001Ladies are still here. My apologies. Sorry. I heard three Testing. Sorry. What about Nice to meet you. Awesome. >> Yeah, >> one more. Don't worry. We're going to get started here in about 30 seconds. Appreciate all your patience. And then just so everybody knows, we'll do a a beginning student spotlight and we'll kind of get this thing going and then we're going to finish that and then we'll go into a budget hearing and then we'll go out of that and then we'll come back into the meeting. So, wherever you feel the right time to leave or stay or whatever you want to do is totally up to you, but just there'll be a bunch of little things popping around, but you guys are first in just a moment. All right. Um, thank you. He's back.
002Um, we have uh Rob Sylve, one of our newer board members, is uh with a family issue, so he is unfortunately missing tonight. And we have uh our vice president Annie uh Gary Helms uh is on uh the electronic device uh doing work in another part of the country. So we're glad to have her and the rest of us are here. So, if we could uh if we could stand and do the pledge of >> allegiance, please standy. >> All right. Thank you so much. I'm going to turn it right away over to uh Dr. Lonard and uh for the student spotlight. >> Awesome. And so I'm thrilled that this year the district 115 board of education will be recognizing a student each month who has really exhibited all the traits that we hope for
003our scouts to have. So we had some wonderful nominees. Um but just to go over what the student spotlight will look like. Um it's really focusing on the mission, vision, and values. We're asking staff members each month to nominate students that are either members of a program that they are supervising or in their classrooms um in any way, shape, or form that they've been able to interact with students who they're seeing they're living really that scout creed. So, this month we actually had seven nominees. I'm just going to give a little bit of information about each one and we're going to feature them um all of the nominees in the uh Friday fan out too. Jack Ber was nominated by Laura Flangel, kind, hard-working, collaborative. Aiden Cassidy, nominated by Scott Sordall. He sets a tone
004of respect, curiosity, and engagement in the classroom. Matthew Kim, nominated by Tim Burkhalter and Rihanna Lindseay Pereira, stepped up in a moment of need, quickly learning a new system that they were implementing in athletics. A link crew leader, James Elliott, nominated by Maggie Harmson, really greeted our incoming freshman with open arms, enthusiasm, and warmth. He was a model for that. Maggie Jarvin, nominated by Brian Rumpt, exemplifies the portrait of a learner approaching her studies with curiosity and determination to understand and not just achieve. And then Liam Sheridan, nominated by Tom Soich, stands out as both a leader in the classroom and a talented musician in our community. He has an inclusive spirit that encourages peers to learn with him. And then finally, we have this month's spotlight winner, Lana Hernandez. Lana is actually here tonight
005accompanied by Janine Kesler who nominated her. So I am not going to steal Janine's thunder. Miss Kesler. >> All right. So, thank you for giving me the opportunity to recognize uh one of our incredible musicians, uh Lana Hernandez. She demonstrates the mission, vision, and values of Lake Forest High School through her daily actions, leadership, and contribution to our school community. This is my third year working with Lana and I chose her for the important role of junior drum major because she has consistently proven to be a great leader both by setting an example and by taking charge. She has really stepped up to the plate this fall and guided our band with grace and professionalism while working harmoniously with other student leaders this fall. Uh Lana's influence goes well beyond the field. She's also a
006teaching assistant for my symphonic band class where she helps lead sectional rehearsals for different instruments and she assists with classroom management and other tasks. She's a fantastic mentor to our younger students and a true ambassador for our program. She shows everyone every day that being a musician is about uh contributing to something much larger than yourself. Lana's commitment and passion are a testament to what makes our music department and our school so special. We aren't just teaching notes on a page. We're building character, fostering teamwork, and developing leaders. The skills that our students learn in our music ensembles, like discipline, collaboration, and perseverance, are the same ones that will help them succeed in college and beyond. Lana's ability to take on a challenge of the size of being the drum major is a true reflection
007of the determination and tenacity that she has built working through her own academic and musical challenges and learning to use the resources and strong support network that our school of our school's dedicated faculty and staff. I want to thank the board of education and our administration uh for supporting our programs and resources that let all of our students shine and reach their full potential just like Lana. Um and finally, on behalf of the music department, I want to thank you Lana for all of your amazing leadership and I want to congratulate you on everything you've accomplished. We can't wait to see you up on the ladder Friday night leading the band at halftime. And um thank you all for recognizing Lana and taking a few minutes to do that tonight. >> Thank you, Miss Kesler.
