001um what I'm pretty much looking to do is to get uh kind of a head nood to kind of go out to bit and see where the instrument totals kind of come back and depending on what the amounts are um either kind of break it up um if it comes in reasonable at a one year kind of interval for like replacement of such instruments or if it's a little bit higher maybe do a two or threee kind of phas in depending on how those bids come back so the mamal said there's an bid attached but you said you're going to go out to bid so you didn't correct there there is a bid there should be a bid document attached I don't see you a bid document correct act just to let them know what
002it looks like correct oh yeah but no bids we haven't gone bids it's just a request to go out to bid but they know what a bid is so it's okay I don't see but that's fine okay all right and when do we think you're going to do that by so if we get it out and published here in January we should have results probably back at end of February and ready for March okay about eight week process six to eight weeks total and then we'll buy it for next year or for this year still um depending on the lead time for the instruments some are going to be multiple weeks a couple months others are like some of the Yamaha products are going to be pretty much right off the Shelf ready to go
003okay so it just depends on the instrument itself okay all right any questions no I guess I'm just curious how does it work does the district fund all of that or do the do the families pay a rental fee I know some districts you know there's a rental fee involved and that's a great question question so these are the classroom sets so these are specifically for band oh I see okay they're the larger instruments too so like the ones that parents wouldn't buy and they'd bring back and forth like um for the middle school and the high school right correct you'll notice a lot of it's percussion based a lot of it's um xylophon XY exactly um there's there's a couple tubas in there sh phones are in there just larger um bare ton instruments
004if you will so classrooms okay okay all right excellent next is um review revisions to iasb press board policies uh yes in your packet you have a number of press policies that are there for review the majority of these as you'll note from the memo there um involve language changes um just minor language changes for the most part I do want to draw your attention to policy 5230 um and that is regarding professional uh Personnel maintaining student discipline our recommendation is that we revert to the current press version uh because what is being recommended reverts or recommends that we um use what's in our collective bargaining agreement which is silent um on disciplinary action and the Press policy is um much more robust in this regard support that okay I'm okay with all that these
005are all recommended by the ISP that's where we got them from right ex that is correct okay all right so I don't have to read them all nope okay they're just present there on the agenda letting the public know that the board is doing this as part of the first reading and it'll go to in notes for the next board meeting as part of first read for the full board and then when it comes back again to the full board it'll be for approval after a second reading yep okay cool um Frontline Pro proactive recruiting and hiring proposal um in again in your packet you'll notice a memo for a proposal for Frontline recruiting um what we are trying to do again I brought to you something um in the summer to try and again
006along the lines of modernizing our um Human Resources infrastructure is to uh go out and be proactive in our recruiting typically we're in a what I would call a reactive most of our districts are in a reactive recruiting model we or a passive recruiting model would be a better way to say it not reactive my apologies we wait for candidates to apply even though we do have some things where we have a incentives this would allow us to look at any candidate who hovers over our job whether or not they apply we can send targeted email campaigns for hard-to-fill positions we can attach those with things that sell our district sell the things that we want to do uh talk about our incentives and that's hope ful way that we can begin to feel hard
007to fill vacancies and we would pay for this um out of our teacher vacancy Grant didn't we buy in the fall of LinkedIn was it LinkedIn professional or one some some service for we have that too how's that is it working do we know uh last year I believe there was a LinkedIn trial and that netted us uh a few jobs not enough to Warrant coming back to you for another um for what they would us was in the area of $25,000 to continue that that effort uh this would be a much more targeted effort to to do that over education job board specifically for hardto fill positions and somebody's used this this is why you're recommending it I mean some other school districts or other school districts are using it and we've researched it
008as well okay so do we need to take a vote on this I don't see it action item this would not come for Action this evening this is for presentation at the committee we go um we're presenting for the next board meeting for action okay we'll give all the board members the opportunity to read the notes and then weigh in too before they vote yeah cool okay let's see next I just have one question Jud yeah what's considered a hardto fill area how do we Define that um well that can be any uh for instance uh special education teachers are hard to fill area um sometimes our dual language positions can be considered hard to fill to have Spanish-speaking individuals we may consider um middle school math to be a hard to fill position because
