001Uh and welcome to the June 18th, 2025 Mount Prospect School District 57 Board of Education meeting. Uh we are going to begin with the pledge of allegiance. [Music] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And then Robera, can I have you take a roll call, please? Vice President Choke here. Member Dorner here. Member Fay here. Member Qualch here. Member Leto. Member Nelson. President Bennett Kill. All right. And now we are going to have our board recognition first for the Lincoln track and field state qualifiers. Since we have two groups going, I'm going to just wing it a little bit more. Can we have all of the track athletes up here? All
002right. So, this is part of the state crew. Um this year I think we had 15 kids that advanced and 10 different 15 kids in 10 different events. Um and if you don't know it is very hard to make it to the state. Okay. There's one window one day. I know there's an Eminem song out there like that. Okay. And if you do not perform on that day you did not go to state. Our sectional meet has 15 teams which means there's 30 entries per event. And the state doesn't want it. Doesn't want a lot of kids down there anymore. So, you have to win your event or you have to hit the mark or the time. And kids are always ask me, "What's the mark or the time?" I say, "Far and fast." It's
003so hard. So, every year I go into sectional going, I'll be happy if we get at least one. I'll be happy we get at least one. And then after the hurdles, I'm like, I'm going to get a pork chop sandwich at the state meet and I get to miss Friday. So, so I am just so happy to see all of these kids that made it. They are elite in their own events. Okay. So, we we will just kind of do this in groups. Let's have our underassman come out. That would be Julia and Ethan. Okay. [Applause] Julia Adane. Am I close? Not in close. All right. She's tough, but man, she took it to another level this year. Okay. Notice she has a cast on her hand. Um Julie at the beginning of the year
004ran 235. That's legit. She did it at the Bington Invite. She was first overall. In my head, I'm going, "Okay, this sixth grader, I know what she's going to run for sectionals. She she's going to run the half mile for sure." Okay. Um, fast forward, she was first at conference in the 800. She was also part of the 4x200 that won that day for the sixth and seventh graders. And then at sectional, she was third. You're going, "Wow, third." But her time was 229, which was real fast. And it was it was actually the third fastest time in the state. That just tells you how fast our sectional was. So going into the state meet, we were going, she might get a medal. She might get a medal. So let's go to the state meet
005now. So, um, if you are a track nerd, you probably understand this, but so in the 800, 1600, you start in alleys. You run the first 100 in your alley, which is a fancy name for two lanes, and then there's a break point, pun intended. There's a break point after the 100 where all the kids start to merge into lane one. Well, when you have 17 kids on the track and they're all about the same time, it gets real crowded. It's real aggressive when they start to break. So, in her race, she gets out in a good spot and she breaks and I'm watching and it's like, "Oh, there's a kid that went down. Oh, that's my kid." And she went down and then she gets up. She looks at her arm and then she
006continues running and then she continues running. So, she was in 17th place. By the end, she finished in 15th place with a broken arm. She ran 650 meters. Let me finish this off real quick. So, they called us down. Oh, where's Hollis? Where where where my coaches? Come here, guys. Come up here. Sorry. Usually comes up. Come up here. Come up here. Let me get done with these two and then I'm going to come back. All right. So, and Mrs. Hollis was the first one down there. But um she's sitting there with a splint on her hand. She's in her spikes. She's walking towards her mom going up these stairs going into the ambulance and she goes, "Hey, would someone get my sweatshirt and my shoes?" That just tells you how tough she is. Julia
007a damn tank. Close. Before we move on to Ethan, let's talk about our coaches over here. Lincoln's good because we have coaches who have passion. Now, Mrs. Bailey is not here today cuz she couldn't make it. And because she's in Florida, she's on a cruise eating grouper sandwiches, probably ordering some more Crocs with her husband. I don't know exactly what's going on with her. And Mrs. Cross could not make it tonight, but these two are here today, Mrs. Hollis and Miss Ber. Track is a tough sport to coach. Okay. And the biggest thing in track as well as education, as well as anything in life, is you have to have passion, you have to have energy. And they have passion and energy. And they're willing to do whatever it took that day. I'm like, "Hey,
008your turn to do the shut. Okay, I'm going to do the shoput today." And the kids the kids feed off of their energy which helps them get better. So let's give it up for our coaches over here. All right. Big E here, Ethan. Okay. So Ethan Sarah, he made it in the discus. Okay. That that's what he made in stadium. And um one of the things we do at track is a lot of times we let the kids explore just a different events. Okay? Because you know they come to track and they want to try everything and we're like sure let try try and Ethan um I I'm going to say that the discus found Ethan. Kids usually come like I want to run the 100. I'm like yeah you can run the hundred but
009I might put you in the 400 and 800 at some point. But Ethan found the discus. Okay. And the discus found him and it was a good marriage. All right. And I could tell that he had some talent last year. But at the Cougar invite, this is this was his breakout party. The Cougar invite which was 14 teams. We were at Playingfield South. Um I think he threw what like 98 ft or something. There there's some metric system here that they use now that I learned in second grade, but I don't know how I I don't understand the conversions between the two. Okay. But he threw like 98 ft and won the event. 14 teams. So you're looking about 28 kids in the event. So that was his breakout. At conference, he had fourth place,
010I think, maybe. Gosh, I'm I'm I'm doing this right. And then at sectionals, he threw like 93 feet or something like that. Okay. And he won the sectional meet. He got to state. He was flirting for a medal. I think he finished 10th overall, but he was at eighth almost ready to get on that stand. And I think he threw gosh like 92 93 feet there too. All right. So Ethan did a fantastic job. He's coming back next year. Ethan Sarah. [Applause] All right, let's have the underassmen go back. Let's have the two boys come up. These are our two eighth grade boys. um that advanced down and they were just incredible. O overall they were not only great on the track, they were great leaders off the track. Um a lot of times, like
011I said, if Mrs. Bailey couldn't make it for for the day, she would go, "Don't worry, just go over there, let Kevin, let Cuz take care of it." I'm like, "Okay." And they would be teaching and sharing their wealth to others, and they did it all the time. And then on top of it, on top of it, um, a lot of times at the meets when their events are over with, a lot of times kids kids are just going home. They would come and they'd be there even to the 4x400, which usually are just the parents of the kids running, cheering on their teammates. So, they were very special for our eighth grade and the whole team. Now, let's talk about them individually. Cuz Alex Cuz I'm I'm I'm not going to try and pronounce
012your last name. All right. He's a discus guy. Last year he almost made it in the discus. Okay. He was second, I believe, actually to Kevin. All right. Um, but this year he he had a breakout, too. And it was the Cougar Invite. Our throwers at the Cougar Invite were legit. He threw 126 feet and some change. I don't exactly know exactly the inches there. That is probably in my time is the longest throw ever at Lincoln. And we've had some good throwers come through. He won that event. We go to conference. He wins conference like a 118 maybe. Wow. All right. And then we move on to sectionals into the wind. He throws like a 118 119 or something. Okay. And he wins that. And then he goes to state and I think you
013had a 113 like in your second or third throw and you finished 19th overall. Right. Who's Kevin Oswald? All right, Kevin Oswald, our shot putter. Last year uh did not make in the shop but made in the disc, but I know he loves the shot number one. Um he he was great all year. Okay. Um he at Cougar. Did you win Cougar? No. No, you won Bington. He won the Barington invite which is a meet we had very early in the year. He won conference. He won sectionals and he threw like 43 feet. That is a Lincoln best. He's number one. So these two are number one throwers of all time. Let me add one more thing. our conference. We got first place in the eighth grade boys and it's because a lot of it
