001I will now call to order the Lake Forest School District 67 Board of Education meeting for May 20th, 2025. Good evening. I invite all members of the board, administration, and community to stand at attention facing the flag with their right hand over their heart to recite the pledge of allegiance. Just for the record, my name is Megan Angelberg and I am the vice president of the board. Mr. um Mark Reis is the president and I'm filling in for him tonight as he had to unexpectedly travel on business. So, thank you for coming and we are going to start with our sure to be most exciting part of the night, our gardening to grow. So, thank you for being here. We are excited to hear more. I'll just hold it. Okay. Hello, I'm Lisa Walsh, co-founder
002and president of Gardening to Grow. I first want to thank the board for supporting us with giving us approval to become a district parent organization. Without this status, we would not nearly have nearly the reach and momentum that we have. Okay. Gardening to grow started with a few garden beds being built at Sheridan Elementary for an Eagle Scout project. We were established by parents who are passionate about connecting the education of our children back to nature. Whether it is by teaching them how to grow the food they eat or the science of pollinator gardens or with the art that they create. I say back to nature because the city of Lake Forest was built on both both on education and the bigger form of gardening, farming. I want to take you down a little history
003detour. The city of Lake Forest was designed and laid out along with Lake Forest College in 1857. At that time, the Everett community, now known as West Lake Forest, was made up of Irish farmers. In 1861, the city of Lake Forest was incorporated. With this incorporation, the city the city designed a seal with the representation of natural scenery in the center and was was inscribed with the motto in Latin, which translate which translated means love of nature and science. The Everett farming community was annexed in 1926 and became part of Lake Forest. So you can see that our community was founded on education, farming, and nature. So back to G2G, where are we? Our gu our garden clubs have been awarded over $38,000 in grants from the spirit of 67. All four of the district
00467 schools have gardens and garden clubs. This year with the grant from the spirit we are hosting visitor gardener assemblies in all four schools. We also have inschool or afterchool programs in all of the schools. Some of our milestones include the garden of America representatives visited our ever school gardens. We are a 501c3 nonprofit and an official parent organization in the district thanks to the school board. This summer, we will be working with Denise Galatianos, the district literacy coach, to integrate our gardens into the amplified curriculum for reading and writing across the grades of grade bands of K through eight. We are also building community partnerships. You can change the slide. Thank you. Um, we are also building community partnerships. There's an old saying that goes something like this. If you want to go quickly,
005go alone. If you want to go far, go together. G2G wants to go far and so building community relationships is important to us. To demonstrate our relationships, I'll give you a few examples. Gardening to Grow is awarded a $2,000 grant from the state of Illinois to build a pollinated garden at Sheridan Elementary. We partnered with the city of Lake Forest who cleaned up and removed the grass from the space to repair the bed. And that's the space right there that just happened last over the weekend. We also on May 10th um we hosted a second annual garden market on garden on market square. This event was for the community of Lake Forest. This year our garden market was recognized at the May chamber of commerce meeting for bringing the community together in the central business
006district. We also have a partnership with Lake Forest College. The college provides an annual stipen so that we can have an intern each semester. The current intern Amaya and the G2G intern coordinator Lorine Grieb are pictured on this slide. Another partner is the Junior Garden Club of Lake Forest. They provide advisors, annual stipens, and gardening supports. They are a true rock for our club. Quest food has been supported from the beginning. They offer kitchen support, working with us to prepare what we grow in our gardens and serve it in the cafeteria and financial support for our plants. Mary Anie is also a generous supporter of G2G. They have provided generous plant donations and have offered to donate all hardscape materials and installation labor for a new sensory and pollinator garden at Everett. They are also
