001Test, test, test. Uh, hello. Hello. Are you good? All right, I think we will get started. Sorry for the delay. Anybody that is watching uh went a little long in workshop and a few other things in the finance committee meeting. So, just wanted to uh welcome them and welcome you. And uh if we get started, let's uh we're just going to uh start with our pledge of allegiance, please. Thanks. Thank you everyone. All right. Um, so first up I guess is me and uh our president's report. So I did write one out and this was done by me not chat GPT. So I will read it. Uh so tempting I'll tell you um since I write so fast. All right. Uh welcome again to all of you. I know we don't have many people here,
002but uh for posterity sake, uh I know we're starting to approach the start of things. So, we're still in summer, but we're getting close. Um I know some of the summer events are still happening and finishing up for but for many of the students in particular clubs and sports, they're deep into the excitement and hard work of double practices and training to get the season off to the best possible start. So, it's a fond memory of myself in those times and those days. As always, I extend my heartfelt thanks to each of you for making everyday work and for prioritizing the investment in every student's educational and personal journey with the start of this 90th year with celebrations and remembrances of our past along with the acknowledgement of the hard work so many have done
003and who have come before us. We are here today in large part because of the efforts and focus of our collective community. As we begin this year, we look to take the opportunity to tell the story of Lake Forest High School through the years, as well as highlight the efforts being made today to support and stand up the educational system that has many additional required operational components than the past decades did when I was here as a Lake Forest High School graduate. My daughters are living through a different time as students, and I think every parent or adult who has had the journey of time would say the same. technology and security to mention two obvious areas are significantly different from what they were for me in 1986. We are also making some significant updates
004to the building thanks to the support of our community. But there are other elements, dedicated teachers, staff, and LFHS traditions that remind me things have not changed all that much like our senior star still positioned with honor in the front hall of our school. It is intended to guide our well-prepared graduates into the future. We are fortunate to have the resources and interested leaders in this community to commit to the creating the significant number of opportunities and support for pursuing excellence in all its forms. We will continue as past boards have done to put all the stakeholders in our view and to drive the betterment of this district and our supporting communities. Thanks so much. With that, I'll pass to our district leadership for their updates. Dr. Montgomery. >> Thank you so much, Mr. Noble.
005Uh, the topics tonight are going to include a report that is called out under letter D on the agenda, which is the shared services annual report. It is baked into the superintendent report and I just want to call everyone's attention to that should you be watching at home or watch later. Uh so we'll start with that and then move through uh touch on an admin retreat we just had. Talk about some construction spotlights uh from the board. Uh move through on uh some safety and security topics. Uh finish with the 90th celebration and then some back to school exciting topics. And we're going to share this report. We changed the format last year. We're continuing with that with uh both doctors uh Fitzmen and Lonard uh joining me for one singular presentation that will be
006timely and effective. Start your stopwatches now. Here we go. Uh shared services annual report. This is something that we started two years ago where we made the commitment after a study on the benefits of shared services and really the question that was asked to me in my interview which is at the end of your first year we would like you this is the board speaking to um have me give my assessment of should we stay shared services or should we split and then at the end of that uh recommending that we should stay shared services for some of the reasons I'm going to outline tonight we also made the commitment that annual ually we will share out how the districts are benefiting from this arrangement um year-over-year to make sure it's on the forefront of
007people's uh mind about the benefits and the why behind this agreement which is now entering in its 21st year of shared services. The methodology of the report um is or the analysis is based off of the base salaries, pension obligations and basic health insurance uh for our uh our employees. What it does not include is related expenses. So I want to talk about the report and analysis talk about humans that we are employing more so than the related expenses. And I'll call out some of those in a little bit. The current shared service full-time equivalent employees is 36.5 uh staff members. Remember that this is a specific point in time. So it's July 1st of 2025 just like last year's was July 1st of 2024 and there is fluctuations that happen throughout the year and