008And we'll actually have a photo with Lana and the board and Miss Kesler, too. We'll take a moment for photo opportunity. We have a certificate for you. Congratulations. [Applause] And speaking of student spotlight, Aaron, could you introduce our three folks >> or are you going to do that in a minute? >> We're actually going to do it in the superintendent report. Perfect. >> We'll let them introduce themselves. >> Didn't want to be rude. >> Thanks so much. Um, we are going to step out of our meeting here and get into the budget hearing. So, uh, may I have a motion to adjourn into the 2025 2026 final budget hearing, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Zenzer, >> I. >> Mr. Wein Burner, >> I.
009>> Mr. Noble, >> I. >> Miss Helms, I >> Miss Gam. Motion carries. All right. Um, are there any members of the public who would like to address the board in regarding um of these items on for the budget hearing? >> So, no uh folks for the for the public participation for this. So, uh, we can step into the budget hearing and, uh, I'll turn it over to the budget team. Yeah. Or All right. Do you have the presentation or I project? I can't what would you like to use is I I'm not in good voice so I I wouldn't sing anything for you guys at this point. >> Joke. >> The text thread for our family is John's not funny. >> Yes. So, so I will spare you with any jokes. All right, we
010ready? All right. To kick off uh the 2526 budget hearing, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Britney Jardis. I'm the director of fiscal services here at Lake Forest School District 67 and 115. Um to begin our 2526 budget hearing, we'd like to remind everyone of the legal requirements for Illinois school districts. As you may recall, board members, at the August finance and operations committee meeting, we spent a significant amount of time reviewing our tenative budget for the 2526 school year. After that, we had placed the budget on display for public inspection. In tonight's hearing, we are going to outline the changes that we've made to this tenative budget and provide a recommendation to the board to adopt the 2526 final budget, which legally must be done by every school district in the state
011of Illinois by September 30th. The first side of the budget we are going to review is revenues. All Illinois school districts, including Lake Forest Community High School District, receive revenues from three primary sources: local, state, and federal. Here at Lake Forest High School, our local revenues include property taxes, CPPRT. Our interest income and various fees, whether from rental income, tuition, or students and food service. The other two sources we have is state revenues, which are both unrestricted, which is your evidence-based funding model that you hear about that's coming through Springfield, along with restricted use grants. Finally, our smallest source is going to be our federal funds bucket and these are all restricted use grants related to example IDA and title funding. This slide might look familiar from when we presented the tenative budget and what
012we did here is to finalize is we wanted to update you on the changes. So that's what the bold red font is. We have received updated estimates from the tenative to final and those are the things that I want to go over and review. So for the fiscal year, the most significant adjustment that we made from the tenative to final is related to our CPPR revenue and we received an updated projection from the Illinois Department of Revenue which increased those revenues by 163,000. We also made an adjustment to our projected food service revenue based on where we ended the prior year. Some other adjustments that I want to outline is we received our state grant CTEI, that's our career and technology grant. Um and that is now included in the budget. And in addition to
013that on the federal side, we have now included in the budget title two and title three. If you recall, at the time of tenative budget, the federal government had not released those funds to state for allocation. It was actually about two weeks after that that we received final notice that those are released and those are now included in our revenue budget. One of the things I want to make sure that we cover for state and federal revenues. While we increase them here, we have a corresponding expenditure that's also increased because these are reimbursement based grants. You have to spend the money before you can get the money back. So essentially they offset each other when we're looking at the net effect. Britney in your back to that slide the 60% proration is that uh a
014decrease from where it had been and what had kind of I know they've always sort of prrated that but where have the what are the ranges have typically been kind of just me >> so what we saw the prior year is around 70% based on where uh the general legislation where the general assembly approved the budget for this year it's currently estimated around 60 so what's happening in transportation right now is your claim is due August 15th they put it all together. They open an adjustment period here in October and you can make any adjustments that you need to make and then they put it all in to show where the final pro proration was. So we probably won't know that until about November just so what that is and we'll provide an update on
015what that looks like in all of the various groups that were involved in IASBO ad etc. We are hearing that they're estimating about 60%. So that is uh I guess it would be an increase in your proration from the 70% from the prior year. Thanks. All right. So, putting all of these revenue adjustments together, the final operating budget for the 2526 school year is at 69 million302. What we wanted to do in this slide is to show you where we were on a tenative and where we are final. So again, that red bold font to show you those adjustments. Overall, our operating revenues from tenative to final are up about $257,000, which is a 2.6% increase from where we ended last year on the actual basis. A few other things I want to note on