014because of our field events. We came out of the field events with 60 points. Okay, we ended up winning by like 95 points. So, a lot of it came from these guys as well as our jumpers. So, back to Kevin. So, he wins sectionals with the best ever throw. Then he goes to state and he throws just under that like 42 something maybe and he gets seventh which puts him on the medal stand. So he was honored by the state. He made on the medal stand. I think you're the only second thrower we have had to get a medal. So Kevin Oswwell. All right the boys. Thank you. Let's have all the girls come up here. All right. So, first thing is we got to recognize some girls that are not here. Okay. That would
015be Is Brooklyn here? No. So, Brooklyn Stalking, Ashley Skelton, and Juliana Malopoulos. Is that close? All right. They are they were our are our pillars in cross country. that got second in state and they were legit in in track two. Last year we had Helen Herman who ran a 528 mile. The first one ran under 530 for Lincoln. Okay. All three of them ran faster than that or just as fast as that. 528 and faster. This tells you how good they were. All right. I'll start with Brooklyn. Brooklyn, the light turned on at the Troy invite in cross country. She went from being a good runner to a great runner. and it continued in track. She was a force in the 1600. She was a force in 800. She ran a solid leg in the
016four in the 4x4. She ran at conference. She ran state qualifying times in the mile at 533. She comes back, runs 233 in the half. And this is for third place. Tells you how fast it was. And then she was part of the uh the 4x4 relay team that won conference. Fast forward to sectionals, she runs the 800. She runs 230. We we go one two. That's really really fast. And then she was part of the relay team that got us to state. And then at state, uh I believe she finished 12th with a 225. She dropped 5 seconds. She dropped 5 seconds, which is now our second fastest time at the state meet. So that's Brooklyn stocking. [Music] Ashley Skelton. What I've learned over the years is never to pigeon hole a kid. Okay?
017I've learned that. I've learned to never say, "Okay, this kid's going to do this. This kid's going to do this." Because you just never know. Actually, Skeleton Skeleton's the name of of distance in our in our conference. skeleton distance runner. She came in at sixth grade, white hot, great distance runner, seventh grade, all state in cross country, all state in track um in the mile in the 1600 this year. She's like, I want to run or I want to do the high jump. Miss Buer goes, she's good in the high jump. I'm like, okay, well then let's do it. I'm never inside watching the high jump. Um so we added that to to her arsenal. So, in the high jump, she went second at conference to Mary Theres. Then at sectionals, and check out this,
018at sectionals, she goes 410 and a half or 410 and a half, maybe 410 for second, which qualifies her for state. She was second overall. She runs a 528 mile the same day. And then she comes back and she's part of the 4x400. That is a great combination to have. She gets the state. She runs 440 in the mile for 20th place. She jumped 49. Got her on the middle stand for seventh place, I believe. And then she was part of our 4x400, which ran 325. 425. Oo, 325 would be sweet. which is now our second fastest to the soal group in Garcia from last year. So Ashley Skelton [Music] Juliana Mopoulos who is not here tonight. It's not how you start, it's how you finish. She started the year injured kind of like Nev
019down here. We'll talk about that later. Okay. She she eventually got into shape at the Cougar invite. Now, now we're now we're getting up there at the Cougar Invite. She wins the 800 in 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Fast forward to conference. She runs 530 and 230 for second place to win one of the best runners that have ever come out of our area. She was also the anchor in her 4x400 that won conference. Get to sectionals. This is one of the best sectional performance for distance runners of all time. I can only think of two other people. Marissa Valentini and Kellen Strobble. She runs 518 in the mile. Five. She drops 10 seconds in the mile. She won it. Fastest time ever by Lincoln runner. She comes back. She wins the 800 and 228.
020She comes back. She anchors us um to qualify for state in the 4x400. Incredible for incredible per performance at sectionals. Fast forward to state. It's it's still going. She runs She runs 522 in the mile. Gets sixth place. She's on the middle stand. Runs 221. 221. That's crazy fast. In the 800, she dropped like 8 seconds. Gets her fourth. And she was part of the relay team that goes 425. Juliana Mopoulos. Lucy, come on over here, Lucy. Come on over here, Lucy. See, it's easier this way. Lucy. Lucy was a jack of all trades. She could run the 100, the 200, the 400, the 800. She could run the 1600, but she said, "No, no, I'm not doing that one." Um, she has she has endurance from cross country. She has speed because I've seen
021it over and over again at in at the end of races in sixth grade. Um, and I could put her in any event at any time, especially on a day when she could when she could get out of school early. Okay. At the Cougar Invite, we threw her in the 4x100. Runs a legit leg. I think we got like fifth place overall. And I remember Kane coming up to me. I don't know which Kina was, probably Marie because she liked to talk. Came up to me and goes, "She was fast when she hitted me off the baton." I was like, "Absolutely. She's fast." Fast forward to uh the sectional meet. We had an opening 400. I'm like, "Let's run the 400." So, she comes in, she runs the 400. She uh she and she ran
022the 400 early in the season, which in like 40° weather. Then she runs it again at the end. I'm like, "Okay, I think we can get about four to 5 seconds faster." So, she was 119 there. She runs 114 at sectional 115 at sectionals improving by four seconds. Lucy winner mute. All right, let me have Merade and let me have Annie. I have to put these two together. We have to put these two together, don't we? All right, so let's first go with Merade. I I can see the difference now. It only took me like 10 years. All right. So, she was first or second in every hurdle race all the way through sectionals. All the way through sectionals. So, starting in in um April going all the way until May, she was first or
023second in every hurdle race since the be since the beginning of the season in April until sectionals. These two right here were head and shoulders above everybody else in the hurdle race. They were incredible. Okay, there was one race where they were so far ahead they were talking on the track. But what I want to talk about that was real what's really important and we can all learn from is they were happy for each other whoever won that day. Every time one of them did well, they hugged each other. They gave high fives and they were their biggest fans even though they were competing each other to win the race. That that that meant a lot and we can all learn from that from these two. So with Merade, her big thing was she won
024the Cougar invite and she blew it out. There's like I said 28 kids in this race from hurdle one. She was gonna win that thing. She killed it. Okay. Also she was part of the relay team. and got third at conference in the 4x1 hunter and at sectionals fifth. She also long jumped fourth and and at the baron invite I think Georgia had a soccer game. I'm like you know what she ran cross country in sixth grade. She didn't come back out but I'm like you know what you can run the 400 and the 4x400 and she ran a legit um leg. And so I'm like, you know what? I'm going to keep you as an alternate in that. And so we kept her as an alternate. So she went down as an alternate in
025the 4x400 at um at state. And the the biggest thing about her is, and we can all attest to this, she loves to talk. She loves to smile. She brings it every single day. She's just a joy. Marray Kane. [Music] Annie Palm. Annie Palm. Annie Palm. Uh had a basically a breakout season, too. I thought she was legit last year, but this year just had a breakout race. Um a breakout season. She won the Barington invite in the hurdles. Okay. And she got interviewed afterwards, which I thought was really, really good for you. It's good for you to reach out there a little bit. Did so, so well in that. Okay. Um, and she and Merade would would go back and forth all season and then she came and then at conference she won the
026hurdles and then at sectionals she won the hurdles. So she went down state in the hurdles and the hurdles are on the first day and this is her first time going to state, not her first time, her first time. So I think nerves got to her a little bit and she was ninth out of the prelims and the top eight go to finals. So that was kind of hard for her to swallow. She comes up, she looks at me, she goes, "Nerves got me. I'm kind of mad, but I'm ready for the 4x200." I'm like, "All right." So the next day, she's the first leg in the 4x200. She blows it out. She hands off the stick. We're up front. We ended up running. We end up running 252. 152. I know I'm around there.
