001Check check check check check Check check check check Check. Check. One. Check. One. Two. Check. One, two. Check. One, two. Check. Check. Sorry. Don't worry about it. It feels so empty now without them. I did it. But I ripped it. Welcome. >> Bye. If I hold it, it'll stay on. Well, that's I don't know. What's the other one? It looks so much years. Okay. Well, welcome everyone. Sorry for a few minute delay. It's my habit, I guess. Um, so if we could ask everyone to stand and uh we'll do the All right. Well, welcome again. Thank you everyone. We're going to jump right into the student spotlight. So, uh, turning it to, uh, I believe you, Erin, right? >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. Noble. I am I've extended my screen here and I'm trying to
002make sure I can move through the slide and for some reason it's not working for me to do that. So hang on Just a second. Technical difficulties. I want to do this right because there are pictures. Sometimes I break up the t the time with dad jokes. Do you guys think I should start telling them while we're No. Thank you, Miss Tolver, for saving the day. Um, so, uh, the district 115 board spotlights. These are this is something that we started this school year where our faculty and staff can nominate students to be honored who are actually living the mission and vision and values of Lake Forest High School. We had planned to have four opportunities for staff members to nominate students and we've gone through those four opportunities, but uh Miss Lovage and Mr.
003Busy were adamant we need a fifth opportunity because we have two dynamic graduating scouts that they really want to make sure are honored in front of the board of education for all the work that they've done to support our students. So without further ado, I'm about to hand it over to Miss Love who is one of our distinguished educator nominees this year, too. So we're very excited about that. and Mr. Busy as well to honor Ethan Frell and Molly Thomas. >> Come on. Just kidding. So, thank you very, very much for extending the opportunity for us to honor both Molly and Ethan. Um we are truly honored to be able to be here to share a few words about them and the lasting impact Molly that you and Ethan have had on the Lake Forest
004community. So we're going to start out with Molly. Ethan is otherwise engaged in getting ready for his big lacrosse game. So could not be here. Um but I have to say about Molly, you really represent everything that that student spotlight is meant to honor. your character, your compassion, your inspiration, your positive presence presence in our community as well as your quiet leadership. It really makes a difference in the lives of others. You may not be the loudest voice in the room and unfortunately always had to compete with mine. Um, but you undoubtedly have one of the most powerful presences presences that we have. When you could have spent your senior year in more typical senior kind of ways at a study hall or extra free time, Molly chose something different. She chose to spend one
005of her class periods in our ELS independent living and citizenship class supporting and mentoring our students. The choice alone speaks volumes about who she is. Week after week, you showed up, not because you had to, but because you genuinely wanted to be there. Whether we were cooking on Fridays, whether we were heading out for community- based instruction, free leisure, just dancing on Fridays sometimes, working through our everyday classroom routines, or Molly giving us her ideas on ways to help students become more involved in school activities. You always brought something special to every moment. You brought joy, patience, encouragement, and most importantly, you brought a steady, caring presence that all of the students beca were able to kind of count on and trust. You can see the moment when she walked in our room. Um, students
006would light up. It would be Molly, is Molly working with me? I want to work with Molly. Is Molly coming on community? Where's Molly? if Molly wasn't there right away. Um, it definitely showed the connections that you built that were genuine and meaningful with everyone. Uh, when asked to describe Molly, those same students described her as kind of had a common theme. Molly, nice, caring, helpful, some through, and pretty, and someone who listens. So, those simple words alone say so much. Molly, you really have a gift for making people feel valued exactly as they are, and you use that gift every day. Okay, not gonna cry. Molly um also serves as a mentor in our integrated wellness class, participates in scout buddies, Special Olympics, as well as numerous other activities and sports in the high
007school. And in every role that she takes on, she shows up with kindness, respect, and a genuine care for others. Her impact is not limited to one classroom, one club, or one program. It's really felt throughout our entire school community. Academically, you're also a strong student who approaches your work with responsibility, effort, and pride. But just as importantly, in my eyes, as kind of a teacher, you used your high school years to grow into someone who understands the importance of empathy, inclusion, and community. You've achieved academic success, but what I love to see is you've also developed qualities that make you an exceptional leader, role model, and an even better person. So, you don't just participate in our school, she actually makes it better. She makes it warmer. You make it more inclusive, and you
008remind all of us what it looks like to lead with kindness. So, we are truly fortunate to have had Molly as part of our school community and in our class. you are incredibly deserving of this student um spotlight recognition. So, we want to congratulate you again and as you begin your next chapter in life, know that you will be greatly missed here. Make sure you come back and visit. Um thanks again for the difference you've made here and can't wait to see the impact that you're going to make out there. [applause] And just to finish that up, Molly, um I've only had you in class one year, but I nominated you for three awards this year. The the student of the quarter, third quarter, I nominated you for the Oscar award for wellness, and we
009we nominated you for this. You are truly a remarkable human being. So, please don't change. Um, and this brings us to Ethan. Um, our our other student that we nominated, he happens to be out on the um on the field right now, but a little bit about Ethan. Um, Ethan represents everything that the student spotlight is, much like Molly. Um, he has great great character, great compassion, inspiration, leadership, and he has patience. He has he has some of the most patience I've ever seen a student have. Um, he's a natural leader whose kindness, humor, and compassion have a positive impact on everyone around him. He's he has a unique ability to bring people together and others feel included, valued, and connected. Simply put, he makes our school a better place. Many of you know Ethan