016this slide. First, because school districts follow fund accounting, we move money is transferred between funds throughout the year to cover specific expenditures. So you'll notice a line on the bottom that says plus transfers between funds. That for us is the operation maintenance fund making a transfer for the debt payment that the debt service fund has to make. So it's kind of just a movement of money between the funds, but you'll see it on state forms, you'll see it presented. So we always want to make sure that we're outlining what that is. In addition to that, we also have interest income from our referendum capital projects fund. So our referendum money from 2023 is accounted for in a separate fund. Those funds are invested separately and all that interest is uh recorded separately within that fund.
017And we do not put that in our operating bucket for operating expenditures. So once we put those all together, our total revenues plus those transfers among funds for the fiscal year is just over $72 million. Before I go forth, I'm going to go back one more. Just wanted to kind of give you a second to look it over. A lot of numbers here. Historically, it'll also be available in your packet to review. All right. And to conclude the revenue portion of the budget hearing, I wanted to provide a further breakdown of revenue sources for the 2526 school year. As we earlier noted, the district's revenue comes from three primary sources. And what I want we wanted to show here is local revenues account for 97% of our operating revenues here at Lake Forest High School.
018And within those local revenues, property taxes is by far the largest source, representing 88 million 88% of our total operating revenues, just over $59 million for the 2526 school year. I think that I really would like to illustrate this and discuss this especially in a budget hearing. I think this illustrates just how significant the contributions from our property owners are as the taxes that they're paying are paid brought directly back to the school district to sustain our financial health of the district and ability to serve our students. If there's not any questions on revenues, I'm going to turn it over to Whitney for the expense side of the budget. All right, I will go over expenditures and our transfers. As Britney had mentioned, transfers are just moving monies from one fund to another. So, we
019are required to report that as expenditures on this side. Um, here's just a quick snapshot. You can see that about 60, it's going to be a little bit more than 60% of our um expenditures are within salaries and benefits. The reason I say a little bit more than 60% is because within the purchase services, anybody who is part of the shared service model who is employed by district 67, their salaries and benefits are falling into that 11% as that's how we're required to report them pervy. Um, so what you'll see here is just a majority of our expenditures are really going to be on our human capital. And then just kind of very similar to the revenues, expenditures have a few more categories. Um, so what we did here is very similar showing you the
020tenative budget and then also showing where our final budget landed. Um, just to kind of go into some things, we talked a little bit about salaries and benefits. This is really going to be all of our salaries and benefits from our teachers, our TAs, our administrators, our buildings and grounds team, even our coaches, substitutes, our sponsors, and there's so many more in there as well. Um within our purchase services, this is where you're going to see our shared service um portion for any employee who is a district 67 employee. You're also going to see in here um any professional development, any legal expenses, some of our large contracts, our custodial contract expenditures, and our transportation and in addition to some special education expenditures as well. supplies. This is going to be some of our big
021ticket items in addition to um some of the teaching supplies is going to be our natural gas and our electric. Those are large expenditures um including custodial supplies as well. Within capital, we're going to see this year we have our three activity buses that um finally came in. Um so we are excited about that. And then we also had some um large technology um increase um upgrades as well. Within this other category, this is going to be where we're paying a majority of this is paying our bond payments. And then tuition is kind of twofolded. It has a lot of our special education um tuition payments that we make, but then also any tuition payments that we make to tech campus for those students that go over um there during the day. transfers. That is,
022we talked a little bit about that. That's kind of just moving monies from one fund to another. And termination benefits. This is really our retirement benefits that we're obligated to pay out um based upon the collective bargaining agreements. Um so, just kind of taking a quick look at where some of these changes from tenative to final really happened is we saw lots of movements kind of all over the place. Um we what we did is we came back as a team because we knew and I'll I'll show you the next slide in a minute, but we knew that we were going to um bring this budget um with a deficit. And the reason for that is for some large one-time payments that we're making this year. For example, the three activity buses that we purchased.