027which is now our facets. You did beat the soal in Garcia group now. Okay. And they got on the middle stand. Annie Palm also was second at conference in the 200. And was there anything else there? That's it. All right. Okay. Mary Terres, high jump extraordinaire. high jump extraordinaire. Okay, she was in the high jump last year. She made a mistake. She made it to the high jump this year instead, which is hard to do. High high jump to me is kind of like golf. Some days you have it, some days you don't. Okay, but that showed you her consistency and it showed you her toughness, too. Uh let me just tell a quick story. Our very first meet, our very first meet was at Prospect nighttime, 40°, maybe 38. Maybe 38 the high. Okay,
028we're all I'm I'm layered up. Everybody's about home. People have dropped out of races. And there she is still jumping in her shorts, winning the high jump while everybody else's was gone. And that's a tough thing to do. That just shows you the toughness in her. So, let's move forward. She was top two basically every every time we did the high jump. Um, she was first at conference. She was third at sectionals, but she jumped 49 and a half, right? That got her to state. And then at state, I believe she was 12th overall. Is that right? 12th overall at 46 something, right? Something like that. So, great job for Mary Trice Kane. All right. Come on, Georgia. All right. So, we converted George into a sprinter. And that started in cross country. So I
029think I think I think it was the state it was a state week across country. We're just we're just doing some hundreds 200s to sharpen up a little bit. And I looked her I'm like man you're having a fun time aren't you? And you're looking really fast at this. Would you would you like to try that in spring? She goes I will try it. So and I need I need to know quick. I need to know quick because we are so deep here. Let me just say a couple more things. I forgot to give you a little shout out for these girls right here won conference by 68 points. They blew out the field. What does 68 points mean? That the second place team would have had to have or 67 points. The the second
030place team would have had to had six first places plus the second place and we would not have scored anything just to beat us. That's how good they were. Go to sectionals. They win by 20 points over 14 teams. That's how good this team is. So, back to Georgia. Back to Georgia right here. So, we get to track. I was like, I got to see you in the 100. I got to see in the 200 because if I don't, I got to move you up to back up to the 400. And I'm like, she's legit. She's good. So, we put her in the 4x200. And we put her in the 4x400. In the 4x400, she has that toughness. She has a speed. She has some endurance on her. consistently knocking out 66-second lead legs. 66
031seconds which puts us up there so so that we matter in the meets or in the races. And then the 4x200, she was our second leg. Annie would give it to her up front. She would hand it to her, hand it to Nev up front. She was running sub30s in the 200. And both of those times are fast. If you don't know times, those are legit times. And that's how we get on metal stands. So she was a big part of our 4x200 that got eighth place. All right. Georgia San Martino Nev Nevin McGovern. All right. So good to see her now. So she was like J like Juliana in some ways. Okay. First she was talented last year. Triple winner of conference. Made it to state in the long jump. I think she she
032was our lone seventh grader, weren't you? Last year. Yeah. We didn't have any other seventh grade girls down Oh, yeah, we do. We had the distance girls. We had Juliana and Ashley down there. All right. So, um, and she came in with high expectations, too. Okay. Um, she got So, the very first meet she had a very good first meet, but then she hurt her her thigh, okay? And this is the first time she probably had an injury, okay, in her career. And and so it made her nervous a little bit. So, she would rest, then she'd come back for another meet. she rests. She would come back for another meet. Now, one one of those meets she came back for was the Wheeling meet. And that's the first time we put the the four
033girls in the the 4x200 together. And they run they run state qualifying time. They go 154. That shifted our conversation from going, I hope we can make this day like we can make this state no matter how we finish at the sectional meet. That's a different mindset. But then she got hurt and she had to go um she had to rest again. Then she came back for one more the Palatine Winston meet and she jumped 154. Right. That was her longest jump of the year. That's not far from going to state in that as well. But then she got hurt and now now they get a doctor. So let let's shut her down. So she had to shut down for three weeks for 3 weeks until the section meeting. So we're just going to go
034for it the section meeting. I'm like, well, we're not going to go see it without Nev. So, she comes back at sectionals. She runs a beautiful leg for our 1525 at sectionals. She jumped that day 1410, which is probably her second best of the season. And then at state, she gives us that another solid leg, giving the stick to Kora up there so that we could get on the medal stand at 1529. Evelyn McGovern. All right. Corora. Cora Hadley. So Cora Hadley. Hey, last year we knew what what we had. She was good. She was like, I'm I'm a 100 runner. I'm a 100 runner. And I'm like, oh yeah, you are a good 100 runner. Okay. But then she did Paline Pack as well as Annie and Nev. And I think she really really
035You gained a lot of confidence. She She came into the season ready to go. A lot of confidence. There was a lot of coaching going on there. Um, and you could just watch her rise through the season and she had a smile the whole time and she looked at me and I looked at her and I could tell that we had this connection going, "Yeah, you're coming, Cora. You're coming, Cora." The very first me of the year with the state champion in the hund and then what's her name from from River Trails who's also a state champion at some point in her life. She finished third, but she finished closer to to them than than in the bat. And then we go to the Cougar invite, which to me, girls, and you guys can attest,
036man, those the sprinters on there were just as good as as as anyone at state, okay? Cuz not every team runs at state. And she finished close to the top. So I'm like, you can go. You can go. All right. And um so she was just building. She was just building. Then we get to the conference meet, she goes third in the hundred. She goes first in the 200 second in sorry second in 100. She goes first in the 200. Annie goes second in the 200 that day. She goes first in the long jump because uh at 147 I think that day. And then she's first and then our 4x200 was first that that she anchored. That's a great day at conference. Then we fast forward to sectionals. You were third in the 100, right?
037Third at the in the 100. I think you're like fifth in the long jump. But she anchored our 4x200 to that 1525. She takes that confidence. We go to state. She does it again at 1529. And we get on the medal stand. She's going to be great at prophet. Cora Hadley. This is our crew. We had a great time. parents, thank you for all your help and support all year. We got a video. A lot of the pictures are from Mrs. Bailey. We got some parents. We got some kids. So, enjoy. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Let's go. Let's get going. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Dy.