010as a as a student board representative, but he's also a member of member of Scout Buddies, participates in integrated wellness, serves as a special Olympics mentor, and involved in athletics and many other school activities. In each of these roles, he leads through his service, genuine care for others, and he leads by example. Ethan is a strong student and an engaged learner. But what stands out the most is the way he treats people. He treats people genuinely. No matter the person's ability, he shows the same kindness, respect, and genuine interest in getting to know them in the way of making everyone feel as they belong where they should be. When students in my class were asked to describe Ethan, their response were immediate and remarkably consistent, caring, cool, popular, nice, kind, and funny. Those words capture
011exactly who he is. Students who are naturally drawn to him because of his genu his genuine and makes people feel comfortable around him. What's especially meaningful is Ethan's impact extends far beyond the organized activities. Despite a schedule filled with academics, athletics, and leadership responsibility, he always finds time for others. He stops by between classes to say hello, check in with students, have lunch with students, or just simply have a conversation. He's invited students from his from our class to participate in joke of the day during the announcements every single morning. He makes sure everyone feels included at school dances and other events. He goes above above and out of his way to make every single student feel welcome and feel um wonderful. Ethan leads not because he has to, but because he genuinely cares through
012his humor, compassion, and ability to connect with others. He creates a sense of belonging wherever he goes. He's a positive pres presence in our school community and someone who truly embodies what it means to be to lead with both heart and character. So, congratulations to Ethan and congratulations to Molly on being recognized as our student spotlight uh recipients. Thank you for the positive impact you had with our students, our programs, and our school community throughout your throughout your years here. [applause] There it is. >> [applause] >> Um, Erin, I was just going to say I'm glad that we allowed an additional um, spotlight this year and maybe we should consider doing more next year because it's really the highlight of the evening. Congratulations again. >> See you Saturday. Congratulations. Go >> and go scouts. >>
013All right. Yeah, time well spent. Thank you, Aaron. Um, president's report uh brief uh covered a lot last last month. So, I did want to call out a couple things and thank um our vice president Annie Helms uh who joined the uh city of Lake Forest with Matt Montgomery as the city uh had a resolution recognizing our 90th year anniversary. Uh so that was very very kind of them to call that out and a lot of the accolades they mentioned about the history and where we've been. So uh thank you Annie for being there and Matt for representing the school and the board and that was a a nice occasion. Uh, additionally wanted to call up a little thank you to the finance team um for just the the hard work Britney and and Jen
014for all the stuff we're going to be going through and talking about on the finance side. So, uh, just I I know it's a tireless and never stops, but uh, your energy and supports are are significant and really we all appreciate that so much. So, thank you to my fellow board members and stuff uh, for their work and their continued devotion to the district and the community. And with that, um, I'll, uh, move it over to Dr. Montgomery and his team for the year and review. So, thank you. >> Thank you, kind sir. Uh, tonight's report is covering four topics. Uh, do not be deceived. We have a few slides for you tonight because we're finishing with the year and review. Uh, but we promise that we will be as timely as possible. But we'll
015start with something that's wonderful on the immediate horizon, which is graduation 2026. It is scheduled for this Saturday, June 6th, on the front lawn. But I'm going to put a whole bunch of asterisks and these are policies and procedures that we put in place in previous years to account for uh any anticipated or predicted or forecast uh rain or weather issues. Uh so if a decision is uh made to move the ceremony two hours before or two hours after, so 12:30 or 4:30, there will be a 24-hour notice given to families. And this is a policy that we changed last year or the year before. After extensive surveying of the community, if steady rain or severe weather is predicted, there will be a decision to move the ceremony indoors and that will be communicated by
01610:00 a.m. on the day of the ceremony. In the absence of severe weather, this will be an outdoor event, which means if it is light rain, uh we will have uh there there are always tents in the back, but there will be tents in the back, there will be um our graduates will have ponchos, board members will have umbrellas, and we will carry on because that is the will of the community after extensive polling. Uh if there is severe weather, we will be moving indoors. And remember, if we move to an indoor ceremony, tickets then will be uh limited to four per family. So, we take that decision exceptionally seriously. And uh Dr. Sassin sent out an email today. We are seeing weather that could impact uh this decision and in uh actually have us
017execute some of these procedures. So, please stay tuned and watch your emails as we continue to look at the forecasts as we get closer to Saturday. Kicking it over to Erin. >> Thank you. I think remembering too that sometimes even what looks like light rain can turn within 15 minutes to heavy rain. So, um those ponchos will certainly be something that our graduates will appreciate, but I think we just need to prepare for the weather. Um we had our Lake Forest High School Foundation pitch night on May 21st and this year I was really thrilled to hear our judges saying that this this is the year of pitches. They had just an incredible group of 17 companies who were vying for spots. Uh four made made it to the stage and then a fifth wildcard
018team was actually told just I think two days before that they would get to come and compete as well. They actually ended up doing very well. But it's interesting because just like in the business world that wildcard team told just right at the last minute they had to put a a pitch together and a presentation together at the last minute. Um, so it really is living the skills of portrait of a learner um through our through our pitch through our um business entrepreneur classes and then of course pitch night too. Special thanks thanks to the Lake Forest High School Foundation, Nicole Corsac who MCED for the first time this year. Um, and then of course our amazing students and congratulations to GiveGo for winning the Foundation Cup and being named pitch night champion and to