009Middle School Math teachers are hard to find uh middle school science can often be a hard to fill position um some of our positions in high school in the CTE categories can be considered hard to fill um any any kind of thing that may be um uh I'm going to describe it in a general term like a niche position that that maybe somebody only has a specific certification for can be hard to fill so we look at those uh and we know Across the Nation that we have educator shortages in a lot of these areas so we want to go out and be proactive in trying to recruit for those hardto fill positions um in addition to those are just the certified staff Mr Schubert but in addition to that we know that our in
010our uh classified ranks that we have a number of te teacher assistants PA Pros uh that can also be hard to fill as well okay thank you intergo intergo H easy for you to say intergovernmental agreement between the Illinois State Board of Education and easd visiting International Teachers Program uh this is again is an informational item that will go for Action uh proposed to go to action for the next board meeting we have um consistently for the past several years used the visiting International teacher program to recruit teachers from foreign countries to come and work in our district um a lot of teachers we've recruited from Spain and uh Mexico other places have come to work in our district to serve our students um in order for us to continue to use this program uh
011with the Illinois State Board of Education we are required to sign this intergovernmental agreement uh for the next five years so that we need to do so by the end of February so we are bringing it to your attention this evening um and then would hope to drop down for approval at the next board meeting so has it worked the one where we got the teachers from Spain has it yeah yes we continue to have teachers from Spain and other countries that are coming to to work with us uh and as you know a couple board meetings ago we came back and asked for some of our teachers who have been here for some time um they some of them want to stay and we extend that Visa process as well cool okay um any
012issues on any questions on this okay next is request per one FTE special education classroom teacher assistant for eaec there is uh we have three um special education classrooms dreams classrooms at the EAS extension campus at this point the numbers are such that if we do not add a teacher assistant we'll be out of compliance we hadn't had one there for several years uh and now due to enrollment numbers we are in need of one so we are making you aware of that tonight uh and would' like to bring that down for Action at the next board meeting sounds good okay on that crest for six 6.16 overloads for special education resource at Waldo Middle School this is to replace a teacher who recently resigned um and it would cover each of her instructional class
013periods that would be giving an overload uh one six of their salary to six teachers to cover those uh classes this happens to be a special education classroom so in order to make sure that we serve the needs of those students we are recommending an overload uh to make sure that those students do get their necessary minutes as dictated by their uh IEP no isues okay next is request for 50.1 overloads at East War High School there's one more before that oh did I miss one coward Coward sorry request for one did we do that different point was yep sorry request for 1.16 overload for ESL one and two at coward middle school that is a request based on the uh increase of student enrollment at coward Middle School to service um students in ESL
0141 and two um so that we would request an overload in that regard to help service those students whose language needs dictate um additional support based on student enrollment okay no issues with that okay now we're going to go to the one that I read let's see request for 50.1 overloads at East Oro High School these are an extension of overloads that were approved by the Board of Education and the fall um so it would be a continuation of the instructional Services provided to students these are a one semester overload for one class period uh with the addition of two that were uh for njrc for U an instructor who has recently resign okay no issues okay request for four FTE one to one teacher assistance for Brady Gates and East to high school uh
015and again this should say an emergency because we do have uh due to recent changes in IEP Andor students moving into the district we do have students who are in need of a onetoone teacher assistant in each of these locations so we are recommending uh the approval of these uh and pardon me Mr L I should have noted that the overloads uh as well as the requests for this particular uh are being asked to come down for Action this evening oh so all of these over we should vote on okay the overloads for Waldo coward EAS Roar high school and the uh emergency one:1 teacher assistance we are requesting to come for Action this evening an extension uh extension would go for the next board meeting we got time on that one correct okay got
016it so just G through J okay all right so Bruce do you want to make a motion to or can we just vote on it we need to a motion um no consensus right just yeah consensus because it's going to go it's on the agenda for tonight okay so consensus on number four G through J okay fair enough that's that's it Jour okay 5 thank you great what