007committed to supporting a proposed greenhouse for district 115. Ela Farm Foundation is a natural partner for G2G given our common interest and is a relationship we are working on growing. Currently, they help us with our plants and our garlic bulbs. There's also in the works a potential partnership on a greenhouse with G2G and District 115. And next, I would like to introduce you to one of the Everett Garden Club co-chairs, Katherine Hensley. Katherine is here with your children to talk about their garden club experiences. Katherine, thank you so much, Lisa, and thank you so much for having us here this evening. I have three children. Stewie, Teddy, could you please come up? and each of them are going to talk about their experience with gardening um throughout the last few years. Stewie for you. Hello,
008my name is Stewie Hensley. I'm currently a sixth grader at Deer Path Middle School. I started my school my gardening career when I was in third grade helping to build Everett's garden beds for their garden club. I was extremely fun watching the once underutilized courtyard into a vibrant learning center. Different changes and new ideas have helped the court courtyard bloom. Dreams of harvesting our once seeds are now reality. And now when I go back to visit the courtyard, I see every grade level growing plants and loving to garden. Dreams I thought were impossible for a school garden. Thank you for your my time. Teddy. My name is Teddy Hensley. I'm a fifth grader at DPM. I've been growing plants with a school district since second grade. I love growing plants at a school, though they
009don't always survive. The plants help make great sensory tools small touch and they help us calm down and focus on something else. They gave students responsibility of watering them and taking care of them and gave me something to look forward to. Exciting to watch them grow and eventually produce vegetables. Also, we learned that the beds keep out animals that want to eat our food. If they want to eat it, then it must be good. What is your What is your name? Hensley. Poppy Hensley. And I want to talk a little bit about what we did yesterday at Everett. We had our second annual beautifification day. Last year when Poppy was in kindergarten, there was a unit in which they learned about composting and gardening and she came home and said, "Mom, we really need to
010clean up Everett. I see a lot of trash and a lot of weeds." So yesterday we had our second annual annual beautifification day. And during recess, children had the option to either play on the playground or they can go help us weed. And it was incredible to see so many children come up to us and not only volunteer, but also they said, "Can we do this every day?" I mean, how much fun is it to be able to dig in the dirt and at school? They had a marvelous time. Now, Poppy, what grade are you in? She's in We dropped her down. She is in first grade. And Poppy, what did you plant yesterday? Marolds. Yes, she planted maragolds because this fall she actually harvested marold seeds with her class. We went out into the
011courtyard. We sat around in circles and we gently pulled the seeds out, right? And then we bagged them all up. Correct. And then we packaged them. And then this spring, what did we do? Did we What did we do, sweetheart? We planted them. Yes, we we planted them and then yesterday it was so exciting because what were we able to do? We were able to transplant them and put them into the raised garden beds. And why was it important that we put them in the raised garden beds? Because they keep away pests. They keep away pests. And what else? They attract bees and butterflies. That is That is right. And it was so special this fall when we were working with those marold seeds to have teachers come up to us to say that it
012was better than therapy. the best part of their day to be able to be outside for a few minutes and to be able to sing with their classmates and really just grow together. So on behalf of G2G and my children, we are so grateful and so excited to be the newest partnership to be the newest um organization as a part of um our district. So, thank you so much for your time today. And really quickly, we do have a present for you. So, those Marold seeds that I was talking about a little while ago, we have gone ahead and we have bagged some up for you so that you can go ahead and plant some Marold seeds this summer as well. Thank you so much. Can we do a picture um up here with the
013board, please? And heck yeah. I just want to say real fast, so my my daughter um actually just finished her freshman year at Auburn University in the school of agriculture. And um I was so impressed down there. They um their school of agriculture actually has an affiliation with the city of Auburn in all the restaurants. And so they everything from like like bee they have like beehives that they make honey down to like like with cows the they call it pharaoh to finish where they're actually breeding the cows all like all the way through um the the finish and then selling they have a their own store where they sell the meat. Um and a lot of the local restaurants have like you know all the salads on the menu are from the students at