023So what we did after we put the tenative budget together is we came together as a group and really worked on fine-tuning any final information that had come in and also making sure we're kind of just capturing everything. So a lot of the adjustments that we did make. Um there are going to be some large differences are going to be within fine-tuning our salaries and also special education. Um, this is a prime example of special education expenses can turn very fast. So, there were some changes over the summer that allowed us to reduce the special education budget based upon the needs um that had changed. And so here, this is what we are showing. And this is not going to be the full budget that you're going to see on the state forum as you
024saw in your budget packet, but what we wanted to do is pull out the referendum funds because it really skews the this um budget summary. So this is our planned deficit of 676,000. Um, and then again, we just wanted to pull that refer referendum dollars out because otherwise it would look like we were way under budget where a few years ago we we looked like we were golden. We had all of the referendum dollars that had come in that one year knowing that we had a plan to spend those down. Um, so next steps, as Britney mentioned earlier, is to um approve the budget this evening. And if there are any questions, Britney and I can take some questions. Um, I also have a link here to the financial information and contracts on our website.
025Um, a little bit separate from everything. Um, along with the referendum that we're doing, it has been really nice. I just wanted to point out this picture. Um, this was kind of one of my favorites is we were able to bring Perkins and Will and Pepper into the classroom and really teach our students in addition to all the construction that's happening around. So, I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all of them for taking the time to do that. This is New Media. Um, so Steve Douglas actually wrote um yes, he wrote um the contractors into his plan. So, it was really nice. They're going to continue to do some more work together and then hopefully we'll see some videos coming out. >> What questions, if any, does the board have
026for Whitney, Britney, or Chan? No, no, I just uh thank you for the work. Thanks for the digging through and getting what you do every year, but I appreciate it very much. So, and thank you for the presentation and the information. Anybody else? Any good questions? Okay. All right. Um, may I have a motion to adjourn the 25 uh 2025 2026 final budget hearing? >> So, move. May I have a second? >> Second. >> May I have a voice vote? All in favor say I. >> I. >> All right. I will now call back to order the regular meeting. Lake Forest Community High School District 115 Board of Education meeting for September 16th, 2025. May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Helms >> here. >> Miss Enzer, >> here. >> Miss Conno
027Donahghue >> here. >> Mr. Noble >> here. >> Mr. Weinburner >> here. Miss Gamron >> here. >> We have a quorum. >> Great. Thank you. Um pres president's report. Um b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b based on the day and the time um I'm going to forego this and I'll share more in um October. But uh as as my continued thank you to all involved in the district and making things work on a daily basis. You have my heartfelt thanks. So thank you as always uh Dr. Montgomery and Dr. Leonard and uh Miss Simmons. Uh so district leadership report please. >>
028Thank you so much. Just one second. >> I do have a really cool picture of my daughter with with Hugh Jackman and Foster. >> So I'll share that with you all. She was down at you know it's really cool Wolverine. >> Yeah it was very cool. Anyway, >> okay. Thank you so much for your patience. Uh, tonight's report will cover um multiple topics um are so many things happening in the district and we couldn't be happier because of that. Um but know that it will be between myself, Dr. Fitz Simmons and Dr. Lonard and we will kick off um with a celebration which is as you know we are celebrating the 90th anniversary of the high school. I want to thank all of the community leaders who celebrated the 90th kickoff on Thursday September 4th
029at the history center of uh Lake Forest and Lake Bluff. A special shout out to Carol Somerfield for everything that she did to make that night possible. Uh, and I certainly um was wowed by the community's response uh and felt an overwhelming sense of pride um not only uh in all the great things that are happening but the historical pride that this community has for this building and for the community at large. So I want to thank everybody who joined us for that evening. Phase one construction continues to blossom. The best part about phase one to date was seeing the students in the new spaces and seeing how much they appreciated and valued and were wowed by what has happened. And we are so early in this project and to get those reactions just gives
