on our website. Okay, second priority is positive climate and culture. We've done a lot with this. If you go to the next slide, Dr. Montgomery, you can see that we've got our magic of belonging blog that is written by Dr. Jenny Stirpin. We also have DPM really focusing on service. Our shark families were um part of our shark say thank you, and Everett and Cherokee were part of um making sure that Sorry, that says Everett and Sheridan, but it was Everett and Cherokee acts of gratitude and their kindness campaign with manners this fall. We were really excited about that. The kids were explicitly being
038taught how to say thank you, to welcome people. So, all good things. Um the DPM butterfly project is something we're really proud of. This has been going on for a few years, but this is the first year that the spirit they were supportive of this amazing grant. It was a cross-curricular interdisciplinary unit. It was English language arts, social studies, and art. They learned all about the um They learned all about the Holocaust, and then they each received a student's name, a child's name who passed away in the Holocaust. The children learned all about that student, and then decorated a butterfly in honor of that student, and that was the wall that was designed. So, this was a wonderful intersection of cross-curricular work, as well as our portrait of a learner, and helped create some belonging.
039We had 150 community members who came to see this on um in May. Okay, and then the last metric to share. One of the things that we've highlighted in the board priorities is just to make sure that we're maintaining a rolling average of 4.1 of student connectedness. So, based on the state um required survey that we give student climate uh and culture survey, the connectedness students reported was at a 4.1, which is where we've been pretty steady at. We've always like to increase that. And then, a a celebration, and this is out of five. So, a celebration is that there was an increase from last year of 4.2 for staff feeling connected and that they belong and this year it went up to 4.3. So, that was a celebration for us. Lastly, technology updates. I
040know one of the priorities that the board has set for us is to make sure that we are using technology effectively and not just as screen time. So, we've made a few shifts. One is that in K1, we are no longer doing a one to one device approach. We're keeping um iPads on carts. And then, K4, we're making sure that those iPads stay at school. K8, we have blocked YouTube for our students. And then, we have obviously engaged with our technology working group, which includes our parents from the community. >> Moving on to financial and resource management. Uh there is continued effort to increase our fund balance as we move from our last phase of projects to future ones. And you can see that green line progressing up. Uh in the workshop prior to this,
041I shared with the board that uh with Dr. Hermes that we are tracking more favorably than we originally thought. So, that will be updated and the slope line will uh become steeper in that we will be increasing that 12% number uh to the tune of um about an additional uh $1 million uh based on cost-saving measures that we have done in the past school year. Uh so, I'm proud of this work as we move forward in our five-year forecast, uh moving well above the uh fund balance uh board policy of 25% as the years progress. As you may remember, we are uh we were rated triple A for the 15th year in a row. And just by Moody's and just to give put in perspective how rare this is, there's 84 districts in the country
042out of 13,000 public school districts. So, we are in the top 1% that have received this honor and I'm the community should be very proud of that. Uh we continue to educate on finances through two key mediums that are newer to the district. One is beyond the budget, which is a video series and we released the latest one late spring and then in your mailboxes, you should have received the latest annual report called the bottom line. This is the second annual publication of the bottom line continuing our commitment to financial transparency with our taxpayers. As far as construction over the summer, there are three major things happening. One is phase C of the DPM cafeteria, which includes sprinkler system, it includes additional bathrooms, replacement of the curtain wall and new entrances to utilize the spirits
043generous donation of outdoor furniture. We also have roofing projects that are happening in DPM, Sheridan and um DPM and Sheridan, forgive me, as well as HVAC work happening on rooftop units. There are approximately 60 trades people on that campus and Dan Mortensen is running point overseeing those crews. This is happening in addition to the work that's happening in 115. I would like to invite you, this is just a reminder before I wrap up, that I want to invite you to the first double feature of the summer, which is going to happen on June 25th at Varsity Field. It will be a double feature for both Zootopia and Zootopia 2. The gates will open around 4:30 with the first show starting at 5:00 p.m. We will have movie snacks, candy, beverages, and meals. We will have