014the university. So it would be really cool if you know somehow you guys could maybe get like the future like a Yeah, like a salad at at Sophia's steak that's from the garden to grow. Okay, I love it. I love it. But I think it's great for the kids because then they get to see the entire life cycle and you know potentially foster a career in agriculture. And I would just like to say I know that thank you because this has been a long time coming Lisa. I know you've been working on this for years. I would remember the first garden beds at Sheridan School and was part of the grants committee when Everett wanted to clean up the courtyard. Um, so it's been an amazing um, accomplishment and it's been really fun to watch
015you guys develop this. And this is these are the things that we are so lucky to live in Lake Forest and have a part of our school district is because of volunteers and parents and and community members who care like you do to add these types of um, to add this type of, you know, learning experiences and interests and and keep broadening that scope for for our community and for our kids. So, thank you so much. and Poppy and Teddy and Stewie, thank you so much for speaking. You did an excellent job. So, we can take a quick picture. Lisa, you must come up too, please. Okay, thank you again for coming. We are going to move on to the president's report. Um Mark said that he will uh add his comments to the June
016meeting. I just wanted to do a quick welcome to the new board members. um we are happy to have you and look forward to working alongside of you. So, thank you for joining us and um I just also wanted to say, you know, May is always such a busy month and a reflective time as we close out the school year and our next board meeting, the um summer will already be here and the kids will be out of school. So, I wanted to take a quick moment on behalf of the board to thank our dedicated staff, administration, and teachers for their hard work and commitment throughout the year. Um and a special note of gratitude goes to our retiring staff and teachers. um your service to District 67 in our community has made a lasting
017impact and we are deeply grateful for all you've done to make District 67 such a wonderful and special place. So, thank you to all of our retiring teachers and staff. And with that, I will turn it over to Dr. Montgomery for the superintendent report. Thank you. And as you remember, uh we have changed the format a little bit where Dr. Fitz Simmons and I will be uh jointly giving the presentation. We're kicking off the report with um some crazy hair. Uh oh, sorry, Mrs. Oakley, we're going right to the I want to start it with let's start with crazy hair. Welcome to Lake Forest. We've really done a great job. So, this is a picture from our Cherokee students and crazy hair day. You know, there's the countdown. Sometimes the ABC countdown. Sometimes parents um
018get a little overwhelmed. Um you don't have to participate in every day, but um it is a fun way to countdown the final days of the school year. So, um they certainly enjoying uh this day. Today was Disney Day in Everett, so everybody's having a little bit of fun. Now, um I will turn it over to Dr. Fitz Simmons for an a special welcome. Oh, today is a big day. We've been waiting for this. In fact, my phone has already been blowing up. It sounds like there was a rock star in town at Starbucks. People have been telling me that they had a sp a spotting of Miss Rattan, who is our new Cherokee school principal. She'll be starting July 1st. She's joining us here tonight and we'd like to just welcome her up to
019the podium. I'm going to come over there and bring you a little gift and then you can just introduce yourself to the community. Thank you so much for having me today. Um it was wonderful to see. So sorry. Um I was excited. I was a little early so I stopped at Starbucks and I ran into a family from Cherokee and a teacher from Everett. So, it was uh everybody has just been so incredibly warm and friendly and welcoming and so I feel very honored and excited to join the Lake Forest family and the Cherokee family. So, thank you and it's nice to meet you all in person. hair is lovely. You don't have to stay. Yep. There's no obligation. I promise. This is a riveting report, though. So, maybe you you want to see what's
020exciting, then you should bail after this. I think. Okay. Uh tonight's report has many topics. Uh I don't want you to get frightened by that because we're going to move efficiently. Uh we will start with last week we had uh staff appreciation week May 5th through the 9th and there was a whole host of exciting activities across uh 67 and 115 to celebrate the people that make the greatest impact in our district which is our faculty and staff. Three weeks ago, I think three weeks ago, uh we had eight leaders from 67 and 115, more 115 than 67, uh visit Stanford and Google headquarters uh to take a deep dive into artificial intelligence. how Google was approaching AI through the educational lens and then how Stanford and their professors are leading research that's transforming and
