001I will call to order the Prairie Hill Community Consolidated School District number 133, Wnebago County Regular Board meeting to order on April 30th, 2025 at 5:31 p.m. Okay. Mr. Crouch here. Mrs. Zabel here. Mrs. Dixon here. Mr. Keller here. Mrs. Anderson here. Mr. Hendricks. Mrs. Bucker, here we all stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge algiance 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. All right, welcome everybody. Um, first of all, it looks we have somebody who wants to speak today. Wondered why his presence was in the room. Mr. Ryan's, are you ready? Sure. You're signed up. I was like, you're number one. I went for it. I'm like told Alison I'm like
002usually um you guys just end up making conversation anyways, but I'm like I'll make it official and put them in. I just I just came over. I told uh Clint earlier I've been digging holes to plant trees and then changing for meetings and then back. Oh my god. So I've been to school and back and I still have to finish planting the trees. So I make this quick, but just say thank you for uh people that are leaving and new ones coming in. Uh welcome. And um you know when you're a teacher and you're in negotiations and all those over the years um you're like dang man will the board just give a little bit? we're given u our blood, sweat, and tears and uh but at the same time being appreciative of a job
003that's probably a lot of times thankless and so I want to make sure that I say thank you for your time and and the whole board but um especially when people are coming and serve time for our district and community. So that's cool. That's it. That's really nice. Starting that tree in start raining soon. You're going to want to get that tree. I know. I got a hustle. So, we have to work for I know Springfield trip. So, thank you. Well, Mr. N, I will say all the kids are excited that you're coming to summer camp down the Oh, yeah. Thank you. They weren't going to sign off until they heard you were gonna do it. Yeah. Yes, I do. Okay. Nope. I saw there's like highlights that are new for me. Okay, just to
004make it official, I do need to declare that a quorum is present with six of us. Um, okay. All right. You All right. So, this is a fun one for us because we are saying goodbye obviously as Mr. Ryan's just pointed out to some, but we're also welcoming new ones. So we will get to that part of the meeting here in just about 10 15 minutes. Uh but first we're going to do pride of pur hill. Jackie you want to talk a little bit about the per urban culture model. Sorry. Okay. Right. So, as many of you know, um, over the course of the last probably six years, I would say, we have really expanded everything out from windows behind you and to the side of you and even inside as well. Um, so we
005have both a permaculture club, which is who we're honoring tonight, but also I I have to reference cat as well because they are part of it and they kind of all work together. Um, we have five goats, sometimes ducks, sometimes chicks. We have some bunny friends that you'll see there. And we are approaching gardening season. So, as you can see behind you, which is part of the reason why it smells like earth in the library as you walk in at times. We are planning the part is planning all of the they started as seedlings that are now developing into something larger that they will transfer outside to the garden. um the the fence that is out there in the new a new addition that Mr. Al spearheaded and which other members of the culture club
006have helped build to make a little bit more aesthetically. Um the white figure in the back corner is like a hydro hydro blood. Yes. No, there's no dirt actually in there, but everything grows from water from my understanding and the lights. So, that is um s I believe wrote a grant to get that in here. Um he's also working on writing a grant for a larger greenhouse that we could put out back. So, keep sending keep growing this part of our um school which is really a large hit um amongst our students as well. And without the students and without those we would not be able to maintain it because as any of you know we tried to dabble in gardening and it's not easy work. Um and taking care of not work either. Um
007my kids and I came up to get pumpkins in the fall goats. I opened it up and it was pretty funny. We were all out here and like the goats were just running away from all of us. So I was like Tara nurse said how do you get these goats back in here? So I learned a trick of like shaking food and dishes like you would a dog or something like that and they just run right back and needless to say there's a lot of moving parts the physical labor of the gardens especially casting. So tonight we are recognizing our permaculture club participants and all of the hard work they do throughout the year to keep this a thriving growing unit. Um the fall is always fun because they get to make stuff that drop
008the garden. So there's a salsa we do salsa. What else have you guys done? We have done that. And then you'll see too they put out tables in the front like so for drop off and pick up you can come and like get different vegetables and take them home like two just for you know donations only. They get large zucchini large I mean jalapenos in there other hot pepper that's a great great thing so we will recognize and that starts next week starts next week so there are a lot of names that I will read off of students who are here participate I believe Mrs. Tyler, you're my only representative of the adult, but as I mentioned, Mr. Alstrom plays a large large part in that um process. And then Mrs. Duncan as well. Um