044a taco food truck, Cluckers, Snowy, and other treats. And remember that the movies are shown with free of charge. So there's no charge for that, but please remember that guests under the age of 13 must be accompanied by adult 21 or older. And each adult may supervise children. So you have to be 13 or over without an adult supervisor, and this adult that's with you can only be responsible for six children. So that's a way to just ensure safety and supervision for this experience and make sure it's positive for everybody. That concludes our superintendent's report. Thank you to Dr. Fitzsimmons for helping share that information, and we're happy to answer any questions you may have. >> Seeing no questions, we will move on to the public participation segment of our meeting. The board will now
045hear public comment under board policy 2 subpart 230. The Lake Forest Board of Education welcomes the public at all meetings. Are there any members of the public who would like to address the board? Okay. Seeing none, we are going to move on to liaison reports. I am first in that domain. True North held a meeting this past week to approve preliminarily, as I understand it, the budget. I was not able to make it, but from what I understand it was passed and otherwise all phases of the restructured True North Cooperative 804 are now fully sort of in place and moving. Things seem to be going reasonably well. Mark, do you have anything for us on the legislatively as legislatively? >> I'll just brief on the legislative front and I think most people heard about this
046and that is the Illinois legislature did pass the cell phone ban in schools which Lake Forest already had a cell phone policy in place so that is a significant change there. The legislature has since adjourned so nothing new to report there. >> Do you have anything to report for us in the policy committee? >> No. >> All right. We will move on to action items. There are several action items tonight. The first of which involves the approval of an intergovernmental agreement for crossing guard services. May I have a motion to approve the intergovernmental agreement for crossing guard services? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Are there any questions or discussion? Seeing none, can may I have a roll call vote, please? >> Mr. Adamo? >> Yes. >> Ms. Yohn? >> Yes. Ms. Engelberg? >>
047Yes. >> Ms. Fitzgerald? >> Yes. >> Mr. Remis? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> We will move on to number two. Item two is the approval of a school resource officer memorandum of understanding with the city of Lake Forest. May I have a motion to approve the school resource officer memorandum of understanding with the city of Lake Forest. >> So moved. >> Monica, is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Lori. Is there any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Ms. Yohn? >> Yes. Mr. Remis? >> Yes. >> Ms. Engelberg? >> Yes. >> Mr. Adamo? >> Yes. >> Ms. Fitzgerald? >> Yes. >> Item three is the approval of the 2026-2027 tentative budget. This is a non-final budget. May I have a motion to approve the 2026-2027 tentative budget. >>
048So moved. >> Lori, is there a second? >> Second. >> Did I have that, Lori? Sorry. I don't hear well out of my left side. It's very Okay. Um Um may I have a roll call vote, please? >> Ms. Engelberg? >> Yes. >> Ms. Fitzgerald? >> Yes. >> Mr. Adamo? >> Yes. >> Ms. Yan? >> Yes. >> Mr. Remus? >> Yes. >> Item four is the approval of the Branching Minds contract for the 2026-2029 school year. May I have a motion to approve the Branching Minds contract for the 2026 to 2000 So moved. 29 school year. >> Second. >> May I have a Is it Um Is there any uh discussion? >> I just had a question. Is this a new contract? Is this in place of or additional? >> Yes. >> This is an
049additional contract. We have a grant for it currently, and this is a new way for us to better track and be proactive just with behavior data, um some of our ways to be proactive in um going through what we call our intervention planning team for students who just have some um whether it's behavior or some of those academic interventions that they might need. >> And just to address the ambiguity in the agenda, this is for multiple school school years, not for a single school year. Is that right? >> That is correct. And one of the years we do have the grant money to to fund it. >> Is there any further >> So the additional years we'll have to budget. >> Correct. And most of these funds will come out of some of those um
050IDEA funds. And since this is truly for um it's not necessarily special education. It is for all, but it is servicing students that have some of those needs. >> Can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Ms. Fitzgerald? >> Yes. >> Mr. Remus? >> Yes. >> Ms. Engelberg? >> Yes. >> Mr. Adamo? >> Yes. >> Ms. Yahn? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Item five on the agenda is the approval of um to waive the first reading of the updated 7 subpart 200 policy of our board manual. This is concerns suspension procedures. May I have a motion to approve to waive the first reading of the updated policy 7 subpart 200 concerning suspension procedures. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? Hearing none, let's have a roll call
