001we will start seeking the new board. So I need to entertain a motion to adjurnn sign die. I'll make a motion. I'll second. Mrs. Lombard, yes. Mrs. Anderson, yes. Mr. Kard, yes. Mrs. Dixon, yes. Mrs. Zabel, yes. Mr. Crouch, yes. All right. Um, at this time I will appoint you to be the president for work. Yep. Okay. Go for it, buddy. Okay. So, I'm going to take it over here. Uh, we are going to call this meeting to order at 5 p.m. We are doing a reorganization of the board. This is a regular board meeting. There is a forum presence. Can I get a roll call, please? Actually, it's the current board still the current board. No, but they haven't done the That's what we're going to do. And then we'll do a roll call.
002So, those of you that are Are you running? Are you No, I'm gonna do it. Row, baby. I think Jason might run. Yeah. All right. At this time, can the three new board members please come up? Mr. Crouch, thank you so much. Oh, there she is. Do we go to a Just stand. I think just stand in front of him. Just stand. Just stand. You just recite the Oops. Yeah. We're not going to do it one by one. It's a lot easier. Sit there. You said three new board members. Well, I mean, but four ready. Here we go. Uh, start them off. I will faithfully disrupt the duties of the office of member of the board of education of the Prairie Hill School District in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution
003of the State of Illinois and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of my ability. I further affirmed that I shall respect taxpayer interest by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets. I shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees. I shall recognize that a board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by majority vote at a public board meeting. I shall abide by majority decisions obtaining the right safety changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels. As part of the board of education, I shall accept the responsibility on the role of the equitable and quality education
004of every student in this school district. I shall foster with the board extensive participation of the community, formulate goals, defined outcomes, and the course of the school district. I shall assist in establishing a structure and environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their max potential without sound organizational work. Great. I will thrive to ensure student achievement conditions affecting the education of your children in compliance with state law. I shall serve as education key advocate on behalf of students and our schools to advance the vision of the Perry Hill School District and strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision the board has created fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, privilege, citizenship and personal development. This is your
005first test. Where are you going to sit? We're just talking about it. For the record, that is the oath provided by the Illinois Association of School Boards. So, it's not something we made up. That's it's the length that it is. So, apologies. You children, there's going to be a test on it. That's all right. Welcome to Okay, Nikki, at this time we do need a roll call now. Okay, Mrs. Albacher here. Mrs. here. Mrs. Anderson here. Mr. Shuck Ben here. Mrs. Dixon here. Mrs. Finnean here. Mr. Keller here. Okay. Now we come to the election of officers part of the new board. Um so what I will do is I'll throw out one of the uh officers and then uh you will nominate. If there are more than one nomination, then we will uh just
006do a by hand vote on who wants to be it. If there's only one person, then that will be the person that gets you elected to be the officer. So, uh to start, we will start off with the president. Is there anybody that wants to nominate somebody? I vote Camic. Sounds good. Anybody Anybody have anybody else they'd like to nominate besides? Okay, everybody heard the rule. There'll be no resignation. There'll be no time at the table. The only rule. All right. So, Mrs. Albucker will now be president. Um, can I get a nomination for vice president? And it's your board. Here it goes. Um, I mean, I hadn't thought about this very much at all until this moment, but I do think it's gonna very interesting that we have such a feels like a large
007amount of new people, which is awesome. Um, and I think in years past we've taken our time like easing newbies in a little bit, but I feel like because there seems feels like a lot at one time, I kind of feel like I should just throw one of you right into the to the mix and really like make sure you get your feed running right away. So, I guess I'll nominate Codyman as president. I just at the same time have any others. Okay. Congratulations, Mr. All right. And secretary will be the final officer that you need to determine. Good point. nominates Tina Anderson. Any other nominations? Okay, Tina, you are secretary. Congratulations on you. All right. Uh Kim, I will pass it to you now. And um so just just so we're clear as a
008board or you're clear as a board um now that we do the committee of the whole we don't necessarily need um subcommittee structures. However, if you want to keep it continuing the way that it is and you want to nominate people for policy building and finance um and education and transportation, you have them do that. If you just want to have one individual that's in charge of it. So there's a couple different ways that you can do it. So I I'll leave that to you as the president and I'll just have the people those will be their expertise. Can I ask first are we certain we're going to keep this question question? I've been I've enjoyed it. I just you kept saying we were going to try it out. So yeah, it was that was
009our conversation. That's what we're going to stick with. Yeah. And that's for you as a board to What's that? Yeah. Um how long have you been doing it? Have we been doing it? Yeah. There you go. January, was it February, February, February, March, February, March. Yeah. And April and April. So three times we are. Gotcha. And and the structure was before was three separate committees, three separate times, three separate days or whatever. Well, we were finding um the reason for switching to the committee of the whole we were finding where there were a lot of members who wanted to know a lot more about more than just finance or more about policy than just their committee. Um, so it made sense at the time to have the committee the whole structure and so everybody was