009Mrs. Salanto, who is now who's her here for a long time as well helps a lot. So them, but I'm going to thank personally Bryce and Cen Harris. You guys want to come on and up because you I'm gonna take your picture so would you like to join photo. She won. Yeah, great job. Thank you so much. Thank you. So I will recognize the other names who aren't here this evening but we'll give these to them when they are in school. Um a lot of them are fifth graders or fifth graders went home to woods today which is why they're not here. So we have Psley Kumar, Isabella Silva, Daniela Lewis, Logan Merin, Gracie Smittley, Liliana Nelson, Handon Sudter, Ellie Godating, Rley Godating, Angie Hawkins, Lee Fasel, Lojo, Eli Keller, Asher Willie, Olivia Mashek, Avery
010Recab, Brianna Weir, Oliver Vanic, Mallerie Henchel, Thompson, Ruth Tol, Jonathan Tol, and Lindley Goodday. As you can tell, it's a very attended well attended club. No pun intended. You're welcome. Yeah, I'll say at this point just so you guys know, you are absolutely welcome to leave if you don't want to stay. We won't be offended. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Hey guys, thank you. Thank you for coming to this. Oh, next on the agenda, um, I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda unless anybody has any questions. Make a motion to approve. We need to state all the items on it, too. Yeah. So make a motion to approve the March regular meeting March committee meeting minutes. April bill payroll April treasures report student. Um the April bills were for a total
011of $416,354.7. Um April payroll was $219,1969. I'll second the motion. Mrs. Zanducker. Yes. Mrs. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Peller. Yes. Mr. Dixon, yes. Mrs. Label, yes. Mr. Crouch, yes. Administrative reports. Mr. Carter, you want first? Sure. Um, it's been about six weeks, so it's been a busy month. Uh, spring break, everybody came back ready to go. Um, right before spring break, our fourth graders every year do a circuit project fundraiser. They elected to go with Koo Haven. It was a great success run by the team and the students. We raised $3,50 for two as well as a lot of supplies. So they were able winning three classes were Miss Esander class, Miss Nathan's class, and Miss Coon's class. Um they got desserts and a game of kickball with me as a reward. Those three classes along
012with all the fourth graders were treated to the bird assembly. We haven came back and um brought in some live birds. It was a great presentation. We saw an owl um and they had a duck roaming through some lines of kids. They got to pet pet a duck. There was also a rabbit there. I do have a couple pictures that I will send out in my May periodical on Friday. Um I was completed this month by all our third and fourth graders. The new platform was a little bit interesting, but a special shout out to all the teachers and Mrs. um Andrews and Joe for uh their help navigating through that. And it really was all hands on deck. Uh Jack's story garden is under construction. The um pillars have been put in over the
013weekend. Um at this point, it doesn't look like we had originally hoped to open it up by the end of the school year, but it doesn't look like it'll be finished this in May. So, we're looking at doing a more formal dedication when the students return in the fall. Um, the fourth grade music concert is coming up on Wednesday here at 6:30. Before that, uh, fitness day is coming up. Um, I got to observe that last year before I officially took over the position. That was a really fun day. It's Friday the 16th this year. Um, uh, some kind of a bigger change. We're actually going to be utilizing the back field for additional parking. One of the things that I noticed last year was there was a lot of cars kind of in in
014the neighborhood, even parking on Willoughbrook. So, um, Jimmy and I have been talking about setting up hopefully about another hundred spaces on that back field to get cars away from the neighborhood in Willow Brook in particular. We'll see how it goes. Um, I'm planning on sending a specific like Screencastify. I did one of those for the parking lot. I'll make one of those and send it out hopefully by next Friday the night. Is that the thing? Yeah. Y so that they can kind of see, you know, kind of the expectations. And Mr. Jimmy has even volunteered to help direct traffic that day. So um looking forward to that. Um our interview teams have been working tirelessly. Um I'd like to special shout out for them. We've had several genet positions uh to fill. There's a
015couple of them on the deck of tonight. They have worked really hard. you get a couple things to make for approval. Our scheduling team has completed what I call our first final rough draft for next year. Um, we're going to spend time in the August SIP day to tweak and collaborate with the incoming sta uh like staff and looking at student schedules to make sure we're meeting every student's needs to the best of our ability. Um, we had a Wolverine way assembly yesterday that will also be on the periodical. We recognized students demonstrate responsibility for May. It's appropriate. Our our character trait this month is perseverance. We're going to make it through May. And that assembly will be the last day of school, which is Friday the 30th, which will also be our third day.