019GlowGard for winning best pitch of the evening. We're just looking forward to seeing how in the accelerator these companies continue to develop and grow for our graduates. Um, a lot more of many more things were happening around the campus in May. Of course, we had our annual wellness walk. And speaking of weather, um I felt like I was living in a bad dream for a brief moment because we canceled the wellness walk because we had bad weather as of I don't know 9ine that morning happening during the walk and then the time the walk was going to happen, nothing. And we we didn't cancel. I'm sorry. We moved it. And so we're sitting there and we're seeing nothing. And then guess what? The time we moved it to, it's pouring rain. So we ended up
020and everyone was in good spirits. We did a mini wellness walk in Lake Forest High School. We clapped out our seniors and then we had, you know, we had food available in the commons. We had the food trucks outside and then we set up the fieldhouse with all of the different activities for students to go and the um you know all the the um oh goodness all the blowup toys. Is that what those things are called? Jump what [laughter] are they called? The jumpies, the bouncies and all that stuff. So the kids were having a really good time. [laughter] >> I don't granddaughter. >> I do have a granddaughter. Let's remember now for the whole public to know I do. I need to learn that. Bouncy houses. Um a couple days earlier, uh we had
021that traditional red carpet that we love so much. Um it was a hot Saturday, but it was it was a great it was a great time seeing our graduates walk out. You can see some some funny pictures here. Many of them actually braving taking some sort of a you know, hilarious pose in front of the entire community. So, and then prom was wonderful. Um, it was great to see our seniors and juniors celebrating each other and celebrating this last big event, too. And then, of course, we also had our annual AP um, art show, and we saw many of our art students and the excellent um, creations that they made this school year, too. >> Thank you, Erin. We will transition now to the year and review which we've done the last few years in
022the June meeting where we summarize highlights of what has happened through the 25 and 26 school year. Uh the topics will cover referendum, fiscal stewardship, student voice, community engagement, and board priorities. And I will start with referendum. Board members heard an update in workshop tonight, but I'm going to hit the highlight reel for our community. We are in the throws of phase one and we're starting on Tuesday of next week, the second summer of phase one, acknowledging that the enabling phase was done previously and we still have phase two on the horizon, which I'll talk about momentarily. Uh here are some pictures from some new spaces that were touched this school year uh and last summer as well. New robotics, new English classroom, special ed classrooms. Uh we are getting incredible feedback from our faculty
023and staff as they're using this as well as our community when they see the new spaces. Summer work. This is not an exhaustive list, but this is a few of the areas I'll focus on. science labs, a renovated special education department office, lighting and painting in the natiatorum and fieldhouse, theater work in both the little theater and the RMA, a lobby refresh as well, which is a partnership with PALS and Applause in the foundation, and security improvements as well as mechanical, electrical, and plumbing infrastructure work that's happening uh throughout this phase. You will notice if you're driving by the high school work done in the front of the building which includes windows being replaced as well as trenching in the front of the building absent the middle section where the front entryway was done last
024summer. Trees will be removed but rest assured trees will be replanted and I think you will be proud of the work when the new school year starts for the 26 27 school year. For phase two, we are in uh developmental design or the DD phase right now ahead of uh the bid uh bids hitting the street after Labor Day with hope that we will with hopes that we will have those bids to you uh at the November or the December board meeting at the latest. Uh so that is the final phase of the work and that is what the user group meetings with our faculty have been dedicated to every Wednesday uh for the better part of the spring semester as we figure out what is going to change in the spaces that are going
025to be touched within phase two. If you look at phase one it's appropriately 5050% split which is the bottom middle section of the spending. This is our progress uh tracker that you can view individual um all the way down to individual bills to this overarching view that you have like a 20,000 foot view of where we are with overall status and then also payments that are being made. You can learn more by visiting our website. There's a wealth of information where you can go as deep as you want in terms of seeking information about the project. Moving on to fiscal stewardship. Well, I also want to say that um regarding the construction that will start on Tuesday, there are about there are going to be about 120 trades people on campus. So, it will be
026busy. So, we'll make sure that you're mindful if you're on campus of the flurry of construction that's happening about $15 million work that will be happening in the over the course of 60 days. Uh conversely, 67 has about $10 million worth of work happening also in 60 days. Uh, so I'm excited about the progress that'll happen, but when you think about the sheer amount of work that's going to be happening over the summer, um, it will hopefully be a restful summer for our community. It will not be a restful summer in terms of construction as we plow through to make sure we're making progress for the start of school year. Uh, fiscal stewardship is paramount in the board's priorities and making sure that we are being good managers of the community's taxpayer dollars. Here is
027just an overview of where we are with the five-year forecast that the board presented or the board was presented in the fall. You can see the fund balance uh that is along the bottom of the sheet running from 9.4% up to 16.18 and then down to 12.57. The fund balance policy for 115 is between 10 to 20% of the uh the cash flow. That is in an effort to make sure that we are spending the taxpayer dollars and reinvesting it within uh the uh the district to make sure that we are being responsible and yet not building a tremendous amount of reserves uh that is sitting there and not being invested in students. The downward trend in year five, just to acknowledge because you'll see it climbing and then it drops. It's because we're shifting