008that's why we time stamp it at a specific moment in time. If you also remember in the past and hopefully this will become more um top of mind as you're you hear this year-over-year when we're looking at this analysis we no longer look at how much money we're saving. We're looking at how many employees we would have to add for the districts to act as separate entities. So it's essentially how much resources are being reallocated or infused within the districts because of a shared service arrangement that would be taken away if you had to backfill certain personnel. Acknowledging that it's not a one for one. There's going to have to be difficult conversations that happen. For example, you may not have uh this the superintendent's roles for each district if you have two superintendents may
009assume some of the assistance responsibilities um if you were to go into that route. Um some FTEES would have to be a one for one, but not all of them. And I think it's important to acknowledge that the differential in this analysis is 11.5 uh additional employees over the uh over both districts. And then when you translate that into financial impact, that means that 115 would have an additional 97574,000 um and annual costs and 67 would have uh $782,000, which equates to about $1.76 million annually that would be reallocated to FTE if we were to move away from shared services Again, I'm careful to not use the word savings. I'm using it as how much it would cost us if we separated. When you look at that over a five-year forecast, which we operate in
010annual budgets and five-year forecast, that translates to $8.8 million of impact in a forecast in personnel cost alone. Remember the analysis is only looking at personnel but it is bigger than the personnel cost as I talk about in bullet point two which is don't forget that there is about a million dollars worth of technology equipment licensing and infrastructure that's accounted and there's at least 13 other shared contracts that would need to be negotiated separately for individual districts contracts such as the phone and internet or computer and security management software the website. Those things are all combined together and we get benefits from the cost savings by going together uh for those individual contracts. I'm going to take a a break right now. Oh, the last point's important. Uh sometimes we forget that there in notsodistant
011past 67 had its own administrative space in Deer Path and if the districts were to separate the 67 administration would need to recapture some of the space in one of the buildings that are in 67 acknowledging that all shared service personnel are housed in a 115 own building. Um that is the essence of the analysis. Does anybody at the board have questions before I move on with the superintendent's report of the benefits or for this portion of the report? >> I just have one question. It seems to me and I don't know the full history because I'm relatively new to the community, but when I first joined the 67 board about four years ago, this was a it seemed like still a debated topic. I have I have not heard recently concern about shared services
012at the same level that I've heard in the past. If are you getting feedback still from the community that that that people um are interested in a different model at this point? >> I am not. And I think that the commitment to sharing the benefits on an annual basis is to make sure that that is something that everyone's aware of so they don't get into this void that I think we were in when the boards were deciding on hiring one superintendent or two four years ago where that debate was really in the forefront of everyone's mind. And while Jen and her team over the 19 years have issued reports saying the benefits, uh we agreed at that time that an annual report that people can expect uh would help keep everybody informed about the why
013so the community is more informed. But I have heard zero um conversation around this. I'm hoping that stays the same because this is a tremendous benefit to our taxpayers. uh when you think of the many districts in the Chicagoland area who are not doing shared services. >> I'll applaud you for doing this work, Matt. I worked with um many many in the past on this question and it it was always a vexing one. Uh it was hard for us to produce the data. Um, but the the consistent work that you and Jen have done have helped us enormously here and I do think it's a compelling savings for taxpayers. I think it uh allows us to invest more in our schools where we're we're trying to invest our dollars. So, I I am so glad
014that we come back to this report year in and year out because it's such an important um differentiator for our schools. >> Thank you. If there's no further questions, we'll continue with the report and I'm going to kick it over to Renee to talk about the tri district retreat. >> Thank you, Dr. Montgomery. Um, this was a wonderful way to kick off the school year from a leadership and a planning experience on August 4th and 5th. The leadership from 65, 67, and 115 came together for an inaugural tri admin retreat. 67 and 115 have always done this together, but this was our first year and including 65. and it was really powerful and we were able to set our attentions together for the school year around our shared outcomes. Um we were working and centering
015our our thinking around a know thyself as leaders and a um strength-based leadership couple of days. So for example, some of you may have heard of the Gallup StrengthFinder, but much of our work was done through assessing who we were as the um the if you've ever heard of Deote business chemistry. We really looked at who we were, what was our workflow style. We also were led through the six types of working genius from Tom Burton. He took us through some of that work, helped us look at what our gifts were and where we had to grow. And so with this combination of our strengths and areas to grow, I think we were really able to leave the day with some ideas and plans for working together as a balanced team, not just in 65