038[Music] Hey. Hey. [Music] No one. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Laughter] [Applause] All right. Thank you so much to the track and field crew. We are actually going to do the volleyball um one first and then we'll take pictures with both groups. Um, so if track and field can sit down for now. Thank you so much, Mr. Schaefer, for sharing all those great accomplishments. And if we can have volleyball come up, please. Boys volleyball. [Music] There you go. Can I get it? I know what it's like for him to have the mic. He takes his time. So, um the boys volleyball team, they uh we won first place this year. Um this is the second year of our program and the boys, some
039of them have been here since seventh grade year. Um step forward if you were here at seventh grade. So, half of them, nice job. They stuck with it. and they did phenomenal. It was an amazing season. Um why don't um Alex, why don't you step forward? Alex is an outside hitter. He is the only one here that is the outside hitter. And um his job, his responsibility is to basically hit the ball on the outside. And he is one of the um strongest hitters we have. he was able to pull through some injuries that he had from baseball. Um it was great having him when he was there and um congratulations Alex. Thank you for bringing us to number one. So our right sides, come on out Tim and Jack and Jake. They all three
040of them they hit on the right side of the net and that is harder to do because it come the ball comes across your body if you're a right-hand hitter and um Jake is a right-handed hitter and he waits for that ball and he was one of our highest blockers also. Okay. So, congratulations. And I h fortunately I have two lefties and that is very rare on a team. And so they were able to have their strong side hitting um on that right side and they did an amazing job. And also Tim, he stepped forward and he was our setter um halfway through the season. So he did an amazing job with setting and it's a very difficult difficult still skill that I asked him to do and um he stepped forward and did great.
041So thank you all. Thank you all. Um Daniel come on out. Um Daniel, he is our middle, our only middle. And um he had a he had a has a hard job because he has to hit some of the biggest um people that are on the other side of the net. And so um he um also did a phenomenal job blocking them and making it easier for our libero DS in order for him to be able to get to the ball. So Daniel did a phenomenal job this year and this was his first year playing. So he was a basketball player and um although his serves are very much like a basketball free throw, which we love because they go in every time, he was very consistent with his serving. He was one person that
042I knew I could put on the court and I knew he was going to get his serves in and that's how we win. So great job Daniel on your first year in volleyball. And Cooper, come on up. Cooper is what I what we call a libero and he can come in at any time. I can put him in the back row. And um although he always wanted to go to the front row, but um in his position, he was a DS specialist. So what that means is that he would um he goes after the ball wherever it is. He has to cover a lot of ground. the whole entire back line and um he really came through for us many many many times and all of a sudden he was there and um great job.
043Um so fortunately for all of the guys that are here, they can attest to how we came together as a team. We didn't start off as a team, but we came together and um they always worked hard during practice. I um gave them tons and tons of different strategies and drills and um jousting and threes and so many different things that I would challenge them and they continually and consistently met them every single time. And then all of a sudden I've seen them doing it um on the court which was pretty amazing and um getting their serves in and um consistently beating teams and I would we would get done with the game and I I would have no idea how we did it and they would pull through each and every time. So congratulations.
044Nice job on a 2025 first place season. Good work. And we have a video of some of the shots and action plays that they had. We got our secret hidden bones. Starlight when all of the lights come on. It's a Beautiful miracle. How you lift me up when I feel beautiful, ever glow. Now we're shining like a sea of gold. Yeah. We will fight tonight like a million diamonds in the sky. And last night here together we on fire tonight. We're on fire. Wo! [Music] Living through the door [Music] to my melody healing all of my scars. It's a beautiful living. How you lift me up when I feel beautiful ever grow. Now we're shining like a seal of gold. Feel fire tonight like a million times in the sky and we lost all together.
045[Music] [Applause] [Music] We're on fire. [Applause] [Music] Together we fire tonight. We're on fire. Hope when you take that jump, you don't feel the fall. Hope when the water rises, you build to wall. Hope the crowd screams out, screaming your name. Hope if everybody runs you to sustain. Hope that you fall in love and it hurts so bad. The only way you can know you give it all you had. And I hope that you don't suffer but take the pain. Hope when the moment comes you'll say I did it all. Every second that this world could give. I saw so many faces, the things that I did. Every broken home I swear I live. [Music] All right, we're going to take pictures with both groups. We'll start with volleyball since they're up right now and
046then we'll do track. Boys are over here. Hey Yep. [Music] probably. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Come on everyone. Moving on to [Music] First time. Okay. Good job everyone. [Music] Sorry about the rain. What are you doing? I just remember your birthday. to me. [Music] Thank you, Mom. Let's get that. [Music] What's the birthday. [Music] All right, we are going to get started again. I know it's raining, but we are going to get started with the business portion of our meeting. So, thank you everyone. We appreciate you. Okay. Uh we are going to start with the um district 57 schoolboard proclamation for pride month. Each June, District 57 proudly joins communities across Illinois and the nation in honoring Pride Month, a time to recognize and celebrate the strength, resilience, and contributions of the LGBTQIA plus community. This
047month and every month, reaffirm our commitment to fostering a culture of belonging. The history and progress of the LGBTQIA plus community remind us of the per power of courage and advocacy in the fight for equity, dignity, and freedom. Their ongoing journey inspires us to make our schools places where every student, staff member, and family sees feel seen, valued, and supported. District 57 works year round to cultivate empathy, respect, and understanding in our classrooms and school communities. By encouraging students to be thoughtful allies and inclusive leaders, we're helping to shape a future rooted in kindness, justice, and connection. Great. Uh we are now going to have our board of education message around Junth. We'd like to begin tonight by acknowledging that this meeting was intentionally moved to June 18th in order to honor Junth, a national
048holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans in the United States. Junth marks the day June 19th 1865 when Union troops get arrived in Galveston, Texas to ensure that the last remaining enslaved people were freed more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued. This day stands as a powerful reminder of our country's painful history of slavery. And it also celebrates the enduring strength, resilience, and contributions of black Americans. It is a moment for reflection, for education, and for recommitting ourselves to the work of equity, justice, and inclusion. As a school district, we are proud to recognize Junth and honor the voices and experiences it represents. We remain committed to fostering a learning environment where every student and staff member feel seen, valued, and empowered to thrive. All right, we are now moving
049on to community comments. The district 57 board of education welcomes community participation in an effort to both listen to our stakeholders and keep the meeting moving. I want to remind everyone of our public participation procedures and guidelines which is available in board policy 2 col 230. Individuals wishing to address the board can do so during the community comments portion of the agenda. Individuals should provide their name and limit their comments to 3 minutes. Please remember this is not a dialogue between you and the board. The board is in listening mode during this time. Individuals wishing to contact the board of education are welcome to do so via the D57 website under the board of education tab. Individuals should have behaved with respect and civility towards others and abide by board policy 830 visitors to and
050conduct on school property. Are there any community comments? All right, seeing none, we will move on to staff and super superintendent reports. Okay, great. Um, well, thank you so much and it was so fun to start the meeting with those updates and I just wanted to say that it's so exciting to see the passion with which our coaches um, approach these jobs because all of our coaches are people that work a full day as classroom teachers or various other positions in the school and give that type of intensity and joy to their kids all day long. And then these coaching assignments are things that they volunteer to do um and on top of um their regular performance during the day. So, I just am always so um moved by the joy in which they talk
051about these seasons with kids because they truly feel like they're the lucky ones when it's quite evident that um though they of course are, so are our kids and our families to have these types of adults in their lives who go above and beyond to give them these experiences. So, shout out to our amazing District 57 staff who sponsor co as coaches and club sponsors. They're just it's incredible. So, um in your board packets, you received a summary of our year-end um report for year two of our strategic plan um in which includes kind of a background about the um origin of this work which um really began in um June 2023 when the board took action to approve a 5-year strategic plan. Um, as we conclude year two of this five-year plan, um, we
052are immensely proud of where we are. Um, because we feel like some of the things accomplished at the end of year 2, weren't even imagined when the strategic plan, which was done very thoughtfully and thoroughly, um, came to be. some of the things that we completed by year 2, most notably um a referendum passing which is allowing for the planning and eventual construction of a brand new Lincoln Middle School as well as um an addition to Westbrook to allow full day kindergarten has allowed for us to um take meaningful um review and stock of where we are as a district and where we need to go for the remaining three years of the strategic plan. Um, so, um, we were just giving you guys a shout out for your amazing coaching and we love you.