028money into capital improvements. As our 2006 spaces hit the 20-year mark, we'll be investing in capital improvement, and that's where that money is getting shifted around. We remain AAA. In fact, this is the 23rd year that we are AAA. Uh S&P gave us the most recent rating. Uh this is certainly beneficial to Lake Force Lake Bluff and Nolwood taxpayers allowing the districts to borrow at lower interest rates when we're secure securing new fundings. We benefited from that rating in a big way with the referendum borrow. We continue to work on educating our community around finances and that's why new initiatives have uh been underway including beyond the budget. a new episode is released released as well as we're uh in your inboxes or your mailboxes soon will be the latest edition of the bottom line
029which is our second annual uh finance community newsletter dedicated solely to finances in 67 and 115. >> Erin, I'll kick it to you for student. I have the privilege to talk about student voice and especially as we the board we and the board look across the room and see that we do not have our student board representatives who officially that structure um and those positions were actually in place this year and now it looks a little empty when we walked in but they are soon to come our newly appointed ones and I assure you of that but this has really been the year of student voice. Not only did we continue with our tri district student board mixer where board members from 65, 67, and 115 get to hear from Lake Forest High School students
030about their transition into high school as well as what high school culture and life is like, taking some of those key themes and ideas and then really tasking the administration with working to improve culture and life for students. That's a that's a fun activity. the principal's advisory council actually arranges it, but it's something that the students and even in our recent round of interviewing student board reps, they're noticing. It seems like the board wants to hear more and more from students and they're thrilled to be able to share. And again, just as we see here, we had our first year of official board representatives. Um, and we said goodbye to those seniors last week. We actually have a number a number of applicants now all coming in with very high ratings from their um from
031their teachers and from staff members. So this will be a tough decision to actually appoint the board reps for next year but we will definitely have some um some excellent people some excellent students who are sitting um in that position. Also Dr. Montgomery um is considering adding student board reps or student reps to his superintendent advisory council. So perhaps even we can find a place for the many applicants who are wanting to lead and lead lead for their um student body too. We have the principal advisory council that again met this year. Josie would often speak about the work that was happening there. But remember this is a senior-led group. Um they actually select who are the 11th, 12th and 9th graders who join or if they can um come back the next year. We
032have an application process. They really talk about student culture in life, student issues, and these are things that they actually bring to the staff whenever there are concerns. Um, sometimes it's um, you know, it's a little I always say it's like sour candy. It it it hurts a little bit to eat, but it's really good and sweet in the center, and that's exactly what student voice is like. Um, and especially as I see them engaging with our instructional leaders in the building, too. And then, of course, U. Melissa's office partnered with the student council this year, Miss Oakley's office to bring Voxbox. And this is really an opportunity for students to speak up publicly about student culture and life. And these are videos that we shared just what what's it like to be a scout?
033What are some things that they're proud of? What are some things that we should work on? And we saw a number of students engaged in this as well. >> Thank you. We'll move to community engagement. Now, an incredible event happened in early March where we re-examined how our portrait of a learner was uh initially developed in 2022 with a over a hundred individuals representing uh the community. We brought another group uh around 80 individuals came together uh in early March to look at is the portrait still meeting our needs and what uh energy or focus should we have from the community's perspective uh for years four and five of our strategic plan. There was original design team members there as well as new members and student voice again uh led the way in where we
034should head. if you if you want to know where we should go talk to a student and that just keeps a theme that keeps coming forward as we involve student voice more and more. Uh we met for uh the first time with the new superintendent advisory council last week. Uh we had an incredible turnout and a one-hour meeting turned quickly into almost a two-hour meeting and I we got incredible feedback from that first experience and they mapped out topics that they were hoping that we would focus on for next school year and we had more topics than we will have dates for meeting but we will do our best to cover as many of the ideas that were presented. There are in countless ways for individuals in the community to stay connected to us and
035here are just a few on the uh on the screen. We will continue to look for new ways and innovative ways to connect uh to make sure that we're meeting the needs and meeting our stakeholders where they are to hear real-time feedback that is well beyond the boardroom. And I commend the board for their outreach and continued dedication to the communities that they're elected to serve. Dr. Fitz Simmons, you're up. >> So, as you remember, as a reminder for our community as well, the board has three priorities. Academic excellence, our portrait of a learner work, and culture and climate. And our first uh our first priority I will speak to is academic excellence. This evening we are going to talk a little bit about our work toward our AP um enrollment and performance, our dual
036credit course work and then ACT SAT performance. So, as far as our five-year AP participation, I think the big number to look at there is the percentage of students taking at least one AP exam. You can see that 73% down a little bit from 2021, but up over the last two years. An important thing to remember about AP is that we have had a cultural shift with our dual credit enrollment, which I'll speak about in one second, but um our students are doing well. If you if you go to the next slide, Dr. Montgomery, I think the big takeaway here is that we have 94% of our students who have taken these AP exams scoring a three or higher, which I think speaks volumes to the work our faculty is doing in preparing our students