030me excitement about what yet to come. And I will tell you one of the things that this sounds small but it was not small in my mind. the the lamp posts that you're seeing in that picture um are something that I was most excited about because they are restored to their original 1935 state. Uh they uh were installed just before like an hour before we opened the doors for open house and it was uh pretty special. Um so I was trying to resist myself having like a singing in the rain moment or something. I was I was excited uh probably more than I should have been. But uh the reason it's important is that details are important. And I think this community respects and admires attention to uh history and honoring history. So to be
031able to bring those two lamp posts back to what they were in 1935 was really special to me. Um and I hope the community uh agrees. We uh last Thursday on September 11th, we had LFJS reads. You know that I do this every year. Uh it's one of my favorite things. There were 237 participants. We read a book over the summer with uh groups of students or faculty and we talk about a book together and we had a most beautiful breakfast by Quest and it was wonderful to have people uh sitting together holding books and talking about uh what their experience was that shared experience on a book of their choice. On November 3rd uh in partnership with Fan I've done this before where we've hosted authors. Uh I'm excited that we are going to
032be discussing the book Dream School, which is finding the college that's right for you. This is an incredibly uh timely topic in a a school district that um the bulk of their students are going to uh some type of collegic environment. So I'm excited to see um how this author really interprets finding the best fit when there's so many options. And yet I find that um we only talk about about 50 of them um in the country. So it'll be a robust discussion about what all is available uh for our learners as they're moving beyond uh the high school environment. I'll kick it over to Renee for the next topic. >> Thank you, Dr. Montgomery. Um our board priorities and academic excellence is at the heart of everything that we're doing for our students. And
033so one of the things we wanted to share out tonight is just that the Illinois there's a lot going on at the state right now and the Illinois report card information is technically embargoed until the end of October. We did want to share some news, some new information um that has recently been released by the state. So for several years, the Illinois proficiency benchmarks have been really high compared to the other states in the nation. so stringent that many times what we saw was students who were really doing well getting good grades taking dual credit or AP classes were actually being labeled as not proficient on the state test. So to fix that mismatch the state just underwent an 18month research process and their hope was to rightsize those proficiency scores. So in the center
034there you can see that right sizing of the proficiency and in our most recent board update we shared what some of those exact proficiency shifts were. We changed those in math and ELA to be a little bit lower. Um math is actually right sizing itself and it's also switching to the ACT versus the SAT. science the proficiency benchmarks has they've actually gone up because students were performing well on the science test but then not actually being able to show mastery of the material. Um, one of the things that we are excited to do is in November share with you our Illinois report card scores and the designation. And um, while we are cautiously optimistic in sharing anything with you, we are excited about our percentile performance as well as even before the new proficiency benchmarks
035marks have been put into place. We were excited about how we've done again with those raw scores. Can't share them yet. Um but we are very excited and also one of the things I'd like to share is that my role of accountability and the work of accountability between 67 and 115 does look different. And so for example in 67 we have a suite of assessments that we can use to show growth or to show different metrics of success. In 115 that looks very different. We are focused on growth as well this year because that will be a metric we'll see on the report card. That will be new. Um but it just looks different. So what we are preparing you for is that in November you will see some of those differences that just won't