016and 67 and 115, but together around those shared outcomes. And we really hope that we're able to do this continuing in the future. We were so happy to have Lisa Lee Alli and her team. >> I would just applaud both Erin and Renee for helping plan that. The idea for that first day of having all of the administrators uh together and finding one topic that is going to lift the whole group is quite a challenge and I think they both uh knocked out of the park and thank you for their leadership. Phase one construction update. Uh there was a update in uh the um finance and ops committee earlier this evening. Forgive me. And we celebrated some of the work that is happening. Uh upwards of $14 million worth of construction has happened over the
017summer months. Uh which is about 40 days of construction. when you think about 60 days of construction that the crew had with upwards of 110 uh trades people on site every day. Uh so there's a lot of moving parts and we're excited about everything that our students and our faculty are going to experience because of all of that hard work. uh you will see uh if you've driven by the campus you can see the work on the exterior and I think that uh people will be wowed when they walk into the building specifically in the areas that were touched around the world language classrooms the robotics and the CAD lab the special education spaces and some of the science labs that were touched uh we have an episode 13 under the hard hat is being
018released this week on the website we watched it in the workshop I thought they did a great job and excited for for the community to see through that video the work. And we're hosting the capital project advisory committee tomorrow at 8 a.m. at the high school. And we're inviting uh some additional guests to walk through the site. Uh the board has been invited if they're able to attend as well as other community members to make sure they get to see what's happening and the work that's been done. >> Dr. Lonard, I think this one is yours. I'm trying to figure out a clever way to work in my working geniuses into how I'm going to begin my part uh tonight. But um that really was a great event and a great way for us to
019learn more about each other as leaders. So I applaud Dr. McGomery, you as well for your leadership and vision and bringing that together. Um just to kick off, typically we would have a board spotlight. Um that's something that we love to bring to the board each month. And what we plan to do this year is a little bit different. Honing in on that theme of One Lake Forest High School, we're actually going to have staff members and faculty members who nominate students to be the spotlight student for that month. And we're hoping we can find students, we know we can easily find students, but we're hoping we'll bring you students who are living the mission and the vision of Lake Forest High School. Then also the staff member who nominated them too because it really
020is a culture of care and we want to celebrate each member of our community. Um so this year scout up ID on and this is something that we spent a lot of time this summer talking about um and that is that students will be wearing their IDs this year. We are joining 70% of the high schools in the country who are um already requiring student IDs and this is something that um they will receive during their um uh textbook uh MacBook pickup. It will be a blue and gold lanyard. What I really appreciate is that we will be able to very easily identify who are the students in the building, who are the visitors in the building, who are the staff in the building based on their lanyard colors. So, more information to come about
021this um from uh our safety and security director uh Mr. Walsh. And also in my message to our students tomorrow, I will be reminding them of this. So, we're excited. We're all a little bit nervous. change is something that um is sometimes a little nerve-wracking to implement, but we know it's for the right reasons. Uh next up, sorry, my slide deck's not moving. >> That's okay. >> Thank you, Dr. Lamar. A quick uh celebration to the Varsity Field Flicks that happened on July 25th where we showed Wicked part one. Uh two over 200 people were in attendance. It had a nice Ravenia feel. uh and we were so happy to see that many people who came out for the evening and watched this um wonderful movie together. It went so well that we are going
022to have our second uh varsity field flicks on October 25th showing Hotel Transennsylvania. The Montgomery children are excited about this. I can't figure out why, but we will be there. uh and that starts at 6 pm. Uh it was a great community feel and it speaks to our commitment within the strategic plan about community outreach and engagement. Uh I am especially excited about something that's not open to the community that is an idea that came forward from our student leaders which is a student council sponsored movie to kick off homecoming week which is going to be Sunday September 14th and it will be open to all current LFHS students. We do not have the movie yet to announce. the students are working on it, but it is going to be in honor of the 90th