037for readiness. Um if we look at our dual credit enrollment look at that from 2425 up to 2526 a shift to 519. So that is impressive and also we have shifted the mindset around this just understanding the importance of this is guaranteed college credit. Our students are being taught by um credited faculty also who are giving them the college level experiences as well as the guaranteed credit and also um reducing tuition costs. Um and I think that has shifted culturally culturally for us. Now last month you may remember that I did speak about some of those initial ACT scores but this evening Dr. Lenard will talk in greater detail for you. Thank you. >> Awesome. So um we thank you so much. And so what we're doing now with our year- end review and the
038board priorities is these are actually presentations the board and the public has already seen. We're just giving you those highle things that actually directly relate to what the board's priorities are. So as you can see from what Dr. Fitz Simmons shared, we are actually meeting and exceeding many of what the board has set out and asked our staff and faculty do. that really is the hard work of not only the leadership team but mostly the teachers and really mostly our students who are actually um taking these rigorous courses as well. So we're very um proud of them. the ACT data that we have already shared. Um you can see that we have our mean score uh for 20 2425 here, our composite of 25.3. Um I know oftentimes we're compared to previous years, but remember
039for ACT when we're looking at these composite scores, we're looking 11th grade class to 11th grade class. So it's not really the trend of the same students as they move through high school. You'll see that next year in the assessment report and you saw a little bit of it with the growth model previously, but this really is cohort to cohort and we are we um far exceed the national average and it's something that at least when we're looking at the preliminary data which we received and then ACT actually took back. So if you have an 11th grade student, you know that I've heard they've received their scores, their new scores, um all of which that we've heard about have gone up slightly. Um but the school has not received the the bank of SC scores
040yet for us to actually happily report at least some of the raw data on that. Um something else that Mr. Lenak has shared was the ACT concordance. If you remember when we presented this to the board in December, we did it this way because the board's priority is to increase the number of proficient students in 11th grade. And while we knew that the proficiency metric had changed for ACT to actually rightsize it, um we wanted to make sure that we were were comparing at least apples to apples in the board priority. So we shared the ACT concord concordance of our math and English scores to the actual SAT equivalent and it's we use the ACT's actual concordance chart to do that because that's the only thing we have just to show the board that we're
041right there where the board was charging the school to be. Now, I'm going to remind everyone that this is the last year we're going to use concordance because we're done with SAT. Moving forward, we're going to look at the raw proficiency data for ACT. I'm sorry, the certified proficiency data data for ACT and then work to make sure that we are doing all we can to meet the needs of our students with the ACT. Concordance is out moving forward. Um, we've also, as uh Dr. Montgomery just illuminated, we've been doing an incredible amount of work around portrait of a learner. The board has a priority for us to operationalize this. And this is something that we've really taken to heart at Lake Forest High School in order to make sure that it's meaningfully operationalized. Not
042just a checkbox, something on a wall. Yes, they're communicators. Yes, they're critical thinkers and what that means and how a rubric is set up to define that. We're really looking to make sure that our students are interfacing with the portrait competencies through a designing your life, designing your future mindset. If you remember, we took a team, a small team to Stanford. Um, and that team really explored what is the work of designing your life, finding relevance in those durable skills that you have or that you need to to develop and how you actually develop those skills as they relate to whatever your goals are. So, it really is about personalizing the students learning as it relates to portrait of a learner. We started this year with doing that in our scout seminar courses where our
043students interfaced with each one of the portrait competencies and then ended up writing a letter to themselves for the next four years in what they hoped to accomplish with regard to their goals to high school and the portrait competencies. So we've started doing that work and we're really proud of the relevance that we've created. Another big part of the portrait work honestly is how we are continuing to find mentorship opportunities, community service opportunities so that we can make sure that we're bringing that citizenship aspect back into the building. And we also know authentic learning is a big part of a student developing the portrait competencies. So, not only through our grateful market this year, we actually brought that in-house. It was a wonderful event, but our day of service we had over 600 students and
044staff members who participated. Um and next year we actually are going to continue to grow that and I'll talk about um the day of service a little bit more because we're going to add a little piece to that that has to do with mentorship and internship as well. So key metric you see we had a 96% graduation rate and I know when we hear that we might get alarmed. Well what about our 4% of students um typically those are students who move on to our transition our adult transition center. These are not students who are dropouts. So I I just want to make sure that's clear. Anytime you see a fluctuation in our graduation rate, we work really hard to make sure we're finding every opportunity for our students. These are typically students who are