036look exactly like the reports we see in 67. Um and then lastly in in saying some of this um what I would like to share is that we have moved from the SAT to the ACT. You'll see that and we are really proud of these this last year's eighth grade or 11th graders that we now have here our seniors. But um a big thank you to all of our leaders um with Dr. Dr. Leonard and Dr. Montgomery and the entire team, also our fabulous faculty and students. So, thank you for all that you're doing. We're going to be now sharing throughout the year more of the work around the um career pathways and the student agency and the shared leadership opportunities. So, stay tuned for that. >> Awesome. And thank you so much, Dr. Fitz
037Simmons. Um and we will be able to introduce the three students because I'm sure all of our home viewers are wondering who are these three students and why are they here? So, that's upcoming in just a moment. Um, we actually had five National Merit uh semi finalists at Lake Forest High School just recently named. So, I'd like to congratulate Emerson Brown, Matthew Kim, Cameron Mclofflin, Laura Quan, and Andrew Turlo. They're actually going to go on um to compete for nearly 26 million in scholarships. So, very proud of this group. And if the board remembers last year because we did make the pivot to ACT, um we actually offered parents the choice of taking a practice ACT or the um PSAT and MSQT. So these are a lot of different acronyms. And so many of our
038students opted not to take the PSAT. Um this is a group of students who opted to and they did very well nationally. So very proud of this group of students. All right, we've been talking about IDs everywhere. We've taken the show on the road and our students are really doing a great job. 95% of our students are showing up each and every single day uh with their IDs. We're starting to think about what does it mean for the other 5% especially those who just can't seem to bring it often. Um this is something that we've never wanted this initiative to be feel like it's consequential to students like it's something that they're going to get in trouble for but it really is about safety. So, we need to partner together with parents, with the community
039to think about what is now that we're three weeks into the school year, what is our plan moving forward for those students who um can't seem to bring their ID. It's not many, but we do have some that we're starting to talk about and think about how we plan for those students accordingly. And without further ado, the three students sitting next to me are our new student school board members. And this is something new this year that the district 115 board of education is engaging in. We started last year with piloting of course with our senior class president, our senior class vice president, but this year we actually went to an application process and then of course had our senior class president join as well. And we have our new student board reps who will
040be present meetings participating in meetings both in workshop meetings, committee of the whole meetings and our schoolboard meetings. So I'm actually going to let the three of them introduce themselves. Hello, I'm Constantinos Fitzos and I'm excited to be a student board member by helping out and sharing opinion with students. >> Hello, my name is Elizabeth Becker. I'm a senior at Lake Forest and I'm extremely excited for this new role and opportunity and I can't wait to add insight to everybody here. So, it's great. Hi, I'm Josie Irvin. I'm a senior at Lake Forest High School and I'm this year's student body president and I'm super excited to hear all of your input and opinions about what's happening at Lake Forest High School. So, as you can see, it's going to be a great year and
041I'm really lucky because this next slide, I think there's nobody more appropriate to lead us through the celebrations this week, our homecoming week of our 90th anniversary than our students. So, I'm going to kick this slide over to them to talk about what's going on this week, what's already happened, what we can look forward to. So, we're in the midst of our homecoming week. So, we have spirit days every day. We're doing different dressup days. Like, tomorrow's class distinction day, so each class is different. Um, Thursday is monochromatic and Friday scout out to get ready for the pep rally, which will be at the end of the day on Friday. So we'll have a shortened schedule and then at 7:30 Friday night is the football game Lake Forest versus Zion. And so on this Sunday,
042September 14th, we had all the clubs and sports had window decorating. So a local business offered up their window and they were able to paint and promote all that they do and just a fun little design. And then that night we had something new that student council decided to plan. It was like a homecoming kickoff. So it was a movie at West Campus similar to one district 67 did in the summer and it was a big hit. It was super fun. We watched Jumanji. We decorated cars just to bring the spirit up for homecoming. And yeah, it was awesome. Um, and the dance is this Saturday. It starts at 7 and ends at 9:30. Um, ticket sales have already happened. A lot of tickets have been sold and yes, we're very excited. And >> I