053So, I'm glad you're back in the room to hear it. U, thank you. You are the best. Um but really um just to summarize um the highlights from each of our goal areas are here in this report but the place to really um view the updates in real time are is linked as well in the board packet which is our um strategic uh dashboard which keeps up with the progress towards the goals um for the entirety of the five years. But just before we open up to questions, I wanted to highlight that one of the most important things as an administrative team we're doing this summer is to recalibrate and um prepare recommendations um that I will bring to you in August through the format of the superintendent goals proposal that will reflect some um
054updates and recalibration for where we believe we need to go for the next three years um given where we've come in the last And that will take the format probably of some things that will be continuations and then other things that given how life has changed um since its original inception we will be recommending some updates for your eventual approval. So with that I welcome any questions or feedback any questions for anyone. [Music] Okay I have a couple. Okay. Um, so I am glad to see that we have the high attendance and low chronic absenteeism. I know that that's been a concern across the nation and here in district 57 too. Um, what do you think has like led to that continued improvement uh to get to that point where we're at, you know, 98%
055I believe. Mhm. Well, we do, as you mentioned, the um absenteeism became a crisis nationwide, especially after um CO, but um we were not unlike many of the districts where we were realizing that this was really something that we wanted to hit a reset on. So, I' I'd say on the front end, I think we've been more intentional and proactive about communication with families and trying to really make them more aware of what the research says around chronic absenteeism and put that information in their hands so that they can be mindful of the decisions they have to make as parents and families um and partner with us to help get kids to school. Um but also um I think with that communication also in handinand make sure families understand if there are needs that their
056kids have um related to school refusal or any other barriers to coming to school regularly that they're aware that we're here to partner with them and strategize and provide supports that will meet their child's needs or their family's needs. Um, I think previously that was probably done on a more case-byase basis versus communicating that to all families and I think that we've been really um encouraged about some of the progress that we've made through those partnerships. And then honestly, I think um the districts and staff's work around belonging and connection is a lot to credit for kids wanting to be at school. Um, and staff members being very intentional about when we don't have kids at school, following up with the family, making sure that's part of our procedures so that kids aren't kind of
057slipping through the crack when they're missing things. And honestly, especially with elementary kids, I think families do make decisions sometimes that they have to take an out of town vacation or they have to, you know, do something and prioritize um the needs of their family. and in those situations trying to work with the school and um the family to understand how we can make that um that gap of time outside of school meaningful so that they can transition back smoothly. So it's never perfect until it's 100% but I think we're realistic and that we're being targeted and we're being intentional and really it's a credit to both our staff and our families for being partners in this work but we we still want to keep moving. Yeah. No, for sure. closing the gap. Um, but
058a lot of sounds like wraparound supports of different things. Um, so I I was glad to see the efforts around enhanced cultural competency and inclusion. Um, I'm curious if survey data has shown that teachers have found them to be helpful and if you've been able to see that translated into the classroom. Yes, we our survey data from our trainings around cultural competency have been positive. Um however I think that um we acknowledge that this is work that as a continuum needs to constantly um keep growing. So um we have a lot of staff who are indicating that they want kind of next level um professional development around this work or more um specialized um supports around their specific position and the way that they interact with students. Um, and then we also want to be
059intentional in the way that we're making sure that we have a baseline of training for all new staff that are new to district 57 as well as differentiated instruction for people who might be coming with a higher level of background knowledge in this area. Um, but this will be a intentional part of our um, professional development plan moving forward. And so I think that answered kind of my next piece which is like you see this kind of moving forward and continuing to go year to year and having more intensive training for some. Yes. Kind of baseline for others. Yes. That's our goal. And I think um really we're trying to make sure that we're mindful of the diverse needs of kids within a school district of you know over 2100 students. We want to look
060at each child as an individual with unique needs and talents, but also recognize that there are things as a public school system that we can do proactively for all kids that will benefit them. Notably, making intentional connections, following up, having really close communication with the families so that we're both responding to their needs and also being proactive to things that can support their ways of supporting their child at home. So, so much of it um is that partnership, but it's also really there's a lot of great resources out there that we can be learning from and getting better as a system. That's great. Uh and then I think my last kind of group of questions is really just around I I love the fact that we've taken this leadership role to collaborate with other districts.