021touching from the arts to medicine uh to even robots that are cleaning houses much more than just the eye robots or the vacuum cleaners. truly transformational work and then that work and those in that information is being brought back to the district and we are having deep dialogues about what that means for us and I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to take a team out to the west coast for that experience. You will notice in your mailbox this week an exciting new addition of uh we actually this is newly branded. So we decided because of feedback from our community to continue to increase our education strategies around how district finances are expended and what is made up within them. So in your mailboxes you will see a addition of the bottom line which is our
022commitment annually to have a community newsletter solely dedicated to finance. We also unveiled a new video series as um our expert host is with us, Dr. Jen Hermas, who is going to be uh I don't think on every episode, but on um several episodes giving a video overview of the budgeting process, how uh the finances are expended and everything that goes through it. And the first one uh was uh released last week, I believe. So you have two things dedicated to finances. And I want to say this is in direct response to outreach from our community to increase our communication and our awareness around this very important topic to our taxpayers as we are stewards of taxpayer dollars. A very quick update. We just finished the last of our testing this year. It's been a
023a lot of testing that we've been doing. And in fact, you'll be getting a communication from me coming out this week about how we've adjusted our assessment calendar and the amount of testing and how we're doing it. Um, this is exciting though. The MAP scores have come in in the spring and we're really excited about all the growth and the shifts in our percentiles that we've seen comparatively. MAP is a national um test. The other thing that I'm excited to share and I can't wait to share this with you in June is when we have my endofear wrap-up assessment report. It is about our IR scores. We just pulled the raw data today, collected it from all the schools and we have seen incredible growth. So, we're really excited to share that with you. We
024have major construction that is starting at the DPM cafeteria as soon as summer begins. So, about 8 days from now, we are entering into phase B of our cafeteria renovation project. Phase A, if you remember, was when the Spirit most generously donated new furniture for the DPM cafeteria a year in advance of our ability to uh renovate the space. Phase B will modernize the serving area, which includes um new windows, punchout windows in the serving area, new grab-and-go serving areas, and then where the old tech office was, you'll see like a operable glass wall on the picture on the right, and a new innovative space where we can um have breakouts and separate uh seating for maybe different events that are happening throughout the day. We want the cafeteria to be a learning space. So,
025a space that isn't just used during the lunch hours and with the help of the spirit. That's possible. Phase C will happen the following summer, which is the wall of glass that is on the south facing uh section of the building. that is going to be done the following summer as well as punchthroughs on those um on that wall of glass to change the flow of traffic to get more access to the outdoor space. There's new seating in the patio area that our students are using, but we're waiting until the following summer to work on the exterior south facing glass. Grant day was May 15th. Don't have to look. It's on the slide. Sorry. May 15th and this spirit donated and talk about you keep hearing spirit spirit. I just want to reiterate our gratitude
026for all of our parent support organizations. You heard garden to grow. You're hearing about spirit. They awarded $28,000 worth of grants last week. And very few districts are privileged enough to have this type of partnership at this caliber. Uh so I want to celebrate their partnership as well as our uh staff and faculty for entering the grants to continue to enhance the educational experience. Once a year I have exit interviews with a small group of eighth graders and high school seniors. We had the eighth grader round table uh last two weeks ago on May 9th and I had uh there was 10 of them or so maybe a little I'm not counting them all but Sam is in the back so don't count Sam although he was certainly um actively engaged in the process and
027I always walk away with new perspective from both the student shadow day that I do at the at both districts and the exit interviews. It gives an opportunity for students to tell me what they think we're doing well and what opportunities they think that we could improve upon. And they are not shy about both. There's a whole bunch of celebrations and there's many things that from the smallest of um Dr. McGomery sometimes the hand sanitizing um kiosk are not full. So very little things and sometimes major curricular things that they are hoping to uh shift and um offer the feedback on. So I'm grateful for that experience for the for six years in a row and I just want to reiterate the importance of this. This doesn't happen often uh that a district can say