043just want to applaud these two for all the hard work they put in. It was been so much fun, especially that new homecoming kickoff. Great work on that. It was amazing. As you can tell, it's going to be a great year. It's going to be a fun year with our new student board reps as well. So, um, yeah, open house. Um, another big activity that we had just last week, we had our annual open house. It was a great event. It's always fun to see this the students, I mean the parents running from class to class because we do make them stick to bell schedule. So, always a good time. We had um some wonderful entertainment from our orchestra um from our orchestra. Uh and then also we had technology set up helping to support
044parents. It's interesting how students can seem to get the technology but parents often need that extra support. But always a fun time and it feels like in my fifth year a little reunion with the parents. So open house feels like you're in the hallway and you're just talking to parents who now have a younger student coming through. So it was a ton of fun. All right. And of course it is not Lake Forest High School without our fall season of plays. So, as you can see, we had our senior directed one acts, which to me is the big kickoff of the school year. That's one of those big events involving students. I know that it's n it feels like ninth graders working with upper classmen, with our seniors, and it's just a big welcome to
045Lake Forest High School. Um, and then we see, of course, the play trap, our fall play trap, which our students are already um deep into. So, it's going to be a great school year. >> Uh, thank you. That concludes our report. But before we end, this is a this is the senior panoramic that was taken just um recently on Friday, September 5th. This is the class of 2026. Uh I want to thank the students for being here. I'm excited about the partnership this year. We um I I often say that as adults, uh we think we perhaps have more figured out than we do. Uh so your voice is incredibly important as we navigate how to make your experience that much more richer as you uh have these day-to-day interactions with the school. So thank
046you so much for giving up time. I know you have so many activities, so much homework um and thank you because tried to get some sleep but we appreciate your time here today. >> Thank you all. Thank you students and Dr. Dr. Montgomery, Dr. Lonard, and Dr. Fitz Simmons. Thank you. Um, all right. Uh, public participation for any of those that would like to. So, seeing none, as there was none before, we'll move on. Um, uh, liaison reports. Uh, Ed Redden legislative updates. Uh, nothing at the moment. We'll have something here maybe coming up in the next month or so. Uh, True North Educational Cooperative Update. Um, do you want to share about the meeting for tomorrow or >> uh tomorrow night there will be a council meeting that starts at 7 pm uh in
047Highland Park for TR North. We will be discussing uh previously we were in in incredible conversations around the possibility of dissolving the cooperative. But I'm proud uh to report that tomorrow night we will be recommending to the council a reorganization plan uh for consideration to um transform how uh True North is structured but with the end goal to make sure that our schools in that cooperative are still open and our students with the greatest needs um are still having their needs met. So I'm I want to thank the work of the subcommittee and the sub subcommittee. That's a thing. uh and uh I'm thrilled that I'll be one of eight people presenting tomorrow night at that meeting and also uh incredible amount of gratitude to Amy as she signs up as a council member to
048sit through yet another board meeting. So, thank you for your service. >> Thank you Amy and thank you Dr. Montgomery for all that work. That's tremendous. Um, one thing just to note, I won't put Gail on the spot, but we had an education committee of the whole um, earlier and I just want to thank Aaron and her team and all the time Gail put in in terms of crafting the agenda and the cover the topics we covered. Um, just summarize quickly. So, we covered AI. Uh, we went through uh, the scout seminar and um, some of the other feedback and things that we've been covering in process things that have been changed and evaluated and improved for the last couple years. So, uh, again, big big congratulations to you and the team and everybody inside
049the building. So, thank you, Gail, for putting that together with with Aaron. Appreciate that. Um, on to some action items. Uh, so action item number one, approval of the 2025 2026 final budget. So, may I have a motion to approve the 2025 2026 final budget, please? >> So, move. >> Second. >> Uh, any discussion? Okay. Seeing having hearing none uh may I have a roll call vote please? >> Miss Zer >> I >> Mr. Wein Burner >> I >> Miss Gam >> I >> Mr. Noble >> I >> Miss Helms >> I >> Miss Connell Donahue >> I >> motion carries. >> Great. Thank you. Uh item number two. May I have a motion to wave the first reading of press issues 118 and 119? >> So moved. >> Second. Um, and just for clarity,