061Um obviously notably 214 and getting some of that data and so are we we how close are we to getting that nth grade data from 214? Um and what benefits have you seen in kind of having these connections? Um well, we will the our plan is to have the um end of freshman year data um along with our spring data presentation which will be next month at the board meeting. So Dr. Vanderar has been working closely with her 214 contacts to make sure that that will be included in her presentation. Um, but I also want to give a shout out to Heather Serno who took a great leadership role in um, launching the first ever communications um, collaborative in her in our area. And she's not stopping yet. She wants to keep going in other
062partnerships. And I just think there's such um I think what's cool is that those types of initiatives are first and foremost benefiting District 57 because through those collaborations, we're truly mining our relationships to learn from what they're doing and incorporate them into our practices. But we've learned that um people are also really excited by a lot of the cool things we're doing, too. So, I think it's encouraging to us to say, you know, we're hungry to get better because we're inspired by what they're doing, but it's also really exciting when they leave just as exciting excited by what they've learned, too. Um, and I think we're so closely um, in the suburbs, we have so many of similar challenges and opportunities. And it's really reassuring to know that ours is an industry that really benefits
063from a collective knowledge versus a competitive um, position that we really want to bring out the best in all of our work because all of our work benefits kids and families. So, you know, no one's being um no one's being stingy in the way that they're sharing information. So, thank you for this update. It's was exciting to read all the things that happened in year two and I think I'm excited to see the recalibration for year three um and all the things that are are to come. Most notably the referendum, but uh thank you for that. I think you're up next again with summer school. Anybody else? I'm sorry. Anybody else on that? Okay. Okay. Um, we also before I go on, thank you to my fellow administrators who are greatly to credit for their
064incredible leadership in shephering these goals forward. And I'm grateful for their tenacity and creativity and support in the way that we've also had to kind of shift and be flexible and push each other and move forward. and of course the board for your permission to do this work um with um all of the challenges but excitement that it brings. So, thank you. Um moving on to summer school. We're really excited about um the pilot of an enrichment summer school option. The district used to do this years and years ago, I think over 15 years ago. So, this is a really wonderful thing that um the teaching and learning department is launching. Um shout out to Dr. Vanderhar for taking this on. Um, and so you have a little bit of information in your board packet
065about some of our preliminary numbers um, of enrollment, but basically this will run July 7th through July 25th. Um, certainly enrollment data could change as families contact the teaching and learning department between now and then. But um, just some numbers upand for incoming first through second graders, we have 24 kids registered. Incoming third through fifth graders, 36 students registered. and incoming sixth through eighth graders. We've got 41 students registered. And so that brings us to a total of over 100 kids. And we're grateful to have had six district 57 teachers who have again stepped up and said, "Count me in. I'd love to do this. I'd love to be a pilot of this program. Bring it on." And through this creative um group of staff, we were able to provide a great list of offerings
066of different courses including Innovate and Create, a journey in design thinking and tinkering. Steam Innovators, a summer of design, coding, and discovery, exploring realistic fiction, sports, and graphic novels, explorers, unlocking potential, and building strengths, and middle school jump start, get ready for sixth grade success. So these are the types of courses that our kids are going to have opportunities to be part of and we're going to be closely monitoring how these sessions are going, what feedback we have from staff and um just what the feedback is. These are feebased programs. So, our goal is to um offset some of the operating costs of um our summer bridge programming, which is something that had previously been funded through federal grants, which are this will be the last summer that we have that money to spend. And
067so, again, I think this is another um example of the team being creative, responsive, and not being afraid to try some things. And also a credit to our staff for stepping up and our families for trusting us to take this pilot on. So, we're excited to provide updates once we we have more to share at the board. But that's a little bit of foreshadowing if anyone has any questions. Pam, I don't have a question. And I just want to say that when my son took the summer school program decades ago, he was just so enthused and it really made a difference when he came back to school because it was something that was fun and taught that learning can be fun and um you know just to learn how to do research and investigate and
068remember Mount Prospect Historical Society does field trips and that was one of the summer school programs that uh that he did. He came home, told me all these things I didn't know about mom. So, think of Austin Historical Society. That's good. That's good. Any other questions about summer school? [Music] Okay. Well, thank you very much. I'm excited for the the new options and I think the amount of kids who have registered, it'll be exciting to hear the the update. So, thank you for that. All right. I think you're up again. All right. So, um, as standard practice, we are having our treasur and treasurer bond appointment. Each year, the school district appoints a school treasurer and passes a board resolution to ensure the school treasurer is bonded at 10% of the highest possible fund balance
069throughout the fiscal year. And that lucky school treasurer is none other than Dr. K's. Um, so tonight I think it's just the first read, right? So, where are we taking? No, it's a it's part of the consent agenda. Okay. U annually in June. So that this is just letting you know about it, but we'll approve it um during the consent agenda unless there's questions. Anybody have any questions about this part, right, Jason? We're excited for you to be in this leadership role yet again. So, thank you. Uh pre- purchase of electrical bid package for Westbrook. I assume that's you. Yep. Absolutely. So, um, we, uh, and I'm grateful that, uh, you know, in working with our architecture firm and in working with our construction firm, um, we know that part of the Westbrook, um, work
070that needs to be done is is we're putting an addition on and we're creating a, uh, courtyard. Well, inside of the courtyard is a transformer currently that helps run the building, and we need a new transformer anyway, so we'll be moving that out of where the courtyard will be. Um, and because, um, we have some great vendors that we're working with, they know that, um, just the lead time on this is so long that they don't want to wait until we're looking at bids in September. Um, and really, um, need to pre-bid and pre- purchase um, this um, transformer in order to have it in time because it's something that really has to happen before all the construction starts. Um, so we have a plan in place. So, we have a pre-bid meeting um scheduled
071for Friday. Um and then there will be bid openings and then I will bring those bids to the board in July for approval. So, there's nothing to approve. It's more of an information um agenda item tonight, but just wanted to share that with you that uh and obviously I'm appreciative that we're, you know, proactive and foreshadowing what exactly we need for this construction. Does anyone have any questions about the electrical bid package? Well, thank you very much and thank you to everyone for being proactive and making sure that we get everything that we need to hopefully keep everything on track, which leads us to the better futures update and hearing how everything is going. Excellent. Yes. Um so continuing to work um you know along in the process uh we wanted to share tonight um
072that we um you know have our next steps and so we are um having everything which should be finalized uh by July uh for our construction at Lincoln. So I'm going to talk specifically about Lincoln um and then the plan would be to go out to bid in August uh to bring those bids to the board in September. So, that's really um where I'll lose sleep until September and then hopefully all will look great um and we'll move forward. But we um we'll bring the bids for approval in September and then we uh look at breaking ground then um uh in the fall. Um we're already though, you know, nothing goes unplanned. So, we're already talking about what that's going to look like and how we can support Lincoln um in that um transition and
073then during the construction period as well. And um so you know things are things are definitely moving along. Uh the planning of the of obviously the building is moving along with the also the planning of how the work is going to get done and the impact it will have and how we minimize it as much as possible but knowing that it's definitely going to be an impact you know for for that almost two years. Um and so Westbrook's not on here. We we anticipate Westbrook's construction starting um next summer. Maybe a little bit earlier but probably around next summer. Um, we know we'll we'll still have time to finish it by August of 2027. And so, um, not not there yet to share all this information, but Westbrook will be a part of the bid
074package because we do want to have all of that information in September so we can know exactly what we want to approve and move forward. People have questions about the building brighter futures work. Um, I wanted to credit Dr. Case for um, being proactive and working very closely with um, Principal Larson. So today or yesterday, they sent out a special communication to Lincoln families that they would be eligible for reduced pricing on the busing to encourage more families to participate in busing to avoid congestion around some of the tighter um traffic patterns that will happen once construction starts. So hopefully we're getting some interest in that. And if not, it's a worthy effort. We're trying. Yeah, we're extending that early bird for for just Lincoln. Um really encouraging people. We know that we're just it's