028for the last six years uh there was a recognation a recognition for um our music department being one of the best communities in music. And to give you an idea, that puts us in the top 3% statewide. There were 29 Illinois districts out of 852 to be recognized, and we have been recognized for the last six years. So, I remain um humbled by the work that they're doing. And I went to the concert that was a couple weeks ago that highlighted it was an orchestra concert that highlighted the fourth graders coming up, then fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth. And it was the the first of all the gymnasium was packed uh from top to bottom and the joy from the young people playing music um could be felt uh during that experience and certainly well
029beyond it. Dr. Fitz Simmons I think this one's you is it? If it is not I would be happy to talk about it and say congratulations to the Oh, we could talk I could talk about that if you'd like me to talk. I didn't I wasn't prepared to talk about it, but I certainly can. We're new at this. We are all good. Um, one of the amazing things that's been happening at Deer Path under the leadership of um, Dr. Shin and Mr. Pollson and Nicole Caresus and um, just some of the other amazing educators there is that they've really been working hard on going green recycling. If you walk through any of the halls, you'll see that they're really pushing hard for recycling. I think we even um we were chided a little bit at
030our institute Dave for not using recycling um recyclable or sustainable plates and and we loved it and we said that this is amazing. Thank you for holding us accountable. But even just with all of the work that they're doing with their gardening and their water um tanks, the what do you rain barrels, right? The rain barrels there specifically, they won third place at the Illinois green school project. So this is an amazing state recognition and they are doing fabulous things just everywhere in the school. So we are really proud of them and we're proud of um everything that they're leading the way and so I we're hoping to see this trickle down to our elementarymentaries as well. So congratulations to them. Sorry about that. Wow. I did not know I had all this to say.
031I'm so honored. Thank you. Okay. the retirees will do better. This is not how we normally do will. Okay. So, congratulations to all of our retirees. We were celebrating the retirement over 111 years of service between Lindabelle Weber, Gretchen Hardy, Norberto Garcia, and Patty Woods and Jill Zo. So, some amazing teachers who have spent their careers with us. Um, there are other friends that are leaving us this year as well that are not necessarily retiring, but they have just decided to take different courses in their their careers, but it was an amazing retiree uh celebration that we held yesterday at DPM during what we call our CI or our curriculum um improvement time that we use for PD. Also, we nominated 15 different spotlight on excellence award winners. This is a joint effort with our
032LFA. It's a grant that we have every year. We're able to award $15,000 to teachers who really go above and beyond. And we had 15 different projects that were nominated by peers and also um a May Van Ain award that isn't listed there, but it celebrates our support staff. So, either office or custodial um employees that really just go above and beyond. So, congratulations to all of our teammates who earned these awards. There was a fundraising opportunity with the spirit and it often um involves superintendent for the day or superintendent experience. This year we did a variation on a theme where uh we auctioned off a nature walk um with the superintendent and it was awesome. We did it yesterday. It was cold uh but we somehow uh weathered the storm. felt unseasonably um not
033Chicago May, but there were students with me, Mave, Grace, Isabella or Isabelle, excuse me, Johnny and William. And we fed the goats, fed the chickens, we um looked uh through our binoculars across the lake for turtles and had a marvelous time. So, I want to thank uh Tom Gity and Melissa for supporting as well as Courtney uh with the spirit uh to make it a fun experience. And I think they had a good time. I certainly had a great time. Dr. Fitz Simmons, another opportunity. This one really truthfully um the Sheridan Aces Walk, the all children exercise simultaneously. This is um an amazing opportunity similar to the wellness walk at the high school. Um this is something that Sheridan really spends a lot of time and effort on. It's me, me mental health, me mental
034wellness, um belonging. This happened at Sheridan in May on May 7th. So, um again, kudos to uh Miss Milsk and all of her leadership around the um well-being of her students. Lisa talked about the Garden to Grow. So, I just want to celebrate them again and uh thank them for their leadership. And moving right to graduation, which is quickly upon us, uh next week actually on Tuesday, May 27th at 5:00, where we'll be celebrating our eighth grade graduates uh at the West Campus. Uh it starts at five o'clock and doors are opening at uh 4 o'clock. Uh there are no tickets and no limit on the amount of guests attending and remember guests to enter through the door with the blue awning. And I look forward to certifying the class of 2025 for district 67.