045moving on to our transition center. Um 132 college and universities also attended as well. Um okay, so this is something Career Connections has really grown to expand. We've done that alumni panel um around Thanksgiving each year. We bring back students who are newly graduated, have been graduated for quite some time and they really talk about what the next chapter looks like for students just because you have to something that I love we say see it to be it. So it's really a cool event for our scouts to participate in. This year we also started scouts forward and this was a professional skill building workshop. Um and actually we had Joanna Rolik who came and she taught our students about things like um resume writing um she taught about um college visits, interview preparation, internships. So
046this is really a partnership with the chamber that we hope to continue and expand next year on that day of service. really excited that we'll have a sort of a expansion of career connections and that we're actually going to bring in different careers and our students will be able to go and they'll be able to learn from people who are in industry which is really important again see it to be it. So that's going to be an expansion something new for us so stay tuned for us to report on that next year. And then finally uh with climate and culture this is something that um Ashley Malik and Tim Burkalter presented on. We're really proud of and we're really proud of our community and board's investment making sure that every student sees themselves at Lake
047Forest High School in some sort of activity and even though we know some of our students are definitely overextended their prof their professional figure sk or whatever they are professional equestrians we have some of that those students so they're doing things outside of school that um hinder their ability to participate some of the extracurriculars our board has charged our leadership team with making sure we even identify those students and we can say that So there's no student left behind, if you will, if I'm allowed to say that. No, because we want to make sure that our students that if we don't see them in our extracurriculars, they're connected or involved or engaged somehow. And that's really the board's charge. So you see, we have 55 student activities. Sometimes this is challenged in a small community
048like ours, like is that too many? But we have to remember our students have broad interests and they they'd actually like to see more. We had several clubs and activities that were proposed that we just saw them as too similar to others and we couldn't approve and that was something in our community that was a challenge for some people because they still wanted us to approve more. But with 55, I mean that's a robust number given the number of students that we have. 39 athletic opportunities. Proud to say that we're offering bowling next year as an IHSA sport. So we actually added one because we have a number of students who um were interested in that and we actually had sponsors who supported that work too. really proud of the next slide. 94.4% engaged last
049year, 95.7%. We're so close. Interestingly, our newly appointed student body present, Leo Halprin, who will also be a student board rep next year, he actually proclaimed to Dr. Montgomery his goal next year as student body president is to get 100% of students engaged. So, that is a worthy goal for Leo and we will challenge him next year. I'll make sure the board actually asks him during the board report about that. All right, any further information that you may need, if you want more um in-depth or if the public's watching wants more in-depth um information on any one of those different indicators, you can see December 11th, we had our assessment report, lots more data there, postsecondary report on February 3rd, and then the student engagement report with Ashley Tim, most recently on April 7th. >>
050And as a reminder, the last day of school is this Friday, June 5th of 2026. and we want to wish our students and our faculty a restful summer. It has been an incredible school year as you could see from the report. Uh but we couldn't be prouder of the work that everyone has engaged in and thank them for their tireless service as faculty members and incredible hard work as students and we wish everyone a wonderful summer. >> All right, thank you so much. Great information. Very impressive. So, uh, happy to be a board member watching all that going on. So, thank you. Thank you for all the work. Um, one step, uh, now next would be public participation. So, uh, if anybody would like to say anything. So, not seeing much. We'll move on to
051liaison reports. And, uh, real quick on the, uh, Ed Ridden legislative update, there was a a meeting I had had, I think, with Dr. Montgomery multiple months ago with one of the senators. um that got pushed off until they finish the budget and those things. So, hope to have a little conversation with them around some of the MCAT stuff in June. Um and a couple other initiatives we've been trying to chase and have a little bit of influence on. So, hopefully we'll have a little bit of an update in our next meeting which would be in August around some of those conversations for next year hopefully. Um so, True North Educational Cooperative Amy and uh Dr. Montgomery. All right. Excellent. We will move on to the action items if I could. So action item number
052one. May I have a motion to approve the intergovernmental agreement with the city of Lake Forest? >> Moved. >> Second. >> Um any discussion? I I do want to get a little bit of a summary. We talked about this uh prior and I know this has been uh several uh weeks in the making but uh Jen be the right person for a little summary if we could. >> Sure I would be happy to. So this is an intergovernmental agreement with the city of Lake Forest and it has been in in development for a bit but I'm really proud of where we landed. really does identify I think um the sharing of both facilities and services to complement uh each entity as a as appropriate. It covers things as as simple as some forestry consultation and
053and salt purchasing to um how we're going to rent out our facilities to each other uh as best that we can and various other things. This is a compilation of several outstanding like smaller agreements. So to get it under one big umbrella was a really important um consideration for us. So happy to be where we are on this uh tonight. >> And I just want to say that the next item is nested in there within that but we're calling out as a separate item just because it may get updated more frequently which is our school resource officer agreement. And if I could just take a moment to thank Jason Wisha and the council. Um the partnership between the city is uh paramount to our success because we all serve the same taxpayer body as well
054as the community at large and we want to make sure that we continue to meet or exceed their needs and that partnership is critical. So a big shout out to Jason Wisha and his leadership. >> Thank you all. Really really appreciate it. Any uh discussion or any other comments? >> May I have a roll call vote please? >> Mr. Wurner >> I. >> Mr. Sve. >> Hi. >> Mr. Noble. >> Hi, >> Miss Gam. >> Hi, >> Miss Helms. >> Hi, >> Miss Connell Donahghue. >> Hi, >> Miss Zenzer. >> I >> Motion carries. >> Thank Thank you. Um, as Matt said, uh, the second item, which is a carve out a little bit, u, may I have a motion to approve the student resource officer agreement with the city of Lake Forest pending final