075going to we're going to minimize ex it's just the construction will minimize where um parents will have access to be able to drop students off or pick them up. So, the more students that are taking buses um just the easier it'll be for for the traffic. Um otherwise, I would just say be patient and we're definitely going to send out a lot of communication. We've already met with um I've met with the village and the police department and the fire department just to talk about what we're thinking, get their feedback and really build a um a plan that will then of course monitor and and change as needed. [Music] Uh I the only question that I've had people ask me is just around like recess and outdoor time for the fall. I assume that's been
076a conversation and absolutely it's been a conversation. We I will say that we um have right now what I would say is our worst case scenario and with that a plan for what it could be meaning that the worst case meaning that the construction will take up more of the land than we think it it will but uh we want to be prepared and so with that what does recess look like and what does um PE and gym throughout the you know so we we've definitely already made plans we we know that like hosting cross country meets or or things like that is you know that's not going to happen um you know we'll have to figure that out And so the coaches are already working on that. But um what exactly recess looks like
077we're until we know exactly where the fencing is going to be. We we we have ideas, but we're going to we're going to also have to um have some backup plans as well. But we'll we'll start with the worst case and hopefully it'll be much better. But yes, definitely a conversation that's already happening. Yes. And lots of communication, I'm sure, with families as that gets closer. Yeah. And timing wise, I think it will work out really well because, you know, we'll start school in August and we'll have two months to really educate people on traffic patterns and updates of what that's going to look like as well as, you know, preparing for what recess will look like and then a fun groundbreaking with hard hats and everything. Absolutely. Absolutely. We're in. Okay. Well, thank you
078so much for that update. Anybody else have any additional questions there? All right. We are moving on to the NSSEO articles of agreement review. All right. So, um Chris obviously wasn't able to be with us tonight, but in your packet, hopefully you had a chance to see his note um at the last NSSO board meeting um the board um agreed to review NSSO's articles of agreements which were last reviewed and updated over 10 years ago. And so Chris is asking that um as board members you take a look at the articles of agreement that were attached and if you have any feedback for him to send that to me and um Karin and we'll work closely with Chris to compile that. Um, but specifically looking for anything that's not clear that might require additional detail,
079identifying portions of the articles that could be modified or eliminated, or identifying items that needed to be added to the articles of agreement. It's a lot if you did take a little glance at it. So, um I know Chris would be more than happy to talk through if anyone's interested, but the request is to get input to Karen and me by July 30th and um Chris would then provide input on district 57's behalf at the governing meeting at on August 6th. So, um, that is the timeline, but certainly if you have any followup or questions, I think Chris would be happy to support and congratulations to Chris because he did get elected as a vice president. So, again, he's maintaining that position. Any questions about that that we can maybe answer? I think my only
080question is you just want that in email form. Yeah. You know what I'll do is I can send it as a Google doc and then if you annotate that could be easy for us to compile. So, okay. I'd be happy to send that. Okay. Great. Thank you. [Music] All right. Uh, uh, we are moving on to the district 57 communications plan and calendar. All right. Well, shout out to our communication specialist, Heather Serno, who put together an extremely comprehensive communications plan. um reflecting both her creativity and also ambition about what she would like to accomplish and she truly just has no limits. So um she is full of ideas and super agile um about the needs of the district. So um these are things that really um Heather is using to keep the progress of
081the district but also continuously grow into this position um to meet the needs. So, if you have any questions, I'm sure Heather would be happy to answer them or if you have any feedback. Eileen, just a comment. Hashggetter. Yeah, that's right. # stay here forever. Any other questions on the communications plan, right? I have one. Um, it's okay, Heather. Uh, I think I Thank you so much for the plan. It was super comprehensive and um it was fun to read all the things that you're thinking about and um all the pieces. I think my one question was just around I love this idea of a year in review and really thinking about how to send it to the larger community. I know especially given all the things happening with the referendum and all the different
082um exciting things that are happening in this district. Being able to share that with a larger community is a great idea. I was just curious how you see getting it in the hands of like all these non-district folks that exist um out there. Sure. [Laughter] Welcome to the microphone. Is it on? Can you hear me? Okay. Well, um we this year um we launched our constant contact mailing list and so we've been collecting through a lot of our different community engagement events the emails of our constituents in the community. So, we're reaching out to them through the year review. um through that and for other communications specifically around the building brighter futures initiatives. Um so we use that constant contact to reach out. I uh I personally go on to social media and I share
083a lot of our communications to our M Prospect Neighbors page. Um, I'm I'm drawing a little blank about how else we might get it out there, but you know, I'm open to other suggestions if you have them, but really that's, you know, it's that's really the the main way we're going to try and push out to people this idea that they can sign up for our mailing list if they're not part of our district community. So, well, if they're not part of our if if they're not a family within the district. So, no, that's great. I was just I was just curious cuz I know that's something you know once I left the district I realized how much I wasn't getting anymore uh and then you know have been added back in as a board
084member. But I think it's you know it's exciting to get those updates especially those like quarterly or yearly or whatever updates. Um and to expand on that idea just a little bit more because we have this new senior walk each year and we're reaching out to the senior families at Prospect. were also collecting their emails and using that to just grow our database of connections. Yes, the senior rock was fantastic having participated. So, well, thank you for that. I appreciate it. Any other questions on communications? Yeah, sorry. It's not so much a question, Heather. I just wanted to also say thank you for putting this plan together. Uh the one thing that I was particularly excited about seeing was the the concept of the family connections hub on the website about putting information that's like
085super important and relevant to parents and trying to like collect that in a centralized location on the website so that as you know parents are trying to find things that are that are of high value and high importance to them they don't have to go searching all over the place and trying to again there's it's always a little bit of a fishing game of like what's important to a parent may be important to parent B, but again, trying to put that in a more centralized location, I think would be, you know, is going to be super helpful to to families when there's just so much information that you have to kind of that you're getting throughout the school year. So, I appreciate that idea. Great. Thank you again, Heather. Good job on your uh microphone
086debut. Uh I think we're moving on to the FOYA. All right. So in your board packets, you have um information. We have two FOYAs to report um that occurred um between um the last meeting on May 16th and tonight. Um the first was a FOYA received on May 16th from Justin Winnig and the second was a FOYA request on May 16th from the data branch research team. And these were all um responded to um by the district within the required time period. And that completes the foyer report. [Music] Thank you for that. Uh we are now moving on to the approval of the consent agenda. Can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Do you want to hear how the bills were? Oh, yes. I'm sorry. Yes, I really do want to hear
087how the bills went. How are they? They were stellar. Everything was in order. Great. Thank you, Kim, for doing the bills this month. Uh now can I have an approval of the consent agenda? So moved. Second. Member Fay. Yes. Member Qualche. Yes. Member Nelson. Yes. Member Dorner. Yes. Vice President Choke. Yes. Um All right. So now we move on to unfinished business. Our first piece of unfinished business is approving press policy issue 118 update. Uh are there any questions about that before we move to approve? Can I have a motion to approve the press policy issue 118 update? So moved. Second. Member Qualch. Yes. Member Nelson. Yes. Member Dorner. Yes. Member Fay. Yes. Vice President Choke. Yes. All right, we're moving on to 8.2. Resolution providing for the issue of not to exceed $35 million
088general obligation school bonds for the purpose of paying the costs of those capital projects set forth in the ballot proposition approved by the voters of the district at the November 5th, 2024 general election, providing for the levy of a district annual tax sufficient to pay the principal and interest on said bonds and authorizing the sale of said bonds to the purchaser thereof. Are there any questions about about that? Can I have a motion to approve that resolution, please? So moved. Second. Member Nelson. Yes. Member Dorner. Yes. Member Fay. Yes. Memberwalch. Yes. Vice President Choke. Yes. Moving on to 8.3. A resolution declaring the intention to issue 6 million working cash fund bonds for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of the district and directing that notice of such intention be published in the