016So, good deal. And thank you all for your service to the world. All right. So going back um we'll just take a quick moment to shout out our charity game that happened before spring break. Many of you who are here attended in some shape or form. So that's just a tradition we've done over the years to Mr. Ryan started it. It's called the Barlo charity game. But one of the big things that we do is we raise not only money but also donate to the domestic vet shelter. So that's something that every year they kind of reach out to us after the fact and talk about how grateful they are for our contributions. It's also just a really fun time for um staff to students um and help that build those relationships but also kind
017of have some payback on the court whether it's involve a lot of hands on deck. It's a great event. Um after spring break, we did kick off our IR testing and ISA testing here at the middle school. Um so again, Joe and Kim were vital in making sure that that was run smoothly throughout the building. Um as the state always does, they change the format of things every year just for fun. Um so that there were some new things with that given joke and clutch. Um, but everything went well and as of yesterday, we are 100% finished. Everybody test it. All makeups are done, which really great feeling. Uh, the musical, for any of you who attended it this last weekend, Bucha and Kira Griffin put on a really fantastic musical called Girl. So, they
018see girls from um it was a wonderful production. It was really fun. There was a lot of character. I always think it's really interesting some students in a different light than you might see them in classroom. So kudos to everybody who was part of that, the crew, the cast. Um Kay and Kira obviously did a phenomenal job. I'm sure you saw it many times. As we mentioned, the garden is up and running and in the process of getting started this year. Our permaculture club is very important at work with staff. We have a plethora of field trips happening as our year kind of winds down. Um this week in particular, we have fifth graders went to upam this morning. So they will be gone until Friday. Really hoping that it doesn't rain like it's supposed
019to for them up there. Tomorrow our eighth graders go to Springfield. So we leave here at 5:15. Um that time as well. We'll be that Friday. And then Friday our sixth graders go to medieval times. So we have a lot of lot of moving parts this week. Um another thing over the last month we did acknowledge librarian library appreciation day. Um and we've mentioned it before but I it's really important to note that we are a district that has um a onetoone capacity with Chromebooks. We've got a lot of repairs that t definitely in middle school need to happen on a daily basis and with justice as our tech person in the district those the repairs can be overwhelming just to to tend to. So we used to section two kaniga. Um, but this year,
020Kelly Williams, who is our librarian, just basically took on teaching herself how to fix Chromebooks. And with some conversations from Joe and myself, she has really become vital to giving Chromebooks back to the kids. So, she I can't thank her enough for that. It's been really amazing to see all the things that she literally watches YouTube videos and a really cool individual because she like work for NASA and she engineering background and like she's really happy reading books. You can ask her about any book that you want to know and she can tell you but additionally she figure out how to repair Chromebooks. She have kids um things that give them back to turn around just much quicker which is great because in middle school we rely on that quite a bit. Um so kudos
021to her. It was also administrative professionals day. So just a shout out to Christophers here for being in the little group. She is obviously um you know the one who kind of deals all the calls and all the parents and all the students is essential to the function of our dayto day and especially to me when I can't be an animal gets me in she text me with her she's like are you done? I can't find you anywhere you're here. So she definitely makes sure so thank you to her. Um May 9th coming up we have our last leash day of the year. Um this one we particularly focus around mental health awareness. So Katie starts our social worker. She has prepared myself and the help of the PE department. Um we prepared a day