010basically on the same page to have those conversations because yeah and finance would talk about a bunch of stuff or Ed would talk about a bunch of stuff for an hour in a committee meeting during the week and then the next week we'd come to board meeting and the other board members would ask questions rightfully so but then we found we talked about each thing for almost another hour again. So we were just duplicating conversations really was because we weren't finding out about other committees conversations until we got here. Until we got here, wait, what? Yeah. And then voting on Yeah. Yes. Yeah. And and with the committee the whole it is a true committee meeting. There's no actual items. So you're not you're not voting. It's just your discussion. It's one long meeting. It
011is. But normally tonight it's not normal. normally a really really short board meeting where it used to be and for you you were having to meet with all these different meetings committees I think everybody's time is better spent I do too the only downside I've heard is that the audience doesn't get but they could come to the committee but they don't but I vote keep it the same committee of yeah I mean I agree I think it's worked good and it can always be changed you Makes sense to me. Unless double word. Yeah. Um, so with that being said, we could I do think I don't know that I was imagining that we would nominate people for those specifics at least at this time. I almost think getting into a committee of poll meeting and
012talking and seeing where our interests were and kind of how it would lay out because again it would I really think it would only come into play when maybe a board member is doing some a little bit of work outside of a meeting. You know for policy policy does has a lot of reading and research before and after all the meetings. So again, I think it's for them it's or a policy member, sorry when you like we just nominated you, but um for Justin and Steph previously, they always were doing the other work. I think in the future, it won't be as often that we'll need those specific like if there's a really important finance thing, you know, the finance. Yeah, I was like Tina's always as a finance person, Tina's always going to be
013reviewing our finance stuff. Um, but there are the few of us that could probably I guess it would make sense just if we have something that a board member has to do that we know who's going to do it. Yes. Yeah. Regardless of whether they're on some committee. either are we fine like having a committee a whole and talking you know and seeing how the conversation goes to see what people's interests are first or are we just gonna nominate right now or does anyone know yeah as a new board member I would prefer to have a committee of the whole so that we could understand what these three parts are and what they're doing before we before you volunteer for something so I think Justin should stay on policy I'll stay on finance and you
014were on education And so then you can each pick one. How's that? If everybody's meeting together as the committee of a whole, does it matter all that much if you're on So I'll give an example of what the what for sure is going to be at the next committee of the whole meeting for policy. Um we just had what is called a press update or release. it has some acronym for something, but it's really just the the IASB, the the folks who are looking at the laws that are passing um uh figuring out how policies are changing at kind of a whole state of Illinois level. They go through, they do their own 5-year review to make sure they don't have to change any language or update anything. They also have new laws that come
015in. So, they might create a brand new policy. they might have significant changes to an existing one and they put together this this bundle of updates that we will be discussing when we get to the board meeting. But if no one's looked at that before the board meeting because we have to update all ours, we're just going to have to read through this thing and go, "Okay, what the heck is all this stuff?" So that's that's where I see it from policy being beneficial to have some people who know that when press comes out, we should read it, we should understand it, we should have our questions ready so we aren't just sitting there reading this document for the first time at a committee of the whole. I think the same analogy would work for
016like, you know, during the audit or financial report time that that would be something if there was something needed help on or just wasn't sure of or wanted to report, he would typically report that to as finance. But for the most part, I think in our general committee, the whole meeting, it won't be permanent. Um, I will say too, typically uh and we can you can as a board decide this in May or June uh what you want next board meetings to look like as far as dates and times. Typically, it's always been the last Wednesday of the month and we've moved the committee of the holes to the two weeks before the Wednesday. That said, I'm going to send an email to all of you tomorrow. Uh that Wednesday night is a a band
017concert. So if there are members on the board that have kids in band, we might want to move it to maybe that Tuesday or that Thursday or look at a different time. So there is flexibility there, but that's typically what it's been. But as a board, you will I would say probably May and June will be pretty pretty much the same as they are now. And then in June, you can decide moving forward in July if you want to keep the same dates, times, all that what that works best for the board. Does anyone have conflicts or issues with Wednesdays at 5:30? thing regular for sure. All right. So, if we were we'll hold off on any specific committee members nominations or anything like that. Um, we're going to jump right into executive session. Um,
018so I need to entertain a motion to discuss appointment employment compensation disformance or dismissal of specific employees. 2C1 negotiations 2C2. So move to it. Second. Mr. Alber. Yes. Mrs. Aisha. Yep. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Shuckman. Yes. Mr. Caller. Yes. Mrs. Finnean. Yeah, that looks the best.