089manner provided by law. Can I have a motion to approve or do we have any questions first of all? Okay. Can I have a motion to approve that resolution, please? So moved. Second. Member Nelson. Yes. Member Dorner. Yes. Member Fay. Yes. Member Qualche. Yes. Member Vice President Cho. Yes. Uh and then finally under unfinished business, we have the district safety audit. Uh I know there were a couple of questions about when this would take place. Mary, do you want to speak to that just for a moment? Yeah. pending um board approval tonight. Um our expectation and what we have um confirmed with um the consultant that we're um bringing forward for the board's action tonight, we would begin and um engage in this in the fall and and make sure that this was happening when
090staff were back in the building so that the you know the relevant stakeholders could contribute to any information relevant to the review. Awesome. Any questions about the district safety audit? Can I have a motion to approve the district safety audit, please? So moved. Second. Member Dorner, yes. Member Fay, yes. Member Qualch, yes. Member Nelson, yes. Vice President Choke, yes. Uh, we have our second time for community comments. Are there any community comments? Seeing none, we are going to move on to communications. Um I will give a quick update for NSSEO. Um these came obviously from Chris. Uh as Mary mentioned, um there were board officer elections on their June 4th governing meeting. Uh and at that meeting, Debbie Mcatee from district 21 was elected governing board president. Chris was elected vice president and Liz Nearman
091from district 25 was elected secretary. Uh so again, congratulations to Chris and we're so excited that he is going to be representing our district in that way. Uh and then on the HVAC project at Kirk, uh the work is progressing well. There's plenty of upfront work that was done while school was still in session and phase one is on track to be completed in August as planned. So those are the updates from Chris. Um I will quickly do Ed Foundation also. Uh we had our end of the year meeting at Mrs. P and me uh where they continue to discuss the survey results from um all the stakeholders that filled it out. Uh no big outcomes yet but good discussions about potential next steps. Um I really appreciate all that serve on the committee and
092the thoughtfulness that they have given to this. Um they are going to continue to meet over the summer. So the next meeting will be on June 24th. Uh any PTO reports since the last one? All right. Right. Uh I did attend the uh final uh PTO meeting for Lion's Park on May 20th at Mrs. P and Me. Uh they were kind enough to welcome me um as the new representative um for next school year. Uh a couple things they wanted to mention is they um had a bit of a budget carryover um into going into next year. So, I know they were uh reaching out or or in conversation with uh Principal Kelly about a wish list of items that, you know, uh the school could utilize some of that uh budget carryover for. Um
093and then they also voted in and welcomed a new co-president, Jen Rutledge, who I believe from talking to her, she's also serving on the Westbrook PTO as well. So, she's pulling double duty. So, that's wonderful. And then the last thing was there is um certainly some open roles u for next school year for the PTO. So obviously if there's any interest to please reach out to the Lions Park PTO um to find out ways you can get involved. Thank you Ray. I'm sure many of them are looking for um open positions. So if anyone is interested in serving on a PTO, I'm guessing there are spaces. Uh any other PTO reports since the last meeting? Yeah, go ahead. I happen to be at Lincoln for a whole other reason for their PTO meeting and since
094Vicki no longer was on the board and she was on the list, I I gave my little spiel for them. Um, but I wasn't able to stay the whole time for that meeting. Um, they're going to continue with their fivestar gifts gift cards for next year with uh the kids um earning those points. Um they had their track meet which as you can see that was successful. Um they had their field day of course it's already end school so it's all gone. Eighth grade picnic was a success. I was there. Um so was their um dance and then graduation of course and that was pretty much it. Thank you Eileen. Uh yes graduation was lovely. So thank you to all that helped to put that on for sure. Any other reports we need from other
095schools? Okay. Uh so I'm gonna move on to the board president report. Uh we have two things. One is the Fourth of July parade reminder. We do march in the Mount Prospect parade. So if you are here in town and can be there, uh what is the arrival time for that? 12:45. Yes, we can be there around 12:45. If you're planning to be there, Mary has promised we will not run out of candy. It is a very stressful moment. We're going to put that in our goals. No. Um uh so families are welcome for those that are are newer to the board. If if families want to come, we do uh welcome them and give them lots of bags of candy to throw and try and keep some for the end of the parade. So
096uh always the goal. Uh the other thing that I just wanted to quickly share about was the Ed Summit um on last was it Thursday? Last Yes, Thursday we had the Ed Summit um the mini summit in the morning. Uh and on June 12th, Mary Jason and I presented at the Edra mini summit. Our presentation was called achieving success in school referendums. Um insights from multiple perspectives. It was very wellreceived with a lot of great questions from participants. uh and we really appreciated the opportunity to share our knowledge and to learn from the other participants who were presenting at the summit. Um I know Eileen was also there for the day. I don't know if you want anything to quickly share about your experience. Uh that we had I went to one which was um
097you know how agencies government agencies work together and it was Vernon Hill. So it was the park district, the school districts, the village, the library, the townships, everybody. They have a quarterly meeting and one person, one group hosts that meeting and but they work together to be like, okay, if someone has a problem, how can oh maybe this this like the village could help with something or the park district couldn't help. They actually put an addition onto the park district building for kindergarten center. So it's used for both the gym is used after hours for the park district and then it's used during the school day for the kindergarteners. And then it's like a complex. So they also have their libraries in the same complex which are right across the street or right next door.
098And so they didn't have to put a library in there because then they use the library. So they just think outside the box and they're there to help each other, which I thought was pretty unique. So something to learn from there. And then the other one was just updates with, you know, uh laws that are upcoming or passed with the state and there's there's a list which we all get to see. But yes. Yeah. So that was good. Thank you. And then Mary and Jason, I don't know if you have any anything you'd like to add to that before we Yeah, it was great and it was very cathartic. I think to talk about our process um to people who were on where we might have been like this time last year and um we've
099come a long way in what we've all collectively learned and it was um really meaningful to be able to kind of process that with people that were asking us for ideas because just not long ago we would have been right there in that audience. So thanks for the opportunity. Yes. All right. Uh we do not have anything for board discussion. Um so is there anything of topic suggestions for future meetings that people would like to bring forward? Yes, Pam. I think we should discuss um the 250th anniversary of America. Um the historical society has developed a logo um that seems to be the official logo now. It took quite a lot of back and forth um and they're doing it in conjunction with the village um and hoping that other agencies, schools, libraries will um
100become a part of this so that it becomes a shared celebration. Um so maybe maybe if there's something that we can interface with partner with um that would be good. So I assume that would be a that's a next year thing for sure because that's when the right and and the planning now Gene Murphy is the president of the historical society and she um started discussing this months ago and kept you know bringing it up and bringing it up. So um Neil Bradley um created the initial logo that would be on all correspondence. Okay. So I think the um thing here is if if we want to discuss this, we're taking a quick vote to see who would want to discuss this in a future meeting. Um I think part of it I would want
101more information kind of on what's happening before I would have that discussion. Um but with additional information um are there people who would be wanting to have that discussion at a future meeting? If we can get a quick kind of raise hand if we're interested in kind of having that discussion about how we can collaborate with village. Okay. Um looks like we are in agreement there. Uh, so Pam, I think we can work with you to figure out kind of like what is that additional information um that that might be helpful to have. So, thank you for bringing that up. Any other additional topic suggestions for future meetings? Yeah, Pam, maybe just continued sharing um as funding, federal funding fluctuates and flexes um if we need to do that because I think it would be
102good for the community to be aware if funding is um in a crisis mode from the federal government and I think that will come up in budget conversations. I don't necessarily know if that needs to be a topic per se. Does that seem right? Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm getting nods from lots of people that I I think I need from. So, thank you. Um but yes, good um thing to continue to keep in mind. All right. Seeing no others, um can I have a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Second. Member Fay. Yes, member Qualch. Yes, member Nelson.