055attorney review? >> So moved. Second. >> Uh, any discussion on this item? May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Gamth, >> I. >> Mr. Wein Burner, >> I. >> Miss Enzer, >> I. >> Miss Connor Donahghue, >> I. >> Mr. Noble, >> I. >> Miss Helms, >> I. >> Mr. Sve, >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Item number three. May I have a motion to approve the 2026 2027 tenative budget? >> I move. Sorry. Second. >> Second. Uh, a little bit of comment on this one if we don't mind. I know we covered it in the finance uh committee for the whole but I and I know this was a tremendous amount of work and it's a first step in the process. Um and I'm so glad that we were
056able to bring this back to the June time frame which is great. So thank you for all that hard work but if you don't mind sharing Jen >> happy and really this is a shout out to the team for their their hard work. I just get to take the glory at the end but really uh Britney Jardis and her team did really lead this up this year. um very extensive process really working um specifically with the departments um in a more of a collaborative and I think a deeper way that we have before. So um we bring forth tonight the tenative budget. You will uh see it again in August or September when it is final. Um we are pretty set um on uh where we think that the revenues have fallen in there. The
057property taxes are are pretty solid as well as the state and federal will watch a little bit but has less of an impact. Um expenditures though will continue to be a a source of workforce this summer as we will dive a little bit deeper into the FTE and the salaries and benefits. That's still an area um that we're finalizing as well as then we will also balance some of that with capital projects and other things that we can do to bring you uh a budget in the fall that we're proud of and I believe that you uh should be and will be as well. >> John, before we move on, I I really want to commend uh Britney and Jen for the work here. We have um pushed hard for a number of years to
058get working data from within the school that is in a more userfriendly uh format. I think this is hopefully the foundation for work going forward that will really enable us to communicate more effectively with the community about how we're spending the community's resources, why, and what our priorities are. Uh, so I I'm really really excited about what I hope this will mean over in the years to come. >> Thank you, Dewey. And I was going to just say I'm I'm very happy you're back. Thank you, Britney, for uh rejoining uh the district and uh your contribution's been felt. So, thank you and Jen for teaming up and getting those things done. So, it's been it's been great to have you both together again. So, that's very meaningful and helpful to our district and I I'm
059sure 67 as well. So, thank you. May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Helms, >> hi. >> Mr. Sve, >> hi. >> Miss Conno Donahghue, >> hi. >> Miss Enzer, >> I. >> Miss Gam, >> I. >> Mr. Wein Burner, >> I. >> Mr. Noble, >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Item number four. May I have a motion to approve the sponsorship agreement with the boosters? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Um, okay. So, this one has taken a bit. Uh, and so I if Aaron wouldn't mind sharing a little bit of the effort and um I I know the boosters would were wanting to be here. They cannot. They're supporting the lacrosse uh events that are right outside and so hopefully we're winning. Um but uh really really thank
060thank you Erin for a lot of the work behind the scenes to get this done. And so if you just highlight a little bit of the sweat and tears for that that'd be great. This was a lot of team effort too, Jen. Really coming in and making sure that we were um having the correct um insurance, you know, um pieces for insurance for the boosters. But this really is just about a partnership. Our boosters does foundation boosters, apt parent organizations do applause pals. I'm going to miss someone and they're going to tell me I miss them, but they do an incredible amount of work for our school just through donations, through their volunteerism. And this is just really an opportunity for us to memorialize what the boosters, you know, what parts of the building they
061should or can be actually utilizing. Um, where they can put advertising, where they can sell space, if you will, and then what actually the selling of that space for a short amount of time might look like, too. So, this took a lot of time because we want to make sure that we are protecting the district's investment just like they do. Um, and we wanted to get this right, but we are so thrilled to see it here for approval. And this is actually a model that we might consider then whenever we are entering into any sort of the same type of agreement with applause or with the foundation or with PALS or any of the other parent organizations too. >> And the other thing I'd like to call out is what's happening is basically these are
062assets of the districts. And so by allowing the boosters to have select assets that they can go out and solicit that then they're bringing back to our review to be able to say yes or no to those. We also have controls within that review even after some sponsorships happen. So if something changes within that dynamic, there's flexibility in the agreement to allow us to pull that back, handle those situations. So it's uh been really thoughtful and I think again this will this will be a very good template for us to move forward with those organizations. >> Could I ask one quick question? what what's the the timeline for review and um how frequently are we going to take a look at this agreement? Uh um and refresh it if we find that it's not working
063as we intend. >> I think it's it's an open agreement for us really to do anytime. And I what's what's what's nice about it is it allows us to list the assets and even from that standpoint to allow the boosters to say, "Hey, we'd like to bring this asset forward and do a sponsorship on this." And so we'd have consideration and the ability to say yes or no. Also, if something is signed even from a sponsorship because it would be a narrowness to the delivery of what we have to do in order to honor those dollars in that sponsorship. What does the boosters have to do? and that can basically have our ability within a year or even before that if it's not being done right, we can put a stop to any of those.