035That concludes our report and thank you for your kind attention. Thank you Dr. Fitz Simmons and Dr. Montgomery. Does anybody have any comments or questions? All right. All right. So, we are going to move on to our first um opportunity for public participation and this is for items specifically that are on the agenda. The board will now hear public comment subject to board policy 2230. The Lake Forest Board of Education welcomes public attendance and participation at all meetings. It is hoped that by utilizing these guidelines, participation will be maximized both in terms of fairness and organization. There will be two opportunities for public participation. This opportunity is limited to only items listed on this evening's agenda. Please hold all other comments for second for the second opportunity for public participation later in the meeting. Are
036there any members of the public who would like to address the board? All right, seeing none, we will move on to liaison reports. Um, so our first up is uh True North. Greg, there is a True North meeting I believe on June 11th. the most recent development for I'm sure many of my board members know uh district uh uh 34 which is Glen View and 22 225 which is the GBN GBS high school district have previously uh exercised the right to withdraw from True North and most recently I guess last night I'm told Nutrier has done the same it comes in after 35 and 36 Glen which is Gleno and Kennworth have also announced their intention to withdraw. It's unfortunate. Something we'll have to keep an eye on, I suppose. Any questions? Thank you, Greg.
037Um, next up is the legislative leaison. Mark is not here, so I don't know if anybody has a report on his behalf. Okay. Um, and then the Spirit of 67 Foundation, which, uh, Dr. Montgomery and Dr. Fitz Simmons, um, you summed it up well in your report, but I just wanted to, um, on behalf of the board say thank you to the spirit for all the work that they've done this year. Um, $28,000 54 grants that were given last week for the 2526 school year is an amazing achievement and it's something that truly makes our education more special. and um we are lucky to have them in our community. Um the grants span fine arts, language arts, science, social studies, steam, wellness, world language and seal and um thank you to the board and the
038spirit board and also to all of the community because um they do fund raise and so all of our community is what is helping them get the dollars in order to give these grants to our different schools. So thank you. And then AP, I don't have much of a report. I just wanted to acknowledge um all the work that the AP does this time of year. They just came out of uh staff appreciation week. There's end of the year parties and there's um field days coming up. Um and they support all of those endeavors. Um DPM is having their eighth grade party this Friday. So I just wanted to acknowledge them and say thank you for all their work. All right. Thank you, Monica. Um, so we are moving on to the consent agenda and
039as a reminder, any item may be removed from the consent agenda at the request of a board member. So, does anybody have something that they would like to remove? Yes, I'd like to remove item number three from the consent agenda. I second that. Okay. So we will come back to number three. But may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda agenda items including one, two, four, five, six, and seven. So moved. Second. I second. Sorry. Are there any is there any discussion, comments, or questions on those items? May I have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Adamo, yes. Miss Yarn, yes. Mrs. Angelberg, yes. Mr. Fitzgerald, yes. Mr. Burgerer, yes. Miss Mr. Lavin, I Motion carries. May I have a motion to approve um consent agenda item three, the approval of the ECR
040group for 2526 school year. So moved. So moved. Second. Okay. So is there any discussion or questions regarding this agenda item? I I have a couple. The first is um why why do we do a one-year contract and how many years have we been renewing a one-year contract? You know how many years we've used ACRA? ECRA we could do longer. I think for us, we're doing a one-year contract because the actual savings, they're it's not about savings, but it's more about just they don't increase the price annually. And we've always done the one-year contract, I believe, for 67 in particular. The reason why we're sticking to a one-year contract is simply because we are just evaluating the the usage of it, and I don't know that we want to commit to a five-year contract at
041this time. The savings is typical like you'll do a flat like three-year contract and then the the uplift will be after three years or five years and there's a 5% uplift on the one-year contract. So, I don't know if there's a way that we could negotiate that down if we're evaluating other uh solutions. tried I've tried to negotiate a little bit, but in the in their process, it's less about reduction in what they're charging you and it's more a just a savings in terms of the 5% uplift. Um, I think next year we could look at it, but ECRA does provide a specific service that as long as PAR law is in place and we need to use a thirdparty provider, ECRA is definitely the provider and the third party consultant that we want to