023some movie from the 90s and I can think of a whole bunch of them. Um, some that are even socially acceptable. So, we'll see what uh the students come up with and it should be a great night for the students to be uh together. >> All right. Thanks to um Nolan Olsen who is in the class of 2026. We have our beautiful logo here for our 90th anniversary this school year. And this is going to be a year that's full of celebration and we're excited to be engaging in it. We have lots of activities that are planned throughout the year. Um it's going to be kicked off many of those activities kicked off with homecoming. September 19th the homecoming football game. September 20th Paul Bergman presentation. Um and it's going to be on Stanley Anderson
024in the design of Lake Forest High School. September 20th we're going to have building tours. And then September 20th, you see here as well, we have that all alumni and community parking lot party at Gorton. If it rains, we do have an alternate plan to go inside as well. So, we're excited about our 90th anniversary and all the things that we have planned this year. And then finally, of course, these are the back tochool updates. It still very much feels like summer, right? Because we're still a week out and actually a week later than we typically are. So Monday, August 25th, our teachers will return and our staff will return. And then we also have new family night at Lake Forest High School. Tuesday, August 26th, we will clap in our 9th grade students. And
025that's always exciting. Have our second institute day with their faculty and staff. And then, of course, we will welcome our students for the first day on Wednesday, August 27th. Just a reminder, we will have finals after winter break. This is something that um we've worked on as a team to make sure that our students and our staff, our faculty do actually have a true break over the winter holidays. And you'll hear more about that in the coming month. >> That concludes the superintendent report. Of course, we are happy to answer any questions should you have any. >> All right, seeing no questions, we'll move on. Thank you, Dr. Dr. Doctor. Right. something like that. Um, all right. So, like to move on to public participation and seeing none, so we'll move on past that. If
026someone arrives, we'll make room for them. Uh, liaison reports, eden legislative update. Uh, there's nothing significant, so I'll put anything in that needs to go in for um September andor October as those things arise. um True North Educational Cooperative. Uh Amy was caught in um flight traffic issues and so she was unable to attend tonight. Um apologize for that as she asked, but uh if I could have Matt just give a he's been leading the charge here um with her attendance and other types of things uh around dealing a little bit with some of the True North issues in educational cooperative. So uh if I could have Dr. Montgomery just give us a a one two minute update on that picture at the moment. >> Uh happy to. I'll be brief. The next leadership council
027meeting is happening on August 20th. I will be in attendance and there is a continued discussion about the future of True North with 18 of the 18 member districts expressing at least the initial or tenative um desire to withdraw from the cooperative which uh really began a conversation about potential disillusion uh disillusion of the cooperative and or a new budding conversation about reorganization. So there is a uh many moving parts uh and I have grateful that I've been able to be a part of the conversations and more to come. But again the next meeting is on August 20th and the board will be getting updates on the outcomes of that meeting and thank you for that but also thank you for your time. So the the the time and investment Matt and the leadership team
028are making towards True North and solving that and also dealing with some of the complexities is has been I think a few more hours than just hours. But I really appreciate that commitment for us. Uh moving on to action items. Uh we'll be going through a couple of these and then I think we'll um we're going to make one slight change. So u action items. If moving on to that, could I have a may I have a motion to approve action item number one, the uh 2025 2026 tenative budget, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Uh any discussion and actually we would probably have one but uh just before we leave in the discussion if we get a little bit of a a comment Jen from your side. I think we talked about it
029in workshop, but if you just want to give us a quick little summary of the process and the window of time for this and why we're doing it now. >> Sure, I'm happy to. As you did mention, this is the tenative budget, which means that this will go on public display. It will remain on display um from tonight up until the point of the board September meeting where we will take uh final action. Um we will make changes as it is tenative and we do have information as we said literally coming in today that will impact um some of our revenues and we will be still working on some of our expenditures. So although we would consider it somewhat completed is not yet final. Um there is a lot of information in there. The state
030form is what it's included in your packet. That is what we are required to file with ISBY. In addition to that you will also receive in your final budget uh packet for September. you will see what we call the the prettier forms, which is more information that's kind of on a district format. We will provide some history, some backup, some information, a little more charts and graphs in something we think is a little bit more community friendly um in order to maybe answer some of those questions that um some of our constituents may have. >> Thank you so much. Any questions or discussion? >> All right. May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Zinder, >> I. Miss Helms I. >> Mr. Wein Bunner >> I. >> Mrs. Gamreth >> I. >> Mr.