022where there are service projects involved. We have a guest speaker coming to speak to students about radical empathy. We have a pep assembly. Um and then another involved throughout the day. So students will go through different rotations and different activities or lastly day of the year. And then last but not least, um to those of you who are stepping down after tonight from the board, I thank you for always being so supportive. And um Jason, you and I are back especially a long time. So it's been very not here, you know, on the board. So thank you very much. Stephen been amazing and very supportive. So thank you for your time. And Josh as well here, but you guys have been a phenomenal board. So those of you that are coming, I welcome you and
023I'm excited to work with you or continue to work. Your turn. Hey, just a few updates uh from the meeting the whole uh obviously tonight we'll have the rebal organization of the board. So, a few more whole business things to take care of here and then we'll adjourn this meeting and then head into the new with the new votes and all the fun stuff that that surrounds. Um the consolid consolidated title grant, I will get that done uh for the May board meeting. We'll have that approved so we can um approve that so we can get our title uh one, two, and four uh grants for the next school year. So, uh, look for that. That's that big, they say consolidated, but it's a big grant. Um, so that'll get done and approved in May.
024Uh, I wanted to give you an update on our Red Rover timekeeping uh, function that we're taking a look at. So, we met Lisa and Hunt with them yesterday. They're working on the back end. Uh, so the idea is to have a soft roll out on July one with those that are elderly employees working during the summer and then we can kind of work out the kinks on that and then have that up and running full state by August 1st. So, uh, that's our timeline there. Uh, another just quick update with the water water heater storage tank at Prairie Hill. Uh, obviously we've talked about that at at Nauseium the last several months. Uh, and tonight we're looking for that solution to have Miller uh recommending Miller to um replace that with a tankless water
025system. So, uh, as we know the water in sloids not the best um, and it can have sediment in the bottom and rust and all the things. So this tankless system should be a lot useful to uh maintain as well as provide the amount of water that we need for the kitchen and other areas. Um one other thing that I want to mention too uh before my final thing is uh I'll be recommending Royal Refues, right? Refuse uh for our garbage disposal and recycling systems here uh starting July 1. Uh they're actually in the audience here. They came to say hello uh without any prompting or anything. They just wanted they told Jimmy we want to show up. So, if you have any questions, you can let them know. But, uh, I've given you the
026quotes from all of the other, um, all of the other services. Uh, they are a one-year contract, so I figured that's, uh, that's good for us and good for them. So, we can see if the if the partnership works out. Um, and then obviously we'll give Waste Management their notice here uh, within the next week or so. Uh, and then the final thing, like everybody else said, including Mike Reis, I just want to say a personal thank you to Jason, Steph, and Josh. uh your guidance, wisdom, and willingness to put your heart and soul into the school board. Um, as you know, being on the school board feels like a a faintless, tireless job at times, and sometimes we have good times, most more good times than bad. Um, but uh I I do appreciate
027everything that you've done for us um and helping us be one of the best districts in the area. Uh I appreciate your faith in the administration and staff to continuously trust what we do is always in the best interest of the Prairie Hill region. Uh, so without your support, we wouldn't be here today. So, thank you very much. Thank you. You two are thinking about walking out of your hand. Uh, oh, I saw those looks on your face. I was like, "Oh, no. The pay is terrible." I love hearing things this job. It's not, but it's that fuel. Yeah. Okay. Well, say thank you, administrator. Um, good updates. Going on to um subcommittee reports. I kind of touched on it, but there are the teachers here, and I feel like I don't know how many