042work with. They do a nice job of analyzing our growth. What I would say though is that if the parah law is dissolved, there's something right now that says you need to have that third-party um provider and outside consultant for this work. If that law is dissolved and that goes through this year, then we will re-examine our relationship. What I would say though is that until we know that, I didn't want to commit long term. That was actually my question. Um and sort of relating to that, if the law uh is dissolved, um do you know if we have the capacity internally to do this type of work? I would need to probably talk to Jordan Salis who is more of the backend person expert in this. It is an analysis. This is the reason
043why they are able to they provide a service and they have an algorithm that they use to calculate based on a local growth model. I'm imagining that it is something that we could look into and have um if we took some time to dive into it, but for certain, this is not my area of expertise and that coding, maybe we have some other internal expertise that could help us with that, but I would say they do provide a service that allows us to really truly based on our local growth model project, dive deep into our students growth, but also this is something that from a leadership level, ECRA has given me the ability to spotlight and target areas of need. And I really do think that the work I did as a principal and now
044that we've done this year as um that I've done in spotlighting and helping my leaders use ECRA to spotlight areas of growth, I do believe that's a big part of why you're going to see the growth that you've seen. I don't think this year was by accident. There's also a benefit sorry Lori that ECRA offers which is the synthesis of other districts performance in relations to our own and if we didn't have that we would need Jordan and Jordan often reaffirms what ECAR is saying but it takes much longer on the back end for us to do that analysis internally and ECRA does that if for other member districts where you have access to information at a faster rate than we're able to generate on our own and we are constantly um basing our performance
045in relation to our peers. So having that information at the ready in a very short time frame from when the report card is released is to our advantage to try to figure out how we are performing um not only internally but externally and and I will say um Miss Fitzgerald that this year we Jordan and I Mr. Salison and I did actually take that expense on we saved the district money in that and we did that ourselves. blocked off a full day for us to sit crunch the numbers and that's how we put together our peer comparables in the fall assessment report. I think that's a cost analysis of what our PERDM is and what it would cost us to actually charge uh to pay ACRA for that service but it is necessary um and
046especially this time peril we need to to rely on them. Thank you that that's very helpful. I appreciate the information. Thank you. I was just going to add if if we are looking at other possible solutions. I was on their website and it looked like um they just look at like our internal data and um typically with data analytics like the more data that you get the better AI that is generated out of it. So if there is a solution that will look at not only our internal data but also other school districts so that we can compare and contrast real time um you know that might be something to look into for that feedback. Any other questions? May I have a motion to approve? May I have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Burgerer.
047Yes, Miss Yan. Yes, Miss Angelberg. Yes, Mr. Odamo. Yes, Miss Fitzgerald. Yes, Mr. Lavin. Yes. Motion carries. We had two foyer requests which were both completed. Um one was from Heather Hayen, other one was from Sarah James. Um at this point in the meeting, we will have our second opportunity for public comment subject to board policy 220 22 230. This are there any members who would like to address the board? Seeing none, we will move on to our announcements. Friday, May 23rd is a half day student attendance. Monday, May 26, there is no school for the Memorial Day holiday. Monday, June 2nd, half day of student attendance, and it is also the last day of school. And our next board meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 here in the boardroom at 7
048p.m. And with that, may I have a motion to adjourn the Lake Forest School District 67 board meeting for May 20th, 2025? So moved. May I have a second? Second. All in favor say yes or I. Yes. Yes. You adjourned.