064So, it's kind of a living agreement that has the flexibility for us to always govern it and add to it as well as restrict assets that can or can't be used and how they're used. So, it doesn't remove anything other than really allow them to be kind of an agent, if you will, to act on our behalf within a very narrow framework. And that again as Aaron said that gives us the flexibility with an applause or uh AP or foundation or other types of groups to be able to do the same thing. So we still hold that but we have a way to actually work with them in a structured basis. >> Appreciate that. I think I think we need to continue to be mindful of the tremendous generosity of the community and um how
065many times in the past we've received gifts. Um so I I I I just I think we really want to be thoughtful about um what we make available and and review this continuously to make sure that it's in keeping with what we've done historically. >> Absolutely. Any other comments or questions? All right. May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Connell Donahghue. >> I. >> Miss Cam, >> I. >> Miss Enzer, >> I. >> Mr. Wein Burner, >> I. >> Mr. Noble, >> I. >> Miss Helms, >> I. >> Mr. Sve, >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Item number five. Uh, the board will now consider So, so may I have a mo, excuse me. May I have a motion to approve the recommendation for termination of the athletic coach? >>
066So moved. Second. >> Any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? >> If you could just re uh review the um text and say the name of the coach. So the board will now consider the vote on the recommendation for termination of coach Anthony Lgero uh as discussed in the board's closed session meeting. So again, may I have that's the motion where we've app uh uh recommended and second. Sorry. So yes, >> Miss Gamth, >> Miss Helms, I >> Mr. Wein Burner, >> I >> Mr. Noble, I >> Mr. Sve. Hi, >> Miss Connau. I, >> Miss Zenzer, >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Thank you, Tiana, for catching that. Appreciate it. Um, may I have a item number six? May I have a motion to approve the 2-year activity bus
067lease extension with Midwest Transit? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Zenzer, >> I. >> Miss Gam, >> I. >> Mr. Sve, >> I. >> Mr. Wein Burner, >> I. Miss Helms. >> Hi. >> Mr. Noble. >> Hi. >> Miss Conno Donnahu. >> Hi. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Item number seven. May I have a motion to wave the first reading of the updated policy 72000 suspension procedures? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Helms. >> I. >> Miss Enzer. >> I. >> Miss Connue. >> Hi. >> Mr. Sve. >> Hi. >> Mr. Wein Burner. >> Hi. >> Miss Gamth. I, Mr. Noble. >> I >> motion carries. >> Thank you. Item
068number eight. May I have a motion to approve the second reading of updated policy 72000 suspension procedures? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> May I just say quickly the what the change is because this is something that we changed in ' 67 as well. Uh it is an update of the policy to say that um in the current policy it says that we have to have an attempted phone call uh for reaching out to a parent or guardian. Now it just says a parent contact. Uh so we can do that through email um as well as phone and it doesn't limit the medium in which we're reaching out to parents. >> Thank you for that clarity. May I have a roll call vote please? >> Mr. Sve. >> Hi. >> Mr. Wine
069Burner. >> I. >> Miss. >> Mr. Noble. Hi >> Miss Connor Donahghue. >> Hi >> Miss Helms. >> Hi >> Miss Cameron. [laughter] >> I are we >> Motion carries. >> Excellent. Thank you. All right. Item number nine. Uh, may I have a motion to wave the first reading of the updated policy 550, drug and alcohol-f free workplace, ecigarette, tobacco, and cannabis prohibition press issue 121. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion on this? May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Mr. Wein Burner. >> Hi. >> Miss Connell Donahghue. Hi. >> Miss Helms. Hi. >> Mr. Sve. >> Yes. Miss Enzer >> I. >> Miss Gamth I. Mr. Noble >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Item number 10. So we're approving the second reading of press issue 121. May I
070have a motion to approve the second reading of press issue 121? >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All right. May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Cam. >> I. >> Mr. Weiner. >> I. >> Mr. Noble. >> Hi. >> Miss Helms. >> I. >> Mr. Sylvve. >> Hi, >> Miss Conno Donahghue. >> Hi, >> Miss Zenzer. >> I >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. All right. Um, I know there's a question happening on the consent agenda, but may I have a first a motion to approve the consent to items as they're presented items 1 through seven, please? That's right. May I have a motion to approve consent agenda items one through seven? >> Moved. Second. >> Right. Any questions or discussion? Um there was one on the designated uh no,
071excuse me, the approval of the 2025 2026 budget transfers. If if you wouldn't mind u sharing a little bit about Oh, there you are. Awesome. Thank you. >> Is this working? Can you hear me? All right. Thank you for that. Any questions? Okay. All right. May I have a roll call vote for the consent agenda, please? >> Mr. Noble, >> I. >> Miss Cameron, >> I. >> Mr. Sve, >> hi. >> Miss Connor O'Donn. >> Miss Zenzer. >> I. >> Mr. Wein Burner. >> I. >> Miss Helms. >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. All right. Uh, foyer requests. Uh, data branch USA. Three of five completed. Jeff Brinkett, three of four completed. Jim Carr, two of two completed. Carlos Carlo Carla Carlos, one of two completed. Samir Vahedra, one of one in progress.
072Justin Wing, three of four completed. Ted Borbowski, four of five completed. And so at this time, I would invite anybody else from the public who would like to speak. Um, seeing none, um, but that would be fine. we move on to announcements, but I wanted to actually Yeah. So, announcements. Uh, Friday, June 5th, as Dr. Montgomery shared, is the last day of school. Saturday, June 6, 2026, as they discussed as well, will be our cons commencement ceremony at 2:30 p.m. in the sun. Um, if not, please pay attention to any little updates from that. Uh, Wednesday, August 12th, please note, will not the fourth or what it was listed before. So this is a little change. August 12th, 2026 will be finance committee of the whole and our board meeting education at 7 following that
073finance meeting from 5 to 6. Um right here Lake Forest West campus boardroom press releases um that were released. Uh Lake Little Scouts director health monzingo selected for leadership fellowship. Five Lake Forest High School student athlete announcements for college commitments. uh was also announced. So with that, sorry, may I have a motion to adjourn Lake Forest Community High School District 115 board meeting for June 2nd, 2026, please? >> So moved. >> Second. May I have a voice vote? All in favor, please say I. I. I. >> I. >> Meeting adjourned. Thank you all. Happy summer everyone. >> Jenny, >> thank you Jenny. Thanks, Jenny.