051vote, please. >> Mr. Remus? >> Yes. >> Ms. Engelberg? >> Yes. >> Mr. Adamo? >> Yes. >> Ms. Fitzgerald? >> Yes. >> Ms. Yahn? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Item six concerns the approval of the second reading of the updated policy 7 subpart 200 concerning suspension procedures in our board manual. May I have a motion to approve the second reading of the updated policy 7 subpart 200 of the suspension procedures. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? Hearing no discussion, may I have a roll call vote, please? >> Ms. Yahn? >> Yes. >> Mr. Remus? >> Yes. >> Ms. Engelberg? >> Yes. >> Ms. Fitzgerald? >> Yes. >> Mr. Adamo? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Item seven on the agenda tonight is the approval of a settlement for student placement
052not to exceed $75,000. May I have a motion to approve the settlement for student placement not to exceed $75,000. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> I have a basic question. This >> These agreements are with and are completed with the consent of the parents. Is that right? >> Yes, sir. >> All right. I have any other questions? Can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Ms. Fitzgerald. >> Yes. Mr. Remus. >> Yes. >> Ms. Engelberg. >> Yes. >> Mr. Adamo. >> Yes. >> Ms. Yan. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> That concludes our action items. We will move on to the consent agenda. >> Mr. Adamo, before I'm sorry to interrupt you. Um could we Could I ask the board to go back and modify action number one because
053it is listed as approval of the intergovernmental agreement, excuse me, it's listed as the approval of the intergovernmental agreement for crossing guard guard services, which we separated, but we also have in the attachment the approval of the intergovernmental agreement with the city of Lake Forest. And I want to make sure we call them out both out directly because a crossing guard is one element, but then the full intergovernmental agreement is included and the motion didn't address both. So >> I think number two is the city of Lake Forest, no? >> The The city is the school resource officer. So there's still one that we didn't actually take a motion on, which is in the attachment itself. So I would love if you could modify um or recommend that you modify so you say the approval
054of the intergovernmental agreement for crossing guards and the intergovernmental agreement with the city of Lake Forest. Both are in the attachment, but the wording was not in the actual motion. Make a new motion to include both. Or to add the second one. >> I would like to make a motion to approve the intergovernmental agreement for crossing guard services and the city of Lake Forest. >> Correct. >> Thank you. >> And I apologize. >> Is Is there a second? >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? Hearing none, let's have roll call vote, please. Yes. >> Miss Yahn? >> Yes. >> Miss Engelberg? >> Yes. >> Miss Fitzgerald? >> Yes. >> Mr. Remus? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you for your help. Okay, moving on to the consent agenda. As a reminder, any item may
055be removed from the consent agenda at the request of any board member. Does any board member wish to remove an item from the consent agenda? Hearing none, may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as set out on the agenda on the today's agenda. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? Hearing none, let's have a roll call vote on the consent agenda. >> Mr. Remus? >> Yes. >> Mr. Adamo? >> Yes. >> Miss Yahn? Miss Engelberg? >> Yes. >> Miss Fitzgerald? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Moving on, we have the FOIA requests, which are self-explanatory and described on our agenda. I'm not going to go through all of them. Uh as a reminder, FOIA requests will not be made available on the website until they are
056completed. This is now the our second opportunity uh for public participation. The board will now hear public comments subject to board policy two subpart 230. Are there any members of the public who would like to address the board? Seeing none, we will move on to the following announcements. There will be a board special Board of Education meeting at 8:00 in the morning on June June 22nd, 2026, for which there will be plenty of coffee. That will be at Ragdale Foundation on Green Bay Road. Tuesday, August 18th, 2026. That board meeting will con- consist of the finance committee of the whole beginning at 5:00 in the adjacent conference room with a formal board meeting to begin at 7:00. Moving beyond that, may I have a motion to adjourn the Lake Forest District 67 board meeting for
057June 15th, 2026. >> So moved. >> I have a second. >> Second. >> May I let's call a voice vote. All in favor say I. >> Yes. >> All opposed? Meeting adjourned.