050this is allowing us to basically move on to approval of of these items versus having a waiting an additional board meeting. And these were reviewed in committee meeting for uh for policy. Um, if anybody has any other questions on this. All right. Um, we'll we'll have the questions on the next one then. So may just quickly just uh for the community that may be watching uh every committee is committee of the whole except for the policy meeting because the policy committee is made up of both 67 and 115. It's a joint policy meeting. So all of the policies that you're being asked to approve tonight were discussed within that committee on September 3rd. Um and I want to thank uh the board members, respective board members from both districts and the administration staff for taking
051the time to go through them. It certainly expedites tonight's recommendations, but I want the community to know that each one of these recommendations were discussed among the committee members. >> So, this is to wave the first reading. Uh, may I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Helms. >> I, Mr. Riner, >> I. >> Miss Enzer, >> I. >> Miss Conno Donahghue, >> I. >> Mr. Noble, >> I. >> Miss Gam. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. All right. So, now item number three. May I have a motion to approve the second reading and implement the press issues uh 118 and 119, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion or comments on this? >> Yeah. Annie, would you like to share anything on the um on the summary because as you were
052leading that committee? >> Yeah. Um, no. I mean, I think compared to previous press issues, this was um not um there wasn't too much to get into um at the meeting in terms of major changes to our policies. Um there was some discussion about just um I mean most of the changes had to do with kind of complying with laws as they have changed and then changed again um to make sure that we're in compliance. Um, but I don't I don't think that there were any other sort of major issues that came up. >> Thank you for that. Um, may I have a roll call vote, please? >> Mr. Noble, >> I. >> Miss Gam, >> I. >> Miss Helms, >> I. >> Miss Zenzer, >> I. >> Miss Conno Donahghue, >> I. >> Mr.
053Wine Burner, >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Um, for the consent agenda, may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda and the items including item number one through four, please? >> So moved. Second. >> Any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Connell Donahghue. >> I. >> Miss Helms. >> I. >> Mr. Noble. >> I. >> Mr. Weinberger. >> I. >> Miss Gammer. >> I. >> Miss Enzer. >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Foyer requests. Hope Moses one of one completed. Owen Wang. Nine of nine completed. Allet and three of three completed. Frank McCormack four of four completed. Brenda Loya, one of one completed. CT Mills, one of one completed. Sherry Reed, one of one complete. Steve Watts, one of one completed. Um, and just
054a note on FOYAS, those are all online. Um, so if folks wish to review those or check questions that are being asked to the committees or excuse me, of the district. Um, and the answers and the information there that those are attached. And if people have questions of additional information, they can always certainly request their own foyers as needed. Um, last time for public participation. Seeing none, we'll just move on. Uh, and announcements. Friday, September 19th is, uh, homecoming with our prep rally at 2:30 in the competition gym and the football game that night. Saturday, September 20th, uh, building tours of Lake Forest High School. And uh that will be at 10:00 a.m. LHS alumni parking lot um party at 1:00 p.m. at Gorton Community Center and the homecoming dance at 7 p.m. Lake Forest
055High School. October 13th is no school for student staff district office closed in observance of Columbus Day. Uh Tuesday, October 14th will be the finance and operations committee of the hall at 5 pm and board of education meeting at 7 pm right here. Uh for more information on the upcoming events, Lake Forest High School, please click on the links or agendas and the click the website. Um and we're excited to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Lake Forest High School and we invite all of you to celebrate with us and we thank you the community as we serve them and all of you. May I have a motion to adjurnn the Lake Forest Community High School District 115 board of meeting board of education meeting for September 16th, 2025? >> So move. >> Second. >> May
056I have a voice vote? All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Meeting adjourned. Thank you so much. >> Thanks everybody.