028months I'm going to say this before I stop saying this, but we recently changed um the structure of the board meetings. Um, we now do a committee of a whole meeting two weeks before the school board meetings. So, we were in here as a public meeting on April 16th. Um, and at that time we kind of go into our what the details we used to you used to hear us talk about in these board meetings. We now are doing it two weeks before as a whole group. Um, so this next part when we vote on things and stuff is going to go a little faster than it normally would. Um, and we won't have as much conversation about it because we literally just had conversation about it 14 days ago. Um, so if you have
029any questions because you weren't here, you know, want more details, just raise your hand or holler. Um, okay. Moving on from that spiel, building and finance. Okay. Um I would like to entertain a motion to approve Miller Engineering for the Prairie Hill water tank replacement. Um total will be $24,528. It is a tankless system. Mentioned it already. I'll make a motion to approve Miller Engineering to replace the tank with a tankless system. First, M. Anderson, yes. Mr. Keller, yes. Mrs. Dixon, yes. Mrs. Leel, yes. Mrs. Dumbacher, yes. Mr. Crouch, yes. All right. Um, entertain a motion to approve waste and recycling service for a one-year contract with Royal Refugees. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. Mrs. Alb, yes. Mrs. Anderson, yes. Mr. Keller, yes. Mr. Crouch, yes. Mr. Bell, yes. Dixon, yes. Any
030other building and finance business that anyone has additional questions on or anything? We're here. Great. Education and transportation. Do we have no action items? Anybody have any other questions? Okay. Policy. The only thing I'll mention is it looks like you put the press it came a couple days ago or something. So I did see that looks like we'll be looking at that next um committee the whole So just missed it. Thank you. I missed it. It's not it's not it's not my size. I wouldn't say just come and hang out hear what's going on. Okay. Um request There were quite a few. There are quite a few. I hear um yes, we had 10 requests from one email address um basically with various years for expenses paid to vendors in excess of $500 for all
031those fiscal years. I think it went back all the way to 1998. And so that was that was fun one to put together. Um and then we had the painters union ask for invoices for any recent paint purchases or any upcoming projects. Um, and then we had uh one from a guy named Michael Au who would like to be um referred to as W the letter and it was a 128 28 page PDF requesting some various things about some laws and stuff that don't even apply to the school. So we basically that's the only one we denied. And um then there was the data branch research team. They wanted a spreadsheet containing all purchase orders from January 1st, 2020 to present. I responded to all of them except for the W one. Many wants to
032be No. And number seven on his request was information about any conversations. It's a first. Yeah. A lot of schools in the area received the same thing and legal just told us gave us what to say when we died. I like conversation about something in 83. Um, next on the agenda is to recognize the wonderful board members that are leading. Right. I told you if there's any of it, I'm handing it off. All right. Uh so if you'll notice those of you that will be done is not here uh on the back of your name plates that you'll take home tonight they have your years of service to give you a plaque for the Bradberry Hill. Can you turn around Jason? I want to see it. Oh I can't see that far but I have
033a really big number. How many this says this says 2012 through 2025. And why are you looking like that? 2011 I September of 2011. But this is just his 14 years nonetheless. We won't deny you the 14 years. 14 years. You want to hear your Just for the record, when I took the president role four years ago, it was on the like only if I could hand all retirement letters, anything that has like I did, right? Do you remember? It was like there was one caveat to this position. not a resation letter or anything in a certificate form that is sad. So, because I'm sitting up here, this rule still applies. All right. Um, at this time, I need to entertain a motion to enter executive session to discuss appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or
034dismissal of specific employees 2C1 and negotiations 2C2. I'll second. Yes. Mrs. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Keller. Yes. Mr. Dixon. Yes. Mrs. Bell. Yes. Mr. Couch. Yes. Oh.