031Noble >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Item number two. May I have an a motion to approve the inter prinet contract for the 2025 2026 school year for language services. Please. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Uh any discussion? Right. May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Mr. Weinbrunner, >> I. >> Mr. Noble, >> I. >> Mrs. Gamra, >> I. >> Miss Denzer, >> I. >> Miss Helms, >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Item number three. May I have a motion to approve the assured healthcare contract 2025 2026? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> I had one quick question here. Um there was a distinction between the amount that we ex expect that this won't exceed or that it will not exceed. Um and then the
032sort of when there's someone hired on a sort of full-time basis versus a part-time basis that the distinction was pretty large is and could anybody speak to that? I know Jenny's not here and she wrote the the summarizing memo, but um >> I can't provide that right now, but I I will have Jenny follow up with you directly because she was the one that was directly interfacing with them. >> Great. >> Are you are you asking can you uh say your question again just to make sure I get it? >> And I'm sorry she's not here. It just was I I view this more as as hiring sort of short-term fill-in needs, but but it it appears to be sort of there if we have somebody who who goes out more on a long-term basis.
033And there was a I think the limit for the short term was $1,000 and the limit for long-term was 35,000. I was just surprised that we made that sharp of a distinction. So to me, it clearly is there for long-term need, not short term. and I just was hoping for an explanation. So maybe she could just provide. >> Yeah, I will make sure there's an update in the U weekly update. Phil may be able to add some. >> Yeah. So if I may, the um expectation is that it is short for the short term. This is an agency that we only use for sub nurses as needed. Um but I but it was written for that max in the event that something would be for a full year, which we do not anticipate happening at
034all. >> Thanks, And I if I read it correctly, the shortterm those were caps for short-term and and a cap for long-term. Correct. >> Yes. >> All right. Uh, may I have a roll call vote? >> Mrs. Gamrath, >> I. >> Mr. Wein Brener, >> I. >> Mr. Noble, >> I. >> Miss Helms, >> I. >> Miss Zinger, >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Um, item number four. May I have a motion to approve the Barbara Marberry Breezy LLC consultant agreement 2025 2026? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion on this? Right. May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Helms, >> I. >> Miss Zinder, >> I. >> Mr. Noble, >> I. >> Mr. Wein Brener, >> I. >> Mrs. Gamreth, >> I. >> Motion carries. Right. Uh, we
035have a consent agenda from items 1 through eight. And are there any motions to remove any items from the consent agenda? >> I'd move that we uh remove the personnel the human resource resources report from the consent agenda. >> So item number two. May I have a second? >> Second. >> Uh, procedure wise, do we need a roll call vote to do that or just we just pull it? We just separate it. Okay. All right. So, may I have a motion? Uh, any others that need to be pulled up? Right. Seeing none, we'll go through uh May I have a motion to approve items 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 of the consent agenda, please. >> So moved. >> Second. >> May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Helms, >> I.
036>> Mr. Wein Brener, >> I. >> Miss Zinder, >> I. >> Mrs. Gamrath >> I. >> Mr. Noble >> I. >> Motion carries. >> May I have a motion to approve item number two of the consent agenda individually. The approval of the human resources report, hires, resignations, retirements, leave of absence, change of assignments, stipens, activities, and additional assignments. Please. >> So moved. >> Second. >> May I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Helms. I. >> Mr. Noble. I. >> Mr. Weinbrunner. >> I abstain. Mrs. Gamrath I. >> Miss Zenzer. >> I. Motion carries. >> Thank you. Foyer requests. Uh we have several and those are all posted online for folks if they wish to view them. Um Hope Moses one of one completed. Owen Wang 909 completed. Lit three of three completed. Frank
037McCormack 40 of four completed. Brenda Lloyd one of one completed. CT Mills one of one completed. Sher Reed one of one completed. Steve Watts one of one completed. Um, no additional public participation. So, concluding up announcements. Uh, well, school is starting soon. So, I think we gave those dates. So, I think it's for first day is the 27th of of August. So, we'll throw that there for fun for announcements. Uh, Tuesday, September 16th, educ member uh board meeting, education meeting will be on uh September 16th. And I think before that we have a Labor Day and a couple other days. So, lots of fun stuff. Uh we'll excite and uh let's if I could have a motion to adjurnn Lake Forest Community High School District 115 board meeting for August 12th, 2025, please. >> So
038move. >> Second. >> May I have a voice vote, please? All in favor say I. I. I. >> Meeting adjourned. Thanks so much.